Bungou Stray Dogs: BEAST | Chapter 0 |
Author: Asagiri Kafka.
Character design: Sango Harukawa.
Bungou Stray Dogs: BEAST. White Akutagawa, Black Atsushi.
The boy ran in the night.
The sweat ran down his throat, and his lungs were about go to shooting down. His view was cloudy with hungry and fatigue, and was almost impossible don’t down in some moment, but at the kid doesn’t import that.
Just in front of his legs, a step by step, as much him could, he was afraid that his extremities were broken. The kid, named “Akutagawa Ryuunosuke”, didn’t have time. When he finished to run in that road, Akutagawa thought that he would die.
Akutagawa was one of the children that didn’t know to his parents and wandered at the streets of that poor city. He lived at the place with a group of 8 persons that shared the same situation. The chldren of the same age as him, named to Akutagawa “the child without emotions”.
Even when he stood up in a cold flat surface, even when he was in a feast, or with adults, even when he was beaten or fell, he showed no emotion. Only he was there, seeing the sky with dark eyes, bottomless. That semblance, that of “A child without emotions” for not having many adults too there. Akutagawa, whom didn’t have heart, had a misterious power instead. Was able to deform his clothes freely. Sometimes looked like a rope, other times a knife. He could change his form and manipulate it freely. The ability of “manipulate the clothes that you dress” it was a extraordinary power.
Well, here in this demonic Yokohama’s city. Machine guns and ilegal hand grenades are so easy to get as an apple. The sleeves of his clothes transformed in knifes, it was no surprise that it was more that trick of magic. The adults that met Akutagawa, that’s why they hated him. But his friends were different to those adults. Other boys and girls shared the same destiny than Akutagawa: have been abandoned. A thin and dirty kid with an whip. The child approached and lacking all emotion in his eyes, thirsty of blood cut his throat. The adult that hold his weapons to such an extreme of arrogance, with that technique, easily became a corpse. Silent and without emotions, those who attacked their territory, he ripped them mecilessly the throat.
His nature in comparations with the barking of a rabid dog is much worse. He was evaded, maybe because of fear that he was caused is by his nickname.
But, a child is a child. On the other hand, they couldn’t get enough food, and the nocturnal breeze blew them from cold to bone. Akutagawa had a weak body, a small body, that grew with little meat. But nevertheless, didn’t had much difference with the other eight friend with whome shared bed and breakfast.
Is for this that the eight have lived together since they met.
But that isn’t necessary. All his friends, were killed.
The criminal was known. An armed group that had arrived to this poor city from the west. Although it sounds good to say that they are just an armed group, the’re pirates that go in and out of the bay of this poor city and attacked the transport boats that pass without escort. Even though they’re a new organization, they have the trust of the ilegal organization Port Mafia and their subordinates, and they have given the autorization to operate as a sub-organization. Is impossible that a human oppose to the Port Mafia, synonymous of the dark in Yokohama.
By chance, one of Akutagawa’s friends known when this delinquents came in the ilegal commerce. The bandits feared call the authorities attention, so that Akutagawa’s home was attacked. And they killed to boys and girls. Akutagawa escaped with difficulty thanks to his sister, being hurt during the fight. Naturally it was already very advanced in the month of January, but now Akutagawa’s steps while ran under the night seemed very light. The kids had a rule: “If they hurt one, others must take revenge”. It was a measure of self-defense for children who had been abandoned. But, the Akutagawa’s steps was very light, but it was not only that the only reason. Finally he got it. His heart burned, his hair lifted and an emotion was so strong that it burned his throat. It was hate. It was an emotion that he had clear since his birth. While his own destiny was the same hell’s kinndom, the emotions of Akutagawa still burning. Without hesitation, like a knife cut the throat of the enemy. Letting go by the hate.
For that, he isn’t a silly dog.
Is a human with emotions.
Being so, it was only as a measure of reprisal.
He was aware of where the enemy would appear. It was the road that the enemy used for trade. Akutagawa ran through of a dense forest. The gray haze and a steam whistle that heard in the distance were the only companionship of the boy.
The hell is a place more confortable that this.
He didn’t fear the pain of death.
Because this infinite day to day in itself is hell.
Is a daily life where even grass fight for food.
Wake up everyday in snowy moring, and next to you a dead friend dawns.
