Angel Beats! REBORN!
Episode 11: A Hint
Kanade lay on the white bed unconscious in the medical bay within the HQ. The night was cold, Yuzuru who sat beside the bed, held onto her cold hand. Takeyama entered the room with a darkened face.
"Yuzuru… the results are in"
"So? Is she going to be alright?"
"We gave her a scan, she may have blocked out the Shadows from consuming her with Distortion, but she was critically injured still, an injury by a NEO Skill can't heal like usual" Takeyama gave a pause, "We assume she has three days"
Three days… The words echoed within Yuzuru's mind. he gazed upon the beautiful angel on the bed.
Yuzuru grabbed hold of Takeyama's shoulders and shook him, hoping he would have an idea, "Takeyama, there got to be a program isn't there?! Give me a program to use on her!"
Takeyama shook loose of Yuzuru's grasp, he watched as he slowly kneeled onto the floor with small tears in his eyes.
"Maybe if we look for the person leaving behind these program codes, he or she may have something we can use" suggested Takeyama.
Yuzuru wiped off the tears with his hands and looked up at Takeyama. He got back onto his feet and placed one hand onto Takeyama's shoulder.
"Can you hack into the surveillance cameras in the city and get footage in the last few years or so?"
"I guess I can give it a shot"
"I'm counting on you"
Takeyama left the room, leaving Yuzuru and Kanade alone.
"I'll find a way to get you back, wait for me"
Later on at night, Takeyama gave Yuzuru tapes of surveillance camera footages from the past two years.
"Thanks Takeyama, I'll look for the person myself"
"But there's just too many for one person"
"No need, you get some sleep" Yuzuru gave Takeyama a determined look.
Takeyama nodded and left him.
One by one, Yuzuru watched the surveillance footage in fast forward and searched for at common person that appeared in each one.
He looked at the time, 2:41am, he had been watching the tapes for four hours straight, yet he had only gone through one-quarter of the tapes given. He rubbed his tired his and continued to watch the tapes.
A familiar figure appeared on the screen as he watched the tape recorded on the day he and the girls were attacked by Fiend.
Taichi?!
He watched as Taichi approached a figure that looked like Fiend. Yuzuru was enraged even though he couldn't hear the conversation.
He's a traitor?! I'll deal with him later, Kanade comes first. I have already found a teenaged girl that appeared in all the places the codes were found. But… why does she seem familiar.
Yuzuru printed out the poorly detailed picture of the girl and tried to remember who she was. Nothing came to his mind, yet he couldn't shake the feeling that he had met her somewhere in this world before.
Knock. Knock. Knocks came from his door. Yuzuru turned to face the door.
"Come in"
The door opened, it was Mayu.
"Sorry, did I wake you, Otonashi?"
"No, I was up looking for the coder"
"Have you found the coder yet?"
"Yes, I believe it is this girl here" he showed Mayu the picture of the girl.
"We'll look for her in the morning right?"
"Yeah"
"Then you should get some sleep"
"I will" Yuzuru realised that sadness was in Mayu's face as she sat on the edge of hi bed.
"Hey… it's my fault Kanade's like that isn't it?" Mayu said in a quiet tone.
"It's got nothing to do with you, it was Fiend"
"But… if I had stayed with them, I would have got him in check"
"If you stayed with them, you would have suffered more too" said Yuzuru as he too sat onto the edge of the bed beside Mayu.
"Yuzuru, I'm sorry" Mayu covered her face and cried.
Yuzuru placed her head into his chest, "It's alright, she pull through, don't worry"
Mayu dug her face deeper into his chest; Yuzuru could feel her tears through his clothing.
The morning came, Mayu opened her eyes and realised that she fell asleep on Yuzuru's chest.
"Eh?!" she exclaimed as her face turned bright red. Yuzuru too opened his eyes.
"Good morning Mayu"
"G-Good morning Yuzuru"
Yuzuru caught sight of Mayu's red face and realised what had happened.
"I-I should get going now" said Mayu in an embarrassed voice. She left the room and covered her red face for a while to forget the embarrassment before moving down the hallway to her room.
The meeting began, "I need everyone's help here, I need you to all to help me find this girl in this picture"
Yuzuru could hear gossips like, "Why her? Who is she?"
"Because she might be able to save Kanade! That is why we need her!"
The crowd became silent, "Leave it to us!" said a Guild member.
"Yeah!"
"This picture is the only lead we have on her, but everyone please try your hardest!"
Everyone gave a round of applause. The meeting ended, the members scattered around in the city looking for the unknown girl that was hoped to be Kanade's saviour.
Yuzuru entered the medical bay and sat beside the sleeping beauty and held her hand.
"I promise you'll open those beautiful eyes of yours again"
Yuzuru closed his eyes and prayed for her. May God help us find that girl and save you.
As Yuzuru opened his eyes and remembered Taichi, the man you approached Fiend. After Kanade wakes up, I'll deal with him. He must have told Fiend our location, that's how he found out, but what's in it for Taichi? What would make him do this? I don't even care, he's the one who told Fiend our location. I'll get him good.
Beep, beep! Beep, beep! Yuzuru pulled the walkie talky out of his pocket and answered.
"Yes?"
"We've found her; we're tailing her at Tokoshi road"
"I'll be right there" Yuzuru placed the walkie talky back into his pocket and faced Kanade.
"I'll be back soon Kanade" said Yuzuru before he left the medical bay and headed for Tokoshi road.
Please reveiw!