Baccano!, Vol. 22: 1935-D Luckstreet Boys by Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami

Author:Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami [Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

“Sheesh… And here I was wondering why he’d summoned us so suddenly. What is Salomé doing?” asked Hong Chi-Mei, nicknamed “Chi,” an Asian man with bandage-wrapped hands.

“Luring out a bear, or so he says,” Sickle told him.

“A bear? In the middle of the city?” Chi wondered whether the man had done so much research that he’d finally lost his marbles.

Frank—a huge child who was over six feet tall—answered him. “U-um. It’s the Runoratas’ pet. It ran away. So Mr. Salomé said he’d catch it… I hear the bear’s way bigger than m-me…”

“…If a bear that size is wandering around town, the police will shoot it dead in no time. That is all.”

“That’s why he said he’d catch it first…” The speaker was a girl in a thick coat who wore a stocking cap pulled down all the way over her eyes. Her soft voice was drowned out by the noise Salomé was making.

“He bragged that this noise would control nearby animals, but I’m not sure how much I believe that…,” said a woman with a beautiful design tattooed on her face.

Salomé was currently broadcasting a “sound that would lure out a specific animal species” from a set of wearable speakers. The storage battery that powered the speakers was attached to his back.

Storage batteries were mainly used in electric cars, but Rhythm had miniaturized theirs.

The history of electric cars was a long one. Invented in the latter half of the eighteenth century, they swept the world before the development of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. By 1899, an electric car that could surpass speeds of sixty miles per hour had been developed.

Edison, the famous king of inventions, had manufactured his own prototype of an electric car, while Japan had begun to produce electric cars domestically in 1934. In tandem with these innovations, battery technology had continued to evolve.

Meanwhile, Salomé had improved batteries for his organization’s private use. The one he was wearing had been specifically designed for the speakers on his back.

After traveling through bizarre and complicated circuits that Salomé had personally developed, part of the direct current that ran from the battery was converted into alternating current. A sound amplifier powered by multiple systems that ran in parallel, some using direct current and others using alternating current, produced the unsettling sound (which had also been developed by Salomé).

That sound echoed far and wide. It might have been audible miles away. Salomé intended to circle Central Park, broadcasting that sound far across Manhattan to lure out the bear. However, as Sickle and the others watched this experiment, their eyes said, Salomé’s great at making things, but he’s always been crap at using them.

In addition to Sickle and the others, there was a man in a swallowtail coat, a muscular man with glasses who was naked to the waist, and a man in a skull mask. Nearly all the members of Lamia were present.

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