i guess that's why my calls wouldn't go through

...In your *shoe*?!

How did it get there?

well... i tripped over a planter earlier, and i... i don't really know

..Are you okay??

hahaha they said it wouldn't work here anyway, so it's no big loss!!

yeah yeah i'm fine!!! haha that sort of thing happens all the time when my Family isn't around

Your family?

yeah!!! i'm always way more coordinated with them around!!

i don't know why. reborn calls it the ultimate boss disposition

...Wait, like the mafia?!

yeah!! sorry, i didn't properly introduce myself. my name is dino cavallone -- i'm the tenth boss in my family

Um.. Yukari Takeba.

Wow, you honestly don't seem like the type.

yeah haha you should've seen me fifteen years ago

we do alright, though.

Um. So what do you.. do? Ahah, I'm not gonna be killed for talking to you, am I?

oh!! no!! please don't worry!!! the welfare of civilians is very important to my entire Family!

Yukari, that isn't very polite to ask.

it's alright, miss. most people aren't familiar with my line of work.

beyond the godfather, anyway hahaha and that sort of thing is pretty scary!

Sorry, Cavallone-san. I've just never talked to, um, a mafia boss before.

don't worry about it!! i was pretty disinclined toward the mafia for a long time myself. and please, call me dino!

A-All right, Dino-san.

So what does your, um, Family do?

oh, we do all sorts of stuff. we're involved in various organizations. we do a lot of networking with other Families and run a few charities

I have met with bosses of clans like that.

Although the last boss I knew was a sparrow.

a sparrow?

i like sparrows. they're all round when they've been well fed hahaha

Mm. The head of the Sparrow Clan, they run the Sasa Sanctuary hotsprings inn.

Woaaah, that sounds like a neat place!

It is!

wow!! i'd love to visit a place like that!

But they tried to give me a bath.

you don't like baths?

It was a very lovely place, hidden in a bamboo forest

No, I don't

they make my fur smell bad, and I can't swim

But that hotspring wasn't so bad.

Oh! Ammy!

When was the last time you bathed?

Since it is where Nuregami resided, so I couldn't drown in the water.

Ah--

...I don't remember.

...

Ammyyyyy....

No!

Ammy.

No.

oh, but baths are great!!

I'll give you more onigiri.

Baths are so much fun!

wait... your fur?

But Yukari~!

Do I have to?

Do you wanna have your collar loosened at some point, Ammy-san?

No one's gonna wanna go near you if you smell.

but...

it's water.

And Ammy's Amaterasu, the sun goddess of Japan.

It'll make you all nice and clean!

And you'll smell like sakura blossoms!

But it's g--I will?

Yep!

...I suppose it's all right then.

But only a little.

they're really not so bad

It'll be a quick one, promise!

Dino-san, Ammy was a wolf before she came to Atia.

a wolf??

.....huh. well, i guess not every parallel world has to be the same.... interesting!!

I don't see why everyone is so surprised

Being a wolf is very useful.

i'm sure it is! i don't think the wolves where i'm from are much like you, is all

Of course not, I'm the sun goddess.

And Atia changed me when she brought me here.

I didn't always look like this.

the sun goddess?? wow!!! this must be a huge change for you

It is.

I can't even bloom flowers anymore

it is a little upsetting

i'd be upset if i lost that power too

I do miss it.

But you made that tree in the park!

I did, when the curses on the collars were lifted

And the cherry blossoms are all gone now.