The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which Hirokazu's father, Uechi, is still alive. The flashback shows that Ueno has been dead for two weeks, and that the ghost of Ueno's dead mother has returned home. Ueno asks Ueno what he wants, and Ueno replies that he wants to know what kind of man she needs to find. He says that he has already hired a man to teach Ueno how to be a good man, and he wonders if Ueno is back home yet. He wonders if she has come home to tell him what has happened to her, and if she is back at home. He tells Ueno that he will grant him a place to live, but that he must keep his spirit tied to his body