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digitalemperor) wrote2012-09-05 01:01 am
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Memory 12
Memory: Significant Neutral - Interrupting Anri being bullied (Vol 1, chapter 8, part 2)
Game: Game (played)
Game Master: Jabberwock and Jacobi
Day: 171
Notes: [Memories come in the form of miniature iron maidens with soft rubber blades. The only way to hurt yourselves on these is by chucking them at each other.
Each memory has seven uses.] 2/7 taken (Hunter)
Anime reference.
Raira uniforms were everywhere on 60-Storey Street, and his vision was dyed by the colour of the uniforms.
“It’s like a colour gang.”
As he mumbled this to himself, suddenly, Mikado caught sight of a familiar face.
“Sonohara-san…”
Mikado had meant to go over to say hello, but saw that Anri was surrounded by a group of girls wearing the same uniform, and the surrounding atmosphere was relatively unfriendly. A little into a horizontal alley, there were three female students who had closed in on her till she was leaning against the wall, and seemed to be shouting some stuff he couldn’t here.
Mikado wanted to know what, so he cautiously strode towards the alley. Including Anri, the four girls didn’t notice Mikado approaching, and the contents of the conversation became clearly audible.
But it couldn’t really be called a conversation. More of a one-sided interrogation.
“You little bitch, Harima Mika’s gone missing and you’re still acting all high and mighty?”
“…”
“I heard you became the class representative? Quit acting like some honour student!”
“Anyway, you were just Mika’s little lackey in junior high weren’t you? So what’s with the class representative thing?”
The three girls took turns hurling abuse at Anri, but Anri remained silent.
—Uwa, she’s being bullied?! So there are still these kinds of things still exist in Japan! And in a really clichéd way too! It’s like they’re acting out a scene from some old manga!
Such typical bullying wasn’t really that intimidating to anyone, but since he was the class representative, he had to do something. Although that was what Mikado thought, but he had no idea about what would be the most sensible thing to do. By now, he couldn’t pretend not to have seen anything, but he was still scared of provoking those girls—
—I know. I’ll just pretend I didn’t notice that they were bullying Sonohara-san, and just come over smiling and say something like: “Ah, what a coincidence, Sonohara-san” and it’ll be fine. Just like that! And if those girls have anything to say, I’ll just act according to the circumstances!
After coming up with such an ambiguous idea, Mikado gingerly took one step forward—then, he felt a hand reach out and land on his shoulder.
“?!”
Mikado inhaled sharply, and turned, and noticed he was looking at a familiar face.
“She’s being bullied? You going to stop them? How noble.”
Orihara Izaya said this in relative admiration. Then with the hand he was holding Mikado’s shoulder with, gave him a rough shove.
“Wa—wait?!”
Mikado’s exclamation had caused the four girls to notice that there was someone else here.
“Ahahaha, what a coincidence, Sonohara-saaaaaaaan—heeeeey...hold on!”
After shoving Mikado in front of the four girls, the person behind him finally stopped.
“What…what the hell?”
There was a hint of fear in the bully’s voice. Of course, she wasn’t talking to Mikado, but to Izaya who was standing behind him.
“Oh my~ that’s not good. You’re threatening people in broad daylight? Even if God could forgive you, the police wouldn’t let you get away with it.”
After saying that half-jokingly, Izaya took a few steps towards the girls, “Bullying’s pretty low. It’s not good. Not good at all.”
“It’s none of your business you old geezer!”
Perhaps it was because they were showing their true colours, or they were bluffing, but the three girls savagely glared at Izaya, with the intent of intimidating him.
“Yeah, it’s none of my business.”
Izaya smiled and expressed his opinions to the three girls.
“Precisely because it’s none of my business, so you can get beaten up here or die a violent death here for all I care. Even if I were to be the one to beat you up or stab you here. On the other hand, I’m OK if you decide to call a twenty three year old man a geezer. Because our relationship or lack thereof will never change. All of mankind are likewise related, yet at the same time they share no relationship with each other whatsoever.”
