This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Kenji and San. Kenji says that he's seen a sketch of kyozo that reminds him of the old man. He's not sure why, but he thinks it's because he was born in a poor country village. He doesn't have any sadness or pain, and he scorns the man who's been abusing him. He also seems to be pretty tough mentally, which makes Kenji think that he was probably killed by his father when he was a child. He tells Kenji that he brought his father's head to see what was going on with the tumor in the woman's womb. He says that the tumor is just a tumor that needs to go through a "process" before it can be transformed into a human being. He thinks that if Kenji can figure out the cause of the tumor, he'll be able to stop it from happening in the first place.