Kaede726

This story, which was serialized as part of the Dengeki Bunko Resurrection Series in Dengeki Bunko Magazine, has been published into a light novel form. Dengeki Bunko Resurrection Series is a project to celebrate Dengeki Bunko Magazine breaking through its 50th edition. The concept was something like, “have Dengeki Bunko writers write new stories to revive the worlds of popular Degenki Bunko works.” So I took the lead with the first step, bringing the collaboration of the awe-inspiring Ryohgo Narita’s Durarara!! series and my own work Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens. I considered calling the title for the novel “Hakata Tonkotsu Durararamens,” but at some point the main editor made the decision on it, and now it is this. I was worried if fans of Narita-sensei would not like it (I wasn’t the one who decided it!), so please give me some leeway...! Everything started last winter. I was told by my editor out of the blue, “you’re going to do a collab with Dura~,” and I was greatly taken...

Just how long has it been since they came to Tokyo? The other Ramens members returned to Fukuoka right away, but the second baseman and shortstop – Zenji Banba and Xianming Lin – stayed to enjoy sightseeing around the city. Or more accurately it was just Lin who had enjoyed himself. Yesterday he spent the whole day window shopping at fashion stores in Shibuya and Harajuku and had Banba tag along as his bag carrier. Banba watched Lin as he got joyous trying on every new one-piece dress with large shopping bags in both hands and an openly annoyed expression. Banba was bored the entire time, regardless of how often Lin made attempts at conversation, asking him: “how does this look?” or “Which do you think look better?” Banba merely replied with nothing more than, “um, don’t that look fine?” Under Lin’s demand, they ended up extending their stay for another day, and today they planned to eat pancakes at a famous restaurant that was exclusive to Tokyo. Since Lin tagged alo...

Epilogue: Hero Interview They had finished their practice game between the grass-lot baseball teams the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens and the Tokyo Sukiyaki Westerns, and later that same night the Tonkotsu Nine met up at a restaurant in the city in celebration for the game. “Today is my treat! Drink up whatever you like!” Their coach Genzo toasted with a beer mug in hand. “So cheers!” “Cheers!” There was the clanking of beer mugs and exuberant voices. The Tonkotsu Nine each gave praise to every person who made a good effort in their game that day as they gulped down their drinks. Enokida, who was sitting across from the second baseman and shortstop Banba and Lin, was also downing his beer the same as everyone else.

Chapter 9: For a Few Yen More With the rush of customers dispersing the western bar Dodge City was more laid-back. It had been one hour since Banba and Lin had sneaked into the Wild Bunch Company. They should be finishing up there soon enough. Enokida informed Banba that the Wild Bunch Company had bounties put out for them. No matter if they were a hit-man group, they were no match for those two. Right now everyone should be tied up , Enokida imagined. Now his next job was waiting for him. Enokida finished relaxing at the end table of the bar and closed his laptop and put it into his bag. “I’ll be going. Thank you for the meal.” After he gulped down the rest of his glass he got up from his seat and placed money down onto the table. “Until the game then.” He told Wyatt.

Chapter 8: Continuation – Ikebukuro Duel When he took a moment to think about it, it was apparent almost immediately. He certainly found it odd.  Murder Inc. was rather lenient when John Wayne established his independence. They did not interfere or try to meddle with John’s plans but remained as a spectator. They were fine with it. Murder Inc. had already sent a spy into the inner workings of the Wild Bunch at that time. They could receive reports from their spy periodically and leave the Wild Bunch Company up to their own devices. If they had any utility value they would let them swim along undisturbed, and when they became a hindrance they would eliminate all of them.That was Murder Inc’s objective.

Chapter 7: WANTED – The Wild Bunch Group As soon as Enokida started researching the group up he confirmed the access point of the post was from within Ikebukuro. The address was Ikebukuro 2 Chome 60 Banchi, the first floor of a three story building. The computer terminal set up in there was where the post pretending to be the NPB was. He attached the address and a map in an e-mail and sent it to Lin. Soon after he received a reply from him. 'Do you know a place that lends weapons around this area?' It said. Banba was probably unarmed, so they thought he would need a weapon when they infiltrate the enemy’s hideout.

