Sunlight entered through the the balcony window waking up John from his sleep. He got up and washed his face in the bathroom . John changed his attire back to his shirt and pants with the black jacket over it. He picked up his bag and walked towards the study table . Hesitating a bit, he hovered his hand slowly over Kosabimaru eventually picking it up and tying it to his waist.
POV->John
After getting ready, I ate breakfast in the dining hall . Heading over to the reception to inquire about the address off Peach clothing i noticed that Rizz was not there, instead of her a man in his 20's stood there with a bulky body and blonde hair.
"Hello do you have any request dear customer ?"
"I noticed Rizz isn't here, is she busy somewhere else?"
An angry and disgusted facial expression come over the man.
"What do you want from her? Are you perhaps trying to court her going as far as to saying her first name? How dare you?"
It seems this man likes Rizz, maybe engaged? I should not get in their matter as it does not concern me as of now.
"I apologize for my rudeness, its just that she told me she would tell the directions to this address." I presented a copy of the address to him but he just flicked it out of my hand.
"hmm dare to try and find and excuse to get away you coward. I will not be fooled by you. Now go away and if u ever come close to Rizz i will burn your body to ashes" he said while conjuring flame magic in his hand.
It looks like this guy will be no help might as well find the place on my own. I walked out of the inn and started going to the city center. I saw an empty passage between two houses and swiftly went inside it. Taking a quick glance at my surrounding to check that no one was watching and after having clear area. I took out a mask from my bag.
The mask was black in color , covering almost the entirety of the face with the exception of the lower region of the face(mouth) ,the mask had two even darker black lines which ran from both eyes to the cheeks.
"I wish there was a day when i could finally give up this mask, guess it will never happen." i said as i wore the mask.
I took out an all black shirt and overturned my jacket to show an even darker shade of its black exterior. Now i was completely dressed in black attire and it was time to search for the address.
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1 and a half hour later...
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"It took me longer than i thought to find it."
In front of me was a two story building with a clothing shop with a sign saying Peach Clothing on the ground floor and a house on the first floor . There were only a couple of customers in the shop attended by a woman in her 30's.
'She must be Rykard's wife gotta say he has found himself a gem.'
Even though being in her 40's the woman still looked beautiful. I waited outside for the customers to leave and closed the door of the shop turning the open signboard to closed. Upon seeing this the woman screamed and a flying broom came my way.
"Oh F**k!"
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POV->Rykard
Hearing Evelyn's scream from the backroom i quickly rushed over to the shop . Entering i saw Evelyn scared in a corner and a an all black man trying to calm her down . He wore a black mask upon seeing which only two words came out of my mouth.
"Dark Knight!"
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POV->John
As I was trying to convince the woman that I had no bad intentions towards her i saw Rykard arriving at the scene.
"Dark Knight!"
Recovering my posture i said "Its been a long time Rykard. How are you?"
Tears started flowing out of Rykard's eyes as he knelt on the ground and said with a nonchalant smile.
"It has been really good thanks to you. Welcome to my home."
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As Evelyn calmed down, the three of them went and sat i the living room. Evelyn asked Rykard who the man in black was.
"He is the reason i am what i am today and the reason why i am alive."
"What! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier I thought we took the marriage vows saying we will not hide anything between us!"
"I dint want you to be worried about and that is why I kept this a secret. Don't worry i am fine am i not and it was all thanks to Dark Knight . Let me tell you what happened 2 years ago.
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My parents were amazing fashion designers despite not using more expensive work material like the other clothing companies. Their work was the best people from different cities came to buy garments from them . Me and my family were very happy when i started tailoring and it came into light that i was right behind their footsteps acquiring their talent for making clothes. Our life was perfect everything was going well until my 21'st year.
One morning i woke up to find that both my parents passed away mysteriously due to an unknown reason . I grieved for them a long time and did no make any clothes for an entire year , living just on my family's savings. One day i overheard a leader of another clothing industry
"It was such a great idea to kill those two Peach clothing couple, our business is blooming again! Just because they were selling clothes cheap, people came flocking to them."
"Their son must be even worse ! He hasn't done tailoring since the time his parents died!"
"We didn't even had to kill him to shut his business he shut his business himself!"
"Ha ha ha!!"
"Ha ha ha ha!!"
Upon hearing this my world turned upside down.