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This story takes place between the two halves of fantasy and reality. Tom comes to a couple's apartment to collect debt from a man named Ginjiro. His girlfriend, Hanako, gives him a red bag to escape with down a tree. However, Shizuo stops Ginjiro and swings him off of the tree, as he passes over the freeway. This red bag, containing a change of clothes and food, drops on Saburo's van on the freeway. Mikado invites Masaomi and Anri to go to a festival. Once there, they are stopped by waitresses at a café and bar restaurant. They are offered food in exchange for trying on costumes. Mikado has rabbit ears, Masaomi is a harlequin, and Anri has cat ears. Celty is contacted by Izaya to retrieve him a red bag, not knowing what it contains, but she is soon chased by men from a syndicate. Ginjiro, at the festival, is soon surrounded by another syndicate. As the bag reveals a load of cash, Izaya appears. While Celty evades the first syndicate, they notice a red bag is on top of Saburo's van while he is driving, mistaking that bag for what Celty is carrying. After a police officer interferes, the red bag from Saburo's van drops down into the streets. Celty traps the second syndicate in a dark garage, and the first syndicate splatters paint on them and attacks them. Celty gives her bag to the syndicate leader, which contains an exotic yet extinct lizard inside. Meanwhile, Mikado, Masaomi, and Anri are passing by in the streets, and they find the red bag with clothes and food and return it to Hanako, who is waiting at a police department office. The second syndicate later come to see Shizuo, believing he was responsible for taking the red bag of cash. Shizuo then send them flying out the window, which create an aurora in the sky, leading everyone to believe that it was an extraterrestrial sighting. (Source: Wikipedia)
8/25/2010
