Kiki's Last Visit

The narrator has his final dream and is able to put all of the pieces together (well most of the pieces).

"I had a dream about Kiki. I guess it was a dream. Either that or some act akin to dreaming. Wat, you may ask, is an "act akin to dreaming"? I don't know either. But it seems it does exist. Like so many other things we have no name for, existing in that limbo beyond the fringes of consciousness."

In the dream the narrator finds himself back in the Honolulu death-chamber, and Kiki is waiting for him. She tells him that the skeletons are apart of him and that the room belongs to him just like the room in the Dolphin Hotel. We also find out that she is only his shadow and that he guided himself to all of these places and to all of these people using her as a projection of himself. Kiki tells him that she is crying for all of the things that he never could cry for.

Gotanda didn't kill Kiki. Well, in his mind he killed Kiki, but she just disappeared. She doesn't belong to their world, just as the Sheep Man doesn't belong but can appear in order to assist with things that mortal humans have found themselves incapable of dealing with.

Once the dream is over the narrator is able to come fully back to reality and have a relationship with a woman again. So he sets off for the Dolphin Hotel to find Yumiyoshi.