H A R D |< O R PRELUDE Edition K i m a g u r e O r a n g e R o a d P r e m i e r F a n f i c t i o n by Robert Kwong ver 1.0 Completed October 20, 1997 Based on characters from the Kimagure Orange Road Series created by the venerable Matsumoto Izumi. As you can see, this is fanfiction harkening back to the old Kimagure Orange Road Series. In the Prelude edition, it outlines the events following the breakup of Hikaru and Kyousuke which sets the stage for Shin Kor and HARD Kor series. These stories were written in the attempt to clarify certain details assumed and to provide clues for future Hard Kor episodes. 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Robert Kwong Ark Productions -97- Legend: H=Hikaru Hiyami Y=Hino, Yuusaku <> Indicates characters thinking to themselves * Denotes action [] Denotes change of events or next scene Prelude - Chapter NiJu (20) Confrontation [Inside the lockeroom] Y: Are you sure that's where you found it? Muroke: Positive. Right inside my locker on the left side. Y: Hmmm. (examines locker hinge) Metal looks worn here. I bet someone must have tampered with your locker. They could have left their fingerprints there. Too bad there's no way to get fingerprints off that thing. Muroke: Fingerprints? Hino-san! You're a genius! Y: Who? Me? Are you talking to the right person? Muroke: Yes you! In my despair I didn't even consider dusting my locker for prints. Y: Ah, but it's probably ruined now. And besides, we don't have such a kit. Muroke: Ah, but I do! Y: You do? What would you be doing with that type of stuff? Muroke: Call it one of the many hobbies of mine. I got interested through reading one of my favorite fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes. Y: Sherlock Holmes? Who is he? Muroke: You don't know who he is? Oh, I guess you wouldn't know after all. Here's a quick description. He's an old, famous, English detective who used deductive reasoning to solve baffling crimes and cases. Y: Deductive reasoning? Muroke: Yes. Through unearthing the tiniest of evidence left from the crime scene, he was able to deduce a great many things regarding the crime scene, the manner which the crime ocurred, and sometimes even the criminal. That's what got me interested in police lab analysis techniques. So I bought a mini police lab kit. Y: You sure read a lot of foreign books. I just read manga. There nothing more we can do here. I'll let you take the scientific route then. Hopefully, that would give us some answers. But I still can't understand why someone would want to plant this stuff in your locker. I-I-I... (starts to wobble a bit) Muroke: (help brace him) Hey, are you all right? Y: I'm ok. Just feeling a little dizzy after today's workout. You're lucky you quit this semester. Muroke: Sorry about that. I wish I could join you, but I have to go to baseball practice. Y: You're on the team? Muroke: Not exactly. I'm just the backup to the backup. The last guy on the bench. I begged the coach to let me on in return that I be his equpiment boy. Y: There's a lot I don't know about you. You sure are very versatile. Muroke: Great hearing it from you. Too bad I'm not the athlete you are. Y: Don't look down on yourself. With a lot of hard work and persistence, you'll get to whatever to aim your sights on. Now if I only can get that Kyushin Ryu karate system right... Muroke: What's that? Y: Just some strange new technique the sensei started teaching me today. Dunno why he didn't teach the rest of the class. Muroke: Maybe because they're not ready and you are. You shouldn't look down on your abilities either. Why aren't you the highest ranked person in the whole class? Y: Still a measly 2-dan. I've been stuck on that level for so long. Still second place. There were at least 2 people better than me: Ryoga and Futaro, but now both are not here on the team due to one circumstance or another. No use to gloat I'm the best when there are vacancies at the top. Muroke: But now you have something to shoot for. Remember what you just told me. If you set your sights on it and work hard enough at it, you'll get there. And I know you will get there. Y: Thanks! I guess I needed to hear someone say that. (A few days later...) [At the hospital] (A woman, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a trenchcoat look like she doesn't want to be noticed even though she stands out like a sore thumb. She is in the intensive care ward waiting outside a particular door.) The room number is 45. A nurse exits out. "Excuse me