[yoichi,narimo,yadara and hatano arrive at the mall]
Hatano: I can't believe they were spying on us.
Yoichi: I know, but I assumed they were.
[hatano looks at yoichi surprised]
Hatano: how?.
Yoichi: Every time we would go around the mall I would always see someone standing on the roof.
Hatano: And you didn't tell me about this?.
Yoichi: no, I wanted to wait till we made a plan.
Hatano: So what? we could fail and endanger the kids?.
[yoichi puts his hand on hatanos shoulder]
Yoichi: Just calm down and let me explain.
[hatano slaps yoichi's hand off of her shoulder]
Hatano: I don't want to hear an explanation.
Yoichi: please.
[hatano runs into the mall]
Yoichi: Who knew that would turn out like that.
[yadara puts his hand on yoichi's shoulder]
Yadara: she'll be fine, just give her some time.
Yoichi: But will she come back?, That's the thing I'm scared of.
Yadara: to be honest I'm not sure but you have to trust that she will.
Yoichi: I hope so.
Narimo: if she doesn't it's her loss, you still have us.
[yoichi looks at narimo surprised]
Yoichi: Thanks, but she was the reason that we got so close to saving your mom.
Narimo: I know but if she leaves us now then we can move forward and do it ourselves.
Yoichi: How could you say that about your sister?.
[narimo begins to tear up]
Narimo: if she was there for me and yadara she wouldn't have faked her death.
Yoichi: But still she's your sister.
Narimo: it doesn't matter, if she is our sister she should have been there for us and mom when we needed her the most.
Yadara: Narimo, stop it.
[narimo looks at yadara surprised]
Narimo: But am I wrong though?.
Yadara: just stop!, you don't know half of the stuff that happened behind closed doors.
Narimo: it doesn't matter what happened, she wasn't there for us when she should have.
[yadara looks at narimo surprised]
Yadara: What happened to you?
Narimo: what do you mean?.
Yadara: you're not acting like you usually do.
Narimo: It doesn't matter.
[yoichi grabs yadara and narimo]
Yoichi: You two stop it.
Yoichi: You two shouldnt be fighting over your sister. I'm sure she had her reasons for the things she did.
[hatano in the furniture store]
Hatano: How could he have kept that a secret?.
[hatano starts crying]
Hatano: If he kept that a secret was he lying about our love too?.
[hatano throws a chair against the wall]
Hatano: If I ever see him again, I'm gonna punch him in the face so hard he never forgets it.
[hatano drops to the floor crying]
Hatano: Did he want us to fail?.
Hatano: This is the first time he's ever kept a secret from me, he's usually straightforward about everything.
Hatano: Was he acting like that just to get into my life to mess it up?.
[yoichi,yadara and natimo walk into the furniture store and see hatano crying]
Yoichi: What's wrong?.
[hatano gets up and slaps yoichi]
Hatano: why?.
Yoichi: why what?.
Hatano: Why would you keep that a secret?.
Yoichi: oh, look i didn't want to tell you about it because i knew you were already stressed enough so i decided to take some of that stress off of you.
Hatano: So what, you could make me even more stressed when I found out?.
Yoichi: no.
Hatano: I can't take it anymore.
[hatano falls into yoichi's arms]
Yoichi: Look, I love you.
Hatano: If you love me then hold me tighter and tell me everything will be ok.
Yoichi: ok.
[yoichi holds hatano tighter]
Yoichi: I promise everything will be ok, I won't let anything happen to you or the kids.
Hatano: Please don't hide something like that from me again.
[yoichi smiles]
Yoichi: I won't.
Yadara: So what are we going to do about a plan?.
Narimo: Yeah, we still need to hurry and save mom.
Hatano: I know.
Yadara: We need to hurry.
Hatano: I know!.
Yoichi: kids just leave hatano alone for right now, i don't think she's fit for making a plan right now.
Yadara: ok, just remember that we have limited time.
[yadara and narimo walk outside the mall]
Yadara: hey look what I have.
[yadara hands narimo hatano's phone]
Narimo: You stole this from her?.
Yadara: Well, let's say we're going to borrow it to call ise.
[narimo looks at yadara surprised]
Narimo: why do we need to call him?.
Yadara: So we can get an exact count of how many people Inaba has running around the city.
Narimo: [sigh] ok but I'm not in this.
Yadara: great.
[yadara calls ise]
Ise: hello?.
Yadara: Is this ise?.
Ise: it is, who's this?.
Yadara: This is Hatano's little brother yadara.
Ise: oh, ok.
Yadara: We need to know how many people Inaba has running around the city.
Ise: ok, there's koide,saito and mori that show up the most.
Yadara: are they the only ones?.
Ise: I'm assuming they're the only ones on the database.
Yadara: Can you tell me about them?.
Ise: sure.
Ise: the database says koide is dead so you probably don't have to worry about him
Yadara: What about the others?.
Ise: Saito is the organ strand user that you've probably heard from hatano. He's the one that massacred the men I sent in to save your mom.
