The chapter opens with the narrator complaining about the lack of precision in his work. He complains that everything is not "clear and precise" . He says that he is a surveyor and that he cannot stand it if things are not "precise." The narrator complains that the chairman of the tea ceremony club is getting irritated at him for not being able to give him clear proof of his identity. He tells the chairman that he does not look like either of the children of the chairman. The chairman tells him that all people are "children of god" and that there are "all kinds of gods" who are responsible for illegitimate children. The narrator asks the chairman to put him properly into his family register.