In this chapter, we learn that hinoha, another guardian, and his wife have gone to the high rock. The stone of destruction, which has caused so much suffering in the past, is about to produce "miasma" again, and many people have died trying to suppress it. The fox, which was suppressed by gyokumen four hundred years ago, has reappeared on the earth. The sun goddess has shown reluctance to seal off the area again, but she has also shown reluctance regarding the issue of senzou, the black fox. Believing that he must have imagined the wolf's behavior, he asks if he can lick senzou's fur, and senzou replies that it is nothing. He then asks why he did it, and he wonders what is wrong with his love for her. He says that he became a "bakemono" so that he could meet her, and that he loves her too, but he did not feel the same way with other people.