At the end of the alley, Kogami turned around the corner, just as he had seen Makishima do. He couldn't be too far away.

This part of the slum had a weird smell. Like sweaty laundry with a faint scent of metal. Blood, perhaps. Images of Akane's bloody body came to his mind again, which made the adrenaline in his body stronger.

He neared the end of the slum, which led out to an abandoned parking lot. In the corner of his eye, he just spotted the end of a clear, metallic truck. The truck Makishima most likely drove.

He paced up his speed, which he thought was impossible, but it wasn't. Reaching the end of the slum, he took a sharp turn; nearly hitting a trash can on his way. Makishima hadn't noticed him, so he didn't drive too fast, so Kogami could catch up on him.

By now, Kogami was only a few meters away from the truck.

If I jump now, I can reach the truck… he thought to himself as the truck neared the end of the abandoned parking lot. But would he detonate the truck, killing himself, if I did so? If I broke the deal?

Shaking his head, he paced up for the last time, setting off and losing contact with the ground. At the end of the truck, where the door to the trunk was, a pillar was planted, ready for Kogami to grab. And he did so. He had made it to the truck - and judging by Makishima's terrible and risky driving, he had figured out as well.

Kogami began climbing up on the roof of the truck. He knew how to stop the truck, but it wasn't easy. The hard pressure from the speed of the truck and the extreme amount of air hitting Kogami, made it nearly impossible to stay on the roof, but he kept climbing, grabbing every possible thing there was.

In some time he just held on tight in the middle of the roof, trying to figure out how to get to the front window without falling off.

With both arms, he pulled himself closer to the edge where the window started. He hung on tight, and the truck drove so fast that it was hard to see the landscape passing by them, though he knew that they still drew around in the town.

Touching the window glass with his fingertips, he grabbed the edge of the truck and slung his legs over and landed on top of the hood of the car. He had no idea how he had done it, but apparently he had done it. And now he was staring at the shocked Makishima.

Using all of his strength he raised his fist, slamming it through the window. A little on his knuckles alerted him, but he tried to ignore him. Just after that he took the steering wheel out of Makishima's hands, and made the truck turn sharply, making it crash into a lamppost and afterwards fall to the ground.

For a few seconds Kogami's vision turned black, and he had no idea how he had made it to the concrete so fast. A warm liquid tickled down the side of his head.

Akane had no idea of what was going on, but she knew that her neck hurt like hell, and blood was coming form her head. Her vision was also blurred, and her eyelids were heavy, but she knew that wanting to sleep right now was bad idea. The thing she wasn't so sure about was why she was laying in that position she was laying in. And what had happened in general was also unclear to her.

Suddenly the door to the trunk opened and Makishima with a bloody face was revealed. Through Akane's blurry vision, she could see the worry on his face. He really cared about her after all. That monster.

Through his white, bloody shirt, Akane could see a trace of something gun-formed. The dominator. He wasn't giving up on that.

Reaching out for Akane, he pulled her over, examining her neck. "Looks like your neck just got injured," he muttered, drawing his hand over the spot of her neck that hurt. "You are badly injured, sister. A little more and than this is all over."

Akane could only utter a few choked noises even though the mouth gag had fallen out of her mouth. Her mouth tasted like blood and she had a strange urge to puke.

Makishima swiped his one arm under her knees, and the other one around her shoulder, pulling her closer to him. Feeling disgusted, she tried pulling away, but she couldn't. All of her strength was gone, and all she wanted was to sleep. Sleep now, sleep forever.

The cold air hit her half naked body, making her shiver.

As Makishima began running, Akane could just sense a figure struggling to get up in the corner of her eye. The figure was tall and slim, yet muscular.

"Kogami… san…" she croaked, trying to reach out for the figure, that had gotten on their legs again, but her arms were too weak. Their running was very unstable. Either that, or then Akane's vision was just unstable. She did notice one thing. That was the fact that the figure picked something up from the ground, which had the shape as a gun. Not a dominator, but a real gun. It must have fallen out of the truck as they crashed.

