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“KIRYU!”
It wasn’t raining. Perhaps others would look back on that day and say that it had been, but the fact remained that in the darkness above there wasn’t even a cloud in the sky. All the stars were their witness, all the shadows there to watch.
As Jack struggled against the bonds Security had used to keep him back, same as Crow. As Yuusei glowered at the man ‘congratulating’ him on the attempt to take the fall, but in the end, it was the ‘leader’ they were after.
The leader fighting fiercely against the officers dragging him toward the truck, whose eyes widened the instant he saw the gesture from the officer near Yuusei. “No… NO!” he roared, those pulling him away suddenly struggling to hold him back. “YOU..!”
He wasn’t sure why he ran. He just remembered wanting nothing more than to prove that he had not done what his friend now assumed. He had just wanted peace- Just wanted him to finally be satisifed with what he’d done in life and stop.
Yuusei wasn’t sure why he tore from the grip of the officers toward Kiryu. Why he was reaching out to attack another, in some futile attempt to free his friend. He wasn’t sure-
But in an instant he wasn’t any more.
And while it had never rained in reality, it would do so forever more in the memories of the others as Kiryu was loaded away into the van, his body frozen with shock. As the officers moved to take proper steps to ‘clean up the mess’, writing away an obvious case of ‘self defense’. It hadn’t rained-
But for Team Satisfaction, that day would forever be stained by a rain of red, pooling around the back of their best friend’s skull before acting as the last proof of his existence in that place.