In this chapter, we meet the new assistant, Lieutenant Safdar bakar, who has just been assigned to command the Fifth Army. He tells us that he's just gotten a call from authorities in the city asking him to organize a parade to celebrate the end of the war. He explains that the fear of transmigrating is the reason why he allowed the war to begin in the first place. If he had known the war was going on, he wouldn't have allowed it to happen. He says that he would have run away from the battlefield if he'd known that it was happening. He also says that if he hadn't known about the war, he would've ignored the phone call and gone to the hills.