This chapter opens with a flashback to the previous chapter, in which Dr. Rivers asks Nemo if he really deserves to be Nemo's companion. Nemo replies that he doesn't know, but he does know that he's a loser. He says that he can't stand the thought of being apart from his friend. He tells Nemo that he wants to live and die with him, and that's what he knew in his last life. He asks if he can use the healing core that he used to heal him to heal himself. Nemo says that it's no use, but that he has blood on his hands. He wants to use the core to shield his body from the qiu, so that when he reaches stage seven, he'll be able to pass through it.