CHAPTER 8

"And you're telling us that she just got off the train and left you alone?" Tadao asked again with a more frustrated tone.

Tsukasa sat before her mother, father, and biggest sister in the living room of the Hiiragi home and nodded with fright. "She was right behind me and then she was outside. I screamed and pounded on the windows but she wouldn't even look at me. I'm scared. What if something horrible has happened to her?!"

"Take it easy, Tsukasa." Inori quickly replied as she was expecting Tsukasa to assume something bad happened to her. "You said that she thought she saw Matsuri at the food court and she became more distant after that, right?"

Tsukasa nodded while twirling her thumbs anxiously.

"Well maybe she saw how upset that made you and she needed time alone to decompress or even let it all out in a private place." Inori speculated. "I mean you have to admit that if you saw Kagami have a meltdown, you would probably have the same thing and it would only add more stress to it."

Tsukasa glanced away, her eyes still showing traces of fear. "I guess you're right, but still, it was what she said before she left the train that is disturbing me. She asked me if I would love her no matter what she did. I think sis is in trouble."

Miki and Tadao looked at each other and both presented looks of dread. It now seemed to Tadao that Miki's mother intuition was synchronized with Tsukasa's fraternal twin intuition. The two ladies closest to Kagami were able to just sense that she was in trouble. However, neither of their minds even for a second considered the idea of drug abuse. Like everyone else, they believed Kagami was stuck in a dark trench of depression upon the two recent deaths and the only thing that would bring her out of it was professional help and medication. However, none of them were aware that the twin-tailed Hiiragi was already beginning her own version of therapy that also included "medication."

"Well, should we call the police?" Inori asked.

Tadao shook his head. "No, we're not at that level yet. Tsukasa, do us a favor and call your friends and see if they've seen Kagami or if they're with her now. Start with that Izumi girl."

Tsukasa quickly complied and reached into her pocket to grab hold of her cell phone. She slowly walked out of the living room and dialed Konata's number while the three remaining family members continued to converse on the new dilemma facing them. Everything Tsukasa had told them since she came speeding through the front door only a few minutes ago threw red flags up everywhere for them. Everyone knew Kagami always acted as Tsukasa's protective umbrella and would never, even on her worst day, leave her alone on one of those crowded trains. Everyone knew that plenty of creeps and perverts rode those trains and Tsukasa could've been groped or harassed without Kagami by her side to watch over her. Thankfully that wasn't the case this time but nevertheless, Tadao was still plenty frustrated with his daughter. However, he was more worried about her than anything.

For her to simply abandon her own fraternal twin sister on a train like that told Tadao and the family that they had a bigger problem than they thought. For Kagami to see another girl and suddenly be convinced that it was Matsuri and for it to shake her up so badly that it would prompt her to just ditch Tsukasa like that painted an ominous portrait. It told them that this post-traumatic issue was sinking deeper into her cognitive sphere of logic and was beginning to take its toll. Some were beginning to fear that it could lead to more hallucinations or hearing voices. If that happened, then there would be no choice for Kagami and she would need counseling.

"I don't like this. I don't like this one bit." Miki said as she slowly rubbed her hands together in a stress-relief effort. "Kagami isn't well and she needs to deal with this somehow. I still stand by my idea of at least calling a psychologist and getting their input if nothing else."

Tadao and Inori nodded and the Hiiragi husband replied, "I agree. This could be serious so I'll do some investigating and get the numbers of a few doctors."

Tsukasa suddenly came back into the living room while typing in a new number. "Kona-chan hasn't seen her since the funeral so I'm trying Yuki-chan now."

As Tsukasa punched in Miyuki's number, the Hiiragi family was startled when they heard the doorknob on their front door turn. All of their eyes quickly spun to it just in time to see it open and to their surprise, Kagami stood in the doorframe as if nothing happened while also wearing a new pair of black sunglasses. What made the scene even more shocking was the smile that was sealed on Kagami's face. It was so large and wide that everyone could tell it was forced and it looked unnatural.

"Hey guys!" Kagami exclaimed happily as she stepped into the house and closed the door.

Tsukasa dropped her phone and when it bounced on the floor, she dashed over to her sister and hugged her tightly, prompting Kagami to giggle. It was a strange retort given the circumstances as her parents and older sister also rushed in and analyzed Kagami for any signs of physical harm.

