Reporter A:
We are here at the something truly unbelievable! According to local police, the first body was founded at three or four hours ago. Since that time, the investigators have been brought in to help recover more. There is definitely an ill atmosphere surrounding Inokashira Lake today. At this very moment, organize team are systematically removing the bodies from the water. And among deceased, it appears that many are women and children. This get already be described, but the nightmare--
Journalist A:
...Are they allowed to show dead people like this?
Journalist B:
Nah-uh, this is I've never seen it...
Touko:
Hah...Sorry! I know I'm late guys! I wanna got call about an emergency meeting I was...Uh? Guys...? Hey, good morning. Um...Makabe, haven't meeting got started yet? ...? Why's everyone--
Makabe:
Ah!
Touko:
Er...Seventy?!
Reporter B:
We've been issued some new information. Based on the most recent report coming in, the number of victims has risen to over one-hundred!
Touko:
Oh my god...
Reporter B:
What so many of the deceased yet to be in a lake? The speculation now is the death count will eventually reach at higher than two-hundred. Due to the nature of extraction process, they've been unable to identify the bodies at this time. Uh?! A-as you can see, an excavator is moving something from the water behind me!
Takafuji:
You idiots! You are compromising the crime scene! What if the piece of evidence that could solve this case being destroyed! Jeez...
Touko:
What's really going on over there? The things like this don't just happen...Think this is some kind of occultic phenomenon, Mr. Takafuji?
Takafuji:
Huh...
Woman:
I saw it! I saw with my own eyes! Every single one of them walked into that lake!
Reporter B:
Would you please give us more details?
Woman:
There's nothing more than talk of! Those people headed into that water like [they couldn't have a terror in the world?]! Never seen anything so creepy!
Touko:
Could this just be another case of mass hypnosis, sir? Or, is it something more than that?
Takafuji:
One thing's for sure, that's a catastrophic situation. Listen up, Hirata, I want you and others down there now!
Journalist A:
S-sure! I'm going to get camera already!
Journalist B:
You've got it!
Touko:
Um...Mu-mu is covering this story? We're not some kind of tabloid. Why would we follow this?
Takafuji:
If we don't move on it, we'll never get any answers.
Touko:
Wouldn't it be better to track down that eye witness we saw being interviewed?
Takafuji:
Hey! Sumikaze...Start looking!
Makabe & Touko:
Right!
Touko:
...
--- <OP> ---
Yuta:
"As for the case concerning the mass of number of corpses, found in the lake yesterday within Inokashira Park in Mitaka City, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department completed their search for the remaining victims this evening. Their official statement has the final body count at two-hundred and fifty-six. The task of identifying each victims is currently underway. But as of now, only thirty-four deceased have been successfully id-ed. The cause of their death has been determined as drowning. Nobody was found with external wounds of any kind. With foul play word out, no further investigations will be scheduled to take place."
Huh?! No foul plays? Seriously?! This whole things seems like a mass of cover up. Looks to me like the media's trying this way public opinion with mass hypnosis theory. What are we gonna get some real answers anyway? There. Haa...
Yuta:
Man. A mass suicide in Inokashira Park? This is the perfect story for Kiri Kiri Basara! I can just hear the ad money rolling get already! This site's views are gonna skyrocket with this thing! Sure, glad I live in Kichijoji. Ha-ha! Time for the NEET God to come out on top! Won't be longer for all have enough cash to treat Ryo-tas to Woodbusters! Or whatever that places come! (Gulp, gulp) Aah! Fu fu...Hm? Hey, what's up? Why are you guys all the way over there?
Izumi:
Cause I'm totally turned off of what you're saying...
Yuta:
Argh...Well, Ryo-tas and Myu-Pom are both Basara girl, so I expect to little help from you two at least.
Miyu:
It's good to see you so pumped up again, Gamou-senpai.
Izumi:
I know. I wonder what was going on when he's stopped coming here. I mean, honestly.
Yuta:
So, Myu-Pom, does this mean you were starting to get a little worried about how I was doing too?
Miyu:
Um, well--I guess so...yeah...
Yuta:
Huaah! See! Myu-Pom was worried about me! Being the NEET God is so awesome!
Miyu:
Um, Gamou-sempai...?
Yuta:
Huh?
Miyu:
I was thinking, maybe you should go easy on this case...
Yuta:
What?! Come on! From the very beginning, questioning the truth is what Kiri Kiri Basara has been all about! I mean, doesn't it sound kinda weired to you? On TV and the internet, everybody saying it must be something super-natural, but don't you think that just a little too out there?
Izumi:
What do you expect? That occult stuff's been all the rage lately. It's in vogue these days. And I'm sure that just fine with you, isn't it, Gamo-tan? Better for business?
