Mind Assassin Volume 1: "One Overcoming Grief" Hajime's Comment (inside flap): This, to say, isn't one of my hobbies anymore. Till now, my number one devoted hobby, manga, has become my job. Well, the following hobbies I just enjoy. That would be going overseas. I like foreign countries, especially those in Europe. Enjoy riding and looking at airplanes, which would also include the airport. Writing this, I realize that I've pretty much let go of reality... That's why I'm working as a manga artist, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mind Assassin. In the midst of World War II, an assassin with unique super mental powers was created according to Nazi Germany's scientific abilities. Never having surfaced to the forefront, his existance was kept unknown to the world. However, it is said that in the shadows of the dark war's history, such a man was for sure to have existed. The pierce on both ears were objects that kept his powerful mind abilities under control. But at the same time, they were feared as the Mind Assassin's symbol mark. And his powers can destroy the mind and memory just by touching a living person's head from the outside. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soon the war ended, and at the same time, such a man vanished with it. But the Mind Assassin's power continues to be passed down even to this day. Present day Japan... a quarter German Japanese young man, derived from his blood, is the 3rd generation Mind Assassin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Okay, please roll up your sleeve. It's alright. It won't hurt. Sign: Doctor Okumori's Office Medical Subjects Medicine, Pediatrics, Radiotherapy *counsels mind and memory related problems Consultation Hours 9AM~12PM 3PM~7PM Saturday till 5PM Closed Sunday, Holidays, Thursday Afternoon Kazu: Oh... wait... where are you going? Tanaka kun.. Tanaka. (bumps into the door frame) Au.. Patient: Doctor Okumori? Kids: Wa-! For real! He really did hit it!! See, I was right!! He did the same thing the last time I was here! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mother: Terribly sorry about that. Now you're sorry too, right!! Kazui: No no, I wasn't paying attention as usual.. Kid: Hey doc, I'm gonna come here again when I catch a cold. This time I'll bring my friends along. Everyone says they wanna meet you cause you're fascinating! Mother: What are you saying!? This isn't a playground! Kid: Goodbye. Kazui: Okay, goodbye. Be careful on your ride back in the car. Koyata! That was the last patient this morning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koyata: Kazui, lunch, let's eat lunch-! Hurry, I'm gonna die! Kazui: What are you talking about? I left you bean jam cakes at 10 o'clock because you say so everday, didn't I? How come you didn't eat these? Koyata: Uhh.. I thought you'd be hungry so I left them for you. Kazui: Hopeless kid... you talk about that while you've only eaten the your favorite part, the filling again, right? Wait Koyata, where are you go- (bonks his head on the door frame again) Koyata: Are you okay? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man: You brat!! How completely pathetic of you to run into a place like this! Alright, c'mon now! Girl: Cut the crap! Kazui: Eh... Koyata: u.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Girl: I'm attending this hospital. Don't follow me wherever you want, perverted man. Man: You don't know what I can do to you, girl... Oh.. so you're the doctor here. This is who I am. (shows Kazui his police badge) Sorry for the trouble. Due to bad habit, she always runs into these kinds of places. I'll get her out of here right away. Girl: I attend here because I'm sick. There's no school for me, right!? Don't give me that shit! Detective: Doctor, have you seen this girl before? She hasn't attended here, has she? Kazui: Umm.. she certainly hasn't attended here. Detective: There, you see! C'mon! Girl: Don't touch me, dirty old man! Kazui: So today will be her first examination. Detective: Huh? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Please wait a while longer, Koyata. Koyata: Say, Kazui. You'd better stop now. She'll kill you for sure. I know cause there's yo-yo's and stuff hidden in her school bag. Girl: No there isn't. Say... why'd you save me? Kazui: Save... ? ... you mean you weren't really sick? Girl: (laughs) NO WAY~! It's not like I've done anything wrong, so I'm not running away or anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Your name? If you didn't do anything then that wouldn't have happened. I know, but if you're saying you came here with an illness, don't you need counseling? Girl: Yashiho... Yashiho Yamashita. Man: Shit... although things were going well today, this doctor had to butt in. If I don't hurry up and do something about her, who knows what that girl will do. That is, if she gets the chance... