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yako katsuragi 。 3/?

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Unfortunately, when she woke the next morning and opening her blinds, he was there, waiting. He no longer had any use for her house, but Yako was still going to be his slave, whether she liked it or not - and so began Yako's career. They solved a number of cases after that, in which Yako saw more and more sides of humanity that she didn't know about before Neuro's interference in her life; she also adjusted to Neuro, to the point that she was willing (sometimes) to work with him, and she wanted to prove herself to him as something worth more than a "dishrag". In the Aya Asia case, she began to do just that, and Neuro truly took an interest in humanity around that time - he decided that Yako was of use to him as more of a front. While he could unravel a method, he didn't understand the motives or the human emotions behind the crimes, which he realised could be a weakness in future cases; Yako had a natural talent for just that, solving the Aya Asia case in her own mind without any of the evidence Neuro had procured, simply with the facts she had heard and her own understanding of Aya's feelings.

After that, not only was Yako stuck in her job, it also began to grow into something much bigger than what she had wanted; soon, she was known all over Japan, the Great High School Detective, Yako Katsuragi (and her bizarre yet innocent assistant, Neuro). She and Neuro got themselves an office from a group of gangsters after solving the case of their boss' death, and began to form a real detective agency with two more employees - the gangster Godai from the group they had taken the office from, and Akane, a corpse trapped in the office walls whose braid of hair had been brought to life thanks to Neuro's daemonic energies.

Their cases didn't really seem to anywhere bigger, or some ultimate plan; it was all just to keep Neuro happy and satisfied. And then they ran into something that, while put on hold throughout their next big case, would continue to develop into the biggest problem they would ever deal with. It all started with the Phantom Thief Sai. He was a human that had a bizarre and horrific condition; his DNA was unstable and his cells constantly mutated and morphed, giving him the ability to change his form to whoever he wanted, making him impossible to catch. Neuro and Yako encountered him after following a crazed fan of his who had been trying to replicate his Red Box technique - grinding a person into an unrecognisable mess and putting it all into a glass box - in which he and Neuro both called each other out on their inhuman abilities. Sai realised that Neuro was a monster of some sort and decided he wanted to put him in a Red Box and observe his cells, hoping that it would give him some clue as to who he really was. Neuro, however, merely saw Sai as a pest hiding a potentially tasty meal.

Sai made a few attempts on Neuro's life after that, even knowing that he was a daemon, going so far as to lure him out with a mystery and try to get the jump on him in the brief instant that Neuro was devouring his latest meal - this only led to a fight which Neuro easily won, but it also made Neuro come to realise something that horrified both Sai and Yako, while it meant little to him; gradually, he was succumbing to the logic of the human world, and his daemon body was turning human. While Sai was forced to back off and rethink his plans after their battle, the fact that Neuro, the monster, was turning more and more human while he, the human, was turning into more and more of a monster only strengthened his resolved and desperation to kill Neuro quickly, which would reappear as a problem later.

In the mean time, Yako and Neuro came up against one of their most difficult and testing cases in their time as detectives, and one in which they would save the entire world - the HAL incident.