Chapter 3: Ch. 3
Next Day.
Anteiku.
"...I swear! I saw it, he's not normal!"
It's an early day morning, inside the anteiku cafe a man will be seen talking almost yelling to Enji while drinking coffee.
"He evaded Ishimi's, and Umino's Kagune onslaught like an experienced Dove. I'm telling you he's not an ordinary man!"
"So, you're telling me he's an undercover Ghoul Inspector?" Enji who's on the opposite side of the counter asks looking at the man while cleaning some mugs with a cleaning towel.
"No! He scaled the walls and jumped a three storey tall building. Twist the heads of Ishimi, and Umino who're Ghouls. You think a human can do that?"
"No. But I think Arima can."
"No! I mean yes! Maybe Arima can, but I'm talking about Mikio here. He's not Arima!!" The Ghoul yelled, and Enji poured the guy another coffee and tried to calmed him down.
"Here, dude, calm down. So, what you're saying is he's a Ghoul then?" Enji asks giving the guy the coffee, but the other guy just laugh at Enji's question.
"Hahaha! You think Ishimi and Umino will last against that guy if he's Ghoul?" The man drank down his coffee till the last drop. "No!" He slammed the empty cup to the counter.
"He would kill them in an instant. Hahaha! And, he was eating sandwiches he bought from here that time while fighting them. Hahaha!" The man laughed, but everyone who can hear him inside the cafe can feel the sorrow and sadness in his voice.
The man who's telling a story about Mikio right now is a Ghoul that got invited by the two Ghouls who attaked Mikio last night. He is close friends of those Ghouls who got killed. They're all came here in the 20th ward together to sought a more peaceful life.
But hunger got on them. The two Ghouls propose to attack Mikio and share his meat among them. He joined them. But he being the weakest among the group, became the lookout to the other Ghouls who's going to join on their ambush. And this saves him from their prey instead, and becomes the lone survivor of that hunt.
...
Right now, only Ghouls are inside the cafe that's why they can openly talk about these sensitive topic.
In the kitchen of the cafe, Yoshimura Kuzen was making some sandwiches, while thinking of the possibility of Mikio being like her daughter.
A One Eyed Ghoul.
On the other hand in the corner of the cafe. Rize will be seen reading a book with a grim expression on her face. She was thinking of the possibility of Mikio having connection to her family.
The Washuu clan.
...
4th Ward.
Rooftop of a large apartment complex.
Holding a wooden sword, Mikio jumped and slashed the sword to the wooden dummy and ran around the place swinging his sword to the other dummies while rolling to the ground, jumping, and doing acrobatics.
'Now let's try to add a breathing form.' He ran again and inhaled a deep breath.
'Water Breathing... Third form... Flowing Dance!' He exhaled, swung, and bend his blade in a winding motion along with his body and danced in a flowing pattern, hitting all dummies in his path.
"Haaa..." He breathed out and looked at the limping broken wooden sword in his hand.
He glanced behind him. All the dummies he hit are either broken or lying on the ground with bents.
"Sigh... I really need a proper weapon." He mumbled to himself and walked towards the empty bench in the corner and sat in there and drank some water.
Right now he was wearing a skin tight black turtle neck, dark green camo pants, and black boots. His hair is also tied in a high ponytail which reveals his thick forehead.
"I wonder when the canon will start?" Mikio wonders, leaning his back to the bench, spreading his arms and legs, and hanging his head upside down behind the bench.
"Although I almost know nothing about the series, I do feel kind of excited thinking of interacting with some characters and watching everything happens in real time." He mumbled and drink some water, making the water flow out of his nose and made him stood up.
"Damn! So that's what will happen when you drink with your head hanging upside down, huh... New knowledge." He muttered and sit again at the bench with his head hanging behind the bench again.
A few minutes had passed in silence. He got tired of hanging his head, so he lay down on the bench while daydreaming, and without him knowing he fell asleep.
Half an hour had passed, he woke up and noticed that he sleep in the bench. He checked the time. It's late noon, there's still a lot of time before evening.
