The witch girl leaves the emperor and joins his army. The emperor sees her as his own daughter and treats her like one. The narrator wonders if this is really the end for the witch girl. She's selfish and a liar. She tells the emperor her family's secret, but the emperor kills her entire clan in retaliation. This is the only hope she has left. She looks paler and paler once she realizes that it's not her fault that her father died. She has to live. This isn't the only wish her father had, though. He must die. This won't work either. He says he's been deceiving both himself and others, and he feels like he has to lie to himself again. This one looks okay, he says. When he was little, he used to play the game of splash and splash. He's going to give it another try.