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. . : : FAREWELL SHIN MAKOKU (by Bellyn)
Gazing
at the clear, morning sky from his shared bedroom's wooden-framed window, Yuuri
Shibuya yawned. He stretched
both his arms high above him and turned away from the window. He started walking
towards the door, thinking of having a game of
catch with Conrad when suddenly he saw his fiance sitting on the chair next to
their bed calmly reading a book. Wolfram was well-
hidden behind their bed's curtains.
"Wolfram! How long have you been there?" Yuuri shouted, thinking of the
eternity he had to go through to eventually have a
room of his own. He watched Wolfram slowly bring his face up from the book he
had been reading.
"For as long as you had been staring through the window," he paused as a
thought came to his head. "HEY! THERE ARE NO
YOUNG LADIES OR HANDSOME MEN OUT THERE, ARE THERE? YOU WIMP, FLIRTING IN FRONT
OF ME!" he yelled and
rose from his chair. With great anger, he threw his hardcover book at Yuuri's
face.
"Ouch!" Yuuri cried, rubbing his sore cheek with his hand. "You needn't do
that. And besides, I WAS NOT FLIRTING OR
CHEATING ON YOU!" At that point, Wolfram was stomping his way out of the room.
"Wolf-" his consolation was interrupted by
footsteps in corridor. Someone was crying,"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I have
come to collect you for our study session!"
"Oh no! I really don't want to spend hours in the library with Gunter!
Cover for me, will you, Wolf?" Yuuri whispered and
quickly hid in the huge wooden wardrobe opposite the bed.
"Why would I do that," Wolfram said but he covered for Yuuri anyway. When
Gunter stepped into the room, full of excitement
and happiness to be able to spend some time with his precious King, he was
disappointed to find only Wolfram standing in the
middle of the room, cross-armed.
"Is His Majesty here?" Gunter asked, his voice full of hope to be
destroyed by Wolfram's answer of no.
"Didn't you know Yuuri went back to Earth already?" he said casually,
unfolding his arms.
"Oh, is he?? OH, MY MAJESTY! WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO MUCH? LEAVING WITHOUT
MY KNOWING! OH!" Gunter
cried dramatically and reluctantly went back to the library alone.
A while after he was gone, Yuuri practically broke the door of the
wardrobe to get a sniff of fresh air. Being fully revived, he
decided to thank Wolfram.
"WOW! I didn't know you had so many clothes in the wardrobe! Hey, I don't
see any of my clothes in there!" Sensing that
Wolfram was bored of the subject, he said,"That was a great lie you made up!"
Wolfram looked up from the floor and looked at Yuuri. "I had always
detested lying." He glared, which made Yuuri retreat
a little. "But I did it for you." He smiled then. Yuuri, who hardly saw him
smile, felt immense discomfort and waved his arms
frantically in front of him, like he always do when he was nervous.
"By the way, I feel like paying a visit to Earth. I miss Mom's curry rice
so much!" he said, pointed to the door and started
racing out of it, leaving Wolfram in the room looking bewildered.
*****
"So can we really leave without permission?" Yuuri asked Wolfram. They were
both standing beside the water fountain in
Blood Pledge's compound. No one was there except for Anissina and the three
maids, who were chatting about girl power standing
behind the well-trimmed bushes.
"Don't be a wimp. Unless you want to travel around the world to find
Conrad just to ask for his permission or ask Gwendal
instead, you're on your own. Besides, I'm here to protect you," Wolfram said.
Yuuri gulped at the thought of Gwendal's glare. He would rather travel ten
thousand galaxies to find Conrad then to disturb
his peace and ask him for permission.
"Where is Conrad? I never knew he left?" he asked.
"He went for his patrol. No one ever knows how far he wanders during one
of his patrols. Now, are you going to jump into the
fountain or do you want me to push you in?" Wolfram answered impatiently.
"I'll do fine on my own." Yuuri held his breath and jumped into the pool
and let himself be sucked into the blackhole. He could
not see Wolfram anywhere through the murky waters. It was too hard to think when
the blackhole was pulling him in.
