Chapter 39: You Jinx It
Author: Geraint
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(MC's POV)
While being stared at by Rumi and Ryukyu,
"Tonight is really busy here." I was ignoring them while watching some street performer singing at the side of the road.
Their song is really good but it just the voice has a little bit of a problem which turn the performance bad.
Some just walk away and passed by them but some are trying to listen.
"Here he go again when he's guilty. He just made a little boy cry and who's fault just now that made Pro Heroes reputation go downhill. It was no other than the Falcon himself they're looking for." Rumi is piercing me with her words.
"Ugh!" I took a critical damage emotionally.
Behind us was bunch of protesters who rallying to the police and Pro Heroes to free Captain Falcon from their custody. They are throwing different kinds of things to the police who stood together with their fiber shield covering them. The backup pro heroes are trying to calm the situation.
"Don't you have any conscience letting this happen? These people who are protesting in order to free you but the person they've been trying to save is actually here and doing fine while stalking his Pro Hero girlfriend who's on duty. Poor them..." Ryukyu looks disappointed on me.
"Uuugh!!" This hurt me inside even more.
(Emotional damage.)
I noticed some people are already exiting from the concert hall.
(The concert must be already ended.)
Looking around for more, an idea came to my mind when I saw a male street performer resting on sideline while carrying an electric guitar. He has a big speaker on his side and a microphone standing.
I immediately ran and approached him.
"Leave this to me! I'll do something about it."
"Ichika?"
Speaking to him while he is drinking coffee.
"Can you lend me your equipments a little bit?"
"Hm?"
When he glanced at me, he stared to me suspiciously.
He look some kind of rockstar with tattered coat and pants.
(Is this the trend today? I don't know...)
"Sorry, this thing is so expensive and I just can't it to someone else." he responded, shaking his head to refuse.
"Then tell me your name and... how much?"
Taking out my bank check from my pocket as I wrote the information needed but it was dark and I can't see clearly the check.
"Seriously? You're trying to buy it from me?"
"I don't want to do it but I don't have pretty much choice."
"Dude, but you sounds so desperate."
"Yeah... I have to stop those protesters with music." I explained confidently.
"Sounds insane, but will it really work? They are intensely fighting for something."
"Of course, if it's me. It will really work and trust me... It's gonna be awesome." I smiled and thumbs up at him.
He exaggerately nods to me several times and pointed at me,
"I like that, Dude. Then as a fellow musician, I lend my equipments to you. Tell me if you need something."
"Thanks!"
He decided to lend his equipment to me.
While I'm testing his equipments, I tried playing different chords at low volume.
"How was it?"
"It's good."
"Don't you need band members to play?"
"I'll be fine. I made an app for that."
Talking to my phone as I whispered,
"Roboco, are you there?"
*What?*
Roboco responded to me but she seems to be sulking.
"I need you to help me."
*I'm not in a mood!*
"Are you mad at me?"
*Obviously!*
"Roboco, I'll make up for you tomorrow. I promise!"
*Did I hear the same thing yesterday? Promise this, promise that! We should be going home and work on my body but here you are... stalking your girlfriend again.*
I felt really guilty.
"Ugh! I can't help it! Something really happened and Rumi called me! I'm sorry, okay? I swear, I'll work at it tomorrow!"
*Okay...*
"I just want to stop these protesters before they get hurt. I will a play a song and I need you to play the Piano, Drum and Bass at same time. Just leave the guitar to me, you get me?"
*I don't get why are you still here in your home city and get stumble on a mess again.*
"Ugh! I told you, I'm sorry!"
*Father...*
I plugged my phone in the speaker then went on top of the platform and test the microphone. I made sure the speaker was on max volume.
"Hello~ My test~"
"Um... before you play, Dude. Can I ask your name?"
When the man asked me, I just smiled at him.
"It's Fujiwara Ichika."
The man suddenly froze and his jaw dropped as he stares at me in awe.
"Dude... No way..."
"I'll make you believe soon."
As I took a deep breath,
"FALCON PUNCH!!!"
I screamed hard, making all the people around me covered their ears in pain.
"Hey! What was that?"
"That guy did it!"
They all look at my direction including the protesters and police who's clashing with each other.
"That hurts, Ichika! Why are you screaming all of sudden!" Rumi shouted and scolded me.
"What are you trying to do?" Ryukyu asked me.
All the people around was surprised when they heard them.
"Did you hear that?"
"Yeah, his name seems to be Ichika."
The man who's in shock in front of me pointed.
