Somewhere in Ikebukuro
“Yo, isn’t it Ryuugamine-kun?”
“Ah…”
In the middle of Mikado’s route home, someone unexpectedly greeted him - it was Kadota dressed differently from his normal attire.
Mikado didn’t know for what purpose, but the work clothes Kadota wore had Chinese calligraphy printed on his coat, and he carried a bag of what appeared to be tools.
“Kadota-san, hello, long time no see.”
“Yeah, what are you doing out so late?”
“Nothing much, I just came back from a friends house. Kadota-san, you’re still working at this hour?”
“Ah, right now I’m on break from my night shift. After I eat, I’ll have to go back to the unit.”
For Mikado, besides Kadota once being a member of blue squares, he’s also the person Mikado associates with most in Dollars.
It felt like a new experience for Mikado looking at Kadota without Yamasaki and the gang with him, but Kadota still acted the same, while walking and talking together, Mikado asked:
“Ah yeah, are you still continuing Dollars?”
“Huh? Of course.”
“? Really? Recently there have been a lot of people using Dollars status to do weird things. In May, there was also that dispute with Toramaru.”
“Really, please stop. Don’t quit Dollars just because of these small matters. Also, we already know the the guys who used Dollars to do those crimes… I don’t acknowledge what those guys did as part of Dollars.”
Kadota said this plainly to Mikado.
“But, Dollars theme is that you’re free to do whatever you want.”
“Because you can freely do whatever, you can also freely denounce the criminals.”
Though Kadota could see the boys’ mixed feelings, he’s still unaware of the reason behind those mixed feelings, so instead thought to change the subject.
“That guy, Kida, have you been in touch lately?”
“…..We have contacted….. on-line… occasionally.”
Kadota looked at Mikado’s sad expression and replied unconcernedly.
“Is that so.… Though I don’t know why he disappeared from Ikebukuro, or what his mail is. But, as long as he’s still healthy, it’s fine.”
Kadota didn’t know that Mikado is the founder of Dollars.
Though Kadota only knows that Mikado is a good friend of Kida Masaomi, and also an acquaintance of Celty’s acquaintance, he won’t pry in it too deeply. However, Kadota had heard of the rumour that Kida left school and disappeared, and felt that the city without Kida was a little lonelier.
“Don’t worry about it too much, that guy has his own problems.”
Not prying further, he just said this -
But Mikado moved forward, and enthusiastically replied.
“No problem, as long as there’s people like Kadota, then there’s no problem!”
“Huh?”
“Because Kadota is a respected character in Dollars.”
“Oh, spare me.”
I reply to Mikado’s words, Kadota sighed.
“It’s like a fan passed a message saying I was an influential member, Dollars is just a free-for-all organization, nobody has any higher value.”
“Though it is like that, if there’s more people like Kadota and Celty. No more people would use Dollars for crimes, if one person helps another person’s problem mutually then the group would be good.”
- It sounds like the perfect organization, but movement and expressions would become restricted.
Kadota thought this, but didn’t directly refute Mikado, instead he used a more roundabout route.
“Is that your ideal? That doesn’t mean it’s the ideal of others.”
“Yes, it’s my ideal.”
Mikado frankly acknowledged, then said:
“But, I want to change close to this ideal, this is also a freedom given by Dollars that I can accomplish…..”
Mikado looked in a different direction, then temporarily became quiet. Kadota thought he should probably say something, but his mouth was blocked, it was Mikado wearing his usual gentle smile that said.
“Then, my house is here, bye.”
“….Ah, bye.”
Saying farewell at the intersection, the former senior student and the enrolled student of Raira Academy parted ways.
Kadota couldn’t forget the strange feeling Mikado just gave him, he continued to think about what he felt - quickly, someone else came to his mind.
- Mikado seems to know Izaya… hope it won’t be the same as Kida that time, that guy teaches people bad things.
- But Izaya doesn’t have time to play with students.
While he was walking towards the unit, he thought about his student days.
For Kadota, who was still unaware of Mikado’s true identity, he didn’t implicate Izaya too deeply.
- Thinking about it, recently I haven’t heard news about Izaya.
- Awakusu-kai will get angry, as long as he’s not buried underground somewhere, it’s fine.
- Perhaps for him, this is a satisfying life.
While thinking these uncomfortable thoughts, and also thinking this is the end for Izaya, Kadota kept walking.
At this time, a motorbike zoomed passed beside Kadota.
“……”
Spotting the rider’s jacket, Kadota knitted his brows.
