The chapter opens with a description of the fire force, which is a Japanese term for a group of soldiers. The chapter begins with a broom whoops, followed by a discussion of the "boom room" and "boom whoops" . The birds are talking about their trip to the oasis, which they call "a real paradise" because it was "nothing like these bad lands there were plants and water ." The birds tell the fire fighters that they are from the island of mainland China, and that they have come to investigate the "adolla burst" , a natural phenomenon that makes humans speak like birds. The fire fighters tell the birds about the infernals, who have been roaming these lands for the past 250 years. They ask the birds to offer prayers for them, and the birds agree to do so.