Epilogue and Next Prologue - Part 2
Ikebukuro, a conversation taking place in the back of a high-class car.
“How is it, Yagiri?”
An old man with the appearance of a gentle grandfather smiled while saying this.
Sitting in the back of the high-class car, the old man asked this question to another man sitting beside him, Yagiri Seitarou.
“So it’s like that, it’s truly gone beyond my imagination. If you look at this from a 3rd person perspective, it really seems as if this were by a monster only indulging in it’s own impulse.”
“From my perspective, better watch for Hijiribe Ruri. Overall, the result obtained from the stalker situation certainly gives one a headache.”
Though his expression was filled with mercy, how much of it is real sincerity.
Seitarou looked out of the car window and spotted Celty dashing down the road, then turned his head back to the moniter in the vehicle that’s been following Celty these past few days, he couldn’t help letting out a big sigh and saying.
“Really, I’m interested in Hijiribe Ruri’s ‘abnormality’…. however, my curiosity is more aroused by the headless rider.”
“Ah ah.”
“I really want to obtain it.”
“You, who already has her head, now want’s to obtain her body?”
Yodogiri asked with a smile, and Seitarou gently answered.
“I want it all.”
“Huh?”
“Not only the headless rider’s body, also the young girl with the monster’s sword, and Hijiribe Ruri, as well as the headless rider’s head that my niece stole away… I want all of them, that’s what I mean.”
Seitarou gently moved his neck back and forth, staring at the moniter where Celty’s form once again appears, with eyes sparkiling like a kid’s he mumbled to himself.
“Though it seems the body has given up searching for it’s own head…. but I still want to thoroughly analyse both body parts. Of course, I must guarantee my own safety first.”
“….Could this be your hidden ideology?”
After watching Yodogiri laugh for a while, Seitarou coldly said.
“You should know when to stop a boring joke. All you have to do is answer whether or not you’ll help me with the provisions, yes or no.”
“I will contribue, of course, whether it’s the headless rider or the monster sword, once they find out the instigation of the stalkers was by me, they will definitely come looking for me.”
“You’re thinking about making yourself bait? You really are shameless.”
After hearing Seitarou’s words, Yodogiri began laughing again and answered.
“You can’t become a tiger if you don’t enter the tiger’s den, this teaches kids not to belay the wolf. When they obtain my name from wherever Adabashi is, they will definitely come here to me. Then all you have to do is wait until they find me, and it’s time to let them experience the way we do things.”
Though the speech was filled with self-confidence, Yodogiri appeared somewhat embarrassed and scratched the back of his head.
“Although ever since this evening we’ve somehow lost track of Adabashi’s location, it seems the plan has gone a bit outside of our expectation.”
“…….…”
“Forget it, you don’t need to worry about these small details… After all, he’s still young, after making a mistake he still has the opportunity to start with a clean slate. Hahahahahahahha.”
Seitarou couldn’t grasp clearly which words the other spouted were real or fake, so he continued to stare helplessly at the expression of the other sitting by his side -
Then suddenly, as if he just thought of something, he asked.
“I just realized your mannerism compared to the time when you were on TV is different, is it possible you tidied up?”
“Oh, yes….. because I kept being chased around by Awakusu-kai and the police, if I hadn’t tidied up I would have been dead years ago. Hahahaha.”
Seitarou eyed the man with a pitiful expression, he never realized himself.
But it wasn’t just him that never realised.
The person who once requested Vorona and them to kidnap Awakusu Akane compared to the person talking endlessly next to him, from appearance to sound, are completely different.
In more detail - if Seitarou had overheard a phone conversation between Yodogiri and Adabashi a few days prior - then he would definitely realize that that voice and the voice of the man sitting next to him now was completly different.
Seitarou, who knew nothing about this matter, treated the man beside him with no cautiousness, he recalls some words once said to him by a friend who constantly wears a gas mask.
About one day ago -
A phone call to Seitarou after his son was injured.
But Seitarou knew Shingen wasn’t the type of person to give up so easily. However, even so, he still wanted to satisfy his own desire, that’s why he’s with Yodogiri now continuing with this crude transition.
Therefore compared to the man sitting beside him now, Seitarou was far more concerned about Shingen’s movements.
A happy expression reappeared on Seitarou’s face when he thought aloud.
“That guy is the type that won’t stop until his goal is reached, what kind of action will he make….”
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One day ago, Happy Shade Clubhouse
In fact, after a phone call with his friend, Shingen’s response was very quick.
