The narrator tells the audience that he's going to show them a "cruel, tragic tale" . He tells them that the seven people who were sent to find the family tree match the seven names on the family crest. He's sorry that he had to do it, but he doesn't want to judge anyone for it. He says that he knows he shouldn't, but that as far as he knows, there's nothing new in the story. He goes on to say that it was just like the legend says, that they didn't learn anything new. The narrator says he'll get his revenge, and that's that. He returns home from the theater, and the narrator tells him that he has been waiting for him. He asks him if he wants to be captured, and he says yes. He then asks him what his favorite food is, and when he says it's Murasaki's, the narrator says, "What's your favorite food? ha, boo, next fu fu." The narrator is worried that the world is going to end, but then he says he was planning on going after the night patrol. He wonders if the order of 43 years worth of books will change, and then he wonders if they can just fix it all by hand. He realizes that he can't really use this, and says that his mind is still in the "mental stage." He says he plans to refine it for the next chapter.