That morning Mr.Nakayama would take Juo to a nice dinner for breakfast. It wasn't too crowded and there were plenty of early birds. Juo sat at the other end of the table with his eyes looking dead.
"Mmm, you know. I'm a man with a few good taste in food, that isn't my wife's cooking. Though I have to admit this dinner as the best eggs and waffles in Japan. Its really good." Mr.Nakayama said as he kept eating his food while Juo just stared at his syrup run down his pancakes. His eyes were almost nonexistent as he stared at them. Thats when he would blink and saw blood on his waffles instead. He immediately shook himself back to reality and looked again to see it was syrup once more.
Juo breathed heavily as he looked at it.
"PTSD." Mr.Nakayama said, Juo looked up at him with a gaunt and frightened face.
"Your nurse, Nin, said you might not recover from it. Best she could do was perscribe you some zoloft and paxil. They're approved by some nice folks in the states. Say it works wonders for vets.
Though you aren't one." Mr.Nakayama said, Juo leaned back as he massaged his face.
"I want to see him." Juo asked
"We don't have him." Mr.Nakayama replied
"You haven't caught him?!" Juo asked again with a shocked tone.
"We're currently working on changing that, but I can't do that. Unless you give me something to work with." Mr.Nakayama said
"...Ok, what do you want to know?" He asked
"I want to know his voice. What did he sound like?" Mr.Nakayama asked
"His voice?" Juo said with curiosity
"Yes, now talk." Mr.Nakayama said with a strict tone. Juo massaged his mouth as he leaned backnin his chair.
"His voice was...calm, it also was like being hit with a block of ice. Only it didn't hurt, it felt...satisfying in some sick way I'm sure.
But it had a inhuman feel about it...like I was talking to a robot. Like talking to a-"
"Machine." Mr.Nakayama said, thats Juo looked up to Mr.Nakayama. He could tell, just from looking at him. That he had been met with that exact same greeting. Juo's eyes closed for a moment-
"Greetings" said that familiar echoy voice, that one that sounded like pure complexity and yet was so simple it felt like you could mimic it. He thought about it for just a few more moments.
"He also wanted the information about the dragon gang, he wanted to know the names of some people. He got them from torturing three of their members.
It was sick how he did it, he blasted off their kneecaps like they weren't even people. He talked so...plainly to them. Like it wasn't even worth the energy." Juo said as he looked to Mr.Nakayama. Mr.Nakayama turned his over to his coffee as he steered it with his spoon.
"You were seen on camera with him and one other. A girl." Mr.Nakayama said, thats when Juo's memories hit him like a truck. He immediately grabbed the table as he nearly almost collapsed on it. Mr.Nakayama looked to him in shock as he went to try to catch him.
"HEY! You alright?" He asked
Juo's eyes moved all over the room, his head spinning as he remembered Himmy. Himmy. HIMMY. HIMMY. HIMMY!
"Where is she!?" Juo asked
"We don't know, he took her with him. Its been many days since him or her have been seen. We do know he's very much alive, her? No clue. I did shoot her." Mr.Nakayama said
"YOU SHOT HER!?" Juo shouted as he stood up
"In the leg, it wasn't vital. I made sure to miss anything important, why do you care so much?" Mr.Nakayama asked, thats when he looked into Juo's eyes. He could see it. He had lived it, he use to be the same way about acting girl before too.
"So...this is personal then. Look, stay out of it kid. Me and the other officers and hard working detectives are doing everything to crack this before it gets way too out of control. You getting involved would only stir the hornets nest.
I need you to do me a favor." Mr.Nakayama said as he handed Juo his phone. Juo looked at it and grabbed it.
"Go back to the clinic. Try to think of anything else you remember. Get some rest, Nin says you'll be out in a weeks time." Mr.Nakayama said, Juo then got up and walked out. As he did Mr.Nakyama then pulled Juo's actual phone of his pocket. He then sipped his coffee as he watched Juo leave. Juo continued walking down the street towards the clinic he had been staying at. His face felt hot, his body tense.
As he walked he saw plenty of people walking around the streets. He looked at everyone and felt like he had eyes all over him.