“Huh?”
“Humans are so spirited aren’t they?”
As he said those things that normal people wouldn’t be able to understand, he took another step towards the girls.
“But, I don’t make hitting girls my hobby…”
In the next second, Izaya was holding a shoulder purse in his right hand.
“What? Eh?”
On seeing that seemingly branded shoulder purse, one of the girls screamed. The shoulder purse which had been hanging from her shoulder had somehow ended up in that guy’s hand.
The strap hanging from her shoulder had been cleanly cut somewhere near her waist.
Unlike the bewildered girls, what Mikado who was standing behind Izaya felt was in fact fear.
Because in his left hand which he’d just put behind his back, was a small, sharp knife. The problem was, even though Mikado had been watching Izaya’s every move, he’d failed to notice where the knife had come from, and hadn’t even seen the instant when Izaya had cut the strap with his knife.
Deftly, with his left hand behind his back, he withdrew the blade of his switchblade knife and swiftly withdrew it into the sleeve of the jacket. A single-handed manoeuvre like this was like a magic act in Mikado’s eyes.
Izaya was still smiling, and pulled out a cellphone from the shoulder purse in his hand.
“So I’ll make stomping on girls’ cellphones my new hobby.”
As the words left his mouth, Izaya flung the girl’s cellphone upwards. There was a crisp thud as it landed, and the cellphones which had was covered in stickers had fallen to the ground.
“Ugh! You jerk…”
As the girl hurriedly stretched out a hand to pick it up—
And saw Izaya’s foot brush past her nails and land on the cellphone.
There was a crunch which sounded like someone munching on a biscuit, and broken plastic scattered out from under his foot. He ignored the screams he heard:
“Aaaaaah—!” the girl shrieked each time as his right foot came down on the cellphone again and again. His movements were precise, like that of a machine, as he was stepping on the exact same place. His laughter too, was mechanical and played out repeatedly:
“Ahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!’
“Is this guy mental? I think he’s really gone crazy!”
“That’s so gross! Let’s get outta here!”
The girl whose cellphone was being stomped on by Izaya could only watch on dumbly, and had to be dragged off by the other two.
When he saw that they’d totally left the scene, Izaya’s laughter and movements abruptly came to a stop. As if nothing had happened at all, he turned towards Mikado. Anri hadn’t run away, and was just standing there watching Izaya and Mikado nervously.
“I’m bored. Stepping on girls’ cellphones is no longer my hobby.”
After murmuring that to himself, he smiled gently at Mikado.
“You’re really brave. You wanted to help a girl who was being bullied. Not many kids can do that.”
“Eh?”
On hearing Izaya’s compliment, Anri looked, alarmed, in Mikado’s direction. But Mikado’s idea had been pretty useless, and it was Izaya who had really helped Anri, so this left Mikado feeling rather sheepish.
But Izaya was ignoring his diffidence, and began to speak.
“Ryuugamine Mikado-kun, it’s not a coincidence that we met here. It’s because I’ve been looking for you.”
“Eh?"
Just as Mikado made to ask what he had meant by that—a convenience store trash can flew from further within the alley, and smashed directly into Izaya.
What we learned:
-VAGUE PLANS TO DEAL WITH BULLIES AW YEAH
-I'm kinda lame at this huh?
-Whoa hold up Orihara-san...!
-And then there was the cell phone scene
-Also all that playing with knives and crazy laughter is alarming
-Don't call me out in front of the pretty girl I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAVE HER YOU DID
-Oh I know where the rest of this memory leads
What this means:
So a tendency to try to stop bullies is a normal thing for Mikado. Good to know. Also sad/pathetic to know he's always SUCKED AT IT oh well. And this Izaya guy is um... Um. Wow. That was a thing. And Sonohara-san is pretty ///
So it's a significant interaction with Izaya and Anri but doesn't impact Mikado in Aather too much except more "Yep my life is weird."