nurse. Can you tell me what his condition is? Has he woken yet?" "Ah, Miss Kinsu-san. You're here again. So sorry to tell you he is still in his present condition. Still sleeping peacefully." "Thank you very much for the information. (*Uh Oh*)" (Quickly rushes the other way) (From the other side, Kaori and Sario is walking over.) Sario: Arrigatou Hikaru again for agreeing to accompany me to see my beloved Futaro. H: I'm glad to come. (Ladys brushes Hikaru on the side) H: HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING! Sario: Not so loud Hikaru! This is a hospital. H: (looks behind her) It's her fault! Who told her to run in a hospital. Hey... Sario: What is it? H: For a moment, I thought she looked like someone from school... Sario: Could be. We didn't get a chance to see her face. H: She's lucky I'm in a good mood. In my younger days, I would have chased her down and let her know how I felt with this. (clenches her fist) Sario: Gee, you must have been a wild kid back then. H: Yep, that was crazy me, me and Madoka-- (pauses momentarily at the mention of the name) Sario: Madoka? Who is she? H: Her? She was someone I knew back in Tokyo, but that's not important now. We're here to see your boyfriend, right? Sario: Hai! It great to have support from a friend during the tough times. I don't know what I would do without you! Why I would be just a wreck for the play. Only two more weeks away. I'm getting the jitters already. How about you? H: I'm still ok. Sario: Gosh I wish I had your calmness and resolve. But I guess that's why they made you the lead. H: No, it's not that. I just had other things on my mind. Sario: (looks at watch) Good! It's still visiting hours. Let's go in. (enters room to see Futaro the "Flamingo Kid" lying in coma state. He has all sorts of devices attached to him as the heart beat monitor beeps in the background.) Sairo: H-h-h-i-i-i Futaro! Guess who? It's me! How are you doing? Hard to believe it's been over a month now since you got in here. You know everyone is pulling for you to get well. But first, you gotta make the first step -- you have to wake up. I hope you can hear me know. Please get well. (clasps his hand) H: (Flashback to another hospital scene in the past) //referring to the anime episode 14 now I remember myself in the same position Sario was now, looking upon Kyosuke when he was in a hospital bed. He was a wreck in all those bandages, getting himself beaten up by Yuusaku's karate master. I stepped out a moment to compose myself. Madoka stayed behind inside the room. When I came back inside, I saw that my Darling had woken up. I was so happy! Yet, at that moment I sensed something funny about the situation. Madoka and Kyosuke were acting very strange around me when I burst in; very nervous and eyes shifting away. I didn't know it then, but that was the beginning of the end for my relationship with Kasuga. Before, I did have some suspicions of something going on between the two of them starting with when he called me Ayukawa in the movie theater. But at the time I just told myself that it was just me getting too overprotective of him. Boy was I wrong! Looking back at the whole situation now though, I felt sorry for all 3 of us. I resented Semapi for stringing me all along when it was Madoka he preferred. Why couldn't he tell me earlier rather than play along? Did I pressure him too much that he was afraid of hurting my feelings? That didn't matter anyway, for it just made our breakup that more painful. He wasn't being honest, to us and himself. But how could I blame him. We were all innocent and naive back in those days. At that time, he wouldn't do anything to hurt me. Only with the passing of his sweet youth of adolescence could he muster the courage to do what he did. It took him attending college and taking the first step to being man to finally break up with me. Now he is different, opposite of what he was before, more decisive, more daring. Too bad I couldn't be the one to share it with him. That was why I never like hospitals. Hospitals mean bad luck. Why did everything seem to always come back to them: Kyosuke and Madoka? "Hikaru? Are you alright?" "W-w-what?" Sario: You've been standing there like you were in a trance. Are you ok? H: I'm fine thanks. Let's go. [Afterschool] Muroke: Hino-san! Glad I caught up with you. Y: Hi Koji-san. What's up? Muroke: I have good good news and bad news. Y: Then tell me now. Good news first. Muroke: Well, I maanged to lift the prints off my locker. Y: that's great! What's the bad news? Muroke: In order to get a more clearer view, I need a better form of magnifications, preferably a lab microscope. Y: Then that's easy; go into the chemistry lab and borry it. Muroke: That's the problem. There's someone I know inside the lab that I don't want to approach. Y: Really? Why? Muroke: It has to do with the matter we're in. Y: I don't understand... Muroke: He thinks I'm using this stuff. (holds up the package) Y: He does? (starts to laugh) Muroke: Hey...what's so funny? Y: I don't blame him. You were acting like a jerk that time. I would have thought you were on something too. But I thought it was love making you crazy, with you pining away for Kaori. Muroke: Hey, that was all because of you! I didn't know what I was thinking at the time. It was the potion talking. I took a sample of what you accidentally drank to test out the antidote. Little did I know it would cause such a reaction! Y: It was? Muroke: Yes. I didn't want to risk any danger to you. I was suppose to take the antidote first but obviously that love potion Shijama made me disoriented. Y: A love potion? Muroke: Yes. Y: What?! Why didn't you tell me before? Muroke: I'm sooo sorry! I knew you would get very mad at me like you are now. Y: Just tell me this; when was it? Muroke: It was last year, a week before the semester ended, in December. Y: [Back to the hospital] (Waling down the stairs) Sario: So it must be hard on you also since Ryoga left. H: What makes you say that? Sario: That lost look in your eyes. I know that look anywhere. You really miss him, don't you? H: I miss him a little. But not the way you're thinking. He was a good tutor despite his tough guy exterior. Sario: Sorry. I didn't mean to pry personally. But don't you think life is so cruel, to curse us to fall for the bad boys in school. They will only break your heart. H: I tell you that I wasn't that involved with Ryoga! But Futaro was a bad boy? Sario: You didn't know? Ohhhh, you were around because you transferred. OK. I might as well tell you the whole story. Yes, Futaro-san or "Flamingo Kid" as he liked to be called was the school bad boy before Ryoga Kinsu came along near the end of last semester. My Futaro was the ultimate hunk. He was tops in everything: judo, baseball, and even basketball. He was king of the school. But all that changed after the confrontation. H: Confrontaton? With who? Sario: Who else but Kinsu-san. He challenged Futaro for leadership of the Sakurai High gang. H: He was part of a gang? And Ryoga too? Sario: You didn't know that either? You must be really naive in school. H: I guess I am. So what happened next? Sario: Well, Futaro was the top ranked in the whole district so he wasn't worried. But I was worried he was getting too cocky, but he wouldn't listen. He told me not to worry and that everything was under control. But that night, it wasn't. Despite Futaro's skills, it was no contest: Kinsu-san easily subdued my poor Futaro. It was so shocking to everyone who watched. H: Sorry to hear that. Sario: But that isn't the worst part. Futaro was a poor sport and he didn't accept defeat easily. So he came after Ryoga from his blindside with his trademark dynamic super solo leg kick sweep. H: And what happened next? Sario: Something very bad. Ryoga lunged away at the last moment before he was hit. But it was too late for Futaro to stop; he was already in mid-flight. He landed awkwardly and broke his arm and leg. He was such a painful sight to see. After that he wasn't the same. H: It must have been tough for the both of you. Sario: Yes it has. I fear it was the depression that caused this. From anyone's view, he was totally dejected, since he couldn't participate in any of the sports. He began to see me less and less and spent most of his time brooding. I hated to see him waste away like that. But he kept bushing me away. I just can't help feeling that all of this is my fault. H: Sario-san. You mustn't say things like that. Sario: But it's true. If only I was there more often for him during his period of isolations, things might have turned out differently. H: That's life for you. But we can't dwell on the past. We can only think of the future. [Shift back to school...] "Hey! Stop pushing me! He's not going to want to see me." Y: Let's find out then. (both of them "crash" into the chemistry lab) Shijama: What's the big idea? Why are you two here? To cause trouble for me again? Y: Sorry to disturb you again, but I think you two needs a little