In this chapter, we learn that the spectral valley family, one of seven imperial families, has been unable to prevent the royal family from creating an eighth family in order to replace it. The prime minister, who is also a member of the family, is furious at this news. He tells the slum butler that he was the one who first told him about the pearl agreement, and he also told the prime minister about the plan to create the eighth family. The slum butler, who has been in the royal court for forty years, is not the wisest person in the empire. He says that the old foolish emperor is the person above him. If he is foolish, no one in the world is wise.