Yuta:
Sure! It brings people to my site! But it's obvious what's really going on, doesn't take a genius to figure out that the whole thing's been stage by the media, and the ones above them, in other words, the government. Just like the fashion industry!
Ryoka:
Wow! Nice, Gamo-tan! Sounds like you're more pumped up now than you have been in a long time, huh? Like five times more, or ten times? Or twenty?! ...Maybe a hundred~! A-ha ha ha~!
Yuta:
Anyway, you know what they say, don't ever trust the media, because in the end, you'll only see what they want to see.
Izumi:
Well, it's not if I think latest curse or something, but I must say, it is rather odd...
Yuta:
The fact is, they still have no clue how two-hundred and fifty-six people could drown in the exactly the same time.
Izumi:
You didn't see the wide news report? Cause a lady came on and then said she was an eyewitness.
Yuta:
Yeah, and everybody who watched this was probably buying the story of hers hook, line and sinker, too. I'll bet she's just some woman who's using this as a chance to get her fifteen minutes of fame in.
Miyu:
Hmm...What about the mass hypnosis by a religious cult theory?
Yuta:
I don't buy it. But it's a pretty well-balanced one. It works the line between the occult and the reality, a lot better than most of them.
Miyu:
You really put some thought into this...
Ryoka:
It's so creepy...!
Yuta:
Well, I am the NEET God.
Miyu:
So after everything we've heard about this case, what do you believe actually happen?
Yuta:
It wasn't some kind of mass hypnosis. That's for sure. It was--Mass Suicide!
Miyu:
...What's the difference between the and mass hypnosis?
Yuta:
It just means there wasn't anyone secretly pulling the strings. People can be so quipped to trying to invent imaginary enemies when stuff like this happens. So, in a way, it's kinda like things scared of ghost you've never even seen before. But it still goes on all the time. Unbelievable, isn't it?! Say a guy hypnotizes a bunch of people to make them commit suicide! What does he have the gain from it? Is there anything? No way! They won't be a pulling--
Miyu:
Hey, you've got to calm down.
Yuta:
Huh?
Izumi:
It's official, you're nuts.
Yuta:
Oh, is that right?! I'm gonna make you eat those words! ...Are you ready? Check this! "Suicide Volunteers in Kichijoji!"
Miyu & Izumi:
Hmm...?
Yuta:
The recruitment header is like, "Let's meet up off-line my suicidal peops. After partying, is everyone who feels like you do, we can all kiss this world good-bye! Then, we'll go out with a bang and shake Japan to it's core!" Or, something like that.
Izumi:
That is the pity ridiculous!
Yuta:
Have you ever heard of something called "personal space"?!
Miyu:
Then what...
Yuta & Izumi:
Hm?
Miyu:
Then what, after that...?
Yuta:
Oh, yeah, right...They realize they've created a scene with so many people involved, so they split up into small groups and drawn themselves a few at a time. There were probably even volunteers who helped from the lines, like a real event.
Miyu:
But how could they stay so calm before killing themselves...?
Yuta:
With everybody committing suicide around you, it would actually make things seem kinda normal. That way, you'd feel like you're all in together. In Japanese society, we pick up social cues from the ones around us. They just picked a wrong one. Heh-heh-heh...
Izumi:
Er...
Yuta:
Ironic. Huh?
Izumi:
Eww...
Yuta:
A-anyway, my point is there's no conspiracy! People just wanna make sense of what's going on so they come up with twisted stories and trying to feel better!
Miyu:
I just hope Chi...wasn't...
Yuta:
Hm?
Izumi:
Huh?
Ryoka:
Gamonosuke.
Yuta:
Ryo-tas?!
Ryoka:
Samurai Gamonosuke Hikojuro Gorozaemon.
Yuta:
W-what's up?
Ryoka:
How are you so sure that none of those twisted stories are really true?
Yuta:
Huh?
---
Radio: You're pulling out of his tooth!
Yuta: Haa...haa...
Radio: You can still get out of there. Go, it's hallways!
---
Yuta:
Ugh...! What if the killer saw me before I took off...? What if he was planning on murdering everybody who's attached to Seimei to cover up the crime?! What if he turns out that all the people who drown or connected to my school in some way...?!
Ryoka:
Gamo-tan?
Yuta:
Ah?
Ryoka:
Still, something is wrong with you, Gamonosuke Samurai.
Yuta:
No! I-I'm okay! ...Oh! That's right! I-I want you to meet somebody. Or, maybe it's some...thing. Whatever, just take a look at this. This radio can talk to me! Here, let me show ya. Hey, what's up, Zonko? Are you there?
Miyu:
Er...
Yuta:
Oh, don't be shy! Introduce yourself!
