This chapter opens with a conversation between a wise king and a young boy. The king asks the boy what is the greatest thing in the world. The boy answers that he can see everything around him and yet he can still act as though he will live forever. The young boy replies that there is something he doesn't know about the world, something that is "in the air around his mind" . The bug is playing with the boy again, and the boy thinks that it must be when the bug got stuck in the boy's hair and the other bug stuck in his mouth. He thinks that this must be the time when the two bugs played with each other, and he thinks that they are "dumb" because they don't understand what he's talking about. The other bug is talking about the new "imaging system" that's supposed to take a picture of the pepperoni slices and compare it to the slices of pizza. The kid thinks that the new system will be more accurate because it's "dimensional imaging" , not "flat." The kid says that he'll start with a slice of pepperoni and then move on to the next slice. He's not sure if he wants to be a "blurry pepperoni" or a "smiley pepperoni." The bug runs off to find the boy and set off a manual alarm. When the bug finds the boy, the kid pretends that the alarm is set off because the bug is hiding in the hallway. He says that the bug will be "good as new," and the kid says they'll fix the bug and make him good again.