6 Someone Else

Q&A with our unconscious psychopathic guy!

Q: What is your self-rule?

A: The rule I made so that I won't stray from humanity? I call it a 'harmless' rule. I won't harm another human just to satisfy my curiosity and my curiosity is limited to myself.

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Q: What is the house rule you decided with Fio this month?

A: It's Fio-sama... There are 4 basic rules which most were decided by her after agreeing with me.

1. Either party must never sexually harass the other side.

2. The two parties must take Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner together.

3. On Sunday or any day in holiday, the two parties must clean the house together once a week.

4. When possible, either party must help the other.

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Q: When was your first love?

A: I didn't have one. I had no interest in girls. I thought I was interested in men so I tried watching gay things... But I vomited twice that day.

Plus... no girl was interested in me back in the day.

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Q: How far have you read/watch One Punch Man?

A: I have not watched the anime but I've read the manga around... where Saitama fight Boros?

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Q: What do you think of Fio?

A: I like her! I am grateful that I'm not in One Punch Man Webcomic world but in Murata Yusuke-sama's One Punch Man. Being able to see a girl like her every day is a blessing.

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Shun went to Fio's school sometime later, after buying the cooking ingredient for the dinner tonight.

Obviously, many still looked at him with strange eyes. After all, it's not a common thing to see a man, walking in four-legged, while carrying the plastic bag, filled with ingredients.

The author could only silently hope that they'll get used to such a sight someday.

Shun arrived at the spot and sat down on the wall next to the school gate.

By the time Shun arrived, it was perfectly around the time when school students aside from those who were affiliated with the club were leaving the school to go home.

Many students leaving pretended to not notice the strange man (Shun) waiting by the wall next to their gate—staring at the blank space on the doggy 'sit' pose.

"Who are you? What are you doing there?" After waiting for a while, a teacher finally arrived and asked him.

"Amachi Shun, waiting for a girl in class 2-2, attendance no.27, Fio," Shun said in an uninterested manner.

"Oh, that girl. Ain't she popular among the students. Are you her boyfriend?" meanwhile, the teacher, in turn, became more interested in Shun.

Although Shun wasn't the type to judge by appearance, according to the teacher's healthy body, Shun predicted him to be a P.E. Teacher.

After pondering for a while, Shun answered him whilst not changing his expression. "Something close to a family."

The P.E. teacher widened his eyes and looked at Shun surprised. Due to astonishment, his folded arm came loose, 'what, so you're telling me that their relationship is deep enough that they have already promised to be a couple in the future?'

'Hold on, don't think too far without conclusion. He might've been her brother... But I don't find a single similarity in him. Maybe her cousin?' as the P.E. Teacher continued to think further, Fio passed the gate.

Fio who was looking down at unwell mold suddenly had a 180 change as she smiled when spotted Shun. "Ahh, Shun! Did you wait for me!?" Fio happily called out to Shun.

Running close to him, Fio ignored or rather, didn't see the P.E. Teacher as she crossed her arm around his arm.

At this moment, the P.E. Teacher's thought had concluded. "Shun-kun, make sure to wear protection!"

Shun nodded confusedly while Fio just noticed the teacher was there.

Shun didn't know what the P.E. Teacher meant by protection while Fio was a natural airhead who would easily say 'let's go on a date.'

"You will regret it if you made children early!" P.E. Teacher added.

Upon these words, Shun realized and tried to talk back to resolve the misunderstanding but Fio on the other hand, noticed a group of people walking so she dragged Shun hard to leave the spot.

'We... are not... like that...' despite wanting to retort to the teacher, Shun didn't resist Fio's dragging force.

After a certain distance from the school has taken, Fio finally stopped dragging Shun in front of the female toilet.

"Shun, let's have a date while we're on our way home!" Fio said.

"Sure." Shun agreed easily. The words in Fio's mind were just 'the boy and girl going out together somewhere.' Japanese Google's definition miseducated her.

Shun decided to keep silent about her dress which was doodled with unnecessary drawings or some insulting words in it.

"Then wait here for a bit!" Fio said after happily clapping her hands.

Right after, she entered the toilet and came out with a brand new outfit it was a white one-piece that gave an impression untainted flower.

Shun didn't say his comment out loud

"Let's go~!" Fio who got used to his silence no longer was disappointed. So, she just happily dragged him around.

Later that 'date', Fio took the longest distance way home.

Because of that, they encountered a monster, and due to their luck, there wasn't a hero nearby... Rather, the creation of an organization called Hero Association was still in development.

"Fio, let's take a run," Shun said while trying to drag Fio. This time around Shun took the lead against Fio, considering her safety.

Although he was curious about what kind of monsters that has appeared, it wasn't worth Fio's life After all, she was his biggest benefactor.

"No! A child is being held captive there! We must save him!" Fio refused to listen to Shin as she ran ahead to where the child belonged.

Shaking his head in frustration, Shun followed back Fio four-legged. 'What's really wrong with this girl's mind.'

Although he already knew that she was slightly off the normal human's mind the moment she accepted himinto her home, even after a month of living together, he couldn't understand the reason for some of her actions like now.

'For example, what benefit will there be after rescuing a child? Their generosity? Is that worth risking your life?' Shun complains inwardly, not knowing that author doesn't understand why he would risk his life just to satisfy his curiosity either.

The monster had the strange appearance befitting of its name 'monster' it had the body like of a human but there was no trace of humanity in its appearance.

