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Vol 3 Chapter 3 (2/2)

Durarara!! SH Narita Ryohgo 134000K 2022-07-20

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“Yo, Aoba, hoas he?”

To his gangoutside the hospital, Aoba replied quietly,

“Mht be more troublesome than expected”

“What does that mean?”

“There’s er… I more or less expected that, but it seems they also coordinate their attacks”

“Huh?”

With that, Aoba recounted what Horada had told him

“…And that’s how it is”

“You’re serious? You’re sure he didn’t just e”

Aoba, though he half-agreed with his friend’s obvious suspicion, shook his head

“If he’s telling us to catch the culprit for him, there’s no reason for him to lie Anyway my brother see his weight around for the sake of it”

Aoba had grasped Horada’s character co on instruction of his brother—Izumii Ran

“Met him He’s small fry no matter how I see it, but he continually exceeds expectations And how did he locate the kidnapper’s base during the false kidnapping incident…?”

Aoba, unable to reach the true conclusion of ‘pure coincidence’, felt increasingly disturbed by Horada

Everything about the way he talked and his appearance indicated that he was only a sster, and indeed he had been no more than another Blue Squarethe Yellow Scarves takeover, yet—

—Did so happen in jail after all?

—Thereon that I’m not aware of

The two-faced personality of Aoba himself led him to be suspicious of Horada

He was trapped by the idea that possibly Horada had a darker side to hie

“That insignificant vibe he has could be a cae A weapon, in a sense”

“What’s cae?”

“Look it up, won’t you?”

After this conversation, Aoba headed for the front gate of the hospital, conte the current case

He had grasped the culprit’s agenda to soree

Yet Horada being attacked by s

Multiple Sluggers, each with their own objective

Or in the worst scenario, roup?

It was possible as well that a delinquent group was carrying out copycat offences to get rid of o

“da as expected”

Aoba took out his phone, and began to type a e

“Who’re you texting?”

“The Headless Rider”

“What?”

The other gang rinned

“I have to collect on that favour, froami Himeka’s picture”

Saying this, Aoba pressed the send button

The content of the e was simple in itself—

But it exaggerated the situation just enough to fan the flames of its recipient’s unease

[Celty-san

hello, this is Aoba

This is sudden, but could you assist us in looking for the Slugger?

If you find the perpetrators, please bring them to us if possible

It’s likely that the Sluggers number in the tens

In the worst case scenario, this could becoht]

shi+nra’s apartment

‘What’s this?!’

After receiving Aoba’sover onto the sofa

“Which one? Let me see?”

shi+nra borrowed Celty’s phone, and selected the e that appeared most recent

His eyes grew blatantly irritated when he saw that the sender was Kuronuma Aoba

“Ah…”

‘I was surprised Aoba too would be askingit ht, what do I do now! Why are there tens of Sluggers?!’

“It can’t be there really is a de mystical involved…?”

‘Are you saying noe have a demon hammer on our hands?!’

Celty cried out in a panic, but shi+nra said, solemnly,

“I’ve heard about it… The demonic hammer ‘Bannanjin’, that possesses humans and amplifies their desires… Could it be…”

‘Wait! Stop! Don’t make it more complicated than it is already!’

“Well, that aside, isn’t that actually a good thing, Celty? If there are ers, we can pass one to shi+zuo, and the rest to Yuet the leftovers”

‘Don’t say it like you’re distributing souvenirs!’

Regaining her calh her exasperation at shi+nra, Celty stood from the sofa

‘But what does it mean if there really are multiple? Could it really be related to bōsōzoku?’

“I dunno The ht have been inspired to imitate”

‘Copycat offenders, you mean…?’

The theory ine the profile of a copycat offender

—It has to be the type of person who’d see the Slugger on the news and decide to do the sa

—I doubt it could be anyone upstanding… At the very least, I don’t expect it to be an adult

‘Well, in any case, it should be one of those young gangsters or delinquent students who don’t think before acting…’

shi+robishi+ Yōko was a serial assaulter

She had full awareness of this

She was also aware that her actions rong

But she believed it rongdoing in the name of justice

She believed that therefore her cri all of the blaers

Yōko, 38 years old this year, was a self-proclaimed online writer, but in truth she earned only a few thousand yen through advertising, and was living off the inheritance from her parents

The Buddhist altar in the house was bereft of offerings, and it felt as though the dusty portraits of her parents were looked down on the room with disapproval

However, she was hardly bothered by this

Because she believed she was living for a higher purpose

Harmony

Harmony of the world

Harmony of the times

Her own life was the payment for a beautiful world that could achieve hars

She could not be distracted by tending to such private affairs asthe altar of her deceased parents

This hat she truly thought; and dee fro of her own honore, she continued her fight against the unfair world ords as her weapon

Even the few-thousand yen annual income she earned was due to the bombardment of comments on her site

It was natural that when attacking a source of dishareted by those seduced by the perversion of the world

This hat she wrote on her site, but to put it sihts with all of these parties

A fraction of the people who came to check out the dra her income

What ‘disruption of har of people’s hearts

‘Stirring’ could refer to anything that evoked exciteer, laziness, lust, or other similar emotions

Comics with explicit sexual content were naturally her ene cruelty, police dra nudity

The most controversial incident was probably when she had tried to have the Venus de Milo reynistic work that promoted the concept that a woman was more beautiful with her arms amputated

It was debated whether the sculpture had had arinally, or if it had been made armless from the start, but to Yōko how it became that as irrelevant; the h to irk her, and she claimed it was a defilement of human society

