You're scaring the other customers.
If you're going to talk like that, do it outside.
Too bad.
And here I thought if I manipulated you, I'd find out right away...
I want you to wait just a little longer.
Wait for wait? What do you mean?
Dude's one creepy bastard.
- Saburo! - Yeah!
Ram 'em.
Masaomi is back in town...
Well, it might've been just that day, but...
I'm glad he looked so well.
Hey! Is that you, Anri? Yoo hoo!
Erika? Good evening.
I see you're not with Walker and the others today.
Yeah, I just got out of a cosplay club meeting!
She's a member, too.
I'm Azusa!
Uh, I'm Anri Sonohara. Nice to meet you.
Good timing!
I've been dying to ask you for a while now!
Hey, Anri!
Want to try cosplaying? No, let's just do it!
What?
What's this? Is Erika off today? Does she have a cold?
She's got a meeting with her cosplay girlfriends today.
So I'm without anyone to get pumped up about manga with, and I'm so lonely...
Oh, if you sigh, happiness will run away from you!
And where is the happiness that gets away?
Inside salmon roe!
You should order some salmon roe, four servings for three!
It's a battle to avenge Erika's death.
Avenge her death? Hey, you...
Oh! Long time no see, Mr. Boss Man!
Kyohei...
I have a favor to ask.
Blessed are the Foolish
Today, I'm gonna talk to you all about scumbags.
Oh, hey, let me start off by saying that most people are scumbags.
As I'm sure you already know.
This one's a scumbag, that one's a scumbag, every last one of them - scumbags!
The whole world is awash with scumbags!
Still, there are different levels of scumbagdom,
and when all's said and done, this one ranks way up there at the top.
The kind of scumbag who can't even wipe his own ass, who sponges off his parents!
What's the matter, Hiroto? Coming home all of a sudden...
Oh, uh... I just wanted to see you, so...
No way could he say, "I started a drug ring and was selling drugs,
when I got caught by some scary dudes, and it's bad, Daddy! Save me!"
Nope, not going there, right?
I see. Well, say hello, then.
This is my son, Hiroto, Mr. Yodogiri.
Yodogiri?
Well! I know all about you, Hiroto Shijima.
I'm Jinnai Yodogiri.
And this sour-faced secretary here is Kujiragi.
I see.
No, seriously, I had no idea that Giichiro Shijima's grandson was actually working for me.
Hiroto...
I've heard everything about what you've been doing till now!
I'll take care of the Awakusu Group somehow, so no need for you to worry about them.
Grandpa!
Not bad! Typical scumbag response!
...so be sure you do whatever Mr. Yodogiri tells you to.
Listen to me.
You're not going to let Mr. Yodogiri down, no matter what!
Uh... well...
Mr. Izaya Orihara, was it?
He believes that he has you completely wrapped around his finger.
You've made significant inroads into the very thing I seek.
Truly, you're in a prime position.
Um, no, I... what do you want me...?
Oh, I beg your pardon.
The thing is, I've had a keen interest in it for a long time.
In the Dollars, such a youthful, wholesome group, see?
Russia Sushi
Here are our next scumbags.
A tough guy who thinks he's the boss wherever he goes...
And a little punk coward who still acts like he's the shit!
I hate those guys!
This situation has happened before.
Whoa, forgot all about this scumbag!
We'd better not piss off the chef today.
The psycho bastard arsonist who can't tell fact from fiction!
Yo coppers, arrest this guy first! For the crime of delusion! Delusion!
All right, let's get down to business.
Start by clearly stating the main point. What is the favor you want to ask of us?
Will you leave the Dollars... and help me with the Yellow Scarves?
Kida...
Yes?
Let me get one thing straight.
Surely you don't see us as the kind of guys
who'd betray the Dollars in a heartbeat, and switch teams, do you?
Let me ask you this, then.
Do I look like I'd come ask guys like that for a favor this way?
Well, I guess you have a point.
So? What are you planning to do?
The Dollars... I kind of want to destroy them.
What's the meaning of this, Mr. Shiki?
We've been contacted by Giichiro Shijima.
