Part III, Chapter 9, Tengo Summary

Nurse Adachi's first name is Kumi. She and Tengo are drunk after going out for dinner. Kumi Adachi invites Tengo back to her apartment to smoke marijuana. While he is high, he sees a girl who asks Tengo to find her.

When Tengo wakes up, he and Kumi are in bed together. Kumi tells him she has been reincarnated. She also tells him, before he goes to sleep, that he needs to leave before the exit is blocked. Tengo knows he is in a cat town, and that there is something there that he must find.

Part III, Chapter 9, Tengo Analysis

The pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together for Tengo. He is in a world that he needs to leave before he can no longer leave. Kumi's hallucinatory state isn't just a product of the...