They watched the window in front of them broken. The book was open and the pages kept turning.

This was not supposed to happen. Was their last thought before everything went back to normal, like nothing happened.

But they weren't there anymore and many words had disappeared from the book.

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Nakajima Atsushi tried to reach the boy he and Akutagawa had been chasing for the past few hours.

Lewis Carroll, 7 years old.

Despite being quite young, the boy possessed an interesting ability.

Through The Looking Glass.

This ability allowed him to trap other people in an endless viewing, forcing them to watch how their lives could turn out so different from their original lives.

The boy had used this ability to trap a huge amount of people, putting them in comas. Dazai-san's ability had been able to cancel the effect on each victim but the number of victims was high and the boy himself was still running around causing trouble. This case had been affecting Yokohama as a whole so the Port Mafia had sent their aid to the Agency.

That was why he and Akutagawa were working together again. (Mostly because it was Dazai-san's idea.)

Atsushi jumped at the boy and the world bloomed into multiple colors.

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The Mad Dog of the Port Mafia watched in bewilderment as the weretiger's body glowed in multiple colors and scattered through the sky, leaving behind a gray light.

The light took the shape of a human and shifted into a similar yet quite different individual that he knew.

The gray light melted off, leaving behind a person similar to Nakajima Atsushi.

He looked both the same and different but Akutagawa knew that this was not the weretiger that he knew. This was someone else.

A Nakajima Atsushi with a different life.