No matter what your reason was, you dragged Sonohara-san into this.
Accept my fury.
Look. Whatever their worries may have been, now they're just stains. Stains.
Please forgive me...
There's a child I'd like you to kidnap.
Dammit... I underestimated him, huh?
The Black Bike!
He had been waiting all throughout that day.
For the person who would be coming to kill him.
For example, him?
If it's not Shizu-chan...
Or else...
Well, he does have a considerable grudge against me.
If they aired the news about my stabbing this morning,
then a person of action should be arriving at this hospital any second now.
I've been this patient all day today.
If I don't get the time of my life at the end, it won't balance out!
All right, who are you?
Love Thy Enemy
He loved humans deeply.
Orihara-san, it's time for your checkup.
I'm going to change your IV, okay?
Oh, right... I'm in the hospital.
I have one favor to ask of you...
Just for a while,
would you mind taking a nap?
Oh, I forgot something.
My name is Yodogiri Jinnai. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.
The police coming to see you so early... that must've been hectic for you.
Yes. Since I'm not used to that sort of thing.
It would be scary if you were used to it!
A random attack, you say?
Yes. I have no idea who it could've been.
Never mind me. Please find the perpetrator as soon as you can
so that the people of this city can live their lives in peace.
Judging by the way they're acting,
they must've found the knife in my secret pocket.
I'm still in some pain, but I guess I'll sneak out tonight.
You have good color,
so if you keep this up, you could get discharged soon.
That would be disappointing.
It's so comfortable here, I was hoping that I could stay here a little longer.
Because he loved humans so much he could barely stand it,
Oh, please! Buttering us up won't get you anywhere, you know!
he'd decided to observe their way of life.
A lot of people's ways of life.
Come to think of it, do you know if my stabbing made the news or the papers?
They did a brief segment on TV King's Bokusatsu! Morning Star show.
And they mentioned your name, Orihara-san.
All the while positioning himself outside, looking in.
Did they, now?
Here's our next story.
Last night at around 9 pm, in a shopping arcade near Sendai Station,
What Should've Been a Fun Trip?! A Man, Stabbed in a Shopping Arcade!
a man was stabbed by an unknown assailant, sustaining grave injuries.
Random Stabbing Victim, Orihara Izaya (24)
The injured man is Orihara Izaya-san of Tokyo.
It's just a day trip. Why would you stuff our bags like that?
The ambulance that arrived after a 119 call conveyed him to a local hospital.
Because better safe than sorry, Celty!
Still, why do you humans make a point of going out on your days off?
It only wears out your body and brain.
Well, you see, Celty, it's so we can get a taste of the abnormal.
Orihara-san sustained a stab wound to his stomach area...
We're not going to rest our bodies and brains,
but to rest the state of endless, aimless normalcy itself...
Hey, that's right!
I'm gonna bring this, too!
I'm sure I'm gonna need it!
Why would you?
Oh, why not, Celty?
I said, why would you need a change of underwear?
And now here's our next story. In Higashiyamamura, a city abuzz
thanks to a tsuchinoko sighting and the Tokugawa Buried Treasure Incident,
a heated debate is now raging over the rights to local mascot...
All right, time to hit the road, Celty!
Your kid brother's filthy rich, isn't he?
I'm sure he must be giving you a share, too, so that means you've got yourself a cash cow.
So listen, if you don't want to cause any trouble for your brother...
how about forgetting about my debt in return...?
The injured man is Orihara Izaya-san of Tokyo.
There was quite a crowd at the scene of last night's crime,
and several passersby witnessed Orihara-san suddenly collapse...
on the street of the arcade, with blood gushing from his wounds.
Mr. Akabayashi!
The ambulance that arrived after a 119 call...
Hey, there! You've gotten so big, Young Miss.
I just don't see him as the kind of guy
my grade school age daughter would want to see on the morning of a holiday.
Orihara-san sustained a stab wound
to his stomach area from what is believed to be a knife,
and the police are investigating this as a random attack.
At this time, they're waiting for Orihara-san to recover so that they can question him about the incident.
Really? So he got himself stabbed.
And now here's our next story.
Either way... it's safe to assume that I have a few days off now.
In Higashiyamamura, a city abuzz
thanks to a tsuchinoko sighting and the Tokugawa Buried Treasure Incident,
a heated debate is now raging over the rights to local mascot, Maizo the Tsuchinoko.
Oh... Seiji...
Here's our next story!
Sendai Emergency Hospitals
...waiting for Orihara-san to recover so that they can question him about the incident.
And now here's our next story.
In the city of Higashiyamamura...
A random attack, did you hear? How terrifying.
All right, let's get going.
Really! You're so impatient, dear. We still have time, you know.
Yeah, but come on, it's been so long since the three of us went shopping.
Right, Rio?
Yes, I guess so.
For normal people...
...to go out on a holiday, if what they're seeking is something abnormal,
then what do people with abnormal daily lives do on their days off?