"EVERYONE! THIS GUY... HE'S THAT FAMOUS SINGER! HIS NAME IS FUJIWARA ICHIKA!"
"What?!"
When all their attention was on me, I started singing.
(Play: Unravel - Tokyo ghoul op full)
♪Oshiete oshiete yo sono shikumi wo...♪
♪Boku no naka ni... dare ga iru no?♪
♪Kowareta kowareta yo kono sekai de...♪
♪Kimi ga warau... nanimo miezu ni.♪
When I started playing the electric guitar, the crowd started to gather around me.
Roboco is also doing well playing three instrument at the time in my phone. As I expected from my High-Spec Pon, AI daughter.
The crowd was amazed,
"Did you see that? This guy is insane! His guitar skills are excellent!"
"There's no doubt. That voice... it's really Fujiwara Ichika."
♪Kowareta, boku nante sa, iki wo tomete.♪
♪Hodokenai mou, hodokenai yo, shinjitsu sae.♪
"Freeze~"
♪Kowaseru, kowasenai, kurueru, kuruenai,
Anata wo, mitsukete...♪
As I sang at high voice, a loud cheer began from the audience.
♪Yureta yuganda sekai ni dan dan Boku wa, sukitootte mienaku natte!♪
*Woooooh!~*
♪Mitsukenaide, boku no koto wo~ mitsumenaide.♪
♪Dareka ga egaita sekai no naka de, anata wo kizutsuketaku wa nai yo!♪
♪Oboeteite, boku no koto wo~ azayaka na mama♪
...
"Wow!"
"His song is great!"
♪Mugen ni, hirogaru, kodoku ga, karamaru, mujaki ni, waratta kioku, ga sasatte.♪
♪Ugokenai, ugokenai, ugokenai, ugokenai, ugokenai, ugokenai yo,♪
Preparing myself for the throating part,
"UNRAVELING ZA WARUDO!!!"
Smiling at everyone around while playing guitar then I found Rumi watching and I winked at her.
(Eh?)
She didn't react as she continues to stare at me with indifferent expression.
I can see in her face that she's not impressed of me even a little bit while I'm singing and Ryukyu beside her noticed that as she just tried to smile.
I just continued singing,
♪Kawatte, shimatta, kaerarenakatta♪
♪Futatsu ga, karamaru, futari ga, horobiru.♪
♪Kowaseru, kowasenai, kurueru, kuruenai,
♪Anata wo, kegasenai yo~♪
...
The people started to wave their hands and I noticed that protesters pushed away by the music fans and mixed in the. crowd together with the police and backup pro heroes.
The media who just arrived flashed a bright light to see my appearance and I didn't mind them. They recording my performance live.
I went even more for a higher voice,
♪Yureta yuganda sekai ni dan dan Boku wa, sukitootte mienaku natte!♪
♪Mitsukenaide, boku no koto wo~ mitsumenaide.♪
♪Dareka ga egaita sekai no naka de, anata wo kizutsuketaku wa nai yo!♪
♪Oboeteite, boku no koto wo~ azayaka na mama♪
♪Wasurenaide! wasurenaide! wasurenaide! wasurenaide!♪
♪Kawatte shimatta koto ni paralyze.♪
♪Kaerarenai koto darake no paradise,
Oboeteite boku no koto wo~♪
...
♪Oshiete... oshiete... boku no naka ni, dare ga iru no?...♪
The song ended.
"Kyaaaaaah ~"
A loud cheer came to me and I waved both of my hands to them.
Ryukyu was clapping her hands for my performance while Rumi just looked away.
Seeing the protesters finally calmed down, I unplugged my phone from the speaker and gave back the electric guitar to the owner.
"Thank you very much. Everything is fine now."
Seeing that I am trapped in the middle of the crowd and I have no escape path.
*You jinx it, Father. You reap what you sow.* Roboco spoke from my phone.
"What's wrong?" I whispered.
*Revealing yourself here foiled our plans. The Hero Public Safety Commission got alerted just now and realized that we're been finding a way to corner them. They will try to erase all the remaining evidence thanks to you.*
"Are you saying that..."
*That's right, Father. They're gonna execute Lady Nagant, Tsutsumi Kaina in Tartaros to seal her lips forever. What are you going to do?*
I menacingly grinned,
"They left me no choice but join the dark side. Roboco, prepare our stormtroopers. I'll be needing the mind stone."
*Yes, Lord Vader.*
(To be continued.)
(A/N: I'll fix my mistakes later.)