Chapter 2 - Part 3
Apartment Roof, somewhere in Ikebukuro
“What, it’s Mum. Ah-, brother’s come back.”
Because Aoba abruptly answered the phone, he interrupted any possible greetings from the other end of the line.
He appears to be talking to his mother about a matter between brothers.
“Ah, Mum, wait a moment…...., Mikado-sempai, I haven’t said…”
“Talking tomorrow will be fine. You see, you have to treasure you mother’s calls.”
“Ah..… sorry. Then we’ll talk about this another time.”
Aoba instinctively bowed his head in acknowledgement, Mikado continued with his previous thoughts while leaving the roof gates.
‘Come back to see’ ‘troublesome’ ‘planning’.
“Yeah, it is troublesome.”
Toward a group of nervous and deeply bowing boys, Mikado replied like they were having a normal conversation.
While openly wearing a smiling expression as if they had all been friends for years.
When he arrived on the street after exiting the apartment, Mikado noticed 2 motorbikes stopped by the curb. It seemed that the 2 riders were currently having a dispute, Mikado felt it would be a bit problematic if he got involved, so he decided to take a detour.
“What were you trying to do? Huh!?”
“You guys would know!”
Listening to this typical aggressive conversation, Mikado shot a look at the 2 men.
One wore a jacket with a pattern printed on the back, the other was wearing black western style clothing, 2 really different riders. The black rider wore something that looked like a metal bangle, but it was too far to see the shape.
Perhaps this is where the bousouzoku fight.
His face displaying a sorrowful expression, Mikado escaped from the apartment.
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Shinra’s Apartment, along Sichuan Street
“Meow~”
A cat’s small cry shifted the room’s mood to a more comfortable atmosphere.
Ikebukuro’s fighting doll and underground doctor, along with two famous and loved idols, a glasses girl with a secret and the headless rider, all of these people were not what would be considered as peaceful -
But though the cat doesn’t understand this fact, his carefree nature allows the atmosphere in the room to be peaceful.
He had jumped off Shizuo’s head and rolled around on the floor, at the moment, he was lying against Anri’s thigh on the couch, sounds wheezing happily from his throat.
“…..Ah, where did you say?”
“I said Dollars, brother.”
“Oh, that’s right. I don’t know the circumstances around Dollars. I thought Celty, who’s more involved with Dollars would know more.”
Shizuo visited intending to have a serious talk, but Shinra shook his head in consternation.
“So you’re saying, because of that reason you and Kasuka…. and you even brought Ruri-chan, this is too much! You could have just mailed us!”
“Oh? Ah well, I saw that your light was still on from a distance. Uh, so I thought you were here and I came.…”
“.…Sorry, have we troubled you?”
On seeing Ruri’s huddled form, Shinra flustered and said.
“No trouble! It’s the opposite! Celty and me are big Yuuhei and Ruri fans! If I knew you were coming I would’ve prepared a welcome, we would have waited for you before eating our roast turkey!”
“Thank you… thank you so much… last, last time we really gave you a lot of trouble.”
“Huh? What time? Do you know each other?”
Shizuo’s eyes moved between Shinra and Ruri. Because Ruri’s voice was stuttering, Shinra stepped in and smoothly said.
“She got hurt before, the one who found her was Kasuka, but the one who fixed her up was me.”
“Ah, that’s right, you met Shinra in early spring…. but why didn’t you see any doctor except Shinra?”
Shizuo tilted his head and asked, remembering the incident.
The cause for Ruri’s injury was Shizuo, but Shizuo didn’t know this. Also, once the truth is revealed, it will expose Ruri as the killer “Hollywood”.
What can she possibly say? Just when Ruri anxiously started to attempt to confess everything and Shizuo bent down -
Kasuka abruptly interrupted.
“Because it’s the art in living as a monster.”
“I see, if it’s like that then there’s no helping it.”
Shizuo crossed his arms and nodded, just how did he understand that?
“Ok, so that’s the situation. We can’t think of anyone else who understands Dollars. Also, we’ll drop the cat off here.”
“Yeah-though you say that. What about me. Also, the cat depends on Celty.”
While Shizuo and Shinra carried on with their conversation -
The house’s female occupants each held complex feelings.
Celty Sturluson.
Sonohara Anri.
Hijiribe Ruri.
These three people are all considered as “abnormalities” in modern society.
