The chapter opens with a description of the "blue hawaii" cocktail, which is made with white rum, blue orange liqueur, and lemon juice. It is a refreshing drink, which makes the protagonist's "yin-yang vortex" stronger. The protagonist asks his brother if he is at the academy, and his brother responds that he is, and the two men discuss the possibility of going to the west to bypass the "wind and frost mountains" that extend through three great empires. The two men decide to go directly to the central plains territory, where they will be able to enter the land of the central empire.