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DDD « Thread Started on Feb 13, 2006, 7:46pm »
Didn't want to make a new thread for this since I could have sworn there was one in here but.... http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/magazines/faust3/ Currently being written by Kinoko. I read bits of it a while back but didn't think much of it (since what's on the site is only a portion of what's actually inside the magazine and I totally forgot about it afterwards). But apparently's it's got that Rakkyo feeling to it and is pretty good actually. Or so I heard. The file size is 666kb ((;߄D)KNKNuu Anyone read the whole thing?
I've had a copy of the magazine for well over a year now... but I've still never read it, as it's quite heavy going. Seems to be just a one-off novella rather than a series, just under a hundred pages.
Amazon Japan still have the "magazine" in stock, in theory...
Ooh; I'm tempted, even though I know I won't read it for ages... any idea how the two versions of HandS relate? Is it just a two-parter? Judging from the previews, they do at least seem to be different....
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Re: DDD « Reply #7 on Apr 8, 2006, 4:45am »
I'll start posting some scans up on Sunday. The pdfs above ought to have the majority of the art though. The ones that aren't already in the pdfs really aren't worth posting, imo.
Anyway, finished reading the first story, Junk the Eater and started up on HandS (which is initially set before Junk the Eater).
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Re: DDD « Reply #9 on Apr 29, 2006, 11:27am »
They all look amazing------- I just have a question does the story have a faustian twist just as the title suggest or does the story go deeper...??? but knowing how Kinoko Nasu writes I think it does (Or maybe not ^ ^ () ) ^ ^ () in any case if anyone could give a quick synopsis of the story please do ^ ^
Memory is desperate to leave us... Memory know's that we cannot endure it's company...Memory would reduce us to nothing but fool's...?!
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Re: DDD « Reply #10 on Apr 30, 2006, 6:42am »
0/ One day, a salaryman named Kizaki commited suicide one day and took his family with him. After that, he called the police and asked them to take care of the mess. Of course, the whole idea was ridiculous. The guy committed suicide and was calling the police? So one officer went to his house and never came back. His parter eventually went to the same house to see what happened. He didn't come back either. And so the news spread around the neighborhood about this.
Tired of it all, Mr. Kizaki calls our hero, Ishizue Arika, and requests that he exorcise him. Our hero reviews 3 things. First, there is a specific memo about this in his house warning him that if he "looks at him in the eyes, he'll die." Two, this guy lives REALLY close to him. Three, he still has with him an artificial arm that Kaie lent him. Good enough reasons to go. Plus, there's also the chance that he'll get paid or at least treated better by Touma.
Our financially-troubled hero breaks (waltzes) in, accompanied by a blind black dog. Inside, he finds the corpses of a mother and her daughter. He then moves up to the 2nd floor and begins to hallucinate. He sees a puppet that asks if he's an exorcist, to which Arika replies that he's a demon buster. Arika tells the guy to go to a hospital since this guy's just mentally sick and the black dog isn't interested in him either. The puppet whines and the hallway reacts by melting to which Arika backs down but tells him that he should still see a doctor instead of a priest. The puppet whines and gets into a long argument about how god and satan are one and the same since you have to know about god in order to know about satan, and concludes that he's being tested by god. Except everybody's mocking him. Arika wonders why the puppet is ranting to him about that and the puppet replies that Arika's just like him since there's a part of him that's missing.
"Don't get cuddly on me, stranger. I'm the eaten, you're the eater. Please don't even say we're the same organism just because we look alike."
And thus the hallucination/dream/pseudo-reality ends. Arika enters a dark room and finds two more corpses; the two officers that entered the house earlier. Both of their necks have been twisted. The voice of Kizaki greets him and Arika unconsciously raises his head and looks him straight in the eyes. Whoops. Turns out the moment somebody looks at the guy in the eyes, that somebody's body movements get taken over by Kizaki.