The next thing he knew was that he was back on Earth, in
Japan,
in his home's bathtub. His Maoh uniform was completely
drenched. He got up when he heard his mother, Jennifer, calling for his name.
Just then, Wolfram's head immersed from the tub,
gasping for breath. He got up too in his soaked blue soldier uniform.
Jennifer opened the door to the bathroom and was delighted to see her son
and soon to be son-in-law. As soon as she stepped
into the bathroom with a happy smile, the bath tub
made a gurgling noise, then something beneath exploded. The loud deafening
explosion forced the bath water to rise from the tub and subside with a splash
on the tiled floor, wetting Wolfram and Yuuri even
more. Everyone was silent for a moment.
Finally, Yuuri broke the ice.
"What was that for?" he asked while receiving a hug from his mother, who
does not seem to be bothered with their wet
condition. When she finally let go of Yuuri, she said,"Perhaps you won't be able
to go back to Shin Makoku anymore. Oh no! The
people there will be lost without you! What should we do??" she cried and hugged
Wolfram.
"No, that is not likely possible," Wolfram said, relieved when Jennifer
let go of him.
"Let's not care about that little explosion! It must be some of that huge
bars of soap that fell into the tub! Mom! I want to eat
your curry rice!!!" Yuuri cried with excitement. He dried his hair with a towel.
"Are there anymore surprise guests??" Jennifer asked, hoping to catch a
glimpse of Conrad as she peeked into the empty
bath tub. "Oh...I guess not...Welcome back, Wol-Chan!"
she said.
"Mother. I am back. When shall we go to the Bridal Shop?" Wolfram said in
a formal way. Jennifer laughed and claimed that
her son was very lucky to have a fiance like him.
Yuuri laughed in a forced way and pushed his mother away from Wolfram and
told her to get into the kitchen. Jennifer thought
they were a very cute couple and decided to leave them alone.
After having his shower, Yuuri went into his room in a bathrobe. Wolfram
was still soaking wet but he did not seem to
mind one bit. He was keeping himself occupied by looking around his room with
interest.
"Go take your shower, Wolfram. I'll get you some of my clothes." Yuuri
began rummaging his limited wardrobe for clothes that
can fit Wolfram. He pulled out a pair of baggy brown capris and a green T-Shirt
that was quite similar to Wolfram's peasant clothes.
Wolfram took them and went into the bathroom.
Later, Yuuri heard rattles of keys coming from the doorway and realized
that his father was home. Ma was always tired after
work and a nice hot bath usually revive him. Yuuri decided to do him a favour by
beginning to fill the tub with hot water a while
after Wolfram had gone to the kitchen.
"Yuuri! How's my Maoh Heika?" Ma greeted his son from behind him. Yuuri
greeted him back and went to the kitchen, eager
to taste Jennifer's curry rice.
*****
"Let's start!" Jennifer and his son said at the
dining table. Wolfram was poking at his curry rice.
"Where is Shouri?" Yuuri asked between mouthfuls.
"Worried about your brother, aren't you? Yuu-Chan! Sho-Chan went to the
electronics shop to get a new printer. Do want
more, Wol-Chan?" Jennifer cooed. She had finished her curry rice and had started
washing the dishes.
"No thanks," Wolfram said and finished his last spoonful of curry rice.
Then he walked to the living room and began scrutinizing
every item there was.
"Wolf. You never do the dishes, do you? You're too spoilt," Yuuri
commented, drying the plates as Jennifer chuckled.
"Me? Spoilt? How about you, Wimp?" Wolfram yelled as Jennifer chuckled
again.
"Okay, okay! Thanks for the food, Mom! We're going back already!" Yuuri
wiped his mouth with some serviette he had
grabbed off the table.
"That was quick! Well, do be a good King, Yuu-Chan! I'm sure everyone
depends on you there!" Jennifer said cheerfully,
waving him off. "Come visit Mummy soon!"
"I will, Mother," Wolfram said and raced into the corridor after Yuuri.
"HEY YUURI! WHO SAID YOU GET TO MAKE
ALL THE DECISIONS??"
