Enter Nubuki

On the east side of Frinstion City lies a mansion that sits on top of a mountain. The mansion is painted white and has four floors. On the top floor is a balcony that has a good view of the sea behind the mansion. The room with the balcony is huge and is currently occupied by many men wearing the same jackets as the goons who were beating up Tota earlier that day.

Two men are in the corner of the room, playing a game of dice.

"OK, the money is in the pot, and I'm going first! Are you ready to lose out on your entire wallet?"

"Shut the hell up and just roll the dice!"

"As you wish!"

The man rolls the dice, and the second they land, both of the men look at them closely.

"Hell yeah, that's a seven! I win!"

"What the fuck, that's some bullshit you cheated! Let's restart!"

"What!? Hell no, I won fair and square; you're just mad that you're broke now!"

The man who lost pulls out a pistol from his waistband.

"You wanna say that shit again?"

The man who won also pulled a pistol from his waistband.

"You really think I'm going to just play again because you pulled out your gun? I got one too, motherfucker!"

"I bet you won't pull that trigger, though!"

"Say I won't again!"

"You won't!"

Both of the men point their guns at each other's heads. As the two men have a heated argument, the door bursts open, causing the two men to become distracted. The person who busted open the door is the same man with a mohawk who was leading the beatdown on Tota, but right now he seems stressed.

"What the fuck is wrong with him?"

The two men put down their guns and walked over to him.

"Aye, dude, is something wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost or something."

"Where's Nubuki!?"

"Oh, Nubuki, he's outside on the balcony, but I'm pretty sure he's busy right now."

The man with a mohawk instantly gets up and passes by the two men. He opens the door to the large balcony and starts looking around. He eventually sees a dark-skinned man appreciating the sunset.

"Boss, it's ba—"

Before he could talk any further, Nubuki used his muscular hands to cover his mouth.

"Wait until the sunset is finished."

The man with a mohawk is released from Nubuki's grasp. The sun eventually sets, and Nubuki gets up, revealing his true height of 7'7 and his body, which is abnormally muscular with veins popping out everywhere, which is extremely visible since his shirt is off. With his custom black ski mask and tattered jeans, he finally responds to the man with a mohawk.

"What was so important that you had to disturb me while I was watching the sunset?"

"Oh, my apologies, boss, but it's Tota!"

"???"

The man with a mohawk tells Nubuki everything that went on with Kage, Unknown, and Tota.

"I see, so you ran into some people that are new to Frinstion City, and they beat you up."

"Yes!"

"And they took Tota with them."

"Yes, sir, that's how it happened."

"Ok, and what was your reason for beating up Tota?"

"Someone in the city didn't pay their taxes, so we went to confront him, and he refused to pay. It was Tota's job to kill anyone who refused to pay their debt, but like usual, he bitched out."

"I see, so do you think Tota is attempting to escape?"

"I'm afraid so, boss."

"I tell you all the time that just because we run this city doesn't mean you can just go around doing whatever. We have to keep this place open to travelers because suspicion will fall upon us if we don't, but if you all keep doing stuff out in the open, the travelers will get nosy."

"I'm sorry, boss, it's ju—"

"I don't care for excuses; just do better next time!"

"Yes, of course, boss!"

Nubuki grabs his long black coat off his chair and throws it on with no shirt needed.

"Come on, we are going to fix this right now."

"Right boss!"

Nubuki walks into the room connected to the balcony. All the goons in the room look at Nubuki in anticipation of his orders.

"Is Brock back yet?"

One of the men answers Nubuki's question.

"No, boss, he said he would be back later today."

"Well, call him and tell him he can fuck those hookers another time. We have a problem to fix."

"Yes, boss!"

"And tell Spatina to be on standby; we might need him soon."

"Yes, boss!"

Nubuki goes into a closet in the room, grabs a pair of brass knuckles, and puts them in his coat pocket.

"We have some new travelers who caused some trouble earlier; get me a visual on them."

One of the many men in the room ran to Nubuki with a tablet in his hand.

"Our intelligence team already has a visual on them!"

The goon shows Nubuki a tablet that has visuals of Kage, Unknown, Tota, and Mr.Mink in the hotel room on the left side of the screen. On the right side of the screen is a visual of Selena and Akira, who are having a slumber party.

"Alright, good, but who are these girls on the right?"

"We believe that these girls are allies with the others."

"Good job. Keep your eyes on all of them. We leave now! Frinstion gang, move out!"

While the Frinstion gang makes their moves in Mr.Mink's hotel room, Mr.Mink confronts Tota about the city.

"What is really going on in this city?"

Tota instantly becomes nervous after hearing Mr.Minks's question.

"Mr.Mink I do appreciate you helping me, but I'm sorry I can't answer that."

"Is that so?"

Mr.Mink's ears start to glow. With the sense technique, Mr.Mink can hear every conversation going on in the hotel. Mr.Mink starts cycling through different conversations.

"We can do it, but you need protection."

"Damn it, I can't pay my tax next month."

"Why am I lagging!"

After cycling through the many conversations, Mr.Mink hears one that peaks his interest.

