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What did you say?!

So this is your last resort, father.

Then, I'll——

Too naive.

Hmph, you're pretty fast for your age.

A Rossati?

Leon, I'm here.

You go on ahead. I'll handle this.

Alright.

I see, so this is Bellone's trump card...

But, are you sure you really want to make an enemy of me, Don Alberto, and of the Saluzzos?

You expect me to believe you were ever really going to be our friend?

Shared interest could've been the bond connecting us, pup.

But, there's something to your youthful delusions, thinking you can actually turn things upside-down.

You old fossils always think you can control everything, but you never stop to consider whether the times have left you behind.

Come then, pups. Let me try your hand.

Leontuzzo knows that as the don of a famiglia, he should return home and navigate his people through these turbulent times to maximize their profit.

But as a man who thinks he understands Lavinia's ideals, a man who saw the way Carracci conducted himself, as a man who has always been lost...

He's never been clearer about what he should do next.

He can't lie to himself anymore.

I'm sorry, Demetri.

He does not walk the path of his famiglia.

He knows where his father is.

I did what I had to do.

It won't be long before it reaches Zaaro.

The time has come.

Agnese's Fang, Lunacub.

You've kept me waiting.

You're never alone, and I'm not good at taking a lot of opponents at once.

I don't make a wise target.

Agnese told me that of the remaining Fangs, you are the one who most deserves to die.

You've toyed around with the thing called 'power,' trying to use that garbage to win this.

Quite the profound insight from la Signora dei Lupi.

Do you know where the remaining Fangs are?

No.

One now lives at a company called Rhodes Island.

She returned to Siracusa not too long ago.

Another, knowing that there was no hope of victory, went into hiding and cultivated a student early.

These two wandering wolves have now returned to Siracusa.

Another is still hiding in the wastes.

And as long as I remain here, I can track their movements.

With a little more power, I could exercise my will to find them, and have my men eliminate them.

This is what Zaaro discovered — the might of power.

Does that count as victory?

It's what he believes.

How strange.

The strange one is you, Fang of Agnese. You didn't come here to kill me, did you?

I was just a little curious.

You don't seem like an evil man, or one who wields power as you claimed.

What do you see when you look at me, then?

A beast who went looking for a place to die, now laying peacefully in it.

Are those wise guys gone yet?

They're gone, right?

Thank goodness, I thought they were going to start fighting.

But... what are we going to do with this body?

I... I don't want to touch it.

Still, I can't help but feel a bit bad for this guy.

I'll handle it.

Wh-Who are you?

Just a friend of this nameless man.

You've discovered something important, my friend.

Violence is done in the name of civility.

That is the true nature of the famiglie.

And we must come to terms—

With what we call civility, even if it's another pretense, even if it's just a form of self-restraint...

Even if it's only a stone's throw from our basest instincts...

An earnest desire for civility will always be different from using it to whitewash your sins.

Neither this country nor this city will remember you.

But I will remember you, Danbrown, the carwash worker.

Together with Rubio, the two of you have proven the lie that famiglie can change and adapt.

Grr... We ended up letting him go.

He stopped wanting to fight us halfway through.

You felt it too, didn't you? If he really wanted to kill us, he could've gotten it done.

He just didn't want to take the time.

We can't underestimate any of the Siracusan famiglie.

You got one thing wrong.

I've never underestimated any of them.

Every famiglia is my enemy.

Including the Bellones.

Don't you think you're jumping the gun a bit there?

You don't seem surprised.

You betrayed your own boss. You expect me to believe you'd really go in with us?

But let me point out, now isn't a good time.

Demetri does not waver in the face of Wallach's sharpened blade, instead turning back to his soldiers.

What's going on in the city?

Nothing good.

The famiglie know the secondary core separation sequence started.

People are all pretty mad at us and the Saluzzos.

Wise guys from the other famiglie are hitting us now too.

What about the thing I asked you to handle?

You were right on the money...

The eyes and ears we planted in the other famiglie tell us even though the people are angry at the Bellones and Saluzzos, we aren't their main deal here.

All the chaos is down there is exactly what all the famiglie were looking for.

Everything Signora Sicilia kept down is bubbling right up to the surface now.

There's already fighting over how to divvy up Bellone and Saluzzo assets. And we've got some old grudges out there getting settled.

Everyone's hopping in, directly or indirectly.

(*mutters*) This is exactly what you wanted, huh, Boss?

(*mutters*) So, you betrayed us after all.

Wallach, you're not an idiot. You get that there's no point to us fighting right now.

Isn't it better to solve the big problems first?