When the boy realizes that his mother is not home, he tries to find her, but she is not there. He tells the boy that he is an outsider of the city and that he has been living there since he was three years old. The boy tells him that he was brought to the city for some unknown reason, but that rumor had it that he killed many people out of rage. He says that the city has no enemies, and that they live a harmonious life. He asks if they could have some food, and the boy says that he does not have food at home. He then says that his father has a large collection of books about divine beasts, and his hobby since childhood has been reading about them. He explains that one of the books is about wolfs, but the wolf's behavior is different from the behavior in the book. He wants to kill the wolf because he wants to protect his father.