Game: Game (played)
Game Master: Jabberwock and Jacobi
Day: 171
Notes: [Memories come in the form of miniature iron maidens with soft rubber blades. The only way to hurt yourselves on these is by chucking them at each other.
Each memory has seven uses.] 2/7 taken (Hunter)
Anime reference.
Raira uniforms were everywhere on 60-Storey Street, and his vision was dyed by the colour of the uniforms.
“It’s like a colour gang.”
As he mumbled this to himself, suddenly, Mikado caught sight of a familiar face.
“Sonohara-san…”
Mikado had meant to go over to say hello, but saw that Anri was surrounded by a group of girls wearing the same uniform, and the surrounding atmosphere was relatively unfriendly. A little into a horizontal alley, there were three female students who had closed in on her till she was leaning against the wall, and seemed to be shouting some stuff he couldn’t here.
Mikado wanted to know what, so he cautiously strode towards the alley. Including Anri, the four girls didn’t notice Mikado approaching, and the contents of the conversation became clearly audible.
But it couldn’t really be called a conversation. More of a one-sided interrogation.
“You little bitch, Harima Mika’s gone missing and you’re still acting all high and mighty?”
“…”
“I heard you became the class representative? Quit acting like some honour student!”
“Anyway, you were just Mika’s little lackey in junior high weren’t you? So what’s with the class representative thing?”
The three girls took turns hurling abuse at Anri, but Anri remained silent.
—Uwa, she’s being bullied?! So there are still these kinds of things still exist in Japan! And in a really clichéd way too! It’s like they’re acting out a scene from some old manga!
Such typical bullying wasn’t really that intimidating to anyone, but since he was the class representative, he had to do something. Although that was what Mikado thought, but he had no idea about what would be the most sensible thing to do. By now, he couldn’t pretend not to have seen anything, but he was still scared of provoking those girls—
—I know. I’ll just pretend I didn’t notice that they were bullying Sonohara-san, and just come over smiling and say something like: “Ah, what a coincidence, Sonohara-san” and it’ll be fine. Just like that! And if those girls have anything to say, I’ll just act according to the circumstances!
After coming up with such an ambiguous idea, Mikado gingerly took one step forward—then, he felt a hand reach out and land on his shoulder.
“?!”
Mikado inhaled sharply, and turned, and noticed he was looking at a familiar face.
“She’s being bullied? You going to stop them? How noble.”
Orihara Izaya said this in relative admiration. Then with the hand he was holding Mikado’s shoulder with, gave him a rough shove.
“Wa—wait?!”
Mikado’s exclamation had caused the four girls to notice that there was someone else here.
“Ahahaha, what a coincidence, Sonohara-saaaaaaaan—heeeeey...hold on!”
After shoving Mikado in front of the four girls, the person behind him finally stopped.
“What…what the hell?”
There was a hint of fear in the bully’s voice. Of course, she wasn’t talking to Mikado, but to Izaya who was standing behind him.
“Oh my~ that’s not good. You’re threatening people in broad daylight? Even if God could forgive you, the police wouldn’t let you get away with it.”
After saying that half-jokingly, Izaya took a few steps towards the girls, “Bullying’s pretty low. It’s not good. Not good at all.”
“It’s none of your business you old geezer!”
Perhaps it was because they were showing their true colours, or they were bluffing, but the three girls savagely glared at Izaya, with the intent of intimidating him.
“Yeah, it’s none of my business.”
Izaya smiled and expressed his opinions to the three girls.
“Precisely because it’s none of my business, so you can get beaten up here or die a violent death here for all I care. Even if I were to be the one to beat you up or stab you here. On the other hand, I’m OK if you decide to call a twenty three year old man a geezer. Because our relationship or lack thereof will never change. All of mankind are likewise related, yet at the same time they share no relationship with each other whatsoever.”
