The mother egoist returns to the scene of the previous chapter. She tells the audience that she has come back to explain to her son why Aoi has been acting strange. She also tells him that she is glad that he has accepted her explanation. The egoist tells her son that he is going to skip town for a long time because he will not be able to live long enough to see the end of this world. He tells her that he will come home after a year and that the heart should not exist. He says that he and his son are actually together and that it fills them with feelings that they would otherwise not have. He suggests that they teach Aoi how to defend himself by training him in martial arts. He asks her if she feels any special feelings about him when she first met him. She replies that she does not. She says that even if he receives the heart, he does not overflow and burst. He won't burst and that is why he failed