People whose very existence is abnormal.
People who somewhere along the way found themselves up to their necks in abnormality.
Ryuugamine?
Is that you, Ryuugamine?
Oh, hey, Yagiri-kun, Harima-san.
Out on another date today?
It could be that they have no days off.
Or in fact...
...do they desire an even more unexpected stimulus?
I'm so bored.
Either way,
I could easily imagine that he was enjoying even the fact that he'd been stabbed.
But that day ended up becoming an unexpected day for him in quite the opposite way.
For that day, his normal life went on hiatus.
I wonder if the rumors I stockpiled are about to take off now?
I hear that Heiwajima Shizuo got hit by a truck and is in critical condition.
He was being chased by the yakuza, and when he jumped down from a building...
Bam! That's when it happened, I hear.
So right now he's all banged up?
It gets even better. The guy has a girlfriend now.
Not only that, but this woman...
I hear she's got a kid!
And then this thought will occur to someone...
Right now...
You and I could...
We could find a way to take out Heiwajima Shizuo, right?
Bang!
Well, not that it will ever happen.
Yesterday was pretty crazy, huh? We're all good!
Everything's fine with me, too!
Even if it's a holiday, the city never takes a break.
Even the day after all that mayhem, the city goes on running as usual.
Akabayashi-san?
Swallowing everyone's emotions, it goes on running.
What can I do?
All I can do is... When he's gotten over this grief of his now...
Talk to him, that's all...
Dammit, that's not it. You know that's not it!
All I want... is him and Anri and me to be like we were before.
Oh...
Excuse me!
Yes?
I'd like to call a friend of mine, so could you let me use this phone?
Oh... Yes, here you go!
I'm taking it, I'm taking it!
I'm taking your picture!
Okay!
No!
Hel—
Who the hell?!
"Who the hell?" I've never heard such a dynamic greeting before.
Oh, it's you, Orihara-kun. See you!
Hey, don't hang up on me.
I finally got to borrow a phone at the hospital, see...
Hospital? Have you been hospitalized?
Didn't you see it on Daiou TV this morning? I got stabbed yesterday.
Oh, really? See you!
What a piss-poor excuse for a friend!
It's all your fault something so terrible would happen to an upstanding citizen like myself.
Didn't I warn you over and over to suspend your illegal activities?
Thank you very much!
Don't mention it.
Hello... Excuse me?!
Yes... yes...
What? Yes, I am a friend of Orihara-kun's...
I'm sorry, I'm away on a trip right now...
No, no! I'm a man of integrity!
Hey, there! Did you just get a call from the cops, by any chance?
Yes, thanks to you...
Is that right? Well, it's pretty boring over here.
Just the thought of you enjoying your day off really annoyed me for some reason!
I thought it would be funny if the cops called an underground doctor!
Well? I'm sure that Celty's enjoying the holiday with you... Did all the suspense bring you closer?
Did your heart pound just a little?
If only the suspense would split open your chest so you'd die...
The young girl's thoughts raced.
Back then, there were scores of others
beside herself whom "Nakura" deceived into becoming would-be suicides,
but are their minds, too, filled with various thoughts as they live their lives somewhere in this city?
There's nothing you can do about it!
Kids like that are just stupid,
so when they can't find the words to praise their favorite voice actors,
all they can do is insult other people.
You've got to ignore them with a pitying gaze!
Though it seems like what you say is way more harsh than any of them.
Believer x Anti or Anti x Believer - which would you prefer?
Is that from BL? Or is it yuri? That's crucial, you know! Totally crucial!
Today was a peaceful day, huh?
Isn't that a good thing?
No.
After all that turmoil yesterday, I thought we'd have some incident today, too...
But it's probably normal for stuff like that not to happen.
Well, I guess if you put it that way...
But look, you know how we saw all kinds of stuff in the last year...
the Headless Rider, the demonic sword...
Yeah, that sure changed my outlook on life. Seriously!
Right now I'd believe it if they were ghosts, or aliens.
Those were the biggest shocks of my life,
second only to getting a front row seat at Hijiribe Ruri's concert.
Wait, so that tops everything in your book?
Seriously, who knows how Kazutano got his hands on those tickets...
Well, anyway, at the end of the day, the world is designed to balance out eventually.
Even as we're sitting here taking it easy,
I'll bet that somewhere in Japan, some kind of uproar like that is happening.
What are you getting at?
We got ourselves involved with the Black Bike and the Dollars and such.
Knowing that we could get dragged into that kind of turmoil at any time...
I'm just saying that we should at least be prepared.
You seem to be in quite dire straits...
President Yagiri.
My situation's not dire. Although it is quite a mess.
Thanks to you people at Nebula.
I'm not seeing you today as a Nebula employee.
I just wanted to give you a word of warning as an old friend.
Warning?
Yodogiri Jinnai.
Judging by that reaction, I can see the rumors are true.
Let me be blunt.
It would be in your best interests to stay away from Yodogiri.
