Now that the door has been destroyed, it's clear that no one will ever be able to open it again. This means that the time traveler will have to go back in time to his own time. He's sorry, but he's not sorry. He says that he is the one who created the door in the first place, and he blames the humans who live in the present for ruining the flow of time. The time traveler asks who the jade dragon is. The jade dragon tells him that it is the same as his body, the samne. He grabs the ring, but the dragon is gone. He doesn't like the fact that the smaller dragons have disappeared. He feels bad for the dragon-slayers who managed to kill a dragon that wasn't very impressive. He also feels bad because he knows that the shadow will never become him. The shadow hounds him relentlessly, and the day that frosch died was the day when the shadow and he became one. He asks if he can hurry the body to the door so that he can protect frosch for a year.