Aftermath of The Battle With Reassurance And Confidence

A pale moonlight freshly arose throughout the dark night sky within the entirety of Neo Tokyo's area. Furthermore, Neo Tokyo City already maintained a safe atmosphere in most of the area as few citizens filled in the sidewalks or even the buildings such as convenience stores and many others.

The recent news clip that was broadcasted through the various platforms neatly showed the video presentation of the wide photo revealing Granlork who now wore a black prisoner suit and held the holographic rectangular board. Code number, "3453" was revealed through the middle of the holographic billboard alongside the red border news headline stating, "The Infamous Bounty Hunter, Granlork had been captured!!".

"Prisoner number "3453, Granlork was now contained inside the special containment cell of Murushima Prison," A blunt voice of the male reporter emerged to carry the flow for the current news, "So far, there hadn't been any suspicious activities from the villain's cell based on the report we received,"

"Because of that, we are confident to state the entire Neo Tokyo's area was citizens were now able to roam the whole city's area. Also, big thanks for The Blazing Hero, Sparror," The reporter added with a slight gladness shining through his voice.

The reporter cleared his throat before he said, "Without your great effort, we might not achieve this kind of piece from this mighty bounty hunter, Granlork,"

The thankful words from the male reporter was indeed broadcasted into the inside Akarui's household, especially from the active television. More specifically, the television screen in the living room that was surrounded by the household members occupied the different sides of their seats.

The two high schoolers, Hatoshi and Yuna took their comfy seats on the soft, white furry-like carpet and fixated their eyes on the television. While Hirata took her seat on the single-seat sofa and exposed her halfly enthralled face with her slowly switching her glance toward her cousin.

Both Hirata's parents, Chisato and Sasaki comfortably took their seats on the large balmy sofa, centering their gazes of amazement on the television screen. They even steered their gazes precisely onto Hatoshi who blissfully scratched the back of his head, stretching further his proud smirk.

"Well done, Hatoshi, you did another spectacular and maybe…very fantastic job again," Sasaki uttered with a contented tone, elevating his left arm and exposing his smile of gratitude toward his left nephew.

"Thank your for your praise, Uncle Sasaki," Hatoshi professed happily, nodding his head and closing his eyes shortly.

Hirata sheepishly nodded her head and chuckled, "Stopping another strong and very dangerous bad guy on your own, damn that's quite a wonderful achievement, I must say. Especially for a new hero like you."

"Well technically, Akushijo did help me too," Hatoshi countered, tilting his head from left to right.

"Damn, damn, my seemingly wimpy cousin is now a competent Superhero," Hirata admitted with little trace of anxiousness invading her through biting the left side of her lips briefly and continued, "I wished I got my power from being the chosen host by some kind of cosmic being like you,"

"So I can become a Superhero for here too," Hirata remarked sarcastically, raising her captivated eyebrows and crossing her head before releasing a deep hum. "Or maybe a Superhero better than you,"

Some of the discussion members blurted out their bursts of jaunty laughter across the conversation circles, especially from Hatoshi, Hirata, Yuna, and even Sasaki for a brief second. Chisato could only shake her head and groaned in the little spark of annoyance streamed within her lung.

"Cut it out, Hirata," Chisato insisted.

Then, the schoolboy exhaled a burdensome sight from his residing within his throat and heaved his eyebrows in asserted demeanor. Hatoshi also steered his gleeful glance toward his cousin who retreated her crossing hands, dropping out any semblance of her arrogance and challenging mood.

"To be honest, Sparror only chose me due to it might have some kind of interested in me rather than because I was destined to be a hero," Hatoshi replied confidently, placing his folded fist on his chest.

"Actually, it's more into my own will and guts to become a hero for Neo Tokyo," Hatoshi added, putting down his fist, "It's the sole reason I still continued this Superhero and responsibility life too, Hirata,"

Hirata grunted in bitter confusion and asked, "What did you mean by that?"

"It means being chosen by a greater being or simply having ultimate power are not the main factor in becoming a hero," Hatoshi assured with a poised calmness clouding his voice and resumed his advice, "Instead, it's your personal drive, maintaining your principal, and possessing a strong willpower that becomes the main reason to become a hero in my opinion."

Hatoshi breathed out a hefty puff and remarked, "Maybe, in the simplest way, having a strong power is not a number one guarantee you'll be a competent Superhero. It's the important lessons I got when continued my heroic life as Sparror,"

"I agree with what Hatoshi said about being a hero," Sasaki said calmly, centering his sight onto Hirata who began to reluctantly sigh and giggle, "It's not the capability or potential power, it's the person who uses that power could determine the outcome of becoming the competent and responsible hero."

Hirata sighed and assertively nodded, "I guess you have a very good point that Dad, Hatoshi,"

"I should notice that before because you were once outsmarted by one crazy Phantom guy even though in terms of power, you absolutely defeat him," Hirata blurted out a reminder.

