When the narrator gets back to Japan he begins meeting with Gotanda every couple of days. Although, the two live different lifestyles they are two peas in a pod. They both seem to be going through a mid-life crisis, and their therapy consists of drinking together and complaining about how they've made a mess of things and just want to be loved. It's a bit pathetic the way the two carry on. Constantly complaining and never doing. However, I think it is the reality Murakami is trying to show through these men. It is something that many people can identify with when they reach their mid-thirties and have had the experience of a failed marriage.
Gotanda seems to be a bit of his rocker. A lot more then our main character. He talks about having no hope and having no way out. That his only true love is his ex-wife but he knows that they could never live a normal life together. However, the continue to have an affair in love motels. Because of this, Gotanda asks to borrow the narrator's car because it is less conspicuous.
Through these talks we finally get the story on Kiki. How they met and what type of relationship they had.
The narrator met her because he was writing the copy for an advertisement which featured Kiki's ears. He became obsessed by their perfection and asked to meet the model in person. Once they met they made a connection, and shortly after began living with one another.
"Her ears had special power. They were like some great whirlpool of fate sucking me in. And they could lead people to the right place."
Upon Yuki's family returning from Hawaii Dick North is accidentally hit by a truck when exiting a super-market. When this happens the protagonist knows for sure that the skeletons he saw in the room must belong to 6 people that he knows.
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