Yamada tried calling Shiraishi while Kento messaged her.
"The number you've dialed is currently unavailable. Please try again later." The announcer said.
"Where could Shiraishi be?" Yamada asked worriedly, "I don't want the events of last year to repeat again."
"She's not responding to my messages too." Kento said, "Restaurant's exploded, Shiraishi's uncontactable, and Ma Luoping's murdered. It only means two options."
"What are the two then?"
"Number one: she could've died in the fire. No one knows yet as no one has identified the dead bodies yet."
"What's the second one?"
"Misaki Suzuki had kidnapped her."
"If the second option is true, then how the fucking hell are we supposed to find Misaki?" Yamada became anxious, "What will she do to Shiraishi?"
"Don't get so worried. I promise we'll find her." Kento assured him.
Yamada-kun And The Assassin
Episode 23
Shiraishi woke up in a house four hours after she slept. She was sitting on a sofa. She tried getting up, but it made her fell back down. She then realized her hands were tied behind her back and her legs were also tied up tightly. Ropes were also tied around her breasts and arms.
She tried speaking but her mouth is gagged with a cloth. She muffled for help as her new boss came to her.
"I was instructed to keep you here, in my house." He said, "So stay here and don't move anywhere." He then slapped her breasts. She muffled in pain once more. He then walked away as Shiraishi tried to squirm and loosen the ropes, muffling for help at the same time.
In Kento's house the next morning, he, Yamada, Brian, Miyabi, and Jay gathered.
"We got to find Shiraishi." Kento said, "Any suggestions on where we can find her?"
"What happened to her?" Miyabi asked.
"Yesterday, she went for a celebration in a restaurant, only for that place to be destroyed a few hours later. Shiraishi's uncontactable and she didn't read my messages either."
"I'll find her in her office." Yamada said.
"I will try to find her and contact my friends to see if anyone has seen her." Jay added on.
"Miyabi and I would help Jay." Brian uttered.
"And I'll pay Misaki a visit." Kento said, "Alright, that's all. We'll meet up tonight here to talk about our clues again."
Shaggy and Jennifer brought Haruto out to enjoy. They went to a swimming complex and Jennifer and Haruto played with water while Shaggy just sat on a chair.
He hated going into the water, unless he's forced to. He remembered fondly why he hated water.
When he was young, he almost drowned in a swimming pool. His father had to save him. Since that day, Shaggy didn't want to ever step anywhere near a swimming pool.
Yet here he is. But for the sake of his wife and son, he decided he should forgo part of his fears and looked at them playing with water.
"Shaggy, do you want to come down into the water?" Jennifer asked, "It's fun, you know."
"No, thanks." Shaggy shook his head. He then thought about Kento and the gang. Roi was the third member to die. Who's going to be next? He hoped that it wouldn't be him. He has a wife and son to take care of. He can't just leave them.
After swimming, he was driving Jennifer and Haruto to the latter's violin classes. After that, they both returned home.
"Shaggy, isn't it time to help your gang now?" Jennifer asked, "It's the most important time because there's only Misaki left to defeat."
"Even if I join, Boss will still say no." Shaggy sighed, "He wants Haruto to be an educated child first. You haven't talked to him?"
"He's always busy trying to find ways to defeat Misaki." Jennifer said, "If I were to disturb him, it might break his train of thoughts and plans."
"Alright, I won't force you if you don't want to ask." Shaggy said, "I'll just follow Boss's orders."
Brian and Miyabi sat down in a café, ordering their lunch as they rest from walking around to find Shiraishi.
"What a tiring morning." Miyabi complained, "We didn't even get to rest."
"But it's all for finding Shiraishi. She's part of us."
"I know that, but the most likely possibility is that Misaki's holding her hostage." Miyabi replied, "Or not we could easily find her."
"C'mon, let's eat first, then we'll try to think of places Shiraishi could still be and we haven't checked yet."
