The narrator begins this chapter by saying that it is "epiphany" . It is an epiphany . 500 years ago, flowers and fruits were given to the gods and became rich. But in exchange, each generation has to sacrifice the god's dark personality. This is the "sin" of the family, the narrator says, and it is a sin. He tells the audience that he still believes in this because it means he understands everything in the world. But now, he says, he doesn't believe in this anymore because it's "the 21st century." He says that the profession he is doing has too many "karmas" , like "a patient in need