"Kagami, where have you been?!" Tadao exclaimed. "Why did you leave Tsukasa like that?! Do you know that she could've been hurt without you there?! Answer us right now! Where we you?!"

"Relax, dad!" Kagami happily vocalized while keeping her sunglasses on. "I just needed to take a walk and be by myself. Tsukasa was like really sticking in my crawl so I needed to get the fuck out of there!"

"Kagami!" Miki yelled upon hearing the vulgar word and Tsukasa's eyes instantly became teary. "Watch your language in this house and that's a horrible thing to say to your sister now apologize!"

"Oh come on, mommy!" Kagami continued to sprout her euphoria with her eyes still shaded. "I feel great now! Don't you love my shades?! I tell ya, this is one of the best investments I ever made and look at Tsukasa! She's fine and I bet you were worried some pervert would've felt her up but you were wrong! So in conclusion, I was right, you were wrong, I'm smart, you're not, suck it dry…and I gotta take a piss so if you'll excuse me."

It was the complete and utter shock her family felt that clouded their minds and allow her to slip past them. Kagami, still dancing and laughing happily, bounced up the stairs while humming until she slammed the bathroom door shut and locked it. Feeling that all her good deeds and desires for her sister were suddenly destroyed, the meek and frail Tsukasa covered her face and began to cry. The display Kagami showed sent a torpedo into her heart and she now truly believed that her older sister was better off without her.

As Inori moved in and hugged Tsukasa, Miki and Tadao regrouped together. Miki said angrily, "What was that all about?"

"You're asking me? I'm still trying to comprehend if she really said the f-word in our house or if I just imagined it." Tadao retorted as he stared dumbfounded at the stairs. "Or if she just told us to 'suck it dry.'"

Miki squinted. "Unfortunately I think all of that was real. That's it. I'm calling a doctor now."

The Hiiragi housewife sprinted into the kitchen where the phonebook was tucked away in a cupboard near the landline and she took it out and began to page through it. She searched the pages for psychologists that looked credible enough to help with their growing issue with Kagami. Tadao slowly approached the stairs and looked up towards the bathroom, a look of shock still on his face.

The twin-tailed girl stared into the mirror until she slowly removed the sunglasses from her eyes, revealing the horrific truth in her eyes. All the white in her sclera's was gone and replaced with haunting blood-shot veins pulsing and brightening while her pupils were still wide and dilated. The effects of the heroin were still raging through her body and she felt twenty feet high and bulletproof. All of the pain and depression she felt because of Matsuri and Misao was now gone and she couldn't stop smiling. She was high as a kite and loved every second of it. The only thing she could feel was endless happiness.

Staring at her blood-shot eyes, she started laughing at the sight and her knees began wobbling. Before she lost her balance, Kagami sat on the toilet while still sounding her animalistic cackle. What a sensation she felt.

As her breathing and sweating continued, she started gritting her teeth and began spitting in attempts to rid herself of an unwanted side effect of the heroin. She couldn't get the taste of heavy metal out of her mouth and it was beginning to hurt. Even her teeth pulsated in pain as the nerves in her crowns became hypersensitive to the wild ride that coursed throughout her veins.

Kagami quickly stood again and rushed over to the drawers. She ripped one of them open and snatched a full tube of toothpaste and she wasted no time tearing the cap off and squeezed the entire minty substance into her mouth. The paste flooded her mouth and dripped down her cheeks as it overflowed. Kagami dropped the depleted toothpaste tube and chewed the thick substance thoroughly still with an inhuman scowl on her face.

Seeing herself in the mirror again with the toothpaste oozing from her lips made her grin maliciously again and add her giggle. With a piercing glare of fury, she uttered, "Rabid bitch…nothing to fuck with…"

A knock suddenly came at the door and Kagami quickly jolted her head to look at it. Tadao's voice said, "Kagami? Are you okay in there?"

Kagami chewed the thick, minty paste a few more times until she swallowed it all and grinned. "I'm fine, dad. Never better."

"…Okay. When you're done in there we would like to talk to you in the living room." He replied and walked away.

Kagami turned her head back to the mirror and saw her blood-shot eyes in the reflective glass. She had to do something about the calling card of her newfound addiction and began fishing through another drawer. She found a bottle of eye drops and administered several drops into her eyes, not to clear the bloody lines, but to add more imagery to her impending act. When her eyes were thick with water again, she hid the drops and put the empty toothpaste tube in the trashcan and exited the bathroom.

