In this chapter, we learn that Asuna has been imprisoned in the grave-keeper's palace, and that she is being held captive by the magister negri, who is a member of the cosmo-entelekheia. When she asks him why he is holding her captive, he tells her that he is always failing at the hero thing. He says that he has been in a state of depression for the past week, but that they have made him remember something about his past. Asuna tells him that the time is coming when the illusion of the "magic world" will be destroyed. If the illusion is destroyed, all the humans in the world will be forced to flee into the martian wilderness. This is because it is impossible to support a population of more than 1.2 billion refugees.