The chapter opens with a description of the mayor's meeting with a "gloomy meeting suit" . The mayor says that he does not look at the city as a whole, but rather as a "full-size mayor district" , and that he takes his duties "scarely . . and . seriously ." The mayor tells his wife that he has a meeting with an "agloomy" and asks her to come with him to the meeting. He tells her that he is going to go shopping, and she invites her sister, Tokachan, to join him. He says that she is like a "big sister" to him, and he asks her if she would like to go with him. She replies that she would, and the mayor invites her to join them later that night. The first part of the chapter begins with the mayor and his wife talking about the meeting, and then the mayor asks his wife if she has any family in the city. She responds that she does, and they go shopping together. She asks him if he would like her to go along with him, but he says he would rather not, since she is so "handsome." He asks her what it is like to have a family, and her response is that she has no family at all. He wonders why his parents made the decision they did, and wonders if it was just his family that made them make the decision. He then asks his sister if she thinks that having a family can be like home. She says that it is, but that she still doesn't understand why her parents made such a decision. She then asks her sister if it is true that she misses onions, which her family put in her body when she was a child. She tells him that her family is like home to her, and when she sees a duck bearing