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Ah, I can't help feeling that things are a little quiet around here right, now. I know I should probably feel glad considering the alternative, but I guess I find it all too easy to become bored.

I've heard the news that there may be a serial killer in our midst, but it's hard to feel concern for something when it's at a remove from you, right? It's a big city after all, and it's easy to put your mind to rest and think that such a thing will never happen to you. Only, perhaps the people who were killed used to think exactly the same thing? I wonder.

Anyway! Perhaps it's better to concentrate on something a little less morbid. And since I said I was bored...maybe some of you can tell me what you like to do for fun around here? Is there anything you particularly like about Death City? Or even things you really dislike? Give me some ideas ☆

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I'm not trying to get anything out of it.

[ he is, however, trying to rid himself of some guilt that will never go away. ]

Are you sure? It's pretty rare for people to do things for others and not want something for it in return, even if it's not something the people they're helping are giving them directly.

[ he pauses for a moment. Izaya is actually spot on with that, although even Allen doesn't realize it. ]

I just don't want to see anyone suffer.

Does it make you feel better, then, to know you've prevented someone's suffering?

Yes, of course. If you're trying to say that's what I get out of it then you'd be right.

Then it's still fulfilling a need, right? Like I said, it's pretty rare for people to selflessly help others purely for the sake of helping. Even if it's just a case of reciprocal altruism.