Izumi:
Hmm...
Radio:
Bzzzz...zzap...
Ryoka:
Hey, Zonko. Are you in there? It's me, Ryo-tas! Poya-ya~!
Radio:
Zzzaap...
---
Kiryu:
...
Heh.
--You know what kind of the place the world of the dead is?
Plushy psychics and loaded scholars are always trying to cook up their random stories about what it's like on the other side. But, all they can come up with lies. The fact is, most humans don't know the damn thing about the after life.
But I do. Inside and out. How do I know? At this point, those are about saying. Because in different times and in different ways, I've gone cold and died.
When I first saw her, I was still experimenting a little, finding out what I could do after passing away.
Aria:
Big brother...
I'm ready.
I need to be where you are.
Beside you again...
I'M COMING, BIG BROTHER!!
Kiryu:
... You haven't earned that right yet.
--If I've watched that girl splattered at the tracks in front of me, I couldn't live it down. So the next thing I knew, I was trying to reach out to her. But I never imagined she able to hear my voice, shocked up to ghost powers.
Aria:
Big brother...? Is that you?! It is you, isn't it?!
Where are you? Please, I miss you! Show yourself to me!
Kiryu: Sorry, but I ain't your big brother, little girl.
Aria:
...Maybe I'm just hallucinating again.
Kiryu: This isn't in your mind. I'm not some figment of your imagination. Whether you believe it or not, I exist.
Aria:
In that case...that means you must be...the devil, aren't you?
Kiryu: ... Yeah. That's right.
Aria:
Heh, heh heh...
I knew it.
Now there're you here, I can keep you around...all to myself.
Kiryu:
--I couldn't believe what happened.
What a piece of work?
She actually thought I was the devil himself!
It's little over two years since that night, and I finally get used to the black magic business we started.
I mean, after all, when I need to, I can be a real devil.
---
Koresuke: You can't look at the dial. You can't trust your ears either. You've gotta feel it with your hands.
Yuta:
Man. I feel so tired...I tried to act like I always do, but I think they might be getting suspicious...
Koresuke: When I pass away, I'm gonna use this radio and trying to talk to you from the other side.
Yuta:
Dad...
Radio:
Hey you! Idiot!
Yuta:
Gah! What got into you all of a sudden?! You totally clammed up back there!
Radio:
Who said it? What expect?!
Yuta:
But, why?!
Radio:
Are you serious?! You can like people to know I'm exist?! If one guy in high school what's going on face, "I hear a girl's voice coming out of my radio!" He'd end up in jail!
Yuta:
I guess so...
Radio:
Only when you're reported to the police, it's over. Being to know you're innocent, but you're still left evidence at the scene of the crime.
Yuta:
Ah...So, is it just a matter of time to I'm captured...? Uh... So, Zonko, the thing is, I've been too freaked out go on-line and look up stuff about the murder. Cause I figured there'd probably some headline out there like, "Yuta Gamon, Cold Blooded Killer". but, I still wanna find out about what's been going on...
What? Oh, yeah, I forgot I brought about the professor, too...It looks like there's not much out there...Eh? Hey, it's about Hashigami's case. Let's see...Think there was something like this in R18 dojin. They were selling at Winter Comiket last year. It was called "Below the Dark Water" by Ririka Nishizono. Could there be a connection...W-wait, what's this? Boy love? Yeah...not my thing. Hm...
---
Miyu:
I really appreciate you're coming to see me like this.
Touko:
Oh no, it's perfectly all right. I had been in Kichijoji anyway.
Miyu:
It's just, you're the only one I can talk to about these things, Touko.
Touko:
Hey, you're still like kid. Don't worry about bothering people. So, have you contacted the authorities about it yet?
Miyu:
Her families that they turned in the missing persons report.
Touko:
Have the police gotten any leads since then?
Miyu:
No, not really...
Touko:
Oh...
Miyu:
I don't get it. How could Chi disappear like that...When I think about what happen at Inokashira Park, I feel so scared. Maybe, it's the timing, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe she was one of the people who were into that lake...! ...Ah?!
Touko:
Miyu?
Miyu:
Oh, S-sorry...I'm okay...I just saw a flash of that weird dream I'm keep having...
Touko:
...Actually, the reason I had to be out here was to report on that case.
Miyu:
Huh?
Touko:
In based on what I have been told, only half of the victims have been identified so far.
Miyu:
So...Touko...Do you believe it's really that easy for people to die?
Touko:
Er...
Miyu:
Do you think, after we pass away, there's an after life?
Touko:
Um...yeah. Of course, I do. Cause, after all, the world seems like a cramped place when you think there's nothing waiting for us on the other side. And, to be honest with you, it'd be pretty sad to make our readers believe in stories that I don't really believe in myself.