Kizaki's a weird fellow and says that he doesn't want to bother anybody, including Arika, which is why he plans to commit suicide before that can happen. The problem is, he doesn't die. In fact, he rotated his neck the other night. And so Kizaki starts turning his neck. Arika's starts to turn in synch with his as well.
He goes over the story of what happened with his family. He quit his job and was planning on committing suicide. He wasn't really planning on killing his family either. He just killed himself without saying anything....and somehow his wife and daughter also ended up having their necks twisted. But then he tries to rationalize that saying that if he wasn't around, they wouldn't have been able survive anyway.
Kizaki's head moves a smooth 180 degrees while Arika's makes a cracking sound.
"Snif sniff. The black dog was looking for the sliding head. The room was dark, but that didn't hinder it. The dog was blind so it never had any use for the light. The left arm that lost its artificial arm raised up a shaped formlessness from a headless neck.
- Good boy. Ok, Hate-chan (assumed name), it's time for dinner."
.....and I was going to write more but I kind of got tired. It's not really easy to write a quick summary for something like this without missing some of the more important details. When I get more time, I'll do summaries for the rest of the chapters.
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Re: DDD « Reply #11 on Apr 30, 2006, 4:25pm »
1/junk Arika wakes up in an underground room. And not just any room. A room that's right under a massive water tank filled with all sorts of neat stuff. Like sharks. Turns out he fell asleep on the job (his main one) and was having a dream of one of his recent attempts at making money.
Some two years ago, Arika lost his left arm. Or rather his sister completely ate it. Actually, it's like the arm never even existed. Some after he was released from rehabilitation, he had trouble finding work. And so, one day he was introduced to Kairyou Kaie (the person with the long hair), his current boss and the person living in that room and lying on the bed.
"Age-wise, he looks 14 to 15 years old. Owner of silk-like black hair and a face that'd knock out any man. But, don't be fooled. It's a guy. I was one of those that was knocked out when I first saw him, so trust me on this."
Kaie pesters Arika about his dream and then responds with:
"Oh, you saw yourself dying in your dream? Oooh, that's why you were screaming 'Heeellp', and 'Nooooo'....Pht. If would have been more amusing had you slept a little longer." Are you implying that you wanted to hear my death cries? "Dammit man. First off, if you see me groaning, wake me up. Do you get off on seeing people in pain? Can't help but get charged up with the struggling breaths of men? "Mmmm. It depends, but I did find Arika's to be delightful you know? I don't know what it was about, but it was a entertaining and nonsensical somniloquy. Indeed, a wonderful utterly shameless look into your true feelings. A delicious treat, thank you." He smiled at me with an appeased happy look on his face, the little twerp.
"....." .....Ah, nuts. I just had to get drawn in by that smile. It pains me to have to admit it, but I did. That's the ultimate smile. No man can withstand it. I really hate this guy, but I love that smile. I've got to resolve this dillema one of these days.
..... The thing is, Kaie has no arms and no legs. Wearing them all daylong isn't really recommended since they're heavy and painful. So that's where Arika comes in. His job is to fit artificial limbs onto Kaie in the morning and take them off in the evening. Kaie's health wasn't particularly good that day so he was only wearing his left leg and right arm. Which left......Arika looking at the black dog lying in the corner of the room.
- Arika and Kaie get into a discussion about the Agonist Disorder, a mental illness that was recognized socially some 10 years ago. Those afflicted with this are suddenly unable to control their emotions. Of course, there are no bacteria or virii involved. It's a mental illness that is being treated just like depression and Anthropophobia. Though, just because there are no known agents doesn't mean it happens for no reason. "Humans are made up of a mystical, wondrous, and firmly established design. An accident can't occur without cause."
Of course, everybody else calls it demon possession since the victims seem of it seem to act like demons. Arika sort of thinks calling it demon possession is a bit of an exaggeration.
