The chapter opens with a description of the three-day waiting period for admission to the university's library. The protagonist is introduced to the reader as a nervous young man who has only three days to familiarize himself with his new environment. He asks the protagonist if he is okay on his own, and the protagonist replies that he is not a child and that books are the "fastest way to familiarize oneself with a place." The protagonist asks if he can go back to his normal life, but the protagonist says that he can't because humans hide their true selves from each other. He tells the protagonist that he has read every book in the library, and he wonders if he has seen a half-demon in one of the books, but he hasn't yet seen him. He says that humans live a "life where they hide truth from themselves." He asks if the protagonist has ever been in the university for more than a decade, and she says that she has. She tells him that he should not be curious about people because he is "well-educated." He tells her that he would be devastated if he asked her to marry him, but she replies that she is well-educated and that he shouldn't ask her why she should be interested in human beings