Celty’s known as the ‘headless rider’ monster, Anri is the wielder of the sword ‘Saika’, and Ruri is the killing monster ‘Hollywood’.
As soon as Ruri made an appearance at her house, Celty immediately noticed.
Shinra and Celty support the idol - Hijiribe Ruri.
Right now, this should be the first time they’re meeting, but -
Firstly, from when she set eyes on Celty, her momentary shock was obvious. Though that kind of reaction at suddenly looking at the headless riders form was not uncommon.
And secondly, Celty could feel what she rarely ever felt in Ikebukuro, the breathe of a non-human.
She recalled the human that possessed this abnormal breathe - in the past I took her as transporting ‘cargo’.
On the other side, sitting in the dining hall next to Yuuhei, Ruri is also quietly thinking of Celty.
Thinking about the situation, she tried to cover her anxiety, and keep her attention centralized on Shinra and Shizuo’s conversation.
Then there was also Sonohara Anri, who doesn’t know about the relationship between the other two -
Celty and her discovered Ruri’s inhuman existance through different means.
The moment Anri saw Shizuo, the sound of the sword in her body suddenly acted up.
Anri always ignores that sound, but when Ruri got closer, the sword’s sound started to mutate.
Puzzled.
Saika, who likes cutting all humanity equally, one moment ceased the constant sounds of love, and whispered in Anri’s heart:
Anri who is observing as the neutral standpoint between Celty and Ruri, feels some tension from the other two and thinks they might perhaps have had an incident.
Anri wants to continue observing, but -
But suddenly she got distracted, because on her leg, Dokusonmaru slowly got up and started using its paws to climb up her uniform.
“Yah!”
Dokusonmaru crawled onto her chest and pressed along her bosom.
Anri’s collar hung loosely, and she had a flustered appearance.
The cat fussed around on her chest, creating a lovable and cheery picture.
Because the room’s occupants consisted of Shizuo, who’s only interested in older women, Shinra, who’s obsessed with Celty, and Kasuka, who’s like a log, she wasn’t so nervous. It was silent besides Dokusonmaru’s constant “Meow~, meow~” sounds resounding in the room.
However, because Shizuo caught sight of Anri’s flustered expression, he suddenly recalled something.
“Ah, that’s right, that’s right. There’s a student who’s always together with this young girl? The one that ate hot pot that time. Ryuugasaki… no, he’s called Ryuugamine?”
“Ah? Yes, Ryuugamine Mikado.”
“Yeah, yeah, it’s at the time there were a lot of fights during golden week, I told that student I wanted to leave Dollars…”
“Ah?”
“Ah?”
They thought, ‘this might be related to what we just discussed with Anri about Mikado acting weird’.
“Leave Dollars…., this is the first time I’ve heard of this. Why?”
“Is it that surprising?” he asked Celty, Shizuo tilted his head, and carelessly explained why he wanted to quit Dollars.
“Not much, I think it’s troublesome, I can’t be in the same team as guys who kidnap girls, but, I also didn’t know how to properly quit, so I thought I’ll just tell somebody first… At the park I occasionally go to, I told Ryuugamine I quit Dollars.”
Listening to that, Celty thought.
If it was like that, he would change, but he’d likely become more depressed.
Not change in order to allow more people to attack.
“Forget it, when the opportunity arises, we’ll just ask him. Mikado is still a kid, we shouldn’t let him be involved in these matters.”
“Yeah, right, as much as you can is fine, I requested.”
Shizuo said, holding a tea cup to his mouth - but then Shinra suddenly spoke the most inopportune words.
“I think asking Izaya would be the fastest. As long as you’re honest, you can work hard together. What do you think?”
‘Crack!’ the cup Shizuo was holding broke apart and multiple shards fell.
Tea spilled over his hands and knees, Shizuo’s face twitched and after a few seconds said.
“…..Sorry, I can compensate, Celty.”
“Huh? How come not to me, you only apologized to Celt-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Shinra had tilted his head, Shizuo pinched the side of his neck and pulled it towards the ceiling.
“Regardless if it’d be good or bad….. I have never been on good terms with that flea!”
“Calm down, brother.”
“……I know, excuse me.”
At the moment, Shizuo had the urge to throw Shinra out the window, Kasuka admonished his brother without showing a hint of expression on his face, but Shizuo slowly returned the doctor to the floor.
“You said completely unnecessary words, I hope you’ve learned something!”
