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~The Lone Wolf's Long Tale: Koichi Iramasha's Story~ {OPEN THREAD}
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| It was the holiday rush for the pub as Hanako forces herself to accommodate for the customers. Apparently it was standard for customer satisfaction to have the pub open from early morning through nighttime. But to Hanako and her condition of bearing five for over two months, it was beginning to sound ridiculous as juggling between taking care of her and her unborn children and the integrity of the pub while Koichi, her husband is going out to get funds from bounty hunting. Normally, Hanako would open for daytime and go bounty hunting during weekends, but for this, the pub requires more attention than ever. Recently, Koichi was becoming broody or frustrated over something and Hanako cannot put a finger on it. She would talk to Koichi, but the holiday rush robs the time she needs to talk to him and she was afraid that frustration will build up into something that even she has a hard time to repair. Patrons come and go hour by hour, minute by minute as Hanako feels that she is in a cage where she cannot get out. She guesses that being the Super Munchkin of the Karakura Defenders would be a tall order for now. At least trouble is not following her like the one time with that crazy lady earlier. By memory, Hanako was going out with Archer and Shirou to get a pornographic graphic novel latest from her favorite author, but the crazy lady, so full of misconception and discomforting impressions that Hanako was on her toes about it while Archer and Shirou was told by Hanako to stay on their guards. Archer and Shirou are part of this family as well, so it is natural that Hanako would be concerned about their interactions with that crazy woman. At least she bought her graphic novels and returned unharmed, she can at least rest about it, but events has been going about the city like a prelude to an avalanche, subtle and eerily foretelling for a disaster to come. With Koichi’s frustration that Hanako was forcefully ignorant of and the increasing activities in the city, Hanako can only hope for the best that at least things will calm down and she has the time to talk to Koichi about his frustration. For all that she knows, someone told Koichi and ever since then, Koichi was in peril of mental self-destruction or so as Hanako would think. He is her husband and he is the one that Hanako was concerned of. “Minatumi. Break’s over.” Hanako speaks to Hoshiko who was recently rescued from Minatumi Harbor over some kind of a dispute with DEPTH-Com. Strange for someone to be against DEPTH-Com when that company was only concerning over the health of the public and the future of mankind. Sure these stories depicted that some are going lengths and unethical bounds to pursue longevity for mankind to exploit, but they are stories, right? “H-Hai!” Hoshiko replies as she nearly stumbles before going back to work. What a poor girl, the new waiter was from Minatumi Harbor that was quarantined. Luckily Aya assures Hanako that she is fine. Hoshiko was her name, but Hanako prefers to call her Minatumi because often times, if referring to Hoshiko, Hanako might accidentally confuse her name with Hoshiko’s when speaking quickly. Judging by the tale from Aya, Hanako has to take care of Hoshiko while she is out finding answers while DEPTH-Com will be looking for both the people who interfered and Hoshiko. Not only that, Hanako has to be careful about the Yakuza who seems to somehow elude from the police so many times while still harassing her. Luckily the pub was protected by seals set up by Kisuke Urahara from Urahara’s candy shop as along Hanako provides the high quality candies for them due to her wealth. Simple deal, was it? As for Hoshiko, it is hard to shake off a feeling that something bad will happen in her life and Hanako feels it is needed that she should provide cushions for that event. However, Hanako is not her mother, but it does not stop her from caring for her like a member of the family since she is now her employee. Upon receiving the note from Hoshiko, Hanako notices a woman approaching her bar table. Many spirits have come to the pub for a drink or information, and the woman was rather new. “How may I serve you?” Hanako asks the woman. The woman does not introduce herself, but she orders a drink that Hanako was familiar with. With the patrons on waiting, it is no doubt that it takes time for Hanako to even begin with the woman’s request. She passes out a bottle of Foster’s brewed beer while starts mixing different spices and peppers into a brownish juice with a scent of hard spices that can feel like a kick in the face attitude to the woman as it was mixed in front of her. Despite her pregnancy, Hanako was not hindered in the matter of bartending. “Foster’s and Wake Up Juice for 16 and 12! Come and get them!” Hanako shouts out to Hoshiko. Hoshiko comes and retrieves the two drinks for the