An Angelic Reaper

[ Jason Winters ]

"Was that so hard?"

I kept the wife and her daughter on the top of a building. It was too unsafe to carry them out into the battle again. That would've been a stupid decision.

But I had to find Dad!

"I almost puked!" The blonde woman said with a cough. She was trying to catch a breath, probably too scared after seeing my skills.

I laughed.

The woman really made me forget something far more important. The two legs. I looked at the place where cap told me it was.

But there was no sign. And for some reason, the Gears were falling back.

"Come in! Jason here! What's the current situation?"

"Ugh... Jason! We thought you were dead! Where the hell have you been! You are an idiot! Well, Cap's gonna kill you anyway!"

The voice of Miyaki. That was something I highly disliked.

"Man... Tell me the current situation!"

Sigh... Miyaki sighed from the other side and that sigh meant something disastrous had happened.

"What happened!?"

"Well... Inside that float tank was a damn mutation. It had been seized by the terrorists! We're dead! We failed boy!"

My jaw dropped. I switched off the earpiece and sat down on the edge of the building.

The mother and the daughter were looking at me. They had a worried look on their faces.

"Hmmm...." I was too damn worried myself. Then, I figured why they were looking at me like that.

"Tsujii... Can you get him too? He's not able to do well in battles! If he gets shot..." her mournful tone grew as she mentioned her husband.

I nodded. I failed the mission... But I can't fail their hopes too. I hovered back to the place where I left Tsujii.

When I got there, something messed up had happened. The tank had been blown at the exact place I left him.

"Shit! No no no! You can't go this early Tsujii! You have to see that beautiful daughter grow!"

I hovered through the street, looking for him. I started to imagine the wife's face when she hears that her husband had died.

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[ Tsujii Tameoshi ]

"Papa! Tsu! Wake up! Citizen! Hey...."

All of these familiar voices were echoing around me. I had no idea what it was.

Then, Akira's voice was there.

"Akira!? Is that you!?" I asked. No reply. Suddenly, I felt something hit my back. Then, I saw a light and the view became more clear.

A woman was standing in front of me. She was beautiful, like an angel. She was fair and her eyes were bright orange. Suddenly, she placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Are you okay?"

For some reason, she was concerned about me. I didn't know if I was okay or not... but I nodded.

"Good... What happened to the uh— thing that you saw floating around near the girl?"

She was questioning me about the cube. I looked at her, her look was serious.

'What does she want with that? Is she... wait! A terrorist!' I hesitated for a moment.

"Umm... Don't worry! I won't hurt you!" she said. "Are you feeling ok? From what I saw... That floating cube got sucked into you. What does it feel like? Does it hurt?"

The way she kept questioning... It was really unnerving. "Umm... What's your concern with that?" I asked her. She glanced at me.

"Umm... I... I am..." she mumbled. Then, I noticed something shiny under the jacket she was wearing. It was a badge. A badge of a Reaper.

"What! You're... You're a Reaper!"

I couldn't believe my eyes. The beautiful woman was a Reaper. I jumped back but I couldn't even move a little.

Suddenly, she placed her hands on my shoulders and pulled me back down.

"Please! Don't kill me!" Those were the words that I blurted out. She shook her head, looking down.

"Please... I came here because I want you to live. That cube you saw earlier... That's a mutated power source. It entered your body and you were the only one able to react. The Rings will come to find you... They will prison you, torture you, and abuse your rights to steal that power from you. You have to be careful! Please... Trust me!"

I glanced at her, dumbfounded. She looked worried but I couldn't trust a terrorist.

The Rings, I had a doubt now. The Rings, aka the cops were fighting against these terrorists for so long and yet... They kill them and prison them so they couldn't even enter society again. It must've been it... They must've been hiding something from us.

But looking at the guy who helped me earlier, I couldn't believe what she was saying. After all... The Rings were the only ones helping us.

"But how can I trust someone like you? You're a terrorist! And... I have a family. A wife... A daughter! I can't be wanted by the law. I have a life."

I stood up to take my leave.

I looked around. I was standing in a building. It was the entrance to a hotel. There was a huge hole in the wall and beside it, a huge hoverbike lay on the ground near the pieces of the broken wall.

That must've been the place she had taken me in.

I started to walk towards the hole and before I could go out to the streets, she grabbed my hand.

"Wha—"

She spun me around and pushed me down to the ground. I fell and before I knew it, she had mounted me and pinged me to the ground.

"Oi! Let me go! What are you—"

She placed both her hands on my mouth and shut me up. "Please! Listen to me!"

I mumbled, struggling to free myself.

"The Rings... They mutated a daughter into a monster. You know who it was?"

I stopped mumbling when I saw the sorrow in her eyes. I could guess who it was. I stopped mumbling... I figured what she was trying to tell me.

Those eyes...

"You have a daughter too, right? I know how a father would feel if they ever experienced a moment like this. He didn't let them take me. They shot him. You know... They will do it to you too. What about your daughter then? And what about your wife? Would they survive without you!"

I was speechless. I never knew the Rings were animals like this. I felt so... ashamed.

Then, she slowly lifted her hands from my mouth and got off me, sitting beside me.

"You... Please... The power you have within you was the key to a change. Let's use it to defeat the evil. We have to sacrifice things... But everything is just for a better tomorrow..." She was almost in tears.

I sat up and looked at her.

Then, she put her gaze on me. With that expression on her face, she was really in pain. "Sorry... I'm sorry if I had disturbed you. I'll go now."

She stood up and started to walk away. I looked at her when she walked away. She was a beautiful angel indeed.

Suddenly, she stopped and turned to me.

"Umm... If you ever reconsider my offer... Please... Just press on this button and I'll be able to contact you."

She flipped me something that looked like a small coin. It was a device. A small circle. Once you press on it, there will be a signal sent to the other side.

Then, she walked out of the hole and back into the streets. I just sat there, wondering about the things she said.

'My daughter... If I ever lose her, I'd kill myself.'

"TSUJII!!!!"

Someone was calling for me. And this voice... It was not much familiar but I've heard it before.

I ran out to see who it was. I saw a man on a hovering board. He was a Ring. He was that cop I met before.

"Tsujii! I found your family! They're waiting for you! What the hell have you been doing!"

When I heard that my family was alive... I wanted nothing more.

"Get on! Your wife and daughter are waiting!" He gave me a hand and I got on his hoverboard. We took off to the air and hovered to the place where he had safeguarded my family.

'What should I do now... The Reaper said I shouldn't be an ally to the Rings. What should I do now?' I asked myself as I kept a tight grip on the coin the girl gave me.

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