Chapter 46 - I don't want to be forgetten
Japan, A small Shinto temple in Tokyo.
The giant figure, cast from an unknown metal, opened like a box. Then, from inside, a young man with red hair and red eyes reached out in front of him, trying to grab something.
"Don't...don't go...don't leave me."
he is in the outside world. He can't catch things in his dreams. Finally, he tripped and fell. Eyes have opened. Tears on his cheeks.
"Is this... just a dream?"
'Qi...' While he was lying face down on the floor in deep thought, the metal box came down on top of him with the sound of 'Boom.'
"Oh... it hurts..." Akaigami Kaito lifted the big box back on his body and supported his aching waist with his hand.
Then his gaze landed on the small wooden shelf where offertories for the red god were kept. There were some chocolate bars on the shelf. It is not suitable to be seen on the shrine, except for the children's snacks.
"Isn't it rice bread anymore..." Kaito said and threw the chocolate into his mouth. After a while, a little girl about the same height as Kaito's waist entered the church room.
"Brother God... Brother God... It's almost school time... Haven't you woken up yet?"
"That's right... I have to send Yusa-chan to school." Kaito looked at the girl as he slapped his head with his hand. The girl is wearing a high school dress and looks very cute. Her little black hair was curled up in a bun, and the little girl on her waist made a pleasant sound every time she moved. Even though Yusa is still young, this dress suits her very well.
The last heir of this temple. Dhr is the last person to receive the family name of Aseno.
The girl is holding a broom in her hand. When Kaito got out, he saw leaf litter neatly piled up in the temple square. By the end of September, autumn had arrived, and all the trees had yellow and reddish-brown leaves. The autumn leaves took up the entire temple square, making it a mess. That's why Yusa was collecting garbage.
Kaito also stroked Yusa's head. "That's clever... It's the temple mikoto who will protect the great temple."
"I have to serve my god brother, so I have to do my duty." Every time the girl smiled, a dimple appeared on her chubby cheeks.
Then Kaito entered the dormitory and knocked on the door of a room. In the living room, you can see white rooms, and in the main room, you can see a picture of an old lady and a table with some food.
"Mirai... you are going to be late for school, aren't you up yet?"
'Um...' came a lazily stretched voice. After a while, a cute girl with blonde hair pushed the door open and peeked out.
"Isn't it too early..."
It was so cute that even Akaigami couldn't help but tugged at Mirai's ear.
"Would you..."
"Miss, you have to walk to school here. There are no Mercedes cars with six doors."
Kaito's female student is not used to the way of life of ordinary people. Soon they were all dressed to go to school. Two girls dressed in school uniforms came to Kaito, who was sitting in front of the church and had a fresh face with a water bottle.
"Brother God... we are ready to go to school."
"Have you had breakfast yet?"
"Well... I made an egg sandwich." girl replied. Kaito had many thoughts in his mind. 'This girl is as reliable as she is young. When she grows up, she will become a model girl.'
Mirai became jealous of Yusa because of Kaito's big catfish smile. She hasn't been praised since she arrived.
"I also helped her too."
Yusa also looked at Mirai with a shocked face and said, "You're not just breaking the eggs because you don't know how to do? Do you think the eggs are free?"
Yusa said. A small hand had already grabbed Mirai's hair by her ear.
"Yu..Yusa-chan, I'll help you collect the leaves the next day. Don't pull my hair."
"Now...let's go to school." new face Kaito said to the two little girls who had already cleaned themselves.
After that, Kaito took the two of them by the hand and took them to the middle school in the neighborhood. The school is not far. At the entrance of the school, Kaito was greeted by Yusa and Mirai. Kaito waved to them like a real father.
Some of the parents of the children who sent them to other schools were looking at their happy faces when they saw a handsome young red-haired man is bringing girls to school. Some middle-aged aunties are even worse.
