It's been a while since the last chapter, but we're back in the present tense. The dogs are back, and they're still trying to find the other dogs. They're also trying to figure out what the heck is going on. It seems that chiaki is nowhere to be found, so they've got to go find him. Hmm...what's up with all this? Well, it turns out that the dogs have been ordered to chase after the other animals, and now that we've seen them, it's clear that they don't want to be left behind. Oh, and the dogs are totally freaked out by the whole thing. They can't believe that the little girl they rescued from hagiri was transformed into a kitten, and that she's now a human. Oh yeah, that's right, the little kitten is back. She's so happy to be reunited with her family, even though she still doesn't know what's wrong with her father. She knows that hagiri is a "vulgar and cowardly savage" , and she'd never want to live with a wolf, even if it meant that he'd have to bite her like a "ball until she was black and blue" . So, she tells us, she'll never let her little kitten be treated like a wolf again, because hagiri isn't the type to do that to his daughter. She also tells us that the wolves are totally different from the cats, because they treat you like a dog would treat a dog. So she tells the dogs to hurry up and find the wolf, because he's too far away. She tells them to "s