![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"--SUSUKINO!?" |
-PAT PAT PAT- |
Abashiri's expression is unusually distraught and she ran off in the direction of the voice, continuing on her way and not caring if she bumped into passer-bys... |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Are you okay? Are you alright? Are you hurt?" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Mhm! Look look, Abashiri nee-tan, Ah'm very healthy today too☆." |
For some reason, Susukino, while jumping up and down with her arms outstretched, was in a hut with steel bars on the doorways and windows. What was this kind of thing called, zashikirou, a cell? |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Thank goodness...♪" |
She must have been really worried about her younger sister-in-law who had been separated from her, Abashiri slumped heaving with her hands on the grate. Seeing her elder sister-in-law like this, Susukino tilted her head slightly. |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
What's wrong, Nee-tan? Are you tired? You sure ran a lot, ahahaha♪". |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"This is no time to laugh... Where have you been and what have you been doing, Susukino...?" |
Abashiri stroked Susukino's head, who appears younger than her due to how Susukino's lisp, Abashiri anxiously fidgeted while stroking her. |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Or rather, what is this building... Are you locked in, Susukino...?" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Eh? Ah dunno! Ah was told to stay 'ere so ah stayed 'ere!" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Who told you...?" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Ah dunno! Ah dunno anything! Ahahahaha☆" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"What do you mean...? Oh gosh, you're still a little girl who can't hold a proper conversation after all this time...?" |
After patiently listening to Susukino's story, it turned out that she and Abashiri had apparently been attacked and then taken to a separate location from her sister-in-law. It was here in this prison-like hut. |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"That's right! This place is a freak show!" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Ah show my tricks here! And ah get paid for it! Ah work hard too, ishn't that great~♪" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"What is this... Freak shows are banned on the surface because they are inhumane... You can't be treated that badly, we have to protest..." |
A freak show is a place where people with rare traits are called freaks, and they perform tricks in front of people who enjoy it and charge a fee for the spectacle-- Was this the price of the freak show? |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Hmm? But ah used ta work at places like this in the past. Ah dunno anything, but ah can do a few tricks♪" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"I can show Abashiri nee-tan and Conductor nii-tan too!" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Watch, watch, PANPAKAPAAAA~N☆ Fellow audience to the left and right, come and watch some of the most unusual tricks in the world!" |
Indeed as she said, Susukino called out to passers-by with an air of familiarity. She then shoved her large tail into her face. |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Inai, inai -- BAAH☆!" |
With a "BAAH", Susukino peeked out from behind her tail and smiled innocently. As it was, she repeated the same thing over and over again. |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Inai, inai, BAAH! Inai, inaaai -- BAAH☆♪" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"........." |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"How's that, Abashiri? Ah'm good, right~ This ish what ah'm good at!" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Eeeh...? Yeah, umm, you're cute, but - is this a trick? Is this really...?" |
Conductor |
That looks good. Look around you, Abashiri, they're all looking at Susukino and feeling relaxed. |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"You are right... For people in this seedy, bleak underworld, these innocent gestures of a little girl are the greatest healing they can receive..." |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Uhm! Whenever ah did this trick, everyone always praised me for this~♪" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Oyabun-san of Kabukichou too, he used to beeeeg me to do this, you know? Every time ah do this 'inai inai baah' trick, oyabun-san would give me lots of money♪" |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Kabukichou's oyabun...? Hey Darling, is that...?" |
Conductor |
The town's boss may be the source of the Phantom Mist? Come to think of it, Susukino seems to have lived for a long time in Kabukichou, so it wouldn't be strange if she knew some of the town's most important people. |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Yes! Ah know everything about Kabukichou, you know? Ah often hide important things in places where no one can find them, and ah know and found all the back streets and hidden alleys..." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"So we've found it, our 'very convenient informant'... Just right under our noses..." |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Well, I heard that this town originally ceased to exist... I don't know if the current Kabukichou is the same as the one Susukino knows, but--" |
![Story Susukino.png](/images/2/2b/Story_Susukino.png) Susukino |
"Oh, this was Kabukichou? Ah was thinking that the scenery looks familiar! Ahaha☆". |
![Story Abashiri.png](/images/f/f2/Story_Abashiri.png) Abashiri |
"Gosh you, you should be a bit more aware of your surroundings...?' |
Abashiri blurted out in disgust, but held her sister-in-law's hand tightly, as if she would never let go of it again. |