While reproving him, Celty thought.
In fact, she had heard the rumours but… Izaya has reappeared?
However Celty had not seen Izaya recently.
Just like this, when you want to use him he’s not here, he’s really unnatural.
“Meow ~”
At unexpected times, Dokusonmaru cries out cutely.
As if he wanted to use his sound to erase the dark atmosphere surrounding people.
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Apartment, somewhere in Shinjuku
A boy looking at a chatroom record - Kida Masaomi, sat beside his roommate, a young girl, Mikajima Saki, and said with a serious expression:
“Hey, Saki.”
“What is it, Masaomi?”
Saki responded slowly and happily, Kida wanted to say something and hesitantly opened his mouth:
“Do you want to go to Ikebukuro?”
“You must be a superhuman….. but we don’t have to go right now, we’ll go tomorrow.”
“Your worried about the recent chatroom record. It’s Dollars’ business. It’s Dollars’ and Blue squares’ business.”
“You say that so easily, while me with my big mouth and familiarity can’t find any words at all.”
Blue squares -
At some point in the past, Kida along with his middle school colleagues decided to create ‘the yellow turbans’ to contend with them, and become another of the so-called colour gangs that exists in Ikebukuro.
For Kida, anything even related to the name of Blue squares is attached immediately to a feeling of loathing, especially to those that broke Saki’s legs. But, Saki quietly smiled, and using a voice that was trying to soothe Kida, said:
“I don’t really remember. I feel like that time was just a fast-moving dream.”
Looking into Saki’s sleepy eyes, Kida thought she was lying. Heard through his phone, the immediate scream he heard in the instant Saki’s leg got broken still rings inside Kida’s heart continuously. However, instead of disagreeing with her, Kida quietly sighed.
“If it’s like that then it can’t be helped, you’ll probably also end up forgetting all the times you’ve spent with me.”
“That’s not a problem, right now we’re doing new things.”
“You’re just boasting!”
Kida laughed bitterly and shook his head.
“In the chatroom record, Gaki said it was a guy wearing a shark teeth patterned hat…. It’s true that only blue squares has this. But he didn’t see… if that guy's the same as yellow turbans, if he wants to take control of Dollars, then I can’t sit by and do nothing.”
“Why does Masaomi want to go? For your friend?”
“That’s only one reason…. for me as well, I still have something to settle with Blue squares. Listen to me, though I don’t know when you’ll forget me… but if it something like that happens, I can’t abandon that part of me.”
Kida stared at Saki and said this with desolation. While Saki stared back at Kida wearing a worried looking smile, a smile that seemed to forgive everything.
“I know I can’t stop you, that’s why I didn’t urge you. But I do think it’s really dangerous so I don’t want you to go.”
“How cunning. Are these words you real feelings?”
“Even my cunning is ineffective. I’m only always waiting.”
“Waiting for me to come back?”
As if she was reproving Kida, Saki gently shook her head.
“I’m waiting for Masaomi to change back to how he used to be when he loved talking and laughing.”
“……..You really are cunning, Saki.”
Kida leaned his face closer to Saki’s, hit his forehead against hers and said.
“Don’t worry, I’ll find the way back, I’ll take Saki and we’ll go back there together.”
“Whether you do find the way back or not, the most important thing is that you’ve decided to try.”
“……Ah, I….. still have to go back to Ikebukuro. Because that place, I have to introduce myself to your people and introduce you to my people.”
Kida recalled his friends, a boy from his childhood and a girl with glasses.
“That, is it your Father and Mother?”
“Wha…! It’s still too early! That, though we’re no longer students, but, at our age, our age……”
“I’m joking. Is it your childhood friend and my love rival?”
For a few moments, Kida pretended ignorance to the understanding smiling young girl, but soon gave up, deeply sighed and said.
“Saki is cunning, after all.”
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“What, it’s Mum. Ah-, brother’s come back.”
Because Aoba abruptly answered the phone, he interrupted any possible greetings from the other end of the line.
He appears to be talking to his mother about a matter between brothers.
- It’ll be bad if he interferes.
“Ah, Mum, wait a moment…...., Mikado-sempai, I haven’t said…”
“Talking tomorrow will be fine. You see, you have to treasure you mother’s calls.”
“Ah..… sorry. Then we’ll talk about this another time.”
Aoba instinctively bowed his head in acknowledgement, Mikado continued with his previous thoughts while leaving the roof gates.