“Huh?”
“Humans are so spirited aren’t they?”
As he said those things that normal people wouldn’t be able to understand, he took another step towards the girls.
“But, I don’t make hitting girls my hobby…”
In the next second, Izaya was holding a shoulder purse in his right hand.
“What? Eh?”
On seeing that seemingly branded shoulder purse, one of the girls screamed. The shoulder purse which had been hanging from her shoulder had somehow ended up in that guy’s hand.
The strap hanging from her shoulder had been cleanly cut somewhere near her waist.
Unlike the bewildered girls, what Mikado who was standing behind Izaya felt was in fact fear.
Because in his left hand which he’d just put behind his back, was a small, sharp knife. The problem was, even though Mikado had been watching Izaya’s every move, he’d failed to notice where the knife had come from, and hadn’t even seen the instant when Izaya had cut the strap with his knife.
Deftly, with his left hand behind his back, he withdrew the blade of his switchblade knife and swiftly withdrew it into the sleeve of the jacket. A single-handed manoeuvre like this was like a magic act in Mikado’s eyes.
Izaya was still smiling, and pulled out a cellphone from the shoulder purse in his hand.
“So I’ll make stomping on girls’ cellphones my new hobby.”
As the words left his mouth, Izaya flung the girl’s cellphone upwards. There was a crisp thud as it landed, and the cellphones which had was covered in stickers had fallen to the ground.
“Ugh! You jerk…”
As the girl hurriedly stretched out a hand to pick it up—
And saw Izaya’s foot brush past her nails and land on the cellphone.
There was a crunch which sounded like someone munching on a biscuit, and broken plastic scattered out from under his foot. He ignored the screams he heard:
“Aaaaaah—!” the girl shrieked each time as his right foot came down on the cellphone again and again. His movements were precise, like that of a machine, as he was stepping on the exact same place. His laughter too, was mechanical and played out repeatedly:
“Ahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!’
“Is this guy mental? I think he’s really gone crazy!”
“That’s so gross! Let’s get outta here!”
The girl whose cellphone was being stomped on by Izaya could only watch on dumbly, and had to be dragged off by the other two.
When he saw that they’d totally left the scene, Izaya’s laughter and movements abruptly came to a stop. As if nothing had happened at all, he turned towards Mikado. Anri hadn’t run away, and was just standing there watching Izaya and Mikado nervously.
“I’m bored. Stepping on girls’ cellphones is no longer my hobby.”
After murmuring that to himself, he smiled gently at Mikado.
“You’re really brave. You wanted to help a girl who was being bullied. Not many kids can do that.”
“Eh?”
On hearing Izaya’s compliment, Anri looked, alarmed, in Mikado’s direction. But Mikado’s idea had been pretty useless, and it was Izaya who had really helped Anri, so this left Mikado feeling rather sheepish.
But Izaya was ignoring his diffidence, and began to speak.
“Ryuugamine Mikado-kun, it’s not a coincidence that we met here. It’s because I’ve been looking for you.”
“Eh?"
Just as Mikado made to ask what he had meant by that—a convenience store trash can flew from further within the alley, and smashed directly into Izaya.
What we learned:
-VAGUE PLANS TO DEAL WITH BULLIES AW YEAH
-I'm kinda lame at this huh?
-Whoa hold up Orihara-san...!
-And then there was the cell phone scene
-Also all that playing with knives and crazy laughter is alarming
-Don't call me out in front of the pretty girl I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAVE HER YOU DID
-Oh I know where the rest of this memory leads
What this means:
So a tendency to try to stop bullies is a normal thing for Mikado. Good to know. Also sad/pathetic to know he's always SUCKED AT IT oh well. And this Izaya guy is um... Um. Wow. That was a thing. And Sonohara-san is pretty ///
So it's a significant interaction with Izaya and Anri but doesn't impact Mikado in Aather too much except more "Yep my life is weird."