Miyu:
A-ha, that's true.
Touko:
Fu fu...
Miyu:
...I wonder what Gamou-senpai would say if he heard this going on like this.
Touko:
Who's that?
Miyu:
Oh, he's the guy who've been working with lately. He runs this website called Kiri Kiri Basara, and--
Touko:
Miyu, you know who runs the Kiri Kiri Basara website?!
Miyu:
Y-yeah...?
Touko:
If it's all right, could you introduce us? Because it might be a link between his sight and another case I've been working on.
Miyu:
Wait, did Gamou-senpai do something wrong?
Touko:
O-oh, no. It's nothing like that at all. But something tell me that Kiri Kiri Basara has a lot of really valuable information I could use. (Ring) Uh?
Miyu:
Maybe this could be...?! (Ring) H-hello? Chi? W-where have you been? ...Huh?
---
Yuta:
"And as for those media rumors being the NEET God himself, I'm definitely going with the mass suicide with this mass hypnosis theory. Tell me, what do you thing, loyal Basallers?"
Nn~...ah! It's been a while since I uploaded something that this awesome. I usually don't put my true feelings out there. So it's kinda embarrassing. Sorta makes me feel like intellectual. Hee-hee. Huh?
Ryoka:
Intellectual! Martian! Guatemalan!
Yuta:
Not Poya-gun! Nooo!
Izumi:
Hey, could you please keep it down?
Ryoka:
Nn-fu, so, why did you decide to turn your amazing theory into an article this time anyway?
Yuta:
Huh...? Seriously, Ryo-tas? You really wanna know?
Ryoka:
Now I'm [???].
Yuta:
Come on! Hold it! That's dangerous! No Poya-gun!
Ryoka:
Poya?
Yuta:
Haa...I decided put my own opinion into an article because...
Ryoka:
Because?
Yuta:
I'm trying to give people a wake-up call.
Ryoka:
...What do you mean?
Yuta:
Basically, I'm trying to give them a warning. Everybody's all about the occult these days, but, what's the point? I feel it's like worst part of Japanese society of being exposed here. It's all hive mind stuff, you know?
Izumi:
You're one to say that, Gamo-tan! Look at the kind of website you run.
Yuta:
It's true. I am the owner of the website where people can get occult info. But that's only so I can make some money. To be honest, I don't care what it is as long as the cash flows in.
Izumi:
But, for right now, it's better for you to bring in fans of that stuff, isn't it? Then, you can get more site views.
Yuta:
Well, it's a place for anti-occultist, too. I'm glad the believers get all worked up. I really made it so people come wrap up that once you think everything they can explain the supernatural. Nothing like a good debate, and if it becomes a trend, then the discussions will get even more heated and bring in more traffic to the website. So, I totally welcome that. Heh-heh-heh...Ah?!
Yuta:
Hold on! Stop that! Please! Don't poke me! Come on! Enough! Stop it!
Ryoka:
Gamo-tan is a devil's advocate! Woo-hoo!
Yuta:
Erm...yeah.
Izumi:
Back to that whole Inokashira Park thing, it's still quite a mystery. And the news channels haven't really added anything new. I guess [???] the police don't have any idea what happened.
Yuta:
Exactly. And nobody explains why they haven't id-ed any more victims yet either. I mean, they all drowned, and there was almost twenty-four hours between the time of death, and the time they were discovered in that lake, the bodies didn't even seem like they were damaged, but not a single man has been released to the public.
Izumi:
I'm so scared! What if I get sucked down into that lake, too?! I'm too young to die!
Ryoka:
Wow! What to do?! What to do?! Hey--
Yuta: But, some reason, it's like everybody's forgotten about the fact that Professor Hashigami was just murdered...? If the police have their hands full at Inokashira Park, that leaves even fewer cops who can devote their time to look into his killer...
---
Yuta:
...Sure, Ryo-tas dances, but she doesn't lift a finger when I need some help out here, does she? I don't know...Can you really call her a Basara girl at this point? ...Uh...Damn! Go in...! Please, go in! Ugh, mm...How long I'm gonna have to keep doing this anyway...? Oh, man...why did I let it end up like this in the first place...?
Man:
Hey!
Yuta:
Aah?! (Run away) ...Ugh...!
Man:
To think there's something called a sanctuary in the middle of an urban city...
Yuta:
Ah! Aah!
Man:
Assuming there is a god...Would he settled for living in a repugnant place like this?
Yuta:
Ugg...!
Man:
Now, listen.
Yuta:
Uh, Waah!
Sarai:
All right...About that Kiri Kiri Basara site.
