Baccano!, Vol. 10: 1934 Peter Pan in Chains: Finale by Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami

Author:Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

When he saw that the three of them had settled down, the proprietor just kept repeating, “Th-thank you so much! Your food is cooking right now!”

His gratitude stirred up a merciless sense of guilt in the people around him. In this situation, howling for them to get out would have been preferable, and an uncomfortable silence filled the bar.

“Hey…” Ricardo, sitting quietly at the bar, broke that silence.

The girl in boys’ clothing glanced back and forth between Graham and Christopher, and asked them a question with a sigh.

“I didn’t ask Chris, but… What was this fight about anyway?”

It was a simple enough question, and the most important one, but—

“Huh?” “Huh?”

The two both looked like pigeons who’d just been shot with a popgun.

They found it a little odd that she was calling their deadly brawl just a fight, but come to think of it, they had no real reason to try to kill each other.

“You’re both involved with the same family; you’re comrades. Why are you out for each other’s blood?”

“Well, that is true, but…”

“…Why are we? I don’t even understand the principles behind my own behavior… It is a mystery.”

They racked their brains, desperately trying to remember what had brought them into conflict in the first place, and then—

““Oh, right!””

They each smacked their knee at the same time.

“It was because this wise guy started mouthing off about protectin’ that kid with the railroad scars,” Graham said.

Christopher threw out his chest as if this were a competition and gave his own answer.

“It was me. First, I wanted to rediscover the feeling of fighting for my life, like rehab. Oh, and I’d heard he dislocated joints for Sickle and Chi, my beloved family-slash-friends, and I figured I should avenge them, I guess!”

“…You ‘guess’?” Sickle was standing near the back of the bar, and when she heard him tack on the last half of his reply as an afterthought, her temples twitched visibly. “So I’m lower on your priority list than rehab…?”

Pretending he hadn’t heard Sickle’s angry comment, Christopher averted his face and scratched his head. “Uh, well, now that I’m thinking about it, I suppose our reasons for trying to kill each other didn’t warrant doing this to the bar. I mean, um, I hope you know I do regret it?”

“Regrets won’t fix the bar,” Ricardo coldly replied, and Christopher uncomfortably turned to face the other way.

Sickle was over there, which presented a problem for Christopher, and he kept right on turning in a full circle.

As if they’d been pulled in by the spiral of his comical twirling…

…with truly excellent timing, they flew into the bar.

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