Episode 2

**Extended Remote-Control Device** (拡張体遠隔操作装置, *Kakuchō-tai enkaku sōsa sōchi*) is the 2nd episode of *No Guns Life*.

## Characters

* Tetsuro Arahabaki
* Juzo Inui
* Karen
* Mary
* Hugh Cunningham

## Synopsis

Juzo makes a move to get Tetsuro back and carries the Extended boy to a place where Berühren cannot easily reach. While Tetsuro is unconscious, Juzo wanders around town looking for his favorite pack of smokes. A man named Cunningham greets him.

## Summary

Juzo stops the train and gets inside. Karen shoots at him, but the bullets bounce off from his head. He tells Tetsuro while he hates kids, he hates when they are that obedient and tells him to throw a fit. Tetsuro then activates the Harmony device, taking control over an extend and asks Juzo for help. Karen shoots Juzo, but he blocks her bullets with his arm and then gets closer and knocks her out.

Juzo takes Tetsuro and leaves. He calls Mary and as hear the news about the derailed Beruhren train and that they are blaming Spitzbergen organization for that. The news then reveal that Beruhren CEO son Tetsuro Arahabaki is missing for over a year.

At Mary's place, she had a patient that had incompatibility with her new parts and her condition was worsening. Mary removed the part and told the man that if they need parts, she can sell them better parts for cheaper than the ones they got from Kyusei group. After that, she tells Juzo that he can come out. Juzo asks her if she can hide the kid and Mary agrees. He explains about the Harmony device and Mary explains how it should work, but removing it can lead to the boys death. She sees that Juzo is pissed and realizes its because he doesn't have his favorite cigarette brand and makes fun of him. Mary says that she will give new limbs and vocal device to the kid and he asks her to call him when he wakes up.

Juzo goes to look for his favorite brand of cigarettes, but can't find them anywhere. He recalls how Tetsuro said he is not a tool and how his old partner told Juzo that he isn't a tool. Juzo then notices a tobacco vending machine and that it has his favorite cigarettes. He pays, but the machine fails to drop the cigarettes. He ends up hitting the vending machine and it drops his cigarette, but two police officers see him and take him. They lead him to meet Hugh Cunningham, who works for Beruhren and knows a lot about Juzo. He wants Tetsuro back and wants to get him back peacefully and offers Juzo a full box of his favorite cigarettes, which they had brought out from everywhere in the city. Hugh knows that the cigarettes are a medicine for the over-extended and helps them relief the pain and continue have control over their extended parts, and that particular brand is contains the strongest medicine. He knows that Juzo didn't had those cigarettes today and assumes he has difficulty controlling his parts. He orders his men to attack Juzo and take hold him down. He tells him that controlling his cigarettes is one of the first things they will do and then destroys couple of cigarettes in front of Juzo. Hugh wants an answer from Juzo, but Juzo tells him he missed something in his research. Juzo then frees himself and says that he can move even without those particular cigarettes and he just like their taste. Juzo beats Hugh's bodyguards, who then tells his sniper to shoot, but Mary had already taken care of him. Hugh then leaves, taking the box with the cigarettes and Juzo tells him he didn't mean to take the box. Mary gives Juzo cigarettes for which he just copied the active ingredients of his favorite cigarettes, but since she doesn't smoke, she doesn't know how they must taste. She explains that she called his office, but as he didn't answer, she went looking for him and tells him that Tetsuro is awake.