'Look over there, Is that handsome boy taking the children to school? Children are also cute. What a perfect father. We also want a hasband like him.' Kaito turned away from the front of the school, pretending not to know because he felt calm while listening to Aunty's group. They praised him as a model man for a long time, so much so that the men in their house were jealous and kept on hating him.
After returning from school, he went to work as a fast food worker. The name of the fast food restaurant where he works is MCdowell's. Not McDonald's. The only store with that name in all of Tokyo. The name of the store even goes with the wrong name used in the anime to avoid being copyrighted by McDonald's years ago.
McDonald even sued their shop by violating copyright and scamming consumers with fake names.
The shop owner is still insisting to open his shop. 'You guys sell cheeseburgers. We sell fried cheese sandwiches. It has nothing to do with it. My name is Dowell, so I just call my shop as Mcdowell's.' In fact, the owner of that shop had passed away last year. Akaikami has been working at that shop since he retired from his life as a hero. Even though he didn't remember the shop owner, the whole Tokyo knew about Mcdowell's.
McDonald's sells meatloaf cheeseburgers. MCDowell's sells sandwiches. McDonald's sells fried chicken. Mcdowell's sells fish and chips. McDonald's sells french fries. MCDowell's sells potato chips. Oh, The drinks served are also different. If McDonald's is Cola, MCdowell's is black grape juice.
Finally, MCdonald's logo is a golden 'M' circle, but MCdowell's is a silver 'W' circle. Although it looks like a copyright-free shop in China, MCdowell's is very different from its menu. They already have their own audience. In other words, it's like a Variant store that came from the wrong way from Multiverse.
After the death of the old man, He don't know why a man with black hair and a beard started to take charge of the shop. Is his name Serton Dowells? A really unbalanced guy.
As soon as Kaito arrived at work, he changed into shop clothes and dipped the fried fish in batter and fried them in the fryer. The sweet and fragrant fried fish spread in the alley where the shop is located, and customers have come rushing.
Suddenly, two six-door Mercedes cars stopped in front of the shop, and about a dozen people in black uniforms got out and lined up neatly. The cherry blossom logo on the car door seems familiar.
Then a person in a black suit opened the door to the back room. A middle-aged man wearing traditional Japanese wooden slippers came down from inside. He was wearing a samurai kimono and had a short Japanese sword and a long sword attached to his waist.
Kaito also looked up at them. Isn't it possible that the boss in a six-door Mercedes drove down to their small fast-food restaurant?
Dowell's, the shopkeeper boy, came running and said goodbye. "Welcome to MCDowell's. What are you going to use?"
The samurai-like old man winked at the boy. A black clothed man pulled the boy's face as if he understood. Dowell's boy was careful and avoided it. He closed his eyes and said in a cold tone.
"Non-consumers are not welcome in this store."
The boy Dowell's is also a mutant. All the metals in the shop began to shake with his words. Dowell's family has been in Japan for about fifty years. Ever since the meteors fell. They went out of business looking for meteors and landed in Japan. As a powerful family before the Mutant Era, they are somehow powerful. Especially the second generation already has the power of mutant.
"Second class clan kids." The leader of the bodyguard shouted and stepped forward. The situation inside the shop has become tense and customers who have already arrived have already fled from the shop.
"You guys from the Yamaguchi family didn't come to me. Why are you bullying people you don't belong to?"
Kaito came out from behind the shop. He recognized these people. The Yamaguchis, who had two S ranks that would be called Japan's number one clan.
"Red God... I have come today to settle accounts with you." The first sword master of the Yamaguchi family drew his sword. Kaito still doesn't understand.
"What for..."
"My little sister, and my wife, now my daughter, because you tricked them into betraying me."
"What are you talking about?"
Yamaguchi's hand went to the sword. In the next moment, a silver light with just a crack appeared in the shop and came to Kaito. Kaito avoided it by tilting himself a little.
A few seconds later, the entire shop shook and the entire roof collapsed. The sun shone down into the small shop, and the red god's hair began to glow like a real flame.