She casually walked down the stairs and saw her family waiting for her in the living room, each one wearing a look of concern on their faces. The first thing Kagami did was something that no one in the family expected. She rushed over to Tsukasa, who was still sniffling from her sister's vicious words, and hugged her. Kagami held her close and she began to cry.

"So…so sorry, Tsukasa…" Kagami groveled. "Please…please forgive me. I love you…"

The gesture fooled everyone in the family, especially Tsukasa as she wasted no time in pulling her older twin close and began crying again. "It's okay, Kagami! I just wanted to make you happy!"

"I am happy, Tsukasa! I'm happy everyday that I was blessed with a sister like you!" Kagami wailed again as her parents and big sister watched. "You don't have to go through so much trouble! I just…I just want us all to go back to normal! I love you all so much!"

Miki watched the whole scene start from the beginning and she analyzed every second of it as she held the landline phone in her hand. She saw the redness and puffiness in her daughter's eyes as she cried while holding Tsukasa. It was a complete one-eighty from the display Kagami presented for her and the rest of the family only a few minutes ago and she had to admit that she was both optimistic and alarmed at the same time. All of Kagami's displays and words appeared to be genuine to her but as a mother, she still sensed something was wrong. Still, she didn't suspect that an intruder was still swimming throughout the twin-tailed Hiiragi's system. Because of this, it motivated Miki to sigh and place the phone on the table.

With Kagami's emotions vented and her younger sister feeling much better about everything that had happened since this morning, Kagami took a seat next to Tsukasa and cleared her throat. "So…what is it you need to talk to me about?"

Tadao looked at Miki, who returned his glance and she merely shrugged to present her confusion. Tadao turned back to Kagami and said, "Well dear we wanted to talk to you about setting up an appointment with a therapist but it seems that, well, you're okay now."

Kagami nodded. "I am, dad. When I was out on my walk, it really hit me hard. Matsuri may be gone, but I need to be here and I need to get myself together. Tsukasa needs me and I love her so much!"

The twin-tailed girl quickly grabbed her sister's hand and squeezed gently and Tsukasa griped it back. However, Kagami's grip began to tighten harder and harder and the warming embrace began to disappear only to be replaced with budding pain in Tsukasa's hand. She tried her best not to wince but was still unaware that her sister's senses were going haywire and it was the heroin that was making her hurt her.

"We understand you love Tsukasa, but we still need to talk to you about your attitude when you came home. Why did you say those things and use such offensive words in our presence?" Tadao demanded calmly but sternly.

Just as Tsukasa was about to cry out in pain from Kagami's vice-like grip, she abruptly released her sister's hand and replied, "I don't know, dad. It…it's the stress I guess. I knew what I did to Tsukasa was wrong and horrible and I knew a lecture was waiting for me so I just…I just got angry. Not at you guys…but I was just angry with myself. I'm sorry again. I'm sorry, Tsukasa. You know I love you, right?"

The youngest Hiiragi twin was rubbing her hand and was slightly confused by the harsh constriction but was still soothed by her sister's words and she smiled. "I forgive you, Kagami. I could never stay mad at you. I love you, too."

Tadao was sold on the display and he turned to his wife to hear her input. He was surprised to see Miki squinting at Kagami as she calmly sat, as if she was looking for something the naked eye couldn't spot on her daughter. Though Tadao didn't have a mother's intuition, he did have a husband's intuition and could tell that something was truly disturbing his wife as she continued to sit like a statue and observe Kagami. She was the one who was determined the most to put Kagami in a therapist's office but now she didn't really have any proof except for her earlier display, which she now clearly regretted in front of the family.

"Well…don't let this kind of thing happen again, Kagami. We all know how upset you are about Matsuri and Kusakabe, but that doesn't give you any right to just abandon your sister like that." Miki scolded. "You know how much she looks up to you so consider this a warning. Next time you act this way or any other way I see as troubling, I'm going to make an appointment with a therapist and I'll drag you in there myself if I have to. Is that understood?"

Kagami nodded quickly. "Yes, mom. Sorry again. Very, very sorry."

