Vol 2 Epilogue (2/2)

“That’s why, I’ll be the hands for all of you If you get in trouble, Tatsugami-san, or Kuon and his sister, any of you, I’ll use these fists to protect you”

“…I’s like that”

“Should I be? Am I weird after all?”

“Yeah, you’re weird”

Himeka answered frankly, and her expression morphed to accommodate the emotion within her

It was unlike sadness or anger; there was no need to suppress this

“But I think that’s wonderful”

Yahiro saw the soft s on Himeka’s face, and smiled, shyly, in return

As he watched them leave from afar, Kotonami Kuon spoke into his phone

“Tsk, tsk,sister of mine”

‘It was useless to try with that hair and face I told you’

Nozoled from the other side of the line, and started to talk about Yahiro

‘But that boy, Yahiro, he really is interesting, as far as nice guys go Even knowing your true nature he orried about you still’

“And how did you react, Nee-chan?”

Kuon said Nozohtly,

‘Yahiro-kun wasn’t bothered by it I told him, you know… that you don’t think of him as more than a pawn’

“There you go again, running off your mouth”

‘What do you think he said then?’

“?”

Kuon hesitated, stumped

And then, Nozomi said

‘He said it doesn’t matter’

“It… doesn’t matter?”

‘He said that, whatever reason you have, it’s the first time another kid’s spoken to him normally That he was happy there were people who didn’t fear hiht That’s what he said’

“…”

‘He said, that’s why, to hi with his life Unbelievable, right? Can you believe that was all to it?’

After soht, Kuon asked, doubtfully,

“Did he really say that?”

‘I dunno? It’s up to you to judge, hht?’

—Ah, she’s being honest, then

Kuon sensed this intuitively, and sighed long and deep; and with a cold voice he said, quietly,

“Nohim”

‘Oh my, poor Yahiro-kun’

“For a guy with that much power, he’s too pure Seriously…”

Kuon rolled his shoulders, and scoffed

“This is why I hate humans”

Kotonami residence

Checking that the line was cut, Nozomi smiled slyly as she murmured

“You’ll never become Izaya-san”

Cheerily, bemusedly, her true intent concealed behind that smile:

“Because, unlike Izaya-san… you’re just that little bit too soft-hearted!”

shi+nra’s apartment

‘But Yahiro-kun really is a funny guy’

“I can be funny too! Wait, I’ll… I’ll say soht now, so…!”

‘Don’t force yourself’

Celty chided shi+nra, whose face was turning red, and thought back on Yahiro

In the end, she had passed off the whole ensemble, mask and clothes, to the boy

She had gone to the effort ofit after all, and decided that it was better off in his hands than dispelled immediately

—’I don’t kno long it’ll last since I’ve never tried, but well, if it evaporates or anything just contact me I’ve entle on the hair and skin… I think’

And there, Yahiro had asked a vital question, his face completely serious:

—”This can be washed, right?”

Celty snickered internally at the ht, shi+nra realised

“Ahh! Ah, just now Celty thought of Yahiro-kun and laughed…?!”

‘You’re perceptive about the strangest things’

“Wait… So funny… D, do you like stand-up comedy Celty!”

shi+nra seemed close to tears; Celty typed, exasperatedly,

‘You’re too desperate …Eh, I have some time off anyway Let’s hear this comedy of yours’

“Really?! …wait, you’re taking leave again?”

‘shi+ki-san said to lie low for a while And there are people who still suspect me, apparently Anyell, I’ll look for other part-time jobs, so you don’t have to worry’

“It’s okay, I’ll feed you for the rest of our life! Why not just be a househile you’re at it, you can just laze around in front of me every day!”

shi+nra suggested, eyes sparkling Celty slumped tiredly, and showed him her smartphone

‘No thanks I’d rather not have such a mundane life’

Neither had noticed

That, in the corner of the site IkeNEW, there was a mysterious banner nested between advertisements

A small banner that would only show up if one scrolled to the co only the letters ‘SH’

Those ere sharp enough to notice were directed to the following site upon clicking it:

‘Conflict resolution for Ikebukuro

Finding people, revenge on bullies, bodyguarding—anything you can think of!

