This chapter's epigraph comes from the vice-captain's soliloquy, in which he explains that the magmellians were the first group to arrive at the battlefield. He explains that they were able to do so because they already knew the secrets of the Lachters, and that they could have used some kind of fantasy weapon that would help them hide. The vice- captain asks why the lachters canceled the weapon so soon, and wonders how long they'll keep holding onto it. He also asks if they're really going to part ways, and if they really want to be enemies. He says that he doesn't want them to see each other as enemies, because he wants them to work together in the future against their common enemies. This is the last time he'll ever talk to the captain, and he says he's going to kill the two of them.