"Take their order on that table, fast!"
Shouted the manager ordering the guy to take their order. Xander who worked as a waitress taking people's order on the eatery. The manager's name was Chaesy. She's a young manager but was always angry and responsible to anything on the restaurant. After working, Xander actually take a bus as transportation since he doesn't have a vehicle to travel everywhere. What surprising was she also took the same bus with me. Its not the first time he went with her on the same bus. He also remembers where she would likely to stop and the place was her way home. The distance between my stop and her stop was nearby. He's care about this because he has a crush on her. He wanted to start taking a move but he's a shy guy so its hard for him to do it. After he went home, a police and an ambulance surrounded the road near the bridge. He knew what happened and its daily. The thing is it scares all us residents for the cases happened for almost 20 years. Its never-ending serial killer. What the purpose of that killer was to kill 100 people in 20 years. Xander's parents was also killed back then when he was 3 years old and still a kid. A pain that still remain inside his heart full of wounded past. Only can bear the recent situation. Not just that, he secretly learned a martial art to defend himself against the killer knowing how dangerous the situation could be in future. He now has reached a master level just by practicing alone in his own house. He has practiced multiple martial art with different style of fighting. Which is unbelieveable but unsure because he've never got in fight hefore. Well he learned it to protect himself sometime when his time has come for the killer and its not to fight anyone for no reason.
The time was 9PM and Xander's schedule always sleeping at 10PM so he woke up earlier to come work earlier since the restaurant was opened in early morning. He done eating his dinner alone, washing up the dish and bowl. Throwing a garbage away on a rubbish bin. When he was on his way to get inside, he realised something isn't right. He sense someone is looking at him from far away. But he doesn't find anyone at his back. He though he's just too exhausted since he have a traumatized sense on his surrounding, fear of what will happened to him later. Until he went inside, he's still fear on it. He locked the door, right the moment he went to his room. Someone knocking the door. The heartbeat raises high with a fear feeling. Then hearing a voice of a girl asking "Hello, is there anybody inside?" His fear slow down but that was still untrustable so he slowly goes near the door and asked "Who's outside there?" The girl replied with a lower voice "Open the door fast! Someone is following me and he's now gone. I need a place to stay safe." Xander obey her need just to save her life. He opened the door, she's right infront of him. She then fastly went inside his house and he closed the door immediately.
"Huh! That was scary.."
"So.. How long are you gonna stay inside my house?"
"Until.. Tomorrow?"
"Thats long! I'm leaving my house early, you know?"
"When will you leave?"
"around 5AM to 6AM"
"Oh my god, that's so early. Why did you have to wake up that early?"
"I'm working. A restaurant. It opened from 6AM to 5PM. So I have to come early to help my manager too. There is only a few employees working in her restaurant. The restarant, it was opened a months ago and my manager hardly got a new employees. So I took a chance to be her employees."
"That's... actually sweet. You help her. How old is she?"
"I don't know how old is she but she look so young. By the way, this is my first time talking so lightly with a girl.. It feels weird."
"Huh? How? Are you originally shy person?"
"Yeah. I don't know why my confidence grew more after I saved you from the killer and you're a girl.."
"Maybe I'm young too? Smile"
"How old are you?"
"Uh... 19. But I didn't go to any college. I straight up working as an employee on a company."
"Oh, okay. You're quite young. I'm on my 20s."
"Oh you're older than me. Have I being rude to you lately?"
"Um.. I don't realised that.."
"If so, I'm just afraid if I have. So in that case, I apologize to you. Sorry, sir."
"That sounds weird actually. First time being called as sir."
"Oh. Ok. You can do your thing. But first, where can I sleep?"
"On a sofa?"
"I know you gonna say that."
"Yeah, its my house, not yours"
"That's rude."
"I'm back to my old self before I'm a shy person. Only to you."
"It was nice to know you're different than now."
