Who says you can't change everything with your dreams?

7 chapter

-July 25, 2005-

- Red, hi.

- Hi, Kenchick. Does Mikey want to go out again?

- Yeah, come with us for a walk, and we'll go to the cafe.

- Okay, I'll be right there.

***

- What the hell is this? I'll never forgive you!

"Fuck, it's always like this. I wonder how Izana's doing. I'll have to check on him sometime."

- No flag!

Mikey pointed to the children's set without the flag. Red and Kenchick looked at each other, and the waiter started apologizing.

- Look, Mikey, the flag," Ken said and put the flag down.

- Wai! Just as expected of you, Kenchick!

- Don't fall asleep as usual," warned Red Mikey.

***

- That's the way it always is, eat and sleep. Grown-up kid.

- And you can't argue with that, he goes to sleep right after lunch. It can't be helped.

Ken started walking toward the exit with Mikey on his back and Red walking beside him.

***

After a few minutes, the trio approached the hospital. Ken let go of Mikey, and he got off his back.

- The hospital? What are we doing here? - Mikey asked.

- We won't be here long," Ken answered and entered the hospital. After a while they stopped in front of a room with a patient in a serious condition.

- Who is it?

- Pa's friend's girl. Seven stitches in her head, her teeth are knocked out and her right eye is leaking out of her eye socket, and she has broken so many bones that she has not been able to regain consciousness for five days.

"Too bad about the girl."

- Everyone in Mobius is like that, according to those who have crossed paths with them," Doraken told Red and Mikey.

- Hey! Why did you come here? Don't show your faces around here so indifferent! Get lost, you scum!

Ken suddenly bowed to what seemed to be the girl's father.

- Why are you bowing, you insect! It's because of scum like you that my daughter is dying!

- Don't bow, Kenchick, we haven't done anything.

Red bowed the same way, looking at the floor.

- Get out of here!

- Red, you too.

Ken grabbed Mikey by the back of the head and made him bend over.

- I'm sorry," Doracen began.

- What are you doing? - Mikey asked.

- Taking responsibility.

- Stop it, please!

- My daughter won't get well if you bow down, you insects! Scum of the earth! Garbage!

- Huh?

- Shut up, Mikey.

Mikey obeyed, did not resist, and bowed profusely. Afterward, the girl's parents told the trio to stay out of sight, and they left.

- We must fight Mobius. Only we have the power to do that," Ken said, and Red continued:

- Every member of the Swastons has people close to them and we mustn't get them involved or the relatives will cry.

- Even if the fact that we bowed doesn't change anything, people will realize that even we have a heart," Ken finished.

- Kenchik's good, sorry, Kenchik," Mikey apologized to Ken.

- It's good to have you around.

Takemichi watched them from behind the pole and understood.

"I guess I figured out why Mikey and Red changed after Doraken died and the rest of the Swastons became like that. Doraken is the heart of Mikey and Red. There's no way those three are going to fight."

- I'm getting hungry...

- Mikey, you just ate!

- I slept and my stomach's empty.

"Doraken will die on the third of August, fourteen days from now, in a fight with Mobius, and in the meantime I'll keep an eye on them."

"I wonder what I will become in the future? I hope I'm dreaming about it, because it's creepy curious!"

To be continued...