The chapter opens with Hiroshi talking about how he's been working on the problem of time since he was a kid. He's always been a genius, he says, but now he can't figure out how to solve the problem because he doesn't trust himself to solve it. Hiroshi says that he used to be so good at it that people would call him a genius because he was solving problems for them. But now he realizes that they're just asking him to do it because they want to know what he thinks. He says that no one in his life has been able to answer the questions that he asked them because he didn't know how to answer them. He also says that his thought process is the same as everyone else's: why do you smile? Why do you envy? What do you cry about? Why are you sad? Why don't you want to go out with him? Then life would be boring for him, he asks. He adds that he never had emotions before, even when he saw people die. He doesn' t blame Hiroshi for his own death, he blames his friend, ujihara, for his friend's death. .