In this chapter, we learn that the wolf's name is "Red Fang" and that the girl is named "Little Red Fang" because she was born with red blood in her veins. Little Red Fang tells us that she's saved her life by crying so loudly that she can hear and help her elder brother, who's on his way to take her away from the wolf. She explains that she cried as a baby because she didn't know how to resist the wolf, but when she felt she was in danger she tried her best to survive. She says that her younger version cried out her heart out, asking her what it meant to be weak, and that she used her crying to draw the elder's eye because she wasn't strong enough to fight the wolf in front of her, but she was able to do so because she had the power of the red wolf. So, she explains, by using power as a "skill," she uses it to gain power, and then she uses that power to defeat the wolf that's closest to her. She's just borrowing power to do battle with the enemy, not using it as a source of power itself. This is why he's so persistent in using his power to gain advantage. He's been so persistent, he says, that he'd rather be dead than cause any trouble or be at the mercy of the elder. He says that if he were dead, he wouldn't be able to cause