lads. While she does that, Hanako starts mixing in wine, beer and champagne carefully to give it a balance of flavor, kick and exotic blends that seems to be what the woman have not tried before, but looks inviting enough to please her while not able to make her go down like a drunk. Tropical fruits should be evident in tasting while a pleasant stimulation would start after like a good day on the beach or the nice walk through the harmless jungle. Hanako looks at Hoshiko and notices that she was cringing while walking away from the high school senior, who Hanako labeled as “12”. While the senior literally chugs it and makes himself the fool, Hoshiko walks up to her and shows her hand looking like it was blistered from the juice. “It iches.” Hoshiko tells Hanako while sounding like a little girl who hurt herself. Hanako takes Hoshiko’s hand and studies it. To the eyes of the sharp, Hanako was giving an educated scrutiny of the blisters. “One moment.” Hanako speaks to Hoshiko before ducking under the bar table to pull out a first aid kit. Judging by the look of the kit, it is scientifically proven by DEPTH-Com, a particular product that are either expensive or reserved for medical teams of the alliance like Gotei 13, Vizard Corp, Yayjuu and local hospitals. Hanako reviews the kit and pulls out a pocket multi-tool before flipping out a knife. “It may sting a bit, but it is needed to get the alcohol into the blisters. I believe it is just minor contact allergy from the spices.” Hanako tells Hoshiko as she puts a wash cloth on the table, then Hoshiko’s hand over the wash cloth. Carefully, Hanako cuts the blister pockets and spread the opening. Hoshiko’s hand was cringing as it hurts. Hanako puts the knife aside and carefully apply some alcohol from the kit onto the opened blisters to kill the bacteria in the blisters and to sterilize the puss. Without delay, Hanako puts the alcohol away and begins dressing with a high quality bandages to staunch the new wounds. Hanako looks at Hoshiko with a smile while Hoshiko was showing tears of pain. Despite Hanako being shorter than Hoshiko, Hanako puts her hand over Hoshiko’s head and gives her a kiss on the forehead. “Go upstairs. We will need a break.” Hanako tells Hoshiko while seeing her caressing her bandaged hand. “Last call! Break coming soon!” Hanako announces as the customers shout back with acknowledgement, however at the same time, Hanako hears a blast from the roof. As Hoshiko goes upstairs, the woman gets up and walks with Hoshiko. Normally, Hanako would stop the woman in her tracks and tell her that she is not allowed in the house unless she is sure to trust her or she is part of the family. However, Hanako was tied up with patrons wanting the last drink before going home, especially the one still begging for water because of the Wake Up Juice. It takes a few moments to serve the drinks and close up for a while; now, it is time to catch that woman and to find out about the explosion. She walks upstairs and notices Hoshiko running upstairs with her priestly walking stick. Now Hanako is assuming that Hoshiko ran into Koichi, her husband who is sulking on the rooftop. By the time that she reaches upstairs, Hoshiko was telling the woman about Hanako’s dislike for strangers entering in her house unannounced nor not introduced. Hoshiko was clearly ready to fight off the “enemies” before Hanako has to speak. “She is right about me not liking strangers in my house other than those I know as part of the family. But take it easy, Minatumi. The one on the right is my husband and the one on the left is my brother-in-law.” Hanako speaks to both the woman and Hoshiko. 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| It was the day after Christmas that Hoshiko became a member of Hanako’s Pub since Aya took her out of Minatumi Harbor and out of the grasp of DEPTH-Com. Though the flowers suffered, Hoshiko was given enough time to collect a few seeds and Father Yamamoto’s walking stick before leaving town for good. The illness that befell the town was still unknown as even her father’s friend, Hideki Yamamoto was uncertain of what it does. It felt that it is not long until the quarantine would end with a ghost town and Hoshiko left being the only one who survived the mysterious plague. She guessed she is thankful for Aya for saving her and bringing her to Karakura Central. However, she is still new to it all and fails to understand what is going on now that she is away from the comforts of the church and its Soul Irises. Her current goal now was to find a place like the church to plant the Soul Irises in hopes if the plague comes to Karakura, she would be prepared; vain, but prepared at least. All Hideki could tell her that the plague seems to start with a dream and progresses to the point that the dreamer refuses to wake up involuntarily. However, the progression involves having harder time waking up and exhaustion becoming evident. It honestly scares her to think that the infected are forced to sleep