Hunt For The Mystical Medals
Disclaimer:
Detective Conan is owned by Gosho Aoyama
Kamen Rider OOO is owned by Ishimori Productions
The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.
Last chapter showed the Black Organization getting a "makeover" and Gin and co. are now assigned to lead their newly-designated sub-groups as the "anonymous leader" proclaimed that their organization will be taking steps in making themselves one of the contenders of the underworld crime syndicate, seemingly unaware of what is happening in the city being terrorized by the Greed.
Meanwhile, the Detective Conan crew investigates the identities of the three high school girls who died while fighting Uva, the principal antagonists of this arc will slowly be revealed…and hints on the causes of their deaths will also be shown…
About 30 minutes later, at the Agasa house, Hiroshi Agasa came and there he told Kyuji and the others what he saw and a heated debate took place and there the two recalled a similar incident they encountered after hearing Hiroshi describing how the three girls' deaths happened, which Kyuji pointed out that it is the same as it happened to the four men they fought just before the Ageha Yummy incident a few weeks back.
"…and that's what I saw and how it happened…"
"Wait…this is just like the scenario Ankh and I encountered last week…the victims suddenly collapsed…bleeds on their eyes, ears, nose and mouth…then grew fur and claws…but…it couldn't just happened like that all of the sudden…Ankh…are you sure a Yummy is not involved?"
"Do I have to repeat myself again? I told you that there is no Yummy…I don't detect them and you already saw it…if what the old man say is true…then it means that humans have the means to make a fellow human evolve forcefully through inhuman means…! And no…I don't think Kazari is involved in this…he wouldn't stoop that low…"
"If so, gentlemen…what made the three girls cause them to develop the means of fighting that Greed before dying so suddenly…"
By then, Ran Mori came and told everyone that she got word that her dad and Heiji are investigating the disappearance of three high school girls from Tokyo High, who are reported missing for a week. Hiroshi seemed to grasps this and asked her for the pictures of the missing girls which she showed it to him and there the inventor stared wide-eyed and tells everyone that the three missing girls in the picture are the ones he saw at the park fighting Uva before they mysteriously died.
"It is them! They're the ones who fought the Greed called Uva several minutes ago!"
"Are you sure, Hiroshi-san?"
"Yes, Miss Ran…I'm positive!"
"How did you know?"
"I witnessed it at the park…they are acting rather rabidly before they died of unknown reasons…"
"then maybe they're taken to the morgue…"
Shiho then looked at the poster, where the three girls who are reportedly missing are identified as Hikaru Shidou, Fuu Hououji, and Umi Ryuuzaki, and at her suggestion, they all decided to head for the morgue and check them out to see if they are the ones who went missing. While Ankh is uninterested at first, the memory of his and Kyuji's encounter with the four thugs who died mysteriously and exhibited the same symptoms like what Hiroshi described a while ago made him curious and the Greed decided to tag along to see if what the inventor claimed is true or not, much to Kyuji's relief as they have no idea that danger is about to charge at them when least expected.
"Ran…Hiroshi…why don't we go to the morgue and see for ourselves what you told us…"
"Yes…I'm up for that…"
"Very well…"
"Ankh…are you coming too?"
"Yes, Kyuji…I want to see if the three female humans' deaths are the same as the four men we encountered during the Ageha Yummy's rampage…".
Anything Goes by Maki Oghuro
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider OOO)
(You count the medals 1,2 and 3
Life goes on Anything goes Coming up OOO)
ira nai mota nai yume mo mi nai
furii na joutai sore mo ii kedo
(kokkara hajimaru The show we're waiting for
Count the medals 1, 2 and 3 )
unmei wa kimi hanattoka nai
kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai
(michi naru tenkai Give me energy Count the medals 1, 2 and 3)
daijoubu. ashita wa itsu datte hakushi (Blank)
jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono sa
OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!
Anything Goes! sono kokoro ga atsuku naru mono
mitasa reru mono o sagashi te
Life goes on! honki dashi te tatakau no nara
makeru ki shi nai hazu!
