Materialistic lifestyle; the deeper you're in, the worse you're off
Glorifying freedom; rationalization for screw-ups I make at the last minute
Merci, au revoir; my delusions get in the way of my pride; donc vas-y jete ca
Whistling dissipates my fatigue and everything and gets me ready for halftime
Kept walking on the wild side
I don't wanna fall asleep throughout my life
Sometimes in a buffalo style
Sometimes like a rock 'n roll mind
My dream's reaching its climax, my odds are invisible and blurred
My feelings are flying like a Boeing, what's ahead?
It is wonderful, my life
Please, could you kiss my name when the music's over?
Turn off the light, it was such a sweet time
Could you pray for me, my friend? I'm starting overtime
Taking over the night, taking over the blue time
If you heard that screaming shout in your mind
Taking over the shine, taking over the shooting star
All I was talking about was music!
And that's called jazz!
Blurred Vision: Dream or Reality
This morning, on Zebuth City's Igni Street,
A group of carnivores are suspected of predating one Linda-san the Thomson's Gazelle, 22 years old, by biting her throat.
"A MORNING PREDATION, CULPRITS STILL ON THE LOOSE"
Wow!
There're so many violent incidents out there, really.
The carnivore group is at large,
There're so many violent incidents out there, really.
but there has been testimony that the group consisted of four gray wolves and two large coyotes.
This isn't gonna work.
I'm going back to my dorm.
These canines clearly committed the crime in a very elaborate manner.
You guys win.
These canines clearly committed the crime in a very elaborate manner.
Um, actually, we were about to lose in the next turn...
Yes, canines have phenomenal social and unity skills.
Oh, cheer up. This happens all the time.
To be honest, carnivores are used to this atmosphere.
No! Stop!
Look!
The leader of that canine group of killers is a gray wolf!
I-I'm not like them...
That's what they all say!
They don't look like they're playing around.
Yeah!
How do I help her?
"Hey, you."
No, that's awkward.
Might be too intrusive, since I don't even know these animals.
Are you listening to me?
If you're a gray wolf, then show me your feral instincts!
U-Um, excuse me!
Say something, would ya!
I'm her brother. Is there a problem?
Your h-her brother?
Yes.
Shoot! She looks nothing like me!
You're lying! You look nothing alike!
Yeah, yeah!
I take after my father, and she takes after her mother.
Are you... okay?
Yeah.
Thank you, Onii-chan.
Let's go.
Sorry for lying back there.
It's okay, you saved me. Thank you very much.
I couldn't leave you alone knowing that you're a gray wolf.
It happens a lot, getting bullied because of the news.
You're a first year, aren't you?
You'll get used to it when you enter your second year...
Do I have to get used to this?
It's worse here than it was in middle school.
This treatment is too awful.
I'm frustrated.
This hurts, every time.
If you're frustrated, then I think that's important.
I got tired of feeling frustrated, so I just pretend it doesn't bother me.
That you're willing to feel frustrated makes you strong.
Well, I've gotta go.
You're Legosi-senpai, right? From the Stage Crew?
I joined the Drama Club this year.
Huh?! Really?!
My name is Juno.
O-Oh, sorry, I don't really know all the new members.
Well, I'm in the Acting Team, so that's only natural.
On the day I joined, Shiira-senpai told me about you.
She said that you're a second-year gray wolf,
and that you're a gentle male wolf, and I'm really happy that she turned out to be right.
Uh, nah...
Um, since we're both wolves, I want you to talk to me casually!
Right. I guess it is weird to talk to an underclassman using polite-speak.
So, are you going to club today?
Um, no.
I heard only second-years were supposed to come today.
So, the second-year members I've named
are to have a meeting in the city office tomorrow for the Meteor Festival!
Why just carnivores?
Us herbivores wanna go too!
You saw the news.
Every herbivore is to stay in school until further notice. That's all for today's meeting!
Huh?!
You all know how uncontrollable carnivores can be when they lose their sense of reason.
There he goes again. How long is he gonna keep saying that?
One more thing.
Don't stop by the Back-Alley Market.