themselves to death by depravity over a dream. She has to figure out where is the start of it so that she can at least save Karakura from sharing the fate that befell Minatumi Harbor. In Hanako’s Pub, Hoshiko works as a “tavern wench” or as Hanako calls her, “waiter.” It was weird for her to be dressed like a Japanese maid with a warm vest underneath to protect her from the cold. Leggings and sleeves are dark to match the maid outfit and to keep her warm also. She even has a turtleneck that is thin and dark enough to make her neck look more elegant and warm. But Hanako says it is to prevent thugs from slitting her throat while she is not looking. Why Hanako would be concerned over her like she is Hanako’s child. For the moment, Hoshiko was taking a break so she can catch her breath after scaring away four rats; these rats are huge comparing to the ones at the harbor; especially when one of them actually stand and talk like a corny stereotype of an American gangster! Hoshiko was about to tell Hanako about that, but Hanako shuts her up and gave her a seat to take a break, telling her that the scent of alcohol was getting to her and will take time to get used to. “Minatumi. Break’s over.” Hanako calls out to Hoshiko as Hoshiko’s thoughts break into pieces with the call for attention. “H-Hai!” Hoshiko acknowledges before getting up quickly and nearly stumbles a bit from the rise. Luckily a kind man caught her by the belly and hops her back on her feet. “Arigotto!” Hoshiko shyly thanks the guy before going back to her job as the waiter for the patrons who chooses to play billiards and the arcade machine or just watching sports so Hanako can get most of the customers to be satisfied. She is the waiter and she is at least thankful that Hanako would let her stay in the pub instead of being out in the cold. Even thankful for clothes she was given, so she wants to return the kindness by working for her. Seeing her employer as a pregnant woman working in the pub as bartender and proprietor, Hoshiko sometimes ponder on the reason she was working like that instead of relaxing? She mentioned that she is married, but to who? Hoshiko has not seen her husband before and judging from how Hanako was carrying herself, she was worried about something involving her husband. Did something happen in the past or something? “Waiter! Foster’s here!” A man holds up his number card...16. Hoshiko pulls out the notepad from the apron pocket and writes down, “16 – Foster’s.” Hoshiko nods and shouts, “Hai!”, acknowledging that she has the order. Number card 12 raises up and shouts, “Wake Up Juice!” Hoshiko acknowledges and writes down, “12 – Wake Up.” After a while, she rips the page off and places it on the bar table for Hanako to read and fulfill. Hoshiko looks at the entrance and notices a woman entering, which is strange for this time and place. Of course, there are things that Hoshiko could not understand. Upon entrance of the woman, Hoshiko walks up to the woman and gives a warm smile like a caring girl waiting for her big sister to come home. That feeling like walking home is what made the pub famous and infamous, though Hanako prefers it to be modest because it is more of a homely common house rather than something extravagant like a nightclub down the street. Hoshiko understands that Hanako was intending it to be like that, but it like prodding on one’s nerves for people to refer it like notable or notorious. “Welcome home to Hanako’s Pub! How may I-” Hoshiko makes her routine greeting to the woman, but she blatantly walks by her, which bothers Hoshiko. Hoshiko is still learning about the world that she is in now and even with a place to call home, Hoshiko gives that shy sorrow in form of a frown. “Foster’s and Wake Up Juice for 16 and 12! Come and get them!” Hanako shouts out to Hoshiko. Hoshiko nods and while Hanako was dealing with the woman, Hoshiko grabs the beer bottle and glass of brown juice. The beer bottle was chilled to the point that it subtly burns Hoshiko’s grasping hand while the brown juice was just as warm as the room. The two men raises their sign, “16” and “12”. She takes the beer to 16 and the juice to 12. 16 was with his buddies who are playing billiards while 12 is just a high school senior (as identified by Hanako somehow) who is trying to impress his girlfriend by taking on the juice that can wake the dead or so as Hanako told Hoshiko. Hoshiko thinks it would be fair to warn the boy about it. “Careful, sir. It is powerful enough to cancel out the knockout power of Karakura’s Ha-.” Hoshiko tries to warn, but the senior intervenes by barking, “Just hand the drink! I’m the king!” Hoshiko immediately recede her lips and her throat tightens to cut off her voice. She carefully hands the senior the drink and the senior abruptly snatches the glass out of her hand and a few droplets fell onto her exposed hand. Without warning, the juice was drunk and the senior turns red and hops around while waving his hands towards his mouth while in a