In this chapter, we learn that the time has come for the two of them to part, and that they will not see each other for 40 years. In fact, the time will be so long that even if they do meet again, they will be "66 - year old crones" . In other words, they'll be separated from one another for a long time to come. Oh, and they're going to have to wait a long, long time for each other to get back together. The two are interrupted by the sound of a cat's laughter. It's not a cat, but it's the kind of laughter you'd expect from a cat who's been out of the house for a while. The cat says she's fine, but that she doesn't want to see him again for years to come because she wants to know what he's up to. She's also not going to be able to tell him what she wants, because she'll have no idea who he is. But the cat is not alone. She wants to see her father, and she wants him to stand on the same footing with her grand father and her great grand father. This is what the cat has been waiting for, and the cat says he was "out of it" because he hasn't been able to learn anything from his master. He asks if he can use the finishing move to beat fate, and he'll teach him how to do it. He's going to take a message from the spirit world and read it to him. The message is from the book of the embarrassing book, written by kiri. The book says that kiri's secrets lie beneath the castle ruins, crawling with monsters. The next assignment for kiri is to go and find the box