The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that he has been interrogated by the authorities. He tells the authorities that he was at the hakata gyre the night before, and that he does not want to go there again. The authorities ask him where he got his name, and he tells them that he hasn't been there in ages. The room is quiet, and the narrator doesn't look forward to his dad tagging along. He turns off his phone and goes straight to the interrogation room. He asks the authorities where his name came from, and they tell him that it came from his father, who writes "erotica" for a living. The narrator says that he thinks his father came up with the name because he was "warped" by it. He wants to start calling his name by his first name, but the authorities won't let him do so. The next day, the interview is to take place. He says that in high school, he met "new people" who meant the world to him.