Dead Mount Death Play Part 2

Hi there!

I'm Proppen, the cosplay YouTuber!

Meow!

This time, I'm dressed up as Killer Whale-chan from The Sharkborg From Hell 5 !

For today's stream, I'll hit up Shinjuku in the early morning

and teach the crows to talk!

She always pulls the dumbest stunts.

Doesn't she know it's 3:00 AM?

Huh? Is it me, or is this street fur-reezing?

Hang on, she's right near here.

Oh, there they are!

Crows!

Hey, what are mew all looking at?

Huh? What's that?

No way. What...?

What the heck are those ?!

Hands! They're hands!

Meow!

Hey.

You're late, Iwa-san.

My bad. I got called to investigation HQ on my way here.

Anyway, I thought I told you to secure the scene.

We can't seal a building without the owner's permission or a warrant.

And this building's owner is...

Her ?

And who told you about this place?

Mister Daren.

Ah. I can trust a referral from him.

Of course, we'd heard about you before that.

Every hitman knows Shinjuku's intermediary by reputation.

They say this is a comfy place with lax rules.

I'm honored to receive such high praise.

Since you and your sister were Shibuya's aces...

Rinne and Hiiro Horojima.

I don't remember giving out our real names, even in Shibuya.

Oh, do forgive me.

I found them so easily that I assumed you weren't trying to hide them.

My rules are lax,

but the penalty for breaking them should scare you.

Are you kind of a bitch, maybe?

Why, thank you.

Don't talk that way to Clarissa.

You think you're hot stuff 'cause you're so big! I hate that!

She's adorable.

In any case, I welcome having more people willing to work.

Occult Channel

Apparition in Shinjuku!

What really was the swarm of hands that appeared in Shinjuku in the dead of night?!

Especially since I suspect we're about to have our hands full.

Occult Channel

Apparition in Shinjuku!

What really was the swarm of hands that appeared in Shinjuku in the dead of night?!

You're sure this photo wasn't edited?

Proppen ran into it during a live stream and uploaded a video.

Proppen's way too lucky, lol.

Apparition in Shinjuku!

What really was the swarm of hands that appeared in Shinjuku in the dead of night?!

Do you have anything to say for yourself?

You see, umm...

Well, you're free to put your peaceful life on the back burner if you like...

I guess we'd better come and go by the back door for a while.

Here. This is the place.

This is where Solitaire showed up!

...but I don't want attention any more than you do.

I'm sorry.

Hands Swarm in Late-night Shinjuku?!

Were you controlling all of these hands?

Yes, more or less.

The public can't decide if it was one of Solitaire's tricks or a haunting,

but how many people know for sure that those things are real?

Good question.

Solitaire and Lemmings probably realized.

As for Xiaoyu-kun, I'm not sure.

His Lordship

So, what's the plan, Inspector?

Hey, let me through.

For now, how about Arase and I go in again?

You'd better call that off right now, Iwa-san.

A headache of a magazine reporter just showed up.

So,

a guy who came to have his fortune told was Solitaire?

Yes. He had a completely different face, but his soul was the same color.

And he had the same ghost haunting him.

What about the high-school girl?

Well...

There, there. There, there.

It's no use, Corpse God-sama.

This girl isn't giving anything away.

But her dog is giving plenty of cuteness!

Huh? There really was a dog?

Yes. It was at her home all along.

But for some reason, she seems to have thought it ran away.

Fire Safety

Her real father was at home, too. The one she split up with was an impostor.

One of those sugar daddies?

Sugar daddies?

Daddies for dessert!

Daddies for dessert!

Sorry. Forget I said anything.

What made Solitaire set his sights on this place?

If he asked about that symbol, he must've been after us all along.

I guess I'd better let Clarissa know.

So, anyway,

that writing on the wall looks like the Fire-Breathing Bug's work to me.

But what are these "Bastard Children of Sabaramond" they mentioned?

It made you blow a gasket and cast a big, flashy spell.

Does it have to do with your old world?

Arius Sabaramond-san.

He was the head court sorcerer of the Byady Empire,

where my teacher and I lived a hundred years or more ago.

Now, boy.

I have something to tell you before we begin.

Apart from seeing spirits with your Evil Eye, you have no aptitude for magic.

SHOCK

Even the Evil Eye is no talent. It's essentially a feature of your soul.

SHOOOCK

But rest easy. Talented our not, I will raise you.

You'll be the tenth-ranked court sorcerer or so when I'm through with you.

SLUMP

Not first, you ask?

You're more ambitious than I took you for.

But the third-ranked, Utsurojuza, is a breed apart from those below.

And the second-ranked is me.

Above all, the first-ranked is half a politician.

Skill alone won't carry you that far.

I wouldn't say that.

In terms of ability, you ought to hold my post.

See, boy? He's already come to judge your worth

as a future tool in court politics.

Please, Izliz. Enough snide remarks.

All people are of equal worth. I can't assign values to them.

Sabaramond-san was a kind person and one of the best-loved in the empire.

People flocked to state functions where he appeared.

Sounds like one of our celebrities.

Like Ryouma Kannagi?

I can't believe you named an idol and not a shark.

Of course I did.

In his child-actor days, he had a minor part in The Sharkborg From Hell Z .

Starring: The Sharkborg Costarring: Ryouma Kannagi

Mana Kikimura

Rudy Wong

In the one they're filming now, he returns, all grown up, as a semi-protagonist.

Don't you even know that?!

They're making another one?

Well, setting that aside,

how come the Fire-Breathing Bug knows about this Sabaramond guy?

I'd like to know that, too.

It sounded like they oppose a group called the "Bastard Children of Sabaramond."

But that guy was from a hundred years ago. Isn't he dead by now?

I don't know what happened to Sabaramond-san after the empire fell,

but a sorcerer of his level would be able to extend his life a century or two.

Your world's magic is something else.

Skilled sorcerers can delay aging, you see.

But that's not the important part, right?

If this guy is involved,

wouldn't that make his "children" your allies?

Well...

I don't want my memories of him to be defiled.

But what if

the "Bastard Children of Sabaramond" really are part of the empire?

I ran away from that world and into this one purely for my own sake.

I'd be the real outsider to all this.

Even so...

STARE

I understand.

Yes, perfectly. Just like with Hosorogi five years ago.

Everything is under Sabaramond's aegis.

The previous snipers have left this district,

but one of the Agakuras just happens to have an opening.

Listen up.

Authorized personnel only Underground water tank to be built on this site

Our job is to be a diversion, so make your kills flashy!

We're not people; we're bullets in flight.

Resist desire and rage dispassionately.

Prove that we're a match for the Heilei and the Agakuras at—

What?

How is he so huge?!

What a shame.

A crying shame.

You were so close. Just off by a hair.

You failed to become "bullets in flight" just before you would've really soared.

You see, bullets

shouldn't get scared.

You didn't prove you could measure up to us Agakuras at all.

How's it going, Momoya?

All done.

That was a close one. I almost died.

I don't know who these guys are, but I bet they were crazy tough.

Are you all okay, Nee-san?

You took on their main force, right?

How many of you died?

Not a scratch on us. It was over in five seconds.

I'm sorry to hear that.

While you're feeling sorry, have a new job, Momoya.

Visit the Shibuya intermediary. They've got work for you in Shinjuku.

Shinjuku? Well now.

I'd like Solitaire's autograph if I run into him.

Yes.

What on earth was that, Your Lordship?!

Easy, Xiaoyu. Keep calm.