"The hunt for stray dogs has started, huh?" "If those kids get caught, they might be handed over to you, Zali." "If that happens, they'll have to work for us." "They'll work like dogs here." "Well, home is where you hang your hat." "They'll think this is Paradise soon enough." "When did you start seeing things that way?" "What?" "People who are down and out talk like that." "And you think you aren't?" "You're one to talk, Zali." "You're the leader of the pack, so aren't you making us this way?" "I think this will help a little." "Damn it, Kiba never thinks things through..." "He couldn't just stand by when he saw what was happening." "He shouldn't have butted in, though." "Tsume!" "Let's just get the hell out of here." "But Kiba can't move yet." "Which is why we should've left yesterday." "I thought you said that living here had more going for it than you thought." "Let's go." "You're not going anywhere with these wounds and an empty stomach." "Actually, one of us here does have a stuffed gut." "Hey, you were the ones who didn't eat!" "You turned up your noses at the food Cole was nice enough to bring us!" "It would've been rude to let it go to waste." "So I had no choice but to eat it all by myself." "You could have left us some." "Hey, you were the ones who wandered off by yourselves." "And that's why you had your little "date" with her, huh?" "There was something about her that seemed..." "Lonely, somehow." "So, what do we do now?" "Go impose on Cole's hospitality for a while?" "Go find us something to eat!" "By yourself!" "By myself?" "!" "All right, I'm going, I'm going..." "I'll go pick some medicinal herbs." "Moss and the others left to go on patrol." "When did our pack become so split?" "Zali..." "Am I the only one who didn't notice?" "No, maybe I just tried not to notice." "Do you really believe that we're cut out for life here?" "I'd hoped that those kids would make you come to your senses." "When they said they were looking for Paradise," "I thought it might change life here in this city." "They're young." "Once you've lived a while, everything changes." "It doesn't." "You're still walking down the same road." "Was there really no Paradise?" "We've already woken up from that dream." "We all believed that one day, we could go to Paradise." "But the group I was leading in search of Paradise didn't reach the Paradise they were hoping for." "It was filled with toxic gas." "I lost so many of my friends..." "I couldn't lose any more of the pack." "So I came back to the city and decided to continue our life here." "I thought that you'd come back for me, saying, "We found Paradise!"" "Truth be told, I think everyone has noticed." "The machinery on the island is all dead." "The gas has dissipated!" "You could even try that same path" "Cole!" "That's all in the past." "Hey." "We've wasted a lot of time because of you." "The others have gone off to look for food." "What the hell were you up to last night?" "You didn't get all those wounds at the station last night." "It's not like I care or anything..." "I saw them once when I was little." "I was still a cub." "Where I was born, they blossomed all over." "What are you talking about?" "White flowers that only bloomed under a full moon..." "They were Lunar Flowers." "They were all burned." "What brought this on?" "A fire that broke out in our territory burned all the flowers in an instant." "Along with my friends, whose escape was cut off." "I was the only one who survived." "Why just me...?" "Why me...?" "I don't have a pack anymore." "The only place I have to go is Paradise." "If it was so easy to find food, those guys wouldn't be doing what they're doing, now would they?" "I smell meat!" "Fresh mutton!" "Oh, crap!" "Shit!" "What the hell?" "!" "My fangs are too delicate for this." "Oh, it's you." "Boy, am I glad to see you." "So, wolves nowadays get caught in traps like this, huh?" "Gosh, am I ever embarrassed." "This is what happens when you get cocky." "I'm sorry." "Anyway, do you think you could open this?" "What should we do?" "He's asking us to help him." "We're protecting our way of life." "These guys are nothing but trouble." "Um..." "Look, I'm sorry!" "Hey, come on!" "C'mon, mister!" "What the hell is your problem?" "!" "You're gonna leave me here to die?" "!" "You and your friends are stirring up trouble in our territory." "We've got no reason to help you." "Oh, really?" "!" "I wouldn't want any help from a damn bunch of stray dogs, anyway!" "What did you say?" "You're not wolves, or even dogs!" "You're lower than humans!" "You little punk!" "Hey, caught one right off the bat, huh?" "That stray is huge." "This one's really wild." "It'd be better to put it down." "What am I gonna do?" "What am I gonna do?" "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm all right." "I can move." "Kiba!" