The chapter opens with a soliloquy about how lucky he is to be alive. He compares himself to a miko, who was "awful on many levels" and "beautiful" . He says that his mother was a "horrid miko" and that he is beautiful. He goes on to say that he has heard that another miko has taken him to rest in the hair of her sister. He asks the attendants to let him go in her hair. The attendants buzz, and the kami-haraishi cuts off the hair and wards off the evil spirits that cling to it. The older sister refuses to listen to the wishes of the other mikas. She says that her sister's power is "too weak" , and that it is "inherent to her sister" that she does not listen to their wishes. The next time the mikas ask for a wish, the older sister will refuse to listen. She always avoids the requests that increase their dominance . She is too dumb for her sister to glow all of the "kami sama" and not to tell her that she gets all of her wishes. He wants to eat hand and make mochi, but the attendants buzz and say that the next wish will not be the last. They say that they are not "omnipotent tent," and that they cannot cure a person. They also say that akane has been exiled as a traitor and has been ceeded. He wonders where his mother is. He knows where she is.