Summary

The section begins with the three boys, Raphael, Gardo, and Jun-Jun, having thrown off "Rat" as his primary name, as narrators, telling their story together. With the Day of the Dead being a bigger holiday than Christmas or Easter, the boys pushed through the traffic clogging the highway and arrived at a bustling cemetery, where people from around the city had arrived for the celebrations of the day. Rat recalls the legends of ghosts that he had heard of growing up in Sampalo, noting that what he was about to witness was in a league of it's own. After a long wait, the boys were able to find a location that matched the clues provided in Angelico's letter. However, they realized they were looking in the wrong direction, as the cemetery was divided in two by a wall, separating the rich...