Chapter 4 - Part 2
Sunshine 60 passes near the main road, Russian Sushi Restaurant
“You said we’re being followed, what kind of person is it, a delinquent?”
Tom asked Vorona while walking.
“Conclusion is very difficult to obtain, only that it’s different from a professional soldier or assassin. Though it’s possible he is an average person, we must enhance vigilence.”
Hearing Vorona’s serious response, Kida walked anxiously while paying careful attention to his surroundings, Shizuo also looked around seriously.
Although it’s nearly the evening, the streets are still crowded.
Tom held his glasses and rotated his neck till a crack was heard.
“….Is it payback from the guy that got beat up by Shizuo, or is it revenge over debt collecting.… Either way, with so many people around us, nothing can be done, I’ll ask the boss of Russian sushi to let us use the back door…. Then acting as the lookout, we quietly…”
Tom was saying the following in a low voice, ….his words are cut off by Vorona.
“He’s coming….”
“Huh?”
Tom said startled.
Vorona immediately turned around.
And only saw a man holding some object walk over - the man saw Vorana’s sudden movement and hesitated, his body unconsciously shivered.
Though his hesitation only lasted a moment, it was enough for Vorona, and even if he weren’t frightened, Vorona’s action would still be too quick for him.
“Oh, Ah…. Ahhhhhhhhh!?”
Twisting her body, she sharply kicked the man’s stomach.
The dropped the object in his hand, a small medicine bottle.
The lid cracked open and liquid flowed out, spilling onto the man’s shoes.
“Owwahhhhhhhh!”
The man called out pitifully, and while cluthing his abdomen, he hurriedly tried to take off his shoes.
The liquid that spilled over his shoes started to deteriate the material, it perhaps contained acid.
“Hey, spilling acid on the street, what are you playing at….”
Tom calls out startled, Shizuo feels his head throb.
“This guy… what did you plan to do with this….?”
Saying this, Shizuo stepped forward, preparing to lift the guy up -
Kida suddenly spotted another man quietly coming toward Shizuo from behind.
The male was very short, his right hand holding a sharp broken glass.
While saying this, Kida circled around Shizuo’s body.
He planned to kick away the broken glass.
But, in the next instant, this action became meaningless.
A youth from the side corner suddenly ran over, pulled out an electric shock gun - and with force hit the man’s lower abdomen with his weapom.
“……….Zzttzzzzztzzzztzzzzz!”
The gun shocked the man close to the kidney, the man’s entire body convulsed and the broken glass dropped to the ground.
After watching the man fall to the ground, the mysterious youth smiled, then left unceremoniously.
That is - on the mysterious youths’ neck hangs a handkerchief with a shark tooth pattern.
Kida felt all his hairs stand up.
It wasn’t because he was frightened, but he was surprised.
“Sorry! I have to go now! I’ll definitely talk to you guys later!”
After he finished, he lowered his head in a bow, and then ran after the boy.
“Ah? Hey!”
Tom called out while grabbing the broken glass out of the short man’s hand. Hearing the sound, Kida turned around to look and remembered the reason why he returned to this city again.
Pursuing this may not have an answer.
Even if it ends up like that, he still has to continue to pursue.
Anri’s Apartment
On hearing the message alert tone, Anri temporarily stopped playng with Dokusonmaru and picked up her phone.
Anri thought this while opening up the message -
“Shinras been hurt stalker came Anri be careful”
“!?”
Upon reading the anxious-filled message, Anri’s entire body froze.
“Is Celty-san okay!?”
After she replied with this message.
She hurriedly looked out the window.
Right now, there wasn’t any commotion.
However there was a sound outside just then, she just didn’t notice.
Anri looked out the window for a while, the message alert rang out again. Not knowing whether it was because the sender was flustered, there were no puntucation marks in the content.
“I’m okay sending Shinra to hospital Anri be careful”
Why can the stalker so easily destroy my steady lifestyle?
The things I love, why can he damage any of it.
Anri felt confused about the actions of this stalker that was so different from Mika, suddenly, as if she just thought of something, she lowered her head to ponder.
“Me and Saika…. are the same.”
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Somewhere in Ikebukuro
Kida chased the boy who might be a member of Blue Squares.
In front, the boy seems aware that he’s being chased, he continually runs and often turns his head to look back at Kida.
Kida recalled a time before when he received a surprise attack and took the consequences for his actions.
