:26:01
``The human world is a material world!''
:26:04
``And how will you make
the money that you need?''
:26:06
``The easiest way is to do what you do best.''
:26:10
Where do you think
you can earn the most money?
:26:14
Unfortunately,
it's from your enemy, Wonderland.
:26:18
They've agreed to pay you
a substantial starting bonus.
:26:21
Your monthly wage.
:26:23
And each person's starting bonus.
:26:27
Of course, no one but I
will know that all of you are tanuki.
:26:35
Please help yourself!
:26:38
Let's eat and then think about it.
:26:41
Kincho Daimyojin-san,
you are used to eating good food.
:26:45
Eating leftover scraps at Tama
must have been tough on you.
:26:48
I don't care about such things.
:26:51
I have just one question:
:26:54
Those who can transform can live
as humans, but what about the others?
:27:00
We can't take care of everyone.
:27:02
Besides, for a species to survive,
only the fittest must prosper.
:27:08
In our case, regrettably, we had to
abandon those who couldn't transform.
:27:12
So they... all died?
:27:14
That's right.
:27:16
It was unavoidable.
:27:22
How tragic!
:27:24
It may be little comfort,
but unlike us, the tanuki are omnivorous.
:27:30
So they may be able to survive.
:27:33
Meanwhile, with Kincho the Sixth
absent, the tanuki at Tama...
:27:38
...met to try to find a solution
to this grave situation.
:27:42
Only the regulars were present.
:27:45
Bah! They said they had
more than one plan. What a joke!
:27:50
It was a mistake from the start
to listen to those old farts!
:27:54
I just remembered the old saying, ``Don't
count your chickens before they hatch.''
:27:59
No, not even Oshaka-sama
could have anticipated this!