“(I don’t think I should let any of them know that she’s with me! Worst case scenario, she’s going to be used as a hostage to blackmail me.)”
“W-Well then, Quroe-sama! What else do you want to know?” asks Larvie, the WASP leader.
“(I’ve already asked enough about the client who hired them to kidnap Luna. I can go directly to him with Kasumi and Luna to resolve this whole thing for good. Time to leave!)”
“We’ve talked enough! I’m gonna leave now!”
“I-Is that so? Can I ask you to please be nice whenever you meet one of my members outside in the future, during their missions?”
“No! As a matter of fact, I am asking you to drop your Underworld activity altogether! Quit this life and repent! Find something better to do in your life!”
“W-WHAT? B-BUT QUROE-SAMA!! WE DON’T HAVE ANY TALENT TO WORK OUTSIDE OF THIS LINE OF JOB!! PLEASE EXCUSE OUR PROFESSIONS!”
“God didn’t create you to become trash in society! There has to be something you all are good at that you haven’t discovered yet.”
“. . .God?”
“Yeah, God!”
“PFFT!! PFTT!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!”
The WASP leader suddenly bursts out in laughter in front of Quroe. He cannot hold his laughter after Quroe’s last sentence.
“YOU’RE TALKING AS IF GOD ACTUALLY EXISTS!! THAT IS HILARIOUS!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
“. . .”
*!!!*
But then he completely stopped laughing. He just realized he had mocked someone who could’ve killed him, and he would’ve never seen it coming. He quickly runs over to Quroe’s front from behind his desk and kneels on the floor with his head touching it.
“I-I-I-I APOLOGIZE, QUROE-SAMA! I DIDN’T MEAN TO LAUGH AT YOU!! THIS IS JUST HOW WE ALL ACT TOWARDS SOMEONE WHO THINKS GOD EXISTS!! I DIDN’T MEAN TO PERSONALLY MOCK YOU!! ONCE AGAIN I APOLOGIZE!!”
*sigh*
Quoe lets out a sigh.
“It’s fine! You just never experience God is all! Be grateful that the God who created this entire Universe isn’t the kinda God who would’ve killed anyone on the spot anytime He was mocked! Otherwise, the planet’s population would be very scarce. Be thankful!”
“. . .Y-yes, I understand!”
Quroe gets out of the chair and walks away towards the exit of this room.
“Just announce your shutdown to your entire crew! Start thinking of finding a job in the normal world!”
“. . .Yes.” replies Larvie with a defeated tone.
*SLAM*
Quroe opens the door and exits the room, slamming the door closed behind him. The WASP leader’s room is located at the very center of the building, elevated on a metal platform, allowing the leader to observe everything from his window. Quroe walks down the stairs to the floor below.
He looks in the direction of the giant metal door, the only entrance to this building. The giant metal door is still not open, strangely, even though Luna was standing outside trying to get attention from the people inside.
“(Weird! She was alone on the camera! Where is Kasumi? Why is she not with her? Wait! Why is she here in the first place? I told them to stay away from the building! Did something happen outside?)”
*!*
Quroe immediately has a quick realization of the situation.
“(Is she here regarding the explosions and shakings from earlier? So those things happened outside?)”
Quroe walks towards the giant metal door with a fastened pace, though his face stays calm and collected the entire time. Along the way, there are many members of WASP, bowing their heads towards Quroe every time he walks past any of them. They have all become afraid of him ever since.
“Q-Quroe-sama!”
“QUROE-SAMA!!”
“Quroe-sama!”
Many members of the WASP greeted him as they bowed their heads.
*SIGH*
Quroe lets out a sigh as he feels weird about being treated like this. He reaches the giant metal door soon after.
“Oi! I’m going out! Open the door!”
. . . .
But none of them, strangely, respond to him.
“OI! Did you not hear me? Open the door, or I’ll cut it open, and you guys will have to survive under this harsh climate with a giant hole in the front door!”
“I-I APOLOGIZE, QUROE-SAMA!! IT SEEMS LIKE OUR METAL DOOR IS SOMEWHAT BROKEN!! SOMETHING IN THE MECHANISM IS PROBABLY STIFF OR DIRTY OR SOMETHING!! PLEASE ALLOW US TO TAKE CARE OF IT IN THE MEANTIME!!”
