The Road to Darkness

Case 18: Music Massacre

"That's right folks today's the day! Today four! Count em! Four famous musicians bless us with their heavenly music! They start at noon! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!" The announcer hollered.

"It's 8:00, we got four hours" I stated staring the girls down.

"Time to put the full plan into motion" Everyone thought.

"We got no time to lose!" Cindy snapped as we headed out.

"Hey, Yato?" Shina asked.

"Yeah?"

"Let's do this, partner" she smirked putting our her hand.

As I looked at her for a quick moment I saw a silhouette and both Nakamura and Jimmy behind her holding out their hands.

"I won't lose you...I promise" I swore to myself shaking her hand.

"Tick tock tick tock" Jimmy sang as he saw me and the others walk into the festival.

"We got twenty files I'll take seven, Shina take seven and Cindy take six" I ordered.

One hour passed and we got it down to our final eight.

"He's one of these, everyone pick one and confirm it" I reported into my earpiece.

"On it!".

As I walked to my target Cindy and two officers cleared theirs before I found my targets stand was empty.

It was a funnel cake stand and I could hear someone in the back.

"Excuse me I would like a funnel cake" I requested.

"One moment sir" He gleefully responded.

As I waited Shina and another office cleared their targets.

"Sir?" I called again.

"One moment sir".

I began to walk inside of the tent the stand was in, fingers itching for a catch.

The back had a noise sensor speaker that kept repeating "one moment sir".

Next to it was a small TV with a blank screen.

"Yato?" Shina asked as I walked up and clicked the TV.

It began to play and showed Jimmy smiling.

"Tsk tsk Yato, what a lackluster plan, I don't mean to sound repetitive but I excepted more from you. It wasn't a bad plan but it wasn't hard to figure out. Getting the background info on all the vendors and checking them off one by one. It would have worked but that wouldn't be any fun now would it?".

I began to feel anger swell up inside me.

"How did I evade you? Simple, all I did was switch from vendor to vendor, killing the original and taking their place. You were so busy with checking so many you paid no attention to the ones you already cleared".

It kept building more and more, like a volcano ready to erupt.

"Oh my, look at the time, only one hour left, hope we don't miss the fireworks".

I thrust my fist into the TV in rage and continued to bash and rip it apart with all my might.

"Yato!" Shina yelled walking in on me.

"We don't have time to waste he's not far!" I roared.

"Be prepared everyone, keep a close watch! Don't let him get away!" I demanded.

"Roger! I'm going to go to my position" Cindy reported.

"Roger!".

"Almost time for the big show, one hour in counting!" The announcer shouted.