Summary

This section refers to pages 193-298 of the novel. Though the artist is concerned by the new style the portrait of Menshiki shows, Menshiki himself is greatly pleased by it, and pays even more than he had initially promised. To celebrate, he invites the artist to a dinner at his house that weekend, and he also jokingly invites the spirit from the pit in the woods.

At this point in the narrative, the artist recalls an episode from his travels that has stayed with him. He met a young woman in a roadside café who immediately spoke to him nervously, and appeared to be trying to hide from someone. A man pulled up outside in a car, and entered the café; the artist dubbed him "Man with the White Subaru Forester," after the car he drove. Unsure who the man was, or if the...