Sweat!
Cold sweat...
Cold sweat poured out like crazy!
Taiga Shinichi would swear that today was definitely the day he had broken out in the most cold sweat all year—especially while looking at the two men and one beast glaring at him with malicious intent? Cough, cough... three people!
These bastards really wanted to kill him! They said he had learned the Kondo Group's secrets, but weren't they the ones who had spilled them themselves?
And the Kondo Group's general was a gorilla...
They had admitted it, hadn't they? Admitted that among them was a great ape wearing clothes and speaking human language? So the Kondo Group was actually an organization founded by gorilla yokai? No wonder they had never lost in the struggle for Kanto. How could humans possibly be a match for yokai?!
Faced with a lunatic, a powerful man whose killing intent alone sent chills down his spine, and a gorilla yokai dressed in human clothes, how was he supposed to survive?
His fierce will to live made Taiga Shinichi rack his brain desperately.
"Y-you, don't... don't come any closer..."
Crack~!
Watching Taiga Shinichi retreat again and again, Toshiro Hijikata lit another cigarette. "I was originally going to spare your life, but who told you to hear so many secrets?"
Taiga Shinichi: (sob)
He fucking hadn't wanted to hear them! It reminded Taiga Shinichi of a certain term from the Celestial Empire—these bastards were practically entrapment by fishing!
"I-I'll definitely keep this secret..."
"Only the dead are best at keeping secrets." Before Taiga Shinichi could finish, Sogo Doma had already raised his gun and stepped forward.
Taiga Shinichi: (waves)
There was another lunatic here who treated lives like they were nothing! This guy had wanted to kill him from the start, hadn't he? Now that he had