The chapter opens with the boss of the massage parlor inquiring about the health of his patient. The patient is a blind woman who has fallen down on the road and injured her knee. The boss asks the patient if he has a serious injury, and the patient replies that he has grazed his knee twice on the way to the hospital. He tells the boss that the blind woman is careless, and that she should have given him a call. He then tells her that his brother is not speaking and that he is confused. He asks the boss to stop lecturing him, but the boss refuses to listen to him, saying that she is making him even more confused. When the boss asks where her brother is, the patient says that he went to the 10th hospital to have his eyes examined. The doctor told him that the treatment was good, but that it was "roting on the inside"