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Obscure Story: Japanese Series

The next day in a certain place in Hakata

The day following the events of the electromagnetic hijack on Honshu, there were people playing grass-lot baseball peacefully on a sports ground somewhere in Hakata, not discussing of others’ affairs relating to that case.

They appeared to have finished their game for the day and were managing the field. A man with long limbs and ruffled hair had a rake in hand and started conversing to the blond haired man wearing the same uniform as him.

“Seriously, I tell ya. I’m jealous of that there strength of yours. Granted, although you got a good sense for baseball, that uniform doesn’t look good on you. I reckon’ you look better in bartender clothes.”

“You think?”

Next a man with a feminine manner of speaking observed the blond male with his index finger pressed to his chin.

“Hmm. I don’t mean to sound cliche, but oddly enough I think you would look your best in bartender clothes.”

“Really...? Thanks.”

The man seemed a little pleased being praised to wear normal bartender clothes for some reason, but he still tilted his head slightly in question while lifting up the roller with one hand.

“...What? You can carry that with one hand...?”

A young man with the facial expression of a serious salary man had a cold sweat upon seeing the man carrying the roller that had to be more than 300 kilograms on his shoulders.

While that conversation was taking place on the field, a young man with his neatly, mushroom cut-like hair pressed his cell phone to his ear. The voice he heard from the receiver was a certain informant who was in danger not even twenty hours earlier.

‘Hey there, Black Leg Nameko-kun. Thank you for your help yesterday.’

“What’s up with that name calling? Well either way, I didn’t expect to receive a request for a sudden electromagnetic hijack from you. I don’t really know the meaning behind it, but what’s most important is that you’re satisfied with the outcome. Actually, now thinking about it, I take it that Nec is still alive.”

‘You’re terrible at lying. You should already have a guess on what that was, am I right?’

“If you want to really know, then pay for it. Besides, I could care less about the competition of the team I’m not partial to anyway. I may have been a bit interested in it if it was a match between the Serpents and the Hawks yesterday.”

‘You’re a Hawks fan?’

“Take a guess. What do you think?”

‘...By the way, do you know of Ranzou Hiura? He’s a political rival of that Kazuo Matsuda you could care less about, but if you want to know his weaknesses -‘

Just as the informant was talking the man with the mushroom haircut brought up an entirely different topic to intercept him.

“We have a helper here right now who came from Ikebukuro.”

‘...Ikebukuro?’

“He came here to collect debt from a guy who didn’t pay up his 5,000,000 yen he owed, but we had him join our team for the day when he finished the job.”

‘Ahh...If I recall, it was the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens? That grass-lot baseball one.’

And then he heard the yell of the blond man from a distance. Apparently someone on the opposing team that lost made some sort of reckless remark. While watching their teammates try and stop the blond man from picking up a light motor vehicle, the young man moved his cell phone in that direction so the blond man’s yelling was audible.

“He’s an acquaintance of yours, right? Should I put him on?”

However –

“...He hung up. He really does hate him.”

For a moment he made a ‘I got you,’ expression, but then the young man took a seat on the bench and continued to watch the riot going on.

And like this the meager exchange with the informant had been completed. However, as long as they continued submitting information, surely they would make contact again from the ripples.

Just like those who had left one city would meet again in another.

To be Continued?

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