talk. Shijama: There's nothing I want to say to him. Y: I disagree. I think you should hear him out. After all, that what you scientific types do, right? Study all the facts before drawing a conclusion. Shijama: What you are describing is the scientific method. But it does not apply in this case. Y: And why not? How can you make a decision without all the facts? Shijama: I already know all the facts I need, thank you. And I really have no time to argue. Now please leave. Muroke: Come on Hino-san. I told you he's already made up his mind. Thanks for trying though. Y: (blocks the door and flailing his arms) BAKA! No one is going to leave until we get a look at that fingerprint you have. Muroke: (whispers) Now he really think we're both crazy! Y: I don't care. We're going to clear your name once and for all. Now go and ask him for the use of the microscope. Shijama: This is pure lunacy! I'm going to call security! Muroke: Uh Shijama...there is no security in school. Shijama: Then I'm going to call somebody! No one can just barge in here and order me around. Y: (approaches Shijama) Now listen here, my stuffy lab coat friend. What we have here is key evidence to clear Muroke. Now if you are really his friend, you'll give him a chance to prove it to you. Now stop acting like a child and help your friend out. Muroke: Wow Hino-san! I never seen you so assertive by yourself before. Shijama: I fail to see the logic in allowing your use of the microscope. But if you won't leave until you do, then I have little choice but to allow you access. But afterwards, you have to be gone. Y: Deal! Come on Muroke. Go to it. Muroke: Umm...right! [Back to the hospital] Sario: I need to go to the restroom. H: I wait for you outside. (*collision!*) "Gomen!" (A shabbily-looking nurse rushes off) H: Are you ok? Sario: I think so. These medical should be more careful at a hospital. (Around the hallway) (That same nurses curses silently to herself) "God dman! Why do I have to bump into those two again! Almost blew my disguise. Now where the hell is that storage room." (Doctor approaches her) "Ah nurse. I haven't seen you around here." "Uhh...no sir. You haven't. I'm new hire here. Temporary transfer." "So ka...where then maybe you can do an errand for me." "So sorry. Around on another errand. Have to carry it out now. Gomen. Bye!" (whizzes around another corner) "Whew! Another close call. I'm not going to find the inventory room at this rate. Huh? What's this?" (reads lettering on sign showing that this is the room where patient's possessions are placed for temporary storage.) "Che. There it is. Now to snoop around." (sneaks inside, looks at the registry book, and locates which box belongs to Futaro Ichibaro. She proceeds to pick lock the safety box holding his possessions and rummages through his stuff) "Nothing in his pants. (*jingle, jingle*) Keys don't look important. Wallet just has the usual stuff. Jacket pockets are empty..." (*Ouuuuccchh!*) "SHIT! Fucked pricked myself! What the hell.... (Feels lower edge of jacket to find something hard. She searches the pockets again to discover a small hole. She guides the object through the jacket's lining to find... "Damn...not him also. How could he?" (We see a ninja star in the middle of her hand with a dragon emblem in the middle) [Back to the chemistry lab] (As Muroke is busily examing the print, Yuusaku tries to make small talk with Shijama) Y: (looks over Shijama's shoulder) That looks interesting. What are you doing? Shijama: Something that's far beyond comprehension. Now if you don't mind, I really don't wish to be disturbed. Y: Sorry man. Just curious. Shijama: (lets out a huge groan) Take your curiosity somewhere else. I don't wish to be bored to death. Y: Fine! I'll get out of your way. (*oops!*) (Yuusaku's elbow accidentally knocks over a beaker which causes a chain effect knowing over the other rows of beakers.) Shijama: ARRRRGGGHHHH! (has a look like he's going to pull his hair out!) OH MY GOD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? ALL MY WORK ON THE SUPERFUEL... Y: I'm so sorry! Let me help you clean up... Shijama: NO! DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE! JUST GET OUT! BEFORE YOU DESTROY THE REST OF MY WORK! Y: But I... Shijama: NOW! And you also Muroke! Muroke: Come on. I'm done anyway. Y: Umm...sorry about that again. Shijama: LEAVE! (slams door) Y: Sorry about wrecking your friend's experiment. Muroke: Don't worry. He gets that way sometimes. Y: So did you get what you