Across the reflection

It hurts

One thing led to another and Dazai and Chuuya are trapped in a subspace created by Randou.

A familiar face of a sickly old man made its way up to Dazai.

It was the previous port mafia boss who should be dead.

"Well, now if it isn't that bitch brat... Are you in good health? Have you been bullied by the doctor?"

"Hey there."

Dazai smiled stiffly. "It's been a while. How's your back pain? Your complexion is looking nice. Wasn't it a good thing you died? Boss-no, previous boss."

The previous port mafia boss...

The tyrant of the night, Yokohama's evil. His will for destruction was beyond human limits and was even expressed as a curse. The personification of the Port Mafia's evil.

"The previous boss should have died. What have you done, Randou-san?"

It would be a lie to say that Dazai wasn't uncomfortable facing the man he saw being murdered.

"He is... my ability."

Randou said, stretching his back.

"My ability is to bring corpses into my subspaces and make them ability users. I dug up the previous boss's grave. Although, only one corpse at a time can be brought to life and used as my ability. In short... The previous boss was brought to life to use as my ability."

Both Dazai and Chuuya were speechless. They both knew many ability users, but neither of them knew an ability as bizarre as this.

The ability to humanize.

"This goes above common sense."

Dazai forced himself to say.

"Randou-san, who are you?"

"I used to be a European Intelligence agent who was selected to bring back information on enemy nations,"

Randou said with his head down.

"And eight years ago, I infiltrated this country for a mission. The purpose of the mission was to research a high-energy life form located in this country, and take it back with me."

"And that is... Arahabaki?"

Dazai said with a grim expression.

"Even so... A European Intelligence agent? A 'transcendent' class of only a few dozen gifted with the highest rank in the world? Randou-san, you can't be serious."

"Let me introduce myself again."

Randou bowed and put a nonexistent hat in front of his chest.

"My name is Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud. My ability's name is Illumination. My objective is to capture you as a gifted, Chuuya-kun, and kill you."

Spatial waves attacked Chuuya.

Trying to evade them Chuuya flew up in the air. He continuously kicked debris in the air, avoiding the shockwaves one after the other.

"What a wonderful fighting ability... But if you only run away, you'll eventually be cornered, boy."

Chuuya avoided the next attack of spatial waves by heading down. As long as he was in the subspace created by Randou, there was no way to avoid his spatial attacks. Mass could not be held by the space waves themselves, so it could not be countered by gravity. It was surely an ability that was Chuuya's natural enemy.

But.

"Haven't you forgotten something?"

A shock wave rushed to Chuuya-but just before it hit, it vanished like mist.