I do not own Deadman Wonderland in any form. This is a work of fanfiction.
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Minatsuki and Shiro went to meet with Ganta and Senji about the upcoming trip to Deadman Wonderland. Senji was able to secure a meeting room at the police station, to limit how many people could hear them. Just to be sure of their privacy, Senji unplugged the cameras and microphones in the room. "Okay, now that we're about as alone as we can get here, let's think about this out loud." Senji began, placing a folder on the table. "We all know the layout proper, but we don't know much of anything about the area where people mysteriously die with no injuries."
Minatsuki opened the folder and looked at a partial blueprint of the area, part of which had been erased. "It's odd, why is this the part that's erased?"
"That's what caught my eye as well. We can get blueprints and floor plans of almost every other square inch of that place, but this is the part that's kept in the dark."
Shiro looked over the plans and suddenly remembered the area. "I know that place! I've been in there before."
"What the hell is in there?" Senji asked.
"Not much out of the ordinary, just some rooms and stuff, computers, a vault and this one thingy they said was made from the elephant's foot, whatever that means."
"Why does that sound so familiar?" Ganta wondered out loud. "I swear I've heard that term before."
"An elephant's foot? What's so special about that?" Minatsuki asked.
"No, not any elephant, they said it was THE elephant's foot. Like there was only one."
"I'm going to look into that. I know there's something to that." Ganta said.
"If it's bad enough to make people just die like that, it needs to be dealt with." Senji said with a renewed vigor.
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Minatsuki and Shiro made their way back home, stopping along the way to get more groceries. They got home and put everything away, then sat together on the couch. Minatsuki opened the laptop and started looking for things online to possibly help them when they finally went to demolish DW. After a few minutes, Shiro went to the fridge to get a snack, taking out two packs of baby carrots with ranch dressing for dipping. She also found one of the Deadman Wonderland antidote candies in the back, and took that out as well. She went back to sit beside Minatsuki and put everything on the table, even the candy. "Where did you get that?" Minatsuki asked, looking at the familiar antidote.
"It was in the fridge. Do you want some?"
"Ew, no. You can have it. There's no sugar or anything in it that could make your condition worse."
Shiro opened the candy and ate it. She stood up to go dispose of the wrapper. When she walked back from the kitchen, she looked at the TV and didn't see where she was stepping and stubbed her toe on her right foot. She felt the pain, which was odd since it had gone numb. "Owie. I thought I couldn't feel that stuff anymore."
Shiro sat on the couch and Minatsuki asked her to turn so she could check something out. She started squeezing her foot and toes. "Can you feel this?"
"Yes."
"But you couldn't before?"
"No. What happened?"
Minatsuki thought about it for a moment. "It was numb before, then you ate the candy and now you can feel it?"
"You think the candy is doing it?"
"Makes sense. But I didn't think there was anything nutritional or healthy in those candies. I'll look into it." Minatsuki said, kissing Shiro's toes. "That'll make it better."
Minatsuki started looking up the antidote candies and everything she found was blocked on their internet. It was either a website that was blocked as soon as she entered it or the site was blank. Thinking something was suspicious about it, she sent messages to both Senji and Yo. She asked Yo to look up the candies, since he had friends with internet connections that wouldn't be monitored or blocked. The message to Senji was similar, but she was merely telling him about it.
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Azami had been moved to a minimum security prison while her appeal was being processed. Senji went to visit her and since he was with the police, was allowed to visit her directly in the housing area she was assigned to. They sat down together and he slid her a slice of pepperoni pizza he brought. She scarfed it down quickly, thankful for food that wasn't prison mandated. "Oh my god, the things you miss when you're in prison." She said with a happy sigh.
"I needed to talk to you again about the area of DW where people die for no reason."
"Of course. What do you need to know?"
He placed the folder on the table for her to look through. She started looking and also noticed the blueprints that had been altered. "This is it, but why is it blanked out?"
"That's what I was hoping you might know. Shiro says something about the elephant's foot. What is it?"
"I only caught a glimpse of it once, but what I saw was some bizarre looking sculpture that seemed to glow in the dark. I also started getting nauseous when I looked at it."
"Do you think it might actually be radioactive?"
"That would explain the nausea and glowing."
"But if it were radioactive, why would it not leave any traces of radiation?" Senji wondered out loud, stopping to look at the other prisoners, noticing they all seemed to be afraid or avoiding the two of them. "You haven't killed anyone in here yet, have you?"
"No, why?"
"Everyone is looking either slightly concerned or downright terrified. Have you been in any fights?"
"No. The trustees heard I was transferred from DW, then to Fuchu, then here. I guess being from DW is what has them on edge."
Senji thought about it. "I guess you're right. Do they know about your abilities?"
Azami scratched her hand with her fingernail and made her blood come out in the form of a snake. "They've seen me do stuff like this. Maybe they know what happened when I was forced to fight before."
"Just try to keep your nose clean while you're here. I've been talking to the government, and I might be able to get you an early release if you can help us take down DW."
"I'd love to wipe that scar from the face of the earth."
Senji placed a small paper bag on the table. "Here's another little snack, and some cigarettes you can use for trade. If any of the other inmates get brave enough to talk to you, that is."
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Ganta had continued his research, eventually finding out about the elephant's foot. He asked Senji to look at what he found. "It looks like it's the deadliest object in the world. It was formed when the molten reactor fuel from the Chernobyl disaster melted the concrete and mixed with it." Ganta said, worried about what Shiro told them.
"Wait, melted the concrete? Not pulverized, crushed or cracked, but melted?" Senji asked, startled.
"Exactly. The radiation is so strong, normal Geiger counters can't even measure the radiation coming from it, they only read zero. It's so strong, that merely being a few feet away from it for 30 seconds is enough to make you sick. Two minutes, you'll start to have massive hemorrhaging, five minutes, guaranteed death. They say it's only a few meters across and weighs something like a couple hundred tons."
Senji saw a picture where it looked like someone was right in front of it, taking a picture of it. "That guy's probably dead, being that close long enough to take a picture of it."
"The film in the camera was destroyed. They even tried wheeling a camera around the corner to take another picture, but that was also destroyed. This one is where they used a mirror to take a picture from around the corner."
Senji started sending messages to the coroner's office, asking them to check the corpses for radiation again, this time using stronger Geiger counters. He got a message back a few minutes later. 'The radiation is so high on these bodies, we're moving them to a special facility. It should be of note that all hair of these subjects has fallen off.' He showed the message to Ganta. "That might be it. We take care of that, and the demolition can resume."
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After passing their time with another lovemaking session, Minatsuki laid in bed with Shiro holding her close with a smile on her face. Minatsuki's phone buzzed with a message and she checked it. It was from Ganta, and it was a link about the elephant's foot. He also included the message from the coroner's office. She clicked the link and looked over the article. "I guess that's what it is, at least we know what it is now."
"What's that?" Shiro asked, kissing Minatsuki on the cheek.
"The elephant's foot. It's a really bad thing. We've got to get rid of that before we can bring down Deadman Wonderland for good. For now, let's get some sleep. You really wore me out there."