In this chapter, we meet a young model named Krook, who has just returned from a trip to Hong Kong. She tells us that she has never felt so far away from home, and that she is hungry. She asks us to imagine what it would be like to be a rich woman in Hong Kong, and she tells us about how she has noticed that women there are fond of "classique fashion" . She also mentions that the designer who brought her back from Japan, who does not speak English, brought her with him when he could not even speak her native language. Krook asks if we know the name of the model in the catalogue, and we find out that it is Mejiro Sensei, the protagonist of the manga "The Princess and the Panda." Krook tells us he has seen her on the news, and he is sure that the public is responding to her. He tells us to think of her as a "pet idiot" , because she is a model from China. He says that he will make her 100 times what she is worth in manga sales.