They stopped their conversation after a minutes later. But he then asked "By the way, what's your name?" She answered "Minnie" He then walked away and went inside his own room to sleep but before that he wish a good night to her. When he was trying ti sleep, he keep thinking how he went back to his old self since that extrovert girl appeared. He can't do nothing but let it go and sleep well. In that night at 12AM, a mysterious portal opened, a robot walked outside the portal then the portal closed immediately after that. The robot was right at the back of Xander's house. What was the robot's intention for coming to his house?
In the next morning at 5AM, Xander has put his work clothes on. He went to a bus stop and then a car showed up and the guy who drove the car was his friend, Michael. Michael was an active person who are rich and sleep at morning. His sleeping schedule was changed after he finishes school. He inherited his father's richness and only shares his money to his friend, Xander, only of it needed, knowing Xander was a nice person. Michael sent him to the restaurant, wishing him goodluck doing his job. Then there is she, working on the cafe with another employee, a guy named Gab. Xander doesn't feel jealous because he's the same as Xander, got yelled everytime by her. Gab called him to hurry help cleaning to open the restaurant. Chaesy, his manager, is cleaning inside there. He decided to help her instead of helping Gab. But Gab knows that Xander has a crush on her. So he let him choose to helo whoever and Gab already married so he don't need to chase another love.
"Oh. Hi Manager Chae."
"You're late again. Good you got a work left to do right now."
"I know... Uh.. Let me help you, Manager."
"Yeah, sure. Anyway, I heard a murder case happened last day near your house. Is everything alright last night?"
"Um.. Yeah.. Nothing bad happened.."
"I'm worried that you might get hurt and will never come back to my restaurant and work here. I only have 3 employees and will lost 1 if you gone."
"No, you don't need to worry about me. I can take care of myself."
"Whatever but don't be a murder victim and become a dead body later next day or anywhen."
She's a caring person and she's actually korean. Her real name is Lee Chae Won. She's 21 years old and her father was the owner of the reastaurant but he died after she graduated. She then become the new owner of the restaurant.
Back to Minnie on his house waking up at 8AM and then she tries to leave but she packing up her things first and checked out his house secretly. Wondering around and visit his room. "Wow. I never though a guy's room would be this neat!" She appreciated the fact that his room doesn't look messy. But she found a weird thing under his bed. She slowly step forward and checked the thing out. "What is this thing, made of an iron or metal or anything. Where did he get this. I'm curious." She then know her place and stop touching people's thing then leave the house immediately. No one knows that thing was alive. It was the robot that showed up last night. It's small and rounded shape. The things then speak itself with a robot tone.
"Processing... Earth History Data 99%... 100%. Earth's Data Download Completed..."
"Yes, sir. What can I get you?"
"I want this menu. I've never tried it before. Can you get me this?"
After taking a food order from all customer. Xander took some rest first. Unfortunately, the anger voice came from Chaesy doesn't allowed him to rest a bit. She order him to washes some dirty dishes and bowls. Gab working as a counter keeper and took people's payment. Another worker worked as someone who prepared a food helped with Chaesy. Chaesy workes reallt hard. She worked as a dirty dishes collector, cleaning the table, washing dishes and make food for customers. Guy loses to that kind of girl. But that doesn't matter. Everything is still normal but also hard to do. Finishing a work of washing dishes took about 10 minutes only but then here comes again another dirty dishes to wash.
Michael in the other hand at, was in his scar driving his way to a place where his first love live. After arrived to the destination, he met his love, Ennie. They've been a couple for a months since their first met. Secretly, he prepared something in his house for Ennie's birthday. Waiting to surprise her with a birthday party, planning to invite her to came to his house. So he came to her house to invite her. Ennie's parent accept Michael as Ennie's future husband. Michael's parent doesn't even care about that and let his son do anything and just focused on doing his job in his company.