"Greetings" said a voice, Juo immediately turned around, but no one was there. Just more people, they all walked around and past him. Juo's face was sweating as he looked around. He then turned around one last time and then kept walking. Thats when he'd turn a corner and see a vacancy of people. He turned around and saw noone. Though he did notice a café across the street and some people infront if it smoking.
"What?" He thought, thats when a black car would park next to him. He looked at it and saw a man come out of the passenger seat, he then walked over and opened the door to the backseat.
"Juo, come with us please." Said the man, Juo looked at him and then the backseat.
"No thanks, I got places to be-"
However the man would step in front of him as he tried to leave.
"Sir I'm not asking." Said the man as he then pulled back his blazer and revealed he was carrying a gun. Juo looked at it in shock as he then turned to the car. He then slowly made his way to it and got inside. As he did the man outside would close the door and then begin to drive the car. Across the street in the cafe, a man sitting down was watching them. He took off his cap, revealing it to be Mr.Miyuki. He then got on the phone and called Mr.Nakayama.
"They took the bait. Just as I said. Lure the fish in and they'll bite." Mr.Miyuki said
"You have license plate?" Mr.Nakayama asked
"No, there wasn't one. The boy almost spotted me though. Think this is the White Rabbit's doing?" Mr.Miyuki asked
"No, I in fact believe this might be our guy from the school. The one who poisoned the school Gym classes." Mr.Nakayama said
"How do you know?" Mr.Miyuki asked
"...I just have a good feeling. We'll know for sure thanks to the phone. If it has the same voice like what was recorded from the anonymous tip we got. Then we know for sure its him. It'll finally confirm out mysterious third party." Mr.Nakayama said as he hung up the phone. He then got up and left a tip as he left.
Juo looked to his side and saw the backseat was sectioned off, meaning he couldn't see who was sitting in the seat next to him.
"Hello there Juo, I'm sure you have some questions. Though I'd like to ask you some first before we do anything.
Everything you told that detective, I want to know." Said a static and sort of muffled voice. Juo looked outside, but the windows were blacked out.
"Why do you want to know? You don't seem like someone who cares about the White Rabbit." Juo said, thats when he'd hear laughter coming from the voice.
"Please, don't try that on me. I have everything to do with him. He believes that he is perfect, the machine given voyage around the world.
That small bitch, actually thinks that he can give her everything that those geniuses want. She dosent know what she's playing with! If only she'd rely on me instead. I've always been better than him! I always will be!" Shouted the voice, the sounds of pounding and kicking could be heard from the other side of the barrier. Juo just watched from the other side in total silence. He then began to see the guy breakdown and start crying and laughing. He could only see the guy's silhouette, but he knew what was going in with him.
"...so you want to know about what I know too then?" Juo asked
"I want all of it." Said the voice, after a few minutes close to an hour, the car would stop near a ally. The man driving would open the door and let Juo out.
"Thank you for your contribution, I'll be sure to utilize your information to great use." Said the voice
"What about the other one who was with the white rabbit?! The girl!?" Juo asked
"Your personal involvement in or with the white rabbit isn't a concern to me. So I hope you understand when I say, stay the FUCK out of my way." Said the voice, Juo looked at the guy on the otherside of the barrier with disbelief.
"And just incase my message isn't clear." Said the voice, thats when the driver would grab Juo and toss him aginst the ground. Even though they were around people. Those people ignored as Juo was beaten into the ground, kicked, punched and bashed asginst the walls of the ally before being thrown into a pile of trash in there. Juo groaned as he got up, he watched as the car drove away. He leaned aginst the wall. His frustration at no leads to where Himmy was boiling under his surface.
"DAMNIT!" he shouted as he threw his phone aginst the garbage, smashing it to pieces. He fell to the ground on his knees. His eyes were shaken up, as if provoked with something he didn't want to accept. That perhaps his late love may just be that now. He was afraid of what it meant for him, but most importantly; on what it was that she may have endured during her final moments.
Juo then heard the meow of a cat nearby, he looked deeper into the ally and saw a cat. It looked pale and was going around looking for scraps. Juo's eyes blinked and then saw his youngest self, a young child sitting in the corner of a ally. His clothes torn and face severely beaten and manned. He felt his face and then shook his head. Now seeing the cat once again. Juo got up and walked away, a few minutes later he'd return with some food for the cat. Just a few snack, but as he looked around the cat would be gone. His head and eyes looked around, trying to find his furred friend. He then walked around the corner into another part of the ally and saw a horrifc and terrifying sight.
