Chapter 38: Date with Reika

Another day with boring school life for Kurono. The school was too monotone for him. The only few enjoyment that he could get from there are being in the Kendo club, and his usual conversation with Shinozaki. Other than that, everything was just dull for him.

Today like usual, Kurono headed home after class. Kishimoto is not in the house, as she come back to her house, recuperating from the injuries. As for Sakuraoka, she is at work, and only be back home at the late afternoon.

Today, he have no part time job. His work-place was being renovated, and will take up to three days. So, the company was temporarily closed, and Kurono was notified about it in advance.

Kurono then spent his time leisurely in the house. However, his leisure time didn't last long. A car arrived, and parked near his house. As soon as it was parked, two people come out of the car. The two were Joichiro Nishi, and old man Suzuki.

The two approached Kurono's house, and knocked on the door. Kurono who was in the middle of training new set of psychic skill was surprised with the knocking sounds. He Came down to the lower level of his house, and opened the door. As he opened the door, he saw the old man Suzuki, and Nishi were standing outside.

"Hey." Nishi waved at Kurono, while old man Suzuki greeted at him. "Hello Kurono."

"Huh? You two..." Kurono was stunned when he saw the two. Was not this two already got 'infected' by Gantz with some 'amnesia'? How did they find his house?

"Kurono, I remembered back the time when I'm inside the Gantz Room. He is also the same." Explained old man Suzuki. "As for why we are here, there are some problem. By the way, should we talk over it in your house?"

"...yeah. Come in."

The two followed Kurono into his house. Inside the house, old man Suzuki continued their discussion. "I think the people that attacked us in the last moment of our last hunt are making their move. They even attacked me when I was going for fishing."

"That happened? Damn these guys."Kurono cursed at these vampires. It seems they are more proactive than what he thought. He then looked at Nishi, and said, "I assume the same thing happened to you, right?"

"Some black suited guy almost killed me this time. Fortunately, this old man was there, and we escaped by this car." replied Nishi.

"I see. By the way how did you guys recover back your memories?" asked Kurono curiously.

"I got home that day, opened the webpage like usual. When I saw my journal on the web about the room with black ball, I started to recover my memory." said Nishi.

"As for me, when those guys showed their unusual weapon in order to kill me, that when I started to regain my lost memories." explained Suzuki.

Kurono was surprised that these two were able to regained back their erased memories. Look like the Gantz is also have his own problem at erasing memories. The memory can still be regained back, as long as the participants of Gant Room met the situation that was related to the Gantz.

"As for why we came here, we first wanted to let you know that those men in black are already in these area, and actively searching for us." Said old man Suzuki.

"I already know that. These people attacked me too. They even injured Kishimoto when we were just about to go home." said Kurono.

"Oh, so you also experienced their attacks." old man Suzuki was not surprised to see Kurono are still alive after the attacks from the men in black suit. This youth is way too powerful for any of those people to kill.

The old man then said, "Then we move to the second topic. We are here in order to discuss on how we are going to face the threat from these people."

Nishi at the side stayed silent. However, he was also here in order to find out the solution to their current situation.

Right now, both him and the old man are just normal people. After being freed from the Gantz, they no longer have any weapon or suit that they can use to protect themselves. It was lucky for them to be able to avoid being killed this time. However, the same result will not always the same when they encountered these people again.

"I don't think I'm going to survive if those guys attacked me for the second time." said old man Suzuki, sighing with a heavy breath.

Kurono was also worried about this problem. It was okay for himself to be attacked by those weird vampires. However, it will be bad if those vampires decided to attacked the people that has a relationship to him.

If he tried to lend those weapon from the Gantz to these two, the Gantz might decide to kill him or these two, as they are deemed to be a normal people without knowledge about Gantz. Even when they chanced to see him in the Gantz suit will be the same as exposing the Gantz secret to normal people.

Kurono felt a headaches regarding this ban that was enforced by the Gantz. A little mistaken information or spoken thing can result in his head going to explode.

_Why don't you just go and control the Gantz of this area? That way, you will no longer need to feel worried of telling your secret to people, as you have control over the Gantz._ At this time, Administrator appeared and suggested an idea to Kurono.

The sudden suggestions from Administrator stunned Kurono. This suggestion will be able to solve so many problem for him. He hurriedly replied, 'Is it really possible to do that?'

_Host, there is nothing in this world that is impossible, except the thing that I mentioned to you before. So, how about it? Do you want to control that Gantz?_

'If I could I would already do that from the first time I arrived here in this world.' admitted Kurono. 'So, tell me. Is there really a way to control Gantz?'

_There is. However, I cannot just let you have it. You need to do the mission for me._

'Sure. Let me have the mission.' said Kurono excitedly.

_Mission 3: Take control over Tokyo Gantz

Sub-mission 1: Collecting Strong Nanomachines

Mission condition: Kill the Vampire Bosses, and retrieve the Nanomachines in their bodies

Rewards: Superhuman Gene (1 Gene per Vampire bosses killed.

Sub-mission 2: (Open after completing Sub-mission 1)_

'Kill the Vampire bosses? And sub-mission?'

_You know those vampire bosses. As for the sub-mission, it's a chain-like missions. After you completed all of it, you will be able to control Tokyo Gantz completely._

Kurono looked at the mission full of interest. He decided then to find the vampire bosses.

