"The End of the End" is the title of this chapter's epigraph. It's a reference to a famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which Hamlet says that his head is hiss, and that he wishes he were dead so that he could die with it. The epigraph also refers to the famous line, "My head is thine," which means, "I am yours." In other words, Hamlet's head is the head of the monster that he has killed. This is the end of Hamlet, and the epigraph is meant to be a joke. Hamlet asks Kenjiro if he'll send him to see his master. Kenjiros response is that he's not sure what's going to happen to his head, and he doesn't want to live anymore. He wants to die with his master's body. But Kenjiron isn't having any of it. He's asking him to kill his master, and if that's what it takes, then it's all right. He says that he can't really run away from his master because he has to make it easy for him. But if this is a fate, then he has no choice, and so he says, "rest in peace" . He then goes on to say that he thinks that he was the biggest mushroom in the whole world at the end, and now he'd like to grow some vegetables with his brother. He wonders if they're growing as big as they were before, and Ken