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Chapter 25: Coco & Colo
Arago
-City of London Police’s Special Crimes Investigator-
Box next to Coco: Handler (Title) Police dog trainers. Partnering up with police dogs in order to pursue cases!! (Text in box)
Text in Middle of Page: Our goal is to be a great team!!
Box next to Colo: Blood Hound (Title) A breed of dog native to England. They have a superior sense of smell even among dogs and a gentle personality. They were actively used in many old cases, even with Jack the Ripper.
Bottom Text: Rio is on the cover! Volume 2 is now on sale!!
Arai Takahiro

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Arago: So this is the area of some disappearances?
Joe: Recently in this neighborhood near the Thames River, people have been going missing one after another.
Side Text: The shadow of the disappearances that Coco was chasing, could it be a new mystery…?
Joe: The results of the evidence from Eames’s death still aren’t ready so…we have other work to do.
Arago: How is this related to Special Crimes?
Joe: A merman is the culprit…
Those are the sort of rumors going around.
Before one of the missing person’s disappeared, he told his friend who he was talking to on his cell phone…
That he saw an ominous figure floating on the water’s surface…
Arago: A tabloid…

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Ah
Get back! Shoo Shoo!!
Rio: I have permission to accompany you guys here!
Joe: Hahaha
Arago: Why is someone from the gun unit even here!?
Joe: It’s true that Rio is a member of the arms unit, but she’s received permission to assist Special Crimes in her spare time.
Just like with the Eames case, a situation might arise where we’ll need a gun.
Come on now, the three of us are all members of Special Crimes so we should get along.
SFX: *Grope*
*Grope*
Rio: Joe-san!
Arago: You dirty old man!
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Oho
Arago: Huh?
SFX: *Glance*
Arago: Geh!
Ghari: I want to too!!
Coco! You were supposed to be patrolling the area of the disappearances! What the hell were you doing!?
Coco: I’m sorry!
Arago: Not good, have to hide……
SFX: *Sneak*
*Sneak*
Cop: I think I have a solution…

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How about you and Colo…
Split up as a team?
Coco: Th, that’s….!!
Cop: Even if the handler is exceptional, he or she won’t be able to deal with every dog.
Aren’t you tired of your colleagues making fun of your Double C team?
Colo would be much better off if you gave him to a civilian, and you’d be better off if you were paired with a different dog.
What’s best for the both of you...you should think it over carefully.
SFX: *Sniff*
*Sniff*
Colo: Wooof!!
Coco: Colo!

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Arago: Let go you mutt!
You’re not getting my chocolate bar!!
Hey, Coco…nice to see you again.
Damn…she found me…
Coco: Senpai!
Rio: ……
Arago: Gahhhh!!!
Coco: Colo!!!
Rio: Who is that girl…
Coco: I messed up again…

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Um, senpai…could it be that you came over to make me feel better…
SFX: *Blush*
*Blush*
Arago: I really can’t stand this aura.
You may have screwed up, but it wasn’t your fault, right?
It was this stupid dog’s…
Coco: Colo isn’t a stupid dog!
SFX: *Heh*
*Heh*
Arago: Are you an idiot, what do you think this is!!
Coco: He always does great when we’re training…especially with his sense of smell, even the veteran handlers were impressed by how alert he was during training.
SFX: *Sigh*
But during the real thing, he stops right in the middle of following a scent for some reason,
And he hesitates to attack criminals…
He’s just a little more timid than other kids, he gets nervous!
Colo: Grrrrr…
Arago: ….
Text next to Arago: He sure seems hostile towards me…
Timid, nervous, with that kind of personality do you really think he’s suited to be a police dog…

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Coco: Out of all of the puppies, there was one that was a lighter color.
The other handlers liked the ones with darker fur better.
I guess they thought they were stronger.
It was true, even when they were just playing, he always lost quickly.
All of the sudden our eyes met.
It felt like we understood each other’s heart and mind…
SFX: *Lick*
I could just tell, that we were alike…
After that, we spent every day together…
We failed tests over and over again…
Text: Jump over it Coro!!
Even if they said we would always fail, I still wanted us to be a team no matter what!

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That’s why I’ll never let go of this leash!
SFX: *Pet*
Arago: I guess it’s fine then.
SFX: *Hmm*
!
I admire you.
Coco: Well, well then…Senpai…um, my…that’s… my head…
Never mind, it’s nothinggggg!!
Hey, not this again! The dog!
What happened to not letting go of his leash!?

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Hunt senpai, there’s this atmosphere around him that makes you want to avoid him.
Everyone…was a little afraid of him but…
But occasionally he would have this intense expression like he was brooding over something…
Just like my father.
SFX: *Snort*
I thought that he might be lonely, but whenever I got closer so I could talk to him…
He would put the same amount of distance between us.
Senpai
I moved one step towards him and he would move one step away.
I moved three steps towards him and he would move three steps away.

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Isn’t that funny? It’s like there was always some invisible wall between us.
Huh? Colo, you don’t like Hunt senpai?
SFX: *Nod*
*Nod*
Coco: Well could you at least stop peeing on him?
Us becoming a team, it’s all because of him!
SFX: *Achoo*
Aaaa
Arago: I’m hungry… (Small Text: *Grumble*)
Seth: Here you go.
Arago: Ah, just what I wanted…
Thanks.

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!!!
Seth: You’re welcome.
Are you worried about her? That girl…
She was your underclassman at the police training academy, wasn’t she?
Arago: How did you…!
Seth: I heard about it.
From him.
SFX: *Whistle*
Arago: Quit following me around!!
Seth: There’s no telling when Patchman or the Four Horsemen will attack.
Until then, I want to get a better idea of your motivations.
And maybe human bonds as well.
Arago: You were fine with just fighting me before Patchman showed up.

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Seth: Are you really going to attack someone who has no intention of fighting Mr. Detective?
Arago: ….Damn brat.
Seth: Whatever you say.
Working by day and then exterminating monsters by night.
Sounds like some fictional hero, right?
Arago: Che
Idiot….

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Drunk guy: ~~~~~~♪
That hits the spot…
Oh?
Uhihihi.
What the hell!?
What kind of idiot…
Goes swimming in the river at this time of night!
Arago: That person…Coco, she’s helpless.
She has to rely on that dog she’s with…..
Coco: Sit at heel!!
Colo! You’re going the wrong way!!
Arago: It’d be too easy for them to be attacked……
Seth: Attacked?

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Coco: Wh, what just happened!?
Colo: Grrrr……
Drunk Guy: Help meeee!
Somebo….
Arago: Idiot! You made me lose sight of Coco!!
Seth: I made you? It was your own fault.
Coco: This is CQ919, requesting immediate backup!
Operator: CQ919, What is your location!?
Man: Help…
Hel…
Operator: CQ919, What is your…
Coco: It’s no use, they won’t make it in time! We can’t just leave!!

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Coco: Please listen to me! Colo!!
How about you two split up as a team?
Think about what’s best for the both of you…
Coco: Don’t go!! We need to save that man!!
I admire you.
SFX: *Slip*
I’ll never let go of this leash!!
Coco: Colo!!
!!
Sorry…I’m sorry.
I guess it’s useless no matter what I do.

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Colo……
You’re scared, aren’t you?
I’m scared too….
…but,
I have to go!
Side Text: What will happen now that Coco has jumped into the river by herself!? Next time an extended 22 page chapter!!