Love At Gunpoint | Kurodachi

The Knife

Published: 2.11.21

  When Adachi woke up on Sunday, he took the now clean knife that was used on Kurosawa with him to Tsuge's house and asked him if he recognized where it came from.

Tsuge hummed in thought as he tried to think.

Adachi pet Udon, who was now purring loudly on his lap while rubbing [its] head on Adachi's palm. "Well?" Tsuge ran his finger across the engraved dragon wrapped around a wolf.

"While most Yakuza are signatured with a dragon, the wolf is definitely more rare, especially with both combined.. Hm.."

Tsuge placed the knife in Adachi's free hand and gave him a questioning look.

"Where did you get it anyway?"

He lied. "One of the younger members were attacked by an unknown, but the culprit can't give us any answers, so Urabe wants me to find out what gang he might've been in."

Tsuge nodded, turning in his chair to face his bookshelf as he easily believed Adachi.

While Tsuge could be incredibly smart and perceptive at times, he had no reason to think that Adachi would lie to him.

After all, Adachi was surprisingly harder to read than most people, and the deal Tsuge had with Urabe made Tsuge the go-to info broker for the gang.

Tsuge's observant personality made him the perfect person for the job, so it wasn't exactly uncommon for Urabe to demand info from Tsuge anyway, so he never questioned it.

Besides, many of the older members of the gang, Tsuge and Urabe included, had a sort of soft spot for the younger members.

Anyways, Adachi was pulled from his thoughts when Tsuge pulled a few books out from a secret area behind his bookshelf, where anything related to the gang were hidden.

He skimmed through two of the books until he finally stopped on a single page in the third one.

Tsuge turned back to his desk and wrote a very short list on a piece of paper.

"Unfortunately, I don't have much info on this, but I do know of three gangs with this specific combination."

Adachi took the offered paper as Tsuge continued.

"While only one is currently active, the other two were practically wiped out by unknowns. They were both ended years ago at different times. Neither have any known members still existing."

Adachi nodded before folding the paper carefully and stuffing it into his pocket.

"The only possible hint to their demise would be that a wolf attacked another wolf, especially with the world we live in."

Tsuge suddenly raised a hand as if he just thought of something.

He mumbled to himself, "I should add that to my next novel.." He spun his chair before rushing to open a doc on his laptop as he got into a writing fervor.

Adachi shook his head with a fond smile before pulling Tsuge out of his brainstorming.

"Tsuge." No answer.

After a few more calls, Tsuge finally turned with an embarrassed cough before apologizing.

Honestly, Adachi might get annoyed at times when his friend got like this, but he was glad that he was passionate about something, unlike Adachi.

"I'm sorry I couldn't give you much." Adachi shook his head. "No no, it's fine. I can handle the rest."

Tsuge nodded, and Udon, as if sensing that Adachi was about to leave, stood up with a final purr and hopped off of him onto his cat tree.