On The Run (Soukoku)

-Chapter 8-

It has been raining for half a hour or so since it started raining. It wasn't as heavy as before though, so they needed to be careful. Isamu and her husband, Hiroshi were already starting their plan. Pulling rope cautiously out of his coat, Hiroshi slowly gave the other end of the rope to Isamu who intertwined it around her fist. The plan was simple and stupid. Because of limited number of supplies they had to rely on these kind of stupid methods. They had to interfere with the other's plan to hunt their son and whoever is with him. In the same time, catching up with them. That would be hard as they could be far away from them. The other's had weapons as well. Instead, they are thinking of stalling time for Chuuya (and Dazai) to walk further and then catch up. It was to make sure their son was alive and them too. With only rope, a few matchsticks and their legs, they made a plan which was to tie only Daisuke and his father up and and make everyone disperse before running away. Funny but could still work. Slowly inching towards Daisuke and his son who were conveniently sat back to back, Isamu tried her best not to alert the father and son as Hiroshi made his way secretly behind a tree. It was risky but he had to do it.  Kicking some leaves away, there was only left about five leaves with the soil surrounding it. He immediately lit a match and threw it to the ground and went back to where he was sitting at initially as he saw the smoke from the fire rise. By then, the rain had turned to a drizzle and was slowly tempering off.  As he saw the smoke rise higher into the air, Isamu gave a signal to Hitoshi and he yelled, alerting everyone, "Hey! There's a fire! Run!" The townspeople did as so and started running off to different directions. Daisuke and his father were trying to calm everyone down but Isamu took action and tied both with the rope she found. She tied the rope triple times, using the devil knot to tie them to a tree. Daisuke's father cursed as he ranted, "You're not in the right mind! Don't you want your money? Untie us right this instance!" Isamu rolled her eyes and clicked her tongue in frustration as she gave Daisuke's father a death glare. "We don't take orders from you! Go to hell." Hiroshi smirked as he kneeled down and flicked Daisuke's father on the head, "Deal's off! Remember, touch our son and you won't see the sun!" With that, both left, leaving father and son to struggle in the ropes. Before leaving, Hiroshi stepped on the leaves which was starting to burn up and and resulting in the fire being put out and left with his wife.

On Chuuya and Dazai's side, the rain had stopped and they were continuing their journey. Suspiciously, they didn't came along any rampaged animals along the way. Chuuya's parents a few kilometres behind them as they had managed to run into the town's horses which probably ran away from the injured townspeople before. They were tied up to trees before the rest set off, the rope must have somehow loosened, setting the horses free.  It was a race against time as the couple found the reason why there were so many rampaged animals and they were afraid to think about what might happen if their son met the person responsible of all these rampaged animals.