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Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 3, also called Chapter 24, is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Black Lagoon manga. It was originally released in June 2004.

Plot[]

Reading a Martin Heidegger book in the school library, Yukio Washimine is interrupted by her friend Maki, who is surprised to see Yukio reading a stack of books. Yukio shows her the philosophy book, but Maki politely denies to read it in the future, commenting that she reads contemporary horror and romance novels. Yukio says that her "light" reading includes Natsuki Ikezawa and other Japanese writers and philosophers, turning off Maki's interest. The young girl asks her "senpai" if she reads any horror books like those by Edgar Allen Poe, but Yukio replies that she does not read any horror, specifying that she does not like gloomy and lonesome stories, and she especially dislikes nighttime and snowy nights.

At a park near Rock's parents' house, Revy waits for him in boredom and tells herself that the sky looks the same, be it in Tokyo or on Mott Street where she grew up shooting at cans, seeing herself in the children nearby. Her train of thought is interrupted by a toy pellet hitting her, yelling at the children for not watching their sights. The children ask in Japanese if she is a "gaijin," annoying Revy since she keeps hearing that word. Grabbing and examining one of the children's toy guns, she tells them to watch her as she accurately shoots several cans, awing the little boys. While Rock gets a soda can from a vending machine, Revy plays with the children by telling a boy that he is Jack McCall while she is Calamity Jane. When she shoots the children with the toy gun, they fake dying by playfully writhing in agony, but Revy responds that they are dying wrong. She demonstrates using herself that when people get shot, they fall to the ground as if their whole body goes limp, making the children say that dying is uncool.

As Revy looks up, she is embarrassed and flustered to see Rock standing, asking him how long he has been there. When Rock claims that Calamity Jane did not die in the saloon, the frustrated and angry Revy tosses the child's toy gun and grabs Rock's arm, dragging him away and threatening to castrate him if he tells Benny or Dutch even one word about what happened. As Rock agrees, Revy asks him how seeing his parents went, and he answers that no one was home, although he omits the fact that he tried to but did not ring the doorbell at all and left. Revy tells him that he can try again later and that they need to hurry to their next meeting.

Inside a strip bar that also serves as a Washimine Group front business, Bandō apologizes to Balalaika if being surrounded by nude women offends her, but Balalaika replies that her only distaste is for the bar's noise. Commencing the meeting, Rock interprets on Balalaika's behalf that she recommends a shift to different targets because they have finished the first part of their plan to squeeze out the Kōsa Council. Elaborating, she states that clamping down on their businesses is just a side ploy to their new tactic that always works for negotiations, which is to abduct the Kōsa Council's leader Masami Kōsa as well as his family members, shocking Yoshida. Bandō agrees with him and tells Balalaika that they cannot do that, which Rock translates to her. Bandō clarifies that he had only asked Hotel Moscow to intimidate the Kōsa Council enough to force them to stop bothering the Washimine Group, but Balalaika laughs off his framing, speaking to Boris in Russian. Balalaika orders Rock to translate her sentiment, which is that they will decimate anyone standing in their way by any means necessary to secure the maximum profits possible. Coldly smiling, she tells Bandō that the decision is up to her group, not his men.

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