Disclaimer: I still don't own Get Backers
Make It Look Like An Accident
One year later:
Ginji walked into the Honky Tonky, carrying a black box.
"Is that the glasses polish you're getting Ban for his birthday?" Paul asked.
Ginji nodded. "He kept hinting that he wanted that, as opposed to absolutely anything else."
Ban was getting a little wiser, Paul thought.
"And look what came with them! For free!" Ginji held up a piece of cloth identical to the one he got last year, except this one was neon green.
Paul sweatdropped. "I suppose you intend to give that to Ban as well?"
"Of course! It can replace the one he used to have, remember? He inadvertently set fire to it with his cigarette lighter."
Paul actually felt sorry for Ban- enough to attempt to rescue him. "Look, Ginji, you never have enough money to buy birthday presents for all your friends, right?"
Ginji turned chibi. "I can't even afford materials to hand make them something."
"So give the glasses…thingy to someone else. I know you have other friends who could use it."
Ginji stared at Paul, sizing up his glasses.
"NOT ME! I mean, you want the present to be a surprise, right?" Paul hastened to add.
Ginji thought for a second. "You're right! And I know someone who has a birthday next month! Thanks, Paul!"
As Ginji dance out of the café, Paul thought to himself Ban owes me one. But so does some other poor soul. Maybe I'd better keep my part in this a secret…
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One month later:
Juubei stared at the green horror. Blind or not, he could still tell it was ugly. "No. No no no no no no!"
"But you'll hurt Ginji's feelings," Kazuki pointed out.
"What about my feelings?"
"Do it for me," Kazuki said, looking up at him entreatingly. With eyes of steel. The last time he'd looked like that, Juubei had been objecting to seeing a dentist for his sore tooth. The needle master had ended up tied to the dentist's chair with iron thread. Unfortunately, Juubei hadn't been able to beat Kazuki in a fight even before he lost his eyesight.
But still…"What if they're destroyed somehow and I can't wear them? Would that be all right?"
Kazuki frowned, but decided to relent. He wouldn't want to put on something like that, either. "Just make it look like an accident."
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Not long after that, a certain store in Japan that sold glasses (and glasses accessories) was burned down. Arson or just bad karma? No one knows.