Back to the event of Xander's situation on the restaurant. The time was 1PM, 4 hours left to work. No customer lately. One to two person left on the table but wasn't eating. They're playing with their phone. Probably gaming in people's place. Only drink they did have. Its kinda annoying for him to see those kind of people here. But he can't do anything, its their customers. They cause a problem, probably cause no payment. Gab was also playing a game while keeping the counter of payment since no one are going to pay lately. Chaesy, she was sitting pn a table, keeping an eye to her restaurant but she was too exhausted. She kept falling asleep but tried hard to not to. Her eyes sometime slowly closing then opened back. He kept an eye on her so much. Beside of looking at her, he's so concerned about her. He put his brave on her, trying to be a man. He approached her and sat beside her. "Ehm.. Uh.. Sorry to interrupt" She startled a bit but she didn't angry. He then again being so brave and a man. "Manager, you can sleep for a little. I can take care your restaurant for now." She slowly put her head on the table and said "Uh.. Okay.. I sleep a little. Don't forget to serve them and those 2 two later. Wake me up if there is a lot of customers coming.." he just nod and said "Okay" then she went sleep for a moment. I then receives a call ok his phone from someone. The person was his old friend, Hazya. She was kidnapped by a someone. Him hearing her shouting "Help me, San! Fast come! Before the kidnapper went back to this room. I'll sent you the location." He was so shocked. His last time seeing her was 3 years ago. He doesn't know what to do. He need to save her. He decided to leave the restaurant. He woke Chaesy and ask her permission "I have a problem, I can't keep an eye. I'm going somewhere and its important. Sorry!" He left away used a taxi lucky it showed up right infront of him. She as confused as she have never seen him like that. She then doesn't care about that and because of him, she become active again and take care of her own restaurant.
"Hurry up! Go to this location!"
"Okay."
When he was on the way to the location of where Hazya is, at the same time, the robot in his house was actually watching the event that happened recently and live. He was analysing Xander and was also watching him using a high tech camera with coordinated camera angle, unseenable, untouchable. The robot was a very high technology things. After he arrived to the exact place where she sent it, he went inside but 2 guys are standing right infront of him. The fight started, the robot watched. A very good fight with an unmatch martial art defeats 2 of them. He keep going to went inside to save Hazya. After exploring the whole building, he finally found Hazya tied on a chair. 3 Person with a gun guarding her from a far.
"San! Help me!"
She make a mistake, she make him got caught. A big mistake turns him to commit a big and dangerous fight. No weapon versus weapon, Who would win. While he trying to defeat all three of them without a weapon, the robot that watching him fight was processing something. After a minutes, he successfully put all 3 of them lying on the floor unconciousness. Xander open the rope tied on her hand, he released her. Hazya then hugged her, the embrace was so long because she miss him so much. It was been three years for her not seeing him. The truth is she went to japan for 3 years. Those people who kidnapped them was from Japan. He was thinking if she did something bad to them, on Japan. He asked her that and she answers it different from expectation.
"The Yakuza, they chased me all the way. Their boss, Hamura, planning to sell me out knowing I'm a foreigner. Selling me to one of their clients to make me a toy for a men. But I managed to escaped and ran away from them back to here again to meet you guys but I realized thats a bad thing. I should never put you guys in a trouble. But after getting captured, I've got no choices. The guy, The Boss. He told me to call my friends."
"And it was me?"
"He force me! If I didn't obey him, he'll shot a bullet on my head. He pointed it right on my head after I commited my first attempts of lying. I then contacted someone that are friends to me, near here. But what I found was a friend that hasn't been seen for 3 years."
"Okay, now we're better, lets hurry up get out from here."
Both of them get out from there and went inside the taxi. He surprised that the taxi driver doesn't ran away after seeing what the situation right then.
"I though you would run away."
"This isn't my first time, young guy. You're equal to Dozen's fighting style."
"Who's Dozen?"
"He's a superhero. He has a superpower that was strong enough to break your whole bone just by one punch."
"Really? Can I met him?"