One of the WASP members who is attending the main door from the inside of a small room on the right side of the door suddenly warns Quroe about the door. He seems to be a mechanic of some sort, seeing the way he dresses and how dirty his clothes are from oil, soot, and other stuff.
*SIGH*
“How long will it take?”
“A-About 15 minutes, sir!”
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“Too long! I’ll cut the door open!”
“P-PLEASE DON’T QUROE-SAMA!! WE CAN’T POSSIBLY SURVIVE THIS CLIMATE WITHOUT PROPER SHELTER!! GETTING RESOURCES OUT HERE IS VERY DIFFICULT AND TAKES TIME IF WE WERE TO EITHER FIX OR CREATE A NEW DOOR!! PLEASE SHOW US YOUR MERCY!! WE’LL GET IT DONE IN 10 MINUTES MAX!!”
“. . .Fine! Start immediately!”
“YES!! THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING, QUROE-SAMA!!”
The mechanic immediately went to work to inspect the metal door.
“P-Please sit comfortably in this chair, Quroe-sama!”
One other member of the WASP brought a plastic chair for Quroe to sit.
“Alright.”
Quroe accepts the offer and sits down.
“Then please wait patiently, here, Quroe-sama!” said the guy who brought the chair and excused himself.
“. . .”
“(What happened to me? I used to be very harsh and cruel towards anyone in the Underworld, but now I even believe them enough to wait for them to do something that just blatantly smells suspicious. . . Is this what the Lord is capable of? Changing someone so drastically that it would seem impossible to any other people?)”
Quroe proceeds to wait patiently for 10 entire minutes. He was being so laid back, and he didn’t notice the background noise behind him. The members of the WASP were busy going in and out of the storage room, doing something.
*GRKKKK*
The metal door suddenly moves and slides open to both sides.
“(Finally. . .)”
*!!!!*
But as soon as the door opens, Quroe sees that Luna is being pushed down on the snow by five other adult males, lying with her back facing up, far in the distance, about 300m away from the entrance. Her head is covered by a plastic bag.
Luna was ambushed from behind when she was waiting outside the building. Her head was immediately covered by a plastic bag to prevent her from using her Faith power. But they didn’t know about her new ability. She summoned Hana to defend herself, but as soon as Hana was formed, its head was shot by multiple sniper bullets, immediately bursting its head open, and it disintegrated. Luna has no idea of where the snipers were given her predicament; she tried to summon ‘Hana’ multiple times, and it ended up being the same. ‘Hana’ kept getting headshots and disintegrated within seconds. She was dragged far away from the building.
One man sits on her back, keeping her in place, the other is holding her legs down, and another holds her head from behind. The fourth guy put her hands forward, down on the snow, and held them in place, not allowing her to escape. The last men raised their hands above his head, holding a wooden axe. He quickly swings his axe down towards her hands.
Quroe’s face immediately turned from calm to murderous at the horrible sight far in the distance. He quickly engulfs his entire body in his black and red aura.
*BWOOOOOOOSSHHH*
And he flies quickly, reaching the man holding the axe.
But as soon as he reaches him. . .
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAASSSSHHH*
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSHHHH*
Quroe slices the man’s head off his body, killing him instantly. He also cut and freed Luna’s head from the plastic bag, but it was too late. The man had already swung his axe down, cutting both of Luna’s hands, near her elbow, detaching her entire forearms from her upper arms. While his head falls 5 meters away from his body.
*THUD*
His headless body falls motionlessly to the snow, no longer moving afterwards.
“KYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
Luna immediately screams in agonizing pain very loudly, which almost hurts everyone’s ears in the vicinity. She immediately shed tears and started crying in agonizing pain.
“KYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
The pain was so unbearable, especially for a mere 15-year-old teenager like her.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!”
Luna continues to scream as hard as possible. Her entire body also starts to shake violently, reacting to the unbearable pain.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!”
Her voice is starting to crack as she keeps screaming loudly nonstop.
“. . .”
Seeing and hearing this, strangely, Quroe just stands still behind the headless body of the man who cut her hands, despite none of them having even realized that he was there.