Is he really such a dangerous man?
An info broker who only seems fit to grovel in the dirt before the big guns?
The threat Yodogiri poses is like poison. No, it's radioactive!
If you're unaware, you won't even realize the danger as he slowly eats away at your body...
And by the time you notice something's off, it's already too late.
And you're an arrogant man.
Though I'm sure you intend to wring every ounce of value out of him,
and then discard him when the going gets tough.
YAGIRI PHARMACEUTICALS
That nephew of yours is in love with that head, but isn't that also true of you?
What are you talking about, all of a sudden?
And now you've been possessed by something inhuman.
As usual, you couldn't be more abstract, but I'll certainly take your warning to heart.
Is he really all that dangerous? This man named Yodogiri?
Does it bother you, Egor-kun?
No...
You remember that affair of the serial killer, Hollywood, don't you?
Yes, because I was forced to undergo plastic surgery on my face.
This Hollywood... Miss Hijiribe Ruri...
Despite the fact that normally, she would've tried to kill him first,
until the very end, she fled.
That should tell you just how abnormal he is.
I see.
But what motive would such a man have, joining forces with the CEO of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals?
The man's a broker. Although he'd been using his talent agency as a front.
Would you say human trafficking, or something along those lines?
Yodogiri also sells products other than humans.
Other than humans?
20 years ago, the man who came to sell me information on where to find Saika,
the demonic sword, and the Dullahan's lair...
It was none other than him.
Egor-kun, this has been nagging at me recently...
What is it?
Could it be that you've been slashed by Saika?
I'll leave that to your imagination.
All right, who are you?
And at the very end of that day,
one more completely unexpected thing happened to him.
I finally found you!
Uh...
Who... are you?
Who am I?
Oh, that's right. To you, I'm just some person of insignificance.
The fact that I can't remember you must mean that you are.
To die means to disappear.
It's not your pain that will disappear, it's your existence, right?
When was it? When did I say that?
Eternal darkness... that's not "nothingness" at all.
Because you yourself can sense that darkness.
Do you want to die together?
So tell me, what's going to happen after you both die?
What?
After we die? You mean in the afterlife?
I don't believe in the afterlife.
After you die, there's nothing. It's just dark.
But it's way better than this.
That's no good. People about to commit suicide shouldn't care about the afterlife.
If you pondered, and pondered, and pondered to reach that conclusion,
then I wouldn't say anything.
But that's not the case with you two, right?
You chose death yourself, so to hope for a better world after you're dead is unforgivable!
Um, Nakura-san, do you have any intention of dying?
No, why?
Were you deceiving us all along?
Don't give us that! That's beyond cruel!
Why?
Huh?
Since you've made up your minds to die, what do you care anymore, right?
Even if you've been deceived or cursed out, in a little while it's all going to go away.
You didn't...
You said there'd be nothing after you died.
You won't have to suffer anymore... That might be what you meant,
but to die means to disappear.
It's not your pain that will disappear.
It's your existence.
Eternal darkness... that's not "nothingness" at all.
Because you yourself can sense that darkness.
It's love. I can't sense any love in your deaths.
That's no good. You've got to love death, to pay your respects to nothingness.
If that's your mindset, I can't die with you, you know.
I swear... I'll make you pay... I'm going to kill you!
Now, then, I guess I'll ask the transporter to take on another job.
So you're that girl...
You're going to be murdered by that same insignificant person!
That's right! You're insignificant.
But though you were nothing but a half-assed would-be suicide,
you've harbored the intent to kill me, letting it fester for over a year...
And in just half a day after you saw the news, you smoked out my location, and came here!
That's right, you came here.
Yes, you came here! Could anything be more amazing than that?
You've turned my expectations on their head!
Thanks to you... Thanks to you, now I remember!
Now I remember how I started!
Oh, that's right... Yes, that's right...
Ever since I came into contact with something beyond human,
I might have been underestimating humanity.
But look!
Behold, Izaya!
Do you see now, Izaya?
Just how magnificent humans are?
I don't really understand, but there's one thing I can say.
You're the lowest kind of human.
That's fine by me!
No matter how much you hate me,
I still desperately, almost irrationally, more than anything...
More than anything...
More than anything, I adore you all!
Good grief. What a day...
Who would've thought that would happen, huh?
Just when we thought we'd spotted an extinct Japanese wolf,
for it to turn out to be a werewolf... it's not even funny.
And those priestesses at that shrine seemed kind of sketchy, too.
They were rocking this vampire vibe.
Oh well, I think I'll go take a shower.
For once, let's go in toget—
Good evening.
Who are you?
I'm Kuronuma Aoba.
I'm here tonight to become friends with you and the Black Bike.
Next time on Durarara!!x2 (The Second Arc) Life Is But A Dream
I can't forgive you. I can't forgive that face of yours.
That's why I've decided to do this.
In order to keep Seiji all to myself.
Next episode, Life is But a Dream.