In this chapter, the monster explains that he is in the present and the child inside his mother. He has no memory of his mother's appearance when he was a child, and he has never seen a smile on his adoptive father's scarred face. He says that his life was neither good nor bad, and that it seemed like it had no ending. However, he can't remember whether he has a family. He asks cheryl to go and play with releasing lanterns, but she goes to buy snacks. The lantern is for him, he says, and his parents bought it so that they could release the lantern together this evening. He kills five devourers, but he says that when the time comes, he will have to die