The Meaning of Heroism

A few hours had passed, morning turned into afternoon with yellow light became hotter and darker. Sparror still sat on his floating chair and gazed at the trapezoid buildings that had a large Tv Screen.

It presented a new video with orange and long straight hair lady with a tidy red blazer and white uniform as the central attention. She shared her soothing voice and attractive look to the world, cleaned the boresome in Sparror that switched it into affectionate eyes with the reporter's attractive face.

"Let's talk about bad things first." The Flaming Hero murmured within his mind, "For 5 straight hours, I still didn't find any new problems occurring in this city. Even the daily ones such as crossing the street didn't happen too."

Sparror switched his attention down, people on the sidewalks noticed his flaming presence. Even some of them raised their snappy phones and started to capture a picture of him who made The Flaming sigh.

"And another problem, Yukina Ginjo is not the only one that has become a central attention." Sparror mumbled in thought with a relaxing manner, "I guess people thought of me as a Superhero which was a good thing especially yesterday's incident.

"Besides, I heard there was a superheroes photo contest that is being declared by Prime Minister Kamiya and it is probably their lucky day." Sparror added, "Anyway if another Supervillain appeared, I must be ready no matter what."

Afterward, Sparror gazed at the large presentation of Yukina Ginjo that spreads her feathers soft voice and smile. The Flaming Hero was lured by the reporter's attractiveness by twitching his yellow eyes on the beautiful face and

"Now let's go to the good things." Sparror exclaimed within his mind, "Today's reporter is Yukino Ginjo."

A lustful affection invaded Sparror's mind, the longer Yukina Ginjo in the screen smiled. The unrelenting lust stare still continued until he decided to shake his head.

"Indeed, I collected a lot of her pleasurable videos before she became a reporter". Sparror said in a struggling tone within his lustful thought that was slowly being crushed, "But, let's just focus more on the true reason why I am here".

"Besides, I already had a close relationship with Yuna ''. Sparror added to his mind, 'Another thing is, remember what Zero said before, being a Superhero is about helping people and doing the right thing in the fairest way possible. Not use as a cheap trick for gaining a hot girlfriend,'

Sparror shook his head constantly and decided his armory hands to slap him back and forth until a straight-focus look popped out. He situated a serious stare at the screen and attempted prevention for any lust thought to influence him.

"As for the second news, we got a report of Katarua Apartment in Tokiko district, which just recently had a fire. The fire department and N.T.P.D had arrived and evacuated the citizens that--".

The words from a calm demeanor reporter just told the news shone a bright opportunity on Sparror eyes. He raised his leaning body and his eyes met with an old wooden brown and dusty, 4-story building almost entirely consumed by a raging fire on the screen that replaced the Yukino Ginjo scene down till the upper flow surface was burned from the inside out.

"After waiting for a couple of hours, now I had a chance to do some heroic act." Sparror exclaimed in confidence, "The good thing is I already got a clear picture which is pretty good for my teleportation power to work."

Therefore, the flaming throne chair shifted into a flaming twister before it completely swallowed Sparror's whole physical presence. Then, the flaming twister vanished down to nothingness. Some of the people below grunted and some of them just disappointed sighed when The Flaming Hero finally disappeared.

Katarua Apartment was now on the brink of crumbling with wildfire spread drastically on every interior available. Window glasses were shattered and spread a polluted black smoke wandering around on the whole building

Luckily, the burning apartment was safely contained inside the giant blue barrier stomach and took a risky chance for another building besides getting scorched by the incoming flame. Policemen and firefighters beneath the building evacuated people to stay inside a blue holographic bubble that acted as their safe place.

A firefighter's trucks parked in front of the building were enveloped by yellowish barriers for protection from any surprise burning reaction that might happen inside the building Tabata with his police crews and the firefighters plunged their attention to the small blue holographic screen that showed three photos of a location that was already conquered by the raging flames.

Worse news came when there were still people trapped, helplessly watching the swarming flame ready to devour them. Tabata was shocked in panicked and gazed in deep horror.