We are here at the something truly unbelievable! According to local police, the first body was founded at three or four hours ago. Since that time, the investigators have been brought in to help recover more. There is definitely an ill atmosphere surrounding Inokashira Lake today. At this very moment, organize team are systematically removing the bodies from the water. And among deceased, it appears that many are women and children. This get already be described, but the nightmare--
Journalist A:
...Are they allowed to show dead people like this?
Journalist B:
Nah-uh, this is I've never seen it...
Touko:
Hah...Sorry! I know I'm late guys! I wanna got call about an emergency meeting I was...Uh? Guys...? Hey, good morning. Um...Makabe, haven't meeting got started yet? ...? Why's everyone--
Makabe:
Ah!
Touko:
Er...Seventy?!
Reporter B:
We've been issued some new information. Based on the most recent report coming in, the number of victims has risen to over one-hundred!
Touko:
Oh my god...
Reporter B:
What so many of the deceased yet to be in a lake? The speculation now is the death count will eventually reach at higher than two-hundred. Due to the nature of extraction process, they've been unable to identify the bodies at this time. Uh?! A-as you can see, an excavator is moving something from the water behind me!
Takafuji:
You idiots! You are compromising the crime scene! What if the piece of evidence that could solve this case being destroyed! Jeez...
Touko:
What's really going on over there? The things like this don't just happen...Think this is some kind of occultic phenomenon, Mr. Takafuji?
Takafuji:
Huh...
Woman:
I saw it! I saw with my own eyes! Every single one of them walked into that lake!
Reporter B:
Would you please give us more details?
Woman:
There's nothing more than talk of! Those people headed into that water like [they couldn't have a terror in the world?]! Never seen anything so creepy!
Touko:
Could this just be another case of mass hypnosis, sir? Or, is it something more than that?
Takafuji:
One thing's for sure, that's a catastrophic situation. Listen up, Hirata, I want you and others down there now!
Journalist A:
S-sure! I'm going to get camera already!
Journalist B:
You've got it!
Touko:
Um...Mu-mu is covering this story? We're not some kind of tabloid. Why would we follow this?
Takafuji:
If we don't move on it, we'll never get any answers.
Touko:
Wouldn't it be better to track down that eye witness we saw being interviewed?
Takafuji:
Hey! Sumikaze...Start looking!
Makabe & Touko:
Right!
Touko:
...
--- <OP> ---
Yuta:
"As for the case concerning the mass of number of corpses, found in the lake yesterday within Inokashira Park in Mitaka City, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department completed their search for the remaining victims this evening. Their official statement has the final body count at two-hundred and fifty-six. The task of identifying each victims is currently underway. But as of now, only thirty-four deceased have been successfully id-ed. The cause of their death has been determined as drowning. Nobody was found with external wounds of any kind. With foul play word out, no further investigations will be scheduled to take place."
Huh?! No foul plays? Seriously?! This whole things seems like a mass of cover up. Looks to me like the media's trying this way public opinion with mass hypnosis theory. What are we gonna get some real answers anyway? There. Haa...
Ryoka:
Ino-ino-kashira, Inokashira~♪ It's Inogashira? No! Inokashira~♪
Yuta:
Man. A mass suicide in Inokashira Park? This is the perfect story for Kiri Kiri Basara! I can just hear the ad money rolling get already! This site's views are gonna skyrocket with this thing! Sure, glad I live in Kichijoji. Ha-ha! Time for the NEET God to come out on top! Won't be longer for all have enough cash to treat Ryo-tas to Woodbusters! Or whatever that places come! (Gulp, gulp) Aah! Fu fu...Hm? Hey, what's up? Why are you guys all the way over there?
Izumi:
Cause I'm totally turned off of what you're saying...
Yuta:
Argh...Well, Ryo-tas and Myu-Pom are both Basara girl, so I expect to little help from you two at least.
Miyu:
It's good to see you so pumped up again, Gamou-senpai.
Izumi:
I know. I wonder what was going on when he's stopped coming here. I mean, honestly.
Yuta:
So, Myu-Pom, does this mean you were starting to get a little worried about how I was doing too?
Miyu:
Um, well--I guess so...yeah...
Yuta:
Huaah! See! Myu-Pom was worried about me! Being the NEET God is so awesome!
Miyu:
Um, Gamou-sempai...?
Yuta:
Huh?
Miyu:
I was thinking, maybe you should go easy on this case...
Yuta:
What?! Come on! From the very beginning, questioning the truth is what Kiri Kiri Basara has been all about! I mean, doesn't it sound kinda weired to you? On TV and the internet, everybody saying it must be something super-natural, but don't you think that just a little too out there?
Izumi:
What do you expect? That occult stuff's been all the rage lately. It's in vogue these days. And I'm sure that just fine with you, isn't it, Gamo-tan? Better for business?