Being that she was so violently objected to a ainst draonistic

She was especially opposed to aDead

It was about the last survivors in an Ikebukuro overrun by zo went beyond dislike; it was a primal terror

She could not wrap herto life and attacking humans

Hoould the creators take responsibility if children who saw that thought that people would continue walking around even after being killed? It ith that saroup advocating the ban of zoh they had been forcibly disbanded after ens

To make it worse, these zombies were supposed to be all over the district of Ikebukuro

—Our streets are being debauched

To her, the launchings of the filasoline and sewage at the same time

Fro the presence of this horror, the ‘harun to crumble At the very least, she herself believed this

On a side note, she did not know the exact plot of Owl of the Peeping Dead

She had never seen the a or anime, much less the movie

To her, the synopsis and the i were sufficient reason

The setting of zo in Ikebukuro

The posters with blood-spattered ies

That was h for her to despise it

It was unforgivable that violent ele city

There were those who questioned her: ‘How do you know the content if you haven’t even seen it?’

Yōko replied straightaway to these people,

‘I don’t have to see it’

‘The fact that people like you who are attackingthis work is’

Of course the forum on her website and her socialfroical persuasion to anonymous flamers flocked to her site

Then she would pick out only the fla, ‘The supporters of that vulgar film consist of people who use speech in this manner’

She ignored the logical ones

It was not because she was speechless; her thoughts on this were, ‘On first sight they seem calm, but to be calm and still support this series already means they must have been completely brainwashed It’s unlikely they can be persuaded otherwise How pitiful’ It was not an excuse; she believed this from the bottom of her heart and pitied them

For Yōko, her vision of the world was itself justice, and she could only see any who supported alternative views as evil de

What was frightening was that there were some people who approved of her

Because she presented herself as doing this ‘to ensure a beautiful future of our children’, often those who supported that cause would gradually be influenced by her Her unshakable faith acted as charisma, in a sense

Furthermore, for those who aiames, Yōko was a convenient tool

Certainly they understood that her thinking was extreal actions of her flamers, such as verbal abuse and death threats, was a clear advantage

If Yōko received a death threat, all they had to do was draa behave,’ and they could control the public’s perspective Naturally this would be ineffective if the public realised Yōko herself was problematic, so they were careful not to cast her as too much of a victim

Despite all of this plotting going on around her, Yōko remained completely oblivious as she continued her activities

She founded Peoples for the Calm Treatment of IKEBUKURO with her like-minded peers, and launched a relentless attack on Owl of the Peeping Dead

The battle continued for a few years

On the other side of the story, both anime and fil the district

During Halloween the previous year, the co OPD respectively had held an event to pro as zombies

Her allies who tried to stop the event had been arrested for atte to disrupt the event

‘But we only trashed the venue of that disgusting zo’

This hat she and her coetic—but when the popularity of OPD did not falter, and they began to groeary and impatient

But just then—a miracle occurred

To her, it was a Godsend

Someone dressed as an OPD character had committed assault

Through the internet, she had learnt that the perpetrator was dressed as the character Dark Owl even before it had been reported

Everything will end with this

Victory is ours

With this, the public would understand the horror of people whose hearts had been tainted by evil fiction

The victier was a sacrifice for the sake of harmony, surely

They were both sincerely regretful and sincerely happy for the assault

However—

The media did not make public that it was Dark Owl, and reports on the crime faded within the day

What is this?

Had OPD bought the mass media with money?

Hope became despair

Society did not seek harmony

Confronted with this fact, she flew into her rage, as if her entire life had been rejected

After destroying several objects in her ho—

When suddenly, the thought struck

Was the sacrifice not yet enough?

Was it necessary for more precious sacrifices in the name of harmony?

Realising this—she spoke to her confidantes

Not theto use her, but the small number that truly shared her views

With a long, long process of persuasion—the ‘Missionaries of Harmony’, with Yōko at their fore, arrived at one solution

To sell their souls to the demon, so as to slay the demon itself

“This is the only way, I’m sorry, I’m sorry”

Apologising, she would continue to assault the pedestrians even after they had fallen

Each time she heard the cries of her victims

Each ti, she felt it keenly

The unsalvagable ‘taint’ wrapped around herself

Fro purely of the filth that was Dark Owl

But this as as one step towards Ikebukuro’s harmony

When the day came that Ikebukuro was fully cleansed, this shell would shatter, and she would be reborn in the truest sense

Believing this, she continued to accumulate crimes as Dark Owl

It was likely that until people realised the evil within Dark Owl, and the series OPD that contained the character, her steps would not falter

But one day she noticed

That besides herself—another person, likely a genuine assaulter, had begun to target the delinquent scum of the city

“Ahh, it’s come…”

She murmured

She did not know if this Slugger was the original criminal

Nevertheless, Yōko was certain this person was a vile ally of OPD who sought to obstruct the harmonious activities of herself and her comrades

She was convinced that through cleaning the streets of scu to appeal to the public that OPD was safe

“More… More must be sacrificed…”

There was only one way to fight back

To take the blood of even more sacrifices, and wash the streets of Ikebukuro

Yōko was enveloped with anticipation for the difficult battle ahead; her gaze did not falter

Because all of this was for the sake of Ikebukuro’s future

With that ideal in her chest, this very evening, she sought another sacrifice

For the sake of Ikebukuro To defend Ikebukuro from these evil usurpers

On this day, once again, Yōko gripped the bandage-bound hammer that was the symbol of evil itself

On a side note, this woman lived in Saitama, not Ikebukuro

CHAPTER END

Interlude: Rumours on the Internet ③

Ikebukuro Information Site, IkeNEW! Version I・KEBU・KUR・O