Always causing the dispute, but never participating in it.
Away from the busy street, the boy stopped at a place where nobody was around.
“…..What are you doing?”
The boy obstructed his mouth with the handkerchief and asked Kida.
Kida standing 2 meters away from the boy, hands on his knees, took a deep breath and said.
“Though I don’t really understand, but, in that situation back there I owe you a thanks, so thank you.”
“……I don’t believe you chased me all this way just to say thanks!”
“That’s right….. if I say this wrong, then I apologize, are you in Blue Squares?”
“!”
On hearing the word Blue Squares, the boy reacted.
“It seems I guessed right.”
“Who are you?”
The boy increased his vigilence, and stared at Kida with hostility, Kida adjusted his breath and with a firm glance asked.
“After Yellow Turbans, are you now going after Dollars?”
“………..”
“What are you guys planning? Who is your leader? Is that gushing guy out of jail already?”
Kida continued interegating, the blue squares boy opened his mouth and said with a provocative expression.
“Are you related to the Yellow Turbans?”
“……What about it?”
“Your time has already ended, also, I only helped that guy who wore a windproof coat, I wasn’t helping you.”
“I’m relieved to hear that, because everytime you guys have something going on, fights start breaking out, this is my question before the fight.”
Kida makes his hand joints crack, and his gaze became sharp.
“I have a grudge with the blue squares, that’s something that’ll never change.”
“Ah ah, I’m really scared now. If you have any original words…..”
The laughing youth took his eyes off Kida slightly.
But then there were words spoken -
It came from behind Kida, another boy wielding a nightstick.
“Come… and get it!”
The nightstick was swung down forcefully, but Kida -
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Somewhere near Anri’s apartment
“Hey, did you find that arson guy?”
“He escapes really fast, that guy.”
Several youths are pacing back and forth in a narrow lane, and carrying on with conversations such as this.
They are all wearing the shark tooth design handkerchief and a ski mask that only reveals the eyes, walking everywhere in the lane, searching for someone.
Maybe because they were tired, their footsteps slowed down patrolling the area.
The nearby bustling street is far away, this so-called alley actually consists of 23 districts, and almost no one passes by.
“Aoba that guy is…..”
“That guy should definitely also he here searching…”
“Oh, there’s a car coming, move to the road side.”
After saying this, the boys walked over to the road side -
Entering the narrow laneway, the car switched off its headlight and gradually slowed down.
“?”
The car stopped in front of the boys, and the engine was shut off.
It’s weird.
Stopping the car in the middle of the road in this type of situation is definitely not normal.
Seeing several boys wearing masks that covered their whole face and intentionally walking over to the roadside, an average person would drive directly pass right? Is it necessary to stop especially in front of this kind of suspicious gang?
At this moment in which they were having these doubts - a man from inside the car climbed out.
Through the weak rays of the streetlights, they could see that the man’s stature was slender, but were unable to guess his age and expression.
However, the strange laughter that emitted from the man’s mouth caused the youths to feel a dangerous aura.
“What are you doing?”
One of the boys asked.
In answer - the slender man immediately moved in front of the boy, and shrugging his shoulders replied.
“I only wanted to ask you for directions.”
“Directions?”
Hearing this, the boy’s looked at one another in blank dismay.
In front of a group of people that wore masked hats, obviously a hoodlums group, would someone ask them for directions?
This was obviously very strange, the youths looked the man over -
At this moment, the boy standing at the front suffered a kick to his temple.
Boy A immediately fell unconscious, not even letting out a pitiful yell.
The rest of the boys stiffened, this guy - Adabashi Kisuke smiled, then said.
“Then please, guide me.”
“Comfortably lead me to where my beloved Ruri is.”
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Somewhere in Ikebukuro
“….Really, making me waste so much effort.”
The one saying this - is Kida, along with a bleeding head.
Though he avoided the nightsticks long jab, his skin was abraided. He used his handkerchief to clean the blood off his face, and looked at the two blue square members lying on the ground.
“But, I was really shocked, both guys just fainted suddenly.”
They were definitely not weak opponents, though Kida excelled at fighting, if he didn’t rapidly stun one before the other, if both had attacked at the same time, then the one lying on the floor would have been himself.
However, both of them fainting was not planned, now the questioning couldn’t continue.
Though he hates doing this, but in order to know the opposite parties information, there is no alternative.
At least, he hopes to verify what Blue squares infiltrating Dollars is up to.