Yuta:
Sure! It brings people to my site! But it's obvious what's really going on, doesn't take a genius to figure out that the whole thing's been stage by the media, and the ones above them, in other words, the government. Just like the fashion industry!
Ryoka:
Wow! Nice, Gamo-tan! Sounds like you're more pumped up now than you have been in a long time, huh? Like five times more, or ten times? Or twenty?! ...Maybe a hundred~! A-ha ha ha~!
Yuta:
Anyway, you know what they say, don't ever trust the media, because in the end, you'll only see what they want to see.
Izumi:
Well, it's not if I think latest curse or something, but I must say, it is rather odd...
Yuta:
The fact is, they still have no clue how two-hundred and fifty-six people could drown in the exactly the same time.
Izumi:
You didn't see the wide news report? Cause a lady came on and then said she was an eyewitness.
Yuta:
Yeah, and everybody who watched this was probably buying the story of hers hook, line and sinker, too. I'll bet she's just some woman who's using this as a chance to get her fifteen minutes of fame in.
Miyu:
Hmm...What about the mass hypnosis by a religious cult theory?
Yuta:
I don't buy it. But it's a pretty well-balanced one. It works the line between the occult and the reality, a lot better than most of them.
Miyu:
You really put some thought into this...
Ryoka:
It's so creepy...!
Yuta:
Well, I am the NEET God.
Miyu:
So after everything we've heard about this case, what do you believe actually happen?
Yuta:
It wasn't some kind of mass hypnosis. That's for sure. It was--Mass Suicide!
Miyu:
...What's the difference between the and mass hypnosis?
Yuta:
It just means there wasn't anyone secretly pulling the strings. People can be so quipped to trying to invent imaginary enemies when stuff like this happens. So, in a way, it's kinda like things scared of ghost you've never even seen before. But it still goes on all the time. Unbelievable, isn't it?! Say a guy hypnotizes a bunch of people to make them commit suicide! What does he have the gain from it? Is there anything? No way! They won't be a pulling--
Miyu:
Hey, you've got to calm down.
Yuta:
Huh?
Izumi:
It's official, you're nuts.
Yuta:
Oh, is that right?! I'm gonna make you eat those words! ...Are you ready? Check this! "Suicide Volunteers in Kichijoji!"
Miyu & Izumi:
Hmm...?
Yuta:
The recruitment header is like, "Let's meet up off-line my suicidal peops. After partying, is everyone who feels like you do, we can all kiss this world good-bye! Then, we'll go out with a bang and shake Japan to it's core!" Or, something like that.
Izumi:
That is the pity ridiculous!
Yuta:
Have you ever heard of something called "personal space"?!
Miyu:
Then what...
Yuta & Izumi:
Hm?
Miyu:
Then what, after that...?
Yuta:
Oh, yeah, right...They realize they've created a scene with so many people involved, so they split up into small groups and drawn themselves a few at a time. There were probably even volunteers who helped from the lines, like a real event.
Miyu:
But how could they stay so calm before killing themselves...?
Yuta:
With everybody committing suicide around you, it would actually make things seem kinda normal. That way, you'd feel like you're all in together. In Japanese society, we pick up social cues from the ones around us. They just picked a wrong one. Heh-heh-heh...
Izumi:
Er...
Yuta:
Ironic. Huh?
Izumi:
Eww...
Yuta:
A-anyway, my point is there's no conspiracy! People just wanna make sense of what's going on so they come up with twisted stories and trying to feel better!
Miyu:
I just hope Chi...wasn't...
Yuta:
Hm?
Izumi:
Huh?
Ryoka:
Gamonosuke.
Yuta:
Ryo-tas?!
Ryoka:
Samurai Gamonosuke Hikojuro Gorozaemon.
Yuta:
W-what's up?
Ryoka:
How are you so sure that none of those twisted stories are really true?
Yuta:
Huh?
---
Radio:
You're pulling out of his tooth!
Yuta:
Haa...haa...
Radio:
You can still get out of there. Go, it's hallways!
---
Yuta:
Ugh...!
What if the killer saw me before I took off...? What if he was planning on murdering everybody who's attached to Seimei to cover up the crime?! What if he turns out that all the people who drown or connected to my school in some way...?!
Ryoka:
Gamo-tan?
Yuta:
Ah?
Ryoka:
Still, something is wrong with you, Gamonosuke Samurai.
Yuta:
No! I-I'm okay! ...Oh! That's right! I-I want you to meet somebody. Or, maybe it's some...thing. Whatever, just take a look at this. This radio can talk to me! Here, let me show ya. Hey, what's up, Zonko? Are you there?
Miyu:
Er...
Yuta:
Oh, don't be shy! Introduce yourself!