After eating, Miyabi wanted to stand up, but then realized her leg is in pain. It's been so long since she walked a lot.
"Leg pain?" Brian asked. She nodded. He went in front of her and turned his back towards her before squatting down.
"Hop on." Brian said.
"You want to piggyback me? But I thought you were weak."
"For you, I'll try my best."
"But I can still walk, just a little slower..."
"Just hop on. We're a couple already. Don't be scared."
"If you said so." Miyabi smiled as she hopped onto her boyfriend's back. Brian slowly stood up and walked.
"Gosh, you're heavy." Brian groaned.
"Actually, Brian, I can walk." Miyabi said gently, "I don't need you to carry me. I just have to walk slower."
"No need for that." Brian spoke, "I'm going to train myself to carry you. I can't let my girlfriend have a weak boyfriend."
Miyabi stared at him for a while, then smiled and nodded her head happily.
Meanwhile, Kento went to Misaki's house. Brian had told him the location. Kento slowly crept in the house, trying to make minimum noise.
He walked around each room, trying to find evidence to see if she had really kidnapped Shiraishi.
After an hour of searching, he sat down on her bed and rested for a while. He couldn't find any clues anywhere. It's like Misaki knew he was going to check the hosue.
"I got to find something at the very least." He thought to himself. He then received a notification on his phone. Someone sent a video to him.
It was a video of Shiraishi tied and gagged, struggling to be free, for ten seconds. Then a message was sent to him.
"I'm coming for you next, Urara Kento."
"Misaki's somewhere here." Kento stood up and took out his gun. He reloaded it and walked out of the room. He looked around the house and saw nobody.
"Strange." He then turned around before meeting Misaki eye to eye.
"Die, Urara Kento!" She tried stabbing the sword at his head but he dodged. He then kicked her stomach and face.
"Release Shiraishi this instant, you bitch!" Kento shot Misaki's left shoulder, "Your revenge plan already killed many. You should stop."
"Never." Misaki growled, "You and Odagiri are like a compatible couple. Both of you offended me 20 years ago! You beat me up, insulted me. Odagiri sabotaged me and I served a sentence because of her! Odagiri will have to show herself when I threaten her with her family!"
"You're never going to defeat me!"
"Yes, I am!" Misaki charged at Kento with her sword, but Kento dodged. He tried shooting her, but realized he ran out of bullets.
"Fuck." He cursed before he got stabbed on the stomach. He pushed the blade out and kicked her away.
"Kento, you're so persistent." Misaki scoffed, "Let's see how you fare with your bare hands against my sword!"
As she was about to stab his forehead, Kento held the blade. It was so close to touching his forehead, but it didn't.
His hands bled as he continued holding.
"Yes, continue holding until you lose an excessive amount of blood and lose consciousness." Misaki said, "Then you'll slowly die."
"Die? Not a chance." Kento turned the blade to his right and broke it into half with all his effort.
"How dare you break my sword!" She took out a knife and stabbed Kento once more in the stomach. Kento then coughed out blood from his mouth.
Due to losing a lot of blood from his hands, mouth and stomach, he fell onto the ground, feeling tired and numb.
"You lost, Urara Kento." Miskai chuckled evilly, "Now I just need one more chest piece to complete my revenge plan."
In the evening, Yamada, Jay, Brian and Miyabi gathered in Kento's living room.
"Where's Kento?" Yamada asked, "I thought he was supposed to be here."
"Beats me. Have you tried calling him?" Jay asked.
The other two tried calling Kento, but nobody was at the other line.
"Strange." Yamada uttered, "Did Kento have something on?"
"I don't know." Jay replied, "Maybe Odagiri knows where he is. Brian, go ask her."
"Me? You sacrificing me?" Brian asked, "You crazy? She's sad as fuck. If I ever step in, I'll get annihilated."
"I'll go in." Yamada stepped up to Odagiri's room and went in before closing the door.
"Odagiri..."
