—2.44 PM, Oldtown Cafe.
"Yeah? Oh.... Okay. I'll just wait here... Yes, yes... Table number 26 by the window... Okay."
A guy hang up the phone as he got confirmation about his friend who should be around soon. The guy's name is Ise. He was waiting at the cafe for about half an hour just because he give his friend wrong address of the cafe he planned to met. As they clear things up, his friend is on the way.
He throws his gaze outside the window to see the sky. It was dark outside and seems about to rain. The car outside was kinda cramming the traffic but it's kinda fine since he's there with a bike. But still the atmosphere around this part of the town was kinda gloomy since it was expecting to be flooded around this time of the year.
Then, he look at his table again and take a sip of the tea he ordered while waiting. The jazz musicians plays the soft music filling the whole hall with coziness and peacefulness. There is not much people but it's a cozy place to just hang out and do nothing since the food offered here was decent.
As he was daydreaming about something, there is a loud sound of a car hitting the brake very hard breaking his daydream just to see a car outside stopped with hazard light on. The front bonnet were slightly dented and a guy in dark green sweater were laying in front of it.
The driver get off from the car and starting to checks on the person he ran over. Some other pedestrian starts to take out their phone and some trying to help. Ise, on the other hand just sit there. Thinking everything were solved since many people there and someone already called for ambulance anyway.
But he feels kinda odd since his friend not arriving yet when he should be here about a few minutes ago from now. He make a call. The answer is quite late and before his friend pick up the call, he heard faint sound or ringtone from somewhere.
"Hello. Where are you? There is a car accident outside here." He said.
"Hello? Who is this? Are you the relative of this phone owner?" Said one unfamiliar voice instead of his friend's voice.
"Wait? What happened? Who are you? I'm his friend."
There is a short pause as he heard the background of the call was kinda loud with people talking, traffic and all. At that moment her realized something.
"This friend of yours were hit by a car."
His eyes widen as he look outside the window again and see a woman holding the phone seemingly the one who was talking to him right now.
He immediately end the call and rushed out and squeeze through the crowd just to see the condition of his friend. As he managed to get there, he sees his friend, laying there unconscious. Kinda bleeding out from the hard hit from the speeding car.
At the moment, the rain falls and starts to get very heavy as the ambulance arrived and take him away. He wants to go along but the paramedic advise him to not and just go to the hospital to learn about his condition.
He nodded sadly as he walks off and get his bike. He feel that hurts him a lot since he actually never met his friend before. Until today, they had the chance to see each other after only knowing one and another with Messenger. They kinda didn't managed to see each other but he will show up at the hospital later in the day.
—7.21 PM, Henry Bolder Hospital
Ise was sitting outside the emergency room on a bench. Waiting nervously for the results of the treatment. He had no contact to his friend family at the moment and couldn't inform on what happening on his friend to his family.
He just sitting there until a nurse walk out and greet him with a clipboard at her hand.
"Are you Sir Hiro Hayabusa's friend?"
"Oh... Yes. I am. How was he?" He stands up on the mention of his friend name.
"Sorry for making you wait too long. We already placed him in the ward 2 hours ago and he was stable and actually already awaken."
Ise immediately nodded to the information and ask for the bed number. The nurse tell him the ward and the bed number but she adds that he is not allowed to visit at this hour and recommended to come again tomorrow.
To that put to words, he step off to get home not too far from there. He take his bike and start to paddling home.
—Tomorrow, 9.00 AM, Henry Bolder Hospital.
Ise sat at the same bench again. Waiting for the time to visit come. It should be around this time if he wasn't wrong. As he sit there, there is some laminated paper placed at the wall and it's written...
"Plague... Room? Huh, I didn't realize that here all along? Maybe new?" He looks at the corner where behind it was the area labeled by Plague room.
The looks of that area was a bit too busy than it should be. But then, he realizes that the way it's busy was odd since the doctor and nurses all was kinda in hurry everytime to get out or get it. Like something happens.
But then, it just turned silent. Too silent that it's frightening him a bit. Then, he saw a man walk out from the corner and he seems to be not in good condition. His mouth bloodied, so do his hand and his clothes stained with blood. The man look at him and growl.
To be continued...