"Because the words 'demon possession' are easy to understand, I suppose. To most normal people, not those that actually have seen one, the word 'depression' just doesn't do the job. But with demon possession, the image is simple. If a person's possessed by a demon, then that would explain the grotesque sounds. Those almost inhuman behaviors would also be possible if the afflicted are possessed, you see. On the other hand, that kind of transfer of the ego from possession over to a pseudo-personality has gone the way of the dinosaurs. Plus the persona taken by the people in this country is going to mainly be that of animals. Demons....well, those kind of possessors don't appear in Japan."
True. Demon possession tales originally did come from outside of this country. The basis behind that is 1 against 6 billion. The divine side has the absolute advantage. In this turn-of-the-century Japan, demon possession is a concept that only survive in a religion with just one god.
"That's freaking sad. If they had to do it, they could have just said inugami possession. That's at little more native and personally feels more comfortable."
"No, that's not good. Even if it's easy to picture, you shouldn't feel comfortable with that. Even if the faith in this country has died out, Japanese are still Japanese. They're extremely sensitive to words like beast posession. With demon possession, it's like we're talking about somebody else and gives it more of a game flavor to it, but with a sickness that had already existed in this country, wouldn't it be uncomfortably real and boring?"
"Ah ha......In other words, 'demon possession' is more convenient?"
"Yep. That's why this 'demon possession' fad is really just a modern illness. Say for instance, even when you see an end in sight, that end never comes. See, everyone's building up a lot of stress. You don't know when you're going to fall apart. And everybody else around you? They don't know when you're going to blow up either. But that makes you feel safer doesn't it? After all, you paralyzed your sensations with a defensive shield that lets you misunderstand that you're a.o.k since you've been braced yourself for collapse. Everybody wants to be thickheaded. The label 'demon possession' is just being used by that fad. It makes a good scapegoat for reversing the responsibility."
Self-poisoning, self-generation, self-collapse huh? Damn know it all. That would make demon possession just a phenomenon and not even a sickness. It'll just be washed over by some other slang a year later, is that what you're saying? But what makes it a problem isn't the desktop logic but the actual damage that's being dealt. Those inflicted with demon possession do exist. Those that really have mental illnesses. As well as those "espers" that have stopped being human. In the past several years, the number of abnormal crimes have increased. Generally, these incidents were given the "oh, the demon possessed again" treatment. Among those, about 100 were processed as crimes caused by the demon possessed. That's not even 10% of the total number of abnormal crimes.
"That's why you mix 10 lies into a pile of 100 lies. By doing that, even though both of them are true, both of them become lies."
True. Even if I have the misfortune to get dragged into a case with someone like Kizaki, if the rest of the 9 cases are normal "abnormal crimes", that Kizaki case will be categorized as a "somewhat dubious abnormal crime". The people watching the news will recognize the existence of demon possession but not truly understand the real meaning to demon possession.
(And I got sick of translating it at this point). The point is there's a mental illness like depression caused by extreme stress. And among some of the afflicted, there's espers. And the demon possession everybody thinks of are only the ones that stand out - aka the espers. But none of these are actually real cases of demon possession. /cut
....Still, I can't put it off as being fiction. There is a reason why I can't dismiss it as being totally fake. You see....the kid in front of me, is different from the likes of the demon possessed. This guy's the real deal.
- Arika asks about why demon possession happens and Kaie goes on about saying how resistence to external factors caused by a weakening in a person's surrounding environment, like family problems, relationships with friends, evaluation in society. When the psyche of a person weaks as a result, that's where the cause liies. Demons are an extreme affirmation of the weakness of a person. If a person had just forgotten how to be social, a demon will affirm their weakness and make them totally unfit for society. If a person's girlfriend suddenly died, a normal person might say "I can't live without her", the person that's possessed will actually act on it by killing himself. While the former would use the past and the future as reasoning for why he won't commit suicide, the latter can't see anything but the present which is why they can easily kill themselves without any fear. Generally the type of people that are easy for concepts to get ahold of them are those that have to live according to "conditions they decided for themselves". They aren't going to break down emotionally, but without these "trivial conditions" that would matter to nobody but themselves, they'll self-destruct.
