Vol 1 Chapter 11 (1/2)

Durarara!!SH

Chapter 1A

The Seeker

Excerpt of a report by Tatsugami Aya, novice reporter at Tokyo Warrior

Ikebukuro has an urban legend of a headless rider However, when it coends, the idea of a headless rider itself was not born in Ikebukuro

There was no specific region that could be specifically identified as the origin, but when the ruun to spread it was all across the country

The story had at first spread with a strong spiritual theeance of aacross the road

The shock of the decapitation, coend – by these require for various forions But the case of Ikebukuro is somewhat different

If one were to say how, it would be that the legend could be described to be more like an Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA) like the Loch Nesse or Yeti

After all, irrelevant to whether the figure of the Headless Rider e aside whether that exists), tens of thousands of people can see it

It was captured clearly on ca in the entire country co to know of it

Normally this would be where one assumed it was just special effects, but there were too many witnesses

Moreover this Headless Rider has apparently been showing up around Ikebukuro forpopularity of camera-equipped mobile phones came to be captured on camera

At first due to its exoticness the mass media would buy such filmed data, but now there is too h they only feel like videos of dogs and cats on the internet

Even so, except for those in Ikebukuro who have witnessed it, whether there actually is a headless being driving around the city is probably only half-believed at the moment

At first I as well had thought that the footage caught on the TV camera was only a trick video

It was footage fro with the police, but it was not unthinkable that the on-scene fil itself could have been a faked performance

That hat I thought; I felt it was no different froo viral on the internet

In fact, that hat I thought all until‘it’ in the city of Ikebukuro

A ine, and did not even reflect light

The being that rode it wore a hel, but that was the least of my concerns

The fact that even travelling extreine running was by itself extremely unusual

To er, the Headless Rider, who appeared to be being chased by a white motorcycle, with a black substance from its own body – that could only be described as ‘shadow’ – created a black road before it

Honestly, after seeing a scene as unbelievable as a , whether or not the Headless Rider was indeed headless became no more than a petty detail

Froht the Headless Rider

As a result, I have attained certain curious pieces of information

When a King Television reporter interviewed it on the road, I understood that the Headless Rider coh a handheld electronic device

Due to the scene in that video where the hts had transformed into a headless horse, it was said on the internet that the Headless Rider could be a dullahan

A dullahan is a type of fae fro that informs those soon to die of their imminent demise

The dullahan carries its head under its ar its head in that manner

Or perhaps it has, but at least it was not when I witnessed it, and after thoroughly searching on video sites where videos of the Headless Rider are co its head

Ast the many bases of the theory that the Headless Rider is a dullahan, the root seeue rumour that the headless horse’s name is Shooter

Apparently the horse the dullahan rides is known as a coiste bodhar, and ‘Shooter’ could be a spin on that

(T/N: The katakana for coiste bodhar is koshuta bawaa; katakana for Shooter is shuutaa Thus Shooter can be seen as an abbreviation of coiste bodhar)

Honestly, naturally, I felt it was ridiculous

And there was no way the Headless Rider would use such an easy nickname like an elementary schooler

But the i at all fro as ridiculous as this

Countless spreading rumours can sometimes hide a truth

It is possible for the Headless Rider to be the being known as the dullahan, but even if it were that fact would have been buried under the dubious nature of the ruuous

Although it does indeed have y – due to how unexplainable it would be to have an Irish fae running around Ikebukuro, japan, I eventually dismissed that theory and merely kept it in mind

Another piece of inforht even anisation, the ‘Awakusu-kai’, whose office is based in Ikebukuro, and the gang known as the Dollars Also curious is the man in the bartender suit that has often accompanied it

And the slashi+ng incident known as Ripper Night that tore its way through Ikebukuro two years ago

When I heard that the Headless Rider was involved in even that, I could not contain myself

According to Niekawa-senpai, apparently there was once an infors, but he becao

One and a half years ago – was the unexplainable incident involving the Dollars, and an incident where the sky of Ikebukuro was covered in a mysterious shadow

Could they all be connected?

I get the feeling that all of these individual incidents have the Headless Rider at their centre

In radually become a belief

Froate deeper into what I’ve found