Suddenly, his whole body stiffened.
Mikado Ryuugamine.
Because - he saw in the sms message the name of his best friend who he was just thinking about.
Moreover, it’s not from sending records sections - but recent receiving records.
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There have been lots of times since Ryuugamine Mikado received his blue squares membership that he’s gotten experience being beaten - he’s revealed his poor form in such situations, but continues to input his instructions.
“Congregrate more peope around Anri’s house, continue to strengthen the security. Don’t let Anri find out.”
Mikado knew Adabashi’s plan.
Inside Dollars webpage, Mikado realized the stalkers trends, and exchanged the information with the whole group of supervisors. Though that wasn’t technically legal, it was similar to hackers spreading a virus, but Mikado still didn’t hesitate to do it.
In the evening after obtaining information inside the headline “Information on Ruri’s acquaintances”, he found pictures of Celty’s villa and Shizuo.
Besides getting the data, he also prepared several people to discuss the topic.
‘Under broad daylight, they wouldn’t dare do anything’, but this thought was quickly corrected in his mind, because from previous records, Mikado understood that this was an unusual group.
Mikado immediately called Celty -
But to hide his identity as Dollars founder, he didn’t call Anri.
He didn’t want her to worry, but through his own hands, and through Dollars he had to protect her.
Therefore, he didn’t call Anri.
Though it wasn’t necessary to worry about Shizuo he sent several people to prevent the stalker’s movements.
Ryuugamine Mikado did not consider Anri’s safety as the priority, but the ideal ‘Dollars’.
Not one person, not even Mikado himself, realized this point.
Except Kuronuma Aoba.
In front is the direction to Anri’s house.
Run.
Run.
Run.
The impulse that surged through his body, restlessness, anger, all of it transmitted from his feet to the earth, with his body leading the way.
From the message content, Kida knew it was Mikado sending out instructions.
Knew that blue squares have infiltrated Dollars.
Before Mikado is taken in, he knew what he had to do, knew it wasn’t going to be easy coming back to Ikebukuro -
What was in front of him, was in fact Blue Squares’ first host, Mikado Ryuugamine.
But, issuing the instructions to them was without a doubt Mikado.
It must have been Kuronuma Aoba, or Orihara Izaya that had a secret plan.
Though I can make a lot of conjectures, but the fact that Mikado is the one issuing orders won’t change.
It was during the vacation in May, the conflict with Toramaru.
It looks like, Anri is being pursued, Kida didn’t have time to ponder and immediately hurried off.
He couldn’t forgive his own weakness, he continued to run, remembering his responsibility, in order to redeem his past.
Near Anri’s room
“….Damn, that was really bad.”
A man in a work suit behind Anri’s apartment adjusted his tie.
After ignition he quickly returned to the front of the apartment, when the high school girl comes out he’ll pour gasoline over her head, and burn her to death along with the cat.
Though it was a plan to prevent being captured by the police, the man’s thought processesses were somewhat underdeveloped. He didn’t say if it was the perfect crime or how the plan was determined -
He didn’t even understand what he was doing was considered a crime.
His eardrums suddenly received a shock from a sound completely unexpected in the current situation.
“Meow -“
“Ah.”
It came from the side, a carefree sound.
He could tell it was a cat’s cry and hurriedly turned his head.
There, he saw a young girl behind him.
“Ah…… what?”
“What are you doing? ......?”
The yong girl held a pet carrier, a cat’s head poked out from inside and gave a happy cry.
“………!”
That was the cat that belongs to Ruri’s lover Yuuhei - Dokusonmaru, the man immediately knew this - and took out a milk bottle filled with gasoline.
“Ah, ah ah ah, for Ruri-chan, please turn into ashes.”
Though a bit flustered, the man said these strange words softly and prepared to pour the gasonline on the young girl.
However - the milk bottle suddenly shined silver, and fell from his hands.
“Wah….,”
At this time, the man realized.
The young girl in front of him, a sharp katana suddenly appeared in her hand.
And the girl’s pupils changed into a bright red colour like a sunset, glowing.
“What, what is this? You, you’re, using a katana is a crime, Hey! Hasn’t your mother ever told you? Never point those things at other people.”
Though the man was scared, he still said these words.
With no expression, Anri stared at the man and slowly approached him with ‘Saika’.
She didn’t understand what her burning to death would have to do with Ruri.