The counter-action was decided a long time ago, after the phone call with Seitarou finished Shingen immediately rushed here -
Below the gas mask, his voice was filled with self-confidence.
“Because of a particular reason, I need to punch my long time friend, but honestly speaking I have never fought before in my life, therefore I’d like for you to quickly teach me a simple and easy boxing technique to kill.”
“Get out!”
In front of the white gas mask man, who had suddenly rushed into the boxing room, Sharaku Eijirou shouted in reply.
However, Shingen is not the type that easily gives up, taking out his wallet from his chest pocket, he starts speaking in a conversing manner.
“If you want money, I have it! Whatever amount, I have! If you don’t believe me, just say a price and I’m willing to pull it out.”
“I’m not willing, you’re saying all you want is to learn a punch that can kill? Alright, that’s enough, you should really get out.”
“Dammit… I’m telling you, I’m a man that won’t stop till my goal is reached….”
“……What are you going to do?”
Eijirou asked with a serious expression on his face, in response to his Shingen moved closer towards him and whispered.
“All you have to do is wear this gas mask, and clothing similar to this, then use your sandbag fist to punch a guy by the name of Seitarou really hard! How about it? A perfect plan, isn’t it? I’ll give you a reward, of course. 100,000 yen in advance!”
“…...Yeah, that does sound pretty good….. Ouch!?”
It was at this time as Eijirou was actually contemplating the proposition, when his head suffered a forceful handchop.
“What kind of nonsense are you spouting, I’m going out, the rest is left to you, big brother.”
A very spirited young woman flung these words at Eijirou, before turning around and heading out the door.
“Oi, Mikage! Can’t you treat your brother with a little more respect… Damn, then what about lunch?”
“Eat out!”
From her spiky short hair and solid physique, as well as her obvious muscular abdominals and her non-obvious breasts, it wouldn’t be strange to mistake the young woman as a young male.
After his yonger sister left, Eijirou let out a big sigh.
“Seriously, recently that girl always goes out early and comes home late, maybe she found a boyfriend. Why am I telling you this, we only just met.”
“Yes… though I don’t know what the matter is about, but can I ask you for a favour?”
“What is it?”
From the serious expression the man showed while proposing the request, Eijirou couldn’t help asking anxiously out of curiosity.
“A moment ago, I said to disguise your appearance as me, but can that young woman just then do it instead? Though she’s a woman, but after she wears something on top, nobody could tell. With her in my disguise and beating people up gives me a bit of a perverted and excited feeling…. So how about it?”
“Get out!”
“Wait! In fact, my son was injured and is in the hospital, if he were to think that his father went to visit him but instead it turned out to be a young woman, he would definitely be pleasantly surprised, it might even help in his recovery process. Then please help me with this…..”
“Hurry up and Get Out!
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Soon after the boxing room farce, Ikebukuro -
Adabashi, who suffered burns from his back to the side of his ear, finally managed to drag his exhausted body back to his apartment building.
After parking his car at the parking lot, while suppressing the pain in his body, he walked towards the apartment entrance.
Right now, Adabashi is filled with resentment.
But his resentment is not caused by the pain, but because unknown people hindered his love towards Hijiribe Ruri.
Actually, one of the reasons is due to the TV currently airing a press conference involving Hijiribe Ruri’s entertainment company.
Because this means that after all this, before Adabashi can send Ruri’s ‘photos’. Channel 8 news each flash news media may show these pictures on TV.
“There are new photos of Hijiribe Ruri online, it seems like it’s some kind of adult movie, rumour has it that the president was infected with a virus in his computer and that’s how the pictures leaked!”
These kinds of news spread online, as well as the shocking photos, it turns out the photos were from a private manufacture of a horror movie scene.
And at that moment, in front of Adabashi - standing in front of the apartment entrance, a man appeared.
On first glance the man was young, but while standing on the staircases with its bad lighting, his appearance couldn’t be seen clearly.
“…………”
Though Adabashi felt the need to vent out his frustations urgently, even he knew that doing questionable actions outside his own apartment is a bad idea.
He forcefully restrained the rising excitement and walks past the man.
However - the man takes Adabashi by suprise by saying.
“Hey, what’s up with you, your whole back up to your head is burnt, and it’s quite smelly!”
“………?”
“That burn, was it by engine oil or created by alcohol or something? When it starts you really don’t feel it’s hot, but once it burns through your clothes, then you’re in trouble.... speaking of which, who did it? Don’t tell me it was someone’s idea of a practical joke? Aiya... thats so funny hahahahahahaha.”
