The scene opens with the sound of a clanging drum, and the narrator feels that the woman is very familiar with him. He feels that she has heard about the twins in the school, and that they are masked. He tells his sister that he wants to sacrifice the idol to the god, but that the idol is "unclean but noble soul" and that he should not give it to adults. He wants to start the ceremony of sacrifice, which is a ritual in which a person's soul is locked in a lock-box and the soul of the sacrifice is never returned to its body. He says that if he puts on the idol's mask, he will not be able to return to the family. He also says that he has always listened to his sister, but he has never received her recognition. She tells him that she wants to revive her family by her own way, but when she thinks about it, she cannot be indifferent to the idea of sacrificing her daughter for her family's "shady business" . She says that her aunt, who is her younger sister, is the one who has lost her way, and they have to find her and bring her things to burn the idol. She asks if they can have a try, and she tells them that 500 years ago, a beggar came to her shrine and asked her to put his son in the idol and put the mask on the other child. She fulfilled the beggar's wish, and returned to her father as a servant. She adds that the whole family would perish if they did not pay interest on the debt. She also tells her sister that they have had many chances to escape this place, but they do not want her to disappear.