"I'm bored."
Cleaning the rooftop, Mikio goes to his apartment, took a shower and change his clothes. He then took his bicycle and wander around Tokyo.
...
6th Ward.
Ueno Zoo.
Eating a Dango on a stick, Mikio is standing in front of the monkey's cage watching the low life idiotic mammals behind the thick glass window making a live free porn of miracle baby making.
He has been standing here for almost half an hour watching those lustful monkeys inside having sex in public.
Around Mikio, are people who are walking away looking at him with disgust, and... curiousity.
For parents who bring their children in the zoo, after seeing those horny monkeys making a baby, they immediately walk away to try to shield their children to such acts while throwing Mikio who's been standing there all this time a disgusted, and hateful look. On the other hand, the girls and women in the age of teens to adults are throwing Mikio a curious, and lewd looks, thinking in themselves if this fine attractive man want some action like those monkeys in the cage.
And of course, Mikio is obvious to those stares people are giving him, he's not numb like those MC in fictions, it's just that he already finished sightseeing the other animals here in the Zoo, and compare to those other animal in other exhibits, the monkey exhibit is far more interesting, not because of those two lecherous monkey having sex, but because of those stares the little monkeys in the far back exhibit are giving him, or more precisely human like him.
Wariness, fear, hate. Those looks are what those little monkeys are giving, and Mikio finds those monkeys having feelings like that interesting. They're making him remember that certain familiar anime character who always yell 'fight!'
"Even if we can't get outside these walls, we got food and rest, and that's enough to stay alive... But a life like that is no different than if we actually were cattle." Mikio lowly whispered. His eyes then set on the little monkey on the front of the other monkeys with a burning gaze as if he's ready to fight him at any given moment.
Mikio suddenly thought of a funny yet crazy idea. He looked left and right, and seeing that there were almost no people around him, he tapped on the glass window that separates him and the monkeys, making the monkeys inside the exhibit look at him in attention.
In the eyes of the little monkey who had a burning gaze, the man who's on the other side of the glass wall is looking at them with disdain and degradation look, as if he's mocking his whole idiotic species inside the glass cage.
But the next moment the small monkey saw the man's eyes turned blood red, and the next thing he knew...
He wants freedom.
"Born inside this cage, lived comfortably inside this cage, and die inside this cage. The same thing will happen to the next generation and the next to it. Our lives are completely at humans hand...
I don't want that...
I want to be free...
I will fight...
...
"Now, I got the feeling to introduce Attack on Titan in this world." Mikio said grinning looking at the little monkey inside the exhibit who was looking at Mikio with scornful look.
'I'm excited about this monkey's future.'
...
Eve had come and in a few hours the sun will soon begone. Mikio had already left the zoo and now in the 16th Ward patrolling again. But this time he was above the roofs jumping and doing parkour around the ward.
He was jumping from building to building while doing tricks like flipping in the air. He's heart was filled with joy, a smile was plastered on his face.
'Why didn't I tried this before? This is so much fun!' He thought, while feeling the strong blow of wind crashing on his body.
Right now he was running at near superhuman speed integrating the Total Concentration Breathing on his normal breathing training to attain using it 24/7 to master it and finally use its higher level form the Total Concentration: Constant.
As Mikio ran and jumped around the city he heard a weak cry of someone from afar that he heard thanks to his improved hearing. He ran to it's direction and later on arrived at the edge of a building where below him is a dark alley where he heard the voice.
Right now he is wearing a black trench coat that almost covers his entire body. He brought his hands inside his coat and took out a full face black mask. He wear it.
He brought up his face and it was unveiled that he was wearing a mask with only one eyehole on its right side. An intricate spiral pattern is carved on the masked swirling around the eyehole as if it's a black hole that absorbs everything.
There's only pure darkness in the eyehole. But in the next moment, a red orb glowed inside it with a black dot at its center, and around that dot are three swirling commas spinning like a wheel.
Mikio jumped from the building to the alley. On his disappearing back a red cloud graffiti design will be seen marked on his black coat.
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