Back-Alley... Market...
Legosi, you never leave the school, do you?
I've never enjoyed being outside.
Hey, Aoba, have you, uh, been to the Back-Alley Market before?
No.
But all carnivores will go there eventually when they grow up.
Now that I think about it,
I haven't been to the outside world in a year.
Ah, must be nice.
All the birds are flying.
Ah, must be nice.
And you don't get your flying license till after you graduate.
I see.
It seems the grown-ups are living their lives quite peacefully.
So you do enjoy being outside?
Huh?
You're wagging your tail.
Hey, let's get moving!
Maybe I should get some pants that can hide my tail.
"City Office"
These instructions are the same as last year's.
Good. It's an excuse to look around the city.
So what happened next?
Well, she said, "You're so selfish when you have sex with me. It makes me feel empty inside,"
or some shit and then she started crying!
But I love the stripes on her ass.
I don't wanna leave her!
You like your girls based on their skin patterns?
Of course!
So, Legosi, when are you gonna lose your virginity?
How the hell did he know?!
Hey, your virgin smell is something else, I'm just saying.
There's a cute gray wolf who joined this year.
You mean Juno-san?
You know her name!
Pretty good, pretty good!
And just a while ago, we were fighting each other till we bled.
Maybe if I graduate and become an adult,
I can enjoy my life more than I am now.
Time to go back.
Can't keep the housemother hollering for long.
Which way's the station?
We're lost.
What?!
I'm just going where Zoozle Maps tells me.
You're a bird, right? Use your magnetoreception.
I'm not a migratory bird.
I don't think it's too far away.
Hey, Legosi, what's up?
Sorry, um, I want to ask you a question.
Oh, that's okay.
Pick any finger you like.
I can smell the sweat and saliva of carnivores...
These are just the scraps, but they taste just as good.
Your canines are three centimeters. These young and healthy teeth would fetch for a good price here.
Please do it in one bite.
This is the Back-Alley Market!
Please do it in one bite.
Student ID ID Number: 16019022 Birthday: November 5 Order: Galiforms, Phasianidae, Peafowl Name: Dohm This is proof that this animal is a student in this school. -Principal Gon
Since we know our names now, can I ask you an important question?
What?
What do you see me as?
What do I see you as?
Sorry my question's so personal.
Give me your hand.
I think I understand now.
You and I can start being friends.
Sir, sir!
Why are you spacing out?
Move!
Hey, gramps, one finger for 70,000, right?
If I give you 70,000, can I really eat one of your fingers?
All of us can have one bite each.
If we split the cost, we can afford it—
W-What are you doing, idiot?!
Get real! Do you even know what you're saying?!
That's my line.
I'm not gonna go along with your ego now that we're in the Back-Alley Market.
Hey, Legosi!
Wait!
Sorry. I'd take your side if we were at school, but we're not.
Aoba... —Look around you.
This is the Back-Alley Market, and we're carnivores.
Y-You guys are gonna eat it?
What, you saw the main street.
Everyone looked joyful, and peaceful.
And that's because of the Back-Alley Market.
Don't you get it?
You need to grow up.
The carnivores were walking calmly in the street.
They looked calm and composed because...
...means to you?
Huh?
Is this what growing up means to you?!
Hey, Legosi!
Hey, Legosi-kun.
What?
What do you see me as?
That's a weird question.
I'm too shy to say it to your face, but I think you're an attractive girl.
I can't stop thinking about you.
And yet, and yet, why...?
Why can't... I stop drooling?
My desires are ugly.
I can't beat them.
I don't have any right to lecture Bill.
Because my desires for her are...
O sad wolf.
You're lucky I found you lying down in a back alley.
Looks like I've gotten myself into something crazy.
Am I gonna get killed?
Good morning. How are you feeling?
Horrible, I'm guessing.
Well, it seems you've got nerves of steel.
To think your heart rate's normal even now.
You'd better behave.
What are you doing to me? What is this place—
Let me make one thing clear to you:
You are not allowed to bare your fangs at me!
I'm the watchman of the Back-Alley Market.
I'm going to ask you a few questions. What's your name?
