Chapter 43

Cherrirs! (Japanese:ヘルリス！, Heru risu ！) is the 43rd chapter of the Bungo Stray Dogs manga.

Summary
Atsushi and Kyōka head off to Uzumaki Cafe to discuss a case. They are met by an annoyed Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy hands them a dispatch regarding the murder of Kyōka's parents. It turns out there is one page missing from the booklet, and Atsushi and Kyōka head off to a dock to find the missing page. Atsushi and Kyōka split up and Atsushi then meets Lucy. She taunts the missing page to Atsushi. Lucy gets annoyed and yells at Atsushi for not saving her from Moby Dick as he promised. Lucy then throws the page into the ocean. Atsushi immediately jumps into the water but is trapped by discarded anchor chains. Lucy then sees that Atsushi will drown and jumps in after him. She then uses her ability to save both of them. Atsushi explains that he did try to search for her after the war. They then go back to the surface and meet up with Kyōka. The three go back to the cafe and read the report. Three years ago, Kyōka's father was originally a secret agent for the government. But after a certain incident, he resigned. Kyōka's father along with Kyōka's mother; the wielder of Demon Snow, took care of multiple assassinations. But one day, Kyōka's father tried to murder Kyōka but it was the doing of an ability user who had the ability to manipulate bodies. Demon Snow then murders him. Kyōka's mother also is under the effect of the ability. She realizes that it is body manipulation through the blood. At the last moment, she tells Demon Snow to protect Kyōka. Demon Snow then murders Kyōka's mother. It turns out that there is a way to transfer abilities to a blood relative. It appeared that an ability user who could manipulate shadows taught Kyōka's mother. But because during the attack the transfer was so sudden, Kyōka could not fully control her ability.

Trivia

 * The title is from a Palauan custom Atsushi Nakajima wrote about in a story called "Husband and Wife", in which two women compete for a man.