Jennifer looked up from her dishes and took a glance at Yuuri's framed
baby photos. She sighed and told herself that her
baby Yuuri has grown up. She cheered up at the thought of he would be a married
man soon. Ma came into the kitchen, fresh
after his bath and planted a kiss on his wife's cheek. Then, he sat down on a
chair waiting for his wife to serve her delicious curry
rice.
*****
"Okay, are you ready?" Yuuri asked, feeling the bath water with his hand.
It was the water from Shouma's water but he did not
mind. Why waste water when it was irrelevant to do so?
"Here I go!" he said and jumped into the tub. He felt no pressure
underwater so he waited for a few moments. Wolfram was
looking at him.
"Why didn't it work?" he asked as Yuuri climbed out slowly and gently
squeezed the water out from his shirt. Both of them
peered into the tub, expecting to see a blackhole or some harsh ripples on the
surface. But all they saw was clear water, perfectly
still with no sign of Shin Makoku waiting for them underneath.
"That was perfectly normal," Yuuri said, turning to face Wolfram. Wolfram
raised his eyebrow. "AAAHHH!!! THE ENTRANCE
TO SHIN MAKOKU HAS CLOSED!!! NOW THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE A NEW KING!!! I CAN'T GET
BACK!!! I STILL WANNA
PLAY CATCH WITH CONRAD! AND GRETA WILL MISS ME SO MUCH!" Yuuri screamed
hysterically and raced around the
bathroom. Jennifer and Shouma laughed upon hearing their chatter in the kitchen.
They were completely oblivious to the real
situation.
*****
"What should I do in Earth? It's already a few weeks in Shin Makoku! I hope
Brother doesn't send a search party for us,"
Wolfram asked, perched on Yuuri's super-single bed. Yuuri was making his third
change of clothes for the day.
"We'll try again tomorrow," Yuuri said calmly, as if that was the most
normal thing in the world after his tantrum in the
bathroom. Well, for him, it was, but not for Wolfram.
"You're not worried because you practically have nothing to do there. But I
am a much more important person than you are and
everyone needs me more than you so find a way out of this mess, wimp."
"Hey! Who's the Maou here?" Yuuri asked naturally. He was so used to having
these kinds of conversations with Wolfram that
he hardly protested about Wolfram calling him a wimp anymore. "Since you're here
already, wanna go look around outside?" he
asked, checking the clock on the wall. It said eight o'clock.
"I don't mind staying here. But if you insist on going, I'll have to go
too, for your protection," Wolfram sighed as Yuuri winced.
"I was doing it for your sake! Now it feels like you're doing it for
me...Well, wanna go to the arcade? Or do you wanna watch
baseball on TV? Perhaps we can go to the
Art Gallery.
The art there is so much better than yours," offered Yuuri with a laugh.
But Wolfram did not take it as a joke.
"My paintings were done for you with all my love and heart, and you dare
compare it with some other artworks?" he yelled and
hurled a pillow at Yuuri with his I'm-ready-for-a-duel pose. "But that sounds
like a good idea."
*****
Before they set out, Yuuri briefly explained the situation to his parents.
Of course, Jennifer and Shouma said they were always
welcome for a guest, especially if that special guest will become their
son-in-law soon.
Yuuri dragged Wolfram out before they could breathe another word about
having a new member to their family. On their way
to the gallery, they bumped into Shouri, who was coming out from a cafe. He was
carrying a paper bag and was a bit surprised by
Wolfram's appearance.
"Yuuri~! And his fiance! Going on a walk together? How romantic!" Shouri
said as some passers-by turn their heads around.
"NO!" Yuuri protested. Then he came up with an idea. "Shouri, do you want
to join us to the Art Gallery?" he tried to avoid
Wolfram's cold-stoned glare.
"Sure, if your fiance doesn't mind," Shouri said, motioning at Wolfram,
who was sulking about the fact that his bethrothed's
brother had ruined their moonlight walk.
"Of course he doesn't! Pay no attention to him," Yuuri laughed as the
three started walking on the dark street, lightened by the
bright lights from shops.
