20th Century Boys Volume 3 : Hero With a Guitar Chapter Thirty-One Since Then... - Page 169 - Sign: Grand Opening Sale King Mart Ootake: What a spectacular turnout!! You will easily clear the 1st week sales requirements, sir!! Yamane: Thank you so much! It is all thanks to you, Chief Clerk Ootake!! Ootake: Now I can transfer with no second thoughts. Yamane: T-transfer? Ootake: To Sapporo. I was actually supposed to have moved there a short while ago. Chapter 31 : Since Then... - Page 170 - Ootake: Besides, Haneda Airport still isn't active after that terrorist bombing. Yamane: I see... then that's delayed your move... And that is also why you were able to see me through the process of starting my own store, Ootake-san. Ootake: Yes, my wish was to establish King Mart as a large presence in this commercial district... Yamane-san!! You must carry on the King Mart torch in this town!! Yamane: Yes, sir!! Ootake: Just make sure you don't start any ACTUAL fires!! The owner of the former store in San-chou-me... It's been 3 weeks since his building burned down... I wonder what he is doing now... Yamane: Yes... I hear he's gone missing to escape the terrible debts he owed... - Page 171 - Ootake: According to him, a rabble of thugs descended on the store... And one of them splashed gasoline all over the inside and lit a match... It seems neither police nor firefighters could find any bodies in the wreckage... However... I don't know how true his words are... Chapter 31 : Since Then... - Page 172 - Atsushi: (chomp chomp) More cake. Maruo: Cut it out!! Yukiji: What I've just told you is everything that's happened to Kenji in the past few months... - Page 173 - Yoshitsune: I can't believe... Donkey's death was actually... Maruo: The incidents in San Francisco, London and Osaka... Even the Haneda Airport bombing... Yoshitsune: It's so hard to believe that all came from the stuff we talked about in our secret base... Yukiji: You don't have to believe it... Yoshitsune: Oh, no... I do. But... If this "Friend" has people of his in the government and the police... Maruo: This is too big for people like us to handle... Yoshitsune: Why didn't Kenji ever tell us about any of this...? - Page 174 - Maruo: He probably took a good look at us... and decided he couldn't tell us... Atsushi: (gobble gulp) Yoshitsune: And there I was, asking HIM for help. Maruo: All we can really do is push him on... We're not going to be of any use in this kind of thing... Yoshitsune: Maybe, if we remember what it was we talked about in the secret base all those years ago... Maruo: But can you do that? Yoshitsune: N... nah. Maruo: ...so anyways, where's Kenji at now? Yukiji: He told me not to tell anyone... Atsushi: (chomp chomp) - Page 175 - Chiyo: Oh God, I hate thiiiis... There's no reason to keep on living... Kenji: Mama. Chiyo: Ohhhh, I wish I were dead... Kenji: Eat up, Mama. Chiyo: I knew we shouldn't have turned it into a convenience store... I miss the old house we had before... Even if it was falling apart... Above the store was our six tatami mat living room... We used it for everything... Oh, how I miss it... - Page 176 - Chiyo: Further up was the kid's room... And a clothesline... Kenji: Stop complaining, Mama. Chiyo: We even had a yard, small as it was... Kenji: Mama!! Chiyo: I planted some... Some hydrangeas... They were such beautiful flowers... And then you pulled them up, you stupid boy... Kenji: No, I didn't. Chiyo: You pulled them up. Kenji: Did not!! Chiyo: You dug this ridiculous hole to bury something or other. Well, what about my hydrangeas? - Page 177 - Kenji: W... What...? Chiyo: Give me my flowers back. Kenji: Not that. What did I do...? I buried something...? (shhf...) - Page 178 - Kenji: I didn't know our house was this big... The guitar Kiriko got me is burnt crispy. Just like Jimi Hendrix's guitar... - Page 179 - Kenji: The yard... Yeah, right about here... <