Arika gets pissed about this since what it basically amounts to: 1. Person needs to follow a rule to keep on living. 2. Rule is about to be broken, but person becomes affected. 3. Person goes on and kills a lot of people.
The black dog moves right over to Arika like he's home. Oh oh.
Kaie criticizes him and says that it's better to not blame the emotional weakness of other people, but the reason why they became weak. "If you have to criticize them, don't say 'you ought to be ashamed of yourself for collapsing just because of that.' It ought to be, 'to be broken from something this insignificant...why don't you take a lesson in the the sorrow of humanity.'"
- Arika's about to leave to get some food. Kaie then realizes that this means that he hasn't eaten anything since the morning. Actually even worse, it turns out Arika hadn't eaten anything since last night. Kaie is honestly worried about his health and offers him some food but Arika refuses since 1. It'll probably upset his stomach 2. He really can't afford it. To which Kaie tells him to to go work in the afternoon. Unfortunately, Arika can't find any work other than demon busting and his recent job with Kizaki didn't garner him any money as his payment (from Kizaki) was taken away by Touma. Which brings Arika to remember the crying and thankful face of Kizaki after his job was finished and the infected part that the black dog had....
Kaie brings up another story of a demon possession about a person that was taking out the insides of dogs and cats and throwing the skin out on the days when the flammable garbage is supposed to be picked up. This is also the seventh time that he told Arika about this, but Arika seems to have completely forgotten about it.
Arika takes out his memo book from his pocket and goes back as far as 2 weeks ago. Nothing but "nothing special" written on the pages.
Arika doesn't seem to care while Kaie tried to goad him into accepting the job, saying he ill probably get paid. Arika still says no and that Touma probably won't pay him anyway. And he thinks that even if the culprit is demon possessed, he hasn't yet killed anybody yet. Kaie reads his mind precisely, specifically the "yet" part. Arika tells him to shut up and says just to leave it to the dog police to apprehend the guy.
Kaie questions why he's that ambivalent about the case and suggests that it might be because he knows who the dog killer is. Arika confirms to see whether this is true or not and checks through 1 month worth of memos. He finds one page with "Yukio, you're eating too much. Lose weight. Watch out for vinegar."
Arika doesn't know what to make of this and tells Kaie to buzz off and stop talking about demon possession, unless it's in the day (just like it is now).
- ...........Gah. I can't make a short summary for this.
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Re: DDD « Reply #12 on May 1, 2006, 2:21pm »
Works done, the sun's set, and Arika exits the cellar, which happens to be located in a forest. Or more like, his room is located beneath a water tank in the forest. On the outside, it looks more like a spaceship than a water tank. Arika reflects on how he was introduced to Kaie by Touma back when he was looking for a replacement arm. This guy apparently had some very rare prothestics. He didn't get the arm, but he was given the job of taking care of the guy. A part of him knew that he shouldn't deal with the guy, but he kept on working for him.
Arika goes into an izakaya to get some grub when
Arika: Geh. Tsuranui: Ah, Senpai! Yaho! Over here, over here!
He (unfortunately) runs into Tsuranui Mihaya, a kouhai of his back when he was highschool. Currently age 19. Personality is like a younger version of Fuji-nee with some Satsuki mixed in. Nah, cuter than that. The energetic and noisy girl that eats and drinks a lot but nobody takes seriously.
Well to give a better idea, here's a bit of Tsuranui:
(Tsuranui and Arika are talking about a former rehabilitant, just like Arika, by the name of Kirisu. Normally rehabilitants can't leave town, but this was supposedly job(demon)-related. Of course it really was just an excuse to get out but that's another story....)
