This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which we learn that Dr. Bledsoe's son is now an advanced martial artist. The flashback shows that the boy's father was a martial artist himself, and that his father was the father of the current generation of martial artists. The boy asks his father if he has learned the spell, and his father tells him that he has. He also tells the boy that if the boy lets him have the right to use the fire, he will have a great deal of scrolls for him to pick from. This is a very valuable item, and the boy is happy that he almost took all of his family's property in exchange for the scrolls. He then tells his father that the potion he is taking will help him advance in martial arts, but that the real value of the fire is much greater than the potion. He tells his brother that he still has a request for the potion, and he tells him to offer it to both of them at once. He says that if he