Episode 22: GHOSTS | DURRUN by Aito Kitazaki

Episode 22

Episode 22: “GHOSTS” The collision at the tunnel’s mouth dissolves into a frantic apology contest — until Shimii spots the katana at Yu-ri’s hip, mistakes him for the Tousei-kai, and flees at full speed. Walking the tunnel toward Tama Cemetery, Yu-ri recalls Ojiki’s warning about the “ghosts”: outcasts who lost their place in TOKYO and drift into CHOFU to scrape by on crime — and the old man’s quiet apology for shutting him away in a scrap of TOKYO all those years ago. Yu-ri lays out the road ahead: once the shadow concealer’s errand is done, he and Soujun part ways. His aim is to become the boss of TOKYO and take everything back, while Soujun — a mere tourist again now that the MACHIDA incident has been erased — should stay on the surface side and humor his sister’s sightseeing. But a muttering old man in the dark sends Soujun sprinting straight into the outlaws’ den, where playing dead earns him nothing but a one-million-renny entry fee. Yu-ri arrives, sizes up the small-time gang at a glance, and asks the one question that freezes the air: what if he has no intention of paying at all? Meanwhile, at a ruined tobacco stand, Buyo hints that the ghosts haunting this place are not the crew alone.

DURRUN Episode 22, page 1: Soujun and Shimii bow in a frantic apology contest at the tunnel mouth while Yu-ri silently marks the stranger who emerged from the ruined district — Episode 22 title page
DURRUN Episode 22, page 2: in a flashback Ojiki explains the “ghosts” — outcasts who lost their place in TOKYO and drift into CHOFU to scrape by on crime — and warns Yu-ri, who shrugs that he still has Ten
DURRUN Episode 22, page 3: Shimii spots the katana at Yu-ri’s hip, panics that he must be Tousei-kai, and bolts away at full speed, leaving Soujun and Yu-ri speechless
DURRUN Episode 22, page 4: heading into the tunnel Soujun frets over ghosts, but Yu-ri flatly says none exist — only CHOFU’s outcasts, ordinary people, wait beyond it
DURRUN Episode 22, page 5: back in MACHIDA, Ojiki freely allows the CHOFU trip, telling Yu-ri he is no longer an only child and apologizing for shutting him away in a scrap of TOKYO
DURRUN Episode 22, page 6: Ojiki urges some sightseeing once the shadow concealer’s errand is done; back in the tunnel Soujun panics over puddles — the wet traces ghosts are said to leave
DURRUN Episode 22, page 7: Yu-ri tells Soujun to turn back if he is scared — once the shadow concealer matter ends they part ways, for they came to CHOFU with different aims
DURRUN Episode 22, page 8: Yu-ri declares he will become the boss of TOKYO and take everything back, while the erased MACHIDA incident lets Soujun live on as a mere tourist
DURRUN Episode 22, page 9: Yu-ri warns how the underworld would use a Fuser and coldly tells Soujun to stay a tourist with his sister; ahead, a bearded old man mutters cryptic words
DURRUN Episode 22, page 10: Soujun bolts screaming down the tunnel while Yu-ri, secretly startled too, decides the muttering old man is only a beggar from CHOFU
DURRUN Episode 22, page 11: about to walk on, Yu-ri freezes — the old man’s unintelligible muttering somehow reaches him as words — then he heads deeper with the trunk
DURRUN Episode 22, page 12: crows circle Tama Cemetery as the ghosts play baseball with a stone, Sasara’s bizarre windup drawing threats from Abura over another wild pitch
DURRUN Episode 22, page 13: Sasara the self-styled cruiser-class champion hurls the stone into a window, Abura erupts, and Soujun charges out of the tunnel only to trip flat on his face
DURRUN Episode 22, page 14: surrounded by Abura’s pipe, a towering iron-masked man, and Sasara, the fallen Soujun squeezes his eyes shut and plays dead on the spot
DURRUN Episode 22, page 15: Soujun’s play-dead plan collapses as the iron-masked giant hoists him up and Abura, taking him for a tourist, demands a one-million-renny entry fee
DURRUN Episode 22, page 16: from the tunnel mouth Yu-ri scoffs that no one would pay a million just to view such a dump, while the dangling Soujun begs him to secure a rescue first
DURRUN Episode 22, page 17: Yu-ri coolly sizes up the small-time gang of four as Abura doubles the toll to two million — then asks what happens if he has no intention of paying
DURRUN Episode 22, page 18: at a ruined tobacco stand Buyo finds the showcase freshly restocked, and Shiban wonders who keeps refilling it when the crew are Tama Cemetery’s only residents
DURRUN Episode 22, page 19: taking a slow drag before the ruined tobacco shop, Buyo answers simply — the ghosts that haunt this place are not the crew alone

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