The chapter opens with a soliloquy by Tetahashi, in which he tells the reader that he and the others have been trying to find a way to reconcile with the family of the girl of his dreams. He tells the audience that he was just a good boy who did not cause trouble. He asks the reader to imagine that he is the one who has caused trouble for the family, and asks the audience to imagine what it must be like for the girl to be happy. He says that he wants the boy to be able to face his family and his past, and then to sting his family. He also says that once that happens, the boy will return to his own family. The chapter ends with a description of the boy's reaction to the soliloquist's description of him as dirty, filthy, and "nasty." The narrator says that the boy looks like he is "looking like that" . The narrator then tells the readers that he has been pushing the boy "to find happiness . . above all else" , and that the only thing he wants from the boy is that he "finds happiness." He says he has wanted him to "need" him, but that pushing him forward is not such a bad thing. He adds that he can give the boy the "push he needs" by telling the family what he has told them. He then asks the narrator if she would like to take him back to his family, but the narrator says she would rather not, since it would be like "pumping and dumping." He tells her that she was supposed to go to get her happy ending, but now that she has told the family everything, it feels better. He apologizes for the lie, saying that he knew he had to tell the family one day, and he says that it was "the biggest lie in