‘Come back to see’ ‘troublesome’ ‘planning’.
“Yeah, it is troublesome.”
Toward a group of nervous and deeply bowing boys, Mikado replied like they were having a normal conversation.
While openly wearing a smiling expression as if they had all been friends for years.
When he arrived on the street after exiting the apartment, Mikado noticed 2 motorbikes stopped by the curb. It seemed that the 2 riders were currently having a dispute, Mikado felt it would be a bit problematic if he got involved, so he decided to take a detour.
“What were you trying to do? Huh!?”
“You guys would know!”
Listening to this typical aggressive conversation, Mikado shot a look at the 2 men.
One wore a jacket with a pattern printed on the back, the other was wearing black western style clothing, 2 really different riders. The black rider wore something that looked like a metal bangle, but it was too far to see the shape.
Perhaps this is where the bousouzoku fight.
His face displaying a sorrowful expression, Mikado escaped from the apartment.
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Shinra’s Apartment, along Sichuan Street
“Meow~”
A cat’s small cry shifted the room’s mood to a more comfortable atmosphere.
Ikebukuro’s fighting doll and underground doctor, along with two famous and loved idols, a glasses girl with a secret and the headless rider, all of these people were not what would be considered as peaceful -
But though the cat doesn’t understand this fact, his carefree nature allows the atmosphere in the room to be peaceful.
He had jumped off Shizuo’s head and rolled around on the floor, at the moment, he was lying against Anri’s thigh on the couch, sounds wheezing happily from his throat.
“…..Ah, where did you say?”
“I said Dollars, brother.”
“Oh, that’s right. I don’t know the circumstances around Dollars. I thought Celty, who’s more involved with Dollars would know more.”
Shizuo visited intending to have a serious talk, but Shinra shook his head in consternation.
“So you’re saying, because of that reason you and Kasuka…. and you even brought Ruri-chan, this is too much! You could have just mailed us!”
“Oh? Ah well, I saw that your light was still on from a distance. Uh, so I thought you were here and I came.…”
“.…Sorry, have we troubled you?”
On seeing Ruri’s huddled form, Shinra flustered and said.
“No trouble! It’s the opposite! Celty and me are big Yuuhei and Ruri fans! If I knew you were coming I would’ve prepared a welcome, we would have waited for you before eating our roast turkey!”
“Thank you… thank you so much… last, last time we really gave you a lot of trouble.”
“Huh? What time? Do you know each other?”
Shizuo’s eyes moved between Shinra and Ruri. Because Ruri’s voice was stuttering, Shinra stepped in and smoothly said.
“She got hurt before, the one who found her was Kasuka, but the one who fixed her up was me.”
“Ah, that’s right, you met Shinra in early spring…. but why didn’t you see any doctor except Shinra?”
Shizuo tilted his head and asked, remembering the incident.
The cause for Ruri’s injury was Shizuo, but Shizuo didn’t know this. Also, once the truth is revealed, it will expose Ruri as the killer “Hollywood”.
What can she possibly say? Just when Ruri anxiously started to attempt to confess everything and Shizuo bent down -
Kasuka abruptly interrupted.
“Because it’s the art in living as a monster.”
“I see, if it’s like that then there’s no helping it.”
Shizuo crossed his arms and nodded, just how did he understand that?
“Ok, so that’s the situation. We can’t think of anyone else who understands Dollars. Also, we’ll drop the cat off here.”
“Yeah-though you say that. What about me. Also, the cat depends on Celty.”
While Shizuo and Shinra carried on with their conversation -
The house’s female occupants each held complex feelings.
Celty Sturluson.
Sonohara Anri.
Hijiribe Ruri.
These three people are all considered as “abnormalities” in modern society.
Celty’s known as the ‘headless rider’ monster, Anri is the wielder of the sword ‘Saika’, and Ruri is the killing monster ‘Hollywood’.
As soon as Ruri made an appearance at her house, Celty immediately noticed.
Shinra and Celty support the idol - Hijiribe Ruri.
Right now, this should be the first time they’re meeting, but -
- She and I…… have met before?
Firstly, from when she set eyes on Celty, her momentary shock was obvious. Though that kind of reaction at suddenly looking at the headless riders form was not uncommon.
And secondly, Celty could feel what she rarely ever felt in Ikebukuro, the breathe of a non-human.
