The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, when Hiroshi and his friends are discussing the ghost stories in the school library. Hiroshi tells his friend that the stories have been popping up recently, and that he does not want to think that they are still haunting the library. The chapter ends with a discussion of the importance of having faith in one's own beliefs and values. The narrator says that if he had not had faith in his own beliefs, he would have become an adult and not associate with others. He says that he would never have doubted his own ideas or values, and would have easily ended up "all alone someday" .