Riki-Oh 9

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white text on right: Yokohama - Yamamoto Town
white text on left: AURORA CITY
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199X OCTOBER X
YOKOHAMA
Currently 8:00 PM

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Traffic Accidents---24 Dead
Assault Incidents---34 Dead
Suicide-----------15 Dead
Arson-------------8 Dead
Drowning----------7 Dead
Strange Deaths-------72
Missing People---------4
Other------------16 Dead

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Deaths related to illness:
1. Leukemia [43]
2. Stomach Cancer [31]
3. Heart Disease [27]
Earthquakes -------16
Electricity Outages---2035
Water Outages------1642
Gas Main Leaks----------35

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[CAUTION! Highly-Concentrated Acid Rain]
[CAUTION! Abnormal Magnetic Readings]
--OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT--

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violence9 AURORA CITY

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S: The Royal Mausoleum of...Hell?
?: R...Riki-Oh lived here...until winter of...three years ago.
S: Winter three years ago?!
S: That matches up perfectly with the time Riki-Oh was said to have gone missing.
S: But why would a Chinese graveyard, of all places...!?
S: Look down at...where you stand. It's a remnant from Riki-Oh's training.

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S: THAT is from Riki-Oh's training?!

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sfx(candle): Whooo

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?: I had never...lost a fight before, so I had a lot of confidence...in my power. But Riki-Oh's strength...it just isn't human.
S: Enough! I told you already, Riki-Oh is rotting in the earth right now, so tell me all you know!!
S: I already paid you, remember?!
?: J....just remembering it is...painful.
sfx: buru buru
sfx: gachi gachi
?: This body became...the way it is now...after a night last year...

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?: J..just one year ago, I was a...little famous here in Yokohama.
?: I was one of the leaders of the South Harbor gang...
?: After becoming prosperous importing young women from southeast Asia and selling them off, I lived a life of luxury.
sfx: Chu chu
?: B...but that night...my sweet life ended...

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?: What's wrong?
?: Why did you stop the car?!
D: There's a man standing in the middle of the road!
?: Keh! Probably some bum, just run him down!!
D: Yes sir!

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R: Kuwabara from the South Port Gang....

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?: You're dead meat, bastard!!

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K: Wahhh!!
K: Hiieeeee!!

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K: M-my leg!!

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sfx: piku piku
K: Ohhhhh...

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K: Hiiiiee!!
K: A...after that, Riki-Oh was arrested and sentenced to three years in the state prison...
K: After turning into what I am...and I just couldn't make it, so I was excommunicated from my own gang.

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S: And then...?
K: Wh..what do you mean?
SFX: Mukah
S: You ugly piece of shit!! I could have found all that out from a police report!
S: What I want to know are the secrets behind it all!!
K: Th...there are no secrets. Riki-Oh probably just...saw me riding in a nice car with two pretty girls and got pissed off...
S: Don't play dumb with me!!
sfx: zakuh

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S: Riki-Oh isn't some dumbass hoodlum who would get jealous of girls or cars!!
K: Hiiieehhhhh!!
S: All I can think of is that Riki-Oh entered the state prison out of his own volition!!
S: Hmmmmmm?
S: And here I thought you were a cold (drug free) one...turns out you're pretty warm after all...
S: A heroin addict, huh?
K: I...if you want to know riki-Oh's secrets...go to the Yamashita Hospital!!
S: You saying you can't tell me with your own mouth?

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S: It looks like someone's been able to shut you up...
S: Keh, fine. In that case, I'll just bring you to that hospital with me.
S: C'mon, get up!
K: Owwwowowow! Don't p-pull my mouth!
S: Hmmm?
S: Something's comiiiing!!

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S: Wh...what, it's just some old fart...
S: You scared the shit outta me!
?: The magnetic ions being emitted from the black spot on the sun are drawing auroras on the night sky, and driving people mad...
?: The omen of an immense disruption.
S: Eh?
?: Take good care of Riki-Oh for me.

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S: Eh?
SFX: Huh
S: Gyehhhh!! He disappeared...he was a ghost!!
S: Let's get outta here!!
Grave: Oh Birei

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S: Mizukami Keiko....?
S: What does she have to do with Riki-Oh....?
sfx: Creeak

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S: Hey, what relation does that girl have to Riki-Oh?
K: I...I actually don't...really know, but...
K: Th...that girl and Riki-Oh...

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Black text: Three Years Ago

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T: Thieves!
T: Help, thieves!!
T: Move it, outta our way!
G: Ahh!!
T: Shit...damn kids!!
Box: Junkaien

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sfx: kusun kusun...
G: Uuuu...
T: Hmph!
R: Are you hurt?

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The biggest dark sign: Junkaien
Circular sign: "Famous Ramen"
R: That was delicious!
G: See, I told you so! My granda's ramen is the best in Yokohama!
R: Here, take this.
sfx: Chara
G: No, I can't do that. The ramen was just a thank-you for helping out Keiko.

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G: I live here all alone with my grandpa!
G: Please come sometime to visit, alright?
G: Hahaha! Looks like Keiko's taken a liking to you.
G: You're definitely welcome here anytime.

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G: You know, my late mother once dead...people become seagulls when they die...I wonder if it's true?
R: Sure it is. Your mom and dad are probably looking down on you from the sky right now, Keiko-chan.

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Sign: Yamashita Park Central Entrance
G: Riki-Oh-saaaaann!
G: It's Keiko...
G: Keiko..Keiko was...
G: Keiko was hit by a car!!

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G: Her wounds were light, and she was conscious as they drove her to the hospital, b-but then...they injected her with some painkillers...
R: Painkillers?!

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R: What did you inject in this girl?
D: Ehh....
D: Hiieee!!
R: I said, what did you inject in this girl?!
D: The medicine...I got it from Kuwabara-san in the South Port Gang..
R: Kuwabara-san...South Port Gang...
D: I...I had no choice!! The management is suffering now, she we can't purchase actual medicine...
D: And if I don't keep buying from Kuwabara-san, he threatened to destroy this hospital!

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G: Even I know that Kuwabara has a reputation for selling inflated drugs!! There are tons of people who have died and gone mad due to using his products!!
D: Uuu....
D: I didn't know...I didn't know what he sold would be this bad, I swear!!
D: P...please, you must believe me!
R: Kuwabara....
R: from the South Port Gang...

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G: Riki-Oh-san!
G: Riki-Oh-san, where are you going?!
S: I see...and so it all led up to this...
S: That definitely sounds like something Riki-Oh would do!

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P: Ahhh...more and more is piling up...
P: Is Riki-Oh really gonna be alright?