The narrator and his family are living in a house with a roof. The narrator has lost his appetite and is hungry. He wants to play a game of rock, paper scissors, and seaweed. He decides to eat seaweed. The seaweed is hard and salty, but he can eat it. It has a good amount of nutrients, and the only people who can eat raw seaweed are those in Japan. They eat the seaweed's testicles, which are a good source of cholecystokinin, a mineral that helps to prevent venereal disease.