The man inexplicably clapped his hands while laughing.
Adabashi furrowed his eyebrows and quickly changed his mind.
At this moment, along with a clear sound, Adabashi’s leg moved in a strange direction and then bent unnaturally.
“!? Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
The man was holding a flinty hammer in his right hand - in the moment that Adabashi raised his leg, the hammer was slammed down onto it.
Adabashi fell to the ground and couldn’t help crying out in pain, the man’s face once again let out an absent-minded smile.
It was the same smiling face that appeared on Adabashi’s face when he set up the pictures of Hijiribe Ruri.
While Adabashi groaned aloud from the pain, he tried to see the man’s facial features from under the dim streetlights.
At a glance, the man seemed less than 20 years of age -
The right half of his face all the way down to his right hand was completely covered in scars of a past burn, the kind of guy who would make a deep impression on anyone.
“I’ll kill…… you…..”
Adabashi groaned out and tried to force himself to stand up -
But a heavy force suddenly made contact with the back of his head, causing his consiousness to vanish instantly into a boundless darkness.
Once again, coming from the entrance of the peaceful looking apartment, a young woman said.
“What the hell are you doing, are you going to nurse him back to health when we get back?”
It was a young woman with spiky short hair and a short temper to rival any males - Sharaku Mikage, who said this to the hammer male. It was her who used her leg to kick the back of Adabashi’s head, who now layed unconscious at her feet.
“Don’t nag me…. I don’t remember anyone telling me I need to follow your orders…. Haha, Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”
Though he himself didn’t know what he found so funny, but the male couldn’t stop laughing uncontrollably.
Behind him appeared many men on mortorbikes, they rode up to the middle of the parking lot where Adabashi was lying and lifted him up onto the vehicle. Then left as if nothing had happened.
“Alright, we should go too.”
After urging the laughing male slightly, Mikage and the male also left.
The only thing remaining at the entrance of the apartment was a slight stain of Adabashi’s blood.
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“How is it, Yagiri?”
An old man with the appearance of a gentle grandfather smiled while saying this.
Sitting in the back of the high-class car, the old man asked this question to another man sitting beside him, Yagiri Seitarou.
“So it’s like that, it’s truly gone beyond my imagination. If you look at this from a 3rd person perspective, it really seems as if this were by a monster only indulging in it’s own impulse.”
“From my perspective, better watch for Hijiribe Ruri. Overall, the result obtained from the stalker situation certainly gives one a headache.”
Though his expression was filled with mercy, how much of it is real sincerity.
Seitarou looked out of the car window and spotted Celty dashing down the road, then turned his head back to the moniter in the vehicle that’s been following Celty these past few days, he couldn’t help letting out a big sigh and saying.
“Really, I’m interested in Hijiribe Ruri’s ‘abnormality’…. however, my curiosity is more aroused by the headless rider.”
“Ah ah.”
“I really want to obtain it.”
“You, who already has her head, now want’s to obtain her body?”
Yodogiri asked with a smile, and Seitarou gently answered.
“I want it all.”
“Huh?”
“Not only the headless rider’s body, also the young girl with the monster’s sword, and Hijiribe Ruri, as well as the headless rider’s head that my niece stole away… I want all of them, that’s what I mean.”
Seitarou gently moved his neck back and forth, staring at the moniter where Celty’s form once again appears, with eyes sparkiling like a kid’s he mumbled to himself.
“Though it seems the body has given up searching for it’s own head…. but I still want to thoroughly analyse both body parts. Of course, I must guarantee my own safety first.”
“….Could this be your hidden ideology?”
After watching Yodogiri laugh for a while, Seitarou coldly said.
“You should know when to stop a boring joke. All you have to do is answer whether or not you’ll help me with the provisions, yes or no.”
“I will contribue, of course, whether it’s the headless rider or the monster sword, once they find out the instigation of the stalkers was by me, they will definitely come looking for me.”
“You’re thinking about making yourself bait? You really are shameless.”
After hearing Seitarou’s words, Yodogiri began laughing again and answered.
“You can’t become a tiger if you don’t enter the tiger’s den, this teaches kids not to belay the wolf. When they obtain my name from wherever Adabashi is, they will definitely come here to me. Then all you have to do is wait until they find me, and it’s time to let them experience the way we do things.”
Though the speech was filled with self-confidence, Yodogiri appeared somewhat embarrassed and scratched the back of his head.
