Chapter XVIII

369 14 4
                                        


July 24th, 2020

Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.

July 24th, 2020

Ten days till the fight.

Days had passed since our visit to the hospital.

Yet somehow, the image of that girl lying motionless in the hospital bed refused to leave my mind.

Her body had looked so fragile beneath the white sheets, surrounded by machines and tubes as she fought desperately to stay alive. I had never liked hospitals. They carried a certain heaviness with them—a silence that never truly felt quiet. Every beep, every hurried footstep, every whispered conversation seemed to remind you that someone's life was hanging in the balance.

And then there was her father.

The moment he came storming down the hallway, all hell broke loose.

He had screamed until his voice was raw, calling us worms. Garbage. The scum of society.

I understood his anger.

If someone I loved were lying in that condition, I didn't know what I would do either. Fear had a way of turning into rage when you didn't know where else to put it.

But understanding him didn't mean his words hadn't hurt.

They had.

More than I wanted to admit.

I would never tell Mikey or Draken that, though.

I wasn't about to let them see how deeply those words had gotten under my skin.

Still, there was a small part of me that wanted to grab that man by the collar and ask him how the hell he could judge us without knowing anything about us.

Another part of me knew better.

That wasn't my place.

So I swallowed the anger and moved on.

Or at least, I tried to.

Because as the days continued to pass, the tension surrounding Toman only grew heavier.

The confrontation with Moebius was getting closer.

And eventually, Mikey and Draken asked me to attend a meeting with Pah and Peh.

At first, I was confused.

Why did they want me there?

But once they explained what the meeting was about, I immediately shook my head.

It wasn't my fight to settle.

Whatever decision they made regarding the conflict was something they needed to handle themselves.

Mikey, of course, wasn't exactly thrilled with my decision.

"N/n..."

His voice carried that familiar whiny tone.

Tokyo's Deity  (Mikey Sano x ReaderStories to obsess over. Discover now