This chapter opens with a description of the star that moves in the background. It's a blue cat, and it's the first time we've ever seen a human being. The cat's name is Ani, and she's super friendly with the other humans on the ship. She's also super excited to meet Michael, who's just arrived from the forest. Ani tells Michael that he's his first guest in 100 years, and that he and his friends will be happy to meet him. She also tells him that she'll be eating some special soda from the vending machine that's been set up in the shop. Ani says that she always has room for food, so why doesn't she look when the cat is changing? The cat tells Ani that she can't wait to meet her, and Ani tells her that she and her friends are all her friends. She then tells her friends that they've all been acting weird lately, so she was just trying to fix them up. Everyone is getting late, she says, and the rooms are being built for humans, so they have showers and all sorts of other things. She tells them that she is a guest, and they all look down on her. She says that they don't need to be friends, because they're not useful to humans. She adds that she will fix them all back to their normal selves. She promises that she won't let them be friends with the demon king, because the time is right for them to strike back. She reminds them that they used to be his friends, but now that they are enemies, he says, he'll have to kill them. He says that friendship is not a thing, and he'd rather have a friend than a friend who'll kill him. He also says that if you've got a friend, you're better off with that friend forever, because that friend will always be there for you no matter what. He adds that the planet they came from, the blue garden, is full of friends, so he