Chapter 6: The Man Who Killed the Executive Candidate? After the two bounty hunters handed over Shinta Kasaoka, Wilson then gave them the bag with fake bills in it. All of it was in according to his superior, John Wayne’s orders. He put Kasaoka into the trunk of the vehicle and headed back to the company right away before the two noticed the money was fake. Kasaoka seemed to be completely emaciated. It could not be helped. In these past few days he had been cashed down by complete strangers relentlessly. Without any time to relax he could not take a rest. He certainly seemed John Wayne’s plan to torment the traitor psychologically had succeeded. Once he arrived at the Wild Bunch company Wilson and his subordinates carried Kasaoka to the multipurpose room.

Chapter 5: Batting Lin and Banba had decided to do some bounty hunting since their luggage had been stolen at the batting center, but they never expected to actually end up butting heads with a real bounty hunter. They came to an abandoned warehouse to seize a man with a 300,000 yen bounty named Kasaoka, but a man calling himself a bounty hunter had appeared. It was a young man in a cowboy getup.  When Lin had cornered the man and tried to add the finishing blow, another man made a sudden appearance. He was a large-built man wearing priest clothes, and his target also seemed to be Kasaoka’s bounty. The minister guy had addressed the cowboy one with a mimicry of carelessness, completely not reading the situation. It seemed they were acquaintances. So did he come to save his friend? Lin wondered.

Chapter 4: UNINVITED The wedding ceremony and reception had finished, and as the place of the event was going to change and the garden party where the celebs would gather, Enokida exited the internet cafe he concealed himself in. The time was already past the evening, and the city of Ikebukuro wss dyed in an orange color. “ – So you really were here.” Suddenly being called out in front of the building, Enokida came to a halt. When he turned around, a slim, elderly gentleman stood there. “Geh” Enokida winced. He terribly recalled who the man dressed up nice the same as him was. “Yagi!”

Chapter 3: Outlaws Everywhere John Wayne had worked in the main office of Murder Inc. in Shinjuku until half a year ago. He would get on the crowded trains wearing a suit, follow his superior’s orders as a company employee, and carried out the task of assassination. However, there was no way a man like him who lived as he pleased could spend his time obediently in the company organization. John had the bad tastes in enjoying murder and also despised the people at the top of the company. John being John was just about sick of being in the middle of the troublesome framework that was a company.

Chapter 2: The Two Bounty Hunters The Nippon Professional Bounty hunter Organization – alias NPB – was an organization run by the American bounty hunting administration, Westwood Company. They had offices in twelve places throughout the whole country of Japan, and they offered professional qualifications for their bounty hunters and managed their jobs; being able to capture villains informally was a main job for them. In the case someone wanted to put up a bounty, they could contact the NPB and have them make a wanted poster for them. Once that was complete, the NPB side would set a bounty and offered the job to their bounty hunters. That was their structure. The NPB provided a 10 to 20 percent ratio for commissions of the bounty price. In recent years with there was a surge of proceedings in globalization crime, resulting in many cases out of the police's hands. Being tied up, they inevitably turned to the NPB. The bounty hunters in the NPB were all skilled personn...

Chapter 1: The Wandering Hakatans “Whoooooooa, this is Tokyo ———— !” An awestruck man yelled in the middle of the JR Tokyo Station. His age was just before thirty, and his build was tall and muscular striking to an athlete, however, his hair was ruffled and unkempt and his clothes were shabby. He had a completely slack appearance from head to toe, and he had an air far from that of the refined city. And within his grasp was a traveling case, making him an apparent outsider. “Ain’t this somethin’?! There’s lots of people! It’s completely different from Hakata!”

Prologue: Ikebukuro Duel Today as well he tried to play a troublesome farce within the Wild Bunch company in a certain place in Ikebukuro Taking the call from his superior, Wilson headed straight to the president’s office. Knocking on the door and looking inside his superior was relaxed elegantly in the spacious room. There was a plump man wearing a dark blue shirt with a dark brown culotte – his name was John Wayne. Naturally it was not his real name.