This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It's about a battle between a mantis and a dragon, and it's a quote from the poem. It says that the battle took place in one day, and that the dragon won. The poem ends with a soliloquy about the futility of war, and about the need to make the world a better place. It also says that if the heroes beat the dragon, they'll be able to "make the world fair" . But if they lose, the world will be even poorer, because the people will be forced to sign unfair treaties with the other countries. The narrator says that punishment can help people, but that there are too many people in the world who don't want to be punished. He says that he's fine with that, but there are people who would rather be punished than be saved.