"Yeah, pay no attention to me," Wolfram said quietly, but loud enough for
Yuuri and Shouri to hear. "Come on, Wolf! I mean,
the more the merrier, right?" Yuuri consoled but Wolfram had walked off another
direction. "Believe what you want, wimp," he
said and disappeared into a darker part of the street. Yuuri felt guilty; he
really wanted to spend some time with his brother, but
he did not want to disappoint Wolfram either. He looked up to his brother
desperately for guidance.
Shouri gave his brother a look and nodded. Yuuri nodded back and went
after Wolfram, shouting for him. As his brother, too,
disappeared into the vast of darkness, he stood where he was and chuckled. <i>And
now I leave my little brother to you, Wolfram.
</i> He smiled at the darkness and decided to go home and try out his new
printer.
*****
"HEYYYYY, WOOOLF!!!!" he yelled into the darkness, which had brightened a
little as he got further inside. He kept walking
until the streets became clearer and brighter. It seemed that he had found his
way into the marketplace. Stalls were placed neatly
on the left and right side of the street. There were not many visitors, and he
was not surprised by that fact as the night was getting
late. Some stalls were already shutted down.
The only stalls opened were the few ones in front. Behind them, the
shopkeepers were packing their merchandise away into
their vehicles. Yuuri caught sight of Wolfram lurking in front of a colourful
stall a few stalls behind. He ran to him, hoping he
would not be too angry about his comments earlier.
"Wolf???" he called and tapped the shoulder of an intent Wolfram. Yuuri
followed Wolfram's gaze at the interior of the shop,
where the shopkeeper was telling them about all kinds of wonderful candy he had.
"Give me a bag with all assortment," Yuuri told the shopkeeper, after a
few moments of the shopkeeper's chatters, hoping
that could stop the old man from babbling. He wondered how Wolfram could had
tolerated him, knowing how impatient he was.
He dug his back pocket for his wallet and took out two hundred yen notes and
handed them to the grinning old man. Wolfram took
the bagful of sweets from him and took a green-coloured sweet from the bag. He
unwrapped it and popped it into his mouth.
"Wow...I didn't know you like sweets." Yuuri laughed as both of them
walked back to the dark street. It did not seem so dark
then, with both of them together.
"What's the problem with it? Gwendal likes cute stuff, and I like sweets.
Compared to your passion for flirting, I think it's
incommensurable, wimp," Wolfram retorted as he popped another sweet into his
mouth.
"For the thousand billionth time, I AM NOT FLIRTING! NOR DO I LIKE IT!"
Yuuri yelled in protest, getting a stare from
a passerby in return. "Hmph."
Yuuri dug for his wallet again as they entered the
Art
Gallery. He paid for the entrance fee and took Wolfram into the
painting department. They looked at all the paintings and Yuuri finally decided
that they were almost similar to Wolfram's; all
horribly painted with blotches of paints here and there. Most of all, he had no
idea what the artist was painting.
Wolfram agreed with him. The paintings were indeed crazy, though he did
admit that his was better.
"But they don't smell as good," Yuuri told him and almost throw up at
the thought of the stench of the bearbee's excrement,
which were used to make paint. Wolfram nodded and popped another sweet into his
mouth. By then, the once-full-bag was half
empty. As he did so, the intercom announced that the gallery was shutting in ten
minutes' time.
"What was that?" Wolfram asked with the mint-flavoured sweet in his
mouth, making him sound like a kid.
"Eh...An intercom. It's a device that enables the user to speak to the
listeners without face-to-face communication...Or
something like that," Yuuri mumbled as he scratched the back of his head
uncertainly. He was not really good in explaining.
Wolfram nodded, already losing interest. They walked out of the Art
Gallery together.
"Where do you want to go next?" Yuuri asked, looking at the 82-year-old
Mazoku who was greedily chomping his bagful
of candy.
"Wherever you want." Wolfram started digging the bag for another sweet
when he realized he had finished all of it. "Where
did all the sweets disappear to?" he asked curiously, throwing the bag into the
garbage bin.