If that was live. Every respite was survive at a nefarious price.
Then this was a revenge. Kill so many enemies how you can, lash the fresh corpse before the eyes of Enma’s hell. Akutagawa can do it, that is his better revenge.
Is a revenge for had birthed.
Then, the kid got it. through the mist, a some red light blinked. It was the bandit’s cigars. The light of their cigars. There they were.
They were six. All they were armed with automatic rifles. There was little activity, but there was time until the transaction. He hid between the trees, examining bandit’s faces. All they were experienced criminals in steal human lifes. Six persons. Isn’t a number that a child can take care of alone. But they were six men, Akutagawa thought. He was carrying with eight dead. In that case there was no way to lose in number.
Akutagawa open his coat, on one side was a bandage. It was a bullet wound of previous attacked. He took off the bandages and pressed a finger against the wound. It opened and began to bleed.
Akutagawa frowned in pain and scattered the blood in his face. The wound is more serious than it seems.
“Help… Please help” Akutagawa’s trembling voice echoed through the trees. “I was attacked by two armed men…”
The six bandits looked back. A child that pressed against his chest and dragging the feet approached. The moon illuminate his bloody face and out of breath.
“What are you doing alone at this hour?”
“A car was attacked over there… Money of the government, a transport car, two masked men…” Akutagawa said with weak voice like that of a small animal. “They killed the guard, and took the money, I saw their face, and finished… They followed me to shut me up”.
“Haha… Did you mean that? Were you witness of a robbery? This place is dangerous like always”.
One of the bandits raised his gun and said “It’s a shame, boy. But if I were that thief, I couldn’t sleep with the calm conscience if I didn’t kill you. That you die I consider it an act of mercy”.
“No, no, it’s too early” Other bandit said. “Is a good opportunity. You know”.
“The transport truck have one billion units in gold to adjust the volume of circulation of bills. If we intercept them it would be a good bussiness”.
“What? Well, then… Are you going to protect this child?”
“Not. It’s for money. You think about it, the government money can become annoying after being robbed. The army, the city police, the ministry of finance, all protect the government bank money. Those who face them are destroyed against the wall like insects. But, is to those two thieves that they going to chase this time. We would never go afloat in the investigation… It would be irrelevant. It is an easy booty. In other case, they are two and we are six. It would be easy”.
The six badits observed each other.
“We have time before the meeting”.
“Is a work that showed up. Isn’t ready”.
“One hundred million. One hundred. We’ll regret it if we don’t go. Or you are afraid?”
“I wonder, could it be that the Port Mafia plans to keep the government money after this meeting?”
“I’ll remain silent if I get a 10% of a loot. Than, if you’ll be in problems I’ll have to access. ‘For help a child that was attacked’ or some like that. It’s half true. Don’t matter that we have protect him until the end”. The bandit laughed, and pointed in a slight stirring to Akutagawa.
In the end he’ll kill to the child to keep his mouth closed.
The comrades who saw the intentions in his eyes agreed with his conviction.
“Kid, tell me the height of the two men. Do you know what kind of guns they taken?”
Akutagawa shook his head. “I don’t know about guns, but I picked up a bullet that dawn”.
“It’s okay, you don’t meet the gun. Show me”.
Akutagawa approached one of the bandits and extended his hand. For seeing the bullet in the moonlight, the man apprhanded his face to the Akutagawa’s hand.
The throat of the man was opened and fresh blood began to fall.
The face of the man hace an incredule expression. Akutagawa turned his slaaves in knifes and quickly cut his throat without he having time to realize.
The men began to understand the really situation.
Akutagawa struck again and again the stomach of another bandit who was at hand, crossing with the blade through the bulletproof vest; a blade made with his skill that exposed the internal organs of man.
He removed the blade and from the man’s wound escaped blood and bits of internal organs.
“Kid!” The man which first reactioned at the situation put on off his automatic rifle. He is in the same distance of the Akutagawa’s ability, in two steps.
Akutagawa threw his body to the front and close to the ground cut the man’s ankles as if cutting the grass. The man now with both ankles cut fell to the floor, screaming. Strokes of fresh blood crossed Akutagawa’s face.
“This chid is an ability user! Shoot and kill him!”
Three automatic rifles were fired at once. Akutagawa rolled on the ground and hid behind the man who had fallen near him.