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: So Yamashita san, be sure to bring insurance next time. Yashiho: Okumori Clinic... Doctor Okumori... it's different. Kazui: Eh? Don't think that would be an unusual last name... Yashiho: It's YOU. You're tall. You have earpierces. You don't look like a doctor... you automatically believe what people say... that's why... It's different, so I ask.. what is this mind and memory related counseling? Kazui: It has to do with my ability to destroy one's mind and memory. Yashiho: Destroy? Kazui: Only to the benefit of the person. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though one may look strong at glance, the mind is fragile. Once wounded, it may never be able to recover. People who can't be happy due to scarred memories, not to mention, completely lose their will to live... Those types of memories are destroyed. And those people live on as to find happiness again... Yashiho: Doctor, other than being different, you're WEIRD. Kazui: heh... Yashiho: And where's a guy who can do that? Are you fooling with me? As if you can really do that stuff... Kazui: That kid who was just with me... how old did he look? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yashiho: How much will you give me if I guessed? Kazui: Nevermind... When that boy was young, he bore a severe scar in his heart. So I wiped out his mind and memory, all of it, then took him under my care and raised him. Since his mind was reverted back to an infant's at the age of 10, he presently acts like a child... though he's actually 18 years old. (Yashiho gives him a funny look.) Kazui: You don't believe me at all, do you? Yashiho: You can put it that way. Kazui: Here are 2 beanjam cakes. But there's a catch... neither of them have fillings. Yashiho: ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Can you remember that neither of them have fillings? So Yamashita san, which beanjam cake has the filling? Yashiho: This one. Kazui: Go ahead, check to make sure. Yashiho: Oh yeh, I'm supposed to have remembered about the fillings... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: I had a tad of your memory erased. There are people who are able to let go of reality by forgetting their painful memories... but I think there are times when problems can't be solved with that theory. How was that? Did I get you to believe? Yashiho: Do you take off those pierces whenever you use that strange power? Kazui: Eh... it looks like a control device doesn't it? Yashiho: Those pierces are CLUMSY. Kazui: Eh? Yashiho: My pierces are cute. These are my favorite because they look good on me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the other words, it has to do with whether or not it looks good and whether or not it's clumsy.. I absolutely have to wear things that match me, not because I have to. Kazui: oh.. really.. [it's gotten off subject..] Yashiho: That person suited me the best. Newspaper article: Boy Stabbed to Death Gang Dispute On the 10th around 3 AM, the body of a boy who was stabbed to death was found on Yoyogi Street in Shibuya-ku. The victims was a 17 year old boy named Tetsuya Ito living in the Honcho 3rd district of Shibuya, who sold snacks as a part-time job. Since the boy was affliated with a boys gang in Shibuya, the police- Kazui: This is... Yashiho: That was the person who suited me best. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- They said he got into an arguement, right? But that's a lie. I'm the only one who knows what really happened. He got murdered. It's true.. murdered. He told me all he wanted was for me to be happy. Tetsuya: Yashiho- Yashiho, all I want is for you to be happy. Yashiho: He said he had a dangerous job, and asked me if I would run away with him because he might get killed... But at the time... he hadn't contacted me in awhile, so whatever he called for... I just hung up on him without hearing what he had to say. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It wasn't until the next morning I found out about his death... when I saw that cut out article from the newspaper... wasn't able to cry, the regret was much more overwelming than my grief. I who didn't believe him and... the guy who killed him, are out to get one another... Ever since his death, I've gone around impatiently in desperate search for the criminal. However, it only got that bitchy detective following me around everyday. In any case, I'll find the killer and beat him to death. Then I'll be happy. He always said all he wanted was for me to be happy. Kazui: Well, let's see... Isn't his definition of happiness different from yours? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yashiho: W.. what's that..!? That's up to me, isn't it!? What may not seem like happiness to you or him, is happiness to me! ... I've thought many times that.. if I forgot about him, everything'd be fine... but it's hopeless. It's my fault.. for not believing him. Kazui: Shall I erase it? Your memory... