This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which Hamlet says that if the English had attacked him, he would have been done for. The scene shifts to the present, where Hirokazu and Miike are discussing the upcoming match between the two men. Miike says that the match is going to be a test of their manhood, and that he wants to make sure that it is a fair one. He wants to see how it all went down, and wants to know how the match ended up, so that he can tell his future son-in-law how he ended up in this position