This chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young man named Nemo. He tells Nemo that he is the only one who has ever met him, and that they have known each other for many years. The young man asks Nemo if he has ever eaten lunch, and Nemo replies that he has only eaten it once a day. Nemo tells the young man that he knows that his family will need a home to call home one day, and he says that he knew that someday his family would need such a home. He says that his mother told him that to be happy and to love someone was the happiest thing in the world. Nemo says that this is exactly what he has been told by his mother. He asks Nemo why he is here, and she says that after his time in Japan, he devoted himself to his training. Nemo asks him what he is doing to make himself so angry that he will leave him alone, but he says he has stopped time.