He'd like to talk to us, including that incident with his grandchild.
Don't tell me he's telling us to sweep that Jinnai Yodogiri affair under the rug?
This time, it's so Shijima can save face.
But as long as Yodogiri gives off even a whiff of money, we're keeping an eye on him.
That's what the chairman's decided.
Meaning that you'll be taking over now, Mr. Shiki?
What? I have no intention of taking the most profitable position.
In fact, what I'm praying for isn't the money, but that Yodogiri doesn't cause any trouble.
Like that incident with Yumeji Kuzuhara, you mean?
As far as we're concerned, the name Kuzuhara is no joke, Mr. Kazamoto.
I mean, it was thanks to him that Mr. Kine was kicked out of this gang.
I'm begging of you, Kuzuhara's daughter.
Don't you have some kind of tip?
Jeez! If you don't stop pestering me,
I'm going to haul you in for obstruction of official business.
Scumbag! Scumbag! Scumbag! No, over here!
No, no, I have no intention of keeping you from your job!
It's just that, you know, as a member of the renowned family of police officers,
the Kuzuharas' hope, Maju Kuzuhara,
I thought you might know something about the Dollars.
Do you want to be arrested as a stalker?
I know that you're a reporter for that kind of magazine, Mr. Niekawa, but...
Ambushing an on-duty cop for an interview seems like a lack of common sense.
That's not it. This thing about the Dollars has nothing to do with the magazine.
It's personal.
What do you mean by that?
Well, uh... Actually, my only daughter's run away from home, and...
Run away? How old is your daughter?
She'll be turning eighteen this year.
Have you filed a missing persons report?
No, since she regularly texts to say that she's wandering from one friend's house to another.
And so, uh, I felt bad about it,
but I turned on the computer in my daughter's room.
I thought she might still be in touch with that high school teacher, Nasujima,
the one she had all that trouble with...
And that was when I found out
that my daughter might be involved with a color gang called the Dollars.
These days, you hardly ever see color gangs anymore,
but you know, they say the Yellow Scarves came back last year, right?
I was in the hospital, so I can't be sure, but...
I don't know how much I can trust my fatherly instincts,
since I was never much of a parent to her, but...
I thought I should at least do what I can to find her.
Everyone who's signed up to be a Dollar... they're all scumbags.
Hiding behind anonymity, only lusting for the good stuff...
Undeniably, they're scumbags.
What? Me? Of course I'm a scumbag.
Although you guys listening and smirking are all scumbags, too!
But of them all, the kind of scumbag I hate the most is this kind!
There's somebody sniffing around the Dollars?
Yeah, his business card said he's a reporter or something, for the Tokyo Warrior.
You'd think the Dollars wouldn't be en vogue as a magazine story.
Oh, well, I'll keep it in mind, just in case.
Brother...
Yo, Aoba! Long time no see.
You haven't changed much in size or looks. You sure you're eating right?
Well, you've totally changed, Brother.
Not only have you lost weight, your hair's pitch black now.
Yeah, since they shaved my head in prison, I thought I'd go for a total makeover, that's all.
Your injuries don't seem to be as serious as I'd heard, either.
Is that how it looks?
I hear you got burned by a Molotov cocktail brawling with the Yellow Scarves. I was worried.
Worried? You? Worried about me getting burned?
After burning my room years ago? Don't make me laugh!
I wasn't smoking!
Not yesterday...
That little...
Aoba, you bastard.
Could it be you did this to get back at me for smacking you around?
I'm so glad you didn't get hurt, Brother!
Huh? Yeah...
That day I got my nose bashed in by the old man, remember?
You owe me for that, right? Aoba?
That's pretty harsh, Brother.
So you still think that I was the one who set that fire?
Hey, I don't give a damn anymore.
Whether what you're spewing is a pack of lies or the truth, you know?
Or how you couldn't handle the Blue Square three years ago,
and handed the reins to me.
Actually, I have a favor to ask of you, Brother.
Huh?
He told me how he'd founded a gang, just for fun,
that he could no longer control after a notorious delinquent joined.
I'm just so scared now, so...