Something Akane noticed too was the citizens, who watched in horror as a bloody man came running with half naked, bloody girl in his arms, with another bloody man chasing him. Some of them also looked back at the truck, which had nearly hit some innocent people.

Suddenly the lightening around Akane turned darker, which scared her, but after some time she realized that Makishima just had run inside some building. At the moment he was climbing some stairs, panting a lot.

Though Akane's sight was blurred, and had now gotten black edges in the corners, her hearing was doing okay, and she could hear a pair of extra footsteps. Kogami!

Again she could feel the air hit her body, which only meant one thing. They had made it to the roof.

The roof was just a square with no fence - only a little edge, half a meter tall. The ground was made out of cobblestone and had small weeds growing up between them. Weird.

"Hand her over, Shogo," Kogami demanded, exhaustion in his voice. He had raised the gun in his hand, pointing it at Shogo's head. "Put her to the ground and put your hands above you head."

Letting out a dark chuckle, Makishima put Akane to the ground, but only so she stood up straight. He moved closer to the edge. Akane's legs were too weak to stand up by themselves, so her brother held up with one arm around her bust. As soon as her feet touched the ground a sharp pain went through her legs, making her hiss in pain. She sent a paint look to Kogami, who returned it with his normal neutral gaze, but with sympathy hidden in it. She didn't even care that she was half naked. She didn't care. She had stopped caring a long time ago.

Makishima had to hold Akane's head up, because she felt paralyzed. Her whole spine felt paralyzed, but for some reason she could still feel the pain from the cuts and wounds.

The sound of metal cutting through the air enacted, and Akane could just move her eyes to see that Makishima had pulled out his blade. The blade he had killed Yuki with. The blade he had tortured her with. The blade that was going to end her.

"Walk away while you can, Kogami Shinya," he grinned, letting the flat side of the blade touch Akane's neck. "Would you like to be the reason for her death?"

Kogami looked at the paint Akane, who could now barely keep her eyes open. The black edges on her sight were nearing the center.

"I won't be the reason for her death," Kogami replied, still pointing the gun at Makishima. "You will. Her brother. Renzo Tsunemori."

By the mention of 'Renzo Tsunemori' Makishima's eyes widened, but after a few seconds he smirked.

"You can't use guilt against me, Kogami Shinya," he said loudly, now letting the sharp end of the blade touch her neck. "I'm a guilt-free man."

As he talked, the blade made a little, thin line on Akane's neck, making small drops of blood trickle down.

"Hurt her again and I'll kill you." Kogami warned, placing one finger on the trigger, ready to pull.

"Oh, so that's what you want to do," Makishima grinned, highly amused. "Kogami, if you pull that trigger, I'll draw a red scarf on my sisters neck with this knife. And then both Tsunemoris will be down. And you will be a murder."

It was clear to see that Kogami was in a mental war with himself. His gaze kept switching from Akane to Makishima and then back at the gun in his hand.

Suddenly the thought of Kogami becoming a murder made Akane widen her eyes. The thought of a Dominator getting fired and then hitting his body, making him explode. The adrenaline returned to her body. Maybe it was only mentally, but Akane felt like she wasn't scared anymore.

She shook her head shook her, trying to tell Kogami not to shoot, but just as she did that, she noticed him moving his hand, just a little bit. And then he pulled the trigger.

The next few seconds was in slow motion. Akane could've sworn that.

The bullet was slowly nearing them, but Akane could see it wouldn't hit Makishima's head. She could see that he had readjusted the aiming, not hitting his target on purpose, which gave Akane a plan. A plan that would most likely cost her brother his life. But he deserved that… right?

Putting all of her weight on her feet, she ripped herself free from Makishima's grip. In the process the blade hit her neck, leaving a painful cut across it. The pain didn't bother her. The thought of killing her brother did.