Ikebukuro Communal Aid Group—Snake Hands’

This odd advert would later embroil Celty in a life far from mundane –

But as of right now, she had no way to know this

CHAPTER END

Durarara!!SH×2

Epilogue B

Or: The Next Prologue | The Avenger

“Have you tracked shi+jima down?”

Five days after the incident, shi+jiain

But the answer re as the one a few days before

“No, there’s no trace of him…”

It was clear that shi+jima was the one to found the Headless Rider cult

That had been confirained their rationality in the hospital

“It’s unlikely that he only packed up and fled when he saw us co, either”

Not all of the people on the villa grounds had been Headless Rider-fanatics escaping from reality

Some of shi+jiuards via uard that shi+ki had beaten up was one of them

But even they confessed to know nothing of shi+jima’s whereabouts

It was true that shi+jiroup, but apparently the cultists had upscaled on their own He had not discouraged this, but all he had done was provide funds and Heaven Slave

The Awakusu-kai had threatened his grandfather, chief of shi+jima Group, and his father, an executive; but they said their son had re for more than a year now

A man that should have been reduced to dust Just as he planning?

With a sense of omen, shi+ki looked out of the office , and murmured

“Honestly… I thought things would go a little smoother after that informant disappeared”

“But the moment we solve one proble job…”

Somewhere in the city A rented office

A s

The floor above appeared to be rented out to a group that operated phone call scams; the chatter of their conversations drifted down fro

In this empty room there was a chair, and on the chair was a man

The upper half of the his face rapped in bandages, and the gaps between revealed a pair of eyes that gazed into the empty space

A woman’s delicate hand curled around the man’s neck

On closer inspection, her fingers were littered with scars Stroking the man’s neck seductively, she spoke

“Orihara Izaya… didn’t interfere with this case, hm”

“No, he didn’t”

“I wonder what’s up with him Is he really dead, you think?”

“I don’t care about that I just want e Orihara Izaya comes second”

At that, the woman tilted her head in surprise

“Oh? …I thought your plan was to take revenge on Orihara Izaya Apparently not”

“What about you, Earthworm?”

The man – shi+jima – asked coldly The woman he called Earthworm hummed, and replied with some consideration

“I don’t know I guess I’d be glad to kill him if I could, since he was a jerk”

With the way she snickered, it was hard to tell how

She leant her cheek against shi+jima’s head, and asked, bemusedly,

“Since you don’t care about Orihara Izaya, who are you going to take revenge on? The Headless Rider? Heiwajima shi+zuo? Awakusu-kai’s Akabayashi+?”

shi+jima’s ansas toneless

“The city”

There was a quiet madness in his eyes; if any who knew him before were to see him now, they would probably ask:

Was this man really shi+jima?

The aze – and visualising the scenery beyond that eravely:

“I chose to take revenge on the city of Ikebukuro”

“Grand ambitions… So, what do you have in mind precisely?”

“Nothing, really”

Still expresionless, shi+jiure, continued

“There are plenty of seeds for tragedy strewn through the city if you look It’s et to sprout”

“I’ a tiny bit of water and fertilizer”

Just as he said, despite that the giant waves of the ‘Dollars’ and ‘Orihara Izaya’ had died off, at this point in time there were countless ‘seeds’ left behind in their wake

Would these seeds sprout forth fortune or tragedy?

At this time, no one knew

Including even the er –

The city begins to weave a new tale

So long as people continue to exist within it

VOLUME END

CAST

Mizuchi Yahiro

Kotonami Kuon

Tatsugami Himeka

Kuronuma Aoba

Orihara Kururi

Orihara Mairu

Awakusu Akane

Kotonami Nozomi

Tatsugami Aya

Tatsugami Ai

Ei Li-pei

shi+ki

Heiwajima shi+zuo

Celty Sturluson

shi+nra Kishi+tani