2002 (Side A): Bullet Garden/Prologue 1—The Movie-Loving Businessmen

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Synopsis
In August 2002, somewhere in South America, a group of businessmen are eating a meal in a restaurant and discussing movies. The restaurant's windows are broken, the walls are full of holes, and around the table are numerous bloody corpses. Their digressive conversation leads to their intention to hijack a luxury cruise liner (which they compare to the movie Speed 2). One businessman mentions that they are a family of thirty, of which thirteen are present. During the conversation, one of the businessmen casually turns around and asks the opinion of a tall, dark-skinned man standing behind them. The man is part of a group of forty people armed with guns, knives and hand axes, implied to be members of a local criminal organization. The tall man asks if the businessmen killed the people in the restaurant; the businessman states that their mission was to kill the boss at the restaurant, but they went overboard. Continuing to speak casually, the businessman asks the mob to lower their guns, and his fellow businessmen laugh, showing no fear. The armed man tells the businessmen to surrender, or else face death, as it would be too difficult to capture them alive. The business man wonders why the group didn't use a sniper or a bomb, to which the tall man replies that their sniper and Demolisher are taking a siesta. The businessman concludes that the tall man is likely not the leader of the local organization due to his presence in a dangerous place. When threatened again, the businessman casually admits that the businessmen didn't kill the people in the restaurant, and orders Illness and Death to intervene.

Illness and Death, who were hiding in the corners of the ceiling, descend and shoot the entire mob. They are wearing black combat suits with masks and goggles. Illness, disliking the smell of blood and gunsmoke, requests permission to throw up, then promptly does so. The unsympathetic businessmen berate her for this, saying that she ruined the 'coolness' of their victory and that her mental state doesn't match her fighting ability. Illness says that their ability to kill people so calmly and eat normally near the corpses makes them the weird ones. As the businessmen continue to insult her, she pranks them by saying she saw bugs and rats around the restaurant, causing several to spit out their drinks. Meanwhile, Death watches silently. The businessmen praise his skill and professionalism, describing him as the strongest of the "Four Great Weapons" (the others being Life and Aging), and Illness as the weakest. Ignoring Illness's unhappiness, a businessman says that they need to find the boss they were sent to kill, and considers waiting for the police and asking them. Suddenly, a bullet hits Death in the mouth, killing him instantly.

Cultural References
The movies "Speed", "Speed 2", "The Boondock Saints", "Spider-Man", "Platoon", "Shadow of the Vampire", "Nosferatu", "Reservoir Dogs", and "Tomb Raider"

"Willem Dafoe"

"Sandra Bullock"

"Nicholas Cage"

"Dennis Hopper"

"Christopher Walken"

"Steve Buscemi"

"Japanese Sentai shows"

Characters in Order of Appearance
Illness