Eden of the East – 03 – Being a NEET is dangerous

The house hunt continues as Akira and Saki continue on their trip to search for Akira’s house…

Which turns out to be a shopping center.

Damn it must be good to be rich.

Exploration of his “home” however, reveals something shocking familiar.

“We’re gonna kill you Takizawa Akira!”

All your naked NEETs are belong to me

So it would appear that Akira DID have a hand in this event. A quick check with episode one reveals that this photo shown here is actually slightly different from the one shown in episode 1, most notably the white sign being held up which says “出せ！” or “let us out!”. Being able to see the full text on the wall also shows the sinister nature of the event.

It is later revealed that this is apparently the fate of the missing NEETs that were mentioned in episode 2. We still do not know why Akira chose to do something like that. The missile attacks may have also been triggered by Akira though we are not too sure.

In the meantime, Detective Loser continues to track Akira down and eventually corners him.

And proceeds to beat the shit out of him

FALCON PUNCH!

Nice right hook

And what is our dear girl doing?

“I’m so gonna dump him if he doesn’t come”

Right.

As a parting gift, Detective Loser reveals abit of the puzzle in exchange for the phone.

Apparently this Selecao System is a game where 12 people are selected and given 10 billion to spend however they like.

The catch is, once you spend it all, a “Supporter” will come and kick your bucket. O_O

“Come back when you learn to fight kid”

And to add insult to injury, Akira gets dumped.

BAKA

Just kidding.

Flush with victory, Detective Loser sends a mail to his mistress to arrange a rendevous, only to find out that the phones are fingerprint locked and can only be used by their respective owners.

Didn’t see that coming did ya?

Akira apparently has a few smarts himself and managed to nick Detective Loser’s badge while he was getting falcon punched. He calls the detective and arranges a meet up as well.

All doesn’t go well though as Detective Loser’s wife turns up at the rendevous point and reveals that she had recieved the mail instead. The pictures say it all.

“I thought you loved me”

O_O

“OH SH-”

And nothing of value was lost.

Akira arrives a moment too late to find Detective Loser sprawled on the floor. He reveals the shocking truth of his deductions of Akira’s past (the NEET and missile attacks) to Akira and returns him his phone. Not that he had much use for it anymore. I don’t think even Juliz can bring the dead back to life.

Lose the girl kid. Or you’ll end up like me. Never get married. Ever.

The possibility that a Supporter redirected his mail to the wife instead of the mistress to kill him off is a rather plausable event as mentioned by the detective himself considering that he had only 7 yen left to his phone. Though how they knew his wife was a potential yandere is beyond me.

So now the search begins. It seems Akira will now track down the remaining 10 other Selecao in a bid to find out more about his past.

I suppose we could assume that the person whom we saw driving off at the beginning of episode one was Akira’’s Supporter though why he ordered the mind wipe of Akira or did he order the mind wipe is still a mystery. And the detective’s last words on possible Supporter intevention in Akira’s past was rather cryptic too.

Perhaps there’s more to Akira’s past that meets the eye. You have to be pretty bad ass to gather so many NEETs in one place then blow them up with a missile or something.

One down. Ten more to go.