With her last strength, she jumped directly into Makishima, who stood terrible close to the edge of the roof. He looked at her with shocked eyes, but somewhere in those eyes a hurt look was hidden. He was hurt that his own sister intended to kill him.

But he had intended to kill her too, so it was okay. Right?

After Akane had jumped into him, she fell to the ground, but she could just see her brother, losing his balance and falling over the edge of the roof before her eyes closed.

And then she went unconscious.

Finally.

Without hesitating, Kogami ran over to Akane, throwing himself on his knees besides her.

"Inspector!" he exclaimed, rocking her body wildly. He had placed her head on his thigh, trying to make her comfortable, even though she possible wouldn't feel it.

Searching for her wrists, he realized how badly injured she actually was. Cuts, infected wounds and bruises covered her naked body. The big ex across her stomach made him clench his fists. He felt nausea just looking at it. He took her small wrist in his hand, placing his thumb on the artery, searching for her pulse. It was there, but it was faint. But it was there.

He put Akane to the ground, carefully, and crawled over to the edge of the building, looking down. Below the building, normal everyday activities were enacting. Nothing strange. And Makishima's body wasn't on the end of the building. He was nowhere to be found.

Looking back at the unconscious Akane, he pulled off his suit's jacket, covering her nearly naked body with it. He then pulled up the sleeve on the white shirt he had under the jacket, and called Ginoza on his enforcer watch.

"She's… safe now…" was the only thing he could say.

But it wasn't thanks to him that she was alive, no, it was thanks to herself. He should've known that. She was toughening up. She didn't need a hero.

Akane was placed on a stretcher, and her major wounds were treated immediately. The enforcers the gathered close to Kogami, who just looked as the MWPSB's ambulance, drove away with Akane in it.

Kogami had his injuries treated, though it was only a little cut in his head. It was nothing compared to Akane's.

"So… you fired the gun, knowing that he would cut off her neck?" Kagari asked, raising his one eyebrow.

Kogami nodded, still gazing after it, though it had driven away. "I thought that I only had one choice," Kogami muttered, mostly to himself, just to remind himself that he nearly killed both Makishima and Akane. "Maybe I could fire one more time after that and hit him. But Inspector Tsunemori was a step ahead of me."

Casually Kagari rested his hands on the back of his head. "Man, there has been so much drama."

Kogami couldn't help but chuckle lightly over Kagari's casual comment. He said it like it had been a dramatic day in High School.

Ginoza walked over to the assembly, a worried look in his eyes, broke the just lightened mood.

"There is no sign of Makishima," he explained the enforcers, who was eager for new information. "But he isn't dead. He somehow managed to, maybe, grab a windowsill on the way down of the building. The dominator we gave him tracked him a little, but it seems like he now had ripped out the GPS by now."

"Is he still able to use it now?" Masaoka asked.

Ginoza shook his head. "No, I got it deactivated," he replied, relieve showing in his voice. "But we will face some punishment for not informing the chief about it. And Kogami-" he turned to Kogami, who waited for his scolding. "Don't ever go against my orders again."

Kogami waved with his hands in defeat. "Yeah, of course," he promised, sarcasm in his voice. "Next time I'll just let Tsunemori get taken by her evil big brother."

Ginoza let out a 'tch' by Kogami's sarcasm. "By the way," Ginoza started as he remembered something. "They… have some results about her condition." That caught Kogami, not to mention the other enforcer's, attention. "They think that she will live, but they have their doubts. For example, the blade hit her on her neck, where the neck's artery is placed. They have a hard time trying to stop her bleedings. Also the back of neck is very injured and close to broken."

"But if they can stop her bleedings and fix her neck, then she'll live, right?" Kogami asked.

Ginoza nodded slowly, not wanting to promise too much. "Yeah, but if they can't…" he looked down in the ground with a saddened look.

Is Akane going to be okay?

Stay tuned for the FINAL chapter: Bound of guilt