Vol 1 Chapter 31 (1/2)
Durarara!!SH
CHAPTER 3A
The Destroyer
There was a demon in Ikebukuro
Anyone who had stayed in the city for a fair amount of time would be familiar with this rumour
Those who commuted daily to the commercial district near the train station would knoas not just a rumour
Guard rails ripped from the pavement
Uprooted streetlights
Broken road signs
Crushed vending machines
These disconcerting parts and pieces, when sighted, could only be the result of a single hu
Heiwajima shi+zuo
He was a man whose ularly, and his striking blond-dyed hair and sunglasses
He worked a job of collecting overdue debts fro sites, cabaret clubs and the like, and was commonly seen in Ikebukuro’s commercial district, especially around Sunshi+ne Street and 60-Storey Street
If that were all, he would be no rey-area job; yet there was no question that he was the best-est’ in Ikebukuro, childish as the term was
If one were to cite the ru Heiwajima shi+zuo, there would be too many to count:
They said he swung a vending machine around with one hand
They said he ripped a guard rail off the pavement with one hand
They said he sawed through a car using a road sign
They said he stood up just fine even after being hit by a garbage truck
They said he had lifted a refrigerator when he was in elementary school
They said he had once taer
They said he liked vanilla milkshakes
They said he had acquired a Russian assassin as a lackey
They said a knife could not stab further than one millimeter into him
They said a bullet failed to pierce his muscle
They said he liked cream anmitsu
They said he had once destroyed a building
They said he chased soht around
They said he was hit with a metal pipe and the pipe was the one dented
They said only a ballpoint pen from Nebula could pierce his muscle
They said he had kicked a car around like a football
They said he gripped a luht the pressure turned it into diamond
They said he liked creme caramel
They said apparently the proer brother
They said he threw a person higher than a building
They said he liked pancakes with a lot of syrup
They said he just liked sweet things
There was no way to tell which of these ruends anyone who knew of shi+zuo could iine to be true
Some theorised that the abrupt cease of action froed Ikebukuro into the pit of terror was due to shi+zuo retaliating when he was attacked
There were videos of hihts around on the internet, but most who had not seen it in real life would siraphics
It was true that he was the older brother of the popular actor Hanejima Yuhei, but even if there was video proof, perhaps it would be too easy to think so so unbelievable was faked by the TV station
But even aht particular interest and was surfacing in gossip
They said Heiwajima shi+zuo was a friend of the Headless Rider
This was not a baseless ruether siends
Heiwaji around with the Headless Rider countless times
Like seeing a faether on the street, to those who knew the stories surrounding each of thee carved into memory
And now that the Headless Rider had vanished from the city –
A turning point end’
Evening A certain parlour in Ikebukuro
It was a fruit parlour in a department store in Ikebukuro
Many of the customers were female, but there were also male customers who seemed to have just ended work
Ast them were tho did not appear to be salarymen
One was a eous parfait with oes sliced into rosettes; the other was a etables on the side
“So, you said you wanted a qualification?”
The man with dreadlocks – Tanaka To the panini with came to a rest
Following, the man in the bartender uniform – Heiwajima shi+zuo – continued on the topic
“Yeah; Toht? Like, what…”
“Ahhh… I have… First would be the estate agent cert, and then, well, I only got up to the 2nd grade for both, but there’s the Kanji and English proficiency tests And then there’s the one for land surveying, journalisrade for the clerical skills test…”
To numerous qualifications, as shi+zuo looked on him respectfully
“Wow… That’s a”
They had just completed their work quota for the day; the sun had already set outside
Noro on their separate ways, but shi+zuo had said he had so as they were peckish they had ended up in this store
“Nah, it’s nothing – I just thought getting so jobless… If it weren’t for this job I otten more”
“Are there any useful ones I et?”
“That’s sudden of you Are you thinking of changing jobs?”
As shi+zuo had never before said anything about this, Tom asked out of confusion
“Ah, no; I’… But I ive …”
“…”
Heiwajith and durability beyond human limits
His superior Tom knew this as well as anyone else
But he did not say, ‘Isn’t that superstrength of yours h?’
Because he knew there was no way shi+zuo hith
“Mal, either, so it wouldn’t be surprising for it to just up and vanish someday”
There Toh some ideas in his head
“Ho for, but a lot of them require job experience… Wait a minute”
Toan to browse for information on the internet
“There are quite soo for on your own – jewellery coordinator, park warden, all sorts… Oh, there’s even a test for world heritage?”
“I’e…”
“Well, it’s nor you want to do so you want to do outside of your current job?”
Toht for a moment before he replied
“If I had a clear idea it would narrow things down a bit, wouldn’t it? But I still can’t see anything I want to do in the future”
“Then let’s not talk about the present; how about when you were a kid?”
“Eh?”
“At a tio back to your roots too, you know Surely when you were a kid you had one or two dreams for the future”
As Toan to think once more
–A dream – my dream?
–Right, I had so like that
After thinking for a few more seconds, shi+zuo reraduation anthology
“Yeah… Right, that was it”
“Did you remember?”
shi+zuo, re, nodded fiercely as he replied
“I think I wanted to be a detective”
“…I see”
A detective
Whether it suited shi+zuo was complicated to think of
Toht
That it was a dreaested that shi+zuo’s aspiration had not been the investigation of extramarital affairs and such real life detectives did, but rather the job of detectives in movies and comics
But even fictional detectives had all sorts