I want you to become the leader of my gang, Brother.
He was lying.
That was my gut feeling, but as his big bro, I couldn't say no.
Okay.
Thanks, Brother!
Either way, once I've killed off Kadota, Yumasaki, and the Yellow Scarves' Kida,
you're gonna be next. If you want me to leave you only half-dead,
better start thinking of a tasteful way to beg for your life!
Kadota?
Hey, do you know him? Kadota?
What are you gonna do?
You don't have the Blue Square backing you now.
Mikado Ryugamine...
Was that his name? The Dollars' boss...
I hear he's all buddy-buddy with you these days, huh?
Well, one of these days I'll go pay my respects.
It would be better if you didn't, Brother.
Huh?
The Dollars wouldn't be a good opponent for you, Brother.
You'll only end up heading back to prison.
You've got the wrong idea, you know that?
When I said pay my respects, that's not what I meant.
I'm a member of the Dollars now, too.
Of course I have to go pay my respects to the founder! Right?
In organizations, it's more fun to carry the shrine than be the shrine itself, after all!
And it's thanks to you that I realized that, Aoba!
I wish he'd get run over.
You're not quite as bad as you used to be, Brother.
I can't wait for the day that I destroy you, minions and all.
That took me a bit by surprise.
That you would be suspicious of me, Mr. Akabayashi.
Yeah, I'm extremely suspicious of you.
But that has nothing to do with this.
I saw your face change. You know him?
He was my junior in high school. Has he done something?
Oh, the daughter of someone who once did me a good turn
has been going out with that kid, or so I've heard.
But there are rumors that he's in a color gang.
And I was wondering if he was mixed up in anything unsavory.
If it turns out that he is, I'll talk him into giving it up.
Well, thanks.
I thought you'd be the better man for the job, Info Broker, since you're closer in age.
Very well.
Then I'll take on the job of doing a thorough investigation of him.
On this boy... Mikado Ryugamine's current life. Down to the last detail.
One, two...
What a total wuss this guy is.
Hey, Aoba...
Are you really sure about having this guy as our leader?
The name "Blue Square," see...
Huh?
There was a guy who said we were like "a bunch of sharks stranded in shallow waters."
Each one of us has a square cut out of a blue plaza,
and we're a herd of sharks desperately defending these tiny territories.
That's what the name means.
- I don't get it. - Hit the books, moron!
The Dollars is a shallow and vast group.
True, its vastness is pretty mind-blowing, but..
For a shark, it's easier to swim in a vast ocean.
If we're going to drill down deep into this ocean called the Dollars,
Mikado-senpai is absolutely essential.
Okay, good work, Kyohei!
Good work!
As it turned out, nothing's happened since then.
That Kida...
The Dollars... I kind of want to destroy them.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Don't put it so simply!
That's beyond bizarre, Kida.
Last year's conflict has been settled.
That Horada guy's been arrested, so we got our happily ever after, remember?
There's someone I want to save.
You mean Ryugamine?
I'm sorry. I can't go into detail.
So what is it? You can't go into detail, but you're going to destroy the Dollars.
So are you telling us to join the Yellow Scarves?
That's what will need to happen.
Hey, now. What kind of sense would that make?
Yes, I know that it might not make any sense. That's why I can't force you.
But I did come here to try and make sense of it.
How so?
Don't you think there's something odd about the Dollars these days?
Haven't you heard the rumors about out-of-control members getting purged in-house?
The Dollars is a gang that's colorless and transparent.
Meaning you can get dyed any color.
On the other hand, if anyone in the gang pulls some stupid stunt,
sure, some of them are bound to disapprove.
Though it depends on how they deal—
What if there was a clear reason why it's gone haywire?
What if I said a group of guys wearing blue shark ski masks had infiltrated the Dollars?
- Hey, hey, that's got to be... - Is it the Blue Square?
What happened to the Yellow Scarves last year might be happening to the Dollars this time.
What if I told you that?
Is Ryugamine mixed up in that?
Sorry, I can't say any more.
Someday, when I'm free to talk, I promise that I'll tell you everything.
