Seeds of Agito
Last chapter surely gave you a surprise as Miyuki, from Miyuki-Chan In Wonderland, shows up at the end of the chapter and is going to play a hand in helping the DDS students in locating the other Akatsuki Ferry survivors, so expect some detective elements charging in.
With Kazuto the blackmailer out of the picture, Hikaru and the two J-Pop singers are safe…unless they get to destroy the evidences that he left behind…for it would cause trouble if fallen to the wrong hands…
Meanwhile Megumi is about to get stalked by a stalker until an unexpected someone saves her…in a shocking way that you never seen before…
Lastly, I forgot to point out that another CLAMP character made a cameo appearance at the end of last chapter. Kohaku, the main protagonist from CLAMP manga, Wish, shows up as a victim running away from the Jackal Lord, only to get killed. Hope you liked this little trivia…
As the morning sun arrived, the day became relatively peaceful, except that the scene shifts to the alley where Kazuto and another victim are still there, their bodies starting to decompose and flies are now gathering around to get some "nutrients" yet no one within the area is unaware that the two bodies were destroyed due to the Jackal Lord's doing.
Agito (24.7 version) by Shinichi Ishihara
(2nd Opening song from Kamen Rider Agito)
Kimi ga mita
Yume no naka
Hontou koto
Motomubeki mirai ga nemuru
Tada, yotte de
daki shimerarete ita
Yasashii... tsuyosa o...
Ready to Go, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida AGITO!
Sakende iru Kokoro no Speed
You can do it, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida Agito!
Ima kimiga inaito Get on!
Namida mi wa
Modo wa nai
Boku wa mi wa
husawashii toki na arudaro o
Mada Tokokanai Hisho wo Tokugengi Tsuturetemo
Ashitasu
Ready to Go, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida AGITO!
Tsuyo Kunareru Miyuin na aru?
You can do it, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida AGITO!
Yuru unaru aito Get On!
Ready to Go, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida AGITO!
Sakende iru Kokoro no Speed
You can do it, Count ZERO
Kamen Raida Agito!
Ima kimiga inaito Get on!
140: Iyagarase
By 8 am, Ringo is on the streets and is inside her limousine sitting on the passenger seat holding a briefcase containing a million Yen in cash as she decided to take the risk and try and kill Kazuto to get the evidence from him and then destroy it. At least she is willing to take the blame so that their secrets as Agito won't be exposed and knew that he must be stopped knowing he would continue his blackmailing spree.
"Sorry, Ringo-chan…Hikaru-chan…Dan-sensei…I know agreeing to his demands would keep things down…but knowing him…he might squeal us and this in turn would drag the detective school and it would tarnish DDS' reputation…but I won't sit idly and put you girls at risk…and in the worst case scenario…I'll have to kill him and take the blame…so as to exonerate Hikaru and DDS so that the school won't take the blame…at least I'll shoulder all the blame myself…Kazuto…you're going to regret ruining lives for the sake of extortion…!"
She is deadest on this plot of hers as she decided to forego the agreement she, Kobato and Hikaru agreed on last night that they are going to entrap him with the police and chose to accept the fact that their identities as Agito will be exposed even if she paid the extortion money but she also figured that he might squeal to the press so she decided to shoot him to death so as to ensure that Kazuto's activities will be stopped for good. Unknown to her friends and even her driver, Ringo is secretly carrying a gun as she intends to shoot down Kazuto in case he double-crosses her.
However, her musings was interrupted when she noticed several flies were heading for an alley and she asked her driver to stop, which he did and there she went towards the alley and found Kazuto's corpse and another one. Without thinking, she picked up her cellphone to call for Hikaru and Kobato.
"Kobato…call Hikaru and meet me here…I found something which is both good…and bad…"
-x-
About 15 minutes later both Hikaru and Kobato arrived and the Class M leader puts on her latex gloves she got from her DDS handbook and examines the bodies, where she confirms that Kazuto is dead, while checking on the other corpse, she discovered her school ID and the three soon realized that she is one of the Akatsuki Ferry survivors, and seeing the stab wound on their chests, Hikaru makes a compelling assumption. A Lord did this.
Hikaru: "No doubt about it…an Unknown did this…"
Kobato: "Seriously?"
Hikaru: "Yup…judging from the size of its fingers jabbed onto their chests…that's how an Unknown does to its victims…"
Kobato: "Wait…why Kazuto too? He can't be…"
Hikaru: "Can't say for sure…"
Ringo: "Either way's fine…at least he won't extort money from anyone…but still we need to find the evidence he's hiding…"
As Hikaru continues to examine the corpses, Kobato called for the police and soon they arrived, and immediately they questioned the redhead beauty for "tampering" the evidence within the crime scene but softened their stances upon seeing her DDS handbook upon realizing she's a DDS student yet Hikaru assured that it is alright and told the police what she deduced. Things went well and the police took the corpses towards a nearby morgue while Ringo sighed mentally as she won't have to pay the blackmail money yet their situation is far from over.
"Well…one problem's over…"
"Yeah…"
"Thank goodness…"
"Okay…copied his ID before the cops came. Okay…Ringo…take your money back to your bank…no payment is going to take place…and take Kobato with you…you two need to get some rest after a stress full bout…"
After telling the two J-Pop singers to return the money back to its bank, and after managing to sneak out Kazuto's home address ID, Hikaru heads out for his apartment to find the evidences he took so she can destroy it to save herself and the two J-Pop singers the trouble of getting exposed as Agito users. After entering his apartment, the Class M leader searched his "flat" and found the pictures, video tapes and the negatives, which she took all of them and checked everything else, and is relieved that nothing else is produced.