"...Wait Tsuranui. Can you actually handle that much alcohol?" Tsuranui drank away the wine feverishly. The decanter looks like it'd be empty in the very near future. "Yes I can! Oh and this isn't any fun Senpai. Let's not talk about demon possessions anymore! If you don't talk about something like more brighter, I'll throw up. Oh god no. What's terrifying about that is that this is a monster that will take no less than 3 seconds after proclamation to process that action. If she says she's going to vomit, there's going to be an ugly spectacle waiting for me 3 seconds later. "Hold it. Tsuranui, do not throw up. If I get blacklisted from here, I'd have nowhere else to go but the nearby family restaurant." "Then, please talk about something brighter. Senpai, ever since you came back, you've only talked about demons. That's so not what I want to listen to. Can't you, oh, talk about something that's more befitting of a 2 young adults of the opposite sex?" Beh, yeah even I'll admit I'm not the most interesting of people. Sorry Tsuranui. That is, the bright topics have been out of stock for a long time. "Don't be spoiled. Besides, there isn't anything freshly disturbing about gossip about these loons. What can't you handle about it?" "Ehhm...but, that's being taken over by your surpressed feelings isn't it? Wouldn't that mean that I could become possessed to? A demon'll possess me, all because your broody stories will depress me." "Not in a million years." The day she gets demon possessed is the day the world ends. "Auu, you're so mean. And it didn't even take you any time to think about it too. Arika-senpai, at least that part's still like the old you~. Tsuranui munched spiritlessly while unfolding the menu. The amount of nutrition she was taking, you see, is actually 5 times that of mine. God, I hope you become a whale. "....Tsuranui. You've got some guts to be doing that while I have to settle for a club sandwich. What are you, a binge eater?" "Ha? Eh, Senpai, are you hungry?" "Yes, I am. This is the only thing I'll be eating today. I don't even have any cabbages left back at home." Oh, she stopped. Tsuranui creased her brows as if she were thinking intently. "I'll make a blunt guess, ifi that's ok. You don't have money but you want to eat a little more?" "So close. Not just a little more, I want to eat until my stomach's full." "Oh, I see. Mmmm, in that case, I'll think about it depending on how you answer. Ok, I'll pay for the bill this time if you become my boyfriend!" "Sorry. I've....died from from starvation." "Grrrr! What's with that!? I'm a girl, 1-year younger than you, with beauty and brains you know!? What morecan you ask for!" "No, the reward doesn't compensate enough for the labor." "Ah, you had to say it with a straight face. ...Sigh, I've been rejected again. And cold-hearted Arika-senpai. Oh well. But I'm weak against that part of you. ....Excuuuse me, could have I have a double float pleeease!"
Anyway, that's a good enough explanation of what kind of character she is.
Tsuranui suggests splitting one of her plates with Arika but he refuses since he finds the whole idea disgusting. But Tsuranui tells him that he did something like that before, to which Arika thinks that it must have been something he did in the daytime. Back when they were visting a sick friend of Tsuranui's named Fusou, they were going to give her a watermelon. She didn't eat it, so on the way back Arika smashed the melon against a telephone pole and split it with Tsuranui without saying a word. Turns out it was 4 years ago, which would explain why Arika didn't remember it.
She then shows him a new orange cell-phone that she just bought. Apparently, she's a cell-phone collector and she's planning to make a robot from all of her cell-phones. She asks Arika to give her his current cell-phone when he buys a new one (sort of like how a kouhai asks a senpai for his button on graduation). Arika doesn't really care about his cell phone and he says he will if he remembers. Tsuranui is happy about this and she promptly shows him a movie that she downloaded onto her cell-phone of a fat ball of flesh squashing a dog's head and taking out it's insides. >_>
Gag. "Hmmmm, shocking. Quite spicy, If I sa...ow!?" "Don't show that kind of stuff when people are eating you moron!"
Turns out the fat blob is the Yukio that Kaie. Tsuranui showed it to him because it might be of some use to him. Arika says this is the first time he's heard about it and Tsuranui tells him the same story that Kaie told him earlier. Arika reviews his memos again and spots the name Yukio. Apparently, he's met the guy before.
