Shuichi and Hiro sat down for breakfast. Hiro was cooking, he sat down a plate in front of Shuichi that had eggs and pancakes, but the most that Shuichi could do was poke at it. He kept thinking of the dead corpse that Yuki dug up from the garage.

You see, once upon a time, Tohma, Yuki, and Shuichi lived in the same house. They lived in harmony for a while, until there came a time Tohma started coming out about how he loved Yuki. Shuichi was not comfortable with this, and tried to tell Tohma off without being to rude about it. Tohma became crazed with the entire situation. One day, Tohma was acting bizarre, talking to himself, speaking menacingly, and constantly referring to how he saved Eiri Yuki. That night, Shuichi had walked out to the separate garage to put the garbage away. He opened the silent door.

What he saw was a disaster.

Yuki was in a large ditch with a corpse in his hands. When Yuki turned around, Shuichi was out of sight behind a tree where Yuki couldn't see him. Once Yuki slammed the house door, Shuichi heard yelling and mad laughter. Once he heard the screams from Tohma, then the muffled screams as if his mouth had been covered in duct tape, Shuichi had started to cry. He was too frightened to move from that tree. About ten minutes later, police cars arrived and took the tied up Tohma away. An ambulance gathered up the body of the dead Yuki, and carried it off.

At some point, Shuichi managed to find a break in time where he could run to his bedroom and pretend to sleep without anyone noticing. Yuki came bursting into his room five minutes later and told Shuichi to get up. Shuichi pretended to look confused. Yuki said in a somewhat condescending tone, "There's something wrong with Tohma. He's going to a mental institution. Start packing. We're leaving."

Shuichi had started to pack, still acting confused, but once Yuki left that room, he started crying silently. By the time Yuki arrived at the door again, Shuichi perfected his "dazed and confused" charade.

The next few days involved staying at a hotel, where Yuki received and made several phone calls to and from the police. One day, Yuki announced that the court date was two weeks from then.

Two weeks passed with much faked confusion on Shuichi's behalf, and at 11:00 am they drove off to the state courthouse. Tohma sat in the defendant's seat, hands cuffed and a shoddy lawyer that had been given by the state sitting next to him because his money had been shared with Yuki, and that had been cut off. His company was taken over by Sakano, so Tohma had no money leftover for a good lawyer.

The event almost killed Shuichi deep inside, for he knew what was going on, but he couldn't show it. He didn't want Yuki to worry about him. At one point, Shuichi had to go to the bathroom and let it all out.

The verdict came at 2:00 pm, and Tohma was found to be guilty of first-degree murder of one Marcona D'Angelo.

A few days later, Shuichi Shindou and Eiri Yuki moved into an apartment building.

That was six months ago.

Shuichi kept up his charade for that long, until last night. Apparently, keeping it in wasn't the best thing in the world. In fact, it's killing them.

Yuki had hailed a taxi, for Hiro's apartment was on the other side of town. It should've been suspicious to him when the driver started taking a bizarre route, but Yuki was too fixed on what he should say to Shuichi.

Suddenly, the taxi stopped in an alley. Yuki, surprised and slightly frightened, asked the driver what they were doing here.

The driver pointed a gun at him, and Yuki was silent. She took off the hat and let down her long, blonde hair and pulled off her sunglasses and these venomous blue-gray eyes glared into Yuki's blue ones.

"What do you want?" Yuki's voice escaped.
"I want to know everything there is to know about Tohma Seguchi. And I want to know NOW."

Yuki narrowed his eyes. "What do you want to know?"

Angry tears flowed out of her eyes.

"Why he killed my brother for you!"