"Hey, we're supposed to keep a close eye on rooms 627, 628, and 629. Apparently, we have some troublesome tourists."

"Alright, I'm activating all the cameras in their room."

Mr. Mink, after hearing this conversation, starts to think to himself.

"I see, so we are in hotter water than I thought. It seems whoever Tota is scared of already took over this hotel, or even worse, has control of the whole city."

While deep in thought, Mr.Mink hears Kage's voice screaming his name.

"Mr.Mink!"

"Hm, oh, what is it, Kage?"

"You went silent for a few minutes, so I was wondering if something was wrong."

"Oh, sorry, I was just deep in thought. It's OK, Tota; you don't have to tell me anything."

"Um, thank you, sir."

"You can stay with us as long as you want to."

"Oh, um, thanks, but I—"

Before Tota can finish his sentence, everyone hears a knock on the door. Unknown walks to the door to answer it.

"Unknown, don't answer that!"

"Huh, what is it, Mr.Mink?"

Mr.Mink moves Unknown out of the way and moves closer to the door. Mr.Mink looks through the peephole on the door.

"Oh, it's just them."

Mr.Mink opens the door to let in Akira and Selena, who are dressed in bathing suits. Akira runs in and yells.

"It's water park time!"

Kage looks over at both of them with a confused expression.

"Water park?"

"Oh yeah, I did promise Akira and Selena that we would go to the water park we saw earlier."

"Wait, we're going to a water park!"

"Yeah, we're going to leave right now."

"You hear that, Unknown?"

"Yeah, let's go get our swim shorts on!"

Kage and Unknown run out of the room to change into their swim shorts. Kage and Unknown come back to Mr.Minks's room with their red swimming shorts.

"We are ready, Mr.Mink!"

"Alright, everyone, head downstairs. I'll be there in a few."

"Right!"

Everyone except for Mr.Mink and Tota leaves the room.

"Tota, you should come with us."

"But if I come with you, I co—"

"I understand; that's why I'm telling you to come with us."

After hearing those words, Tota looks at Mr.Mink.

"You don't have to swim or anything, but I do ask that you come with us."

"Alright, I'll come."

Class one, with Tota tagging along, heads to the water park. After an hour on the water transport, they finally arrived at Frinstion's famous water park. The water park is huge, with many water slides and water sprouts scattered around the area. Mr. Mink, with his new pink flamingo shirt and pink shorts, gives out instructions to class one.

"OK, meet back here in two hours and make sure you have at least one classmate with you.

Kage and Unknown start to hold back their laughter as Mr.Mink speaks. Mr.Mink looks over at the two of them as they laugh.

"Is there something funny over there, you two?"

"Well, it's just that we can see that pink is your favorite color."

"Well, it's actually my second after red."

Kage and Unknown get bummed out after Mr.Minks's response and leave, with Tota following.

"What's wrong with pink?"

A few minutes later, on the west side of the park, Kage and Unknown are at the top of a long water slide, while Tota watches from the seats below.

"Aye Unknown this slide is pretty long; don't get scared!"

"Scared of a slide, yeah, right!"

Kage and Unknown go down the slide together.

"Woohoo!"

After going down the slide at full speed, Kage and Unknown get spouted out into an 8-foot-deep pool. Both of them swim up to the surface.

"Ahh, the water is so cold!"

Kage splashes water into Unknown's face.

"You're such a pussy Unknown, the water isn't even that old!"

"Oh yeah, how about I show you how cold it really is?"

Unknown splashes water into Kage's face.

"OK, bet two can play at that game!"

"Hey, that should be my line!"

As Kage and Unknown have a water fight, Tota watches them with a depressed look on his face.

"Wow, those two seem really close. Making fun of each other so casually, laughing together, and even fighting each other as friends."

Tota grips his right fist with his left hand and looks down to the ground.

"Could this have been me and you, Arvin?"

While in deep thought, Tota gets a bunch of water thrown at him. Tota looks up and sees Kage and Unknown laughing at him.

"Hahaha!"

"Come on, Tota, get in the water and have some fun!"

"But Kage, I ca—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Kage threw even more water at him, leaving his clothes soaked. Tota smiled for the first time since he met Kage and Unknown.

"OK, then I'll come and have some fun, but you'll regret it!"

After having a fun time in the water, Kage and Tota started walking to the changing room that was just a bridge away from the water park, while Unknown went back to Mr.Mink.

"Let's hurry up and get you a change of clothes!"

"Yeah, my clothes are so wet after that water fight."

"Don't worry, I have some clothes that I'm pretty sure can fit you."

"Thanks Kage"

"Oh yeah, of course, I got your clothes wet in the first place."

"No, not for that. I'm thanking you for the fun time."

"Oh, of course, dude, it was about time you stopped acting all scared and smiled."

"Hehe, yeah, I guess you're right."

As they walked, Kage and Tota heard a sound of quickly approaching.

"Wait, I know that sound. Is that a motorcycle engine?"

As the noise becomes more clear, Tota's face goes from happiness to pure fear. Kage notices this and starts focusing more on the noise.

"Wait a minute, is that music?"

Chapter 57 end