On another note, regardless of the reason - a man who wanted to kill someone and their cat on their first meeting is definitely not a normal person.
Then hesitantly, she used Saika to cut the stalker’s ear.
“Wah…..! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……!”
Right now, a ‘sound’ started from the injury on the man’s ear and a corrosion spread through him.
In Anri, it was already a custom melody of love, but for people who hear it for the first time, the impact received is like the whole world is substituted for this ‘sound’, this kind of overwhelming avalanche of sound, engraved the existence of Saika deeply into the man’s soul.
Though only his ear was cut, the impact of the ‘sound’ was enough for the man to lose consiousness.
Anri coolly looked at the man and with pupils that were hard to detect and malice said.
“…….Forget about Hijiribe Ruri - as for attacking Kishitani-sensei, please surrender yourself over to the police.”
Anri didn’t know.
Though the man was in fact a stalker, he wasn’t the culprit who attacked Shinra.
Also, the fact that there’s more than one stalker, she didn’t know.
Because of this, she felt relieved.
Because she thought the stalker incident has been solved.
Therefore - her heart felt resolved.
A hoarse sound came from behind Anri.
Anri first thought Dokusonmaru sneezed -
But, the place where the sound emitted was obviously in a different direction than the pet carrier.
“!?”
She felt her whole body shiver, and frantically turned around -
But, she immediatly encountered a violent kick in her lower abdomen -
Followed by a sharp metal sound, Anri’s body flew backwards.
“……..!”
Anri had repelled many attackers before - but, the impact which she just received, compared to Niekawa Haruna and the masked attacker with the gardening shears, this one is actually much stronger, if it’s a head-on fight, she could resist but with the others sudden attack she couldn’t fend it off and her body flew back.
Anri didn’t let out a cry, falling hard on the apartment wall, the air in her lungs was stolen from her.
The pet carrier holding Dokusonmaru was thrown into the air, and fell to the ground.
If Saika, who could sense killing auras, didn’t use the knife’s edge to protect her lower abdomen in time, Anri’s ribs may have been broken.
However - though the knife’s edge is sharp, the man’s foot wasn’t cut clean through.
“Shocked… you’re shocked…. Aren’t you?”
The man who suddenly attacked Anri looked at his slashed shoe and said with wide eyes.
“If I weren’t wearing metal shoes, if would have been cut open…. What, you aren’t human?”
“……..”
Though Anri didn’t say anything, but looking at her red pupils, the man - Adabashi Kisuke immediately continued to speak happily.
“Of course, Ruri-chan isn’t human, birds with the same feather flock together…….!”
Adabashi gazed at Anri with not a bit of timidity after concluding she wasn’t human.
He lifted his iron-protected shoes, and prepared to give Anri a fatal kick.
However -
“Tsssss ---”
The cover apparently opened when the pet carrier fell to the floor, Dokusonmaru jumped out and emitted a threatening hiss to Adabashi, then turned around and escaped.
“Ah….. don’t run…..”
Adabashi’s interest seemed to transfer immediately from Anri and started to chase after the one he felt was more important, the ‘cat that Hijiribe Ruri was hugging’.
Anri’s, who’s body was till in a state of paralysis, helplessly looked on as Adabashi rapidly disappered from her sight -
Remaining behind, was only the speech-impaired Anri, as well as the man lying on his side, with a dizzy consciousness and mumbling “Are you alright? Mother.” with his red eyes.
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“You said we’re being followed, what kind of person is it, a delinquent?”
Tom asked Vorona while walking.
“Conclusion is very difficult to obtain, only that it’s different from a professional soldier or assassin. Though it’s possible he is an average person, we must enhance vigilence.”
Hearing Vorona’s serious response, Kida walked anxiously while paying careful attention to his surroundings, Shizuo also looked around seriously.
Although it’s nearly the evening, the streets are still crowded.
Tom held his glasses and rotated his neck till a crack was heard.
“….Is it payback from the guy that got beat up by Shizuo, or is it revenge over debt collecting.… Either way, with so many people around us, nothing can be done, I’ll ask the boss of Russian sushi to let us use the back door…. Then acting as the lookout, we quietly…”
Tom was saying the following in a low voice, ….his words are cut off by Vorona.
“He’s coming….”
“Huh?”
Tom said startled.
Vorona immediately turned around.
And only saw a man holding some object walk over - the man saw Vorana’s sudden movement and hesitated, his body unconsciously shivered.
