DURARARA DVD Vol.2 Shizuo Gaiden Part II
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Back side of Second Ground, Raijin High School, Ikebukuro
Situated not far away from the Ikebukuro Station, Second Ground was a lawned piece of property of Raijin High School.
Though the main campus also had its own sporting grounds, most of the sports clubs preferred to avoid getting into fights with other clubs over the right to use them and chose to come here to practice instead.
The Swimming Club and the Pantomime Club seemed to be using the ground right now. As a means of shaping up the lower body the Swimming Club members were busy doing running exercise. They ran past about fifty Pantomime Club members practicing group pantomime - quite a sight for the average passer-by.
At the back of the physical education tools warehouse outside the sporting ground they found the warped frame of a soccer goal with scattered blood stains on it.
"Wow, you did quite a job yesterday."
Kishitani Shinra shrugged in amazement as they walked along the backside of the sporting ground.
"Ahh, looks like there already are some people falling for that prank and heading this way."
Quite a few male students were walking towards the ground with cookies and the letter. As soon as they noticed others holding similar letters and realized they'd been tricked, many turned around and ran away as fast as they could.
The ones who hadn't run right away did so once they saw Shizuo's face.
"......Che......"
Shizuo spat furiously as he watched the other students leave.
"......These utter cowards......"
"But Shizuo, you really are a conscientious person. Even after hearing what Izaya told you you still came all the way here just in case yours turns out to be the only real love letter."
"I had to. Kasuka's always telling me 'Brother, you're bad with words. That's all the more reason to cherish every letter you send or receive.' ......Anyway. Thought I had to come see the sempais who pulled this shitty prank on people, too."
"......"
- But I think the real reason is that you just have to kick some asses after having to put up with the sight of Izaya's face for so long.
Shinra thought to himself but said nothing in fear of stirring up a hornet's nest.
The two of them stood in front of the warehouse in which the sempais had supposedly gathered to see how their prank would go. They pushed the door open, and -
- There was a cacophony of footsteps; seconds later they were surrounded by a ring of people.
"Eh, what's going on?"
"......"
Inside the warehouse there were around twenty seniors that presumably belonged to the delinquent group. Dozens more must have been hiding in the bushes next to the warehouse. By now they had formed a semicircle against the warehouse wall.
The atmosphere suddenly turned un-White-Day-ish as the seniors revealed the weapons in their hands, which ranged from wooden katanas to chains and steel pipes.
Shizuo and Shinra had nowhere to run. A male voice sounded from within the warehouse.
"......Heiwajima Shizuo......we've been letting you off the hook thus far. Guess that got you to think we're afraid of you?"
- Letting him off the hook?
- More like you guys were just too frightened to touch him.
Of course, Shinra didn't voice his thoughts aloud. Instead he waited to see Shizuo's reaction.
"......Huh?"
Shizuo frowned in bewilderment. The senior Raijin student produced an envelope from his chest pocket and tore it to pieces in front of Shizuo's eyes.
"Slipping things like these......into my mailbox at home this morning.....!"
It was the same kind of envelope laced in pink that Shizuo and all other male students got in their shoe boxes.
"You sons of bitches......you placed bets on how many of us would come to this place, didn't you? Ahhh? What is it? You think you're already the boss of this place now that we're graduating? Bet you never expected to be ambushed like this, did ya?"
There were traces of tears in the senior's eyes. Shinra couldn't help but think "Ah, so he too thought the letter was real for a moment and got all excited."
- Hmm?
- But aren't these sempais supposed to be the ones who prepared the letters?
- I see. So it was Izaya......!
Shizuo seemed to have come to the same realization as Shinra had at that moment.
"......That......fucking flea."
Shizuo tried to speak despite his burning fury at finding out that he had been used as Izaya's scapegoat.
"Wait a moment please, sempai. We got those letters too - "
He was going to explain the entire situation and suggest that they go beat up Izaya together -
But something had hit Shizuo's head with force.
Namely, a heavy brick that had probably been part of the curbing of a nearby flowerbed.
"Shut up! No one wants your shitty excuses!"
The one who had thrown the brick stood up and yelled.
