Cartaphilius is seen performing a procedure on one of the dragons. In her dreams Chise visits London and encounters Cartaphilius, who is suffering more pain than normal and he tearfully insists that his name is Joseph, not Cartaphilius. Chise awakens to find, Alice, Renfred, Adolf and college administrator Tory Innis in Elias’ home. They explain Cartaphilius stole the two dragons using a teleportation device he stole from Renfred and want Elias to find the dragons and take them home. Chise learns that Cartaphilius is selling a dragon at the London auction house that sold her to Elias. They enter the auction intending to purchase the dragon with college funding. Chise learns that as she had sold herself into slavery she is entitled to half the money Elias paid for her, 2.5 million pounds. Elias and Renfred argue fiercely about Chise’s future. Chise is contacted by a woman only she can hear and they make an unknown agreement. The traumatised dragon, as a result of Cartaphilius procedure, transforms into a giant Chimera version of itself and begins burning the room. Chise, who can feel the dragon’s emotions, cries as she experiences the dragon’s fear, misery and desperate desire to go home.