Though his hesitation only lasted a moment, it was enough for Vorona, and even if he weren’t frightened, Vorona’s action would still be too quick for him.
“Oh, Ah…. Ahhhhhhhhh!?”
Twisting her body, she sharply kicked the man’s stomach.
The dropped the object in his hand, a small medicine bottle.
The lid cracked open and liquid flowed out, spilling onto the man’s shoes.
“Owwahhhhhhhh!”
The man called out pitifully, and while cluthing his abdomen, he hurriedly tried to take off his shoes.
The liquid that spilled over his shoes started to deteriate the material, it perhaps contained acid.
“Hey, spilling acid on the street, what are you playing at….”
Tom calls out startled, Shizuo feels his head throb.
“This guy… what did you plan to do with this….?”
Saying this, Shizuo stepped forward, preparing to lift the guy up -
Kida suddenly spotted another man quietly coming toward Shizuo from behind.
The male was very short, his right hand holding a sharp broken glass.
- Oh, no way!
While saying this, Kida circled around Shizuo’s body.
He planned to kick away the broken glass.
But, in the next instant, this action became meaningless.
A youth from the side corner suddenly ran over, pulled out an electric shock gun - and with force hit the man’s lower abdomen with his weapom.
“……….Zzttzzzzztzzzztzzzzz!”
The gun shocked the man close to the kidney, the man’s entire body convulsed and the broken glass dropped to the ground.
After watching the man fall to the ground, the mysterious youth smiled, then left unceremoniously.
- Huh?
- Who was that?
That is - on the mysterious youths’ neck hangs a handkerchief with a shark tooth pattern.
Kida felt all his hairs stand up.
It wasn’t because he was frightened, but he was surprised.
- That guy……
- Blue……. Squares….?
“Sorry! I have to go now! I’ll definitely talk to you guys later!”
After he finished, he lowered his head in a bow, and then ran after the boy.
“Ah? Hey!”
Tom called out while grabbing the broken glass out of the short man’s hand. Hearing the sound, Kida turned around to look and remembered the reason why he returned to this city again.
- Why did those guys help Shizuo?
- Is it just good intentions? Or some sort of plan? Or some inside problem?
- Speaking of which, is the style of the handkerchief the same? If I got the wrong people, then what do I do?
- Dammit….. it’s not the time to think about this!
Pursuing this may not have an answer.
Even if it ends up like that, he still has to continue to pursue.
- A guy in blue squares.
- What are they up to this time…..!?
Anri’s Apartment
On hearing the message alert tone, Anri temporarily stopped playng with Dokusonmaru and picked up her phone.
- It was sent by Celty-san.
Anri thought this while opening up the message -
“Shinras been hurt stalker came Anri be careful”
“!?”
Upon reading the anxious-filled message, Anri’s entire body froze.
“Is Celty-san okay!?”
After she replied with this message.
She hurriedly looked out the window.
Right now, there wasn’t any commotion.
However there was a sound outside just then, she just didn’t notice.
Anri looked out the window for a while, the message alert rang out again. Not knowing whether it was because the sender was flustered, there were no puntucation marks in the content.
“I’m okay sending Shinra to hospital Anri be careful”
- What happened?
- I hope Kishitani-sensei is okay…..
Why can the stalker so easily destroy my steady lifestyle?
The things I love, why can he damage any of it.
Anri felt confused about the actions of this stalker that was so different from Mika, suddenly, as if she just thought of something, she lowered her head to ponder.
- If I don’t injure, then I can’t love…..
“Me and Saika…. are the same.”
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Somewhere in Ikebukuro
Kida chased the boy who might be a member of Blue Squares.
In front, the boy seems aware that he’s being chased, he continually runs and often turns his head to look back at Kida.
Kida recalled a time before when he received a surprise attack and took the consequences for his actions.
- Don’t stop walking.
Always causing the dispute, but never participating in it.
- Don’t…. stop walking.
- Dammit, physical education is very important….!
Away from the busy street, the boy stopped at a place where nobody was around.
“…..What are you doing?”
The boy obstructed his mouth with the handkerchief and asked Kida.
Kida standing 2 meters away from the boy, hands on his knees, took a deep breath and said.
“Though I don’t really understand, but, in that situation back there I owe you a thanks, so thank you.”
“……I don’t believe you chased me all this way just to say thanks!”
“That’s right….. if I say this wrong, then I apologize, are you in Blue Squares?”