If ordinary people were present where the shop collapsed, their lives would definitely be in danger. But they were all advanced mutants.
"Hey, hey...you Yamaguchis are destroying other people's property even in public?"
Kaito said with a smile. Kaito has long disliked the Yamaguchi family. He don't like it now and he will not like it in the future.
"Because of you, my sister was disgraced, Akaigami, and because of you, my family fell. And now I'm calling you back to shame you?"
"What are you talking about? I don't understand."
"Don't pretend to be crazy."
The First Sword Master's sword strikes came out again. The silver light, which was too thin like a spider's web, entered Kaito one by one. Kaito was able to calmly avoid it just by tilting his body.
"Do you think you Yamaguchi can defeat me because I have no more powers, son of Ichida? I even defeated your father without using powers."
Kaito is already angry. Is she getting in trouble for what she did? 'Your sister your wife I don't know any of those people.'
Kaito removed the kitchen knife hanging from the collapsed kitchen. His hands moved around and he could calmly resist the First Sword Master's swords.
Suddenly, Dowell's, who had been watching the two fight for a long time, intervened. His entire body was covered in black metal, and he was an A+ grade metal mist. The metal covering his body was impossible to cut even with a bridle blade.
"I think you two have been fighting enough. This place belongs to me. And you have destroyed my shop so that I have nothing to gain. You must pay for it."
At Dowell's words, the faces of the First Sword Master and Kaito became hard.
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In the neighborhood school. The class had already started, but Yusa hadn't entered the school yet. She was sitting on a bench in the campus, her arms wrapped around her knees. Tears were running down his cheeks.
"He's forgotten... God brother has forgotten Grandma."
Mirai was by her side and didn't seem to know how to comfort her. While Yusa continued to cry, she turned to Mirai.
"The grandmother was with her god brother for fifty years. But he forgot. he didn't remember anyone who died, whether it was sister Tara or Uncle Dowell."
Yusa had known since she was a child, Kaito had forgotten people one by one if they died. Kaito can't die, Unlike ordinary mortals, his lifespan was too long to be counted. There were hundreds of people he had forgotten throughout that lifetime.
"If... if... even if I,Yusa dies, Brother God will forget me."
Mirai didn't know what to say, so she hugged Yusu tightly. About half a month ago, a grandmother, Koromi, fell seriously ill and died of old age. She is sure Kaito was very sad that night, but by the next day he didn't seem to remember Koromi at all and treated her like a stranger.
"Teacher... has forgotten those who left his side? But why..."
Mirai could not understand.
Qiu... A Mercedes six-door car stopped in front of the school with the sound of brakes. Then some people in black western clothes got out of the car, and a handsome young man in white western clothes led them, saw Mirai and walked slowly.
When he got near, the young man smiled and bowed slightly to Mirai.
"Young miss, the master has asked me to bring you home."
Mirai shook her head and said bluntly.
"I will stay with the teacher. In order to become a hero, I must learn from the teacher." The white bodyguard shook his head.
"The master has hired a fire-type mutant as a trainer for the mistress."
"No, I can't go, Saki." Mirai said in a harsher tone. 'The teacher forgot the people who left his side. If I am no longer with him, will he forget me?' With that thought, Mirai's heart began to burn. The guard leader's offer was completely rejected.
"No, I can't. Only the Red God can teach me to be the best hero in the world." Mirai got off the chair and stood face to face with Saki. Yusa still does not understand what is happening.
"Then don't badmouth us." The bodyguards, led by Saki, tried to take Mirai by force. Mirai prepared to attack those guards as she created flames in her hands.
"I can't go back to a house like a prison. Mirai never wants to be a useless person again."
Because of the flames, the temperature of the cold emerald autumn air gradually rises. A hot whirlwind formed centered on Mirai, and the winter leaves rose into the air. Mirai's hair was swaying due to the strong wind, and the flames from her hand had risen to three feet tall.