Detective Yuki

26. Epilogue

1.       Epilogue

On January the first, 1926, the governments of China and Japan agreed to the Demon Cull, which began a mass effort from the humans to fight the demons who continued to cause mayhem in their nations. Near the end of the year, on Christmas day 1926, the Emperor Taisho died at his imperial villa in Hayama, just south of Tokyo. It was said a demon disguised as a butler managed to evade the personnel guarding the property and proceeded to murder the emperor. After his death, the people of japan mourned deeply, and as the new emperor Hirohito came to power, the nation emerged from all walks of life went on a warpath, battling demons in the cities, the country and on the high seas. This merciless massacre continued until the demonic forces of darkness realized that even with their powers, they could not fight a vast human army of allies that had united against them. Eventually, demons fled the cities and retreated to the isolation and solitude of nature, anywhere far away from humans.

The last urban monsters and demons were killed in Japan by 1930, fading into myth quickly among the people as people tried to forget the horrors of yesteryear. Following their return from China, Yuki and Aibo regularly visited each other and checked in wherever they were. Japan decided to end its strategic truce with the Chinese by annexing the northern Manchurian region in 1931. Yuki felt this annexation was going to be a bad omen for the future and began to ponder whether Senbi's words were either a prediction or a warning. Not long after the demons left, a great migration of mythical creatures left the cities of the Empire for the peace of the countryside, to escape persecution from man. These benevolent creatures would join the demons in fading into myth by the time catastrophe struck East Asia again, proving Senbi's last message to prove a point that the damage had indeed been done. In July 1937, Japan began a full-scale war with China, a war that Aibo managed to dodge a military draft to fight.

Four years later, Japan decided to face off against the United States, beginning a second global war. This war devastated Asia and the pacific, but towards the end of the war, Colonel Aibo chose to defend his homeland and the Emperor with his life, and decided to head for Okinawa, despite Yuki's urges to him not to fight. Aibo was confirmed to be killed in action on Okinawa in May 1945, fighting for the same lands he and Yuki had roamed twenty years before. The loss of her best friend came as a great shock to Yuki, who was now solving local mysteries and crimes in Nagasaki following her retirement from the Tokyo police department in 1940. She resided on a hilltop wooden bungalow overlooking the city and continued to save the city from malicious maniacs.

However, this all came to an end, when in August 1945, Yuki saw small paper pieces fall from the sky after Nagasaki had been bombed several times, saying the Americans had destroyed Hiroshima with a single bomb and obliged the Japanese government to surrender. The Soviets were also at war with Japan by now, but Yuki was out on a job, stopping a hijacked mango truck even in middle age in downtown Nagasaki. 

She could see a single plane in the sky nearly over her head and saw one small dot drop from the plane. After that, the city would be destroyed in a blinding flash of radioactive fury, ending the war and Yuki's life. 

After a month, two bright lights could be sighted by passers-by at the remains of Tokyo's main train station. Upon further observation, these two lights stood on legs, one as an imperial soldier and another a short woman in a long coat. No one knew who these spirits were or why they were there, but soon after they appeared, the two lights vanished into the afterlife together, never to be seen again. After the battle in Peking, the redeemed Namida returned to Japan and survived the war. He remained a monk of his old monastery in northern Honshu for the rest of his life, until he passed onto inner peace in 1990, aged eighty five.

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