In this chapter, we learn that Mimaki is in the White House, but not in the office of the president. Mimaki tells the president that he came to see him "suffering on his own" . The president asks Mimaki why he is there, and Mimaki explains that he was born before Mimaki's mother remarried, and that he had no blood relation to his father. He says that he took over the company because he needed a reason not to stay with Mimaki until he was old enough to care for his own son. He explains that after Mimaki was born, he was "raised with the sole intention of learning how" to run the company. He was "gossiped about" and "gined" about his father, while Mimaki had to "rise in this world" on his "own"