“Weird. After that white motorbike came, it’s rare to see..…”
He said to himself, continuing to look at the motorcycle and walk.
“Just then, that was Dragon Zombie’s jacket.”
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Russian Sushi Restaurant, Ikebukuro
“Come, customers, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, please keep coming-. Wish you keep good sleep-.”
Simon was saying this to the pack of final guests.
Already having put down the cloth with the shops name, the only work remaining was cleaning up the shop.
Occasionally people milled around the area limping from a hangover, compared to daytime, this wasn’t very suprising. In this kind of surrounding, he noticed something on the street move, and rapidly looked around.
Just then there was someone running past, a piece of black clothing could be seen just vanishing from Simon’s view.
“…….?”
He felt that the ordinary drunkards and this late nightwalker were different, so Simon moved forward in that direction to look closer-
“What are you doing, Simon. Hurry up and start cleaning!”
The sound came from inside the shop. Simon shrugged his shoulders and headed back inside.
The one spying all of this from a street crevice -
Was a man who grinned while whispering.
“Seems like I can solve the conflict using Awakusu-kai. Now just how should I do this.”
He put on a frivolous summer coat and continued talking to himself.
“Though, that Russian’s daughter has become Shizu-chan’s subordinate.”
Covering his anxious feelings, the coated man slowly left.
“After all, human’s are so interesting.”
The man smiled coldly and happily skipped along an empty road.
Very, very happily.
He was skipping like a kid rushing towards an excursion bus.
Chatroom
Kyo [I feel like I know who Shoro is.]
Mai [Really?]
Sharo [Really? Oh crap.]
Kyo [To be frank, it is the actress Sharon Stone.]
Sharo [That’s only the name’s meaning!]
Mai [Hah!]
Sharo [If Sharon Stone was actually here, and talking in Japanese on top of that, I would explode!]
Kyo [Are you the substitute actor Charon Walken? Wah! That’s great! I saw all the movies you participated in!]
Sharo [Who’s that!]
Mai [Foreigner.]
Sharo [I know that! I know he’s a foreigner! But who’s the foreigner!]
Kyo [Search the web!]
Sharo [Hah!]
Kyo [You’re really worth teasing, Shoro. If I actually knew your identity, I wouldn’t expose it, was it me who didn’t thank you for the polluted tea? This is my first time meeting you online, if you give me time to find out your real status, I’ll be very happy.]
Mai [Well done.]
Sharo [I haven’t done anything!]
Saki [Charon Walken is a very famous substitute actor in America. He’s the younger brother of the actress Claudia Walken. Because he’s a substitute actor, he’s rarely seen on the media…. he’s very similar to the actor Hanejima Yuuhei.]
Sharo [Thank you for the information. I see now, it’s someone famous.]
Kyo [Ah ya ya, how come you speak so differently to us? People who dub-divide the way they treat others end up not trusting anyone! So even if it’s all lies, if you should act that you’re inferior, then our existence will become greater, and you should worship our words and use polite speech from now on.]
Mai [Great!]
Sharo [Little jokes!]
Saika [Fighting isn’t good.]
------Gaki has entered the chatroom------
Gaki [Good evening.]
Kyo [Peace, Gaki.]
Mai [Good evening!]
Sharo [Hello!]
Gaki [I agree with Saika.]
Saika [Good evening.]
Gaki [Though I think this is an ordinary conversation between colleagues, but, we’ve only met for a short time (laugh).]
Gaki [I’m scared that you might really start to quarrel (laugh).]
Sharo [Agreed.]
Mai [Sorry.]
Kyo [Ah ya ya, it seems I’ve taken my teasing on Shoro too far and I’ve forgotten the network etiquette. I truly apologize…..]
Saika [Sorry.]
Gaki [Why is Saika apologizing (laugh).]
Saika [Thank you.]
Gaki [No no, please don’t mind.]
Sharo [Speaking of which, I remembered Hanejima Yuuhei.]
Sharo [His girlfriend Hijiribe Ruri, seems like she has a lot of stalker fans.]
Gaki [Really?]
Gaki [Is there any news?]
Sharo [No, I heard it today from everyone else. Apparently, a long time ago there was a stalker fanatic.]
Sharo [On the internet, it seems there is also this rumour.]
Kyo [Ah…. I also know of this rumour.]
Saika [Sorry.]
Saika [I have to leave first.]
Sharo [Okay.]
Mai [Good night.]
Saika [Gaki, sorry.]
Saika [It’s rare that you visit.]
Gaki [Don’t mind (laugh).]
Gaki [When you’re sleepy, then sleep takes first priority. Except when you’re dying.]