"Sir Tabata, we are sorry we couldn't reach those three places because it's too much for our containment suit to hold it." A distorted voice of a guilty man spoke to Tabata.

Tabata lifted his attention as he watched the firefighters that got out carried a distressed curly hair woman. The firefighter was protected by a yellowish barrier that literally broke in half and only the leg part that was remained. Afterward, The policeman approached them in a hurried manner and locked towards the woman in pettiness.

"Why didn't you save my daughter instead!" The woman screamed in distress.

Tabata put his head down in a silent horror face and glanced at his forehand that planted a kanji tattoo. He gritted in disbelief and tried his best to hide it from the distressed woman

"If you both couldn't save my daughter, then I will do it by myself!" The woman said in a mixture of desperation and anger, "Because, I rather die being b---"

The Distress Woman didn't finish her sentence due to Sparror suddenly showed up behind Tabata after he escaped from the flaming twister that managed to surprise everyone else's. Moreover, The Flaming Hero glared a cheerful look at the distressed woman.

"Don't worry, I will get your daughter, right now," Sparror exclaimed in a comforting tone.

"Are you really sure?"

Sparror nodded with full of conviction who made the distressed woman feel a surge of gratitude and happiness. Tabata and the firefighters were still stunned by The Flaming Hero who glared with confident looks.

"Officer, can you give me the location for those people that are still stuck in there?" Sparror politely asked.

"Sure," Tabata said in a stun stoic tone and pointed his finger to the blue active screen.

Sparror eyes caught the glimpse of three pictures as the swarming flame wave covered his whole armor body, ready to teleport at that location. Furthermore, The Flaming Hero brought a spark of relief to the frantic situation as the distressed woman began to show a smile.

"Thank you very much." The Flaming Hero thanked with a grateful look before his physical presence was taken down by the flaming wave.

Katarua insides were completely devoured by the raging flame with the wooden floor broken, split in half, and turned into ash. While on the upper floor, there was a twin tail hair with a single pink string, girl rubbed her waterfall tear eyes as she was trapped in the open room, surrounded by flame swarms in the frontline.

She hopelessly cried as the moving flame was ready to consume her before the Wooden floor was completely burned, which made her terrified frown intensely increase. As the hungry flame swarms were ready to roast the trapped girl when it almost touched her naked feet, a flaming bubble construct shielded the poor girl, chopped off the incoming swarming from ever touching her

The girl slowly got up her head and met with Sparror, floating above her and he glanced with a relaxed expression. She drew a mix of confusion and worries with the current condition that she faced towards her savior.

"Don't worry, girl, everything will be fine." Sparror chanted in a relaxing voice.

The girl was stuck in speechlessness and replied with afraid closing eyes as tears dropped due to her shockingly crying. Sparror gave a pity, looked at her before he flickered to the burning room. Thus the flaming bubble vanished alongside the girl and even the floating Flaming Hero joined too.

Outside views were still trapped by frantic, but much calmer with the victims in the bubble held a mixed reaction to face this situation. There were families consisting of father, mother, son, or daughter beholden hugging each other, also a frustrated man cried in distress and kneeled in complete desperation.

The person that was mostly being influenced by the frantic atmosphere was the distressed woman. She placed her palm and desperately crying that may disturb her breathing. A line of tears dropped rapidly as she kept staring helplessly at the burning building.

However, a spark of happiness shone dominantly when Sparror appeared with her daughter who was secured by the flaming bubble before it vanished. The girl opened her eyes in shock as the woman ran to her daughter. Therefore, The Flaming Hero sighed in relief before he vanished his physical presence by letting the flaming twister swallow him.

On the upper floor, a glasses bald head man stuck on the wooden spot was cornered in every direction by the towering, dancing flame. He was frightened as his vision could only see a scorching flame dance that got closer to him in a rapid second.

In the brink of death for the man, Sparror appeared in a flash and called out a protection barrier for securing the frightened man. The glass man was startled when he witnessed The Flaming Hero that made him, petrifying lifted his arms for closing his sight.

"Please, I am not ready to die, now, Fire God!" The man groaned in fear.