"We were already planning on beating the crap out of you as soon as we've graduated anyway! We've let you off the hook thus far to save ourselves some face, but once we graduate we're not gonna fucking care! You better be ready for that!"
More bricks flew almost parallel to the ground in his direction.
Had that attack hit him from a bad angle he would have been dead; yet Shizuo merely lowered his head.
"I see......so I was going to be beaten up either way."
Slowly yet steadily he managed to spit out these words with his head still lowered.
"Thought I had to hold myself back 'cause you're also victims of that flea's prank...but it no longer seems necessary......"
His body began to shake uncontrollably.
"And fuck your logic that says it's OK to gang up on people as soon as you graduate......have you got no sense of honor as a human being before you can even talk about saving your face as a high school student.....!!!??"
Shizuo, while lecturing morals to his elders, grabbed the throat of the guy with a steel pipe in his hand who was trying to sneak up on his back -
And sent him flying more forcefully than a brick into the throng of men in the warehouse.
"Eh? What, what the, waahhhhhhhhh!?"
Apparently the sight was too new for the leader of the gang, who was visibly taken aback - before the flying guy's skull hit him squarely in the face.
The next day was supposed to be commencement day at Raijin High School, but -
- The graduating class made history instead since 50 out of 300 were hospitalized and unable to attend their own commencement. Heiwajima Shizuo sullied his record further and ended up getting suspended till the closing ceremony.
During his suspension from school, Heiwajima Shizuo was seen chasing Orihara Izaya almost daily in the Ikebukuro streets - but that would be another story.
Now, an apartment on the side of Kawagoe Highway
"......so that's what happened on what they later referred to as 'Bloody White Day'."
Said Kishitani Shinra, who looked reasonably grown up in his white coat.
Still carrying his toolbox under his arm as he sat on the chair, he continued to talk to the figure standing next to him.
"Other things happened too when I was in school. There was this 'The Pool of Hell Opens - Chlorine Gas Everywhere!' incident, 'Real Flesh Art in the Art Room' incident, 'Cultural Festival Campfire Explosion' incident and of course 'Field Trip to the Shambles - the Okinawa Arc'......during the three years when we were in Raijin, gasoline drums were rolled down from school buildings as part of the routine. Really, it's hard to believe how nice and orderly this school has become these days......
A PDA was shoved in the man's face as he seemed to linger in nostalgia.
[I see. So what was the point of telling me this bloody story again?]
"To let you know that for the old boys of Raijin around my time, White Day more or less stands for letters and blood."
[Hmmm......]
"Celty can't eat sweets, so I really had a hard time figuring out what to get you for White Day......so I decided to tell you this story. It shows how important communication is. Things wouldn't have ended nearly as badly had the sempais bothered to listen to what Shizuo had to say."
As he said this, the man in white offered the figure in the black rider suit the toolbox he was holding.
"And so this is my return gift for your Valentine's Day chocolate. Open it, Celty."
The figure that had just been addressed as "Celty" opened the box - which turned out to be filled with letters.
[......What's this?]
"Letters of love from me to Celty!"
[......]
Whatever her thoughts had been, all Celty typed onto the PDA screen was "......".
But she noticed something that wasn't a letter at the bottom of the bundle of letters.
She took it out and realized that it was a brand new PDA.
[This......]
"Ahh? That comes free of charge with the letters. Didn't you say you wanted one?"
[Eh T Th Thank y t opu]
Apparently she was too taken aback to type properly.
[Eh, but, this, isn't this expensive?]
"No problem. I don't care about the price. Shouldn't I only care about how you feel when it comes to things like these?"
[That's not what you say when giving out expensive gifts like that! I don't feel good at all! I'll have to give you an entire box of chocolates for us to be even!]
Celty hurried out of the apartment as soon as she had shown Shinra the screen with these words on it.
"Ah, wait Celty! The letters are the main gift so you should actually read them......"
But Celty was no longer within earshot.
That night he ended up having to gobble up hundreds of chocolate bars Celty bought him. But the chocolate-colored White Day must have left Kishitani Shinra immersed in his own brand of happiness anyhow.