71: Shishi Iyakuhin, Gyanguu~ōzu, Shōkōgun part 2
About 20 minutes later, Hiroshi, along with Kyuji and the rest arrived at the Tokyo Funeral Parlor where the three girls are brought in, and there Kogoro Mori arrived after getting a call from Ran that the three missing girls might be there and everyone went inside to see the corpses in hopes that the three girls are the ones that went missing, and there the one who is in charge of the funeral parlor led them to the newly arrived bodies that are about to be exhumed.
"Sir…Kogoro Mori…private investigator…we'd like to check the three girls that just arrived here…"
"Yes, you may…but you might be surprised once you see their…appearances…"
"I can deal with anything…have they been exhumed?"
"No…not yet…"
As they arrive further inside, Kogoro saw the corpses of the three, but is baffled at their appearances which they are covered in fur and sporting cat-like claws as he never seen anything like this before, but the school uniforms that the bodies are wearing is enough to make him glance at the pictures of the missing persons and there he found their school IDs still attached to their clothing, confirming them to the ones missing.
"Yes…they're the ones that went missing alright…and their school IDs matched the names on the missing person poster…"
"Goodness…what happened to them? They looked like…similar to horror movies involving werewolves…"
On the other hand, Hiroshi confided to Kyuji, Shiho and Ankh that the three girls were fighting Uva before they collapsed on the ground before dying, and Ankh glances at the corpses again and tells them that the corpses' current states are the same ones that the thugs underwent when he and Kyuji fought them a week ago, and he wondered if these two cases are related or not, while Kyuji is a bit alarmed at seeing this case a second time since last week.
"This is bad…this is the second time I encountered something like this…"
"Deal with it, Kyuji…and I thought the Greed and their Yummies are the only problems in this era…"
Kyuji, Ankh and Shiho asked Hiroshi if he really meant what he said about them fighting Uva, and the inventor confirmed it by showing them the footage he copied on his cellphone and the trio are in a state of disbelief at seeing the scene, and Ankh wondered how this is possible as human weapons have no effect against the Greed other than the ones that the Kougami Foundation provided.
"This can't be true…"
"I agree…but the way they held their own against Uva…this is no joke…"
"True…even after using Mezeru's Core medals I couldn't keep victims like these back until they suddenly died…"
"Hmm…human weapons are no match for the Greed apart from the weapons that Kougami provided…but…I don't think they can provide the means to use humans as human weapons…then it means there are others who have developed a weapon to give humans superhuman abilities…except that they die during a battle…"
Even Ran saw this and is worried that something like this might escalate further as she believes that if the Black Organization were to find out about this they might take advantage of this and make use of this factor to terrorize Tokyo and the rest of Japan, and is having second thoughts of telling her dad, who is still talking with the coroner, who just told him that he will allow the police to conduct an autopsy on the corpses to see what caused the bodies to grow fur and claws.
-x-
Meanwhile, at the Kougami Biotech Laboratories, Kiyoto Maki is playing a footage that was brought to him by the Batta Candroid and watches the recorded video of Uva fighting the three girls, and saw them slump to the ground dying as they grew fur and claws, and as he adjust his glasses, Kazari, who is now hanging around at Maki's lab, is intrigued by what he saw and asked for Maki's opinion on the matter.
"Hmm…this is interesting…"
"Interesting, indeed…it seems that the three girls have developed the ability to match their opponents' abilities…but I liked their ending…so sudden without warning."
"So…is this foundation you're working at is behind this? If so…then it would be a big trouble for the Greed… since we all have to contend with O's and Ankh…"
"No…the Kougami foundation doesn't have the means to do something like that…we only specialize in Cell Medals…"
"Oh…? Then how do you explain that?"
"There is one possibility…but it is based on rumors that I heard…"
"Rumors, you say?"
