Special Super 81
(Where did Akuta-kun run off to…?)
(I already checked all of the parks in the area… If I were a kid, where would I go…?)
Show me the nearest arcades.
<18 results found. The closest arcade is the Giga2 Mall HAMA location 3, 2 kilometers away. Turn left at the next stop light.>
(I’ll have to check all 18 of them…)
*phone ringing*
Hello? Sakujiro-san?
<Good day. Where are you located?>
<I have found Akuta-kun, so I request you pick him up. We are located at…>
Akuta-kun!!
……
Ah, are you his teacher? I’m sorry for making you come out here in the rain.
Thank you so much for finding him!
Akuta-kun, where were you?!
……
We found him as he was about to head out to sea.
What?
A patrol boat spotted him as he was paddling on an inflatable boat in this awful weather.
After we asked him about the circumstances, he answered that he was heading to Shodoshima.
Shodoshima…?!
Akuta-kun, why? Is there a reason why you have to go back there?
I left…
Mm.
…Something important there.
Something important…?
Do you have any form of identification for yourself or this boy? He didn’t have any belongings on him.
Ah, yes, I do! Um…
……
……
I don’t know what important thing you left on the island, but…
I think I…understand why you ran away.
……
Nobody wants you to quit.
That includes me, our president, Sakujiro-san, and everyone else. We all want you to stay.
…But…
……
Let’s all work together. I’m always with you.
……
We can go back to the HAMA House. Is that okay?
Wait.
Hm?
I…
I wanna go to Leo.
Sorry for the wait. I was asking the owner if we could go in.
The owner?
Yeah. I used to sneak in, but I got to know him after he yelled at me for it.
I gotta get things ready, so you can go in first.
Okay. I’ll wait for you.
(The Leo Movie Theater… Akuta-kun’s secret base. This brings back memories of that one day.)
(That movie… The one with the sorcerer horseshoe crab. I didn’t understand it, but I really loved it.)
(…I hope I can make him feel better.)
Thanks for waiting.
*buzzer sounding*
Are you going to show something?
Yeah… My ultimate weapon.
What would that be…?
You’ll get it once you see it.
Okie-dokie… Action!
It’s been three days since Ono-kun from the neighboring class, class 78, disappeared. I’ve come to a conclusion.
Ono-kun must have been captured by the perpetrator behind the city’s recent string of murders, the killer clown.
And it could be related to this infamous old school building.
Okay, cut! Next!
Gonna check in here first… Hm?
*tapping*
I hear chalk sounds. Someone’s in there.
……
…There’s a guy…drawing on the chalkboard?
……
He’s prolly not the killer clown. Moving on.
And around this corner…
D’OHYAAAAAAAAHH!
UWAAAAHH! Huh?! What?! Who are y— Wait…
Isotake-kun…?
Y-Y-You scared meeeee! Nanaki, dude, it’s you! It’s been a while!
…Yeah, we haven’t talked since third grade, ‘cuz you moved.
I knew you went to Asu High, but I didn’t expect to bump into you here! Whatcha doin’?
I should be asking you that.
It’s…a secret!
Then it’s a secret for me too. Alright, I got somewhere to be, so…
O-hoh! There’s a light coming from here…
…Father. Come in, Father.
……
I am currently contacting you from Earth. There are no custodians on patrol here, so we can talk without worries.
At home, Mother and…other members of our family are well.
Do you hear me?
*static*
There’s too much noise. I have to start again.
That seems like serious business, so…moving on…
Okay, next!
Hey.
HWUH?! You’re…
Well, if it isn’t the number one problem child himself. What are you doing here?
Do you actually believe in all of those rumors about this place?
Rumors? What kind?
Well, someone like you probably doesn’t have a love life, so I guess you wouldn’t know.
People say that confessing your love to someone here guarantees you happiness or some shit.
Woahhh, I didn’t know that. Dude, are you holding a firecracker?
Heh…
I’m just looking to scare any idiots who came here believing in that stupid-ass rumor. You want in?
This is…
Yeah. I recorded it a few days before the explosion.
When I got questioned by the cops, they took all of the video data…
But I had a secret back-up of it… That’s what this is.
(Yeah. I lost the egg, so this is…)
My final weapon.
Footnotes
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A reference to Super 8 (2011). ↩
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Possibly parody of the Japanese arcade chain, GiGO. ↩