Durarara!! Light Novel Volume 09/Prologue

"You know how when cat people see cats and just find them irresistibly cute? Whether the cat is angry, or sulking, or just sleeping, or whatever. ...I bet that if he saw a cat get run over by a car, or the instant it died of illness, or if a cat tore out another cat's throat, he'd still have the same reaction to it. ...Like, Aww, that's so cute."

- Nakura

Schoolmate is the prologue of the ninth Durarara!! light novel.

Synopsis
Kasane Kujiragi meets Nakura to ask him about his school days with Izaya Orihara. As Nakura reflects on his interactions with Izaya, he realizes that he actually knows very little about his former schoolmate.

In a Dark Place I
The information broker himself, meanwhile, is tied to a chair in an empty bar with a burlap sack over his head. His interrogator, a woman calling herself Earthworm, begins questioning him about orders he had previously received from the Awakusu-kai to investigate her and her colleagues.

Character debuts

 * Nakura
 * Earthworm

Quotes
Earthworm: "I'm going to give you a piece of advice: People who want to stand out like you do are the people least suited to this line of work."