Hatoshi sighed, "I agree with that,"

Eventually, Hirata leaned her back onto her seat and cheerfully blurted out a high pitch chortle throughout the conversation circle of the household members. The turn for Hirata on continuing the flow of the conversation was now reached its end with her unfolding a tiny spark of satisfaction through her lips.

While Yuna began to take turned on resuming the placid conversation flow by broadening her eyes, receiving an important reminder within her mind. The schoolgirl smoothly switched her curious glance toward her close partner as she readied herself on spreading the upcoming statement.

"Sorry I just remembered something quite important about your Superhero friend, Akushijo, have you already informed him about your current situation?" Yuna asked.

Hatoshi affirmatively nodded and relaxedly uttered, "I already texted him before we made it here in the late afternoon. He was very gladful I made it out alive and saved the whole city at the same time,"

"Ah, thanks to hearing that from you," Yuna responded with a pleased tone, fulfilling both her curiosity and the deep concerns she buried within her heart.

Afterward, the schoolboy decided to raise his gaze upward when his close partner revealed her gratification through her gleeful green. He composedly pondered on the wall on the above interior, grasping the thoughts correlated with other future things related to other heroic comrades who protecting Neo Tokyo alongside him.

Hatoshi even sharpened his wondering gaze, especially with other household members who started a conversation with another topic. The only member who didn't join the new flow of the conversation topic was Yuna as she locked her contented eyes toward her close partner, luring him to switch his stare onto her.

"What you wondering about, Hatoshi?" Yuna asked with an intrigued tone, releasing a brief burst of a giggle.

"About when Chemistra and Agano already awakened from their commas," Hatoshi replied, "I was wondering about what I really wanted to tell them regarding this period where they are still in the resting period other than of course sharing the information of me defeated…..Granlork..hehe"

Yuna hummed and whispered a suggestion, "You can start your sentence with you telling about the current condition when you handle it alone,"

"That's a good idea too," Hatoshi admitted blithely and continued, "Thanks for you sharing it, Yuna.

Yuna blissfully tilted her head and responded, "Thank you, Hatoshi,"

"Anyway, I also got another thought related to another hero which is Zero," Yuna professed a new topic of the conversation with her rubbing her cheeks.

The schoolgirl exhaled her hefty puff and stated, "I was wondering, have you already prepared what you really wanted to say to him,"

"That one, perhaps…so," Hatoshi said with a little bit of uneasiness invaded his mind as he winced shortly before he forcible closed his lips and stated bluntly, "But of course, I'll try my best on answering every weird or even maybe unexpected actions he might did to me."

Hatoshi sighed and suggested, "Sorry I think it's enough to talk about Zero. Because well I still wanted to focus more on what I have to report to both Chemistra and Agano, Yuna."

Around one month has passed after the defeat of Granlork, both Chemistra and Agano was freshly awakened from their long slumbering phase. The other two heroes of Neo Tokyo City spent their time in the shivering cold of the secret base with The Onmyouji gripping his shivering arms.

More specifically, Chemistra took her hushed seat on top of the holographic chair and continuously rotated her cybernetic eyes. Whereas Agano pulled away her back from touching the frigid surface of the wall and bent down his shaking neck with kept enduring the showering cold from the air itself.

"Damn…first time awaken from my rest around a month, I already felt this room is very freezing as hell," Agano mumbled, feeling his standing legs constantly staggering and uttering the question, "Did you put a cold max temperature within your room?"

"Completely yes. I indeed wanted to check if my current condition was stable after the quite long recovery state," Chemistra answered with a stoic tone, perceiving her glance at her left hand as she flipped back and forth.

Agano groaned and shook his head, "It's both an odd and confusing answer for my taste."

"However, if I put in your perspective...I just have to say quite a makes sense, that's it," Agano reassured, tightening his grip on his arms with the breezy coldness within the room kept continuing to shower him.

An instantaneous fiery twister cleanly spawned in front of Chemistra who still secured her stoic firmness within her. Witnessing the twister speedily closed on releasing its last spin on the left, Agano gladly lifted his shivering neck and chortled.

'Good grief, Sparror has finally arrived,' Agano mumbled within his mind, convincing him to head forward when the blazing twister dispersed and unveiled The Flaming Hero stood in front of The Chemist.

Furthermore, Sparror expressed his enthusiastic gaze toward The Chemist and The Onmyouji who headed in his direction, collectedly freeing two of his clenching grips. A tiny fiery torch materialized beside The Flaming Hero's left head, preparing to initiate the supposedly calm reunion with his comrade.

"Good to see you again, Agano and Chemistra," The Flaming Hero spoke with a shimmering excitement twinkled through the voice being unshackled from the flickering torch.

"You too, Sparror,' Chemistra responded with a stoic demeanor and continued, "Now let's got the main point, can you share with me everything that happened in Neo Tokyo while both I and Agano put into recovery."

The Flaming Hero eagerly elevated his opened palm and said with igniting firmness enlightened through his voice, "Before we go deeper, I must say Neo Tokyo was now completely safe under my protection,"

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