- Some time later and Arika sends Tsuranui back to her apartment while deducing where Yukio might be. After he sends her back, he investigates the area all by himself like an idiot. He reflects on how he didn't just lose his arm, but also the ability to feel if something's threatening. He can be scared, but he's lost the defensive instinct to react to a threat. Which might make animals like lions and sharks warm up to him, but he's still going to be scared shitless. He decides to just go back since it isn't really his business.
"I can't bear the weight of other people. After all, I've only got one arm, I'm not really smart. A weakling that can never be come strong has no choice but to do his to hold it all in. After all, nobody's going to bail his ass if he gets in trouble, right?"
- And that would be the end of chapter 1. I'll get to work on a real translation instead of a pseudo-summary/translation one of these days.
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Re: DDD « Reply #13 on May 1, 2006, 6:37pm »
2/eater
Even though there were no signs of any external injuries or other after effects, for some reason, any sort of prosthetic arm that'd been attached to his body didn't just fail to work, his consumed left arm itself rejected it.
For some reason, whenever one would be attached, his left arm would actually hurt. Which brought him to Kaie, the one person who had an arm that would work with him.
"Ishizue-san's arm is only lost. It's still connected to you. As long as that lost arm doesn't disappear, you won't be able to fit a new arm."
Kaie had told me that even though the physical arm is gone, I still have on me the concept of my left arm.
"Am I right in assuming that you didn't miss your left arm at all?"
Those words. That point was the first psychological damage I took since I lost my left arm. It's true that I never did think of getting it back. To me, it was as if that left arm had never been there in the first place. That's why....even without a physical vessel, something that had a form of "nothing" from the very beginning won't change.
"Just the sensations are still alive. Putting on a noral limb would be like wearing clothing under your skin. Of course it'd make you sick enough to want to pass out."
The physical sensations are still intact even without the actual limb. If I close my eyes, my brain will recognize my left arm as if nothing had ever happened to it. I can move it, I can even grab objects with it. Obviously just a sensory error While "something" can be fooled by "nothing", it's not possible to move "something" with "nothing". The only objects that a nonexistant sensation can touch are those with the same nonexistant form. A tactile sensation without form. Because it doesn't exist, it can't hold an existing object. However, because it doesn't exist, it can mix together with nonexistant objects. As a result-
"But, phantom pain allows you to touch the same type of imaginary monsters. You're amazing, Ishizue Arika. Your left arm is the ideal demon-
- The next morning, Arika unwittingly runs into some police that were finishing up post-processing of an incident. They decide to take him into custody too.
But an agent for an organization that's charged with taking into custory those people with Agonist's Disorder also happened to be with them. Touma Mato, Arika's supervisor. In her twenties. Personality-type would be one of those really angry Russian military women. Loves guns and her dream is to become the captain of a shooting range. Very scary.
"You piece of trash. Get the hell up." - directed at Arika after she dismisses the other officers.
I think that's a good enough indicator of what kind of person she is. Arika's personal nickname for her is Tomato-san, but he wouldn't dare say it to anybody, especially not her. Apparently, she doesn't like tomatoes either.
Touma gives Arika some more information about the dog-killer. Apparently, after Yukio takes out the insides, he eats them and then throws them up immediately. Interesting part is that the vommit has acid-like properties. Yukio keeps repeating this cycle with all his meals. Touma thinks that this person was originally an anorexic, but this wouldn't fit in with Yukio's fatness. According to Touma, he eats more than 5 times the amount that he throws up and picks up some 60 kilos a day.
Arika wonders then why there haven't been any recent cases of dog-killings for a week, to which Touma says:
"Aah, dammit. He might have died from starvation." Ah, Mato-san is honestly worried about him. I feel relieved. She might say this and that, but at heart, she really is a defender of justice. "I'm glad. So you actually would be upset if he died from starvation right?" "I would. The bastards have to be treated as sick people. If I don't treat them appropriately, it would look bad on my record. It'd only be a even bigger bother if they died while hiding, just like a roach that died behind a drawer. If they're going to be killed, I'd rather have it done in the daylight when it's easier to clean up the mess."
