"The sweetest man," the narrator tells us, "can still remember it" . It's been a few hundred years since the novel was published, but the narrator is still able to vividly recall the story. He realizes that everything that looks promising and easily solvable always ends up with something to do with the protagonist. He's finally realized that, when he's done with his first life, his kin is an object that's to be "used and disposed of." This realization makes him hate his family even more. He wishes he could change or leave them, but he can't because he'd never have the guts to do so. The protagonist realizes that every time he thought about being like his family, things would be different. He thinks that if he could just be like them, everything would be a lot better. He doesn't know how to walk anyway, so he asks the young master if he would like to see his brother. The young master says that he'll take care of him in the morning, and the protagonist wishes that he could work for someone else instead of being a servant. The servant says that she's new to the castle, and that she didn't want to be a servant because she'd be better off working in the stable. This makes the protagonist feel better, because he gets some free money, and he thinks that it's better to work in a stable than to work as a servant . He also hears that a little brother has been born, and his parents have told him to sleep in his room. The narrator thinks that the little brother isn't strong enough to live on his own, but that he is drinking the "tinyst amount of blood"