This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the protagonist and his father. The protagonist asks his father if he owns the jade that he is holding. The father says that he has called the police to get the jade back, but the protagonist wants to know if the jade has his name on it. He asks the protagonist if he thinks he is a hero, and the protagonist replies that he does not. He then tells the protagonist that the protagonist looks like the man who offered a one million reward for the capture of the thief. He says that the reward has now gone up to two million, and that the thief is a veteran who has won a lot of money recently. He also says that a guy who lost a lot recently put a bounty on the thief's head, and he says that this is why the protagonist needs to take his eyes off the thief to prove that he did not commit the crime. He tells the