wanted? Muroke: Yeah. I made a small slide. I'll analyze it on my computer and match it with the school's records. Y: School records? How do you have access to those? Muroke: My, look at the time. Have to go. Bye! [March 15] {Rival Gang Meeting] Toro: Welcome fellow members! Today will mark a great day where we take control of this town and make it our playground! "Yay, yay, yay" (General murmurings) Toro: We shall vanquish our enemy, the Sakurai gang! Either they will join us, or die! (more cheers from the rest of the gang) Toro: Soon, they will fall within our clutches. Either they join us and we betray them, or we just beat them down, we shall be the masters! Toro: Hunada! Pass out the Hunada: Yes boss. Toro: This symbol you see now will declare who you are, making everyone around fear you. They will know you are a member of my dreaded gang, the Black Dragon. Wear it proudly, my minions. (whole gang erupts in an uproar!) [Back to the school grounds] Aki: Today's the day. Chiko: Yeah. Who else do we have to wait up for? Daisuke: Eto doesn't have practice today so he an make it. Other than that, it's just Bento. Chiko: So how are you going to vote? Aki: I dunno. Really hard to say. I have nothin' against making peace, but with the likes of Ishizaki? That's hard to swallow. Chiko: I know what you mean. There's something about him I don't like. Daisuke: I with you. And I bought a little extra something just in case something breaks out. (pats bag which makes a mettalic clank) (Meanwhile...) (Just as Yuusaku is about to leave for home...) "Semapi! Wait up!" Y: Muroke-kun. It's you. What's up? Muroke: Glad I caught you. It took me a while to hack through but I managed to make a match of the fingerprint and you wouldn't believe who it is! Y: Well? What are you waiting for? Tell me. Muroke: (looks around left and right first and then whispers) it's the flamingo kid! Y: What? The one in the hospital now? Muroke: Yep. The same guy. Y: I think I'm beginning to understand now. (shakes fist) Damn you Ryoga! So you're the one who is out to get me! Muroke: Huh? I don't understand what you mean... Y: Don't you see? Ryoga and his gang has been out to get us from the very beginning. Just before that scumbag left, he probably plotted his final revenge by getting us busted and expelled from school. I bet you it's in my locker too! Muroke: I never thought about that possiblity...that would explain a lot. Y: Let's go and check! (Inside the lockeroom) Y: Ah ha! Just as I suspected. (In the back of the locker, beneath the white karate robe and white washcloth is a similar looking see-thru clear plastic of white powder) Y: (holds it up) Another one. No wonder I couldn't see it before. Someone wanted to frame us real bad. Muroke: Boy, this is getting bizarre. And I thought I was entering a normal high school. Y: Things are never normal. Yeah, it's hard for me to believe too, but stuff like this seems to be happening more and more because of the craziness of the world. Muroke: So what are you going to do now? Y: Let's go. Muroke: Where? Y: To confront the reject of Ryoga's gang. Muroke: What? Are you crazy? Y: No. It's time something did something once and for all. Muroke: This doesn't seem to be a good time to be noble. Y: You can stay behind if you want. I know I'm going. Muroke: Hey! Wait up! Y: You're coming? Muroke: Why not? Can't let you be the only one who has all the fun. (outside) Daisuke: 'bout time you showed up! Bento: Watch it boy! Aki: Hey guys! Save it for later. We got to get to the bar. Bento: Yeah. Let's roll then. (5 motorcycles begin the "purr" and roar. Bento leads the pack away) (Yuusaku and Muroke just sees them leave) Muroke: We missed them. Too bad. Get 'em next time. Y: No. I'll go after them with my bike. Muroke: Are you sure you want to do that? Who knows where they're going? Y; Stop worrying! Hop on. Muroke: I know I shouldn't do this but what the heck. (straps on his bicycle helmet from his backpack) Ok. Let's go. Y: Hold on. (revs up motorbike) (So Yuusaku trails the gang as they make their way to their hangout at Yoshida's) Eto: Look man! We have company already. Bento: It's that punk Hino. What the fuck does he want? Chiko: Hey you! What you doing on our turf? Aki: And you brought your little buddy along too. Y: It's all of you that I have a problem with. Daisuke: Oooh! I'm so scared. Y: You guys have been out to get me from the very first day. If you want to get me, then fine. But to drag my friend down too is crossing the