The chapter opens with a flashback to the time before the events of the previous chapter. In the present, the narrator is in the middle of a conversation with his friend Doohyang, who has come to visit him at his house. The two discuss the events that have taken place in the past few days, and the narrator explains that he has no plans to graduate from college and that consciousness is beginning to get increasingly difficult. He tells DoohYang that he will take him to the forest to get some fresh air and exercise, and that he wishes to return to his old life.