Yadara: ok.
Ise: mori it says he doesn't have a strand but he's incredibly dangerous.
Yadara: ok so the last two of inaba's men are the dangerous ones.
Ise: pretty much.
Yadara: ok, thank you
[yadara hangs up]
Yadara: Well now we have details on all of Inaba's men.
Narimo: ok, now what?.
Yadara: Now we wait for Hatano to make a plan.
Narimo: ok.
[yadara and narimo go into the mall]
[after some time yoichi, hatano, narimo and yadara start to make a plan]
Hatano: Ok, now we need to find out how we can get into the prison.
Yoichi: why don't we do the same plan before just a different route.
Yadara: I don't think that will work.
[yoichi and hatano look at yadara surprised]
Hatano: Why do you think it wont work?.
Yadara: well.
[yadara hands hatano her phone]
Yadara: I called ise and he gave me details of each of inaba's henchmen.
Hatano: ok, and?.
Yadara: their names are koide,saito and mori.
Yoichi: what's that meant to help with?.
Yadara: hold on, saito is the one who massacred the men ise sent in to save mom, and mori apparently to ise he doesn't have a strand but he is still highly dangerous.
Hatano: ok now we know what their strands are but how is that meant to help us.
Yadara: from what ise said the only chance we have to get into the prison is to just go from the entrance and hope for the best.
Hatano: Are you crazy?, that's a suicide mission.
[yoichi puts his hand on hatanos shoulder]
Yoichi: It'll be fine i won't let anything happen.
Hatano: oh, ok.
Hatano: Well, let's go before we lose any more time.
[yoichi,hatano,narimo and yadara run out of the mall]
Yoichi: ok, now we need to get to the entrance.
Hatano: I'm hoping you two are right and nothing will happen.
Yoichi: trust me if anything does happen i'll protect you and the kids.
Hatano: ok.
[mori sees yoichi,hatano,narimo and yadara from a building]
Mori: Now which one is the strongest?.
Mori: I guess it doesn't matter, they're all going to die anyway.
[mori jumps off of the building and uses his freak strand]
Mori: time to meet death himself!.
[mori runs at yoichi using his freak strand but yoichi blocks it with his scythe]
[mori smiles]
Mori: I guess you got lucky, but I won't let it happen again.
Yoichi: You might have caught me off guard but that won't change anything. I will still win.
[yoichi throws mori into a building]
Yoichi: I guess that was easy.
[mori runs at yoichi trying to cut him in half]
Mori: I have you now!.
[yoichi freezes mori in time]
Yoichi: Like I said, it was easy.
[yadara and narimo look at yoichi surprised]
Yoichi: oh, hatano, this is for you.
[yoichi gets down on one knee]
[hatano looks at yoichi surprised]
Hatano: what?, why now?.
Yoichi: It doesn't matter, it's the thought that's put into it.
[yoichi hold out a ring]
Yoichi: hatano kusake, will you marry me?.
[hatano tears up]
Hatano: Of course I will.
[hatano pulls yoichi in for a kiss]
Hatano: I promise to make you the happiest man on earth.
[yoichi smiles]
Yoichi: I promise to make you the happiest woman in the world as well.
[yoichi hears a crack and looks back at mori]
Yoichi: hatano!, get out of the way!.
[yoichi pushes hatano away from him]
Hatano: what?.
[mori frees himself from being froze in time and cuts yoichi in half]
[hatano looks at yoichi's dead body in shock]
Hatano: Why, why was it not me?.
[hatano screams from heartbreak]
Hatano: I'm done!.
[mori smiles]
Mori: aww, lost your husband?.
Hatano: You'll regret even meeting us.
[hatano looks back at yadara and narimo]
Hatano: Kids run!, this is my fight.
[yadara and narimo run back to the mall]
[hatano smiles]
Hatano: Now it's just you and me.
Mori: Come on!.
[mori uses his freak strand but hatano blocks it with her executioners strand]
Hatano: Now fall!.
[hatano uses her executioners strand to cut mori's freak strand in half]
Mori: how? Inaba said this is the strongest strand.
[hatano laughs]
Hatano: He lied to you.
[mori looks at hatano surprised]
Mori: Inaba would never lie.
Hatano: Well then you're just not strong enough.
[hatano rips mori's limbs off one by one]
Hatano: I want you to scream the same way i did when I seen that you killed my husband.
[mori screams in agony]
Mori: please stop.
[hatano smiles]
Hatano: I'm sorry, but I don't know what stop means.
[hatano breaks mori's neck]
Hatano: Now suffer in hell.
[hatano walks back to the mall and sees yadara and narimo crying]
Hatano: kids!, we have to go now!.
[yadara and narimo look at hatano surprised]
Yadara: why?.
Hatano: They know where we are located.
Narimo: There's a sewer in the mall we can hide in and it most likely leads to the prison.
Hatano: ok, we're going there.
[hatano,narimo and yadara run into the mall]
Hatano: ok now where too?.
chapter 32 august 15th