She recalled the human that possessed this abnormal breathe - in the past I took her as transporting ‘cargo’.
- No, but.
- Actually, that woman was wearing sunglasses and a hat that covered her face.
- But that person afterward’s disguised herself as the headless knight to save me…..
- That person is the idol Ruri, Shizuo’s brother’s girlfriend?
- ……
- What is the meaning of this!?
On the other side, sitting in the dining hall next to Yuuhei, Ruri is also quietly thinking of Celty.
- What to do?
- I didn’t know the headless rider lives at the Doctor’s house.
- The time when I was a guest here is going to be exposed…
Thinking about the situation, she tried to cover her anxiety, and keep her attention centralized on Shinra and Shizuo’s conversation.
Then there was also Sonohara Anri, who doesn’t know about the relationship between the other two -
Celty and her discovered Ruri’s inhuman existance through different means.
The moment Anri saw Shizuo, the sound of the sword in her body suddenly acted up.
Anri always ignores that sound, but when Ruri got closer, the sword’s sound started to mutate.
Puzzled.
Saika, who likes cutting all humanity equally, one moment ceased the constant sounds of love, and whispered in Anri’s heart:
- “Is she human? Or monster? Do I love her? Or do I not love her? Is that child human?”
- What’s the reason…..?
- Then, Ruri-chan…. isn’t human?
- Celty’s realized this..…
Anri who is observing as the neutral standpoint between Celty and Ruri, feels some tension from the other two and thinks they might perhaps have had an incident.
Anri wants to continue observing, but -
But suddenly she got distracted, because on her leg, Dokusonmaru slowly got up and started using its paws to climb up her uniform.
“Yah!”
Dokusonmaru crawled onto her chest and pressed along her bosom.
Anri’s collar hung loosely, and she had a flustered appearance.
The cat fussed around on her chest, creating a lovable and cheery picture.
Because the room’s occupants consisted of Shizuo, who’s only interested in older women, Shinra, who’s obsessed with Celty, and Kasuka, who’s like a log, she wasn’t so nervous. It was silent besides Dokusonmaru’s constant “Meow~, meow~” sounds resounding in the room.
However, because Shizuo caught sight of Anri’s flustered expression, he suddenly recalled something.
“Ah, that’s right, that’s right. There’s a student who’s always together with this young girl? The one that ate hot pot that time. Ryuugasaki… no, he’s called Ryuugamine?”
“Ah? Yes, Ryuugamine Mikado.”
“Yeah, yeah, it’s at the time there were a lot of fights during golden week, I told that student I wanted to leave Dollars…”
“Ah?”
“Ah?”
- Ah?
They thought, ‘this might be related to what we just discussed with Anri about Mikado acting weird’.
“Leave Dollars…., this is the first time I’ve heard of this. Why?”
“Is it that surprising?” he asked Celty, Shizuo tilted his head, and carelessly explained why he wanted to quit Dollars.
“Not much, I think it’s troublesome, I can’t be in the same team as guys who kidnap girls, but, I also didn’t know how to properly quit, so I thought I’ll just tell somebody first… At the park I occasionally go to, I told Ryuugamine I quit Dollars.”
Listening to that, Celty thought.
- If it’s Mikado, people quitting Dollars would feel like a blow to him.
- No matter who’s quitting, they’ll all hurt him, plus Shizuo has a name within Dollars.
- Is it because of this that he changed…?
If it was like that, he would change, but he’d likely become more depressed.
Not change in order to allow more people to attack.
“Forget it, when the opportunity arises, we’ll just ask him. Mikado is still a kid, we shouldn’t let him be involved in these matters.”
“Yeah, right, as much as you can is fine, I requested.”
Shizuo said, holding a tea cup to his mouth - but then Shinra suddenly spoke the most inopportune words.
“I think asking Izaya would be the fastest. As long as you’re honest, you can work hard together. What do you think?”
‘Crack!’ the cup Shizuo was holding broke apart and multiple shards fell.
Tea spilled over his hands and knees, Shizuo’s face twitched and after a few seconds said.
“…..Sorry, I can compensate, Celty.”
“Huh? How come not to me, you only apologized to Celt-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Shinra had tilted his head, Shizuo pinched the side of his neck and pulled it towards the ceiling.
“Regardless if it’d be good or bad….. I have never been on good terms with that flea!”
“Calm down, brother.”
