This chapter's epigraph comes from a quote from the novel "Asakusa" . It's a quote about a man who's about to be killed, but he doesn't know what to do with himself. He's going to kill himself, he says, because he's afraid of what his family will think of him. The quote is from the book's opening line, which says, "I'm going to die, I'm not going to be a coward. I am going to do what's right." The quote goes on to say, "If I were a coward, I wouldn't let my family think of me as a coward." This is a reference to the fact that Beni and the other members of the fire company aren't going to let their families think that they're cowards. They're going to fight the fire and save the town. Beni says that she's on her way to save her family.