In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist has gone back to live with his grandparents because his parents have died. When he was a child, his grandmother told him that he had to live there because he had done something wrong, but he knew that his parents had died, so he pretended to be abandoned by his grandparents. He was terrified of their disgusted stares at him, and he would apologize to everyone, but when he finally looked back, he only realized that he'd changed into another person. The surveillance room is also mentioned, and the protagonist says that it is more suspicious that someone has stolen it than that they have stolen it. The protagonist points out that the power went out at eight o'clock last night, and that the people in the room slowly fell asleep until six in the morning. He wonders why they didn't die from a heart attack.