Freezing

Kalita remembers her past on the snow.

## Chapter Info

**Chapter 45: Freezing** is the forty-fifth chapter of Furry Fight Chronicles.

## Summary

**Spoiler warning**: **Plot or ending details follow.**

The chapter starts with Nyarai pummeling a cowering Muko now that the bunny has no weakness to exploit. As Nyarai beats up Muko, she reveals that the only truth that she told Mellow was that she was going to win the match for Freydar without letting Team Starkiller see her partner. Nyarai starts torturing Muko declaring that she'll make Cookie leave Botaun forever.

Cookie asks Kalita to get in the ring. The vixen points out that Muko didn't tag her in, but Cookie reminds her that Kalita is a Heel, and therefore she can break the rules in a match. As Kalita watches the beating, she thinks to herself that it's not worth putting any effort if Nyarai wasn't using her full strength. She can just refuse to help to make Team Starkiller lose and get the money she needs to save the orphanage. Kalita swears to not get attached to anyone, as she gets hurt or she hurts someone else, remembering Leyline and Debbie in the first case and her former friend in the second case.

Back in 1989, Kalita explains to the bums about how she used to have a friend named Sadie that was from the same orphanage as her and shared the same love of furry fighting that she had. The two of them used to practice wrestling moves on each other to become Combagals in the future. Mr. Dings interrupts the story to point out that Kalita speaks like an old person despite being eight years old, which causes an annoyed Kalita to throw a can at him and correct him by saying that she's nine years old.

Kalita and Sadie were outcasts at school because they had no parents. After two years, Kalita managed to make friends, however, she had to pretend to hate furry fighting to do so. Though Kalita felt happy to learn how to belong to a group, Sadie didn't get to belong to any group because she was sincere about her love for furry fighting.

One day, Sadie was getting bullied by Kalita's friends since she challenged them to a fight despite being outnumbered. Sadie pleads Kalita to help her fight the bullies, pointing out that they're friends. Desperate to belong, Kalita refuses to help Sadie, kicking her in the face in a moment of anger and desperation. The kick breaks Sadie's glasses, causing shards to enter her eye. The bullies are horrified at Kalita injuring Sadie, breaking their friendship with her as they rush to get the school nurse. Feeling betrayed, Sadie tells Kalita not to touch her, asking her to go away.

As Kalita returns to the present, she thinks that Muko earned her beating by picking a fight that she can't win and thinking that she's not a savior. A vision of Straws materializes behind Kalita, making her remember how he once told her that life is about making and losing friends, experience pain and happiness, and growing up through mistakes. Kalita declares that she will remain alone forever to avoid making mistakes, but Straws points out that the only real mistake Kalita can make is to not learn from them.

Kalita stands on a turnbuckle and attempts to finish Muko with a flaming axe kick. Finally reaching an epiphany, Kalita enters the ring and blocks Nyarai's kick to prevent her from finishing Muko. An image of a younger Kalita stands in front of Muko, telling Nyarai to stay away from her friend.

Meanwhile, in his own private seats, Shun watches Kalita ready to fight again. He laments her decision, pointing out that she's going to have a bad time from now on.

## Continuity

* Kalita's past friend from Chapter 36 is properly introduced.

## Trivia

* The chapter's name is focused on a winter where Kalita became a street urchin.