Full Metal Mutants: Escalation
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Another day, another dozen bodies. Shiro fears for his homeland's future.
Shiro was not going to throw his laptop out the window. That would be punishing the messenger, and that's wrong.
Cathartic, but wrong.
He rose from his seat, shutting down his computer, and rubbed his eyes wearily. Every day for the past . . . how many weeks? Was it really only three? Three weeks of reports of brutal violence all over Japan, from high-ranking government officials to rural farmers. Shiro realized that murder was a daily occurrence in Japan just like every other country, but these weren't random, isolated, unrelated events.
Asahi Shimbun Nagoya, 6 April: Husband and Wife Found Dead in Yatomi Home
Osaka Shimbun, 10 April: Businessman Murdered near Umeda
Kahoku Shimpo, 12 April: House Fire Destroys Neighborhood; Ten Die
Mainichi Shimbun, 16 April: METI Deputy Vice Minister and Family Missing, Assumed Dead
Yomiuri, 18 April: Fire Bombing in Ginza Kills Twenty, Injures Eighty
Shiro didn't have the words to describe this. The Yakuza and The Hand had moved far beyond their petty rivalry and were now engaging in all-out war. How many more people would die, how many more lives ruined, how many more families ripped apart until Tsurayaba and Harada would end this insanity?
A rhetorical question, really. The answer: until one of them is killed.
Shiro was not going to throw his laptop out the window. That would be punishing the messenger, and that's wrong.
Cathartic, but wrong.
He rose from his seat, shutting down his computer, and rubbed his eyes wearily. Every day for the past . . . how many weeks? Was it really only three? Three weeks of reports of brutal violence all over Japan, from high-ranking government officials to rural farmers. Shiro realized that murder was a daily occurrence in Japan just like every other country, but these weren't random, isolated, unrelated events.
Asahi Shimbun Nagoya, 6 April: Husband and Wife Found Dead in Yatomi Home
Osaka Shimbun, 10 April: Businessman Murdered near Umeda
Kahoku Shimpo, 12 April: House Fire Destroys Neighborhood; Ten Die
Mainichi Shimbun, 16 April: METI Deputy Vice Minister and Family Missing, Assumed Dead
Yomiuri, 18 April: Fire Bombing in Ginza Kills Twenty, Injures Eighty
Shiro didn't have the words to describe this. The Yakuza and The Hand had moved far beyond their petty rivalry and were now engaging in all-out war. How many more people would die, how many more lives ruined, how many more families ripped apart until Tsurayaba and Harada would end this insanity?
A rhetorical question, really. The answer: until one of them is killed.