The man’s corpse bounced when he received the bullets. Three men were missing. But there was the problem, he used his surprise attack.
With that distance and against three armed men, Akutagawa, who fought at court, had no way to win.
But, there wasn’t fear or indecision in Akutagawa’s eyes. The eyes of “dog without feels” are quiet in all moment.
If he had them, they would make he weak.
How many will be appropriate for their souls of villains to travel to hell?
Of course, while more, better. Akutagawa looked the clothes of the corpse. There are two grenades in his suit.
He put his hands between his clothes and took the grenades, withdrew the safety and threw them. The condensed destruction blew up one of the men.
Pieces of meat splashed over the trees and the other two men, surprised by the splash of flesh, crawled and hid among the trees.
“What…? What is these child?” shouted one of the men panicking. “I’m going crazy! I’m alone … Forgive me for life!”
“Your life…?” Akutagawa got up. “In this moment, I’m just learning. From you”.
Then, he began to run. Akutagawa was so quick, enough not to feel his wound. It was a speed that only a human being was willing to break his bones.
A bandit fired with the intention of intercepting him. A sonic bullet pierced Akutagawa’s shoulder and blood dispersed down his back.
But he didn’t slow down. He dropped to the ground and leapt into the air. He curved his body and bit the man’s neck. He manipulated his clothes to catch the man and he couldn’t escape.
Then he bite his neck again with all the power of his body so that his canines ripped out his carotid and the muscles of his neck.
“Gyaaaaa?!” Fresh blood burst from his neck.
Akutagawa kicked the man’s chest to jump, and landed with veins and flesh hooked on lips and teeth.
He got up while spitting the blood out of his mouth and said:
“How much… For the fresh meat?”
His mouth stained red drew a horrible smile.
Rabid dog uncontrollable.
Fierce beast, without heart.
The figure illuminated by the light of the moon belonged to the supreme beast Akutagawa, whom his companions feared but trusted.
Then he turned to look at the enemy.
The last bandit shouted from deep in his throat. He held his automatic rifle with trembling hands and fired without aiming.
Akutagawa advanced through the hail of bullets, with the eyes of a dead animal and fangs red and wet. A bullet passed near his ear and pierced his clothes.
Even so his expression didn’t change. Bullets went through his shoulder, the lobe of his ear and his ribs.
But suspies didn’t stop advancing.
One of the bullets went through Akutagawa’s thigh.
The advancing leg lost strength, as if it were going to fall. An incessant shower of bullets continued to fall against Akutagawa’s knees.
He fired until the rifle hammer was completely empty, but still the man continued to pull the trigger.
Akutagawa saw with a smile of satisfaction that bandit, enemy of his own, and fell to the ground. Blood began to flow from all the wounds in his body.
The bandit stared incredulously at Akutagawa’s body.
Timidly, he approached Akutagawa’s body, kicked his shoulder but didn’t move.
He kicked his head, there was no reaction.
He kicked an arm. The claws of the beast grabbed him by the ankles and threw him to the ground.
“I thought I had killed enough, but I was a little greedy” The fallen Akutagawa observed the man with a miserable smile. “Still I took the souls of six men”.
Akutagawa’s clothes, which had been turned into blades, remained attached to the man’s ankles and the blade penetrated the flesh and reached the bone of the foot.
Inside the leg the clothes ran like a rotating saw, breaking blood vessels and spinning nerves.
The man cried out in pain as he felt his foot be turned into flesh.
Akutagawa looked at the man’s leg and increased the range of flesh cut up.
The man screamed and spears of blood scattered, but Akutagawa didn’t let go.
The bandit convulsed when his leg had managed to turn into a piece of meat to the knee, exhaled a rattle and died.
The intense pain activated the trigeminal and vagal reflexes, and the blood vessels throughout his body expanded into deadly shock. After confirming the death of the last man, Akutagawa released him and turned on his back.
The cold starry sky was above his sight.
Just silence as if it were the end of the world among the trees.
A dry laugh escaped from his mouth immediately.
He attacked the enemy group. Single.
It was the best outcome for a war that he could have ever wanted. But still, Akutagawa’s heart was thirsty.
Combus his own life, kill enemies. He had fulfilled that wish, but he would die in a matter of minutes. Then, halfway there, a question came to his mind.
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