Stalker (3)

"Oh, did I wake you up, baby?" Atseo asked as he saw Mira opening her eyes while he was putting her down on the bed.

Atseo had originally planned to sleep somewhere on the streets again but, since he had Mira with him now, he decided to get a room at an expensive hotel.

Mira rubbed her eyes with her small and soft skinny hands. She was surprised to find herself sitting on a soft and clean white bed.

"I can sleep on the floor. You please sleep on the bed." Mira said as she hurriedly jumped off of the bed. She then clasped her hands to the front and bowed to Atseo. "I'll sleep on the floor. Please don't hit me for sitting on the bed."

Atseo made a surprised face as he sat on the bed and picked up Mira again. He put her on his lap again and asked her, "Why would I hit you, Mira?"

"Dadd- My previous owner used to say that if I sat on the bed, it would get dirty," Mira said.

"Spencer did?" Atseo asked while rubbing his hand over her head, trying to comfort her.

"He did do it but, his name is not Spencer. Everyone calls him loser idiot usually." Mira innocently said. Since she was still very young, her vocabulary was not very wide and she did not completely understand what she said.

Atseo instantly burst into laughter.

"What next? He wasn't the owner of the bar haha?" Atseo jokingly asked as he pat Mira's back.

Mira cutely tilted her head and said, "But he really wasn't."

"...What?"

"Yes. There were four uncles that would come to the bar regularly. My previous owner used to call them boss." Mira said and yawned again.

"Well, let's sleep for now, Mira. We'll talk about this matter later." Atseo said. He put Mira back on the bed and covered her with the quilt.

"Good night, baby," Atseo said as he was about to kiss Mira's forehead but, stopped thinking that Mira might still be uncomfortable and tensed around him.

"T-Thank you for letting me sleep on the bed," Mira said as she closed her eyes.

Atseo pulled a chair and sat right beside where Mira was sleeping. Atseo left the room as soon as Mira slept.

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An hour later, Atseo sat in Spencer's bar, smoking a cigarette while wearing gloves and the sleeves of his shirt folded.

"Damn, if I didn't see you enter the gambling house that day and you didn't sell Mira to me today. I might've just left you alone soon." Atseo said as he sat on the same bar seat he always sat on and put his feet on Spencer's face.

"Please forgive me this time, sir. This will never happen again," Spencer said.

"Hmm, what about you four?" Atseo asked as he turned and looked at the four men he had given 50 thousand Ryo to thrash the bar.

"Damn, you're already unconscious?"

Atseo sighed as he knocked Spencer out and left the bar while his cigarette was still in his mouth.

"Hmm, that man…wasn't he Samba or something?" Atseo asked himself as he saw Sadao enter an old junk shop on the illegal street.

"He's…weird and suspicious," Atseo said as he walked and stood outside the junk shop.

"So, how is it going, Shin?" Sadao asked the shop owner.

"Just alright. You are the only regular customer of ours." Shin answered.

"Haha, I see I see. Any new parts for the camera though?" Sadao asked Shin.

Shin nodded and put a carton full of spare parts on the counter.

"Here, this is what you have been looking for. A new, better, N7710 lens. It's from Chippo company so this is some trusted shit…"

The two talked and went through different parts of cameras and other electronic devices.

"They are just some losers," Atseo said as he walked away from the shop.

Both Shin and Sadao remained quiet for a while after Atseo left.

Shin looked outside and when he saw no trace of Atseo nearby, he asked Sadao, "Why would you pass me a note saying not to say anything important till that man is standing outside?"

"That man seems to be following me... Show me the real products now." Sadao said.

"Oh well, I don't care anyways. Here, this is the dual memory card camera. Are you seeing this switch right here? When you press on this one button..."

"They really are some damn losers..." Atseo said as he lay on the shop's roof, his face covered with a hat.

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-A few more days later-

"Dad, can I have some of that candy?" Mira asked. She and Atseo walked through the commercial street in the middle of the day.

"Yes, go on, take whichever you like. But only one, otherwise your teeth will go bad."

In these days, Mira got closer to Atseo and even started calling him 'dad'. She told him that she was from a very far village and came here after getting sold to different people.

'She... was abused too much at such a young age. She really reminds me of her...' Atseo said in his mind as he remembered about his past life. Mira's looks and personality matched with someone who used to be very important to Atseo in the past. In this life, Atseo wants to protect her and let her grow up well, in a comfortable and warm embrace. (A/N: I'll write his back story soon too. Mira is not going to be a love interest.)

Mira held Atseo's hand as they continued walking through the street, eating and enjoying different things together.

"Hey and-" Atseo was talking but, he suddenly saw Sadao from afar. He was standing in front of the female section of a bathhouse.

Sadao removed his eyesight correction glasses and walked inside the bathhouse.

"What the fuck?" Atseo said.

"Phuck?" Mira repeated after Atseo.

"Hey, no, don't say that baby," Atseo said as he quickly sat down on his knee and put his finger on his lips, gesturing for Mira to stay quiet.

"Can I not say phuck?" Mira asked.

"No, don't say it."

"Ok dad, I won't say phu-" Mira was saying but suddenly covered her mouth with her hands and stopped herself from talking anymore.

"Yeah, we don't say that word if we want to be a good girl, hmm?"

Mira nodded in response.

Atseo stood up once again to look at the bathhouse in the distance.

"What are you looking at, dad?" Mira asked as she looked in the same direction as Atseo.

"The bathhouse right there," Atseo said as he pointed in the bathhouse's direction.

"But... There is nothing like that there." Mira said.

"What-" Atseo looked right in front of him and noticed, he was looking too far. The distance between them and the bathhouse was too big.

'Did...my eyesight improve again?' Atseo asked himself. The last time something like this had happened was when he got the body enhancement from god.

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-On the other side, at the bathhouse-

"Ahhhh." All the women shouted and threw things at Sadao when he entered the bathhouse.

"Calm down. I see that he is not wearing his glasses. I know him, without his glasses, he is practically blind." Tsunade said as she walked out of the crowd of women. She had also been covering her body with a towel.

"But Tsunade-sama, he still came-"

"Don't worry. I am sure that he doesn't see anything but, still, to be safe...." Tsunade said. She then punched Sadao's ribs and threw him out of the bathhouse.

Outside, Sadao started running away as soon as he touched the ground.

"Tsunade-Sama why would you-"

"Hmm, I am sure that he cannot see without his glasses. A few years ago, he almost died because he did not see the-" Tsunade was talking to another woman inside the bathhouse but was interrupted by the sudden opening of the door again.

"What the-"

"Don't say that word. Where is that old man, Sadao?" Atseo asked as he put a finger on Tsunade's lips. Mira stood right behind him and he did not want her to start saying 'phuck' again.

"I...just let him go."

"Why would you? He saw you inside here..."

"But, I know that both his eyes have a very high correction number-"

"What if he has a third eye?" Atseo asked as he hurriedly gave Mira's custody for some time to Tsunade and left the bathhouse.

Atseo ran outside and started chasing after Sadao, trying to find him in the maze of streets.

"Who are you?" Tsunade asked Mira whose hand was in her hand.

"Daddy instructed me not to answer strangers like you so, I cannot tell you that he is my daddy. Who are you?" Mira asked.

"What? I slept with a married man...?" Tsunade mumbled in a low voice and stood in shock.

"Just...what did I do?"