A girl in a school outfit, she had extremely short black hair. The cat he was looking for was dead and mangled beneath the girl, but thay wasn't all. They were also torn up, limbs ripped up and straight ripped open. The girl then looked back at Juo with a bit of blood on her face and a smile on her face.
"Hey, is this your cat?" Kat said, Juo's face was covered in shock and horror. His eyes moved to Kat.
"Wh-why did you do this?" He stuttered. She then looked at him almost confused at his question. Like as if he had asked her to lift her skirt or if she had a face made of tentacles.
"Why?...mmmm, Because I wanted to." Kat replied, her face covered in this once again creepy and horrifying smile. Though it wasn't the smile itself that was horrifying, but the implications behind it and what it meant for those who weren't cats.
"I know you, you're the guy from the HP hotel incident. I'm shocked your alive, seeing how reports said you got a bullet to the chest. Just what do you plan to do, having been wrapped around the white rabbit's thumb as you once were." She said
"...I wasn't wrapped around his thumb, I simply wanted to get out of a bad situation. While trying to save someone else." Juo said, the two stood there for a singular moment. They for a split second didn't know what to say until Kat spoke again.
"Did you want to kill it?" Kat asked, Juo looked at her confused.
"No way! I came here to give it food. To help and persve it!" Juo shouted
"Boo, lame. Don't you ever want to dig into it? Into what makes someone tick like they do? Or are you some kind of righteous black and white person." Kat asked
"I'm not righteous, I just don't think or feel killing people and animals is right." Juo said
"If thats the cast then your just like me and the world is filled psychopathic murderers and genocidal maniacs." Kat said as she walked over to Juo who backed up a bit.
"You want the white rabbit don't you? You want to kill him?" Kat asked
"I don't want to kill him, I just want to save someone hes no doubt manipulated into joining his sick circus." Juo said
"So your mad cause the white rabbit has taken one of your eggs and added it to his basket. Well then, let me give you some advice. Don't go after them." Kat said
"Huh?" Juo said
"The white rabbit is not anything you want to get involved with. Hes danagerous. As much as I'd love to see you get ripped apart. I figured I'dgive you a warning first before anything." Kat said
"...Thanks. I guess your not totally crazy." Juo said, Kat's eyes shrunk with that and she immediately pounced on Juo and pinned him to the ground.
"YOU DONT THINK I'M CRAZY!? TRUST ME! I'M DOWNRIGHT MAD!" Kat laughed as she then suddenly pulled out a knife from under her skirt. Juo's face erupted in shock and fear as he tried to push her off only for Kat to put her knife to his neck.
"Dont think I'm crazy huh? Well listen to this and you tell me. Once when I was young. I had a sister, our father was a drunken mess. So much that it drove my mother crazy, so crazy she had stopped being able to tell me and my sister apart.
Heheh, well one day, he came back drunker than usual. I could tell just by looking at him something bad was going to happen to me or my sister. He calls my name, he rushes up the stairs in a daze. His pants filled with...well excitement. Thats when he asked for me again, me and my sister were frozen however that's when I did it.
When he asked which one of us was me. I pointed to my sister. She pleaded and told father it wasn't her. But he didn't listen. He dragged her to his bedroom and locked the door. I listened behind it. I could hear my sister's screams and my fathers groans through it.
But...I didn't feel anything for doing what I did. All I did was just listen. I didn't even know why she was screaming. After it was done he left thr room to use the bathroom, I looked inside, blood soaked my sisters legs as she laid on the bed petrified.
I didn't comfort her, instead I grabbed my father's hunting knife and told my sister that it was a game. She looked at me with almost no emotion in her eyes, she was dead inside I could tell. I told her that father had taken a life from her and that she needed to get it back.
Otherwise, she would die. She grabbed the knife from me and in that moment and on that day. I gained two extra lives. One from my father and one from my sisters." Kat said
"...She killed him...then killed herself." Juo said shocked.
"Still don't think I'm crazy?" Kat said with a wide deranged smile on her face.