Hypnosis Microphone: Red Division Unfolded Story

III: Drag

Since the incident, Ichiro never mentions anything neither about their past nor his dwell feeling about his dream to his younger siblings. If those topics would trigger any bad memory or thoughts of his younger brothers, he rather keeps them all alone and suffers them by himself.

Until the Division Rap Battle took the place.

Each division was called by the committee to explained the rules and check up their luggage before allowed to return to their rooms and make last preparation for the competition day.

"Buster Bros, please enter the conference room" order one of the committee members to them. Yamada brothers just obey and enter the room.

"Oh, looks who's coming if it's not Yamada brothers?" Ichiro jolted when heard those voices. He looks up to see the woman that they met a few weeks ago at the end of the conference table.

"Yahoo!" Greet Reiko, while waving her hand to them. Unlike during the first time they met her, this time she looks more casual than normal. She let her long black hair down to her back, wearing a simple red dress with a cardigan topped her dress and her nails...they are painted with black and red colours!

Meanwhile, standing next to her is a man in a black suit, wear sunglasses and a tie with some unique pattern. He is in middle preparation for the briefing.

"We met again" smiles Reiko.

"Ah!!! Kurusu-san?!" respond Saburo. Jiro that clueless just now finally recognized the woman. "I almost didn't recognize you!" comment Jiro. Reiko chuckles.

This is what she meant by 'meet again soon'?

"Anyway, please have a seat" offer Reiko, and they obey her words and took seats.

"So, you are a committee member?" ask Saburo. She smiles, "Yes I am"

"Since you already know me, let cut it short, I'm here as the committee member that fully responsible on Public Assistant System and technical in this Division Rap Battle" explain Reiko.

"It's ready, Kurusu," the man in the suit suddenly speak. Reiko looks at him, "Okay, thanks, Kurokawa" reply Reiko. The man walks away and took a seat at another end of the conference table.

"For our agenda, I'll do a briefing about the rules, the forbidden things and a bit about the technical system. After that, we'll do a luggage check-up before we'll let you go"

"If anything you don't understand, please ask~"

"So, please bear with me for an hour~," said Reiko while clapping her palm together.

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"I never know..." Saburo looks at Jiro with a puzzled face. "I never know that headphone with the anti hypmic wave is existed..." mumbles Jiro. From his second brother's face, Saburo throws his sight at Ichiro's back.

"It's not sold to the public tho, of course, we didn't know..." said Saburo, calmly.

He believed, Ichiro must be acknowledged the existence of the headphone, since he'd been on the stage for years.

An hour ago...

"Next rule is, you cannot attack hypmic waves to the audience or judges," said Reiko, listing out the rules and conditions of the battle.

"Well, isn't like you able to attack judges..." it draws Saburo's interest to her remarks. "All judges will be provided with this headphones" Reiko pull out a headphone from the side table and show to them. In a glance, it looks like a normal headphone.

"These headphones are called, KRCROSS 0123; the anti hypnosis microphone waves...your hypmic waves won't affect the target that wears this, so, it's useless to attack neither the audiences nor judges while they wear this..." elaborate Reiko

"Or listen to your rap through our speaker, because the speaker used in this competition are all neutralized your hypmic waves, all audiences will listen to your rap through our speakers" add her.

"The only person that faced the wave directly is the participants, that stand on the stage...we're using different speakers for stages"

"So far, only our company, Cross Corporation that creates and produce an electronic system that able to neutralize the hypmic waves"

"That is why, if you plan on using KRCROSS 0123 during the battle, I would say, please cancel the idea, because of we able to detect you and immediately disqualified you from the battle"

"Got it?" said Reiko, with a smiling face.

"Hey, Nii-chan...Nii-chan..." Ichiro jolted back to reality when he felt his shoulder tapped. He turns around to see Jiro and Saburo look concern.

"O-oh, what's wrong, Jiro? Saburo?" Ichiro tried to pull a smiling face and act normally when realize worry faces worn by his brothers.

"We asked you either you know about the existence of that headphone?" Ask Jiro.

"Huh? Yeah, I do. This will be 2nd times since it was introduced. But about the speaker, it's was new..." replied Ichiro. Jiro and Saburo look at each other. Then Jiro looks back at Ichiro. "Are you okay?" ask him.

"Huh? Yeah, Yeah, I'm fine! Why?"

"You looks distracted since meeting with Kurusu-san just now..." state Saburo with concern voices.

Stupid! What kind of older brother to make his younger worries?!

"Really? Nah, I'm fine! I'm just too excited for tomorrow, end up occupied with the thought! Nothing to do with her! Hahaha" Ichiro tried to brush away and denied Saburo.

"O-oh....really?"

"Yeah! Yeah!" Nodded Ichiro with a smile on his face.

"Anyway, you guys please relax fully tonight! Tomorrow is a big day! You need a rest, okay?" Ichiro pat both his brother's shoulder.

Jiro and Saburo smile and nodded, "Yeah!"