"Don't worry, I am here to save you," Sparror said in a smooth convincing tone,

"Are..you...sure?"

"Yup and sorry, we didn't have much time left."

The glass man put down his avoiding arms as he nervously gazed at Sparror who remained calm. Moreover, The flaming barrier bubbled up the terrified man and The Flaming Hero vanished to arrive again in front of the burning building.

Afterward, the man surveyed his surroundings in a very confusing manner as if he was a person that transferred into another world. He locked his attention to Sparror that kept in touch with the relaxed expression took the center stage.

"Wait, am I alive?" The man asked in a nerve-racking tone

"Yes you are," Sparror replied with a cheerful tone.

The man glared on his hand that somehow still fresh and glassy eyes of gladness were directly shot at Sparror. As a result, his body was frozen as a comforting smirk emerged within his lips

"Then…..thank..you very much." He said heavily due to overwhelming gratefulness.

"You are welcome," Sparror replied before his body was completely devoured by the vanishing flame.

The last victims were a long ponytail mother and her messy hair son, who was being guarded by her comforting hugs. The son closed his dearest eyes and let out a waterfall of tears, while the mother stroked her son's hair with comfortingly whistled to lighten up the upcoming death situation that eventually would fall to them.

"Haruto, it's okay, it's okay, you will be fine, we will be fine". The mother comforted her son with a sad tone as her eyes met with the revelation that the burned white gas tank from the far-right leaking an ear raping steamy scream.

A polluted grey gas blew away to the entire room and brought fear upon The mother and son that they attempted to hold the best that they could. The scream of the gas got higher in each second as it also and inflicted an echoing pain towards the mother, causing her to grit her teeth in agony.

The gas tank scream got worse as it continued to burn till became molten red. In a sudden heat, the gas tank finally became a large explosion that swiftly headed towards the victim. However, their lives weren't taken by the explosion as Sparror arrived in front of them and voluntarily shielded them from an explosion.

Afterward, Sparror summoned a barrier to keep them safe from the upcoming explosion by calling the vanishing flame to retreat them. The explosion shout could be heard by the frantic Tabata and the others from outside

Luckily, Sparror arrived in the middle of the scene alongside the flaming bubble that shielded both the child and mother. Tabata beamed in a hopeful demeanor as he witnessed the last victim stuck there were finally safe especially with the flaming barrier vanished within a second.

The mother slowly opened her eyes as glassy grateful eyes were locked to the Flaming Hero that was still intact with optimism, even though he didn't gain any luck. Furthermore, he lost one of his arms, his cape was torn apart in half, and blood kept dripping from his arms.

"Thank you….very much for saving both my son's life and mine"? The mother confessed in tears, dropping, "And, I am really sorry to make you lose your hand and I will repay you someday for you kin---"

Sparor drew a polite shut-off finger and she closed her mouth in tears while hugging her dearest son.

"You don't need to repay my kindness, besides I am...fine as you can see," Sparror said in a mixture of happy and struggling manner.

"Are you really sure?" She asked in a concerned voice.

"Yup."

As Sparror and The mother's conversation resumed, the son opened his eyes who looked at his surroundings in full of confusion and disbelief. Nonetheless, The mother noticed her son opening his sad eyes before she gave a warm gladness smile.

"Haruto, it's okay, we are safe now." She said in a soothing voice and hugged her son deeply.

Sparror sighed in comforting happiness, watching the mother and son were now safe from the burning accident that would happen to them if he didn't arrive. Moreover, Tabata approached The Flaming Hero with his stoic demeanor who also twitched his eyes in relief.

"Are you sure you will be fine with the current condition?" Tabata asked in a cold tone.

"I am fine because regeneration power may bring back my arm." Sparror exclaimed in a proudful manner, "Besides, I already saved them".

Sparror glared at the people that were safe by his hand for today's as flaming twister arrived on the decapitated part and forged his new, fresh-looking armory arm. At last, The Katarua burning wasn't only being saved by the policemen and the firefighter, The Flaming Hero also joined the scene too.

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