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4.3. Just Maybe

"Anri-san. Are you sure about this?"

"No. But I have to, Ego. There's no way we can let things like this continue. Just because Kuroi is gone, doesn't mean that the things he started will stop."

Y/N awoke to the sound of a woman, and a man.

Immediately, his body was in panic mode. He shot up from the bed - muscles tensing, legs shaking, eyes whipping wildly around the room. But he didn't get very far, wrists and ankles bound by something. His stomach and hip screamed with pain. 

It reminded him of Ascension.

"Calm, Y/N. Calm." A quiet, familiar voice. Y/N forced himself to breathe, and looked next to him.

Ego Jinpachi sat there. On a medical chair, right next to his bed. Y/N sighed, half with relief, half with annoyance, and slumped into the bed. All the panicked energy immediately drained from his body. 

Anri was there, too. Hovering around Y/N's bed nervously, fidgeting with her hands. As soon as she noticed Y/N awake, she immediately gripped the side of Y/N's bed. Two worried pink eyes stared down at him. "Are you okay?!"

Y/N blinked. He was a little tired, yes. Hurting, yes. But why was she so worried...? "Yes...?"

"He's lying." Ego muttered. "Y/N, you have a bruised hip, thankfully not broken. Your stomach had a piece of black plastic embedded in it, but that has been removed and you have received stitches. It is normal to feel pain." 

Y/N gulped. "A-ah. Okay."

"Oh my god, Y/N." Anri said quickly. "What happened?!"

"Uh." Y/N tried to move, but the restraints yet again stopped him. Shooting a harsh look towards Ego, Anri made to unstrap him from the bed.

"This guy said they were necessary."

"Necessary to stop Y/N from hurting himself in a panicked throe, yes." Ego flatly replied. "You can undo them now."

As Anri undid them, Y/N gingerly sat up in the bed. He shook out his arms and legs, sighing heavily and wincing at the pain in his stomach. "What happened?" Repeating Anri's question, he shook his head with disbelief. "A lot."

"What... Kuroi? The police found a gun. And a knife."

"Yeah." Y/N slowly replied. "Yeah, both of those. What happened to Kuroi?" That was the big question. 

Anri winced. "Dead. Dead, dead. The truck was going at nearly sixty. Hit him square on."

Y/N exhaled. He shifted back in the bed, leaning his head against the wall behind it. "Damn." Y/N gave them both a small smile. "Is it bad that I'm not upset? I'm not happy, either. I just wished it didn't have to come to that."

But deep down, he knew it had to.

Kuroi Jigoku. Y/N L/N. The two names simply couldn't coexist with each other. So maybe, one of them dying was the only option.

It had been so fast. 

"It's not bad." Anri reassured him. "With the evidence found on scene, like the weapons amongst other things inside Kuroi's pockets, the police are more ready to accept whatever story we need to tell them. Like..."

"Like Ascension." Y/N finished. "They'll believe us now?"

"I should let them talk. They didn't say a lot to us, but you're the main witness in all of this. You, and another boy. Kira Ryosuke...?"

Y/N immediately remembered the white-haired boy. He nodded. "Him too."

Silence for a few seconds. Ego hadn't said much, just staring at Y/N so hard it made him a little uncomfortable. Anri glanced from Ego to Y/N and back to Ego over and over again, before finally shrugging and heading for the door. Ego looked towards her. "Where?"