line. Now it's gone too far. Chiko: Talk is cheap. What are you going to do boy? Fight all 5 of us? Y: If that's what it takes to lay off me and my friend, then that's what I have to do. Aki: Listen. We have other business. We have no time for you. You better get out now. Bento: Hey, if he wants to the shit beaten out of him, then let him. I know my fists haven't had a workout in a while. Muroke: (to Yuusaku) Sempai! This is pure insanity. I know you're good, but you don't stand a chance against all 5 of them! Y: (to Muroke) I know. But sometimes, you have to take a stand, even if you're going to lose. I can take it, don't worry. You better stay back here. If trouble's near, then just drive off in my bike and get help. Ok? (uroke nods) (All 5 circle around Yuusaku approaching towards him closer and closer. Finally, Bento makes the first move) Yuusaku easily deflect the blow and returns a blow to the stomach. (He then enters the deadly Kyushin Ryu point stance.) (*WHACK!*) (*CHOP*) (*SLICE*) (*THROW*) (*PUNCH*) (*SOCK*) (*KICK*) (*BLOCK*) (*SWEEP*) (*BAM*) We see a heap of bodies on the ground. Y: (remembers Sensei Matsumoto's words...) Sensei: Succeed in move only when you fight for what you believe in. Chiko: (groaning) You...where the hell did you learn to fight like that? (*CLAP CLAP CLAP*) Y: (turns around) Who the hell is that? Toro: Very impressive skills you display. Y: You I don't know, but him I know. (points to Hunada) You guys were at the last tournament, aren't you. Toro: How perceptive. I was about to take care of them myself, but I see you've already done the job for me. Daisuke: Why you double-crosser! I knew you weren't going to keep your word. Toro: Ah, but we did not agree to anything at all. But now I see the Sakurai gang is unworthy to be part of my group so I withdraw my offer. Now I declare this territory to be our jurisdition. Aki: You can't do that! Toro: And why not? Aki: Becuase he's out new leader! (points to Yuusaku) Y and Bento: (shocked look!) What!? Aki: Yeah. You heard me. We were just testing him and he passed the trial.(gets up to his feet) You have to deal with him now. Y: (to Aki) What are you trying to pull here? Aki: (Aki whispers to Yuusaku) Trust me. Just play along. Otherwise, that fiend Toro will really control the whole town. Please help us out. Y: (to Aki) I know I'm making a big mistake here but I don't like the looks of that guy. Toro: A minor annonyance but once I dispatch of your "new" leader, then I declare this my territory. Hunada... Chiko: Wait! This is a matter between leaders. You don't let your goons do the dirty work for you. Or are you too chicken? (Toro looks around his own group who is pressuring him to step up and show he is the real leader) Toro: So be it. But I don't believe in a fair fight. My crowbar please. (Hunada hands it to him) Daisuke: Yo Yuu-san! CATCH! (throws him a metal pipe) Daisuke: Now the odds are even. Y: (Toro expertedly rains down several blows of his crowbar and Yuusaku feebily and clumsily deflect it. With each swing, Toro grows ever more confident. ) (The fight gets into the alley. Both sides are jeering and cheering. Yuusaku is having a terrible time at it, as he is slowly being cornered.) Bento: Look at what you've done? He doesn't stand a chance! Daisuke: He'll do better than what you'll ever do. Bento: Why you... Aki: Cool it! It doesn't look good for him. (*FLING*) (With the last swing, Toro dislodges the pipe from Yuusaku) Toro: A worthy challenger, but you cannot compete with me when it comes to wielding deadly objects. Now prepare to suffer the consequences. (raises up crowbar with both hands and he begins to swing it towards Yuusaku's head) Y: (praying thought) (As the crowbar is about to impact on Yuusaku, suddenly a rush of adrenaline and energy surges through Yuusaku's system and he swings his hand to meet the oncoming blow delivered and... (*FLASH*) (*CLANGGGGGG*) (*IMPACT!*) (*SMASH*) (The 2 pieces of the crowbar clank harmlessly on the cement floor) (Everyone on both sides is awe-struck and dumbfounded at the sight; Even Toro is shocked.) (Finally, someone speaks up) Aki: You've lost! Now get off our territory now! Toro: (Grrrr!) Let's move out of this hellhole! (The mount on their bikes and drive off) Muroke: (runs over) Hino, Sempai! All you alright? Y: (being supported by Aki and Daisuke) Have they gone yet? Muroke: (looks over) Looks like it. I see the last of them leaving. Y: Good. (suddenly collapses to the ground) [End of Chapter 20]