Now that they're back in the city, the gang asks the guy what he's been up to all these years. He tells them that he used to be a mercenary, but now that he doesn't like to do that anymore, he'd rather not do it again. The gang asks him if he remembers the man who walked past the shop just now. He's two blocks away. The guy in the hat has started to get tangled up with some of the other people in the neighborhood, and the gang suspects that there's going to be some kind of violent conflict between the two of them soon. The dude says that he knows a lot about the gang's origins, and that's why he can harness their "threads." He also says that sometimes he likes to "do good" too, just like the humans do. He says that after seeing everything the same way for so long, he has gotten tired of it, and now things are a little more interesting. He compares this to the candy jar, which has a "ticking time bomb" at the