Boogiepop Returns VS Imaginator Part 1 by Kadono Kouhei

Author:Kadono, Kouhei [Kadono, Kouhei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Manga, Science Fiction, Mystery
ISBN: 9781933164205
Amazon: B005Q7PCPK
Goodreads: 391989
Published: 1998-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

IV

Why are we afraid of the dark?

Even though it is the inevitable

result of living. . .

-- Kirima Seiichi (VS Imaginator)

It’s often said that every town has two faces, one for day and one for night. That's true enough, I suppose, but realistically, the difference is not so distinct, not so clear. Sadly, there is really no easily understood line drawn between the territory of safe, happy daylight and the sinister domain of the night.

For example, right now there's a girl sitting on a bench in front of a train station, sunlight gleaming brightly all around her. She's wearing traditional casual fashion, and anyone who looked at her would think she was a very ordinary middle class girl.

She appears to be waiting for somebody. She's got a town events guide rolled up in her hand, and she keeps tapping the ground with the toe of her shoe.

But if you watch the girl long enough, you'll begin to see a pattern hidden in the tapping. There's a rhythm to it, the same spacing between the taps, repeating.

Wait a little longer, and at last a boy comes over to her. He looks ordinary as well, clothes and hairstyle pretty bourgeois, like he gets a decent allowance.

“Yo! Waiting for someone?”

Not the most natural pick up line ever, but not likely to attract much attention if overheard.

“Yeah, at one o'clock,” the girl nods. Mind you, the time is well past three.

“Okay, this way,” the boy says, jerking his chin for her to follow.

This particular location has a police box in it, and there's never been a fight here. It's just that kind of place.

Whether she'd been waiting for him, or waiting for someone else, they leave the square together and head into town.

They look like any other young couple. They don't stand out at all. Why, they are the most ordinary pairing in the world.

They wander towards a deserted area of town, a zone slated for redevelopment.

The old buildings haven't been knocked down yet, and they're surrounded by dingy office buildings and crumbling stores that have long since shed all signs of what they used to sell.

The whole lot is surrounded by ropes with “no trespassing” signs hung on them. Yet the young couple pays them no attention, and ducks right under.

They tum down a narrow space between two buildings, where several men are waiting for them.

“There you are.”

“Only one today?”

These 'men' all appeared to be less than twenty years old.

The boy quickly goes over to them, and they all look the girl over for a moment.

She stands and takes it. “. . . . . . . . .”

“So, how much do you want, girl?” the oldest looking of the men asks. He wears a leather jacket and flashes her a sleazy grin.

“Everything,” the girl answers back, emotionless.

“Huh?”

“I'd like you to give me everything you have,” the girl says without a trace of hesitation.

The men look a little put out. “Girl, do you even know what you're doing? You know who we are?” the guy in the leather jacket says fiercely.

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