The chapter opens with a flashback to the early days of Nemo's life, when Nemo was a child. His mother pierced his heart with a piece of paper to prove that she loved him, and she left him with a relative for a few weeks. Nemo explains that living in the relative's home was lonely before he knew what it was like to be lonely, and that he loved his father very much. The chapter ends with Nemo reminiscing about his job as a waiter at a restaurant in the early 1900s. The restaurant's owner was having a very hard time, and his wife had recently died, leaving the boss without his wife. Nemo comforted the boss every day, and he did not think of his wife when he was with Nemo.