"Don't you get tooth decays or cavities from eating so much candy all
at once?" Yuuri snorted. Then he thought that perhaps
Mazokus were different from humans. "Let's go back home already. It's almost
midnight."
Before they set their feet in the Shibuya household, Yuuri had to burn
another hole in his pocket by buying a giant-sized
lollipop for Wolfram.
*****
"Yuu-Chan! Wol-Chan! Welcome home!" Jennifer looked up from her
magazine with a smile. Beside her, Shouma was
reading the newspaper on the sofa. He looked up and smiled too. He smiled even
more when he saw Wolfram with a colourful
lollipop in his grip. <i>Is he really a soldier?</i>, he wondered.
"We're back! Well, I think we're going to go to bed already. We're
trying the bath tub tomorrow again, so this
might be the
last night I'm here, Mom, Dad," Yuuri said and went up to his room with Wolfram
tagging behind.
They passed Shouri's room and Yuuri knew he was still awake by the
flickering of his brother's computer. He said goodnight
before going back to his room.
"Here are my pajamas you can borrow," Yuuri said and handed Wolfram a
pair of plain blue pajamas. He was a bit
disappointed that Yuuri did not keep nightgowns, but decided to go along with
the pajamas. "The guestroom is over to the right-
Wait, are you sleeping with me again?" Wolfram smirked.
"Won't you feel uncomfortable in this small bed of mine? We're not in
Shin Makoku, you know," Yuuri sighed as he climbed
onto his bed. He knew he would not win this argument, present or future, so he
shifted in, leaving some space for Wolfram to
sleep in. His fiance said,"Glad you didn't choose to argue over the same topic
again, wimp. Oh, where's my lollipop?" he asked,
climbing into the bed.
"I threw it away while you were changing. Too much sugar intake is
harmful to your health, you know," Yuuri saidand
covered himself with his blanket. He looked to his left and saw Wolfram already
asleep. He was snoring, as usual. Yuuri whispered
a good night before shutting his eyes.
*****
Pitches of balls. Swings of bats. A hard thud as the bat fell to the
ground. Roars from the audience. A loud yawn escaping
from Wolfram's mouth.
"What's so fun about this game?" he asked as he looked at Yuuri, who
was shouting and cheering enthusiastically. "And why
is everyone else so interested in the game as you?" He took off his cap and put
it on again.
"Come on! The game's almost ending...And my team is winning!" Yuuri
cheered again as the announcer announced the
outcome of the tournament. Everyone turned to leave, some still cheering wildly
while others were disappointed.
"Your team?" Wolfram asked as they, too, left the stadium. "I can't
believe I had let you take me to such a boring place."
"The team I'm supporting. It wasn't that bad, was it?" Yuuri said
excitedly. He did a demonstration by swinging his arms
round like he was hitting a ball with his invisible bat. "What do you want to
have for lunch?" he asked as they stopped at a
junction.
"When are we going back? You said we will after the boring game,
right?" Wolfram asked miserably.
"You sound like I'm hurting you," Yuuri said guiltily. He told him that
they will go back to Shin Makoku as soon as they
had had their lunch.
"There! It's the nearest restaurant I can see from here. We can have a
really quick meal then we're off," he said and
led Wolfram to the left side of the junction. The road opened up to a busy
street. They crossed the street with the zebra crossing
when the traffic light turned red.
As Yuuri pushed the glass door open, the waitresses welcomed him and
continued with their work. Wolfram followed,
looking around at the simple fast food restaurant. He had no idea what idea what
the menu on the wall was saying as he stared
at the funny-looking round-shaped bread-like food. Yuuri had to order for him
from the counter and carried a tray full of those
funny-looking food and stiff, yellow...uh...spaghetti? He placed them on the
table Wolfram had already seated in and sat down
on the chair opposite him.
Yuuri handed a neatly wrapped burger to him and opened his. He picked
it up by hand and sank his teeth into it. Wolfram
did the same doubtfully, then his eyes lit up. He took another slow bite,
savouring the strange-like food. Yuuri grinned and
gestured for him to try the fries too, when a gang of bullies pulled him out
from his chair roughly. They made a threatening
demand for money and revenge.