raspy, hushed voice, calls for water. It triggers an outrage of laughter to see a kid trying to best the Wake Up Juice and fails at it. However, Hoshiko was distracted with a new discovery of the blisters forming up on her hand from the juice. It itches badly to Hoshiko so she walks to Hanako, weaving through the crowd to the bar table. She shows Hanako the hand with blisters and innocently tells her, “It itches.” Hanako grabs her wrist and checks on it with attentive eyes, studying the blisters without having to cut it open. She then looks through the content of the first aid kit. That first aid kit was quite different from the plastic case kind, it was a burlap kind or was it canvas, but for all Hoshiko knows, it looks militaristic and it carries more than just a band aid and rubbing alcohol. She then pulls out a knife which makes Hoshiko slightly nervous about the inevitable pain. “It may sting a bit, but it is needed to get the alcohol into the blisters. I believe it is just minor contact allergy from the spices.” Hanako tells Hoshiko as she puts a wash cloth on the table, then Hoshiko’s hand over the wash cloth. Contact allergy? Meaning she is allergic to the spices only when in contact with them? She has not try any spices before, she even have to deal with plain, stripped fish and rice for a basic church living. Maybe that is why it is new to her all along. Suddenly, Hoshiko feels the sharp pain from the knife following by a burning sensation from the alcohol. Hoshiko reactively tightens her lips while biting her lower lip as her hand cringes with the mix of itch, burn and pinch. When Hanako wraps the bandages around the hand, the hand begins to feel warm and the pain suppressing itself. The bandages feel warm to Hoshiko as Hoshiko lowers her head to look at the bandages wrapped around her hand. Tears trickle involuntarily from the pain earlier as Hanako kisses her on the forehead like a mother does to her child when they are in pain. “Go upstairs. We will need a break.” Hanako tells Hoshiko while Hoshiko was feeling her hand in curiosity of how come the bandages made her hand feel warm and soothed all of the sudden. Hoshiko nods to Hanako and walks to the backroom and upstairs to change back to her normal clothes. Suddenly, Hoshiko hears a blast from the rooftop while drowned out by the uproar downstairs. She begins to go upstairs to find out what is going on up there because she recalls no one on the rooftop. During the rush upstairs, she left the door unlocked for anyone to enter (explaining how Nakami manages to get to the rooftop without Hanako’s consent about entering her household upstairs.) Through the living room and the hallway, she reaches another stairway upstairs to the rooftop, where she notices two transparent beings sitting on the rooftop while looking up, she notices a hole in the city’s dome. That may be bad...maybe these two are intruders! Hoshiko rushes back down and notices a woman passing by her as she was getting Father Yamamoto’s Walking Stick. Entering Hanako’s room, she retrieves the walking stick and ran back upstairs to the rooftop. Like a clumsy farmer’s daughter defending the coop from foxes, Hoshiko looks ready to bash some heads if not given answers as to what is going on. “Who are you two?” Hoshiko asks with fear evident while she just notices the woman on the rooftop as well. “Miss, I thought no guests are allowed up here unless Hanako knows them as friends. Come and I’ll take you back downstairs because Hanako will be furious to see a stranger at her house.” Hoshiko questions the woman’s standing in the matter. “She is right about me not liking strangers in my house other than those I know as part of the family. But take it easy, Minatumi. The one on the right is my husband and the one on the left is my brother-in-law.” Hanako speaks as she manages to catch up to the ruckus. Hoshiko turns around to Hanako and lowers her staff, before looking at one transparent person to the next. |
| In the night sky, the stars are glittering peacefully without a care for the nay-sayers below. The clouds are hardly to be seen only to the normal eyes, but the sharp eyes can see them well enough to determine the rigid shapes. One was in shape of a dragon’s head; a sign of future glory, a crying angel; a sign of unnatural events, and a trio of skulls; a sign of a massacre. If pieced together, the battle ahead may involve elements of unnatural deaths for many people. The last cloud was the raven’s head; a sign of misery. To those who can remember the legends of the raven demon lord of misery, it is an animal insignia of TelcinVohlis. After the raven cloud passes by, the stars begins to fall subtly, but to those who are wary of fate that has already changed recently, it is a sign that there is something evil at work and it is messing with Fate, a terrible crime that can bring forth a cataclysm of events that can change the world and its people... including spirits alike. |
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