“!”
On hearing the word Blue Squares, the boy reacted.
“It seems I guessed right.”
“Who are you?”
The boy increased his vigilence, and stared at Kida with hostility, Kida adjusted his breath and with a firm glance asked.
“After Yellow Turbans, are you now going after Dollars?”
“………..”
“What are you guys planning? Who is your leader? Is that gushing guy out of jail already?”
Kida continued interegating, the blue squares boy opened his mouth and said with a provocative expression.
“Are you related to the Yellow Turbans?”
“……What about it?”
“Your time has already ended, also, I only helped that guy who wore a windproof coat, I wasn’t helping you.”
“I’m relieved to hear that, because everytime you guys have something going on, fights start breaking out, this is my question before the fight.”
Kida makes his hand joints crack, and his gaze became sharp.
“I have a grudge with the blue squares, that’s something that’ll never change.”
“Ah ah, I’m really scared now. If you have any original words…..”
The laughing youth took his eyes off Kida slightly.
But then there were words spoken -
It came from behind Kida, another boy wielding a nightstick.
“Come… and get it!”
The nightstick was swung down forcefully, but Kida -
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Somewhere near Anri’s apartment
“Hey, did you find that arson guy?”
“He escapes really fast, that guy.”
Several youths are pacing back and forth in a narrow lane, and carrying on with conversations such as this.
They are all wearing the shark tooth design handkerchief and a ski mask that only reveals the eyes, walking everywhere in the lane, searching for someone.
Maybe because they were tired, their footsteps slowed down patrolling the area.
The nearby bustling street is far away, this so-called alley actually consists of 23 districts, and almost no one passes by.
“Aoba that guy is…..”
“That guy should definitely also he here searching…”
“Oh, there’s a car coming, move to the road side.”
After saying this, the boys walked over to the road side -
Entering the narrow laneway, the car switched off its headlight and gradually slowed down.
“?”
The car stopped in front of the boys, and the engine was shut off.
It’s weird.
Stopping the car in the middle of the road in this type of situation is definitely not normal.
Seeing several boys wearing masks that covered their whole face and intentionally walking over to the roadside, an average person would drive directly pass right? Is it necessary to stop especially in front of this kind of suspicious gang?
At this moment in which they were having these doubts - a man from inside the car climbed out.
Through the weak rays of the streetlights, they could see that the man’s stature was slender, but were unable to guess his age and expression.
However, the strange laughter that emitted from the man’s mouth caused the youths to feel a dangerous aura.
“What are you doing?”
One of the boys asked.
In answer - the slender man immediately moved in front of the boy, and shrugging his shoulders replied.
“I only wanted to ask you for directions.”
“Directions?”
Hearing this, the boy’s looked at one another in blank dismay.
In front of a group of people that wore masked hats, obviously a hoodlums group, would someone ask them for directions?
This was obviously very strange, the youths looked the man over -
At this moment, the boy standing at the front suffered a kick to his temple.
Boy A immediately fell unconscious, not even letting out a pitiful yell.
The rest of the boys stiffened, this guy - Adabashi Kisuke smiled, then said.
“Then please, guide me.”
“Comfortably lead me to where my beloved Ruri is.”
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Somewhere in Ikebukuro
“….Really, making me waste so much effort.”
The one saying this - is Kida, along with a bleeding head.
Though he avoided the nightsticks long jab, his skin was abraided. He used his handkerchief to clean the blood off his face, and looked at the two blue square members lying on the ground.
“But, I was really shocked, both guys just fainted suddenly.”
They were definitely not weak opponents, though Kida excelled at fighting, if he didn’t rapidly stun one before the other, if both had attacked at the same time, then the one lying on the floor would have been himself.
However, both of them fainting was not planned, now the questioning couldn’t continue.
- If a police officer comes, it’ll be bad.
- Nothing to it, I’ll borrow this for a while.
Though he hates doing this, but in order to know the opposite parties information, there is no alternative.
At least, he hopes to verify what Blue squares infiltrating Dollars is up to.
- These things, I thought I wouldn’t have to help Mikado with…
Suddenly, his whole body stiffened.
Mikado Ryuugamine.
Because - he saw in the sms message the name of his best friend who he was just thinking about.
Moreover, it’s not from sending records sections - but recent receiving records.
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There have been lots of times since Ryuugamine Mikado received his blue squares membership that he’s gotten experience being beaten - he’s revealed his poor form in such situations, but continues to input his instructions.
