Over the past month, the situation in Star City has stabilized, with the central government declaring the city safe from the Specter.
At the same time, Musashi Hirata left the Ranker and joined the Hero League. Yes, Hirata was no longer a Ranker, but a Hero.
Sun Zhou Yi was happy, while Heero did not understand his disciple's decision. He knew Hirata, he did not like having ties to either the Hero League or the Ranker Alliance.
He understood if Hirata left the Ranker Alliance, but he did not expect him to join the Hero League. Heero once asked him why he became a hero and his answer was,
"It's for our academy, with me and Sun Zhou Yi as gold class heroes, it will raise the name of Heero Academy more. I will try to raise my rank later..."
That was the answer he got. Hirata was doing this for the academy. After all, people had a good impression of a hero, not a ranker.
Apart from that, Star City was more crowded and busier than usual. People from other cities came to watch the Fighter Anteriority.
From the window, Heero could see many foreigners visiting his district as well. He could see some black guys with a big build and a sexy blonde, and their pupils were a different colour than most of the people in Star City.
Another thing that made these people different from the people of Star City was that they only spoke English. Yes, most of the foreigners spoke English.
Heero looked at the clock on the wall, it was 10 minutes before the shop opened. Just as he was about to start preparing something in the kitchen, he saw Fatty Liang walking past his shop with two other security guards.
A frown appeared on his face. With the influx of foreigners, problems often arose, usually a conflict between the foreigners and the daily customers of Xing District.
He noticed that the other visitors were also flocking to Blacksmith Huang's smithy. There must be something going on in that direction.
"Tell my wife, I am heading out first!" Heero said to one of his employees and went outside.
Sure enough, right in front of Huang's smithy there was a crowd of people. The traffic was jammed and he found the children trapped in the crowd.
Hong Yu was also there and tried to get through the crowd but to no avail. Myung-Hee, Miao Miao and the other children were following her.
Heero quickened his pace, tugging at Hong Yu's hand and she was shocked. However, she smiled when she realised that it was her husband.
Just as Heero was about to ask, a loud voice travelled into his ears, "Do you know who we are? We are from Myth! Call Blacksmith Huang for a meeting right away!"
Heero looked at his wife and asked, "What about this Myth? Do you know it?"
Lately, after a series of missing people, it was rare to find someone flaunting their background. Now it happened again, so he asked his wife, curious about this thing called Myth.
Hong Yu frowned and shook her head, she was clueless too, "I don't know!"
"Myth is one of the top ten guilds in Sun City, they are ranked seventh!" Myung-Hee replied.
Sun City was one of the few largest cities on Earth, along with Moon City and Star City. It was located on a different continent and you had to take a plane to get there.
Heero had heard of this Sun City. If Star City was controlled by the twelve families, Sun City was controlled by ten guilds. And Myth was one of the ten guilds, so it was only natural to show off their patron.
"Tsk," Heero shook his head and yelled, "Disperse! You are disturbing the traffic of the district!"
His voice immediately attracted the crowd. When they realised it was Heero, the regulars nodded in his direction and dispersed, leaving only the foreign visitors who were unaware of Heero's status.
"Go with the kids, I'll handle this commotion!" His words were directed at his wife and the children, who wanted to go to the pre-school.
"Mnn..." Hong Yu nodded and pulled the children along, but Miao Miao refused to go, "I want to watch!"
The other children like Lan Lan and Tong Tong also nodded their heads. Even Myung-Hee looked like she did not want to go either.
Heero rolled his eyes, "Nothing to watch! Go to school!"
Miao Miao pouted but followed her aunt. Meanwhile, Heero approached the group claiming from Myth.
Fatty Liang and the blacksmith had a worried look on their faces. They tried to stop the group, but none of them spoke English.
The group consisted of five people, three men and two women. The word "Myth" was written on their left chests.
Heero ignored the group and asked the foreman, who had been working in the forge for a few months, "What's going on?"
The male attendant, Cui Rui, nodded his head and. a bitter smile formed, "They wanted to see Boss Huang, but Boss Huang is busy with his work. He told me not to disturb him, but they insist on meeting Boss Huang."
As an attendant, Cui Rui was put in an awkward situation. On one side was his boss's order, and on the other was a group of people he could not offend.
He certainly did not want to lose his comfortable job here, so he tried to stall the guests. However, these guys seemed to be angry and did not want to wait.
"Hello, sir~ Smith Huang can't be disturbed. He is forging a weapon!" Heero spoke in fluent English. His words were directed at the tallest man standing at the front of the group.
"If you want to meet him, you have to wait like the others!" Heero pointed with his thumb at the long line at his back.
There was a long line every day, they wanted to see the blacksmith Huang to make equipment for them.
The big guy looked at Heero with his brown pupil, a frown on his forehead. The big guy was almost two metres tall, bulging muscles showing through his tight clothes.
The big guy brought his head closer to Heero, ten centimetres apart, and asked in a cold voice, "Do you know who I am?"
The same question as before, but this time focusing on his identity rather than his backer.
Just as Heero was about to say that he did not know, a smaller man approached him and whispered in Chinese, "Sir, he is Cale, Gold Class Hero - Rank 9 from Sun City. Sir, can you please let him meet Smith Huang for a moment?"
Heero took a step back from the big guy named Cale and looked at the smaller guy, "Who are you? Do you live here too?"
"I am their translator, my name is Ling Chunyi. And yes, I am a citizen of Star City," Ling Chunyi replied with a polite smile.
"Then you know the rules of this district?" Heero asked in a sharp tone.
"I..." Noticing the sudden change in Heero's attitude, Ling Chunyi was taken aback. He certainly knew the rules of this district, but he was with a group of heroes, there was no district that would make a move against the heroes.
That was what Ling Chunyi believed, but then he remembered something. This district did not care if you were a hero or not.
"But... The central government has ordered me to please our guests from Sun City!" Ling Chunyi replied. He did not believe that this district would make a move against the famous heroes.
"I don't care who you are or who they are! If you enter this district, you have to follow the rules here!" Heero said these words in English so that the foreigners could understand him.
Before, he had acted politely, thinking the foreigners were new and did not understand the rules.
"Who is this bum? How dare you behave in front of me?" Cale was displeased when a man from this slum acted tough in front of him. Yes, the group regarded the outer region as a slum.
They certainly looked down on the people who lived in the slums.
"Who are you calling a bum?" Hisashi Hirata suddenly appeared between Cale and Heero as his cold voice rang out.
His sharp gaze met Cale's brown pupils. At the same time, he drew his sword and used the hilt to push Cale away.
Cale was caught off guard and the hilt of the sword struck him in the stomach.
He covered his stomach with his hand in pain as he took a few steps back from the impact.
"You..." Cale pointed his finger at Hirata, but Hirata's words cut him off.
"If you dare to repeat that again, I will cut off your tongue next!" Musashi Hirata warned Cale as he made a draw stance, ready to draw his sword the moment Cale dared to repeat the same words.