At that moment, Himeno was poking Aki Hayakawa's cheek with her finger, waking him up.
"Himeno, what are you doing?"
Aki opened his eyes and looked at Himeno in front of him.
"Ah, you're awake, Aki."
"Asaba came over and even cleared the table for us, but you were still sleeping in~" Himeno said.
Only then did Aki notice Asaba Kotone beside him. He pressed a hand to his slightly dizzy forehead. "Sorry about that. I drank too much last night..."
"It's fine. I heard the Gun Devil appeared a few days ago, so I came to check on you."
Asaba Kotone explained why he had come.
"That... I'm doing all right. If the Gun Devil really won't attack people anymore, I doubt this absurd idea of revenge will keep me going much longer."
Aki sighed softly and spoke with a calm expression.
Ever since the Gun Devil incident, he had begun to waver, because Himeno had often tried to talk him out of it before.
Previously, his obsession with revenge had kept him going. Now, not only had the Gun Devil stopped hurting people, but Tokyo Public Safety, and even Japan as a whole, had halted their plans to take it down. Trying to fight the Gun Devil alone would undoubtedly be like an ant trying to stop a truck.
Most importantly, even the Gun Devil Flesh no longer reacted.
Even all the Gun Devil Flesh collected by Tokyo Public Safety was no longer drawn in any particular direction. Since that incident, the Gun Devil seemed to have vanished off the face of the earth.
"That's up to you. If he never shows up again, you'll probably have a hard time finding him."
Asaba Kotone said nothing more.
After all, whether the Gun Devil appeared again was entirely up