HAPPY END HAPPY END
Back side of Second Ground, Raijin High School, Ikebukuro
Situated not far away from the Ikebukuro Station, Second Ground was a lawned piece of property of Raijin High School.
Though the main campus also had its own sporting grounds, most of the sports clubs preferred to avoid getting into fights with other clubs over the right to use them and chose to come here to practice instead.
The Swimming Club and the Pantomime Club seemed to be using the ground right now. As a means of shaping up the lower body the Swimming Club members were busy doing running exercise. They ran past about fifty Pantomime Club members practicing group pantomime - quite a sight for the average passer-by.
At the back of the physical education tools warehouse outside the sporting ground they found the warped frame of a soccer goal with scattered blood stains on it.
"Wow, you did quite a job yesterday."
Kishitani Shinra shrugged in amazement as they walked along the backside of the sporting ground.
"Ahh, looks like there already are some people falling for that prank and heading this way."
Quite a few male students were walking towards the ground with cookies and the letter. As soon as they noticed others holding similar letters and realized they'd been tricked, many turned around and ran away as fast as they could.
The ones who hadn't run right away did so once they saw Shizuo's face.
"......Che......"
Shizuo spat furiously as he watched the other students leave.
"......These utter cowards......"
"But Shizuo, you really are a conscientious person. Even after hearing what Izaya told you you still came all the way here just in case yours turns out to be the only real love letter."
"I had to. Kasuka's always telling me 'Brother, you're bad with words. That's all the more reason to cherish every letter you send or receive.' ......Anyway. Thought I had to come see the sempais who pulled this shitty prank on people, too."
"......"
- But I think the real reason is that you just have to kick some asses after having to put up with the sight of Izaya's face for so long.
Shinra thought to himself but said nothing in fear of stirring up a hornet's nest.
The two of them stood in front of the warehouse in which the sempais had supposedly gathered to see how their prank would go. They pushed the door open, and -
- There was a cacophony of footsteps; seconds later they were surrounded by a ring of people.
"Eh, what's going on?"
"......"
Inside the warehouse there were around twenty seniors that presumably belonged to the delinquent group. Dozens more must have been hiding in the bushes next to the warehouse. By now they had formed a semicircle against the warehouse wall.
The atmosphere suddenly turned un-White-Day-ish as the seniors revealed the weapons in their hands, which ranged from wooden katanas to chains and steel pipes.
Shizuo and Shinra had nowhere to run. A male voice sounded from within the warehouse.
"......Heiwajima Shizuo......we've been letting you off the hook thus far. Guess that got you to think we're afraid of you?"
- Letting him off the hook?
- More like you guys were just too frightened to touch him.
Of course, Shinra didn't voice his thoughts aloud. Instead he waited to see Shizuo's reaction.
"......Huh?"
Shizuo frowned in bewilderment. The senior Raijin student produced an envelope from his chest pocket and tore it to pieces in front of Shizuo's eyes.
"Slipping things like these......into my mailbox at home this morning.....!"
It was the same kind of envelope laced in pink that Shizuo and all other male students got in their shoe boxes.
"You sons of bitches......you placed bets on how many of us would come to this place, didn't you? Ahhh? What is it? You think you're already the boss of this place now that we're graduating? Bet you never expected to be ambushed like this, did ya?"
There were traces of tears in the senior's eyes. Shinra couldn't help but think "Ah, so he too thought the letter was real for a moment and got all excited."
- Hmm?
- But aren't these sempais supposed to be the ones who prepared the letters?
- I see. So it was Izaya......!
Shizuo seemed to have come to the same realization as Shinra had at that moment.
"......That......fucking flea."
Shizuo tried to speak despite his burning fury at finding out that he had been used as Izaya's scapegoat.
"Wait a moment please, sempai. We got those letters too - "
He was going to explain the entire situation and suggest that they go beat up Izaya together -
But something had hit Shizuo's head with force.
Namely, a heavy brick that had probably been part of the curbing of a nearby flowerbed.
"Shut up! No one wants your shitty excuses!"
The one who had thrown the brick stood up and yelled.