Izumi:
Hmm...
Radio:
Bzzzz...zzap...
Ryoka:
Hey, Zonko. Are you in there? It's me, Ryo-tas! Poya-ya~!
Radio:
Zzzaap...
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Kiryu:
...
Heh.
--You know what kind of the place the world of the dead is?
Plushy psychics and loaded scholars are always trying to cook up their random stories about what it's like on the other side. But, all they can come up with lies. The fact is, most humans don't know the damn thing about the after life.
But I do. Inside and out. How do I know? At this point, those are about saying. Because in different times and in different ways, I've gone cold and died.
When I first saw her, I was still experimenting a little, finding out what I could do after passing away.
Aria:
Big brother...
I'm ready.
I need to be where you are.
Beside you again...
I'M COMING, BIG BROTHER!!
Kiryu:
...
You haven't earned that right yet.
--If I've watched that girl splattered at the tracks in front of me, I couldn't live it down. So the next thing I knew, I was trying to reach out to her. But I never imagined she able to hear my voice, shocked up to ghost powers.
Aria:
Big brother...? Is that you?! It is you, isn't it?!
Where are you? Please, I miss you! Show yourself to me!
Kiryu:
Sorry, but I ain't your big brother, little girl.
Aria:
...Maybe I'm just hallucinating again.
Kiryu:
This isn't in your mind.
I'm not some figment of your imagination.
Whether you believe it or not, I exist.
Aria:
In that case...that means you must be...the devil, aren't you?
Kiryu:
...
Yeah.
That's right.
Aria:
Heh, heh heh...
I knew it.
Now there're you here, I can keep you around...all to myself.
Kiryu:
--I couldn't believe what happened.
What a piece of work?
She actually thought I was the devil himself!
It's little over two years since that night, and I finally get used to the black magic business we started.
I mean, after all, when I need to, I can be a real devil.
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Koresuke:
You can't look at the dial. You can't trust your ears either. You've gotta feel it with your hands.
Yuta:
Man. I feel so tired...I tried to act like I always do, but I think they might be getting suspicious...
Koresuke:
When I pass away, I'm gonna use this radio and trying to talk to you from the other side.
Yuta:
Dad...
Radio:
Hey you! Idiot!
Yuta:
Gah! What got into you all of a sudden?! You totally clammed up back there!
Radio:
Who said it? What expect?!
Yuta:
But, why?!
Radio:
Are you serious?! You can like people to know I'm exist?! If one guy in high school what's going on face, "I hear a girl's voice coming out of my radio!" He'd end up in jail!
Yuta:
I guess so...
Radio:
Only when you're reported to the police, it's over. Being to know you're innocent, but you're still left evidence at the scene of the crime.
Yuta:
Ah...So, is it just a matter of time to I'm captured...? Uh...
So, Zonko, the thing is, I've been too freaked out go on-line and look up stuff about the murder. Cause I figured there'd probably some headline out there like, "Yuta Gamon, Cold Blooded Killer". but, I still wanna find out about what's been going on...
What? Oh, yeah, I forgot I brought about the professor, too...It looks like there's not much out there...Eh? Hey, it's about Hashigami's case. Let's see...Think there was something like this in R18 dojin. They were selling at Winter Comiket last year. It was called "Below the Dark Water" by Ririka Nishizono. Could there be a connection...W-wait, what's this? Boy love? Yeah...not my thing. Hm...
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Miyu:
I really appreciate you're coming to see me like this.
Touko:
Oh no, it's perfectly all right. I had been in Kichijoji anyway.
Miyu:
It's just, you're the only one I can talk to about these things, Touko.
Touko:
Hey, you're still like kid. Don't worry about bothering people. So, have you contacted the authorities about it yet?
Miyu:
Her families that they turned in the missing persons report.
Touko:
Have the police gotten any leads since then?
Miyu:
No, not really...
Touko:
Oh...
Miyu:
I don't get it. How could Chi disappear like that...When I think about what happen at Inokashira Park, I feel so scared. Maybe, it's the timing, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe she was one of the people who were into that lake...! ...Ah?!
Touko:
Miyu?
Miyu:
Oh, S-sorry...I'm okay...I just saw a flash of that weird dream I'm keep having...
Touko:
...Actually, the reason I had to be out here was to report on that case.
Miyu:
Huh?
Touko:
In based on what I have been told, only half of the victims have been identified so far.
Miyu:
So...Touko...Do you believe it's really that easy for people to die?
Touko:
Er...
Miyu:
Do you think, after we pass away, there's an after life?
Touko:
Um...yeah. Of course, I do. Cause, after all, the world seems like a cramped place when you think there's nothing waiting for us on the other side. And, to be honest with you, it'd be pretty sad to make our readers believe in stories that I don't really believe in myself.