"HEY! NO ONE DOES THAT TO MY WIMP, GET IT? NO ONE BUT ME!" Wolfram
yelled and rose from his chair too. He
threw his burger, sceptically and regretfully, right on the one bully that was
grabbing Yuuri's shirt. He saw the attack and quickly
used Yuuri as his shield. The mushy burger hit Yuuri instead, and he groaned.
"Oh? Who's yer friend here, Urine?" the other bully sneered and tried
to grab Wolfram too, but was cut off by the workers
in the restaurant. "No fighting here," one of the waiters said and kicked them
out from the restaurant. "And you're lucky I didn't
call the police," he hissed and went back to work.
"Now look at what a mess you've gotten us into, blondie," the bigger
bully threatened. He carried Yuuri and Wolfram like
they were nothing but feathers by their shirts to a more vacant place. When they
reached the park, he dropped them on the
ground so that they could fall and hurt themself in addition to what they're
gonna do. Well, only Yuuri did that, but Wolfram
landed on his feet and commanded them to stop in his Obey-me-now-or-you're-gonna-live-a-nightmare-forever-in-your-
pathetic-lives. The bullies flinch, even the big one but the medium one, who
seemed to be their leader, immediately regained his
poise and grinned sheepishly. Wolfram smirked as he knew the grin came out of
fear.
"Wanna fight, eh, blondie?" he challenged and beckoned for his drones
to back away. Wolfram was about to retort when
Yuuri said,"Don't do it, Wolf. They're not worth your time. We're going back,
right?" he picked himself out from the ground and
calmly washed his scratched knee with the water from the fountain.
"Not worth y'r freaking time? What d' you think we are, Urine???" the
leader snarled angrily and pushed Yuuri into the
fountain hastily. A stray dog barked and ran away from the scene.
"Now, your turn. Pr'pare to be afraid," the punk leader with blue
spiky hair sneered with a hint of uncertainty in his
voice. Wolfram took his time to comment. "You have very ugly hair. I wonder how
you mother lives with it," he said coldly
as Yuuri sat up, still in the fountain. The other bullies gasp and looked like
they were about to seek shelter from the
exploded bits of brains of their leader.
The punk leader was awestruck. Usually, he would punch anyone who
would insult his hair, even if it's the teacher, but he
couldn't resist the urge to agree with his opponent. Still, he did not share it
and pretended to be even angrier. Just then, Yuuri
shouted as a huge blackhole formed under him and pulled him in.
"Yuuri!" Wolfram called and hurriedly ran to the fountain. The
bullies followed him, wondering what the drama was about
when Wolfram hissed something that would haunt their minds forever. They quickly
retreat and watched him plunge into
the fountain and disappeared.
"Man! Did we j'st get scared off like chicken in front of that
blondie?" the small bully said, laughing. The leader looked
at the fountain with amazement and kicked the smaller one on his stomach. He
rolled over in pain.
"Guys, d'ya hear me? We ain't no chick'n but we ain't bullyin Shibuya
anymore," he said, surprised he could say it so calmly.
The others nodded in agreement. "Well..not if t'e blondie ain't there." He
shivered at the thought of Wolfram's cold glare and
spine-chilling tone. He put his hands into the pocket of his very baggy jeans,
not putting so much energy into it, in case his
jeans fell down.
"W're goin' to the salon. Maybe I can get meh hair done like
blondie's," he said, his heart pounding a little faster than
usual.
*****
"Heika!!" Gunter cried and ran across the compound. He hugged Yuuri
tightly, making such a huge commotion that
everyone in the castle hurried to the fountain. Wolfram stepped out from the
compound, receiving hugs from his mother.
"Mother...Everyone's watching," Wolfram said, blushing.
"They're jealous, that's why," Cheri cooed and hugged Yuuri, who had
just been released from Gunter's deathly hugs.
When he saw Cheri coming his way, he sighed.
