The narrator begins this chapter by saying that he's been misundered all his life because he has a naturally mean-looking face. He says that if it weren't for this face, he wouldn't have been misspent his life. He doesn't need to explain why he has such a mean face, because he doesn' t have to justify his actions to anyone. The narrator then goes on to explain that people tend to judge people on how they act, not how they look. For example, if you find a lover's letter in a shoe box, you think that it's a prank. If you see a picture of a smoking idol, you assume that it must be doctored. If the ending of a movie is too obvious, people assume that the movie is about to end in death. This is why people think that a girl with such an obvious face could possibly be the murderer of a child. This isn't the first time that the narrator has been mistaken, he says. In fact, the narrator points out that people used to think that bad kids looked like bad kids, but things have changed. Nowadays, people don't wear suits like that anymore, and bad kids aren't as bad as they used to be. He points to the manga artist, the drunk, the martial artist, and the teacher as examples of people who look like they're not bad anymore. He also points to a murder that's taking place in the woods, where the real murderer is, not the mean looking girl. It's not the girl's fault, he points out, because there's too much evidence.