Episode 21: THE RACKET | DURRUN by Aito Kitazaki

Episode 21

Episode 21: “THE RACKET” CHOFU’s entertainment district draws crowds from all over TOKYO — and where tourists flock, pickpockets thrive. This episode turns away from the yakuza to follow the outcasts of Tama Cemetery, a ruined district off-limits to visitors and linked to CHOFU only by a tunnel. Shiban outruns a stubborn rookie Carabiner with parkour flair, only to have his entire haul soaked up by a silent, stitch-grinned man of the Hiru-gumi. Back in the ruins, Buyo lays out their reality: with the Tousei-kai tightening security across CHOFU to honor its pact with the government, scraping by on theft and shakedowns may be a dead end — it is time to consider a new racket. His gaze lands on timid Shimii, the crew’s unlikely top earner, whose sudden windfall smells of a secret. When a bound, cackling drunk hauled in from CHOFU fixates on him, Shimii’s overloaded brain freezes, and a headlong sprint through the tunnel shakes loose the memory of exactly what he sold — and to whom — only yesterday. At the tunnel’s mouth, he collides with two travelers bound for Tama Cemetery: Soujun and Yu-ri.

DURRUN Episode 21, page 1: tourists in CHOFU’s entertainment district erupt in a frenzy while a hidden hand slips into a bag — Episode 21 title page
DURRUN Episode 21, page 2: cries of “pickpocket!” ring out in CHOFU as a rookie Carabiner gives chase while his sergeant warns the thief will never be caught
DURRUN Episode 21, page 3: Shiban flees through CHOFU’s back alleys cursing the Carabiner as the rookie, a former running prodigy, boasts of his freak stamina
DURRUN Episode 21, page 4: Shiban twists through the air, lands with a grin, and sneers that this place is a jungle that is CHOFU in name only
DURRUN Episode 21, page 5: Shiban scales a building wall parkour-style, dangling his loot over the rookie and crediting the diva whose live show lures careless tourists to West CHOFU
DURRUN Episode 21, page 6: a Hiru-gumi man with a stitched grin and writhing dreadlocks appears silently behind Shiban, warning that stealing on their turf is forbidden
DURRUN Episode 21, page 7: Shiban curses the Hiru-gumi for sucking up his haul, snaps at a muttering homeless old man, and heads back through the tunnel where Buyo waits
DURRUN Episode 21, page 8: crows circle over Tama Cemetery, the ruined district linked to CHOFU by tunnel and long declared off-limits to tourists
DURRUN Episode 21, page 9: Shiban rejoins the crew in the ruins — Sasara tosses him a beer as he notices the bound drunk Abura dragged back from CHOFU
DURRUN Episode 21, page 10: Abura recounts beating the still-laughing drunk half-dead and dragging him home, snapping at Shimii for worrying about the stranger’s fate
DURRUN Episode 21, page 11: the bound drunk lurches at Shimii, drooling and begging “let me lick it one more time!” as the RADIO-shirt youth recoils
DURRUN Episode 21, page 12: Abura clubs the drunk down with a pipe; the crew teases Shimii, who swears the man is a total stranger, as Buyo turns the talk to their next racket
DURRUN Episode 21, page 13: Buyo explains the Tousei-kai’s citywide crackdown and the survival pact behind it, asking whether the crew should seek a new racket
DURRUN Episode 21, page 14: Buyo names Shimii the crew’s true top earner and, noting his soaring takings, asks if he has found a new racket of his own
DURRUN Episode 21, page 15: Buyo presses Shimii point-blank about colluding with the Tousei-kai; Shimii frantically denies any betrayal as the bound drunk rises again
DURRUN Episode 21, page 16: overwhelmed, Shimii bolts for the tunnel at full speed while Abura fells the flailing drunk with a full-swing pipe and Buyo marvels at his toughness
DURRUN Episode 21, page 17: running calms Shimii’s overloaded mind as he explains how sprinting reboots his frozen brain — then the reason for the freeze comes back to him
DURRUN Episode 21, page 18: flashback to yesterday in Zone 3 — an astonished buyer gasps that the item is real, and Shimii realizes the drunk is the man he sold it to
DURRUN Episode 21, page 19: insisting his sale has nothing to do with it, Shimii bursts out of the tunnel and bumps into Soujun and Yu-ri, who are headed for Tama Cemetery

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