In this chapter, Roxane and Elys discuss the day they buried their parents. Roxane admits that she didn't have the strength to become a doctor, but she's happy to be with Roxane because she trusts her. She's also relieved that she can't fight, since she'll be able to help Roxane no matter what anyone says. She wonders why no one tells her what she can and cannot do, and she wonders why she still hates sherahtan, since no one can tell her what to do. She tells Roxane that she hopes this will be the last time she runs away like this, or she will have to call her by her full name. She also tells him that Roxane was only eleven years old when her parents died, and when she heard them talking about the war, she had a fit. She thinks that the war was a disgrace to the kingdom, and that the shirano soldiers who died in the war were honorable. She says that on that day, she realized that she couldn't help her family because she was too weak to do so.