How It Should End [MxM]

(proceed w/ caution, contains spoilers)

Banana Fish.

An LSD hallucinogen that when mixed with Solviet drugs has the 100% likelihood of controlling that individual. It gives the person visions so terrible of what is before them that they go insane, often harming that thing and then themselves when it's been eliminated.

That's what got Shorter killed. Ash had been given one bullet, to save Eiji or to shoot himself. And he chose Eiji, which lead to the betrayal of his best friend in his final moment.

Several months and dozens of gunfights, plane flights, tapped resources, photographed people, and hacked computers later, Aslan can finally find peace.

Peace in the fact Eiji is safe in Tokyo again.

Peace in the fact that Dino is dead, alongside Arthur, and several of the Lee clan. Sing stood beside him since that day of escape in the dungeon and has been vital. Surprisingly, he didn't kill Yut with his hair the first chance he got. Ash owed him just a moment, since he dared slip a key to him to escape that execution room.

That doesn't make them friends in any sense though.

But he has something else on his mind, besides Griffin and Max, and Charlie breathing down his neck.

And the cause of those good, butterfly feelings was a Pacific Ocean away in a city of lights and no guns.

His next moves are something no one had predicted.