It's the annual festival of the Itoshiki family, and this year it's a statue of a "unconnected dead." The statue represents a beautiful European woman who had no money and no promotion. The statue also represents a woman who was promoted to the top of her profession but never made any money. It looks like the statue is going to arrive in the next few days. The festival is supposed to be an annual event, and the family puts on a memorial service for the dead. The statues are supposed to represent people who have died without having any money or promotion, but they don't appear to have died at all. The family decides to place the statues in lanterns, hoping to convince the dead people that they are better off now that they're dead. It seems like the statues were brought to commemorate the dead by either the family or the person who died. This is the first time that the statues have been placed in the lanterns, and it seems like they've finally moved on. The narrator compares the festival to the ceo scandal, which brought down the entire company. He says that being connected can be bad, too, but being too unconnected can also be bad. He compares this statue to a boxing gym, a referee, a baseball player, a coach, an actor, a soccer team, and so on. He concludes that the festival is just like every other festival he's ever been to, except this one has no connections.