Devil's Wonderland

Koizumi

Halo Seventeen: Koizumi:

Yamato and his crew had been hard at work. Three more targets were added to their hit list. Shinra surrendered the list of former Chou Mori employees.

"You're not thinking about doing anything extreme, are you?" the doctor asked. He already knew the answer to that. Yamato smiled and raised his eyebrow.

"Define extreme," he said.

"Murder," Shinra said. The tadpole smiled and shrugged.

"Just the ones that really deserve it," he said. He turned and walked away. Meanwhile, Shinra was planning on having the boy his crew tailed. Yamato smiled to himself.

You can watch all you want, but you won't stop us.

Back the new hideout, Yamato gathered up his crew and they started looking at the personnel files. He opened the cover and ran his finger down the list.

"Where are we starting?" Erina asked.

"The doctors," Yamato said. "The orderlies will be the bait." Reo looked on the page when one name caught her eye.

"I would like to suggest the first kill," she said. The rest of the group looked up at her. Yamato titled his head.

"Who is your grievance with?" he asked. Reo stood up straight.

"Koizumi-sensei!" she blurted out. That name was enough to make them freeze. Unpleasant memories floated around in their heads. Hifumi's right eye started to twitch.

"Is that the creep that tried to finger the girls?" she asked.

"Yes!" Erina, Sur, and Reo all said. The girls looked like they were ready to vomit. Yamato put up his hands in a shrug.

"Do you want to do this yourselves or do you need us to come out there with you?" he asked. The girls huddled in a circle for a hot minute. They didn't really need to that, though.

"We'll take him," Reo said.

"Fine," Yamato said. "I will text you his address."

"Thank you," Hifumi said. Yamato turned back to the personnel file book. The aim wasn't to kill of the former staff. Just the ones that took part in the Tadpole Project.

This would all be part of the goal towards killing the head of the serpent.

-Koizumi-

They tracked him down in north side of Ikebukuro. Koizumi-sensei hadn't changed at all. The girls trailed him to a gentleman's club. Reo sneered at the bright flashing lights above. She could still feel his touch on her skin.

-2010-

Reo sat naked in the baths. The ice-cold watch made her skin burn. She held her knees to her chest. This was one of the rare times she still had her sound mind intact. She didn't know how long that would last.

Suddenly, she heard the door open.

No... Please don't let it be him. Please don't let it be him. Reo sank down into the tub and held her breath to stay quiet.

"Hello?" a sing-songy voice filled the air. Reo's heart pounded against her chest. Go away. Please leave me alone. Please leave me alone.

Footsteps walked down the row of tubs.

"Come out and play!" the voice cooed. "Come out! Come out!" The chuckling made it worse. Reo thought she would suffocate. But if she came up, he would see her. Then again, drowning wouldn't be so bad compared to the experiments being performed on his body. She started to pray that he would leave. The stinging cold was nothing compared to his "treatment" for her.