Miki tightened her stare at Kagami as her last words seemed a little too hastened to be normal. Still, she couldn't call her daughter out on something as trivial as a hastened speech. She still didn't suspect drug abuse when she allowed Kagami to leave the family meeting. The Hiiragi twins spent the rest of the day together and Kagami made her amends to Tsukasa. Towards the end of the day however Tsukasa was beginning to wonder why the redness and puffiness in Kagami's eyes wasn't going away. She was also wondering why her sister's speech was slurred every now and then and she sometimes nearly lost her balance. Kagami would just blame the string of irregular behaviors on Matsuri's death, which Tsukasa ate up because why wouldn't she? Despite her abandonment on the train, Tsukasa still trusted and loved her older twin and was convinced she would never do anything to deceive or hurt her.

Though as smart as Kagami was, she was only living in the here and now as the high the heroin gave her continued to pump throughout her body. However, it was because of this living in the moment mindset that hindered her from being able to see the bigger picture. By eight o'clock later that night, the twin-tailed girl was an absolute mess. The high was wearing off and she was already addicted to the powerful opioid. The withdrawal was already proving to be an impossible opponent for her inexperienced body and the dependency on it was growing. To make matters worse, Kagami's mental torment over Matsuri and Misao was returning as well so now she not only was going through physical withdrawal, but the psychological guilt was once again eating away at her.

She didn't know which one was worse as she sat on her bed and began to tremble in cold sweat. At the moment, her physical withdrawal was proving to be the dominant foe. The spot at her arm where the drugs were first injected was aching and throbbing endlessly, as if the veins were begging Kagami to put another needle inside of them and feed them the sweet drug they craved. Her muscles in her arms began to constrict like a washcloth being rung out over a sink and she gritted her teeth in burning pain to keep herself from screaming. The cold sweat trickled down her head and dripped all around her while her entire body shook like a building in an earthquake. Her nose became runny and she quickly realized that tissues weren't going to plug this disgusting spew so she had to plug her two nostrils with a pillow case. As she tried to stop the waterfalls of mucus from her nose, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach and it was gurgling and popping inside her like a boiling liquid.

A sharp stinging pain tore through Kagami's abdomen and she needed to run to the bathroom now. The trembling girl leaped off her bed and opened her door as gently as she could. She could hear the rest of her family watching the TV in the living room as she tip-toed across the hallway as her innards continued to twist and violently rumble. Kagami suddenly heard a pair of footsteps coming up the stairs, prompting her to damn any consequences and make a dash for the bathroom. She slammed the door shut and locked it and quickly eyed the toilet. She barely had time to lift the seat up until she vomited violently into the open toilet and her nose began its flow of sticky liquid again. Her eyes constricted from the pain inside her and tears fell from her eyes. The only orifices on her head that wasn't leaking or spewing anything were her two ears.

When her spew was complete, Kagami fell to the floor just as someone knocked on the door. Inori on the other side said, "Kagami, are you in there? You're missing your favorite show."

Kagami fought back dry heaves to answer her sister. "I'll be right out."

The sickly twin-tailed Hiiragi hoped that Inori left but her blood began to boil when she heard her voice on the other side of the door say, "Are you okay in there?"

"I'm fine, Inori! Can't I have a few minutes to use the bathroom in peace, damn it?!" Kagami snapped back while gritting her teeth.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry." Inori whimpered and walked away from the door.

It wasn't a moment too soon as Kagami's withdrawal returned and she began throwing up again in the toilet while her nose continued to drip onto her shirt and her tears stained her clothing's collar. She was an absolute mess and her teeth began chattering from the sudden and intense cold she was feeling. Kagami hugged herself tighter and shivered.

"I need more." She whispered to herself. "I need more right now."

Kagami reached into her pocket and found her cell phone. She dialed Ryuji again. The dial tones were like sledgehammers to her psyche as she muttered profanities and for him to pick up the phone. She grabbed one of her pigtails and began pulling violently and strongly on it, sending pain into her body to counteract the pain the heroin withdrawal was putting into her. Ryuji finally picked up the phone.

"I need more of that stuff and I need it right fucking now you pansy-assed dick sucker!" Kagami's temper and withdrawal was burrowing deeper into her mind and making her say and act in ways that would only be in nightmares. Her violent twitching and trembling continued as she panted and sweated as Ryuji replied.

"Take it easy, Kagami. I take it you want more of the same stuff?" Ryuji asked calmly.