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yashiho: Doctor... if your girlfriend were in the same position as I, what should be done? Do you think she'd be happy even if it meant forgetting about you completely? Kazui: She'd remember me, as part of a far away past... Yashiho: I see.. in that case, think he'd think the same for me too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Koyata- Sorry I ended up being late. Koyata: O~ Kazui: You must be hungry, I'll fix you dinner right away... ... hm... (sees toy figure ready for dinner) I notice it's sitting in my seat, isn't it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boy: Huh, what? When you came to your senses, you noticed you were in a hospital? Yashiho: Uh huh... can't seem to remember clearly. Boy: That's dangerous... they didn't drug you or do anything strange to you, did they? Yashiho: Stu-pid, I would've beaten that guy to death if he did. Boy: It's been awhile since I've seen your old self. Ever since that incident, you've been like a zombie. Yashiho: What kind of incident? Boy: Hahahaha, it's okay. It's okay. Nevermind. Don't worry if you can't remember anything. You've gotta relax now. Yashiho: (gets off and stretches) Ri~ght... Boy: It is fine here? I can take you all the way to the house. Yashiho: It's fine here. My grandma'll throw a fit if she hears the sound of your scooter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boy: Bye, I'll be coming over tomorrow. Yashiho: Thank you. Bye now. Voice: I've got you now. Yashiho: Huh? Who're you? What the hell are you talking about? Detective: Tetsuya Ito... you should know who that is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yashiho: No idea. Detective: That one time he got reported, he happened to know a certain police detective... Without question, the detective took him to the police station for smuggling drugs... He appeared to be selling it. However, accorind to another report, the detective was threatening Ito. The detective said, "If you continue selling drugs... I'll find your girlfriend and beat her." After selling drugs for some time, he got away with it along with the money he made from it. He appeared to be planning to run away with his girlfriend but she flat out rejected him... Then that night, having made up his mind to protect his girlfriend or who knows what, Ito called on that detective as an effort to kill him. But the one that got killed was Ito. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detective: And of course that police detective took the money for himself and reported the incident as a gang dispute... But merely one thing worried that police detective... the fact that Ito's girlfriend might know who he was... Yashiho: Why are you telling me this... !! Detective: That's why you've been looking all over for the killer, right? For me.. No thanks necessary... consider it a farewell present. So you can go to hell... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boy: Oops, somehow got Yashiho's coin locker key for her bag. Oh what the hell.. she won't be able to do without it tomorrow at school... Detective: Well.. had people believe the boy died in a gang dispute. And you? How about being victimized by same devilish killer who also abuses girls? What's wrong.. you behave so well... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- D.. damn girl... Yashiho: Now I remember because of you... everything... about Tetsuya.. and even about how much I wanted you dead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woman: Kyaaaa-! Koyata: kya-! Kazui: Ack, that surprised me. Why'd you screm, Koyata? Koyata: Stop it. It's scary. Scary. Scary. Kazui: Didn't you say you wanted to watch his? In my opinion, this kind of movies are scary. video box: The killings of 8 people by the lakeside. Koyata: But... I wanted to study it. Kazui: Wh.. what did you want to study...? Koyata: Okay already. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Okumori here... Hello? ... hello? Hello? Koyata: It can't be a prank call... Yashiho: Doctor... Kazui: Oh, is it you, Yamashita san? Yashiho: ... I found him... the killer... Kazui: (thinks) Her memory... relapsed... Yashiho: The police detective who was following me today... it was him... Thought I'd beat him to death but I couldn't after all... Kazui: What happened Yamsahita san? What'd you do... Yashiho: ... I bit like a dog would.. his right hand... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought I'd be happy... if the killer were died.. But you were right, it's not happiness at all... Kazui: Yamashita san, where are you now?! Yamashita san! Yashiho: At a park... close to my house... Doctor.. help me... I'm afriad to die... Kazui: Going right now so stay there and don't budge... got it? Yashiho: ... doctor... Kazui: ... yes? Yashiho: a... