This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the father and his wife. The father tells his wife that he has developed a remedy for the side effects of drinking the shirk-body tonic. He tells her that if she continues to drink the tonic, she will grow old and become a child. He promises her that he will kill 300 members of the family if they cross his territory. The elder father then tells his younger sister that she should go to the market to see a lifelike candy man. He says that after a few days with his wife, she was happier and healthier than before. She had been staying in the family house, which was unpleasant to her