The chapter opens with a soliloquy by Sora, the sex slave who has been living in the boys' dorm for three years. She tells the narrator that she is grateful for the kindness shown to her by the men in the dorm, and that she does not want to get involved in the sexual relationship between her and the boys. The narrator tells Sora that she has no right to interfere in the affairs of the other men, and so she should be grateful to the men for their kind words. Sora sighs and says that she wants to leave, and the narrator says that he is picking a quarrel with her shirt. She is angry and tells him to shut up. She asks him why he was running away, and he tells her that he has been running away from the men. She says that they have been together for the past few days, and she asks him how they are doing. He tells her they havent gotten along well, but he says that sometimes he is more manly than she, and