Baccano! Volume 9 -1934: Alice in Jails Street Episode

The image of his companions’ bodies being sucked into the woman’s pale, thin arm made Klik’ body
involuntarily tense up. He didn’t know what happened to either the woman’s hand or his companions’
bodies, but one thing for sure – they were dead.

Fear clutched him, and he looked at his surroundings with suspicion. “Right…can’t let my guard down til
this train pulls out…”

Intent on his thoughts of escape, Klik turned to enter the compartment –

And saw the palm of someone’s hand.

Between the pale and shapely fingers, he saw a pair of glasses, and a childlike smile materialize under those
glasses.

And that was the last thing Klik ever saw.

“Huh? What…?”

Jacuzzi, who had gotten back on the train to ascertain that it was indeed a Russo member, looked left and
right, but Klik didn’t seem to be anywhere at all.

“Where did he go…”

As he was looking around, his eyes met those of a woman in a white lab coat.

--- a doctor?

A thought flashed through Jacuzzi’s mind – how could there be a doctor here? But then the woman
immediately started to scream.

“Ah? S-sorry! Totally sorry! Please forgive me!”

“Huh?”

Jacuzzi thought that the woman must be scared of the tattoo on his face and waved his hands frantically, as
though to dispel the misunderstanding. “I-I’m sorry! You’ve got it wrong! I’m not a robber or anything. Um,
well, I have robbed trains…but not right now though! Um, that is, I was just, just looking for a man with a
scar on his face, I think he just got on the train! But then there’s no one here! P-please, did you see anyone
like that? Sorry, I apologize!”

The fact that Jacuzzi was spilling all of his beans seemed to make the woman calmer. “Huh? Yes, he was
here a moment ago, but I don’t know where he went.”

“Is-is that so….sorry again, and thank you!”

Jacuzzi thought it would be better to stop questioning her, and so he bowed and left to join with his
companions on the platform.

As he descended from the train, his face betrayed his anxiety.

Renée watched his back disappear and looked down at her right hand in thought.

“Well, it’s true, who knows where bodies go?”

So she had not really lied to Jacuzzi.

As she mentally thumbed through the memories of the man she had just devoured, she pondered where the
bodies really went.
“…to Hell?”
This struck her as a stupid answer. She folded her hands, thinking that perhaps absorbing that man’s
knowledge had in fact dimmed her own intelligence.
She continued to ponder the whereabouts of the body, before deciding that an answer wouldn’t come. She
gave a big sigh and left the train.
“If it was Mr. Huey, maybe then I’d have an answer!” Then she lowered her voice so that no one would hear.
“Wow – I can’t wait! Mr. Huey’s eyeball will be delivered soon…”

She sounded like a child waiting for a Christmas present, but her tone could not mask the creepiness of what
she had said.
Renée stood on the platform and looked up at the blue Chicago sky. The sun’s rays reached everything and
bathed the skyscrapers of Chicago in gold.

Today, as every other day, the sun presented the city and its inhabitants a changeless blue sky, composing a
crisp and dazzling scene.

Meanwhile, Miria was also looking up at the sky, and speaking in a similar cheerful voice.
“I really hope I can see Isaac soon!”

Her voice seemed to carry beyond the station into the skies of Chicago, into the horizon, as though it could
sweep away all the fear and tension from city.
But, as though to herald fresh disasters to come, as though in defiance of the even blue sky –

A new wave of explosions rocked the city of Chicago.