Kagami instantly calmed down as if her outburst didn't happen and she replied through her still hastened pants. "Yes, yes, yes, yes. I need more heroin. Please forgive me, Ryuji. I didn't mean what I said. I'm not biting the hand that feeds."

"Good, then you won't mind if you put money in this hand because every batch from here on out will cost you." Ryuji replied.

"You motherfucker! You better hook me up with more of that shit or I'll kill you, you freak-ass crackpot!" Kagami hissed violently. "I don't have that kind of money to buy drugs you fucking turd!"

"You don't have two thousand yen sitting around somewhere?" Ryuji remained calm when he asked.

Kagami once again calmed down. She continued to pant and tremble until she replied, "That…that's all?"

"Just two thousand yen. That's all. Take it or leave it."

"When can we meet?"

"You doing anything tonight?"

Kagami took a deep breath. "Same place tonight in two hours."

The twin-tailed girl ended her latest drug deal and did her best to clean up the vile mess she left in and on the toilet and floor. She had to flush the toilet twice to ensure all of the vomit was gone and also had to scrub the inside of the bowl, a few times with her bare hands to get all the evidence that something was wrong out of the house. Kagami also had to take the pillow case and towels she used to mop her mucus and tears and throw them out in the outside garbage cans because of the degree of their stains.

Kagami missed the rest of her favorite show when it ended at nine o'clock, making her family concerned about her so when the program was over, Tsukasa crept up to Kagami's door and slowly opened it. The entire room was dark and Tsukasa glanced towards the bed, where she saw a large lump covered by the sheets and blanket. It seemed that Kagami was asleep, making Tsukasa smile lightly.

"Good night, sis. And sweet dreams." She whispered with her smile and gently closed the door.

Tsukasa had no idea that Kagami had been gone from the house for awhile when she said goodnight. The youngest Hiiragi's words were delivered to the bed by her affectionate voice, only to arrive at a cradle that was stuffed with extra pillows and draped by the sheets to make it appear Kagami was asleep there. Kagami was not only out of the house and neighborhood, she was slowly but surely going out of her mind.

Kagami arrived at the clock tower in the same park just as it struck ten o'clock and darkness was her only companion. Her withdrawal symptoms were only getting worse as she sat on the same park bench and waited for her dealer to arrive. She knew her problems were only stacking up when she began to hear Matsuri's voice. Her late sister wasn't talking to her directly and she wasn't hallucinating, but the memories of her voice grew louder and louder. Kagami hugged herself tighter and tighter as she continued to sweat profusely despite the cool nighttime air and her eyes darted in their sockets.

"Good evening." Ryuji casually said from behind her.

Kagami screamed. She screamed as if she was attacked and was about to be raped but that wasn't the case. Regardless, she screamed and jumped up from her bench and spun around to see Ryuji standing before her still holding the same satchel bag from earlier. Kagami's leg knocked and quaked together as she rubbed her arms together to create more heat as she looked downward.

In a broken and crackling voice ready to cry, Kagami weakly asked, "Do…do you have it? Please tell me you have it."

Ryuji grinned maliciously as he knew his business strategy had worked. His strategy of not only giving a free sample but making sure it was some of his more powerful and addictive drugs hooked Kagami and she now stood as a budding junkie begging for more drugs. Before he reached into the bag, Ryuji had to complete his transaction.

"First things first. Cash only." He said.

Kagami nodded and reached into her skirt pocket. She pulled out the two thousand yen and handed it over to Ryuji. Kagami uttered, "I was planning on saving my money to buy my father a birthday present next month."

"You want your money back? If so keep in mind that if you don't pay, you don't play." Ryuji held out his hand gripping the money and gave Kagami the offer to take it back.

The twin-tailed girl tried to hide her rising shame and guilt in her eyes by looking away when she shook her head. "No. Give me my drugs."

Ryuji smirked and tucked the money in his pocket and unloaded more heroin. It was the same amount as before and he walked Kagami through how to do it again as she was going to have to learn on her own sooner or later. When she felt the pinch of the needle entering her vein, Kagami felt the adrenaline rush one would feel as if they were in a rollercoaster that was slowly clinking its way to the top of the peak. When Kagami put her thumb on the syringe's plunger, her rollercoaster reached the top of the track and she felt as if she was on top of the world. Pushing the plunger and heroin into her body, her adrenaline and bodily excitement went crazy as the drugs rushing in felt like her rollercoaster was plummeting downward and taking her for a wild ride.

