"So where exactly is this hospital?" Hope asked.

"Just follow Anri. She's probably heading there. And I see her as well." Sectonia said pointing to Anri as they followed her to the hospital. Walking inside, they saw Erika sitting by herself reading before she saw them.

"Oh Anri! Sectonia! Sonia! Uh...Blue Hero guy! Nice to see you guys." Erika said.

"Hello, Erika. How have things been?" Sectonia asked.

"Good. The docs say that Dotachin might wake up today." Erika said.

"That's good to hear. We've been worried since we heard the news." Sectonia said.

"I'm kind of relieved I guess." Hope said. "I didn't really know him well but I did hear about his accident and Sonia was kind of upset about it."

Anri looked a little sad before she bowed. "I'm sorry!" she said.

"Geez. Why are you apologizing out of the blue like this?" Erika asked.

"Because I didn't come to see Kyohei today. I just wanted to confess something." Anri said.

"Whoa! You aren't going all yuri on me are you?" Erika said.

"Oh god no." Anri said.

"Well, haven't seen you two ladies in awhile." a voice said as in walked a man with a black jacket and red shirt being surrounded by five girls. "Oh, the blue guy's here too."

"Oh...you again." Hope said.

"You know him?" Sectonia asked.

"His name's Chikage Rokujo. He's the leader of a biker gang in Saitama." Hope said.

"Aw...and I see you got some new ladies accompanying you." Rokujo said taking Sonia and Sectonia's hands and kissing them. "A pleasure to make your acquaintances."

"And I see you brought your harem. Those girls follow you everywhere?" Hope asked.

"Most of the time. Not that I mind. You have quite a harem of ladies yourself these days. Still skilled with the ladies I see." Rokujo said.

"I dont usually think that way. Most of the time when i try to pick up girls, its hard to do so because they just trash me physically. Its not easy dealing with girls you dont know." Hope said.

"I hear that. Aint that right, girls?" Rokujo asked his harem.

"Oh Roji!" they said.

"Anyway, I came over cause I heard Kadota got in an accident and thought I might visit." Rokujo said.

"Sorry, but they're only letting family visit him and they're very strict about it. But he got out of surgery okay but he's still unconscious." Erika said.

"Really? That's a shame. I still wanna get your digits though." Rokujo said getting them. "Erika Karisawa. Nice. Well, guess I'll be going." he said turning to leave with the girls.

"Rokujo! I just wanna say…" Hope said.

"You know...I still haven't forgiven this city for what happened. I'm gonna get my revenge on Ikebukuro. But...I wanna find the guy who tried to off Kadota first." Rokujo said.

"That might be a little hard. There aren't any leads as to who got him in the first place." Hope said.

"I know. But there's no reason I can't try." Rokujo said leaving.

"Anyway, should we head inside?" Hope asked.

"No." Anri said as they heading to the entrance and sat on the chairs. "Listen, Erika. There is something I wanna talk about. Something not easy."

"It's about that sword you were holding a while back isn't it?" Erika said. "You sure you wanna talk about it here?"

"I don't care. What I'm about to say sounds so crazy no one would believe it." Anri said.

"Really? Then mind if I sit in on the conversation?" a familiar voice said as they looked up to see Izaya before them.

"Izaya?!" Hope asked.

"Oh, Hope-chan. Still as startled as normal." Izaya said.

"What...why are you here?" Anri asked shaking a little.

"Don't tell me you came to visit Dotachin." Erika said.

"Why? Is that so wrong?" Izaya asked.

"Surprising is more like it. And since when do you know Anri?" Erika asked.

"What did you do to Mikado and Masaomi? Did you mess with them?" Anri asked as her eyes were slowly glowing red.

"I understand your concern. If I were you I would be suspicious of me too. All though if I was you, I would be careful where you look your inhuman eyes at." Izaya said smirking.

"Well, are you messing with them are aren't you?" Anri asked.

"No. I have not done anything with them recently." Izaya said.

"I don't believe you." Anri said.

"Well too bad because it's true. However I am planning to mess with them in the near future. It is true. Mikado and Masaomi have great potential. They're more interesting now than ever before. How should I put it? It's like the two of them are walking on a tightrope, strung between two cliffs. See the metaphor? The cliff, the ropes, their friendship? As they walk, another rope is wrapped around both their necks. If one of them were to waver, they would take the other with them. And even if they grabbed the rope, it would only tighten the nooses around their necks. Talk about suspenseful. Can you imagine the reactions of the people watching? I bet they would pay admission." Izaya said sitting down. "Others would probably jump on the rope to bounce them off. The do gooders spreading rescue mats around. Hilarious. Though you know what I would do? Set fire to both ends of the rope and watch them burn."