"I've decided. I'm going to hunt those vampires and their leader." said Kurono.

"What?" Old man Suzuki and Nishi were stunned. Old man Suzuki said, "Kurono, please hold your decision. I know that you are strong. However, those guys are many, and strong too. Their leader must be even more formidable than their minions. Your decision to go fight them might turn into your own death."

"Don't worry. I've prepared myself to face those guys." replied Kurono. "You two can stay here for the time being. I'll go out and find these vampires."

Saying so, Kurono opened the window of his house. After that, he jumped out, and levitated in the air and flew away to find the vampires.

Inside the house, the two looked at the soon disappearing Kurono. They looked at each other, and was thinking of the same thing. Kurono is being too hasty in making his decision.

...

In the open sky, Kurono flew around the sky above his house, and zoomed at the surrounding places to check out for any men in black. Right now, his Telescopic Sight can clearly see human who was standing five kilometers away from him.

He checked around and didn't see any suspicious black clothed men. 'Maybe, they haven't reached this area.' thought Kurono.

Riinngg!!

At this time, his phone rang. It was a call from an unknown number. He curiously took the call.

"Hello?"

"...Hi Kurono."

"Reika? You are really Reika?"

"Huh? How do you know me so fast? "

"Ha ha ha. Actually, I'm one of your fan. So, I can tell just by hearing your voice."

"Eh, um...I didn't know that. Thank you for being my fan. So, anyway, do you have some free time?"

"You mean right now? Yeah. I'm free today. Why? Do you need any help?" When it was talking to a beauty, Kurono can temporarily hold off any plan that he wanted to do. It's the courtesy of the saying, ladies first.

"No, not that. You see, I finally able to get a day off today. So, can we meet up in Shinjuku?"

"Sure. Let's meet up there."

After deciding the place for meeting up, Kurono ended the call. He took a deep breath and released it. I'm going to have a date with the beautiful celebrity, Reika, thought Kurono happily.

He then flew up and headed towards Shinjuku. It didn't take him long to reach Shinjuku. After that, he waited for the beauty to come, expectantly.

After waiting for almost an hour, Reika appeared. As she saw Kurono looking, and smiling at her, a bright light flashed in her eyes, and she smiled brilliantly at Kurono.

"Im sorry that I called you up so suddenly." said Reika.

Kurono shook his head and said, "No, it's okay. It's not easy for you to have a free time. I'm glad that you wanted to have a free time with me. So, have you already thought of anything we should do, or place we should go?"

Reika smiled even brighter when she saw that Kurono was enthusiastic with spending some time with her. She said, "There is this movie. It's premiers is tonight. Let's go see it."

"Alright. Let's go."

The two then go together, and watched the movie. It was a romance movie. However, Kurono was not really focused on watching the movie. His attention was focused more to the beauty that was sitting on his side.

At the same time, the girl also feel the same like Kurono. She is more focused to the person beside her. 'I wish I could hold his hand.' thought Reika. She subconsciously moved her hand closer to Kurono's hand. However, she was not brave enough to go and grab his hand.

Suddenly, Kurono's hand reacted and grabbed her hand. The reaction surprised Reika, and she blushed when she felt the warmness of the touch at her hand. They hold to each others hand and silently watched the movie.

After the movie ended, the two walked out still holding each other's hands. Reika still feel a little embarrassed, but didn't plan to let go of her hand. She tried to find a topic to chat, to lessen the embarrassment. "Didn't you like the movie?"

"Well... I'm not really watching the movie." said Kurono.

"Really? Why? Do you find the movie not interesting?"

"No. It's not like that. My attention is on something else."

"Something else?"

"There is a beauty beside me." said Kurono, smiling at Reika.

Reika blushed in embarrassment, and smiled too at Kurono.

Kurono then said, "Hey, do you want to experience flying in the sky like a bird?"

"Huh? Flying?"

"Come. I'll bring you up there."

Kurono then moved to her back and embraced her, causing her face to turn even redder.

Fwoosh!!

With a tap of his feet, Kurono brought the girl flying high into the sky.

"Ah!" Reika let out a cry as the strong wind blew on her face.

"Ah, sorry." Kurono hurriedly activated her psychic powers to shield themselves from the strong wind. Now, Reika can open her eyes and looked around at the open space.

"Amazing!" Reika smiled as she felt the cool temperature, and the feeling of flying like a bird in the sky, it feels so good. Moreover, the strong hand that hold her waist gave her strong sense of security. This made her feels happy, and a bright smile appeared on her face.

Kurono then brought her down on the ground. Reika looked at Kurono with some infatuation shown on her eyes. She said, "Thank you for today. I'm glad I asked to go out with you."

"Yeah. I'm glad that I can make you happy."

The two then decided to go home.

As they were parting ways, Reika said, "Um...can we do something like this again sometime?"

"Sure. Let me know the next time you are free."

"Okay. I'll inform you then." Reika nodded. She then headed out, while waving at Kurono. "Bye."

As the girl walked away, she heard him call, "Reika!"

She turned around, only to saw him standing close to her. Kurono then held her head, and kissed her on her lips.

"Thank you for today."