Legosi.
When did you first eat a herbivore?
I never did!
Carnivores who faint in the Back-Alley Market from a panic attack are nearly 100% likely to be preying on herbivores.
I tried to eat one, but I snapped out of it.
You mean you put your mask back on, right?
But I plan on coming clean to her one day...
Her?!
So you tried to eat her and got in contact with her afterwards?
What do you feel when you communicate with her?
Do you imagine how she tastes when you talk to her?
Do you stalk her every day to find a chance to eat her?
I hate this.
I bet you do.
But take away all the carnivores' skins, and you'll see that they all have the same desires.
That's why the Back-Alley Market exists.
The meat from the Back-Alley Market comes from hospitals and funeral homes, given in secret.
So while buying meat may be illegal, it's a hell of a lot better than killing for meat.
Look.
This is the fate of all carnivores who give in to their feral instincts and prey on herbivores.
I had carnivores who can't forget the flavor of meat and end up eating their arms.
Carnivores who lose all their hair from stress.
Carnivores who hurt themselves out of self-hatred.
I even had some carnivores who loved a herbivore so much that they ended up eating them alive.
What are you?
I'm the Back-Alley Market's psychotherapist.
Despite how I seem, I'm a fully-fledged doctor.
I have to keep myself busy so I can stop putting pictures on this wall.
Whether I'm your enemy or ally... is for you to decide.
You're a student from that Cherryton School?
What's with that "I'm miserable" look?
You're such an annoying kid.
That punch was really strong.
They're mammals and bears, and their size and characteristics aren't that much different from brown bears,
but they do have one unique trait.
Even though they're carnivores, they can live on grass alone.
How do you see yourself as a psychotherapist?
As a panda with a strong body?
Or as a panda who never eats meat?
That's the kind of question I'd expect from an honor student.
I've abandoned the beast inside me.
I believe this town needs a doctor, so I've been working here for decades now.
I nearly got killed many times over, but I've only managed to save a small handful of carnivores.
To deal with those situations, I got into a bamboo diet and trained my body.
You see,
I'm nothing more than a somewhat strong doctor.
Everything he said must be true.
Delicious, right?
It's tea made from bamboo leaves.
So, after you capture a dangerous carnivore, how do you treat them?
Treat them?
By doing what I'm doing to you right now.
Carrot-and-stick counseling.
I-I'm not your patient!
That's what all my patients say.
W-Well, at least I'm trying to recover!
They say that too.
What do you know?!
I finally became friends with her, and—
Quiet!
Shut up, you little shit!
Quit bitching like a chihuahua, or else!
You may be serious about wanting to get along with her,
but that's just your voice of reason speaking.
It's camoflauge for your desire to maim her and eat her.
Listen.
What you've got inside you are predatory instincts disguised as romantic feelings.
It's the worst kind!
You need to stop yourself now.
Cut your ties with her.
Damn it.
You teenagers are nothing but trouble!
You're always using love as an excuse to lose control of yourselves!
I don't really understand.
I've never fallen in love before, so I can't say for sure.
Never?!
I'm guessing I can go back to school now.
Thank you for your service.
Terrible service.
Hey.
Use this to check yourself.
Huh?
No, I'm serious.
If you get aroused from this magazine, then it'll mean you're just a boy with a unique fetish.
But if you don't feel anything and only feel attracted to your rabbit, then you're in trouble.
"Check yourself."
"You don't have to give it back."
I've had enough!
I want to forget everything I saw and heard today!
I want to pretend none of it ever happened!
Legosi!
Legosi.
Aoba, what are you doing here?
Oh, I ran away.
I couldn't bring myself to eat that old guy's finger.
I thought about the Chief, Louis-senpai, and my herbivore friends...
and I started feeling sick.
Ah, Aoba...
Even now, your beak made for eating meat is sharp and spotless...
So, I'm sorry that happened.
Let's go back.
L-Legosi, are you cry—
Ah, I don't have a handkerchief!
Are you okay?
I want to stand tall, with my sharp toenails, and be a part of this world with Aoba.
I just want to stand tall.