Twin-Shadowed Knight, Parts 1 & 2 by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2012-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

WHITHER YUMA?

CHAPTER 2

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I

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When D reached the end of the dark corridor and slipped through the open door, he found another D leaning back against an enormous rectifier.

“You called?” the D who’d just come in said perfunctorily, and the other one nodded. He had summoned his other self using a communication system only the two of them knew about.

“I didn’t think you’d be in here. Get out of here at once,” the fake D snarled.

“Where’s the assassin?” D asked. His comment didn’t seem to have anything at all to do with the topic at hand, but anyone who guessed what he was driving at would’ve been terrified.

“Oh, him?” the fake D said, an implacable grin spreading across his lips. “What do you intend to do when you catch him?”

“Ask him the way to Muma.”

“Muma?”

“You mean you don’t know what it is either?”

“Nope. But the second I heard you say that word, it sent a chill down my spine. What’s there?”

“A secret about me, it would seem.”

“Then it’s a secret about me, too,” the fake D said, growing thoughtful. “I’d also like to know what the word means. The assassin is still in the facility. No one’s made it out except for that couple.”

And then, peering at D, he continued, “I thought you promised to leave here if anyone else managed to escape. It would seem I am just a great big liar.”

“If you’re talking about the two of them, they’ll be back,” D said.

“Excuse me?”

“So, am I also adept at feigning innocence?”

After a short time, the fake D put one hand across his belly. Though it looked as if his body doubled over from a sudden stomachache, it was laughter that spilled from his mouth. “Ha ha ha . . . You’ve seen through me, have you? Indeed, I’ve had them brought back here. But it was you that made it necessary. Don’t try to shift the blame.”

“Where are they?”

“Well, there’s no point in keeping up the act—come with me.” Tossing his chin down the corridor, the fake D turned around and walked out.

After a walk of five or six minutes, a door opened. Lying on a bed set in the center of a room filled with light were Mia and Kuentz. A number of white shapes milled around the bed, growling in a base tone. Caladoma snowmen.

“The man will be out of it for some time, but the woman should soon be—”

Before the fake D could finish speaking, Mia began to stir, and she immediately opened her eyes. Bringing her hand to her left shoulder, she grimaced, and then donned a stunned expression.

“I healed the bone for you,” the fake D called to her, at which point she finally noticed him and snapped up in bed.

“But this is—”

“That’s right, you’re back where you started.”

“How . . .” Mia muttered, but then she noticed the snowmen all around her. “So these things do your . . .”

She turned a wrathful look on the fake D.

Extending his index finger, the fake D waved it in front of his face, saying, “Tsk, tsk, tsk.

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