Miyu:
A-ha, that's true.
Touko:
Fu fu...
Miyu:
...I wonder what Gamou-senpai would say if he heard this going on like this.
Touko:
Who's that?
Miyu:
Oh, he's the guy who've been working with lately. He runs this website called Kiri Kiri Basara, and--
Touko:
Miyu, you know who runs the Kiri Kiri Basara website?!
Miyu:
Y-yeah...?
Touko:
If it's all right, could you introduce us? Because it might be a link between his sight and another case I've been working on.
Miyu:
Wait, did Gamou-senpai do something wrong?
Touko:
O-oh, no. It's nothing like that at all. But something tell me that Kiri Kiri Basara has a lot of really valuable information I could use. (Ring) Uh?
Miyu:
Maybe this could be...?! (Ring) H-hello? Chi? W-where have you been? ...Huh?
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Yuta:
"And as for those media rumors being the NEET God himself, I'm definitely going with the mass suicide with this mass hypnosis theory. Tell me, what do you thing, loyal Basallers?"
Nn~...ah! It's been a while since I uploaded something that this awesome. I usually don't put my true feelings out there. So it's kinda embarrassing. Sorta makes me feel like intellectual. Hee-hee. Huh?
Ryoka:
Intellectual! Martian! Guatemalan!
Yuta:
Not Poya-gun! Nooo!
Izumi:
Hey, could you please keep it down?
Ryoka:
Nn-fu, so, why did you decide to turn your amazing theory into an article this time anyway?
Yuta:
Huh...? Seriously, Ryo-tas? You really wanna know?
Ryoka:
Now I'm [???].
Yuta:
Come on! Hold it! That's dangerous! No Poya-gun!
Ryoka:
Poya?
Yuta:
Haa...I decided put my own opinion into an article because...
Ryoka:
Because?
Yuta:
I'm trying to give people a wake-up call.
Ryoka:
...What do you mean?
Yuta:
Basically, I'm trying to give them a warning. Everybody's all about the occult these days, but, what's the point? I feel it's like worst part of Japanese society of being exposed here. It's all hive mind stuff, you know?
Izumi:
You're one to say that, Gamo-tan! Look at the kind of website you run.
Yuta:
It's true. I am the owner of the website where people can get occult info. But that's only so I can make some money. To be honest, I don't care what it is as long as the cash flows in.
Izumi:
But, for right now, it's better for you to bring in fans of that stuff, isn't it? Then, you can get more site views.
Yuta:
Well, it's a place for anti-occultist, too. I'm glad the believers get all worked up. I really made it so people come wrap up that once you think everything they can explain the supernatural. Nothing like a good debate, and if it becomes a trend, then the discussions will get even more heated and bring in more traffic to the website. So, I totally welcome that. Heh-heh-heh...Ah?!
Ryoka:
Advocate! Advocate! Advocate! Devil's advocate!
Yuta:
Hold on! Stop that! Please! Don't poke me! Come on! Enough! Stop it!
Ryoka:
Gamo-tan is a devil's advocate! Woo-hoo!
Yuta:
Erm...yeah.
Izumi:
Back to that whole Inokashira Park thing, it's still quite a mystery. And the news channels haven't really added anything new. I guess [???] the police don't have any idea what happened.
Yuta:
Exactly. And nobody explains why they haven't id-ed any more victims yet either. I mean, they all drowned, and there was almost twenty-four hours between the time of death, and the time they were discovered in that lake, the bodies didn't even seem like they were damaged, but not a single man has been released to the public.
Izumi:
I'm so scared! What if I get sucked down into that lake, too?! I'm too young to die!
Ryoka:
Wow! What to do?! What to do?! Hey--
Yuta:
But, some reason, it's like everybody's forgotten about the fact that Professor Hashigami was just murdered...? If the police have their hands full at Inokashira Park, that leaves even fewer cops who can devote their time to look into his killer...
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Yuta:
...Sure, Ryo-tas dances, but she doesn't lift a finger when I need some help out here, does she? I don't know...Can you really call her a Basara girl at this point? ...Uh...Damn! Go in...! Please, go in! Ugh, mm...How long I'm gonna have to keep doing this anyway...? Oh, man...why did I let it end up like this in the first place...?
Man:
Hey!
Yuta:
Aah?! (Run away) ...Ugh...!
Man:
To think there's something called a sanctuary in the middle of an urban city...
Yuta:
Ah! Aah!
Man:
Assuming there is a god...Would he settled for living in a repugnant place like this?
Yuta:
Ugg...!
Man:
Now, listen.
Yuta:
Uh, Waah!
Sarai:
All right...About that Kiri Kiri Basara site.
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