“Congregrate more peope around Anri’s house, continue to strengthen the security. Don’t let Anri find out.”
Mikado knew Adabashi’s plan.
Inside Dollars webpage, Mikado realized the stalkers trends, and exchanged the information with the whole group of supervisors. Though that wasn’t technically legal, it was similar to hackers spreading a virus, but Mikado still didn’t hesitate to do it.
In the evening after obtaining information inside the headline “Information on Ruri’s acquaintances”, he found pictures of Celty’s villa and Shizuo.
Besides getting the data, he also prepared several people to discuss the topic.
‘Under broad daylight, they wouldn’t dare do anything’, but this thought was quickly corrected in his mind, because from previous records, Mikado understood that this was an unusual group.
Mikado immediately called Celty -
But to hide his identity as Dollars founder, he didn’t call Anri.
He didn’t want her to worry, but through his own hands, and through Dollars he had to protect her.
Therefore, he didn’t call Anri.
Though it wasn’t necessary to worry about Shizuo he sent several people to prevent the stalker’s movements.
Ryuugamine Mikado did not consider Anri’s safety as the priority, but the ideal ‘Dollars’.
Not one person, not even Mikado himself, realized this point.
Except Kuronuma Aoba.
- Bastards.
- Mikado……
- What are you doing…..
- What are you doing, Mikado!
In front is the direction to Anri’s house.
Run.
Run.
Run.
The impulse that surged through his body, restlessness, anger, all of it transmitted from his feet to the earth, with his body leading the way.
From the message content, Kida knew it was Mikado sending out instructions.
Knew that blue squares have infiltrated Dollars.
Before Mikado is taken in, he knew what he had to do, knew it wasn’t going to be easy coming back to Ikebukuro -
What was in front of him, was in fact Blue Squares’ first host, Mikado Ryuugamine.
- Mikado…..
But, issuing the instructions to them was without a doubt Mikado.
It must have been Kuronuma Aoba, or Orihara Izaya that had a secret plan.
Though I can make a lot of conjectures, but the fact that Mikado is the one issuing orders won’t change.
- Do you know what your doing….!
- Dammit…..
It was during the vacation in May, the conflict with Toramaru.
- Dammit…..
- If I knew this from the start…… I should have said something that time….
- While hiding in a safe place and issuing orders, you think you’re a king.…
- But whether you feel like it’s a game or whatever…..
- The fact that you’ve stepped into the underworld isn’t going to change!
- Anri’s in danger, what’s the meaning of this.
It looks like, Anri is being pursued, Kida didn’t have time to ponder and immediately hurried off.
- Mikado…. what kind of fight have you gotten into!
- Damn…. Damn!
He couldn’t forgive his own weakness, he continued to run, remembering his responsibility, in order to redeem his past.
- I’m….. just like that……!
- Damn…..!
Near Anri’s room
“….Damn, that was really bad.”
A man in a work suit behind Anri’s apartment adjusted his tie.
- I finally came back, I hope no one was monitoring me.
- Where did those guys hurry off to, what happened?
- Damn.… I dropped one of the cigarette lighters and oil pots.
- It was taken by those guys…. And that lighter was really expensive.
- Forget it, I still have a lot more to prepare the fire with.
- I’ll quickly handle this then crawl into bed and imagine Ruri-chan crying.
- If a cat and a high school girl were burnt to death, it’ll definitely be on the news.
- If a report related to Ruri-chan broadcasted, Ruri-chan will walk even deeper into the path of destruction.
- Really such a pity, thinking about if gets me excited!
After ignition he quickly returned to the front of the apartment, when the high school girl comes out he’ll pour gasoline over her head, and burn her to death along with the cat.
- What a perfect plan.
Though it was a plan to prevent being captured by the police, the man’s thought processesses were somewhat underdeveloped. He didn’t say if it was the perfect crime or how the plan was determined -
He didn’t even understand what he was doing was considered a crime.
- Then Ruri-chan will become even more beautiful.
His eardrums suddenly received a shock from a sound completely unexpected in the current situation.
“Meow -“
“Ah.”
It came from the side, a carefree sound.
He could tell it was a cat’s cry and hurriedly turned his head.
There, he saw a young girl behind him.
“Ah…… what?”
“What are you doing? ......?”
The yong girl held a pet carrier, a cat’s head poked out from inside and gave a happy cry.