Maki then tells Kazari of the "rumors" he has heard about the so-called "Wild Adapter", in which it is said to be an "elusive drug" that drug dealers and gang members are searching for and intends to sell them to those who can affords it, specifically within the black market. Maki pointed out that, according to some "sources" he spoke to, the Wild Adapter is the name of a dangerous drug which transforms its users into an animalistic state; the users exhibit superhuman strength and a berserker mentality until the drug causes his or her organs to explode, effectively killing them. According to what Maki said, The corpses left behind by Wild Adapter are covered in fur and sport cat-like claws, became somewhat of a "high-commodity" in place of illegal, high-profile drugs and that dealers and gangster are scrambling to find the source of these said drugs.
"Hmm…I see…at least we won't have to worry about it…but about the so-called authorities who encountered the corpses…"
"It won't be a problem…for I heard that the police are baffled by these Wild Adapter incidents, even as they investigate the remains of Wild Adapter users, they couldn't figure out as they claimed that the victims' blood yielded negative results…thus they are facing a blank wall."
"I see…Hmm…"
"What is it?"
"The three girls suspected of using this Wild Adapter…they used it to fight Uva, right?"
"Yes…"
"Suppose…my two fellow Greeds would…"
Kazari wondered aloud if Mezeru and Gameru have encountered these cases apart from Uva, and wished that he would like to personally see how this Wild Adapter's effect work once a victim is about to die, but then a Taka and Batta Candroid arrive and there Maki took the Batta Candroid and played the footage it has brought, and there it shows a scene where Kyuji and Ankh fought four men and they get to see O's trans formed and uses three of Mezeru's Core Medals and Kazari saw that even the two of them are having difficulty in stopping the four thugs.
"Hmm…it seems that O's and his Greed ally have also encountered more Wild Adapter users…"
"Whoa…he even used Mezeru's Core Medals…and couldn't keep them back…"
"Watch carefully, Kazari…you might learn something about these…"
"I already am…and I'm enjoying seeing Ankh struggle…if he were to regain his original, Greed form…I wondered if he is able to incinerate them…"
"That remains to be seen…but I doubt it…the three girls were able to dodge Uva's electrical attacks…"
"True…"
"So…they would eventually die?"
"That I assume…"
After some several minutes it shows that the four men died in the same way that Uva's three opponents did, and it shows them spurting fur and claws as well as bleeding from their eyes, ears, nose and mouths. This made Kazari curious and wanted to know more about this "elusive drug", but Maki cautions him about this as he told him that it might take a lucky guess on where to find the shipment and the origin of the Wild Adapter.
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At the Kougami Foundation, Kousei Kougami, Erika Satonaka, and Shintaro Gotoh studies the footages of O's and Ankh fighting the four thugs and Uva fighting the three high school girls, and even saw them dying mysteriously and spurting fur and claws. While Erika was a bit bothered by the sight, Gotoh is concerned at how the seven victims were able to hold on their own against the likes of O's and one of the Greed yet they suddenly died for no reason.
"Hmm…a new breed of super-humans…and imagine them fighting a Greed…splendid…very splendid indeed!"
"Yuck…look at how they die…spitting blood…growing fur and claws…I'd definitely am going to lose my appetite…"
"But…how can they die just like that?"
"How would I know?"
"How can you act so cold, Satonaka?"
"Well…for me it's nothing personal…just business…"
"All you care about is money…"
"Never mind it, you two…join me in baking a birthday cake…to celebrate the birth of a new breed of super-humans! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
As Kougami prepares to bake a cake to "celebrate" a birth of new "super humans", Gotoh wondered aloud that he seem to have seen and heard of this before, and mentioned that he heard some of his ex-colleagues from the police that they encountered cases like these in Tokyo and Yokohama, but Kougami instead tells Gotoh to send the Candroids there to get more footages so he can study them more.
-x-
The scene shifts to an alley somewhere in Yokohama, and it shows that a van had just parked at a vacant lot and the van's door opened, revealing a few men looking like drug dealers, but they are actually high-ranking field agents who are members of a Yakuza group called the "Toujougumi", and then they opened the van's compartment door where it shows that they had just released seven teenagers, who appeared to be drugged and they wobbled out of the van.