“……I know, excuse me.”
At the moment, Shizuo had the urge to throw Shinra out the window, Kasuka admonished his brother without showing a hint of expression on his face, but Shizuo slowly returned the doctor to the floor.
- It’s like a beautiful maiden taming a wild animal.
“You said completely unnecessary words, I hope you’ve learned something!”
While reproving him, Celty thought.
In fact, she had heard the rumours but… Izaya has reappeared?
However Celty had not seen Izaya recently.
- Speaking of that, wasn’t he stabbed and hospitalized?
- He hasn’t contacted since.
Just like this, when you want to use him he’s not here, he’s really unnatural.
- When he’s here, he’s just a troublesome guy, but when he’s not here it’s also inconvenient.
- …..Saying such words, sorry.
“Meow ~”
At unexpected times, Dokusonmaru cries out cutely.
As if he wanted to use his sound to erase the dark atmosphere surrounding people.
※※※※※
Apartment, somewhere in Shinjuku
A boy looking at a chatroom record - Kida Masaomi, sat beside his roommate, a young girl, Mikajima Saki, and said with a serious expression:
“Hey, Saki.”
“What is it, Masaomi?”
Saki responded slowly and happily, Kida wanted to say something and hesitantly opened his mouth:
“Do you want to go to Ikebukuro?”
“You must be a superhuman….. but we don’t have to go right now, we’ll go tomorrow.”
“Your worried about the recent chatroom record. It’s Dollars’ business. It’s Dollars’ and Blue squares’ business.”
“You say that so easily, while me with my big mouth and familiarity can’t find any words at all.”
Blue squares -
At some point in the past, Kida along with his middle school colleagues decided to create ‘the yellow turbans’ to contend with them, and become another of the so-called colour gangs that exists in Ikebukuro.
For Kida, anything even related to the name of Blue squares is attached immediately to a feeling of loathing, especially to those that broke Saki’s legs. But, Saki quietly smiled, and using a voice that was trying to soothe Kida, said:
“I don’t really remember. I feel like that time was just a fast-moving dream.”
Looking into Saki’s sleepy eyes, Kida thought she was lying. Heard through his phone, the immediate scream he heard in the instant Saki’s leg got broken still rings inside Kida’s heart continuously. However, instead of disagreeing with her, Kida quietly sighed.
“If it’s like that then it can’t be helped, you’ll probably also end up forgetting all the times you’ve spent with me.”
“That’s not a problem, right now we’re doing new things.”
“You’re just boasting!”
Kida laughed bitterly and shook his head.
“In the chatroom record, Gaki said it was a guy wearing a shark teeth patterned hat…. It’s true that only blue squares has this. But he didn’t see… if that guy's the same as yellow turbans, if he wants to take control of Dollars, then I can’t sit by and do nothing.”
“Why does Masaomi want to go? For your friend?”
“That’s only one reason…. for me as well, I still have something to settle with Blue squares. Listen to me, though I don’t know when you’ll forget me… but if it something like that happens, I can’t abandon that part of me.”
Kida stared at Saki and said this with desolation. While Saki stared back at Kida wearing a worried looking smile, a smile that seemed to forgive everything.
“I know I can’t stop you, that’s why I didn’t urge you. But I do think it’s really dangerous so I don’t want you to go.”
“How cunning. Are these words you real feelings?”
“Even my cunning is ineffective. I’m only always waiting.”
“Waiting for me to come back?”
As if she was reproving Kida, Saki gently shook her head.
“I’m waiting for Masaomi to change back to how he used to be when he loved talking and laughing.”
“……..You really are cunning, Saki.”
Kida leaned his face closer to Saki’s, hit his forehead against hers and said.
“Don’t worry, I’ll find the way back, I’ll take Saki and we’ll go back there together.”
“Whether you do find the way back or not, the most important thing is that you’ve decided to try.”
“……Ah, I….. still have to go back to Ikebukuro. Because that place, I have to introduce myself to your people and introduce you to my people.”
Kida recalled his friends, a boy from his childhood and a girl with glasses.
“That, is it your Father and Mother?”
“Wha…! It’s still too early! That, though we’re no longer students, but, at our age, our age……”
“I’m joking. Is it your childhood friend and my love rival?”
For a few moments, Kida pretended ignorance to the understanding smiling young girl, but soon gave up, deeply sighed and said.
“Saki is cunning, after all.”
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