Luna’s sharp and painful screaming invades Quroe’s ears, and they invoke a certain memory that Quroe has buried deep in his memory lane, which he never told anyone ever, since the day it happened. Quroe’s eyes went empty, and despair quickly filled his face. His mind has begun to stray towards a painful past.
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“Qu-kun! Let’s go eat at this restaurant!”
“Alright. I’m fine with whatever, honestly.”
“EEEHHH? Are you ever interested in something, Qu-kun?”
“I do. You just never know it.”
“Then please tell me!”
“No!”
“EEEEHHH?? WHY? I AM YOUR MOTHER, QU-KUN!!”
“It’s kinda annoying talking about your interests to your parents, so I’d like to decline!”
“Awwww!! You’re so mean, Qu-kun!”
My name is Sedahashi Quroe. I am half Japanese and half something else. I don’t know what my father’s nationality is, but it’s more like I don’t care about him at all. He’s still alive somewhere in this world, but he was a scum who cheated on my mom and broke her heart. I would never acknowledge and call such a person a father. Disgusting human being! Makes me sick to my core!
And this person is my mother. She is a 40-year-old single mom who has been working hard every single day to raise me and take care of me for years, since I was very little. She’s a very kind and warm person, and I respect and care about her so much.
She has short bob brown hair that hangs above her neck with a pair of beautiful orange eyes, compared to my scary pair of red eyes. She is 164cm tall and weighs around 59kg. She is a lot shorter than I am. Her bust size is C-cup. She currently wears a brown blouse over a white tank top, a pair of long light brown skirt that reaches past her knees, and a pair of black short-heeled shoes. She also carries a brown handbag to carry some basic female necessities.
Currently, we are walking on the sidewalks of a main road in a big city in Japan called Tokyo. I have lived in this capital city since I was born. We are out searching for places to eat outside in the city. Me and my mother have spent most of our lives together. I cannot imagine a life where I have to be separated from her. Though this doesn’t mean that I am a spoiled kid or anything. In fact, I am a very independent one.
I am capable of doing my daily housework that my mother used to do. I kept telling her that I should be the one doing all that, but she felt offended by my offer instead, saying stuff like ‘Hey, I am not that old! I am still capable of this!’. She annoys me sometimes by her stubbornness, but only very slightly. I am proud of her, if anything. She’s still so energetic and cheerful for someone her age, compared to anyone in her age range.
Unlike me, who’s cold, gets bored easily with anything and anyone, and also doesn’t really have a particular interest in anything, which, thanks to that, I don’t have any lasting friends. My mother is a very outgoing kinda woman. She’s always had this positive attitude towards everything, able to see the good in all situation no matter how bad or awful it seems.
When my mother found out that my dad cheated on her, she quickly had a change of heart and moved on from him. She no longer loves him and divorces him as quickly as possible. She was the one who also took custody of me, and I am forever thankful for that. I can’t imagine being raised by someone who betrays your own wife, who loves and cares so much for you. I would’ve grown a spiteful and strong hatred towards him.
My mother was dedicated to raising me with love despite that. Even though I know it hurt her greatly when it happened, she doesn’t let herself stay bitter about it.
‘Whatever happens in my marriage isn’t an excuse for me not to love the one and only son I have!’
That’s what she said instead. That’s what she ingrained into herself, and that’s what she ingrained in me as well. No matter what happens, we do not let our circumstances define us! Our identity is above whatever happens in our lives.
At first, I have troubles understanding her words, but as I grew up, I quickly held on to those words in my heart. They became the foundation of how I live my life.
Currently, I am 20 years old, and I have finished school. I didn’t go to college, and I went straight into job hunting, though I haven’t had any luck ever since I started three years ago, so I have just been freeloading while my mother works hard. I feel guilty for this, but my mother always tells me that this is not because I was lazy or anything.
Though just this morning, I did get accepted to work in a big convenience store at a local mall in the city. My mother immediately came and picked me up afterwards and demanded that we should celebrate this.
I am not a party-lover guy, but I accepted her notion nonetheless. It makes her happy anyway, so I don’t mind.
“OOHHH!!! STEAK!! Let’s eat steak, Qu-kun!!”
“Hmm, alright. Steak sounds great. Let’s go!”
We finally decided to eat at a nearby steak restaurant, and we went inside to celebrate.