"Okay…just let them go ahead…in a few minutes it'll take effect on them…"
"This is going to be a blast…we get to see our rivals get beaten up…"
"I'm going, guys…because I'm going to record this footage…and our boss will be pleased once he get to see this…!"
It is showed that the seven teenagers appeared to be abducted and are injected with the Wild Adapter drug, and they are wobbly entering the alley where several delinquents are hanging out, and this would set an unexpected incident to take place as one of the Toujougumi members slowly followed them carrying a video camera to record the would-be "incident".
To Be Continued...
Moment by Toshiyuki Morikawa and Hideo Ishikawa
(Ending Song from Araiso Private High School Executive Committee)
"For the day that I will die.
...Yes! The end will come.
without hurrying, so..."
"Everybody go away! Everybody go away! "
Taikutsu sou da ne to waratta kimi no te wo hanare
Ano hi notto no kirehashi wa hikouki ni natta
Monokuro no keshiki wo yukkuri to hikisaite
"For the day that I will die."
Toki no suna wa nagareru mama
Koko ni iru koto, kimi to iru koto, ima wa sore dake
La lalalalala la...
"Everybody go away! Everybody go away! Everybody go away! Everybody go away!"
Koko ni ita koto, boku ga ita koto, tada sore dake!
"For the day that I will die.
...Yes! The end will come.
without hurrying, so..."
Surprise…the three victims who fought Uva in the last chapter are revealed to be the main protagonists from the CLAMP manga/anime Magic Knight Rayearth, and they are the second batch to be shown succumbing to this mysterious drug, and the Detective Conan crew are starting to establish a link since Kyuji and Ankh encountered a similar case since the previous arc.
Maki and Kazari makes an appearance and there they revealed the so-called drug that caused the victims to die while spurting fur and claws, and it seems that they are aware of what's happening after seeing O's and Uva fighting off the "victims".
And…that's if you guessed it right…this arc is based on Wild Adapter, which is Kazuya Minekura's latest works besides the Saiyuki series and Bus Gamer, and one of the principal antagonists of this arc is also shown. This will certainly make things difficult for our heroes to handle given that the Black Organization are about to make their move once things escalate and if they and the Wild Adapter villains meet…who knows what would happen next…
Trivia:
1) I discovered this manga two years ago in the form of an OVA titled "Araiso Private High School Executive Committee", and there I discovered it accidentally on youtube, and I was somewhat amysed by the whimsical plot, but after opting to find out more on wikipedia, I was shocked to learn that the OVA is based on the manga Wild Adapter.
Immediately I read the plot synopsis and learned that the manga is a SERIOUS version and it caters on the action-oriented, and is quite more on the MATURE side as the manga shows some NUDITY and violence, and after reading the mangas online, I find myself interested.
Unfortunately, Kazuya Minekura is recuperating from a recent illness, hence, the manga is currently on hiatus, so what I can cook up for this arc is based on the manga chapters I read.
2) Having watched the OVA, and after reading the info on wikipedia, I realized now that the plot of the OVA has nothing to do with the manga plot, but at least it is a good adaptation that would satisfy the fans of the manga as well as the Saiyuki fans. I guess the OVA wasn't based on the manga given the fact that the manga only released 6 volumes and is still ongoing...
3) Since this manga series only released this OVA, and liking the ending song, I decided to post this ending song so as this arc would have a new ending song, something that I haven't done so since the ROD arc (Writer, Stolen Talents, Gravitiy Power).
Preview:
1) The seven teenagers who are "drugged" will be revealed…
2) …and they are about to cause mayhem within Yokohama…
3) Another antagonist of Wild Adapter will show up
4) And another Greed unknowingly gets into the battlefield…no doubt will face the villains of this arc…hence "gang wars" as the villains of this fic are about to bang heads against each other in the upcoming chapters…
Characters appearing in this arc:
Now then…a modified list of characters that appear in every arc of this fic so that you'll know which series (or in this case, film) they came from…
Wild Adapter (manga)
- Toujougumi
Magic Knight Rayearth
- Hikaru Shidou
- Umi Ryuuzaki
- Fuu Hououji