Sudden Struck

Around a few minutes passed, the news closely related to the morning assault of the duo villain was broadcasted to most of the media within the citizens' gadget. Hatoshi was one of the people who received the news in the form of an ongoing video clip through his active phone, widening his surprised eyes.

Furthermore, the schoolboy took a seat on the edge soot of the terminal filled by a crowd of people such as students and office workers. His close partner, Yuna safely occupied the seat beside his right and centered her intrigues sight onto the video clip of the morning's villain.

Difser who was within the video clip spiritedly swung her harpoon to the left for casting out the electrifying neon-green blast that jolted two of the armored officer, knocking them down in an instant. The continuation of the video clip flared up encouragement to Hatoshi as he colored his lips with a smirk, holding his rapid-beating heart.

Hatoshi smoothly steered his neck into his close partner's direction and gritted his teeth in unshackled firmness. He also tightly folded Yuna's hand before bowing down his head shortly. It convinced the schoolgirl to nod her head and joyfully unveil her acceptance smirk, receiving the embarking message from him.

"It's okay Hatoshi," Yuna mumbled happily and continued the gentle flow of the conversation when she closed her smirk. "I hope…you will gain it back today."

Hatoshi chuckled sheepishly and uttered with him tilting his thankful neck to the left, "Thank you, Yuna."

"Sorry for not…accompanying you again," Hatoshi whispered in an apologetic demeanor, retrieving back his holding hand.

Yuna calmly sighed as she witnessed her close partner begin to lever down his eyebrows with a little spark of worriedness shining through his mind for brief seconds. Regardless, the schoolgirl stroke the left cheek of Hatoshi's, allowing him to sluggishly unfurl his gleeful grin as he felt the soothing comfort.

"You don't have to say sorry to me…Hatoshi." Yuna reassured blithely.

Hatoshi chortled, "I'm just trying to be polite."

"Anyway, see you soon, Yuna." Hatoshi let out a bid of farewell, lifting both of his feet into a steady standing position.

Afterward, Hatoshi waved his hand and glanced toward his close partner who strongly kept her joyful smile shining upon her lips. The visible smile of Yuna's ignited the eagerness on commencing his next activity with him hastily running forward, resting the waving hand. He indeed assertively walked out of the terminal even though the rain still showered the terminal's rooftop.

As Hatoshi's presence was no longer appearing in her sight, Yuna abruptly felt the sorrowful strike with her locked her gaze below. The feeling of uneasiness boiled through the schoolgirl's furrowed eyebrows and closed her unnerving eyes briefly.

Warming red lights embarked within the schoolgirl's eyes when the schoolgirl opened it once again before instantly fading out, raising her head and exhaling the bothersome air away from her mouth. She darted her concerned glare in the same direction as her close partner's left and staggered her feet, slowly letting her thought command her to follow his path outside.

"If you followed him, it'll be a good chance for us to complete the ritual." A stoic male voice echoed through Yuna's mind, forcing her to slightly expose her disgruntled lips.

Yuna rolled her eyes before she replied to the sour-mental discussion with her other self, "Not now. I'm… afraid if I did the Sparror's power most likely protect him by its instinct. Despite he couldn't become Sparror."

"Also playing this kind of part is a better way to convince….him." Yuna said within her mind and felt despondency shivering her voice tone before she released a stern demand, "Please…will you get some rest right now, Yuzu."

Yuzu groaned in a boiling bitterness, "Fine, have it your way, Yuna."

"Remember, I'm here just as a reminder for you not to toss aside or even forget your true purpose." Yuzu remarked with a stoic tone and resumed blurting out more reminders into the schoolgirl's thoughts. "I'm aware of your feeling for him holding you back from completing the ritual."

"Hence, it's better for us to make a deal when you going to start the act as the new Narajime, Yuna." Yuzu asserted.

Yuna reluctantly sighed and replied, "We better discuss this when Hatoshi's superhero problem is already over."

"Fine. I leave now, Yuna." Yuzu bickered.

Her other self, Yuzu departed his presence with him resonating with the shrieking noise of evaporating smoke stung through the schoolgirl's mind. Although the smoking noises already blinked out, Yuna anxiously winced and gripped both of her arms with her palms as if she was stuck in the middle of the cold place.

Regardless, the schoolgirl got up from her seat when the resilient voice of a holographic woman echoed throughout the terminal, rested her palm, and formed clenching fists. Yuna heaved one of her secured-clenched fists and assertively placed it on the front of her chest before heading out from the terminal, ready to trail her close partner's path.