"No. He's busy. You know how superhero works look like, right?"
"Okay fair enough. Drives away now. Back to my place."
Everything was predicted to went normal after that. But not about the Yakuza group. They might return, so he was planing to prepares himself and trained. He got his first experienced, so now he need to learn more things after experiencing the real fights.
"Are you okay, Hazya?"
"Yeah I'm okay."
"Stay here for now. I'm dead right now. Probably dead."
"Why?"
"I'm working and I leave my work to my manager. She's gonna be angry."
"She's a girl?"
"Yeah why?"
"Oh, uh.. Nevermind..."
After saving his friend, Hazya, he went back to his job at the restaurant. Meeting with Chaesy again, afraid of getting blame by her. After they met at the restaurant, the time was 4PM almost 5PM. Chaesy then says a words to him "If you really have an urgent things to do later, just tell me you have to go on urgent things you've got to do. I'm okay with that but if you're late for 5 hours, I'll punish you. I can't fired you since I only have few employees." He then replied to her "Oh.. Okay.. Thanks, Manager Chae. I promised if something urgent happened to me, I'll inform you and also will comeback less than 5 hours." After that, she told him to clean everything and said "This is the punishment, for now. A lot of customers came when you're away nowhere." He accepted his fate and clean all the area on the restaurant.
Time now was 8PM, Xander now was at home with Hazya. Michael has started a party inside his house. His love, Ennie, arrived to the party. Everyone in the house celeberating her birthday and the party went qs crazy as it is.
"Hey, Michael."
"Hi, Danny! We've not seen each other for a months since then."
"Yep, and.. Where is San? Xander, I mean."
"OH MY GOD! Xander! I forgot to invite him..."
"Seriously? Your bestfriend. Been together for a years even though living at a different city."
"I have a fucked up brain. Because I'm so busy preparing the party and inviting people around this place."
"Now what? Called him?"
"Oh wait.. I forgot. Haha. Why would I invite him though."
"Hah? Why?"
"Its 8PM already, it would took 20 minutes to go there and then waste 20 more minutes to sent him back. Probably around 10PM he'll be home. Which is breaking his schedule rules. Its too late now. Let him home. We enjoy it. Don't worry. He hates alcohol. Nevermind him. Lets enjoy this party of my girlfriend's birthday!"
In a sudden, heard of a gun shot sound. The one who did it was a black masked guy. He shot someone. Everyone screaming not in fear. The black masked guy ran away out from the party. Michael and Danny tried to chased him but after returning to the party, realised people were screaming because his girlfriend was shot to death. He immediately approached to her dead body on the floor and hold her. "Call For Help!" He screams as hard as he can. His hand filled with blood. She probably dead but he denied the fact she died. After that moment. His house filled with a police and an investigator. Danny and Michael sat in the corner outside the house. Danny tried to calm him down but Michael is in rage of wanting to find that guy. He want a revenge. Danny knows how he feels and then told Michael to calm down and seek rage. He agreed, he seek rage until he got to get revenge.
At the house, the time was 9PM. Xander still not sleeping because something is happening.
"What is this thing?"
Hazya questioning him as he owned the thing.
"No it wasn't mine. Where did you get that?"
"Under your bed."
"How.. I don't even owned these. Are pranking me?"
"No, I've never done that since 5 years ago."
"You pranked me once, remember?"
"Does that have something to do with this?"
"Maybe"
"Nope. I'm not pranking you. Its really is found under your bed."
"You're not lying as you're in high school, aren't you? Then how is it possible?"
"Does anyone has lived in this house?"
"No. This house was empty when I bought this house."
"So then how?"
"Oh wait.. Yoy know what happened to this city, rigth?"
"Huh? What happened?"
"A history of this city."
"A lot of murderer cases happened and the killer never been found or caught. And they still managed to kill more people for 20 years until now."
"And one of the newest victim, her name is Minnie. She stays here one night. I saved her life and she slept on the sofa."
