Culmination [Tokyo Revengers]

Chapter IV - Discord

[The Next Day]

Ever since that vision he had, regarding Senju's upcoming death, Takemichi has been contemplating on why such an event was envisioned in the first place; it's not like it's happened before.

'That vision I had...what the hell was it?' Takemichi can only assume that it's a vision from the future, but isn't entirely certain.

"Takemichi, what's up?" Takemichi was so distracted by his thoughts that he forgot that he was following Draken to his place.

"Sorry..." Takemichi apologizes in advance and minutes later, he and Draken would arrive at the same brothel that he had visited two years ago. "Woah! What a throwback!" He couldn't even imagine staying in such a place, but if it was Draken's circumstances, he admired him for it. "You're still living here?"

"Can't make a proper living selling bikes just yet." Draken says honestly. "They're helping me out by letting me stay."

The two enter inside and use the elevator to reach up to the floor of the brothel. "You're on...the fourth floor, right?" Takemichi thinks it fair that he presses the button of the elevator, since he's standing near it.

"Oh, nice memory!" Draken compliments him.

"Let's see, fourth floor, fourth floor..." Takemichi does down the line of buttons that had different numbers on them, and finally spots the one that had the number four printed on it. Once he presses it with a single finger, another vision is triggered, and all so suddenly too.

In this vision, Takemichi's dominant hand was covered in red, and so was the lower portion of his t-shirt. His first thought of the sight was that it was blood, causing a look of discomfort to plaster his face.

The vision ends seconds after it had been triggered, and Takemichi is back to reality. He jerks his head down to see if there was anything red on his shirt, but it was all gone. There was hardly a speck of red anywhere. "Wha--?!" He struggles to understand on whether or not that vision was real. 'There's nothing there!'

"You good?" Draken asks, noticing that Takemichi was looking rather confused.

'There it is again!' Takemichi starts to get worried over his own mentality. 'What the hell is wrong with me?! I...'

Eventually, Draken and Takemichi arrive at the brothel, to which prevents the time leaper from knowing what exactly was that vision about.

"I'm home..." Draken greets the man that is sitting behind the main desk.

"Oh..?" The man makes eye contact with Draken and Takemichi.

"Takemichi, meet Mr. Masamichi, the man that raised me!" Draken introduces the man to Takemichi, since he never really did so in the previous time that Takemichi visited the place.

"Ah, nice to meet you!" Takemichi bows. "E-Even though I've been here before..."

The two walk down the narrow hallways of the brothel, and along the way came out grown women that were in separate rooms, dressed in lingeries or bathrobes that emphasized the makeup and fancy hairstyles that they wore for the occasion. Takemichi finds it difficult to avoid eye contact, but Draken wasn't even fazed in the slightest. Not really surprising, given how he was practically raised in this kind of environment.

"Thanks for helping today, Kenny." One of the ladies say.

"Ah, yeah." Draken proceeds to walk ahead.

"Are you doing anything else today, Kenny?" Asks a different lady.

"We'll talk later." Draken assures.