“Although ever since this evening we’ve somehow lost track of Adabashi’s location, it seems the plan has gone a bit outside of our expectation.”
“…….…”
“Forget it, you don’t need to worry about these small details… After all, he’s still young, after making a mistake he still has the opportunity to start with a clean slate. Hahahahahahahha.”
Seitarou couldn’t grasp clearly which words the other spouted were real or fake, so he continued to stare helplessly at the expression of the other sitting by his side -
Then suddenly, as if he just thought of something, he asked.
“I just realized your mannerism compared to the time when you were on TV is different, is it possible you tidied up?”
“Oh, yes….. because I kept being chased around by Awakusu-kai and the police, if I hadn’t tidied up I would have been dead years ago. Hahahaha.”
Seitarou eyed the man with a pitiful expression, he never realized himself.
But it wasn’t just him that never realised.
The person who once requested Vorona and them to kidnap Awakusu Akane compared to the person talking endlessly next to him, from appearance to sound, are completely different.
In more detail - if Seitarou had overheard a phone conversation between Yodogiri and Adabashi a few days prior - then he would definitely realize that that voice and the voice of the man sitting next to him now was completly different.
Seitarou, who knew nothing about this matter, treated the man beside him with no cautiousness, he recalls some words once said to him by a friend who constantly wears a gas mask.
About one day ago -
A phone call to Seitarou after his son was injured.
- So it’s really started?
- You’re still as keen as you were in the past, but this time I’m not just going to sit back and do nothing.
- Really, the way you start something and not even try to prevent the consequences is still exactly the same. Right now my son’s life is in a critical condition, for you, my friend, I wish to do only one thing… and that is to punch you in the face!
- Okay, the next time we meet, I’ll let you get in one punch. But after that, you can longer simply do whatever you please anymore.
But Seitarou knew Shingen wasn’t the type of person to give up so easily. However, even so, he still wanted to satisfy his own desire, that’s why he’s with Yodogiri now continuing with this crude transition.
Therefore compared to the man sitting beside him now, Seitarou was far more concerned about Shingen’s movements.
A happy expression reappeared on Seitarou’s face when he thought aloud.
“That guy is the type that won’t stop until his goal is reached, what kind of action will he make….”
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One day ago, Happy Shade Clubhouse
In fact, after a phone call with his friend, Shingen’s response was very quick.
The counter-action was decided a long time ago, after the phone call with Seitarou finished Shingen immediately rushed here -
Below the gas mask, his voice was filled with self-confidence.
“Because of a particular reason, I need to punch my long time friend, but honestly speaking I have never fought before in my life, therefore I’d like for you to quickly teach me a simple and easy boxing technique to kill.”
“Get out!”
In front of the white gas mask man, who had suddenly rushed into the boxing room, Sharaku Eijirou shouted in reply.
However, Shingen is not the type that easily gives up, taking out his wallet from his chest pocket, he starts speaking in a conversing manner.
“If you want money, I have it! Whatever amount, I have! If you don’t believe me, just say a price and I’m willing to pull it out.”
“I’m not willing, you’re saying all you want is to learn a punch that can kill? Alright, that’s enough, you should really get out.”
“Dammit… I’m telling you, I’m a man that won’t stop till my goal is reached….”
“……What are you going to do?”
Eijirou asked with a serious expression on his face, in response to his Shingen moved closer towards him and whispered.
“All you have to do is wear this gas mask, and clothing similar to this, then use your sandbag fist to punch a guy by the name of Seitarou really hard! How about it? A perfect plan, isn’t it? I’ll give you a reward, of course. 100,000 yen in advance!”
“…...Yeah, that does sound pretty good….. Ouch!?”
It was at this time as Eijirou was actually contemplating the proposition, when his head suffered a forceful handchop.
“What kind of nonsense are you spouting, I’m going out, the rest is left to you, big brother.”
A very spirited young woman flung these words at Eijirou, before turning around and heading out the door.
“Oi, Mikage! Can’t you treat your brother with a little more respect… Damn, then what about lunch?”
“Eat out!”
From her spiky short hair and solid physique, as well as her obvious muscular abdominals and her non-obvious breasts, it wouldn’t be strange to mistake the young woman as a young male.
After his yonger sister left, Eijirou let out a big sigh.
“Seriously, recently that girl always goes out early and comes home late, maybe she found a boyfriend. Why am I telling you this, we only just met.”
“Yes… though I don’t know what the matter is about, but can I ask you for a favour?”
