The chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter, in which the narrator explains that he fled to the seashore to get away from a woman who had raped him. He is now thirsty and wants to go to the nearest convenience store to get some water. The narrator tells us that the woman took him for a "creep" and that he should have called the police before the next day. He also tells us about how he thought it was a famous place for cryptids, but now people come there for "recreation" . He says that if he took a picture of the man in the picture, it would look better next to him on a roller coaster. He tells us he would not blame the man for thinking he was being disappointed in him for leaving him like that. He goes on to say that if the man hates him, then it must be his own fault for abandoning him. When the narrator tells him that they are going into heat, he is shocked and can't move. He compares the man to a "knife flashed in his face" and says that the man is "honestly amazing" and can "t tackle anything on his own." He tells the narrator that when he found out he was a "creature," he thought he was just luck. But now he wants to be with the man, and he says that everything he's done would have been for nothing if it weren't for the man's help. He asks the man if he would like to take his inhibitors, and the man says that he would have something in his stomach before he would take them. The man says he would want to take the inhibitors, but he doesn't want to do anything that would waste his life. He wants to live a life of efficiency, not waste it on something that isn't useful. He reminds the man