Night Walker characters are wholly owned by Gokurakuin Sakurako, I loved the basic idea of the story and the characters but not the way things played out. So these stories are in an Alternate Universe. These are short story vinettes that set up the universe as I see it and lead into the actual story. It's always bothered me that we don't see how things came to be in Night Walkers but just walk into it after people have already been altered, so this is my viewpoint of how things started.

2021, Feb.

Jiro slid the window open, the sides moving silently in the night. Well they should – he had oiled them just 3 days ago. The window he slipped through lay in a gleaming pool of shadow, courtesy of a broken exterior light. It had taken him 3 throws to finally hit that damned light bulb. Old man Tanaka snored silently in his private ground floor room. Jiro knew the old geezer would sleep through his movement to the bed, he had checked several times in the past while working nights by walking around the room and even knocking on the window pane. The old man had never stirred or even changed his breathing. Gouro entered through the window behind him.

The two moved to stand on different sides of Tanaka's bed as smoothly as though rehearsed. Well, it might not have been rehearsed but they had done it often enough not to need to even watch the other's moves anymore. Jiro slipped the gag in the old man's mouth as Gouro began to tie his hands. Tanaka began waking up but at his age, by the time he had finished Jiro was almost done tying his feet. Even as the grunting noises that were all the old man could make when trying to scream began to come from behind the gag, the two were at the window and within seconds, out of the building. The old man was easy to handle, too weak to be a problem for two strong, healthy young men. They carried him to the waiting van, careful to stay in the shadows even though there was no one about at this late hour.

He had handed in his resignation at the nursing home the day before, it was time to move on, find another old man or woman in good health but with few or no relatives to miss them. Then start giving them their pre-feedback drugs until they were 'moved' to the science center. He had no idea what "feedback" was, where the science center was or what happened to the useless old coots after they landed in the van and he couldn't care less. He was slowly amassing enough money that even if this experiment ended soon, he's have enough to move far away from any fallout that happened.

Umm, this is my first story every, I couldn't find a category for the manga "Night Walkers" by Gokurakuin Sakurako. Any comments will be welcomed.