Durarara!!, Vol. 2 (novel) Read Online Free PDF Page A

though, Kida. Already got your future and life planned out.”
    “Er, well, actually—”
    “I don’t even know what I’m doing with my life
right now
, much less my future…”
    She turned to look at him with a note of sadness in her eyes, then noticed a figure standing at the front gate of the school. The boy had noticed them as well, and he waved to Anri and Masaomi with a big smile on his face.
    Masaomi raised a hand back and muttered in a voice only loud enough for Anri to hear, “Speak of the devil, it’s the wimp without the guts to ask a girl out.”
    Anri felt her cheeks blush just a little bit, but she didn’t respond.
    There was nothing else she could do at that moment.

    There were already stars sparkling in the sky, an all too faint layer of glitter next to the brightness of the city lights.
    Under that winter sky, Anri walked alone through Ikebukuro.
    After they met up with Mikado, the three went shopping at the Parco department store on the way back from school, and then she left the two boys to continue her trip home.
    Anri looked around idly as she walked the street to Sunshine City. It was essentially the same Ikebukuro as ever, people passing wrapped up in their own thoughts, approaching and leaving.
    But it was only “essentially” the same, because there was something just slightly off.
    Yellow.
    It seemed that many of the young people walking about the town were wearing yellow bandannas.
    What could that be about?
    Anri found it odd but didn’t give it any more thought than that as she headed straight for home.
    Off the main road, she headed into a narrow alley in the direction of her cheap apartment. Despite being barely half a mile from the shopping district, this might as well have been a different world altogether. There were no passing crowds. The streetlights cast lonely colors on the empty alleys.



At first, the trip from the train station to this point was such a drastic shift that she felt like her heart was shriveling up, but after a year, the loneliness of the trip became familiar to her.
    As she headed down the empty path, Anri thought about what Masaomi said as they split up.
    “You know…you really should be careful, Anri.”
    “?”
    “I’m talking about Nasujima. Most of the rumors are just that, but it’s true that he’s put the moves on his students.”
    “…!”
    She held her breath in shock at this sudden pronouncement. Masaomi was not the type to lie or joke about this topic. She’d imagined the story might be true, but learning its veracity put a suffocating clamp over her mind.
    “There was an older student, a second-year named Haruna Niekawa. She transferred out in the middle of the second semester, but it was apparently because her relationship with Nasujima was about to be exposed. Either the school didn’t want the scandal and forced her to go, Nasujima threatened her himself, or Niekawa decided to transfer on her own accord.”
    “…”
    If Niekawa transferred out in the middle of the second semester, then that was the same time Nasujima started putting the moves on Anri. That confluence of details gave Masaomi’s statement weight in her mind.
    “Just be careful. And if anything happens, Mikado and I will do something about it. Right, Mikado?”
    Mikado hadn’t been paying attention. He blinked in surprise as the conversation suddenly focused on him.
    “Um…I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if it’s within my ability, I’ll be there.”
    “
Tsk-tsk-tsk.
Don’t be an idiot, Mikado. In this situation, you’re not a real man unless you say, ‘Even if it’s beyond my ability, I’ll accomplish it with the power of love’!”
    “That’s a contradiction.”
    “Ha-ha-ha! Well, you don’t know what you can or can’t do until you observe it for yourself… I call this rule ‘Schrödinger’s Mikado.’ What that means is that I’ll lock you inside a box and pump poison gas into it, thus testing whether you can resist it or