"Did you two make up?"
"Why you asked that? Ofcourse not."
"Really.. Then are you saying that if she's the one who owned this?"
"Actually its impossible. She came here only with her handbag."
"Then its not her. Now what?"
"First, lets checked this thing-"
Suddenly, the thing moved, a weird hologram appeared around it. The robot was now activated infront of them. Both of them was shocked. The robot with a different tone, more like human's voice, talked to them.
"Hi, Xander, Hazya. My name is Wieldbot." - Wieldbot
"What are you? How do you know us?" - Xander
"Are you one of the killer's victim's spirit?" - Hazya
"I'm a power sphere. I know everything. I can watch people live. I can read the past of people and anything. I know... Everything that happened on this earth." - Wieldbot
"If that so, tell me all the history of earth." - Xander
"You're not worthy yet to make me a tools to you." - Wieldbot
"I'm not making you a tools. Just wanna know if everything you said was true." - Xander
"Also where did you came from?" - Hazya
"Far away from earth. Thats all I can told you." - Wieldbot
"Okay that's fair enough. Now I wanna know, why you're where?" - Xander
"I'm here to to make you a superhero." - Wieldbot
"Superhero?!" - Hazya
"What kind of superhero?" - Xander
"Like Dozen." - Wieldbot
"Who Dozen?" - Hazya
"A superhero." - Wieldbot
"If that so, then make me a superhero." - Xander
"It's not that easy." - Wieldbot
"Then, how?" - Xander
"Solve the problem of Yakuza Group and The Black Masked Guy who killed your friend, Ennie Fritz." -
"What?!" - Hazya
"When did she died?!" - Xander
"Recently." - Wieldbot
With a shocked face, they didn't expected one of their friend, Hazya, died recently killed by the black masked guy. Xander then tried to call Michael about this. But turned out he's the one who got called by him.
"Oh hello Michael!"
"Hi... I have a bad news.."
"Did Ennie died?!"
"Wait, what? How did you know..?"
"You'll know if you come to my house right now."
"No. I don't think I can. I need some time to calm down. I'm on depression."
"Wait there is mor-"
Michael end the call. Xander missed his chance to tell him something. They decided to visit Michael tomorrow. But he got a plan for Hazya. He asked her if she want to get a job or not then she nod and saud "yes" as an answer. He then told her that she need to wake up around 5AM. Hazya shocked hearing that. "Thats too early!" as she have never been that early, she kinda refused but then he tell her that he's gonna kick her if she's not useful in the house. He told her to go to the interview to his restaurant next morning. Hazya as a good friend, she immediately accepted it.
Wieldbot finding the information of the black masked guy. But he didn't managed to find anything about the black masked guy. He then scratching his head with his robotic hand and then turned off his hologram then turned himself into a circle-shape metalic things.
Backstory
A 13 years ago. Xander and his friends Michael, Hazya, Danny, Ennie and the other 2 person always playing on a playground. They've been together as a friends, but now they've live a life on their own. Xander work as a restaurant waitress, Hazya went to japanese and working there, Michael doing online job and make money even though he's rich, Danny are now work as a detective, Ennie doing her own thing and become Michael's first love and the other 2 are unknown. These 2 are Daniel and Rachel. What happened to them both is they're the first two people to disappeared from Xander's friends. They were transfered to another school that was actually not in the city. They're actually twins. Daniel Leez and Rachel Leez. Rachel, who are once also Xander's crush. But she also has a crush on him. One day before they move, Rachel and Xander met personally. Rachel told him that she like him, but she's going somewhere that was far away from the city they're currently at. Its thier father's choice. So she told him to forgot about her and that was a promise. He can't accept that promise, but she threaten him she will forgot him and comeback with someone else as a couple. He doesn't know what to say more, he then accepted the promise. She hearing that make her hugged him. He got embraced by his crush as a goodbye moment, make him recieved the hug and spit tears a bit.
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