A Chance To Relive Modern Life... Becoming My Dream Pharmacist! PT - 2
The quiet days were supposed to last. After years of chaos, Akio Hukitaske — once a healer, now a figure of scars — thought peace had finally chosen him. The pharmacy was his sanctuary, its shelves filled with medicines instead of ghosts. The battles were over, the Helix gone, the blood washed away by time and silence.
But peace has a way of cracking when you least expect it.
When a mysterious invitation arrives from the Grand Line Hotel — a sprawling resort built over the old Helix laboratories — Akio agrees to one final trip. He tells himself it’s just business. A small consultation. A harmless retreat by the sea. But deep down, he knows the truth: the shadows never left, they only waited.
Joined by his two closest companions — Hikata Yakasuke, the loudmouthed former comedian whose laughter hides the tremors of regret, and Rumane, the quiet tactician — Akio begins a journey that feels like an echo of the past. Their banter fills the van, their laughter masks unease, and their hearts cling to the fragile illusion that this is just another escape.
But the moment they arrive, the illusion breaks.
A festival of light greets them — fireworks spiraling through the night sky in impossible red helixes. A smiling concierge welcomes them with prototype wristbands, a “gift” said to grant special access to the park. The devices shimmer against their skin, metallic, pulsing faintly like veins. The air hums with something alive beneath the laughter and music.
Then comes the message.
An unknown number.
Six words that pierce through the night:
“Do not remove your wristband. It will detonate.”
Suddenly, paradise becomes a cage. The Grand Line Hotel — a monument of glass and light — turns into a labyrinth of secrets. Its corridors shift with unseen movements. Its guests whisper of disappearances. The staff smile too easily. And behind every locked door, Akio senses the same pulse that once powered the Scarlet Helix — the forbidden fusion of science and madness that nearly consumed the world.
As the trio digs deeper, the threads of memory begin to blur with reality. Akio feels the weight of his twin blades — the Emerald Healer and the Black Poisoner — calling to him once more. Rumane begins to sense a surveillance that feels almost human, while Hikata’s jokes falter into silence as the laughter around them turns hollow.
Then, on the morning after the second night’s fireworks, a new presence arrives: Detective Yakahura Mizuhashi, a quiet being with eyes too sharp for his calm tone. He claims to be investigating the hotel’s “unusual activity.” But his arrival isn’t coincidence — it’s prophecy. He knows Akio’s name. He knows the blades. And he knows something the others don’t:
The Helix was never truly destroyed. It was reborn — inside the living remenents. One again...
As the line between human and machine begins to dissolve, Akio must confront not just the specter of the Helix, but the ghost of his own choices. Can he resist the calling of the past? Or has the cure he created long ago become the infection that binds them all?
In a city where fireworks spiral like DNA, and smiles hide detonations, Akio Hukitaske must once again decide:
Will he heal the world… or destroy what’s left of it?
