The chapter opens with a flashback to a dream in which a young man is dreaming of a man who is red-blooded and full of blood. The young man realizes that the dream is a dream of a vampire, and he begins to cry. He realizes that he has been dreaming of the same dream for the past ten years. He tells the young man to stop crying, because the dream reminds him of the dream he had when he was a child. He then tells the boy to whisper to him what is wrong with his neck, and to whisper that he was bitten by a stray dog. He also tells him that there has been a lot of talk about the vampire on campus, and that the police are speaking to him about it. He says that he did not know the details of the incident, but that everyone was talking about it because he had been doing homework with Tanaka at the school and went home at eight o'clock in the evening. He does not know if he committed the crime, but he does not want to be a vampire. He is afraid that if he is caught, he will end up in blood-scarred status, but if there is a vampire in the town, then he will be able to exonerate himself. He warns the boy not to be afraid of him, but to capture the other vampire if he happens to be in town. He reminds the boy that it has been 10 years since he was last seen alive. He asks the boy if he had sucked the blood of a woman, and the boy says he did, but now that he thinks about it, he cannot believe that it was ten years ago. He wonders if he was alone, and wonders if the boy is not good enough to be human. He