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... nn.. nevermind... I'll be waiting... Tetsuya... Boy: That's strange, she hasn't gone home yet either... Guess I'd better give it to her tommorrow... Huh? YASHIHO! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inspector: C'mon, get back. Kazui: Excuse me, please let me through. Cop: Hey wait... Cop2: Hey! Inspector: What're you doing... !! Cop: Hey, messin' around'll only get you into trouble. This area's restricted. Get out. Get out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: So, what about the confirmed words written in blood just now? Girl: Yeah... might've been the signia of the criminal. Kazui: Excuse me, words written in blood? Old lady: Oh, just some rubbish. There was something written on the bottom of the telephone box that got scribbed out. The police speculate that the words "I love you" were written. Sheesh, kids these days watch too much drama-... Where are you going!? - flashback - Yashiho: He was the one who suited me the best. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuya: Yashiho, all I want is for you to be happy. Yashiho: In any case, I'll find the killer and beat him to death. Then I'll be happy. He always said he wanted me to be happy. Yashiho: Wanted me to be happy... - flashback end - Koyata: Welcome back, how'd it go? Were you able to meet her? Kazui: It wasn't intended that way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: Taking the girl's feelings into mind... I couldn't wipe out her memories completely after all. This time, she was supposedly capable of recalling someone important to her... However, the memories I erase aren't very simple to bring back... which means she was forced to remember those painful memories. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detective: It's freezing- ... shit... it's gotten real late because of that girl. My hand is killing me... sheesh, it's been an intolerable day... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detective: W- what... please don't startle me... Umm hmmm.. you were that doctor... this afternoon, right? What are you doing here at this time of might? Who do you have an appointment with? Kazui: What happened to your hand? Detective: Oh this? A dog accidentally bit me. Such a shame... it didn't seem very tame in any case. Well, I have to quickly be on my way now... Kazui: That dog... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wasn't it's name Yashiho Yamashita? I don't have an appointment with anyone, was waiting for you. Bringing back that girl's memory is how you got around to brutally killing her, wasn't it? Detective: How much do you want? You want a sum of money to shut you up, don't you? Though I may look like a detective, I'm extremely cautious. Concerning factors are settled as privately as possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I'm not going to spare any money or effort for that. Instead, I'll have to... Kazui: Perhaps you'll be punished according to law someday. However, that won't compensate for the girl's heartache and grief. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detective: Hey let me go.. what are you doing? W.. wait, I'll give you as much as you want... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazui: As a Mind Assassin, I did not wish to kill with this power again... Cop: Is he dead? Cop2: No... he's in a state where only his heart is barely beating. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cop: Isn't it foul play then? He doesn't have a chronic disease or anything. Cop2: Foul play... that's supposed to be impossible for the average human being. Koyata: Say Kazui, watched the whole movie. It wasn't study material after all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I were to also study to be an assassin, I'll end up having the same feelings you do. Didn't think you were lonely. Next time, I'll choose to study about doctors. Right here? Kazui: That's fine. Koyata: There's no flowers nor water for the person here, thought we'd come put some here. Boy: Doctor Okumori, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having heard you were tall, I recognized you right away. Kazui: Umm.. may I ask who... Boy: Hm-ph.. I see. A message from Yashiho... though she died right after, so guess that'd make it her last words... I was asked to tell you "These would look good on you, Doctor" and hand these to you. She wasn't considerate until the very end, when she decided to "thank you" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koyata: Hey, what'd you get? Let me see. Kazui: How do they look? Koyata: Great. You don't look like a man at all. Kazui: ... how... sophisticated. - End of #1 -