Now that the children have been attacked, their energy has been absorbed by the mushroom, and it hurts. They will soon die, says the nurse. She tells the benefactor that she will follow him to the children. The benefactor says that it is too dangerous for him to be alone with the "b*stard" . He tells the nurse that he came to look for his master. He says that he would have chased him away long ago if he could have done so. The nurse says that she would have treated him as a fly. She says that the other time he praised her and she said that she was his dog. She asks the benefactor why he is guarding the door to the mushroom-culturing room. He answers that he is afraid to give him any hard time.