Chapter 4 - Part 1
Chapter 4 “Confusion @ Stalkers”
It’s not the worst.
It’s not the worst that could happen in this situation.
It could have lead to killing or kidnapping.
Even though it was excrutiating to think, “It’s not the worst” were the only words she could keep telling herself -
Because in view of the stalker’s behaviour, this situation was not unpredictable, as long as he was taken down before he got to Ruri, it would be okay.
This was what Celty thought.
But, perhaps this needed consideration.
Perhaps there had been some negligence.
These days, she’s still gets pursued by hoodlums, speeding cars and police officers, yesterday she even had to deal with helicopters and a machine gun.
Because of this, the stalker didn’t really pose that much of a problem -
Her heart held such a misunderstanding.
But if it was after Anri got attacked by Niekawa Haruna.
If it was after seeing the stalker on the news.
If she could have only worked out the stalkers weird actions in time -
Even so, regardless of how she takes in the situation, she’s unable to change the outcome.
And for Celty, this ‘outcome’ is -
Right now, the scene in front of her, Shinra’s whole body was covered in his blood and he was having difficulty breathing.
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- Shin…… ra?
- “It forms a sharp contrast to your black!”
Though this isn’t the first time she’s seen the white coat stained with blood -
But this time, Shinra was lying in the corridor and wearing the moistened white coat covered with undoubtedly his own blood.
“________________”
Celty tried to scream.
Wanted to shout Shinra’s name.
However, with no head, Celty is naturally unable to vibrate the air in order to make a sound, what she could do was hurry and run up to Shinra’s side and hug him.
At this, Shinra finally noticed Celty, he rounded his eyes towards her.
“…..Ah ……Cel……..ty?”
Shinra’s head and mouth dribbled with blood, he really shouldn’t be talking.
But - even in this situation, Shinra still smiled.
Looking at Celty’s face, he showed a relieved smile.
This smile, wasn’t relief for himself, but to try and make her relax.
“It’s alright….. It’s not as bad as it looks….. my life’s not in danger….. it’s only…… bones…… several are broken…. Ah, I think it’s still better then when I was beaten up by Shizuo, so it should be alright….. I didn’t think that guy…… would tirelessly…. keep kicking so many times…..”
“Stop talking! I’m going to call the ambulance!”
“No don’t, calling the ambulance…. would be terrible, ….besides, how can you call them?”
- !
But, if I dial the number, won’t they automatically inquire the caller? Celty had heard before, the hospital can send over faxes for people who are mute.
- Paper, where’s the paper? Oh right, I can make paper from my shadow…. That’s no good.
- Ah, Shinra, please don’t die! Don’t abandon me!
“Give my father…… or Emilia… a call….”
After Shinra used his energy to say that, he looked at Celty and showed her an incomparably gentle smile.
“Celty….. grief will conceal your beautiful spirit… for me….. please smile…..”
After saying that, his conciousness fell into darkness.
- Please No!
- Don’t talk like you’re going to die!
Then jumped down the staircase, making the shadow into a spider lattice, she slowly lowered him to the ground.
In the parking lot, Shooter seemed to also find Shinra’s condition alarming and let out a quiet neigh.
Celty used her shadow to place Shinra on top of Shooter, and changed Shooter into a shape that looked like it could transport a newborn babe.
To make sure Shinra’s body doesn’t tilt - Celty installed a cargo conveyer transporter, similar to the ones on noodle shop delivery motorbikes, on Shooter and with 120% effort, sped away quickly from the parking lot.
- Dammit, why….. why!
- I’m such an idiot! I was too careless about the stalker!
- I….. am so incapable!
- I’ve been with Shinra who’s an underground doctor for such a long time already… and yet I don’t know a single emergency nursing procedure….!
- I…. just what did I see Shinra as!
Though her feelings were filled with regret and anger, she was still praying desperately for Shinra’s safety.
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Somewhere in Ikebukuro
Adabashi Kisuke gazed after a black motorbike that had just sped past him - and let out a strange laughter.
Then, he slowly pulled out his phone and sent a message to someone.
His face was filled with happiness, like his world was successfully complete.
In Adabashi’s mind, this reappearance was even more distinct and pleasurable then the kicking.
This image of destruction.
He hopes that Hijiribe Ruri in his ‘fantasy’ will be destroyed in his heart.
In front of his eyes.
On the surface of his flesh.
Under his feet.
Between his fingers and toes.
Taste it on his tongue.
Hear it through his eardrums.
Acting in accordance with his soul’s rhythm -
Destroy -
Completely break Hijiribe Ruri apart, merge her into his body and make her become a part of himself.
Adabashi imagined and actually expected this type of unimaginable and disturbing outcome, and felt ‘happy’.
Adabashi Kisuke loved Hijiribe Ruri.
The word love is used, but perhaps it’s better to say that that is what he believes.
As the son of the head of an insurance company, Kisuke lived a wealthy life.
Only, because of his crude dispositon since he was small, he was constantly avoided and treated like an unlucky star.
Knowing that his father often participated in many suspicious meetings - he initially suspected his father of having an affair, and followed behind him once.
However, what he saw - at that time was a scary scene of a female model being sold - Hijiribe Ruri, and being used as a sacrificial offering.
- Scary.
But, at the same time he realized.
The seemingly harmless young girl - being injured by his familiar father, tormented his heart.
At the same time that he felt scared, he also felt excited.
It wasn’t simply a distorted sexual desire.
His feelings surged a strong instinct regarding her.
If possible, he wished it wasn’t his father, but his own hands that was breaking and tarnishing the girl who looked like a goddess, tormenting her heart, destroying her existence.
It can be said in that moment, Adabashi Kisuke fell in love for the first time.
