In this chapter, Tommo continues his argument against sagawa's plan. He argues that the future will never be the same as the present, and that the only way for humanity to survive is to find a way to escape from the present. If the future were to be the future, he argues, then humanity would be able to invent new medical devices and new ways of living, and the cycle of war would end. But if the future is not the future , then there will be no future at all, and Tommo argues that he will not go along with the plan because he does not want to go back to his normal life.