The chapter opens with a discussion of the pros and cons of amachi san, a student in the eda corps. The pros include the fact that he is popular, that he has a wife, and that they have yet to have a kiss. The cons include that amachi is a victim of fraud, that a change of character would be punishable by death, that the change would not be allowed in the first place, and so on. The chapter ends with a soliloquy about a foreign rock band.