"We were already planning on beating the crap out of you as soon as we've graduated anyway! We've let you off the hook thus far to save ourselves some face, but once we graduate we're not gonna fucking care! You better be ready for that!"
More bricks flew almost parallel to the ground in his direction.
Had that attack hit him from a bad angle he would have been dead; yet Shizuo merely lowered his head.
"I see......so I was going to be beaten up either way."
Slowly yet steadily he managed to spit out these words with his head still lowered.
"Thought I had to hold myself back 'cause you're also victims of that flea's prank...but it no longer seems necessary......"
His body began to shake uncontrollably.
"And fuck your logic that says it's OK to gang up on people as soon as you graduate......have you got no sense of honor as a human being before you can even talk about saving your face as a high school student.....!!!??"
Shizuo, while lecturing morals to his elders, grabbed the throat of the guy with a steel pipe in his hand who was trying to sneak up on his back -
And sent him flying more forcefully than a brick into the throng of men in the warehouse.
"Eh? What, what the, waahhhhhhhhh!?"
Apparently the sight was too new for the leader of the gang, who was visibly taken aback - before the flying guy's skull hit him squarely in the face.
The next day was supposed to be commencement day at Raijin High School, but -
- The graduating class made history instead since 50 out of 300 were hospitalized and unable to attend their own commencement. Heiwajima Shizuo sullied his record further and ended up getting suspended till the closing ceremony.
During his suspension from school, Heiwajima Shizuo was seen chasing Orihara Izaya almost daily in the Ikebukuro streets - but that would be another story.
Now, an apartment on the side of Kawagoe Highway
"......so that's what happened on what they later referred to as 'Bloody White Day'."
Said Kishitani Shinra, who looked reasonably grown up in his white coat.
Still carrying his toolbox under his arm as he sat on the chair, he continued to talk to the figure standing next to him.
"Other things happened too when I was in school. There was this 'The Pool of Hell Opens - Chlorine Gas Everywhere!' incident, 'Real Flesh Art in the Art Room' incident, 'Cultural Festival Campfire Explosion' incident and of course 'Field Trip to the Shambles - the Okinawa Arc'......during the three years when we were in Raijin, gasoline drums were rolled down from school buildings as part of the routine. Really, it's hard to believe how nice and orderly this school has become these days......
A PDA was shoved in the man's face as he seemed to linger in nostalgia.
[I see. So what was the point of telling me this bloody story again?]
"To let you know that for the old boys of Raijin around my time, White Day more or less stands for letters and blood."
[Hmmm......]
"Celty can't eat sweets, so I really had a hard time figuring out what to get you for White Day......so I decided to tell you this story. It shows how important communication is. Things wouldn't have ended nearly as badly had the sempais bothered to listen to what Shizuo had to say."
As he said this, the man in white offered the figure in the black rider suit the toolbox he was holding.
"And so this is my return gift for your Valentine's Day chocolate. Open it, Celty."
The figure that had just been addressed as "Celty" opened the box - which turned out to be filled with letters.
[......What's this?]
"Letters of love from me to Celty!"
[......]
Whatever her thoughts had been, all Celty typed onto the PDA screen was "......".
But she noticed something that wasn't a letter at the bottom of the bundle of letters.
She took it out and realized that it was a brand new PDA.
[This......]
"Ahh? That comes free of charge with the letters. Didn't you say you wanted one?"
[Eh T Th Thank y t opu]
Apparently she was too taken aback to type properly.
[Eh, but, this, isn't this expensive?]
"No problem. I don't care about the price. Shouldn't I only care about how you feel when it comes to things like these?"
[That's not what you say when giving out expensive gifts like that! I don't feel good at all! I'll have to give you an entire box of chocolates for us to be even!]
Celty hurried out of the apartment as soon as she had shown Shinra the screen with these words on it.
"Ah, wait Celty! The letters are the main gift so you should actually read them......"
But Celty was no longer within earshot.
That night he ended up having to gobble up hundreds of chocolate bars Celty bought him. But the chocolate-colored White Day must have left Kishitani Shinra immersed in his own brand of happiness anyhow.
HAPPY END HAPPY END