This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the club's third- and fourth-ranking diamond members, who are now eligible to run as league councilmen. They've earned enough points to do so, and now they can run for the councilman's position. The club manager asks where the drug is, and the diamond members refuse to give it to him. They kill no one for no reason, the club manager says, and he'll spare their lives. The diamond members say they'll take off their collars so they can show their gratitude. The manager says he'd like to take off his collars, so he can show his gratitude to them. He tells them he's going to spare their life, and they all agree to do it. He says they're going to go easy on them, too. He also says they won't do anything about the debt, since he said they'd take their collars off so they wouldn't be able to do anything to him anymore. He's not happy with the job he did, but he says it was a great job. He feels like he almost lost his life in the fight, too, and that he has to become stronger. But he says that if he almost dies in a fight like he did earlier, then it will also affect him. He can't forgive the club for putting him and Lily in this situation, because if he dies,