The chapter opens with a soliloquy by Pap. He asks Pap to put the "swelling" in his room. Pap says he's going to go to a nearby cafe to have sex with a girl named Yumi. Pap asks if he can make up his mind now. He says he thought about his age and the time they were together, and he wonders if it's right for him to put it this way. He tells Pap that he has something to do at the cafe, and asks him to go first. He's not going to turn back, he says, because he has "something to do" .