Durarara!! Vol. 5

Lovey-Dovey Prattles of an Underground Doctor, II

Yah, Celty. Sorry to have kept you waiting.

I got caught up in things.

It looks like you're chatting. Is it OK for me to interrupt? That's the chatroom Celty likes to go to every day, right? That Saika kid with the glasses is in that chatroom as well, isn't she?

Alas. Out of nowhere Shizuo brought a boy covered in blood to our place.

Looks like they were in a fight.

Still, it's been forever since he bothered to bring anyone he had injured to my place.

Since high school, to be exact. That was back when I knew little more than how to do first aid and apply bandages. You were working, I think?

I didn't talk to you all that much about what was happening in high school. It was mostly just fighting, though. 

Because Shizuo and Izaya have been fighting like cat and dog from the moment they set eyes on each other.

Though it's probably more accurate to say vampire and werewolf. 

Speaking of which, have you seen real vampires or werewolves, Celty?

Eh? Really?

So there are many kinds of vampires and werewolves out there.

But you haven't seen any vampires after you came to Japan? I figured so.

Still, Celty, you're probably the most extraordinary thing in Japan yourself.

……But you're scared of Little Gray Men?

What, Celty? Celty?

Don't tell me you're still convinced that the Little Gray Men were the reason the dinosaurs went extinct?

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No, no, Celty. The photon belt is not an enormous living thing. [The photon belt might eat us all up]? I've never even heard that sentence before.

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No no no! How on earth would people come from the 4th dimension that easily?

Think about it! You know how hard Yumasaki-kun tries to go to the 2D world? Yet he hasn't succeeded. Therefore 4D people will never be able to come to our 3D world either. Everything's fine! ……You're scared of tesseracts from the 4th dimension? Have you been reading Dokyouboshi*? Don't confuse manga with the reality!

* Dokyouboshi: a 2000 manga by Yamada Yoshihiro. The astronauts battle a tesseract (4D hypercube with three-dimensional shadow), which destroys the first spaceship humans have been able to send to Mars.

I just don't get it. Celty, you're not afraid of ghosts or fairies, but aliens freak you out like nothing else. But then, I think there was this TV special where there were so few people who believed in ghosts but not Venusians that they couldn't even set up debate teams with equal numbers of participants.

……Yes? What did that TV special make you think of?

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Calm down. Prophecies are nothing to be scared of!

Look, nothing happened in 1999, right? So 2012 is going to be fine too!

Speaking of which, Celty, you did say in June 1999 that you were wondering if your lost head was the root of all evil on earth.

Eh? The calendar of the Mayans ends in the year 2012?

Hang on, when do you want the Mayans' calendar to end then?