His love-filled eyes constantly looked to Hijiribe Ruri - at the time his father was killed by the killing monster ‘Hollywood’, Kisuke immediately understood.
The one who killed his father, was Hijiribe Ruri.
What slept inside her body, an abnormal strength stronger than any human.
After understanding all of it, his expectation changed into faith.
However - the direction of his faith wasn’t Ruri, but the sensation he’ll feel when he achieves his goal of destroying Ruri. Pure joy was what Adabashi Kisuke viewed as his faith ‘god’.
For him, Hijiribe was the Mary from whom god emerged.
The one who introduced him to the Dollars website was one man.
After his father’s funeral, he planned to contact Hijiribe Ruri - but he was scolded many times by the entertainment company staff.
However, after several months, a man contacted him.
It was the same man that introduced his father to Hijiribe Ruri - Yodogiri Jinnai.
Through him, Adabashi Kisuke gradually stepped into society’s underworld. Receiving all of Yodogiri’s various information resulted in him now commanding a website community that stalks Hijiribe Ruri.
In the website community, information can only be read by the few select members and banned from all others. As for new members, they are chosen by observing their reaction to the controversial slogan of ‘Hijiribe Ruri’s secret photo’s!’ posted on the Dollars website.
On the surface, the leader of this community is one man who calls himself 'Red Carpet', so this doesn’t get much attention. Consequently, they pull people who are only interested in the controversial advert into a hidden site, then drag them into an even deeper hidden page.
For Hijiribe Ruri, he does not hesitate to commit crimes, even if it means killing Hijiribe Ruri herself.
Adabashi Kisuke didn’t realize, close to ten people just like him gathered together. Just like Adabashi, they are all included in the blacklist of the entertainment office. This website community is filled with these type of people.
Can Hijiribe Ruri really make people so fanatical? -
Adabashi couldn’t answer, he only acted out in accordance to his desires.
While on one side they manufacture alibi’s, at the same time they are gradually closing in on Hijiribe Ruri.
Though it’s not known whether anyone actually believes it, all the people in the website know that Hijiribe Ruri has ‘abnormal’ strength, however, the secret that she’s the killing monster ‘Hollywood’, only one person knows.
This feeling of superiority excites him, and makes him crazier.
Destroy. Destroy Hijiribe Ruri.
With his own hands.
Generally speaking, wanting to destroy the body of the killing monster ‘Hollywood’ is impossible.
But Adabashi had thought about it.
If Ruri’s heart is destroyed then the killing monster ‘Hollwood’ would emerge, then exerting even more brutal destruction on the monsters’ heart would be even better.
The photo Yodogiri gave him was already sent to the office she currently works at.
After some time passes, we’ll spread it online or at publishing houses.
Though Adabashi thought he had everything prepared, he also had other things to do.
Hijiribe Ruri and her lover Hanejima Yuuhei.
Worried about the stalker situation, they had discussed it with several acqaintances and family members.
Adabashi initially thought he had to be careful about the headless rider’s housemate, but he found out that the man in the white coat was small and weak. After he dealt him enough suffering. Adabashi whispered in his ears the words: “Hijiribe Ruri will be mine.”
If that guy remembered that, then Hijiribe Ruri would have already heard about the situation.
Right now, the other people involved with her are also being attacked by the members of the online community.
- How regretful.
- If it was possible, I wanted to kill the cat personally.
Although he understood this, Adabashi Kisuke’s feelings are still vexed by his distorted desires.
- The cat.
- The cat Hijiribe Ruri was hugging.
- I really want to pinch it to death Ah ah ah
- I really want to be with Ruri and love it Ah ah.
Though he doesn’t the know the relationship among them, but, destroying whatever intimacy is between them by going to this female student whereabouts and killing the cat, won’t it give Hijiribe Ruri huge phsychological trauma?
While envying his companion who was carrying out this plan, Adabashi comforts himself by thinking ‘lets just enjoy this first year of destroying Ruri little by little’. And as such, lost in his thoughts he let out a strange laughter on Ikebukuro’s avenue.
Suddenly - Hijiribe Ruri’s song reverberated from his phone.
While listening intently, Adabashi pressed down on the talk button and enjoyed the pleasant mood of cutting off Ruri’s singing.
However, on the other side of phone, a different sound destroyed this pleasant mood.
“You never, you never said it would turn out like this!”
“?”
He was familiar with this voice.
It wasn’t Yodogiri.
It the person he was just envying -
The community site member who was responsible for ‘destroying’ that female high school student and the cat.
This man used to gamble in races, and is always constantly wearing a short coat - his voice is filled with anxiety, his tone was pleading and angry towards Adabashi.
“Trapped, the one who’s trapped is me! What, what’s with these masked guys!”
“Masked guys…..?”
“These guys were waiting to ambush me! I went to that high school girl’s apartment and prepared to start the fire! Then they suddenly came out and attacked me….. Ahh! They’re coming, Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
“Oi, what’s going on? Oi!”
Adabashi shouted into the phone, but after that, he only heard a yell then the line went dead.
“………”
It must be a coincidence.
It must be.
Hijiribe Ruri wouldn’t have hired a bodyguard for that cat?
Or, are the others involved?
Though he could think up countless explanations, thinking about the urgent situation arising, Adabashi couldn’t help but curse.
From that call, he knew only one fact -
That high school girl and cat were still okay.
Adabashi belted out his strange laughter again, then turned and walked toward the nearby parking lot.
He sat down in his car, and prepared to go to that high school girls’ apartment himself.
Though his companion was in danger, he still felt joyous in his heart.
Destroying his companion, caused him to feel an even deeper, even thicker - love for Hijiribe Ruri.
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