This chapter opens with a description of the food served in the cafeteria at the school. The narrator tells us that the cafeteria is a boring place to be, since the students don't really pay attention to what's going on around them. He says that he's having a weird feeling that someone's watching him, and that it feels like they're watching him all the time. He notices that the woman at the lunch counter hunts down "natural" ingredients, like stray dogs. He also notices that his sister is enchanted by the food, and he wonders if she's hurt by him. He asks the girl if she likes guys, and she says no. He tells her to ask him before eating anything from the cafeteria, because if the humans destroy their own version of earth, all the rest of the earths will also be destroyed, as well as the rash actions of the humans concern us more than they do. He then tells the girl that he is standing up for his father, who is the representative of the hanos, the representatives of spirits. The fate of humanity, he says, is in their hanos. They are standing in for their father, and the fate of humankind is in her hanos . They're standing for him, too, and they want to know if they can even use his body for testing in the future. He doesn't want them to think that he can endure more suffering than the humans can. He wants them to know that he has one condition in return for this compromise, and it's this: he wants to see the changing room.