The Visitor

Flashback shows Straws meeting Kalita on the street.

## Chapter Info

**Chapter 41: The Visitor** is the forty-first chapter of Furry Fight Chronicles. It's also the first chapter of Volume 5, Destroyer of Dreams.

## Summary

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

The chapter starts with a flashback of 1989 showing Straws, the raccoon that Kalita protected from the Roda Kira Gang, meeting an orphaned Kalita in a winter snow. Straws asks Kalita about her home, but Kalita responds by telling him that she has no home and demands him to teach her how to be free.

Kalita recalls how she spent two months in Bulwan Park to learn how to survive on her own by hunting can deposits, begging, and finding change money to get food. One night, the bums asks Kalita about her past, which Kalita agrees to do in exchange for a beeer. Mr. Dings gives her a beer, which she drinks in one gulp. Satisfied, Kalita asks the bums if they have a dream. Mr. Dings voices his desire to become rich so that he can start an onion farm, which makes Kalita insult him for having a lame dream. When an offended Mr. Dings asks him what is her dream, Kalita replies that dreams are for sleepers and that she's always awake. She then humors the bums by telling her that she used to have a dream which she now considers shit: she wanted to be a Combagal.

The story moves forward to 1997 with Kalita considering her options: win the match and the championship afterwards to get 250K in money, or just lose on purpose so that Shun can give her 500K. As Kalita ponders whether to win or lose, Cookie asks her why she's brooding, causing an offended Kalita to point out that this is her normal look. The door is knocked, causing Muko to ask who's there as she opens the door.

The visitor turns out to be Mellow, who wants to tell Muko something important. Muko pretends to forget who's Mellow before she introduces him to Cookie and Kalita. Cookie is initally skeptical since Muko's last fan was arrested for assaulting Miho, but changes her mind when Mellow tells her that she is taller than he expected. As Mellow marvels about the appearances of Muko and Kalita, Cookie tells him that he needs to leave because the match will start in a few seconds. Before he leaves, Mellow tells the group that they have only one chance to win, which catches their interest.

The scene flashes back to the arena as the sarcophagus that Freydar threw starts to open.The chapter ends with Muko remembering Mellow's words, telling her that she needs to defeat the first Combagal before it's too late, proclaiming that he knows her identity and true weakness. As the chapter ends, Mellow tells Muko that he knows the secret of breaking the unbreakable, revealing that Nyarai will be Muko's first opponent.

## Continuity

* Mellow is revealed to be the mysterious visitor from two chapters ago.
* Kalita's time as a street urchin was hinted back in Part 3.
* Nyarai is revealed to be the mystery fighter at the end of Chapter 40.
* Harry is revealed to have been arrested for assaulting Miho back in Chapter 34.

## Trivia

* The running gag of Cookie being called short is subverted when Mellow points out that Cookie is taller than he expected, much to Cookie's delight.