...Anyway, she's this kind of person. Touma gives Arika the other materials about the case. Arika isn't that enthuthiastic about it, but then Touma threatens to let his sister out which freaks him enough to accept the job.
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Arika goes to Kaie's place and shows him the material concerning Yukio. What they discern is that bullets won't work since the stomach acid will just disolve it. Kaie's a little surprised about the level of disfigurement that the fake demon brought to Yukio since real demons can't do that much. Kaie is really stuck on the issue of fake and real demons. If the fakes are "reality", then the real demons are "imaginary." Kaie can't stand the fakes.
- And so, some more babble about what Agonist Disorder is precisely. Basically, there are receptor proteins in the human body which take in Ligand. By binding with it, it makes up a system that creates new information and emotions in the brain. This is what writes in the results of all actions in the brain. Demon possession really is the result of a disorder that occurs in the receptors in the brain. Say that these demons are a type of virus that thrive on the electrical currents provided by emotions. The strong emotions cause the oversecretion of Ligand which then damages the receptors. From there, in order to relieve itself from the stress caused, the receptors reorganize/refile certain bodily functions to be able to do new things. The more serious cases will even cause deformation of not just the psyche but the body.
So in short, the three parts that constitute a case of demon possession are:
The diseased part that causes the abromal secretion of the chemical agonists (right, Kinoko didn't name it agonist because of the religious nuance) The new bodily function emerged as a result, And the rampant emotions that caused the feeding of the diseased part.
But to all that...
The real demon laughed, saying, "Yes, that's right. Immortality, the wish to become super-human. The miraculous sickness that humans dreamed up. A genetic virus, almost like a demon, that would allow people to get close to god. But Arika, you musn't get the order reversed. This sickness called demon possessions doesn't happen automatically. The ones who feed and raise demons are humans. It can't occurr unless the surroundings and the person's emotional state have become sickly. It really is such a two-dimensional tumor."
That's why it's an illness. Not illness that causes death, but unconscious greedy life that feeds off of illness. The most advanced epidemic ever produced. One that embodies the ideal human condition and the phenomenon of the rotting of the individual. -
Kaie asks what Arika is planning to do, but Arika still says he isn't going to get involved since Yukio hasn't killed anyone yet.
But Kaie points out why Yukio has been eating dogs in the first place. Yukio has been breaking into houses and eating people's pets, but he hasn't touched any of the other food in the house.....meaning that he's become bored of normal food. And he hasn't eaten a dog in a week which could naturally lead into him eating another human being.
Arika decides to investigate the factory again, but refuses to borrow Kaie's left arm.
- Later, Arika checks a message that was left on his cellphone from Tsuranui. She skipped class and found Yukio and left some food for him and seems to be sticking around him. (What are you, an idiot?). Arika calls her again but there's no answer. He keeps calling her and finally the voice of a woman answers.....
"HELP ME SENPAI"
The phone's disconnected. Arika keeps calling but nobody's answering.
- Which leads Arika back to Kaie's room to pick up his arm and making a phonecall over to Touma.
"Hello, hello? This is Ishizue. About that demon, oh, I think it was Yukio? I'm going to go to that fucking bastard's hideout, but could you send over the police? It's going to take me about 20 minutes, but I'd like to have him put away as soon as possible. Oh, you can't? You can't do it without proof? Oh, I see. Well, that's ok."
The only one that would listen to what I have to say is Mato-san. I'm thankful, but she's not as useful as one would expect. She's an outsider here and there's probably some power struggles in the department going on.
"Eh, go to the nearest officer? Ah, no. He'll probably be killed if he went in, so I'll go instead. Mato-san, where are you now? You're eating ice-cream at an aquarian? I don't believe it, why the hell are you over there?"
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