Chapter 43

INTERMISSION Online Rumors On the Ikebukuro information site IkeNew! Version I.KEBU.KUR.O New Post: Admin’s predictions! Are there TWO attackers in Ikebukuro?! Comment from IkeNew! Administrator After examinating the incidents of stweet viowence, I have come to a weawization. I get the feewing that thewe isn’t just one attackew. By examining the map of where the attacks have happened, I’ve noticed there’s a clear split in the spots where normal people are being attacked and where the bikers and street gang thugs are getting assauwwted. Maybe the latter is the effect of some stweet confwict. See, as long as you’re dressed like the Dark Owl, anyone can be the stweet attackew. Which means the decisive factor is whether the first couple to be attacked were normal people or wiving on the wougher side. But I suppose how it started doesn’t weawwy mattew. The point is, at the current rate, the Dark Owl is gonna conquew da city. But isn’t it so mystewious? The police should be able to investigate through the network of security camewas. With all the attention on this, the fact that the attacks keep happening suggests that both sides responsible have some means of avoiding police suwveiwwance. Or perhaps there’s a different weason. If there are really two sepawate attackews here, I await my many desewved compwiments. Admin: Rira Tailtooth Zaiya A selection of comments from the same site - I knew that. - What’s up with that weird Snake Hands ad, Admin? *(Deleted minutes later) - Are you this late?! I knew that last week. - What’s your source for this info? They don’t list attack locations or profiles of the victims in the newspaper. - this is painful - You want compliments? For being right about people being hurt? - Admin’s the attacker. - God, shut up with this uwu shtick. - The attacker is a hostess. - Are any of these attacks even real? I think the media made it up. - Hey, why do you delete every comment about Snake Hands? *(Deleted minutes later) - Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands Snake Hands *(Deleted and user banned) A selection of representative twits from the social network Twittia So is the IkeNew admin just making stuff up now? Nah, it’s more like they’re just ripping off the people freaking out on Twittia. Damn, that admin suuucks… Isn’t the Headless Rider involved with these attacks again? I don’t think it’s right to blame everything on the Headless Rider. It’s like they’re so brain-dead, they don’t realize that makes it harder to catch the real culprit. You know you’re responding to a meme, right? In any case, the biggest victim here is Owl of the Peeping Dead, obviously. Protect Ikebukuro! #DestroyOwlofthePeepingDead Our children’s future is being ruined. #DestroyOwlofthePeepingDead Save Ikebukuro from this evil artifice. #DestroyOwlofthePeepingDead What the hell is this…? If you write the full title instead of OPD, they use bots to reply to your twits. It’s just the PC Bloodbags. I hear there’s a couple dozen active PC Blood-bags. Seriously? Don’t they realize that only makes them look worse? Why would they? They can’t tell reality from fantasy. So who’s going down next time? Dragon Zombies? Huh? Those guys are still around? Their boss is back or something. They’re riding all over. God, I wish the attackers would hunt down all those bozos. Especially after the Dollars disappeared. Did they really? What do you mean? Maybe the Dollars or Yellow Scarves are behind this one, too? The Dollars dissolved naturally. Yeah, naturally. Meaning no one ever announced it was official. And that would make it the perfect group to come back like zombies.