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Jan 18, 2017 7:37 PM
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| Hello! I have a question for those who read A Sunset with Izaya Orihara. What happened with Izaya at the end of the novel? Is he still in the wheelchair? Is he coming back to Ilebukuro? If someone can give me, like a brief spoil summary of the novel :)) it would be great. Or there are going to be more volumes of it? |
Jun 28, 2021 5:44 PM
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| Izaya is still in the wheelchair at the end. The book is about him visiting a town that specializes in mining and is dictated by two wealthy rival families that are the town's economic and political heads. The book begins with the eldest son of one of the families being murdered and a lot of the plot revolves around the families trying to figure out the son's killer while also investigating Izaya who is a mysterious force meddling with both sides. A majority of the events are characters scheming and fighting over information. In the end one of the family's housemaids is revealed to be the killer of the son because the son murdered her younger sister in a scandal 10 years ago that both families were involved in but was covered up with the help of the police (and money of course). At a large gathering members of both families are at, she attempts to blow them up along with herself while meanwhile the rest of the two families are in a mine tunnel (because of a sub plot revolving around a Romeo and Juliet type situation where a guy from one family and a girl from the other are trying to elope together and GPS tracking led to the belief that they were down there). The tunnel gets blown up but before those involved suffocate in the rubble they are rescued. Izaya's cynical criticism of the housemaid's revenge plot causes her to falter in the critical moment and she doesn't go through with blowing up the venue for the gathering in time. Instead she's knocked unconscious as a fight breaks out between Izaya's elderly attendant Sozoro-san (who is quite fearsome despite his age) and members of the opposing family. Izaya throws the dynamite she was going to use up in the air and pegs it against the ceiling with a knife before detonating it himself, causing the rubble to fall on his attendant (intentionally as an act of betrayal) and everyone else there who hadn't already evacuated, save for the housemaid and the head of the family whose son was killed (his name is Jingoro). The housemaid wakes up and Jingoro says her hate for him was justified due to the way he covered up the truth of what his son did to her sister. She says she'll continue to hate him and may eventually enact revenge if she gets out of jail, and then she's carried away by medics. Izaya makes his escape in the wheelchair, holding a stick of unused dynamite to scare away the cops/medics who approach him. He makes it to a car in an attempt to escape similarly to the way he leaves Ikebukuro at the end of Durarara but Sozoro-san has caught up to him and isn't happy about Izaya's betrayal. Sozoro-san is indebted to Izaya because Izaya proved his innocence for a crime he'd been wrongfully imprisoned for and is working as Izaya's bodyguard because of this, so instead of killing him he hits Izaya in the face 30 times, and somewhere in the middle of the beating Izaya loses consciousness. At the end, Izaya meets the two who were eloping and helps them legally get new names and escape the city of Bunokurashi (where the story takes place) for good. As the sun sets, he leaves with his newly assembled team consisting of three members who were his allies at the beginning of the story (Sozoro-san, an elementary school boy named Haruto, and a slightly older girl named Himari) as well as two agents from a hacking business who, earlier in the story, were working to dig up information on Izaya himself for the family of the son who was killed. The name of the story is "The Sunset With Orihara Izaya" and so the final lines are about how they watch that sunset with the symbolic meaning of the sun setting on the town (because the scandals the two families were involved with were exposed and they're all facing serious legal trouble and jail time, plus the mine that was one of their largest sources of revenue has dried up so everything has gone to shit there) as well as the meaning that the sun sets wherever Izaya goes because he's the one who caused all of this to happen, and that being with him might eventually lead to "the sun setting on them as well." This still leaves out a good number of the details but hopefully this provides some of the info you were looking for |