"Stone - Grilled tianshan steak" is the title of this chapter's dialogue, and it opens with the captain of the ship lamenting that the slayers have captured the dragon. He plans to kill the dragon, but the captain says he'll have to wait until the next morning to do so. The captain says that he's not a bad pilot, and that he would have been hurt if he had been a better one. He says that the meat around the bullet holes is full of gunpowder, so he thinks it's a good idea to grill it up and stuff it with dragon fat. He thinks the meat tastes like heaven, but he doesn't know why. He tells the captain that he found the dragon 30 years ago when he was on a ship that collided with it and burned. Rumor has it that he bought the dragon and its mate from a contract killer named kurga Soraval, who was involved in a similar accident. He asks the captain to tell him about the "best thing" he'd ever tasted, and the captain tells him that it was "the real maze keeper" .