The chapter opens with a description of the boxes of clothes and other items that were left at the house by Mina's mother when she died. Mina explains that the boxes remind her of her mother's time at home, and she is grateful for them. She asks Mina to draw the sketches for her and her friend, but Mina refuses, saying that the sketches are not ink paintings but "characters" . Mina says that the reason she is drawing the manga is because she wants her friend's art to be judged harshly, and if she sets too high an example, her friend will learn her secret. She tells Mina that she will go to the zoo with her friend to join him in sketching. Mina tells him that he is the only person in the studio who is able to draw animals, and that he draws them from the point of view of the tiger