This chapter opens in the middle of the mountain, where the first lady of the thousand machines sect is passing by on her way to a meeting. The first lady tells the second lady that she has come to see her. The second lady tells her that she is not allowed to go to the meeting because she is a member of a sect that has a patrol puppet that can only speak but not transmit an image. The woman asks the man if he wants to say hello to her before he leaves. The man says that he has prepared a mask so that he will not be recognized by the machines. He tells the woman to hurry up and leave, because they have many magical tools that they can use to harm him. He says that the last successor to the divine race died because he did not say the mantra. He adds that the tortoiseshell can lie, and that this is why he has stopped using his spell and magical tools. The tortoiseshell tells him that he can remove "life" from the dice. The dice dropped is "peace" , and the man is struck by lightning. He asks if he can roll the peace dice again, and he says that there are still 20 of them left. He thinks that the man may know someone in the thousand machine sect because he blasted the 20 machines to a crisp