Gwendal was still frowning and nodding, as usual, although his
brother and Yuuri had been gone for weeks in Shin
Makoku's time. He crosssed his arms, then uncrossed them shiftedly, deciding
whether to give them a lecture or not for being
so irresponsible. Finally he shook his head and went back to his room to knit a
welcome gift for the couple.
Meanwhile, after the maids finished their chatters and Cheri and
Gunter had finished their Squeeze of Death, Yuuri
and Wolfram were released from all the attention and was allowed to dry
themselves.
"You look so cute in earth clothes," Cheri squealed, prancing around
behind her son, after he had on his usual soldier
uniform again.
"Mother...If you're going to scold us...Well, I might as well admit
that it wasn't the wimp's fault," Wolfram stated
guitily as Conrad caught up with them. Cheri laughed and ran her long, slender
fingers through her son's tousled hair. "No, I
won't. Just remember to bring me there next time!" she cried, then left Wolfram
to Conrad.
"Wolfram..." Conrad said. His voice wavered a bit. Wolfram tried to
guess whether Lord Weller was about to give him a
lecture or forbid him to leave his room forever. But he was wrong.
Conrad suddenly threw his arms around his half brother and gave him a
bearhug. The shocked Wolfram stood frozen for
a while before pushing him off.
"Get off me, Lord Weller," he yelled and ran off. But he did not mean
it. It had been long - too long - since he last had
such a warm hug. He smiled as he ran, not realizing it. Conrad was not surprised
at his brother's reaction. He went on a
journey around the castle to search for Yuuri.
"NO! NO! Heika! How are you going to study when you're half asleep??
We have only thirteen chapters left!" Gunter said
in the library. On the table were piles of books waiting to be studied. Just the
sight of them makes Yuuri sleepy.
"Gunter...I just got back from Earth, so why can't I rest before
proceeding?" Yuuri covered another yawn with his hand.
He laid his head on the table and fell fast asleep. He jumped when he heard his
daughter, Greta, cheering for him.
"Thanks...I really needed that...But not now." He fell asleep again.
*****
"So I guess Yuu-Chan must be back in Shin Makoku by now," Jennifer
smiled. Then her face stricten.
"Ma! Were you drinking alcohol again in the
bath tub?" she asked, frowning at her husband. He flinched, and guiltily
admitted.
"What a great mess you had caused! Yuu-Chan and Wol-Chan had the
fright of their lives! They thought they couldn't go back to Shin Makoku
anymore! Well, of course they couldn't. They need pure, clean water," Jennifer
glared. Slowly, her glare turned into a smile when she saw Shouma apologizing
like a kid.
*****
"Boss! Are y' sure yer doin' tis?" the big bully asked the blue
haired punk as they stepped into the salon. The customers looked at their
hideous hairstyle.
"Yeah, I agree. Don't yer thin' the blondie's hairstyle won't suit
yer face?" the small bully said, lowering his voice at the word ugly. But the
leader heard him and punched him in his chin.
"Boys! Which one of you want a haircut?" a hairstylist asked. She
tapped her foot on the marble floor.
"Meh," the leader pointed to himself. The hairstylist had a good
look at his hair and then motioned for him to sit on the nearest chair. She
wrapped a plastic sheet around his body, then asked about the hairstyle he
wanted. But the leader was not good at describing things. "Uh...A little curled,
blonde, long, short, wavy, straight, golden," he babbled. The hairstylist winced
and told him to stop the joke. He grabbed her scissors and started cutting his
own hair. Annoyed and insulted, the hairstylist frowned and stood behind the
counter, doing some yoga.
"Boss??" the two bullies were shouting, shaking their leader's
shoulders. He had apparently fainted upon seeing his own ugly face with a new
hairstyle that was completely different than Wolfram's. When asked for a hair
dye, the hairstylist delierately dyed his hair pink instead of blonde. When the
towel was unwrapped from his hair, he stared into the mirror, looking at two
tufts of hair, curly and straight, long and short, and pink. He could not punch
his laughing drones as he had had too much of a shock. Now they had to carry him
back home.
"It's gonna be a long, long trip," the big bully sighed and carried
his leader and strode into the darker side of the streets.
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