Deja vu

Two months ago

[The day when Takahashi Mito was denied the inheritance of Dr Eric.]

In the afternoon, Takahashi Mito was standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus to the countryside to arrive.

He had been waiting for two hours straight and he was bored.

He decided to take a good look at the mirror monsters that were roaming around him.

'Grunts with warped, ghost-like faces and are clad in light-blue.' [Dorodoros]

'A weird dragon type lizard with dragon heads as hands." [Nosakamata]

'An ugly round headed beasts with chainsaw claws?!' [Zorima]

'A green coloured humanoid insect with pincer claws on its right hand and a hoodie on its head.' [Worms from Decade]

{The words in the [ ] are for the readers only.}

"They do have a variety of them but why are they surrounding me? Don't they have something else to do?"

Takahashi Mito quietly mumbled as he looked at the mirror monster in the mirror at the bus stop.

He had been at the bus stop for nearly three hours and in that period of time, more than 9 mirror monsters had already surrounded him.

"And this hateful Extrasensory Perception is killing me. It would have been better if it never turned on."

He was being irritated by the noises that the mirror monster around him made and he didn't even want to think about the smell and taste that he was feeling on his tongue.

"Should I just transform and end them? But isn't that what that God wants?"

*Hmph*

"Whatever, I will endure a little more. If I can't then I will just transform and kill them."

Takahashi Mito said to himself.

"Huh?"

"Where are they going?"

He looked at the mirror monsters that were previously surrounding him. They were moving towards the direction of the restaurant.

?

"Why did they suddenly move?"

Mito exclaimed while following the mirror monsters with his sight. Soon he ignored them as they disappeared from his sight.

'At least now it's quiet and peaceful.'

Like that, another hour passed and Takahashi Mito was still sitting at the bus stop.

His bus was finally going to come in fifteen minutes.

If not for the fact that the superhero accidents surrounding trains and airplanes were so high, he would have taken them.

"That's random."

Takahashi Mito was feeling emptiness while waiting for his bus.

"Why didn't I just spend some of the money and booked a cab or something else? Just why?"

He said while staring at the digital clock at the bus stop.

For the past hour, time seemed to move at the speed of a snail.

"Excuse me, have you seen my daughter?"

A young lady suddenly asked him.

Mito looked at her and then above her head. She was an Innocent soul.

"You mean the little girl who threw a candy at me in the morning? She had pigtails and a small pink skirt with a violet top. If she is your daughter then I do have seen her in the morning, around four, four to five hours ago."

Takahashi Mito replied.

The lady looked at him closely.

"Is there any problem?"

Mito asked.

"I can't find her. She had gone to her swimming classes in the morning but still hasn't returned." [Young lady.

"And?" [Takahashi Mito]

"Her classes ended two hours ago and her teacher and her friends said that she had got off the bus on this stop two hours ago." [The young lady]

"But she hasn't come home. Her friends said that she was talking about a young man she met at the bus stop during the swimming class." [The young lady]

"What are you getting to miss?"

Mito asked with a heavy voice. He was sure that he was somehow forcefully involved into something stupid.

"I am not blaming you, it's just that I can't find her. I, I have already asked all of her friends and they said that she got off the bus at this stop two hours ago but she hasn't come home. Where can she be?"

The young lady seemed lost and hysterical as she said that.

"Miss, you sentences are a bit jumbled and hard to understand. It should be-"

"Your daughter left home in the morning for her swimming classes, at the bus stop she met me then got on the bus and went to her classes."

"After her classes ended, which was around two hours ago, she once again took the bus to reach this stop and got off at this stop and went towards her home, as told by her friends who probably saw her from the bus."

"So after you found out that your daughter still hasn't returned from her classes, you must have called either the teacher or instructor, or her friends, to ask about her."

"They must have told you that your daughter had already left. So you must have been searching for her till now. You body reeks of sweat as a result."

"After not finding her in the past hour, you must have called her friends or swimming instructer for more information."

"One of her friends must have told you about how your daughter said that she met a weird looking young man and gave him candy. After that, you may have immediately ran to the bus stop to find me."

"Your drained out face and shaking legs are a proof to that."

"So let me give you a proper advice. Immediately report it to the police and ask them to check the CCTV footages of the surrounding areas. It might be a case of child kidnapping or something worse."

"I don't want to panic you or anything but please heed my advice. And I wasn't paying attention during the past two hours so I haven't seen your daughter get off the bus. I am sorry that I am of no help to you."

Takahashi Mito immediately calmed his mind and thought of the possible scenarios.

He didn't want to be arrested as a child kidnapper or something else for a kidnapping that he didn't commit.

As for how he knew it was a kidnapping.

It was simple, he guessed it according to the most common crimes, be it murder or organ trafficking or child trafficking or just plain ra_pes , all of them involved kidnapping/abduction.

The woman was unable to process his words and stood blankly.

"You must be a young mother, right? I don't want to hurt your feelings but you are one of those teenage mistake mothers without a husband, right?"

"That's more the reason that you should immediately report to the police. Many times, abduction are often done by people who usually have some sort of connection to the victims be it someone from the family, a relative, neighbours, or someone else who knew that your daughter's daily routine."

"So please hurry, you daughter might not have that much time."

Takahashi Mito plainly said what he wanted to and chose to sat on the metal bench.

The woman stood blankly for a moment and then turned around to leave.

Takahashi Mito didn't look at her face or the emotions that she was showing through her eyes.

He knew them but chose to ignore it.

He just wanted to clean his name and to make her accept reality that her daughter may have already been...

"It is better to accept some things than to mule and waste your whole life for. Personal experience really sucks."

Mito mumbled with disdain and continued to wait for the bus.

Takahashi Mito was still sitting at the bus stop waiting for his bus.

He would have already been sitting on one of he hadn't missed it due to the not finding a good place to eat.

"I already haven't eaten for a whole day, why couldn't I wait a few more hours? Stupid."

"Why do the buses for countryside only runs once every six hours?"

And soon thirty minutes passed.

The bus that was to come 15 minutes ago wasn't in sight.

"Now What HappENED??"

Mito gritted his teeth while his face was showing visible anger.

He asked some passerbys and finally got the answer from one of them.

The bus was destroyed in a bomb blast by some villains.

"Hmm😐😑😶. In the morning, I lost my inheritance, then was thrown out of the house and then little girl suddenly talked to me out of all the people present in the bus stop, then I missed my bus and I was nearly involved in a child kidnapping case and now my bus is destroyed and I have to wait for another six hours."

"Hmm😀, no matter how many times I think, He(God) is playing with me!"

Mito said with a smile, a smile that showed his rage.

"So that's how you want to play huh? I surrender then. I am just going to live in some outer part of the city, away from the human contact. That should be fine with you, right?"

Takahashi Mito said with defeat. He wasn't a coward, he just knew that someone who had the power to create a universe just to punish him, no matter what he did... He could never win against him.

The only thing that he can do is to find some loopholes and grey areas to have some sort of freedom in his life.

He already seemed to have found one, he could find more later on.

[ Meanwhile the Gods.

• Is he stupid or something?

≈ Why are you asking me?

• Why is he blaming me for everything?

≈ Well, you are the main reason why his life is like that, so technically, he is right to blame you.

• I didn't do that though. I just rented this universe from the Presence. The only thing that I purposely control is the mirror verse and even that has been perfectly set so I didn't need to do anything.

≈ And does he know that?

• ... He doesn't.

≈ And there you have it?

• Being a God is tough.

≈ You, of all of us, have no right to say that. Now let's end it as no one is interested in reading our conversation. ]