The chapter opens with the narrator explaining that he was killed by the princess di Fuya and that a black jewel appears in the sky. He remembers that after he was blacked out, all the plants around him have withered. He wonders how his wounds healed. He thinks that the jewel entered his body and gave him some kind of spiritual energy. He decides to test the strength of the tree by punching it with his strength. He realizes that he has high hopes for the gift of the black jewel, but he is disappointed. He wants to go home. He knows that he will starve to death if he does not return to his father's house.