The chapter opens with the narrator lamenting the fact that his parents have died and that he has left his only child behind. He asks the reader to imagine what it must have been like for his parents to lose their only child and to leave him in the care of a dog. The narrator then describes the dog's kindness to kuri, who had been neglected by his mother. When shiro, the dog, rescued kuri from his mother, he brought him to the god of canines, Ogami, to protect him from the evil that his mother had done to him. When Ogami attempted to destroy the child, the narrator left the dog and kuri with Kotobuki manor.