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Act 33: The Tickets

TUESDAY

-Apartment 1:20 AM-

Tuesday night, only a few minutes 'til midnight, at a nearby apartment complex. While the rest of the neighborhood were sleeping, there was one inhabitant in the apartment that remained awake. Or rather, two of them...

One of the rooms in the apartment belongs to Ryuto Kanebo and Fuuka Tomiyama. A pair of live-in partners. Ryuto and Fuuka have known each other since childhood, and, after Ryuto confessed his love for Fuuka in high school, they have been sweethearts since.

Fuuka had black eyes and black hair styled into a short bob cut, and wore a sky blue button-up shirt that she usually wears open without an undershirt, leaving her black bra top and a good part of her midriff exposed, as well as blue jeans.

Ryuto, on the other hand, had black eyes, sported an unusual hairstyle consisting of dyed, blond, somewhat unkempt hair up top, and shaved, black hair below it, and had visible facial stubble. He wore a brown down jacket, a white undershirt, and blue jeans.

Besides their love for each other, Ryuto and Fuuka also have another mutual interest of their own: mass murderers and, in particular, school shooters from America.

The pair's apartment walls are full of framed newspaper clippings detailing world news headlines about recent school shootings. Also, lying around one corner of the apartment is a pile of imported gun catalogs from America, presumably owned by Ryuto. But for the most part, their obsession with shooters remain harmless.

Or so it seemed like it...

Fuuka was sitting on the bed, looking down on the floor, seemingly waiting for something, when Ryuto eventually arrives from the back room, carrying a large crate with him.

"Have you opened the crate, sweetie?" Said Fuuka.

"Yeah... took me a while, but here." Ryuto replied. "Let's see what's inside."

Ryuto then lifts up the lid of the crate that he carried. Inside was a bunch of smuggled guns they had bought from the black market, including a pair of UZIs, a SPAS-12 shotgun, and an M-16 assault rifle, as well as dozens of boxes full of bullets.

"They look beautiful, sweetie!" Said Fuuka.

"Indeed. And we're gonna take these for a test ride by Saturday." Ryuto replied.

"Really? Where?" Said Fuuka.

Ryuto hands over a flyer to Fuuka, which she immediately reads. It was a flyer for the upcoming one-night-only concert of the American nu-metal revival band Ded at the Tokyo Dome.

"There's gonna be lots of people at that venue." Said Ryuto. "More people means more props for target practice."

"But, how are we gonna-" Fuuka replied.

Just as Fuuka was about to finish her sentence, Ryuto takes a pair of tickets to the concert out of his pocket.

"Furthermore, I think you should look at this." Said Ryuto, as he browses something on his phone.

He found the Facebook profiles of Shino Sato and Mayuka Goto. Specifically, their "liked" pages. Among them is the official Facebook page of Ded.

"I don't see how... Wait a minute..." Said Fuuka. "I think I've seen these names somewhere before..."

"Exactly. They are two of our potential enemies, if that list is to be believed." Ryuto replied. "And from what I've heard, there's a chance that they might attend that concert."

"So what you're saying is..." Said Fuuka.

"If these two go to that concert as well, then we have ourselves a golden opportunity." Ryuto replied. "Two birds in one stone, basically."