"And why...would you want something that horrible to happen?" Sonia asked.

"Curiosity I guess. I would like to see how they would act in a situation like that." Izaya said.

"As usual, you remain the human loving info broker who loves to be the puppet master." Hope said.

"You make it sound like you aren't a puppet yourself in this show." Izaya said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sonia asked.

"I mean, for all I know, Hope could be acting on his own, or he could just be following his strange ideals on heroism just to satisfy his ego. You just don't know with this one." Izaya said laughing.

"Hey!" Hope said.

"In either case, this isn't some show in a theatre." Sectonia said.

"Can you be so sure, Miss Fallen Queen? It's as Shakespeare quotes: All the world's a stage, and the people are merely players in their roles...or something along those lines." Izaya said.

"Why are you telling us all this? What do you get out of this?" Anri shouted.

"What do I get out of this? I've told you before. I love humans. No matter how horrible they are. It entitles me to certain rights like messing with their heads if I want to. For example, there is a girl with a grudge against me who tried to kill me once. But I don't hate her. I still love her like any other human." Izaya said.

"O-kaaaay…" Hope said.

Anri was scowling at Izaya with red color glowing in her eyes once more.

"Don't you two give me that look. You have no right to criticize me. Little Anri, you gave your friend the cold shoulder. Yep. You had Mikado and Masaomi wrapped around your little finger." Izaya said.

"What? That's not…" Anri began.

"Forgive me for being blunt but you should have used Saika on both of them." Izaya said.

"How can you say something so wrong?" Anri shouted.

"You think its wrong? Well, maybe by normal human standards. Listen, whatever you think you are, you are certainly not human. You gave up your humanity when you chose to become one with Saika, that's how the deal works. And even though you are pretending to be human, here you are brooding like one while your friends are in danger." Izaya said before Erika hit him with a pamphlet.

"I swear to christ if you make my friend cry, I'll take a soldering iron to your eyes." Erika said.

"I like this side of your humanity, Erika. So as a fellow human, I'll back off. It's been nice chatting with you ladies and Hope, but I have a date with a cranial nerve exam." Izaya said walking off.

"Just what we need from him. More mind games." Sectonia said.

"Don't let him get to you, he's always like this." Hope said.

Anri almost collapsed as Erika got her. "Another second of that...and I would have cut him." she said hyperventilating.

"But you didn't. And that's the good thing." Erika said.

"Well...I think I'm gonna….bounce." Hope said leaving with Sectonia and Sonia. "Phew. I never thought a hospital would be so nerve wrecking."

"Yes. A lot of things are happening in this city. I get the feeling all of it is leading to some tremendous event to happen soon." Sonia said.

"You're not the only one. Not a lot happened the last time we were here, but what did happen was very deep." Sectonia said.

"Yeah. I'm not sure how much more I can take." Hope said as Sonia's phone vibrated.

"Uh….you might want to hold that. I just got this text from Lemon. And…" Sonia said showing a video of something falling into the bushes outside a building. On closer inspection, it was a woman's head with her eyes closed.

"That head isn't what I think it is, is it?" Sectonia asked.

"Gotta be. Its Celty's head." Hope said. "It has no blood coming from it or looks like its decomposed. Definitely it!"

"All this time it's been hidden. Now it's been exposed to the world. I bet it won't take long for the police to take it as some kind of evidence of murder." Sonia said.

"Then we need to head home and tell everyone about this. Then come up with a plan to get it." Hope said.

"Agreed." Sonia said looking at the head. "I think I saw its eyelid twitch. It's still alive?"

"No surprise. Dullahan's heads and bodies have separate minds." Sectonia said.

"But there's still one thing I don't get...what's it doing in a bush?" Sonia wondered.

"It's more likely someone planted it there." Sectonia said.

"Can you guess who could it be?" Hope asked.

"Just one. It's most likely the girl that tried to kill Izaya. This must be her way of getting back at him." Sectonia said.

"I guess we know where to look for evidence." Hope said. "Sectonia, Sonia...we're off to the police station."