The chapter opens with a description of a night in a Japanese inn. The innkeeper tells the protagonist that he and his friends are there to have a drink. The protagonist asks if he is alone, and the innkeeper tells him that he is. He then asks if the protagonist is with the cat and the cat's friends, and he then asks the protagonist if he means to cut the cat out of the story, and if the cat is talking to her cat. He says that his body is not moving, and that he has to take his friends to the authorities. He asks if they want to hang out with him for a bit, and when the protagonist says that he does not want to, the protagonist asks him if he did something awful to him