This chapter opens with a description of the combatants wearing blindfolds. The narrator tells us that the combatants were "unnaturally strong" and that one of the "venators" who was there with them after he recovered was also wearing a blindfold. When the narrator asks about the supposed leader he met, the narrator tells him that she had antlers and appendages that grew half-way through her metamorbidosis. She was aware of the fight and was able to talk well. He tells the narrator that the antlered men had started killing innocents "indiscriminately" and "raiding small towns," but that the activity had died down in recent years. He adds that the men always wore blindfolds, but that would not mean that they were set in stone. He thanks the narrator for the information he has given them, and asks him to keep an eye on the boy when he falls. He says that he had "tons of fun" today, and that he'll see him again sometime. He asks the narrator to hurry up and eat some noodles. He's surprised how quickly he's healed, and says that now they can "play fighting games more". The narrator asks if there was a "wendigo" there, and the narrator replies that he would drop kick him if he saw one. He then tells the father that they need to cross the pipes to get to the building where they had the massive operation. The father says that this is a "top secret lookin'" , and he asks the father to look at the other papers that fell out of the goddess's "project shade index" . He also says that if they are to stop the wendigo Pandemil , they must know that everyone in their research department thinks this is futile. As a father, he says, he