Am I a leader?

[ Jason Winters ]

"Hey... What were you doing during the fight?"

I looked up at Moe-chan. She was the only one who was worried about me from my squadron. The others were all just inhumane and selfish idiots.

"I went to save a mother and a daughter... Sorry. Gonna get killed today for sure, right?" I asked from her. She chuckled.

"You knew it was gonna happen... But you still did it. You chose to do it. And that mother and daughter would be forever thankful to you!"

I smiled at her. Maybe she was the only one there with a heart. But even though she had a heart, she still followed direct orders from Cap. Only I didn't.

"Well... Get some guts now! A slap or two from the captain wouldn't hurt!" She patted me on the back and went on. Moe-chan was wonderful. I wondered why she was still single.

She had white hair and a cute face. Her body was in perfect shape and everyone killed for her.

We left the locker room together after getting out of our Ring suits. The Ring suit was special for us.

It was a jacket made from nano tech and cosmic tech. The armour in the jacket was very powerful, but lasers were still undefeated.

The jacket had a large red circle in its back, thus the name "Rings."

I walked through the corridors into our meeting place. It was known as the "Ring council."

At the moment, we were on our base. It was located under the city of Toshaka. None of the terrorists ever knew where we had our base.

We had a 100 different places to teleport to the base without no one noticing. They were scattered across the World and none of them were discovered by any terrorists.

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There were 25 members in each squadron. We had all 25. None of us died in battle, thus we were named "the Immortals."

The Immortals were lined up in front of their captain Takata. That guy... was a true monster.

"Now... Do you guys have any idea what you have done today?" Takata sensei asked before we could say anything.

All 25 of the Rings looked down when he said it. Takata eyed me from afar and looked away once again. I knew something bad was coming my way.

"We have lost... one of the greatest mutations ever! There was only one of them... Only one, maybe to the whole damn galaxy! And now! It's within the possession of a goddamn terrorist! What have you done you fools!"

None of us spoke up. Then, he started to circle around our group.

"All of you... All of you are given the mission of killing the man who possesses the power of the Glitch....."

Everyone's faces went blank. We looked at each other. I was like... That's it!?

I definitely knew that others were thinking the exact same thing.

"Now, for the one who failed in the most miserable way...." the guy's head turned. It was definitely coming my way!

He eyed me.

"You..." I looked at him as if he was saying it to me. "Yes, you! You fucking fool! You are the one who leads this mission..." Tanaka's words were more than frightening to me.

'Leading!? Why am I leading? I have never lead a damn squad before! 90% of our damn squad doesn't even like me!' I thought.

"I know what's going on inside that little head of yours, Jason! But if you do anything funny this time... You can throw away that jacket on your way back home!"

He was right in front of my face. My heart started to beat.

Even though the guy was 50 years old... He was darn strong. He had guts like no one else. He was about 7 feet tall... He was meant to look down on people!

He gave me a disturbing look and walked away.

"Pfftt.... This guy? He's going to mess up so bad!"

"Who even likes that guy! He's a moron! A damned idiot!"

"I don't know anything about this guy but... I get the feeling that he'd mess up big time!"

These kinds of whispers went by, the moment I was declared as the leader of the mission. I didn't have any experience, but I couldn't back down now.

I had to make it up for the mess I did in Akinoshita.

"Oh my God! Isn't that a big promotion! You're gonna look way more hotter as a leader!" Moe-chan slapped me on the back and cheered me.

I smiled, trying to hide the pain.

"Let's see how I mess up this time!" I told her. She smiled at me and suddenly wrapped her arm around my neck. "Let's see!"

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[ Shiroma Aoi ]

"Oki-san! How are we going to get him!? We need to get the man before the Rings finds him!"

I kept telling him over and over again.

"What!? Can you stop with the crap! I'm in the middle of something right now!" Oki-san yelled to me as he removed a nut and went on with his gadgets.

I never understood much about the gadgets... Only knew how to use them.

"Are you trying to tell me that the Glitch isn't an important part!?? Are you—"

"Chill Aoi-san! We have a lot more to do before taking that guy. Besides... He will come to us when he figures that he would die if he didn't learn to use the power!"

These words... Death. It wasn't much of a heavy word for me, but this guy. Something felt different about this guy. I didn't know what was happening but... I was kinda feeling frightened to let him die.

"Oi! He's not going to die! We need him! We need him to kill the Rings! We need him to be powerful!"

He sighed.

"Aoi-san. We need to wait for him... I know he would come. He will arrive in our doorstep... If he truly loves his family."

Oki-san's words satisfied me, but I still didn't know why I wanted him so much in the team. I guess I felt like he was more of a Reaper.

Or did I actually... Like him a little?

'No that can't happen! Not that skinny bastard!' I thought. Then, I chuckled alone.

Oki-san looked at me and shook his head. "Go and get yourself some sleep, Aoi-san. We have a new world to build."

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