This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Hiroshi, in which he confesses that he has asked his brother's friend, Mishima, to have sex. He tells Mishima that he is going to die anyway, and that he wants her to do the sex with him. Mishima tells him that it is a good thing he is having sex with her, because she is "too rough" for him. He asks her to give him a "pop jolt" and a "slop jolt" , and she responds by saying that she is