Kyo [Ah ya ya, the evening has just started, are you really wasting it? But I won’t obstruct you. For humans, the most relaxing time is when you’re sleepy and you crawl into bed and fall asleep. Actually, when people are dying and they say ‘I feel like sleeping’, it is to relax the pain registered in the brain while dying, and maybe to feel content again.]
Kyo […. The times I make lengthy speeches, ignored by Gaki.]
Mai [It has meaning.]
Mai [Ah.]
Mai [Kyo, it’s really melancholy beside you.]
Mai [Hurts.]
Mai [I was pinched.]
Saika [Good Night.]
-----Saika has left the chatroom-----
Gaki [Good night.]
Sharo [Oh right, relating to Hijiribe Ruri, what does Kyo know?]
Kyo [Sorry, because Mai told lies, I had to teach her a lesson. Yes, what I know, it was at the same time the news covered their scandal about the photographed kiss… but these pictures weren’t reported on the news and isn’t Hijiribe Ruri together with Hanejima Yuuhei, it was only a picture of a mysterious man.]
Kyo [ O <- please click on the following link, the picture’s inside.]
Gaki [Then, I’ll go see.]
Sharo [Oh - what I heard was also like this.]
Kyo [It might be Hanejima Yuuhei’s fanatic. Regardless of how you look at it, the picture looks like a shot of royalty….. makes people believe he’s a homosexual fanatic.]
Shoro [But, why does he harass Hijiribe Ruri? She’s already kissed Hanejima Yuuhei? Is the love like a relatives? Any normal person would have given up.]
Kyo [It’s because he’s unable to give up so he’s become a fanatic, right? This so-called love is really just to satisfy one’s selfish desires. The form of someone’s love is free service to the other person, and by seeing the other smile, it enriches your own feelings-a fanatic’s behaviour will also give the other reverse service.]
Kyo [Fanatics also have a lot of types. There’s the type that believes that they are completely made for the other, they don’t think about anything. There’s the type that want to control the one they love for themselves. There’s a type that believes love is lofty but still takes action and eventually starts to want to see the others loathsome expressions, and then there’s the type with a distorted love that depend on destruction to achieve their desire.]
Gaki [The last one is by no means love, it’s only sexual desire.]
Gaki [Unfortunately, these type of people are not uncommon in the world.]
Sharo [If this guy also has possessive desires, he might also want to kill Hanejima Yuuhei. Isn’t that really dangerous?]
Mai [I don’t want that.]
Mai [Can’t let Yuuhei get killed.]
Kyo [Calm down, Mai. Yuuhei-san isn’t the type to submit to that kind of fanatic. He will use his own financial resources, guts, influence, personal connection and so on to protect his most precious person and himself. The fanatic will die. Soon, his corpse will hang from the top of Tokyo tower.]
Mai [Great!]
Sharo [Hanging from Tokyo tower would obstruct business!]
Sharo [But, I heard the fanatic is also a Dollars member.]
Sharo [Dollars won’t want to safeguard the fanatic.]
Sharo [I never thought of that before. Because Dollars has never become a real violent gang.]
Sharo [Or it can be said, this fanatic’s character, just happened to be in Dollars as well, you can’t say all Dollars members are safeguarding him. I’ve heard members include elementary students, housewives, and even police personnel.]
Sharo [It feels incomprehensible, the Dollars mass organization.]
Sharo [I’ve also heard rumours relating to their leader.]
Gaki [Ah! I thought there was no leader?]
Kyo [Yeah, I also heard that Dollars has no hierarchy, only a mass organization where everyone is equal…..]
Mai [Are you lying?]
Sharo [I’m not lying! I heard that a guy in jail called Horada said it.]
Sharo [Ah, oops.]
Sharo [I said his real name, erase this section.]
Sharo [Or forget it. After all, it’s a guy serving his time.]
Gaki [Can you inform us of the details.]
Sharo [Ah, about Horada?]
Sharo [Where my friend lives has a lot of young hoodlums, I heard the rumours from them….. that guy called Horada said in prison: “I know the Dollars leader”, but apparently he never gave the name.
Sharo [I also heard after he came out of prison, he wanted to threaten the Dollars leader through the network, in order to coerce some money. This news I heard recently when I actually went to jail to see a friend that just finished his sentence. No matter what rumours fly around, it’s a mystery.]
Kyo [You also have a very dangerous friend.]
Sharo [But I’m really honest and pure, you can view me as a really good person.]
Kyo [Lies.]
Sharo [What!?]
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