I live in this city
Ray of Hope is sitting next to Sacred Mask on a meeting. the Council of Committee for the Hero Rights also known as the CCHR requested to the most powerful Heroes of the city to take part on a meeting for the future of the city.
Jonathan smiles at everyone who salutes him. Sacred Mask calls him a hypocrite. Jonathan tries to ignore him. Sacred Mask has been hostile towards Ray of Hope since the first day they met. his hostility has nothing to do with the fact that Ray of Hope is the 2# hero nor his popularity with the ladies. the actual reason why Sacred Mask hates him so much is because, Sacred Mask thinks that Ray of Hope isn't worthy of being called a hero when he haven't done anything heroic nor is he righteous.
Ray of Hope removes his mask to drink a soda. he is not worry about his identity because everyone knows who he is. that is the disadvantage of being the son of a politician who uses the face and Hero name of his own son in order to progress on his selfish career. for a politician like that his career is more important than his own family.
Jonathan is drinking the soda. he looks at Sacred Mask for a moment. Jonathan usually tolerates the insults of others towards him, but today was different. he felt far from his usual self. Jonathan stands up and he steps in front of Sacred Mask.
"can I know which is your fucking problem? you think I am your bitch to tolerate your shit. say it once more, I dare you mother fucker."
yields Jonathan with no care for the appearances.
"you have lost it little frog."
said Sacred Mask with a soft tone of voice that sounded like a whisper.
Sacred Mask stands up and he whispers with a smile while looking directly at Jonathan at the eyes. Jonathan is about to punch him. Sacred Mask evades Jonathan's fist. Sacred Mask kicks Jonathan in the nuts and he hits him with the elbow in the throat. Jonathan falls on the floor and Sacred Mask kicks him with all his rage. he takes a chair and he hits Jonathan with the chair until it breaks. Sacred Mask walks away.
Jonathan is on the floor unable to stand up by himself. the 1# hero didn't even use his power and he beat the living shit out of Jonathan like if it was nothing. Jonathan stands up as he calls Sacred Mask a coward. Jonathan blinks. Sacred Mask punches him in the face once. Jonathan tries to breath as he throws up a lot of blood.
"is that all you have to say. then who is the real coward when you hide behind your father instead of actually behaving like a true hero."
said Sacred Mask furiously.
Jonathan laughs. he shows the middle finger to everyone. in a blink Jonathan falls on the floor unconscious. Sacred Mask laughs as he walks away. some newbies are running towards Jonathan and they try to help him.
at the moment on the H.C.P.D.....
Jurgen is eating while he is checking some documents. Night-Sight is standing next to him. Night-Sight is about to fall on the floor at any moment (he haven't accustomed to sleep at night and work at day jet.) Jurgen offers to buy him a good coffee with lots of caffeine to have energy to move.
Night-Sight isn't enjoying of this temporal change of environment. there are some loud noises and Jurgen yields irritated looking at everyone around of him. captain Malcolm King inters inside of the building and he looks at his office with pride.
"I know I am handsome and what? move your asses you lazy buffoons. there is no extra money for the extra hours if you spend those hours staring at your captain with lust in your eyes..... Jurgen at my office."
said Malcolm King happy to see the guys.
Jurgen follows Malcolm to the office in which he explains about everything that has happen in his absence. Jurgen shows some documents to his boss and then he points at Night-Sight. Malcolm seems to be really angry.
Night-Sight drinks a coffee to stay awake. Fumiko walks towards him and she asks questions to him about him and his days. Night-Sight tells her that him working in there is going to be temporal. he isn't interested in lasting more than two months working in there.
Fumiko is happy to see that he is much better now than before. Night-Sight asks her if she is ever going to give him an opportunity. he confesses that he truly wishes to date her once more. he wants to have with her what they had in the past.
Malcolm gets out of his office with Jurgen at his side. Malcolm looks at Fumiko and he yields at her asking her to show him the progress that she has done since she became a police officer. Fumiko smiles and she threatens him with calling her dad. Malcolm laughs and pretends that he didn't hear anything at all.
"I hope to see you all doing your job properly. Jurgen told me everything. we lost members of our team when that stupid war went out of control and I am so sorry for not being in there to guide you guys. we are going to honored the dead by fighting for the protection of this city."
said Malcolm with a voice so strong that everyone was able to hear everything clearly.
they all scream in excitement knowing that the captain is back to make things right on the city. even Jurgen and Fumiko were happy (even when those two are the ones he forces to overwork the most.)
"that is so good and all but am I keeping my job or not."
said Night-Sight desperate to sleep.
Jurgen tells him to go to work before the captain forces him to work from 6 am to 12 pm. Night-Sight swallows saliva as he pretends to be working. Jurgen asks to Fumiko if he can have a date with her now that he no longer has extra responsibilities.
later on the same day.....
Arturo is in a bar drinking some nice liquor. Mark enters inside of the same bar and he sits next to Arturo. there is a long silence for a moment before any of them can say anything. Mark confesses that he has problems with his son. he is not sure if he can fix his relationship with the only person in the world that actually matters to him.
Arturo tells him that he lost contact with his father after he went to prison. Arturo has depended of himself for so many years that he doesn't know the meaning of a family and he is afraid to not be good enough for Fumiko.
they are probably enemies, they probably hate each other, they probably want to kill each other. but there is no way that someone can go to a bar feeling broken inside without opening about your feelings with someone else.
