The mage tells the monster that he looks familiar because he's always looked down at him from above. He compares the monster to the "damning being" who always looks down on him. He says that the monster and the mage are the same "kind of existence" and that they've been set up so that if they die, they'll keep throwing themselves at the monster one after another. The monster says that he'll be lucky if he doesn't die, because the jewel on the monster's forehead is a "crystallized dragon medulla" . He thinks that's a really revolting thing to do, and says that what he did to the dragon wasn't much better than what he'd done to the ordinary human. He's sure that