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    |rong|
    |wr|
    |weak, wrong, cannot, rule|
    |not, enough, love|
    « You’ve been trolling other Ikebukuro-related chat boards, haven’t you? »
    |want, love, human|
    |cut, but, wrong, not, enough|
    « Take that! »
    « There, I banned ’em. Tee-hee. »
    « Well, that’s a relief. So long! »
    —KANRA HAS LEFT THE CHAT—
    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
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    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
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    —SAIKA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT—
    |more|
    |more, strong|
    |strong, love, wish|
    |wish, is, want|
    |more, strong, love, want|
    |want, love|
    |want to, love|
    |want to love, strong, human|
    |human, strong, who, ask|
    |ask, who, strong|
    |ikebukuro|
    |wish, me, mother, mother|
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    —SAIKA HAS LEFT THE CHAT—
    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
    —THE CHAT ROOM IS CURRENTLY EMPTY—
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Chapter 3: Ikebukuro’s Most Dangerous
    I just wanted to know.
    Not as a writer for a third-rate gossip-slinging tabloid, but purely out of personal curiosity.
    Curiosity.
    Funny to think that a man in his thirties still possessed that artifact of boyhood. Even the panic over the Headless Rider incident back in the spring didn’t inspire this kind of fervor in me. I figured that story was best left to the occult rags or the motorcycle gang specialists, not me. My paper handled that sort of stuff, too, of course, but we couldn’t match the experts at their game.
    I just wrote up whatever happened here in this place called Tokyo and made it sound interesting. That’s all I wanted to write, and the readers seemed to be happy enough with it.
    It was the keyword the editor in chief gave me as the theme for this in-depth Ikebukuro scoop that inspired this youthful energy in me.
    Strongest.
    That’s right…strongest.
    Nothing more than that one word.
    Taken literally, I had to assume he wanted to know who was the strongest in the city.
    A stale, clichéd, but powerful word.
    But as a matter of fact, maybe it was the fact that it was such a cliché that made it resonate with me. Just like
love
and
freedom
.
    So who’s the strongest in Ikebukuro?
    When I asked the citizens of Ikebukuro this question, I got a lot of answers.
    “Oh, I know! It’s the guy on that black motorcycle!”
    “Dunno…probably some local yakuza.”
    “No way, it’s gotta be Simon.”
    “Hmm… An amateur wouldn’t know about him, but there’s a guy named Izaya Orihara who left for Shinjuku…”
    “Nope, the strongest now is whoever started the Dollars.”
    “You seen the guys wearing these yellow bandannas, right?”
    “Has to be an official. The cops, I mean. There’s this officer at the station on the corner named Kuzuhara. He’s unbelievable—whole family’s police. Even his three sons all say they want to be cops when they grow up.”
    The most fascinating part was that