Hopping Hearts

4: I help you, you help me

It's been about one and a half month since Rumi visited the Cafe, ever since she was a regular customer. Because it didn't have a lot of customers  she could relax without fans sticking to her like a thorn on her sides, and it had the most divine carrot cake she had ever tasted.
In this span of time she got to know better Sakura and the rest of the personnel. Itsuki was a menacing looking man that had the heart of a child, one time she even saw him doing magic tricks in a small crowd of kids just to see them smile. The other girl that works here is apparently named Mirai and she can't really get her. She is like an ice pillar rarely showing emotions and cracking an awkward smile from time to time. Right now her daily life is perfect, she has a perfect job that allows her to kick as much ass as she wants, she is the number 5 ranked hero and in the end of a hard working day she relaxes to her paradise on earth while drinking a great cup of coffee and eating her favourite cake. But despite how perfect her life is right now there is one thing she doesn't get one extremely simple but at the same time extremely complicated problem.
And that problem was...

"H.. hey miss Miruko how are you"

Rumi jolted hearing his voice and looked at him a bit shocked but she quickly fixed her posture and relaxed.

"What do you want Jacob, I have job to do"

He felt a bit sad with her annoyed tone he thought that maybe it was better for him to leave her alone for now, while Rumi was cursing herself for the way she talked to him.

'Damnit you stupid bitch what were you thinking, he just wanted to say hello and you talk to him like that? What the fuck is wrong with me, oh man now he looks, sad.... Why the fuck to I care so much about it?"

"Look I'm sorry it's just ~sigh~ a hard day at work"

He was curious about what was giving the number 5 hero such trouble.

"Any way I can help" he said while putting his brightest smile making Rumi blush.

"N...no it's okay"

"Are you sure maybe a second pair of eyes can help"

Normally she would never ask for help and she would never, but never share information about a case with a common civilian. But Jacob was no common civilian and she knew, she already saw what he is capable of so she decided to ask for his opinion.

"It's a new villain going by the name the Baron, he is responsible for many brutal murders.... Mostly kids"

Jacob's eyes were filled with shock."Why would someone do that"

"Huh probably he is a sadist or has some kind of sick fetish, but that doesn't change that this is beyond sick..... the pictures are just-"

Rumy was cut off by Jacob when he placed his hand on top of hers and looked her with a look full of determination.

"Show me"

She didn't think that was a good idea, those pictures were enough to make a full fledged hero feel sick to his stomach but he persisted on showing him.

"Please"

"~sigh~ Don't say I didn't warn you"

She handed him a folder that contained inside the information of the case and the pictures of the victims. Rumi waited for him to get up and rum straight to the bathroom, but she was shocked when she looked at him and instead of disgust
there was pure rage on his eyes, his hands tightening their grip on the folder leaving marks on the paper.

"Are you okay?"

Her voice snapped him back to reality and he looked at het with a blank look.

"Yeah it's just, do you have any leads on him"