"Since when did I allow you to come into my room?" She asked sternly, facing away from him. Yamada then saw a pack of sleeping pills on her bed.
"Odagiri, are those..." He pointed to the pills. She quickly kept it, "It's none of your business. Get out if you have nothing to say."
"Odagiri, Kento's missing. And I wonder if you know where he is now."
"W...w...what did you just say?" Odagiri turned to him with a worried look, "Ken...Kento's missing?"
"We couldn't find him or contact him. We are wondering if he sent you a text message or a call or something."
"Why didn't one of you follow him?!" Odagiri screamed at Yamada, "Why?!"
"I'm sorry, Odagiri. I didn't know this would happen."
Suddenly, Odagiri received a text message on her phone.
"Nene Odagiri," it read, "I got both your husband and his sister. If you want them both alive, you'd better go to where I want us to meet. BRING NO ONE ALONG. Sincerely, Misaki Suzuki."
A picture of Shiraishi tied up and gagged and Kento lying on the floor, blood all around him, is sent to Odagiri too.
"So Misaki's holding them hostage." Yamada said, "We're going to follow you."
"No, you stay here." Odagiri said, "Don't screw this up further. I'll go. I want my husband to survive." She then pushed Yamada out of the room and locked the door.
"Holy shit, this is the first time I see Odagiri so pissed." Yamada said.
"So, you got annihilated inside?" Brian asked.
"Somehow."
Odagiri changed into her work outfit and clenched her fists.
"Misaki Suzuki, you're going to pay back for what you did to my loved ones."
She drove to a deserted warehouse and walked into it. She looked around for signs of Kento and Shiraishi.
"Looking for them, Odagiri?" Misaki appeared meters away from her, "I won't be giving them to you just yet."
"What do you want, Misaki Suzuki?" Odagiri growled, "You've killed Osamu, my mother, and now you take Kento away from me."
"Osamu?" Misaki laughed, "You mean Grover? He got killed by Michael. Get the facts right."
"You forced Michael to kill Sarushima, didn't you? Of course Osamu was there to stop him from getting brainwashed by you!"
"Because of that dead motherfucker, Michael turned himself in and now I have no one for help except myself!" Miskai screamed, "I'm going to make you and your family suffer the fate that I have!"
"Not today." Odagiri took out a gun and shot Misaki on her left leg. Misaki rushed forward to try to slice Odagiri's hand off, but Odagiri just shot Misaki's left hand, which held the sword.
"You bitch!" Misaki then kicked her stomach with strength. Odagiri flew all the way back and crashed into empty boxes.
Back in Kento's house, Yamada, Brian, Jay and Miyabi sat on the sofa.
"We should call Shaggy back now!" Jay screamed, "Remember how he didn't help much after his house's bombing? How much pain we suffered thanks to Misaki? We lost two damn members!"
"Jay, you got to stop telling us this!" Yamada said, "He..."
"Has a child? You have two children, Yamada. There's no exception for Shaggy!"
"They're five and three. They have grown. What about Haruto? He's just one. You can't just ask Shaggy to dump Haruto to Jennifer. Both father and mother are supposed to be there to take care of their child."
"Whatever, Jay." Brian said, "Let's just go to the warehouse Yamada's talking about and help Odagiri."
"Alright, whatever!" Jay stood up.
Back in the warehouse, in another part of it, Kento is lying on the floor, still breathing but is weak and could not get up. Shiraishi is still tied up, but not gagged, and sitting on a chair in front of Kento.
"Onii-san." She kicked him gently with her stilettos, "Wake up. We need to save Odagiri."
Kento just groaned in pain and huffed for breath. Further away from them, Misaki advanced towards an injured Odagiri.
"You lose, Nene Odagiri." Misaki gave an evil smile, "How dare you attack me when you're way weaker than me. Your fate is in my hands now. I shall kill you and end your family line!"
Misaki held her sword up high and aimed for Odagiri's head as Odagiri glared at her.
To be continued in Episode 24, THE FINALE!