"Empty eyes, empty eyes" is the first line of the chapter, which begins with the narrator lamenting the fact that he and his friend have been caught having sex in the back seat of their car. The narrator laments that they should not have done such a thing in the first place. He then tells the story of a man and woman who got into a car and got intimate in it. Unfortunately, the couple forgot to pull over, and the car rolled over into the river. The traffic police told the couple to obey the rules of the road and not to have sex in their car, as life is "more precious than passion". The narrator then tells his friend that he has given up hope of ever seeing his mother again. He tells her that his mother's aunt and mother-in-law took him to a hot-spring in the middle of the day, and they are expected to return in four days. He asks his friend if he got home early today, and he replies that he just got back. He wants to take a bath, but he is a little sweaty, so he asks to be taken a shower.