“………!”
That was the cat that belongs to Ruri’s lover Yuuhei - Dokusonmaru, the man immediately knew this - and took out a milk bottle filled with gasoline.
“Ah, ah ah ah, for Ruri-chan, please turn into ashes.”
Though a bit flustered, the man said these strange words softly and prepared to pour the gasonline on the young girl.
However - the milk bottle suddenly shined silver, and fell from his hands.
“Wah….,”
At this time, the man realized.
The young girl in front of him, a sharp katana suddenly appeared in her hand.
And the girl’s pupils changed into a bright red colour like a sunset, glowing.
“What, what is this? You, you’re, using a katana is a crime, Hey! Hasn’t your mother ever told you? Never point those things at other people.”
Though the man was scared, he still said these words.
With no expression, Anri stared at the man and slowly approached him with ‘Saika’.
She didn’t understand what her burning to death would have to do with Ruri.
On another note, regardless of the reason - a man who wanted to kill someone and their cat on their first meeting is definitely not a normal person.
- So it can still love even these kinds of people, Saika is really amazing.
Then hesitantly, she used Saika to cut the stalker’s ear.
“Wah…..! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……!”
Right now, a ‘sound’ started from the injury on the man’s ear and a corrosion spread through him.
In Anri, it was already a custom melody of love, but for people who hear it for the first time, the impact received is like the whole world is substituted for this ‘sound’, this kind of overwhelming avalanche of sound, engraved the existence of Saika deeply into the man’s soul.
Though only his ear was cut, the impact of the ‘sound’ was enough for the man to lose consiousness.
Anri coolly looked at the man and with pupils that were hard to detect and malice said.
“…….Forget about Hijiribe Ruri - as for attacking Kishitani-sensei, please surrender yourself over to the police.”
Anri didn’t know.
Though the man was in fact a stalker, he wasn’t the culprit who attacked Shinra.
Also, the fact that there’s more than one stalker, she didn’t know.
Because of this, she felt relieved.
Because she thought the stalker incident has been solved.
Therefore - her heart felt resolved.
A hoarse sound came from behind Anri.
Anri first thought Dokusonmaru sneezed -
But, the place where the sound emitted was obviously in a different direction than the pet carrier.
“!?”
She felt her whole body shiver, and frantically turned around -
But, she immediatly encountered a violent kick in her lower abdomen -
Followed by a sharp metal sound, Anri’s body flew backwards.
“……..!”
Anri had repelled many attackers before - but, the impact which she just received, compared to Niekawa Haruna and the masked attacker with the gardening shears, this one is actually much stronger, if it’s a head-on fight, she could resist but with the others sudden attack she couldn’t fend it off and her body flew back.
Anri didn’t let out a cry, falling hard on the apartment wall, the air in her lungs was stolen from her.
The pet carrier holding Dokusonmaru was thrown into the air, and fell to the ground.
If Saika, who could sense killing auras, didn’t use the knife’s edge to protect her lower abdomen in time, Anri’s ribs may have been broken.
However - though the knife’s edge is sharp, the man’s foot wasn’t cut clean through.
“Shocked… you’re shocked…. Aren’t you?”
The man who suddenly attacked Anri looked at his slashed shoe and said with wide eyes.
“If I weren’t wearing metal shoes, if would have been cut open…. What, you aren’t human?”
“……..”
Though Anri didn’t say anything, but looking at her red pupils, the man - Adabashi Kisuke immediately continued to speak happily.
“Of course, Ruri-chan isn’t human, birds with the same feather flock together…….!”
Adabashi gazed at Anri with not a bit of timidity after concluding she wasn’t human.
He lifted his iron-protected shoes, and prepared to give Anri a fatal kick.
However -
“Tsssss ---”
The cover apparently opened when the pet carrier fell to the floor, Dokusonmaru jumped out and emitted a threatening hiss to Adabashi, then turned around and escaped.
“Ah….. don’t run…..”
Adabashi’s interest seemed to transfer immediately from Anri and started to chase after the one he felt was more important, the ‘cat that Hijiribe Ruri was hugging’.
Anri’s, who’s body was till in a state of paralysis, helplessly looked on as Adabashi rapidly disappered from her sight -
Remaining behind, was only the speech-impaired Anri, as well as the man lying on his side, with a dizzy consciousness and mumbling “Are you alright? Mother.” with his red eyes.
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