Mark laughs as he tries to cover the pain that he is feeling inside. he is a man that isn't use to feeling emotions like sadness or love, so of course those kind of emotions are confusing for him. he feels ashamed of those emotions, ashamed enough to hide them.
Arturo feels hollow as he usually feels when Fumiko isn't close to him. Arturo wants to feel the emotions that Mark is trying to hide, but is hard for Arturo. is probable that feeling emotion isn't the hardest thing for him, but it is to know and understand those emotions what becomes hard.
the world is full of broken souls and souls that refuse to heal. the world is full of all kinds of souls. Arturo laughs as he keeps drinking with no intentions of stopping any time soon. Mark is accompanying him with endless glasses of liquor that he finishes, but there are more glasses awaiting and sometimes it feels like the glass is never empty.
the world can keep moving, it can be daytime outside but once inside of the bar the time stops and it feels like it is dark, it is a long dark night that refuses to die with the lights of the day. been inside of a bar is like living in a whole different world, a world to which broken souls belong but there is never a guarantee of a ticket out.
those who were enemies are nothing after a few glasses of liquor, they are neither enemies nor friends. they had become absorbed by their need to avoid that something that scares them the most.
Arturo remembers that he haven't drink like this in about four months since that day in which he saw Fumiko again for the first time. this is his first time drinking like there is no tomorrow since the first time he saw her face and he heard her voice in this city. now he is drinking to erase those doubts inside of his head, the doubts that are eating him slowly. there is no worse illness than the doubt.
Mark laughs thinking that all this time drinking fancy liquor & fancy exported cigar was nothing as satisfactory as drinking cheap liquor in a bar in the middle of a hellhole. there are thugs at every corner, the place looks like shit and smells like cheap liquor. even with all that it is a satisfaction to drink in there.
Arturo laughs with a force smile. he breaks a bottle of beer. one of the thugs starts to call them by names. Arturo said something to Mark. he even kisses him in the forehead. Arturo walks towards that thug and his friends. one of them is trying to stop his friend and he asks for forgiveness to Arturo afraid of what he can do.
"I am no monster, what? you thought I was going to kill your friend, nah..... I am just going to beat you all up."
Arturo brutally attacks them like a beast with no self control. he didn't even use his power to leave them all on the floor with broken bones in less than six minutes. Arturo didn't touch the guy who asked for forgiveness.
Arturo walks towards Mark and he tells him that he wants to keep drinking till midnight. Arturo asks Mark if he also wishes to keep drinking with him for a few more hours (not that few really.) Mark nods with no desire of leaving the bar.
"I don't think I can keep my son away from your girlfriend."
"is okay, if he doesn't do anything to her. then there is no reason for me to behave like an animal. we are all fine."
"he is a stupid boy, I am afraid that he is going to get himself kill sooner or later."
"don't get tense with me, I am as calm as a serial killer with rabies."
"yeah we are cool unless you left my son as calm as a corpse, then we would be uncool."
they keep drinking. Arturo closes his eyes for a moment as he thinks about Fumiko. he dreams of her kissing him. a tear falls from his left eye. he sighs as he opens his eyes slowly. Arturo hears the soft sweet voice of Fumiko as he turns around. she is in the front door waiting for him. Arturo walks towards her and he hugs her.
Fumiko scolds him for been drinking so early. Arturo looks at her face for a moment. with his left hand he caresses her face. Arturo kisses her with passion. he kisses her thinking that she is another hallucination. Fumiko pushes him and then she slaps him so hard that he falls on the floor unconscious.
everyone was looking at her in fear. no one has ever dare to touch that guy because he is a monster and those who try failed with many broken bones. everyone thought that Fumiko was a worst monster if she was able to beat him in a single punch.
later on a jail cell.....
Daisuke is sitting next to Mr Blue-Ribbon. they are playing card games. after they were arrested they stop fighting. Daisuke misses his daily baking mornings. Mr Blue-Ribbon feels guilty for letting himself been taken to a jail.
this is the first time that Daisuke fails to kill a target. well in his defense Mr Blue-Ribbon is also a professional when it is about killing others. it makes sense that it was hard for each other to kill the other.
"I have lost twice already. I feel like you are cheating."
said Mr Blue-Ribbon trying to protect his dignity.
"I am not cheating the problem in here is that you are shit playing this kind of games. I have already defeated you in every other card game that we had played. if you are that bad playing card games please never tell a master of games like me that you are good."
said Daisuke feeling proud of his constant victory.
Mr Blue-Ribbon asks him if he wants to play bingo. Daisuke asks him how in the world is he going to get that game. Mr Blue-Ribbon takes a bag out of his jacket. he takes out of the bag an anime figure, he takes out a facial cream, he takes out pictures of naked ladies with names written in the back, he takes out a bomb, next is a gun, then a bottle with acid, after a bottle of tequila, a framed picture of himself signed by him and finally the bingo game.
Mr Blue-Ribbon smiles when he finally founds the bingo. Daisuke punches him in the face. Mr Blue-Ribbon tells him that the acts of violence are unnecessary. Daisuke asks him how is that he has all of that inside of his bag.
"oh you didn't know about my power? then let me explain it for you in a way that it is simple. my nickname is Blue-Ribbon because I place a blue ribbon somewhere for example in the door of a depot and I can access to it with this bag. I just open it and I take everything out of the bag... it is basically a teleportation object."
said Mr Blue-Ribbon feeling proud of his power.