She pulled the syringe out and once again, a creepy and misshapen smile formed on her face as she fell onto the green grass and started fidgeting again. She released a haunting giggle while feeling weightless and happy. The voices of her dead sister once again disappeared from her mind and Kagami was high again. Feeling warm all over, she rolled onto her side and nestled herself deeper into the soft grass as her senses became more sensitive to the ticklish touches.

As happy as Kagami was when she shot heroin, what Ryuji said next brought reality into her drug-induced happy place. He cleared his throat and said, "You know, Kagami, that stuff will still wear off in a few hours like it did again. When you wake up, you're withdrawal will hit you hard again and the more heroin you do, the harder the withdrawal will hit you."

Kagami stopped giggling and sat up as Ryuji took a seat next to her on the grass. Kagami began to panic and whimper, "Then…then I'll just have to get more. You'll keep selling to me, right?"

Ryuji nodded. "But if you're seeking a high that'll last for awhile, I could always upgrade you to some new stuff. It's just as powerful as the stuff you're on right now, if not more."

Kagami threw herself onto his lap and gripped his shirt tightly. Her eyes were turning blood-shot again as she gritted her teeth and began to claw her way higher towards him while breathing deeply. "Give…give it to me…!"

Ryuji pulled Kagami's smaller wrists off his shirt and pushed her back. "Take it easy. This stuff will really cost you this time."

Kagami pulled herself up as she continued to tremble from her high. "How…how much?"

"Twenty thousand yen for a small bag." Ryuji replied with a smile.

The twin-tailed girl's high was the only thing that kept her from murdering Ryuji. She quickly looked around in a panic and retorted, "How in the fuck am I supposed to get that kind of money?!"

She was so busy with her high and panic of the impending withdrawal the next morning that she didn't notice Ryuji was eyeing her up. He observed every part of her physical body from her chest to her flat stomach and perfectly sculpted hips. He smiled sinisterly again as an all too familiar idea returned to him. What he was about to suggest to Kagami was going to be one of her last stops on the road of no return.

"Well…if you don't mind me saying, you've got a pretty sexy little body, Kagami. You've got long hair, a pretty face, cute eyes, and a nice slender figure. Your breasts aren't that big but I think…some people…would actually like that." Ryuji commented.

Kagami's face burned red. "You perverted asshole! Why are you telling me that?!"

"Put it together. If you want to make the big bucks, I suggest you start earning it from some lonely men…if you know what I mean." Ryuji finished with a wink.

She put it together. "Are…are you telling me to prostitute myself?!"

"Only if you're interested in making anywhere from twenty thousand to over two hundred thousand yen a night depending on how many guys you can satisfy." He retorted as he collected his things.

Kagami growled at him and turned away while rubbing the arm the heroin was injected into. "Fuck you. I'll never do that to myself."

Ryuji rolled his eyes. "Well, you could also just steal whatever you deem fit and pawn it off…or become a hooker…or get clean and face the realities of losing your sister and Kusakabe. I feel sorry for you, Kagami Hiiragi. Everyone that gets close to you dies a horrible and painful death. I know I wouldn't be able to live with that kind of guilt. But I'm sure you'll be able to manage all that pain without drugs. It's getting late so I'll see you later."

As the drug dealer turned and began to walk away, Kagami began crying. His words destroyed the euphoria she was feeling and the full realities of Matsuri and Misao were once again in her mind. In her mind, she needed the drugs now more than ever and she quickly stood and ran to Ryuji.

"Wait, don't go!" Kagami pleaded and threw herself at his feet, stopping him from walking. "I'll do it, okay?! I'll do it."

Ryuji looked down at her. "You mean you'll drop this purity girl thing of yours and get down and dirty?"

Kagami shook her head as she looked up with teary eyes. "No, I'll never sell my virginity for drugs. My mother is…my mother is rich. She has a lot of valuable things in our home. I can sell them. Where do I go?"

Ryuji smiled and once again pulled out a small notebook and began writing down some more information. He tore the paper off and handed it to Kagami and informed, "This is a pawn shop that my friend owns and operates. He's an expert at hocking stolen goods so anything of value you swipe, take it there and ask for him. Tell him I sent you."

Kagami looked at the address and nodded back at him. "Okay…be back here tomorrow with that better stuff. What's it called?"

"Crack cocaine."