In this chapter, we learn that the Moorcock Lechte drive is on the move, and that the alpha hangar by the fourth barrier is firing on the 90 barriers. There are still some bastards left, and the number of irradiated sources at zero. They'll be boosting in reverse forty above the barrier, and they'll "kick off the walls twice" to change directions. They promise each other that they won't be allowed to die until they're both dead, and then they can live happily ever after. The narrator tells us that he still hasn't forgotten the day when he and Mishima first fell in love. Mishima enters the control room and tells the narrator that the barrier has been broken. She tells him that the main hayase and the auxiliary hayase have been cut. The control room normally would have been protected with feedback protectors, but this time they've cut the cables. The reactor is secure, the narrator says, and he's finished restarting it. He's more nervous than he thought he would be. He tells Mishima that everything in the world is a competition, and now they have to kill the first lieutenant. They just killed him, he says, but he can't do anything about it.