The next morning, the fortune teller tells the protagonist that he'll be in danger for the rest of the day because of a curse that's supposed to happen once every 100 years. The protagonist, however, doesn't believe him. He's been living a "normal" life, he says, and the curse is just a "pot of lies" . He drinks some more, and then he realizes that it's actually the protagonist's friend, Fukumoto, who's the one who got stabbed by the flying fork. He asks the protagonist to share some of his "luck" with him and the other lucky people in the neighborhood. The guy says he'd like to do so, too, but first he has to thank the protagonist for saving his life. He says that if the protagonist isn't with him, he's going to die. But the protagonist says that he meant that he wouldn't die if he wasn't right next to the protagonist, and that he didn't intend to mean that he would literally die. He laughs at the idea that he could get a disease from being next to a person who is in danger, and says that, even if he did die, he would still have to deal with the consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time