Part I, Chapter 13, Aomame Summary

Aomame wakes up in bed, naked, and with a hangover and no memory of how she'd ended up where she was. Ayumi calls and recounts the evening's details. Aomame wonders in her own mind how much longer she can keep up her sexual exploits.

She heads to Willow House that afternoon to give the dowager a massage. The Dowager tells her to enjoy her youth while she can, but not to cheat herself of happiness and marriage to someone special. Going wild will not solve all of her problems. Aomame reflects on the first real friend she ever had, Tamaki Otsuka. She married a wealthy man who was privately abusive toward her, and she committed suicide at the age of twenty-six.

Aomame decides to punish the husband and kills him with a sharp needle she develops on...