Another few minutes passed, Hatoshi arrived in the dark and cold alleyway beside a neon-bluish rectangular building with the holographic projection of a gem levitated in the middle. A store building located on the sidewalk also convinced the schoolboy to press the shimmering red button on his umbrella's handler.

The neon-red holographic canopy of his umbrella shrunk down until it became nothing, faster than the blink of an eye. The schoolboy briskly took a few steps forward onto the alleyway after putting the umbrella's handler on the left side of his long pants pocket. He firmly gritted his lips the more time entered the alleyway.

Unbeknownst to him, Yuna witnessed her close partner from across the sidewalk as she continuously sprinted. She halted her sprinting steps and took a deep breath for refreshing the tiresome mood before fixating her sight on the alleyway, furrowing her eyebrows in a little bit of worriedness that invaded her mind.

While Hatoshi stopped his approaching steps when he reached the spot near the girthy jade rectangular trashcan. Both of his eyes relaxedly closed as the schoolboy bowed his head, breathing the sigh.

Then, he reopened his eyes once again in assertiveness ignited, flaring the encircling fiery strings on both of his wrists. A flashing memory clip of the newest Supervillain rampaging the minimarket played within Hatoshi's mind. The exact moment when the new villain swung his harpoon that summoned the striking projectile, embarking the heroic spirit as the encircling strings went brighter their flashes.

The video clip faded out from his mind, leaving the blessing for Hatoshi which he confidently smirked. A flaring exhilaration sparked on his broadened-assured stare he locked onto the cloudy sky above, encouraging him to highly raise the left grasping hand.

The heroic spirit being buried in a deep tomb slowly reignited within Hatoshi's beating heart as dimming yellow light shimmered through both of his eyes. An enthusiastic smirk unfolded with him darting his sight onto the clouded gray sky, hoping to enter the newly fresh debut of his alter ego.

"Alright, let's go, Sparror!!" Hatoshi shouted, quickly opened his heaved fist, and emitted a tiny flaring blast.

Unfortunately, the whole traces of flaring strings and the yellow lights vastly vanished without any remnant could be seen. A shivering shock frown painted Hatoshi's entire face especially when he witnessed the clear glimpse of his heaved fist staggering in freezing anxiousness.

He rested both of the staggering fists before witnessing a person that made him freezingly flabbergasted with its flaming presence. A presence of The Blazing Hero himself, Sparror standing and centered his disappointed furrow toward Hatoshi who exhaled his hefty breath, shaking his head as he felt a sense of guilt haunt him once again.

"Is it didn't work because….I didn't tell my secret to my entire family members?" Hatoshi asked with a bitter tone. "Do you think….Aunt Chisato, Uncle Sasaki, and….Hirata must know about this?"

Sparror coldly nodded his head and sharpened the disappointed furrow into his human hoist who hissed in utter disagreement. Hatoshi constantly shook his head with him letting defiance shielding himself from ever letting The Flaming Hero's frigid response influence his thoughts.

"Sorry….I will not accept that." Hatoshi countered, swallowing his saliva before he strengthened his argument. "Yuna….was already enough on knowing my secret and she was also part of the reason I can become a hero in the first place!"

Hatoshi groaned in excruciating frustration, Besides…I already quite get over the guilt thanks to her!! Why I…still couldn't transform?!!"

"Why…why?" Hatoshi bickered, feeling his lips unnervingly trembling.

"Is this what you wanted….Sparror!!?" Hatoshi added, growling shortly, and murmured desperately. "This…doesn't make sense. Why the aid from Satoru and even Yuna didn't work on this?"

Hatoshi grunted, "I did not…understand it, to be honest."

The vision of The Blazing of Neo Tokyo dispersed into untraceable dust in an instant, fleeing up to join the sky above. It left Hatoshi pondering down his unnerving sight with frigid uncertainty.

A resentful grit emerged on the schoolboy's sight the further he spent his pondering gaze onto the ground below, convincing him to shake his clenched fists. A frantic growl slowly resonated from the schoolboy's sore throat as he lifted his head to dart his doubtful stare at the front.

"Hatoshi." A familiar female voice vibrated through Hatoshi's ear, forcing him to switch his glance to the back.

The schoolboy hastily released a surprised gasp on witnessing his close partner, Yuna headed into his distance. She propelled her gentle left palm that froze Hatoshi on the spot, watching her like a statue as no moving motions were declared.

"Yuna…" Hatoshi uttered and continued with a shocking guess, "So…you've been following me? Instead of going to…the school?"

Yuna halted her steps and sighed, "Yes, and don't worry about the school problem, Hatoshi. I felt there will be something wrong happen with your awakening"

"Also, please I…don't want you to blame yourself for this especially when arrived at the school." Yuna insisted with an affirmative tone. "Because this is my choice. My choice on making sure you're fine."

