In this chapter, we get a brief glimpse of what the future will look like. We're told that it's going to be like this: the future is going to look a lot like the present, except instead of time, it'll look like an adolla. The adolla is a fourth-generation fire-breathing machine that's supposed to burst the time between two points in time. The time is measured in seconds, so the time of the adolla will be the same as the time measured by the other two points. This means that if you're strong enough, you can fight with the other guys. But if you don't, then you'll die. That's because the time is too fast, and if you stop time, your body starts to break down and die. The only way to stop time is to stop using your fire breathing machine, which is like using your body's clock to speed up and slow down. If you stop using the clock, the time will go back to the way it was before you started using it. So, the only way you can stop time now is to use your fire powers, which will cause your body to die. This is why the smile on his face isn't so much a fear as it is because he's so happy to be playing with you.