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Sorry." "You're by yourself?" "Where's Hige?" "That's just it!" "He's in big trouble!" "Hige got caught in a trap, and he was taken away somewhere!" "All he has to do is fool the humans who caught him and then get away." "He can't!" "He was knocked out by the wolves that live here!" "Why the hell would they do that?" "!" " Where were they headed?" " I don't know!" "Why didn't you tell us this by howling?" "!" "You should've followed them!" "Oh, right..." "Let's go." "Where?" "The city..." "We're burning daylight here..." "Cut it out!" "Hurry!" "If we don't hurry, they're gonna kill him!" "Tsume, put me down!" "I can walk on my own now." "All right, let's get a move on." "That's the lady from yesterday..." "Well, well." "Looks like last night's beating didn't get our point across." "Zali..." "You ordered this?" "What?" "Don't play dumb!" "What are you talking about?" "Is it true that you sold out our friend to the humans?" "How low will you people sink?" "What's going on here?" "Beats me." "That guy said to kill him!" "You told them to kill him!" "Moss!" "This is my pack!" "Why did you sell out their friend?" "He's an outsider." "Isn't it you who's selling out your friends, Zali?" "!" "What?" "!" "It's the truth!" "You don't even do a dog's work!" "Do you really mean that?" "I do what I have to do as leader of the pack." "I can't let my personal feelings rule me anymore." "I've done what I've done to protect the pack." "Nobody sees you as the leader anymore!" "Stay out of this!" "Stop it!" "Just stop it!" "That's enough..." "Stop it!" "Wait..." "Where was their friend taken?" "I don't know..." "I don't know!" "Zali!" "You don't have any idea where he might have been taken?" "He was on an orange truck." "If you're going to give up on Paradise and turn back, now's the time." "I've got nowhere to go back to." "So all I can do is move forward." "Even if Hell is where we're headed." "You people might not have found it, but we're going to." "We'll find Paradise." "Tsume..." "Come on." "Zali!" "I can still run." "This one looks big and strong." "It's a royal pain to tame dogs that big." "If it goes crazy, it'll be impossible to control it." "Maybe we'll just have to kill it." "I almost feel sorry for it." "I hate watching 'em die." "We'll just toss it straight into the incinerator." "Hey!" "C'mon, dammit, look back here!" "Damn it, do you have to be so rough?" "Just be thankful you're alive." "Come on, get out of there." "You can do it yourself, right?" "That barbaric stuff isn't my thing." "Damn mad dogs!" "Another round?" "No, it's about time I left." "Really?" "Well, it'll be lonely here without you." "I'm leaving the city." "There's nothing for me here anymore." "What I'm looking for isn't here." "Where will you go from here?" "Good question." "I'll leave that to my dog's nose." "Seems pretty haphazard to me." "Don't mock a dog's nose." "You've botched up some, I see." "We need to talk." "Bar's closed." "Have you ever seen this?" "Is what's written in here a dream?" "Or black magic?" "Or" "is it reality?" "Interpret it however you want." "Okay, Blue, what say we get going?" "Just a minute." "Cher, the woman who left this for me..." "She's disappeared." "Is something horrible happening?" "It's not as if I've ever been able to live in peace..." "I've always had this strange sense of restlessness." "But I could never figure out what was causing it." "Does it seem like the moon's coming closer?" "And it's growing red." "Red, like it was burning." "Does that mean the destruction of the moon?" "The end of the world?" "I have no idea." "Maybe my eyes are going bad." "I'm looking for the wolves while I can still see, that's all." "You should look for your woman, too." "If she's important to you, that is." "Cher..." "This is the only way, right?" "Is this road really safe?" "I'd say it's better than being burned with the trash." "This is as far as I can go." "Go the rest of the way yourselves." "You're not coming?" "You're going to keep living here?" "I don't know if the place we had looked for is real or not." "But I'm sure there are those who can go to Paradise, and those who can't." "I'm convinced of that." "Find out for yourselves if the real Paradise is at the end of this road." "You know, you don't seem much like a wolf." "Tsume...!" "A wolf only protects his own pack." "Yeah." "I've gone to the dogs." "Flowers are tenacious." "Even if they've vanished, they haven't gone extinct." "Almost like wolves." "Flowers won't die so long as there's a moon." "And neither will wolves." "TheSuccessors" "NextTime" "NextTime You sometimes see things in this world that defy belief." "You sometimes see things in this world that defy belief." "When that happens, you have only two choices." "You either believe your own two eyes," "TheFlowerMaiden" "TheFlowerMaiden  ...or you give up drinking." "TheFlowerMaiden"