Let me think about it for a few days.
All right. That's all I wanted to say.
But...
If you tell me that you're going to become our enemies...
If I tell you that, then what?
Well, I'll figure out a way not to run into you.
To be honest,
I don't think I'd stand a chance against you when you're going all out, Kyohei.
If you're serious about destroying them,
you could just ambush them without any warning.
Seriously, what a naïve dude.
You really lucked out.
If you'd spread that menacing vibe around my shop one second longer,
there'd be more gouges in the wall.
Hey... no threats, Chef!
Anyway, that kid paid your bill, too.
What... When did he do that?
He's probably telling you you guys are even now.
That little punk had a lot of resolve in his eyes.
Resolve, huh?
How does Ryugamine fit into all this?
True, when I met him the other day, there was something strange about him.
Kyohei, that's because you're like a model Dollar.
Isn't wanting to get closer to an ideal another of my freedoms as a Dollar?
Ryugamine, part of the Dollars' purging team?
No way.
Well, I guess I'll just do what I can.
Yee-haw!
Die, Kadota you bastard!
Hit him.
Yee-haw! Eat that!
I see, so you haven't met up with Mii-kyun lately, either?
Mii-kyun?
He answers your texts, but won't pick up the phone.
I mean, what kind of boyfriend is that?
B-Boyfriend? Mikado and I... um...
Both you and Mika-pon are social noobs, huh?
Like a rookie butler and klutzy maid combo.
I was about to go all Swallowtail on you, going moe-moe-kyun-kyun!
I-I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand.
Hey, Anri!
Has your chest gotten bigger again?
I-I don't think it has...
Oh, right, I heard from Yumatchi. Kida's back in Ikebukuro.
What? Did he run into Kida?
The other day, that day I ran into you on the street, Anri.
At Russia Sushi, Dotachin and the guys—
My lady, you have a phone call.
Dotachin
Okay, okay. Yes, my butler!
Hey, speak of the devil! It's Dotachin.
Hello? Hello, Dotachin?
You're Kyohei's father?
Well, thank you for the other day—
Yes. Yes...
What?
Kadota's...?
You're kidding, right?
A hit-and-run on someone I know?
Who the hell did it? The bastard!
Have you heard?
There was a hit-and-run near Ikebukuro today.
Oh, no! So scary!
Was it on the news?
No, since no one died.
Then how did you hear about it, Chrome?
Are you the culprit, by any chance?
Of course I'm not!
Don't you ever look at the Dollars' bulletin boards?
Meaning it's a Dollars-related incident?
The person who got run over was kinda a boss in the Dollars named Kadota.
Seriously? Is Kadota dead?
Come on, that's really morbid. See? Saki's so scared she hasn't said a word!
Chrome: Come to think of it, I don't see any responses from Saki.
Sharo: Maybe she fell asleep?
Junsui 100%: Saki, are you awake?
Now, then...
What are you going to do, Mikado Ryugamine?
Lastly, let me introduce you to the ultimate scumbag.
Mikado-senpai, did you hear?
Yeah, I can't believe it.
Kyohei was in an accident...
What do you want to do? Should we go see him in the hospital?
He might be declining visitors, but....
There's nothing that I'd like to do more,
but if we went now, we might run into all kinds of people.
I guess so.
Oh, but it might be good if you went, Aoba.
Kyohei helped you out, too, didn't he?
I don't mind if people call me ungrateful, but you shouldn't have to get lumped in with me, too.
Well, but after that, I picked that fight with Toramaru and caused that war.
That has nothing to do with this.
What?
Kyohei helped out both you and me.
That's something that will never change.
You're right. Sorry.
I guess I'll go sometime soon.
It's taboo to bring camellias or potted plants to the hospital, so be careful.
Still...
In a sense, I'm really glad.
This guy...
I don't dislike him at all!
Next Time on Durarara!!x2 Birds of a Feather
That accident threw the city into turmoil.
As everyone's thoughts grow confused, the people begin to take action.
Surgery, arrests, kidnapping, intrigue...
Next episode: Birds of a Feather.
Meow!