The chapter opens with a warning from the mage to the human boy: if you want to play the game, you must erase the mark on my forehead before I will go with you. And if you don't want to go with her, she's going to kill you. The mage tells the boy that he shouldn't worry about it, since they'll all die anyway. The boy says he'll play anyway, since he doesn't care what happens to the other humans. He's just trying to get a little more time with the girl before they're caught up in the registry's "traditional punishment" , which is to learn how to be a human and not a demon. The two of them will have to wait until they find out what's wrong with the registry before they can play.