“What is it?”
From the serious expression the man showed while proposing the request, Eijirou couldn’t help asking anxiously out of curiosity.
“A moment ago, I said to disguise your appearance as me, but can that young woman just then do it instead? Though she’s a woman, but after she wears something on top, nobody could tell. With her in my disguise and beating people up gives me a bit of a perverted and excited feeling…. So how about it?”
“Get out!”
“Wait! In fact, my son was injured and is in the hospital, if he were to think that his father went to visit him but instead it turned out to be a young woman, he would definitely be pleasantly surprised, it might even help in his recovery process. Then please help me with this…..”
“Hurry up and Get Out!
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Soon after the boxing room farce, Ikebukuro -
Adabashi, who suffered burns from his back to the side of his ear, finally managed to drag his exhausted body back to his apartment building.
After parking his car at the parking lot, while suppressing the pain in his body, he walked towards the apartment entrance.
Right now, Adabashi is filled with resentment.
But his resentment is not caused by the pain, but because unknown people hindered his love towards Hijiribe Ruri.
Actually, one of the reasons is due to the TV currently airing a press conference involving Hijiribe Ruri’s entertainment company.
Because this means that after all this, before Adabashi can send Ruri’s ‘photos’. Channel 8 news each flash news media may show these pictures on TV.
“There are new photos of Hijiribe Ruri online, it seems like it’s some kind of adult movie, rumour has it that the president was infected with a virus in his computer and that’s how the pictures leaked!”
These kinds of news spread online, as well as the shocking photos, it turns out the photos were from a private manufacture of a horror movie scene.
- Damn….. what is that!
- These fucking people…. hindering the love between Ruri and me.
And at that moment, in front of Adabashi - standing in front of the apartment entrance, a man appeared.
On first glance the man was young, but while standing on the staircases with its bad lighting, his appearance couldn’t be seen clearly.
“…………”
Though Adabashi felt the need to vent out his frustations urgently, even he knew that doing questionable actions outside his own apartment is a bad idea.
He forcefully restrained the rising excitement and walks past the man.
However - the man takes Adabashi by suprise by saying.
“Hey, what’s up with you, your whole back up to your head is burnt, and it’s quite smelly!”
“………?”
“That burn, was it by engine oil or created by alcohol or something? When it starts you really don’t feel it’s hot, but once it burns through your clothes, then you’re in trouble.... speaking of which, who did it? Don’t tell me it was someone’s idea of a practical joke? Aiya... thats so funny hahahahahahaha.”
The man inexplicably clapped his hands while laughing.
Adabashi furrowed his eyebrows and quickly changed his mind.
- I’ll kill him.
At this moment, along with a clear sound, Adabashi’s leg moved in a strange direction and then bent unnaturally.
“!? Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
The man was holding a flinty hammer in his right hand - in the moment that Adabashi raised his leg, the hammer was slammed down onto it.
Adabashi fell to the ground and couldn’t help crying out in pain, the man’s face once again let out an absent-minded smile.
It was the same smiling face that appeared on Adabashi’s face when he set up the pictures of Hijiribe Ruri.
While Adabashi groaned aloud from the pain, he tried to see the man’s facial features from under the dim streetlights.
At a glance, the man seemed less than 20 years of age -
The right half of his face all the way down to his right hand was completely covered in scars of a past burn, the kind of guy who would make a deep impression on anyone.
“I’ll kill…… you…..”
Adabashi groaned out and tried to force himself to stand up -
But a heavy force suddenly made contact with the back of his head, causing his consiousness to vanish instantly into a boundless darkness.
Once again, coming from the entrance of the peaceful looking apartment, a young woman said.
“What the hell are you doing, are you going to nurse him back to health when we get back?”
It was a young woman with spiky short hair and a short temper to rival any males - Sharaku Mikage, who said this to the hammer male. It was her who used her leg to kick the back of Adabashi’s head, who now layed unconscious at her feet.
“Don’t nag me…. I don’t remember anyone telling me I need to follow your orders…. Haha, Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”
Though he himself didn’t know what he found so funny, but the male couldn’t stop laughing uncontrollably.
Behind him appeared many men on mortorbikes, they rode up to the middle of the parking lot where Adabashi was lying and lifted him up onto the vehicle. Then left as if nothing had happened.
“Alright, we should go too.”
After urging the laughing male slightly, Mikage and the male also left.
The only thing remaining at the entrance of the apartment was a slight stain of Adabashi’s blood.
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