Eventually, Hatoshi assuredly nodded his head and freed the clenching hand as he sluggishly moved forward in his close partner's direction with his trembling feet. A wincing smile of gladness emerged on the schoolboy's face as he raised both of his arms in a hugging demeanor the closer he reached Yuna's distance.

Hatoshi paused his steps and mumbled with a half sense of despondency showered his voice, "Sorry to…say this, yeah I failed on awakening Sparror again."

The schoolboy continued his trembling step and Yuna steadily watched him, unfolding her closed-concerned lips and her pity stare. As him reaching the near distance of his close partner, Hatoshi gently wrapped around his close partner's back of her neck with his tight hugging arms and warmly closed his eyes.

Sereness and placidness materialized through the high schooler especially when Hatoshi leaned his cheek on the schoolgirl's left shoulder like a relieving pillow. The burdening thoughts of being unable to reobtain his heroic identity disseminated by him opening his eyes in half-condolence

While Yuna joyfully opened the soothing-comfort smile on her entire lips, washing away all traces of concern or worried. The schoolgirl even smoothly sang out a brief, tender whistle that made her close partner exhale the bothersome thoughts one more time, expanding the period of grasping the temporal tranquilness within each other.

The rampaging crime scene within the unlucky TOMO store was still presumed with the bombarding noise of energy explosion roaring across inside of the store. Three of the armored officers firmly raised their shields that were being stampeded with the enlarged green-coral energy projectile.

The three of them shrieked in pain as they forcibly fell down onto the ground, felt their bodies shaking with swarming neon green electrical strings encroaching all their limbs. High-pitch contorting laughter of thrilling satisfaction was spread out from Difser 's throat watching the officers fall into defeat.

Difser elevated her harpoon and rested the elongated handler on top of her left shoulder, steering her enthralling sight onto the back. She caught the glimpse of her armored partner in crime, Kanzo shoved the impaling position toward the female TOMO cashier who dropped her tremoring jaw in horror and helplessly raised both of her shivering hands.

"Oy, Deep Impaler!! Difser called out his name with a captivated tone and asked, "Are you done with the robbery?"

Deep Impaler steered back his glare onto the bluish-holographic rectangular backpack hovered on his back. He tossed back a bag of chips from his left grip and phased through the inside of the backpack, adding to the equipment for his robbery storage.

He cackled and muttered with a poised tone, "Done, Difser!"

"Alright, it's time for initiating the thrilling escape!" Difser announced in a sparkling delirium, turning her sight onto the door on the back for viewing the outside view.

She concisely captured a glimpse of the TOMO store was now being tightly barricaded from the outside world by the yellowish honeycomb tiles barrier, capturing the buzzing noise on her at the same time. Hence, Difser calmly shrugged it off before steering her attention onto the back, watching her partner in crime approaching her direction, and flipped his dark-blue shark-fin spear in a left crossguard position.

"So, did you kill the cashier?" Difser asked with curiosity showered her tone.

Deep Impaler shook his head and groaned with an annoyed tone, "No of course. Why would I do that if it's just a robbery?"

"Just asking," Difser said and cackled sheepishly. "Because I always remembered the day when you suddenly killed off an innocent bystander, especially in the early days of our robbery."

"Well…the thing is I already changed, Difser." Deep Impaler bickered and yelled. "And I had been telling you about that many, many, times!!!"

Difser elevated her palm and spoke, "Chill, please be chill, Deep Impaler."

"By the way, let's focus on our next objective." Difser persuaded her fellow friend to steer his attention onto the barricading barrier as her finger marked that direction in brief seconds, sharpening her glare onto Deep Impaler one more time. "Break some barrier for our hasty escape."

Hence, Deep Impaler tilted his head on the back of his partner in crime and abruptly screamed out a pressured-shocked gasp. At first, Difser tilted her head from left to fight for pondering confusion before she witnessed him hastily pointing his finger, forcing her to glance onto the back.

A crystal appearance clear of Agano alongside his hulking robot, Ryuzen who resiliently stood behind him. Furthermore, Chemistra also emerged on the crime scene with her taking the cautious standing spot beside The Onmyouji, marking the enemies with five glowing yellow needle fingers.

The presence of the superheroes enlightened the heedfulness of both Difser and Deep Impale as they thrust their weapons in impaling positions and sundered blitzing electricities on each of their tips. A morning clash between the two heroes of Neo Tokyo and the duo of oceanic armored villains was now on the brink of reaching the starting point as both sides traded their glares.

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