From feet to the leg was but clothes. Shun saw his body through the gap in the dress his wearing but his body was also another layer of clothes.

"I am Dressrosa! I've turned into a dress monster from loving dress too much," when Shin got on the scene, the monster was introducing itself.

"I get it that you like dressing so please could you release the children? Your cloth is strangling him!" Fio retorted.

'It's amazing how she can fearlessly talk against the monsters without considering for her life.' Shun silently admired Fio's attitude.

"Huh? Why would I do that? If I did as you say, won't the police shoot me?" Dressrosa retorted against Fio.

"Is there a way for me to get you to release the child? He is in so much pain!" Fio begged in return.

'So are you implying that it is okay for you to be tormented as long as the other isn't in pain?' Shun silently questioned her inwardly.

"Then you change him!" Dressrosa pointed his organic cloth finger toward Fio and she agreed just easily.

However, even after being held hostage by Dressrosa, he didn't release the children. "Hey this is different from what we agreed to!"

"I was trying to protect our promise! But hey I had an enlightenment. Why should I release you? Won't I be safer if I held more hostage?" Dressrosa explained to her.

'That's why you're getting bullied at school.' Shun threw the fire extinguisher to Dressrosa.

As it was fairly fast and Dressrosa had no time to react to it, he instinctively attacked the fire extinguisher by stretching his cloth to defend himself.

From the extinguisher, white dust exploded surrounding, covering the entire area with smoke but Dressrosa's location was never as clear as to Shun.

'Squat... lower, lower... center of gravity shifted behind, release your legs like a bow and smash your body like a boulder released from a catapult.' Shun transformed into a streak of blurs as his body launched against Dressrosa.

Shun's skull hit Dressrosa's slightly huge body and barely kept his neck from bending. Rather than his neck pain, his leg hurt more than he expected it to be.

Perhaps it was due to the fire extinguisher that hit Dressrosa, his movement was numb and slow and he couldn't catch Shun after being hit.

The collision between Shun and Dressrosa made him lose the lock he had on Fio and the kid, Shun carried both the two and started running off the spot.

The white smoke has begun to dissipate after some time passed and Dressrosa couldn't find Shun's figure within this time.

"Everyone, shoot at once!" one of the police forces standing by ordered after confirming there was no other human besides the monster.

"Damn it! Who was the one that threw that fire extinguisher! I can't... move." Dressrosa said angrily as the hole in his body continued to increase due to the bullet passing.

After a while, Dressrosa fell making the police celebrates in victory.

Mixed among the clothes, Dressrosa's organic cloth sneaked around the entire room. Slowly, the messy clothes around his tentacle started being attracted to Dressrosa's organic cloth like a magnet.

*growwwl*

When Dressrosa stood up again, his figure was much more insane as it lost the shape of a humanoid shape along with his intelligence to speak human language.

"Someone bring a flamethrower! If the cloth is flammable, then the monster made of the same material must be flammable as well!" Fear overtook the police. The leader-like figure said in panic.

"S-sir! We don't have a flamethrower." one of his subordinate responded.

"Then, is Hachi coming? Where is he?" Even a speck of hope was fine, the polices needed it right now.

"According to our radar, he's closing in! But the distance between here and Hachi is too far!" every single hope was being crushed.

Even the way Dressrosa fought changed, until now, it was using its cloth tentacle to bring out a long-ranged attack but right now, it was pouncing at its prey like a beast.

"Fuck this country." the leader said.

...

After a few moments, Dressrosa on beast form exited the building and searched for the embodiment of its hatred.

Using its visual acuity, it soon found two figures, one being carried while the other running. He couldn't see the children indicating he left it somewhere. He will hunt it later.

*Roaaarr!*

It growled and then rushed at great speed toward Shun. Suddenly, in front of him appeared an incredibly much smaller entity than itself. It was a black cat.

He would just kill anyone that stood against its path. That's what he thought when he was swiping his cloth caw toward the cat but the cat just yawned before swiping its paw on Dressrosa.

Suddenly, before Dressrosa's brain recognized his death, paw-marked holed open from its head to its butt as Dressrosa lifelessly fall

*nyaa..* the black and white cat licked its paw before riding onto laying down Shun's head like what the duck did.

"Wow, how did you do that. Teach me how to do that someday." Shun said interestedly to the yawning cat on top of his head.

"Haah~ that was so scary." Fio said and judged that it was too awkward to continue be carried by Shun.

"If you're that scared, then don't take an action that would lead you to make a scary experience, besides, was it worth it saving an unknown person?" Shun said feeling like scolding her.

"Ehe, I'm sorry. But... Yes. It's definitely worth it. That child may just be a stranger to me but to someone else, he is a precious son. He is a best friend. He can and will be anything. Compared to me who's got no one to get worried about, it's a good trade, isn't it?" After Fio said the whole sentence, she let out a smile full of satisfaction.

At that moment, Shun just softly chopped Fio's face and forcefully piggybacked her to the home.

That day, Shun bought cat food and ate dinner together with the cat and Fio.

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The next day, Shun asked to change his part-time job shift from afternoon -> evening to morning-> afternoon.

Timeline-wise, this was more efficient as he can cook breakfast for Fio and get out of the house. He can also start training earlier after finishing his work.

'For now, my new goal is to attain enough power to be able to protect Fio and teach her a lesson.' Shun thought to himself as he opened the door to the outside to start his new day.