Yokohama-sen Doppelgänger 6

Doppelganger 6



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Chapter 6: Self-Expression

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June 13th (Friday)

[sign]: Leather Kawasemi
Here’s where he works part-time.

He, the man who’ll be first victim
in 22 short days.

The breadth of that sternum,
the distance between the humerus and the shoulder blades… There’s no mistaking any of it:

[bold]: Laocoön Statue
Gruppo del Laocoonte
Believed to have been made between 160 BC and 20 BC. Currently on display in the Vatican Museums.

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[insert]: Kinugawa Keiji-san.
[book]: Ancient Greek Sculptures

[insert]: Several hours ago
We’ll be splitting up today.

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I’ll work on the case;
Makoto, you work on your sculpting.

You want me to sculpt now?
[insert]: Aren’t there better things to do?
The crimes ended my life.
But you, Makoto, will be different.

We’re going on to win! I swear it!
So Makoto, you live your own life.

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[small: I’m…] Awesome!
Tooting your own horn, huh?

So this means I’ll be in two places at once. [small: Cool!]
[insert]: That’s right.
Here’s a phone.
[insert]: Good thing I had two.

See ya.

………..
[sign]: Leather Kawasemi
Kinugawa, huh? It’s been a long time…

[sign]: Welcome New Students

When I enrolled in art school,

Kinugawa was a senior,
the best out of anyone.
The professors put him in charge,
/ but…

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He had a short fuse,
a reckless attitude,
and I heard he made a lot of enemies.

I hated him,
and didn’t get involved with the man.

Then,
the fire happened.

We severed all ties,
went our separate ways.
[letter]: Notice of Withdrawal / Kenzaki Makoto

[horizontal line, LEFT TO RIGHT]: Two years have passed since then. / 13, from my perspective.

This time, I will get involved.
I’ll find a clue to the culprit.

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[sfx]: Ring x2

Heyya…

Whaaaa?!
[sfx]: Rush!
You—it couldn’t be…!

[sfx]: Bathump!

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Huh?
No…

You’re entirely the wrong age. / <small: Wrong person. >
[insert]: Man,
You just remind me of a guy I hate. We fought, back in the day…

[sfx]: Mm!
Me?

But more importantly, you’d treat a new customer like this?
[insert]: Telling him he’s the spitting image of a guy he hates?

That must’ve put you in a bad mood.
/ My bad.

…This is just how I act…
when dealing with customers. <small: Guess I’m not much cut out for it. >

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Man, seriously.
[insert]: I meant nothin’ bad by it.
It’s cause of stuff like that that me n’ the guy I mentioned came to blows… <small: Sorry. >

Huh…?
/ Was he always like this?

[sfx]: Ring x2
Kina~
Oh, my man.

YAY!
[insert]: The alligator skin came in!

Gimme the rabbit skin—I’m makin’ my girl a pouch.
You wanna get dumped?
Owww. <small: Ahaha >

How’s this design?
[insert]: For the pouch
Lemme see.

Ki-chan!
[sfx]: Ring!

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My wallet broke!
[insert]: Help!
Again, you old hag? Show me—I’ll fix it.

Kinu, bro!

Not just enemies—
he’s got tons of friends, too?

Did I just decide I hated him
without even trying to get to know him?

If I’d opened up my heart to him back at college,
[left side]: Police believe they have found the body of Kinugawa Keiji-san.
[below that]: Ya happen t’have a motive??
would the future have changed?

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…Oh.
/ This one.
[insert]: It looks nice

I made that one.

Cool.
<small: Heh heh. > / You’ll make me blush.

I’d give it to you for 8,000. <small: I made it myself, after all. >
Huh…?

…Thanks.

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My main dig’s sculpting,
[insert]: not leather.
Went to Flower Arts, even.

I’m also a sculptor from Flower Arts.
You for real, man? Guess that makes us close.

Oh yeah, wasn’t there a fire there…
that took the life of a professor of sculpting?

[insert]: *Sigh*
Me, I was part of that whole deal.
With a genius dyin’ like that, things went crazy afterwards.

Ton of people got accusations flung at ‘em, even within the department.
[insert]: Accusations, huh…
There were a lot of oddballs at Flower.

Oh yeah. There was a dangerous one, too.
‘Round then, we’d find dead birds all ‘round the school.
And the guy who rumor said did it…

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He had a terrifyin’ look durin’ the day,
but at night, ‘e’d have this grin like an old okame mask. Creepy, right?

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[insert]: What’s more,
no matter who’d talk to him,
Is that so?
He’d barely say a word.
/ And acted like he had a few screws loose.

That said, he wasn’t a student.
If y’knew the professor, maybe you knew him: the professor’s flunky,

Saniguma.

Again…
[insert]: Saniguma
I’m sure the whole place was filled with nutballs durin’ your time, too. <small: Ahaha >

Still, what a coincidence. The guy I hate, the one you look like—
Kenzaki Makoto’s his name—he was at Flowers, too, and he…
[insert]: Oh, shit. There I go again.

I like you, man.
[sfx]: Thud
[insert]: Ow!

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Gangly, ain’t ya?
[insert]: You eating right?
I know a good place; how ‘bout we eat there sometime?
[insert]: And lemme make up for my attitude: it’ll be my treat.

Why do you detest this Makoto guy?
[insert]: Isn’t he the sculptor whose works are being featured in a drama?

…Sculpture’s a fine art. A pure art.
You do it for yourself.
You fight with yourself to make somethin’ great.
[insert]: You ain’t competing with others.

But Makoto, he’s doin’ commercial work, right?
Flatterin’ the show’s audience while producin’ his works.
/ And commercial work means competin’ with other guys’ sculptures.

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Shit like that’s just there to look pretty.
/ It ain’t real sculpture.

Screw people like him, who sell their souls.
I meet him somewhere,
I’m killin’ him good.

[left side]: Kidding!
/ [right side]: <small: Don’t look so frightened. >

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I’m heading there now.
[insert]: To the leatherwork shop.

Nah, I’m already back home.
[insert]: More importantly,
I’m taking sculpting seriously, right?

Yeah!
/ Where’d that come from?
[insert]: Dammit, and I came all this way, too… / I’ll be heading home now, so you take care of dinner.

Huh?
A difference in artistic opinion?

You want me to look out for Kinugawa?
[sfx]: Flash!

[sfx]: Step!

!

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