Back in Grid-Shiga, the governor of grid-mie, Mr. Muro, asks the lieutenant-governor about the canceled dinner at the governor's house. The lieutenant replies that he canceled the dinner because he wanted to know what was going on with the "highest authority in grid-shiga." Muro tells the lieutenant that he's been governor of Grid-mie for thirty years, and that his job has always been to keep the government running smoothly. He wants to know if there's something he'd like to know, and Muro says he'll tell the lieutenant everything he knows about the "mutual under-stand ing" between Muro and the other leaders of the government. He tells Muro that they're both in the same "boat" , and he wants Muro to kill one of the leaders if Muro doesn't tell him what's going on. He adds that Muro has been working for the government for 30 years, but Muro hasn't wanted to do anything about it, so Muro's just wanted to keep it running smoothly without any problems. He says that he wants to tell Muro everything about the purge of the grid shiga 30 years ago, when the government refused to wait until the guild could fix the problem. The government forced the purge, Muro explains, because they wanted to make sure that the government didn't have to pay for the research that was done in the name of the "national project" in the old era.