"Tenth Boss-the grown-up Tenth Boss from the future!" Hayato Gokudera should have been thrilled, but an inexplicable feeling lingered in his heart. He opened his mouth, then swallowed all the praise he had been about to lavish on him.
Hayato Gokudera was actually very perceptive, not someone who couldn't read the room.
Yet the usually cheerful Takeshi Yamamoto simply stared at the screen, in no mood to lighten the atmosphere.
Tsunayoshi Sawada went deathly pale. His voice trembled. "Th-this is Namimori?!"
Just as the Bungo Stray Dogs group could never fail to recognize Yokohama, how could Tsunayoshi Sawada fail to recognize Namimori, even when it had become so unfamiliar?
"H-how did this happen? Where's that little shop? Where's that restaurant?" Tsunayoshi Sawada was dumbfounded. If some of the streets hadn't looked vaguely familiar, he might not have dared to recognize it-but how could he possibly fail to recognize Namimori? It was his home!
"And is that really my future self?" Tsunayoshi Sawada looked utterly lost, because all he could feel from the man on the screen was a bone-deep chill, one that made even an onlooker like him shudder.
Only then did Hayato Gokudera realize what he had overlooked. That wasn't surprising, though. Unlike Tsunayoshi Sawada, Takeshi Yamamoto, and the others, he hadn't grown up in Namimori.
"..." Kyoya Hibari's expression had turned utterly grim. His Tonfa were already out. "Whoever did this, I'll bite them to death!"
Kyoya Hibari, who loved Namimori so deeply, had already realized that it had been altered on a massive scale-or rather... destroyed.
All traces of the past had been deliberately erased. In other words, the Namimori of old had been destroyed.
Kyoya Hibari wouldn't have been angry about ordinary expansion and redevelopment, but because he loved Namimori, he could sense the utter indifference