"Good…now to take them and discard it permanently…"
After placing the "evidences" inside her bag, she received a text message from Megumi stating that she has found another Akatsuki Ferry survivor named Miyuki and she wants to meet her and Kyuu. After receiving another text message from the Class Q beauty which shows Miyuki's home address, Hikaru decided to contact both Ringo and Kobato about this so that the three of them can met up with Miyuki and know the details about the events four years ago at the Akatsuki Ferry.
"This is good news…now we can finally get the info we need to know what really happened four years ago and why the Unknown are targeting the Akatsuki Ferry survivors…and what connections me, Umi and Kyuu have that warrants those monsters to commit murders…"
-x-
After several minutes, Megumi leaves the hospital and is heading to Dan Detective School as she is hoping to meet up with Hikaru and Kyuu and intends to tell them about meeting with Miyuki, but then she is secretly being followed by someone, who turned out to be Naoto Kirihara. Naoto somehow discovered Megumi's photographic memory, along with the fact that she too has an Agito seed, and intends to harass her into thinking that she will lose control of her abilities.
"You…I sense something in you…not only your photographic memories…you're one of the reasons why ARK made me kill my brother…!"
Naoto's actions are due to his warped grief over the fact that he accidentally killed his brother Naoya, and since ARK is defeated, he decided to vent his frustrations at her. However, Megumi stops by her junior high school to attend classes, and there he patiently waits outside and intends to confront her once she is alone and there he will harass her until he is satisfied.
"I'll wait for you…and when I get the chance…I'll make your life a living hell..!"
-x-
After several hours Megumi emerged from her school and leaves for DDS, and there he slowly stalks her which prompts her to stop and turn around, wondering if she is being followed. seeing that there is nothing, she continued her walking but after another minute she stopped and looked behind her, seeing nothing, but then she is starting to get terrified and walked faster, in which Naoto comes out of his hiding place and follows her, and there she stops and turns around, finally seeing her stalker and the confrontation commences.
"Are you the one stalking me?"
"More than that, girl with photographic memory…"
"What? How did you know about that?"
"You possess more than that…and yet you have no right wielding them…soon you'll lose control of them and in turn you'll lose your mind…!"
"I don't know what you're talking about…!"
"You KNOW what I mean…and I'll see to it that you will lose that power…for you have no right holding such power…!"
"Leave me alone!"
Megumi is taken aback at how Naoto knew of her photographic memory but then he started harassing her into making her believe she would lose control of her "gift" by stating that once she memorizes too much she would go insane, and with the way he is telling her she is becoming more and more terrified but then Miyuki shows up to protect her.
"Leave her alone!"
"Miyuki-chan!"
"Go now, Megu…leave this pervert to me."
"Th-thanks…!"
"Tell Kyuu and I look forward to meeting him…and Hikaru Shidou."
"I will!"
Feeling assured, Megumi leaves as Miyuki confronts Naoto and tells her to stop harassing Megumi but Naoto tells her that no one has the right to possess such power and growled at her, telling her to stay out of his affair but Miyuki glances at him and displays her "Agito power" as she uses wind power to slam him back against a wall.
"Ooof! You think you're special? Have at you!"
Naoto gets up and retaliated by using his psychokinesis to knock her back, which she is slammed against a parked car. Naoto grinned at his work and seeing her power and claimed that he can defeat her at her own game but soon he is taken aback by what he sees as he senses another presence within her and he started to feel fear and became paranoid as he uses his power to hurl several objects toward her, but Miyuki stared at him in an emotionless expression as she raises her hand and fired what appeared to be a hydraulic blast of water which sends him against a car, pinning him there in place.
"A water…? Wait…I sense another presence within you…who are you? Identify yourself!"
Naoto demands to know who she is but Miyuki saw a passing gas truck and uses her "Agito power" to cause the truck to veer towards Naoto, which the driver tries to steer but it won't, and to his horror, he is unable to get out as the truck crashes towards the car and then exploded, killing him and Naoto as Miyuki casually leaves, and after a minute she seemingly has no recollection of what she just did, while fire trucks and police cars, along with an ambulance, arrived on the scene, baffled at how this happened as there are no witnesses to point out what happened.
"Quick! Put out the fire!"
"Two corpses burned beyond recognition!"
"Just great…a drunk driver behind the wheels of a fuel truck…"
"And poor guy…pinned between two vehicles and got charred…"
"Maybe we should petition to put up a speed limit…"
-x-
While the incident happened, the scene shifts to Miyuki's apartment where Hikaru, Ringo and Kobato are there, standing outside her door, but after 20 minutes of calling her name, the trio decided to leave, hoping that she has not fallen victim to a Lord as they see her as an important person who might give them hints on what happened at the Akatsuki Ferry.
"Hello! Anyone home?"
"We're here…fellow Akatsuki Ferry survivors!"
"Give it up, Hikaru…Kobato…nobody's home…and we've been calling her out for 20 minutes…let's head back tomorrow…"
"Ringo…do you suppose an Unknown got to her…?"
"What am I? A fortune teller?"
"Relax, you two…I don't think so…I don't sense an Unknown within this radius…and I'm sure she's alright…"
"I guess you're right…"
To Be Continued…
While Kazuto is now gone, another CLAMP character gets to showcase her "Agito" powers, but with the way she used it on Naoto Kirihara, Miyuki may be more than what she appeared to be, given the fact that Naoto tries to harass Megumi. This now puts a "closure" to the Night Head Genesis with the only character of that series killed off.
Preview:
Next chapter, the DDS student who hasn't been around lately is coming back…and SHE is coming back in a controversial way…I'm guessing you know WHO…
