Chiyoko: The 1 000 Generations Child

Chapter 7: Who's Bad

The soft morning sun gradually rose in a pastel blue sky as Chiyoko stalked her victim.

Kenji walked to a huge anthracite building with golden foreign letters and several square meters of window.

A white van with blue logo arrived shortly after Kenji. The old Yoshito got out of the van.

Kenji rushed over and greeted him profusely before quickly taking some buckets and cleaning products out of the back of the van.

Yoshito strolled in the meantime casually to the building instructing Kenji where to put everything, how to fill the buckets correctly and then sent him back to the van to fetch a ladder.

Chiyoko observed the situation from the bushes. She was accompanied by Ruri and Yusei.

When Kenji crawled up the unsteady ladder and Yoshito turned his back towards him answering his phone, Chiyoko grinned.

"This is my chance."

"Please, Chiyoko-chan, don't do it. You know what the Elders said."

"Elders, smelders. No one can dictate me."

Chiyoko sneaked out of the bushes, made herself tall, her limbs slender and her eyes hollow.

Motionless she stood behind Kenji, her reflection clearly visible in the window he was cleaning.

She waited until he looked up, but his whole attention focused on a speck of dirt that wouldn't come off.

Growing inpatient, Chiyoko came closer and breathed in Kenji's neck. 

Kenji just leaned more forward and rubbed and scrubbed and rubbed.

Chiyoko blew up her cheeks. She huffed and puffed to get his attention, but Kenji's eyes were on the dirt and dirt alone.

He used so much force while rubbing, his ladder swayed under his feet.

Chiyoko had enough of it. She slammed her leg on the first step of the ladder, instantly stabilizing it.

She poofed back to her angry self and stormed to the bushes. She sat down on the ground. She crossed her arms with an hmpf.

Kenji looked up. His eyes widened as he exclaimed: "It's on the inside."

Chiyoko grumbled. "Him with his introspections..." She changed her face to look like him. "What's important is on the inside," she mocked, "the inside, the inside."
She turned around and balled her fists. "I will show you your insides!"

Ruri covered her ears. "Try to calm down, Chiyoko-chan. You're scaring me."

"Sorry, Ru-chan. It's not my intention to scare you, but him!" Chiyoko turned around as she spoke and waved her fist at Kenji.

A messenger appeared, handed Yusei a letter and then poofed away.

Yusei's smirk widened reading the contents of the letter.

"My, my, Kizuna Chiyoko, look at this. Not only did I just get confirmation of you performing 2 more acts of kindness - and all that all within 24 hours of receiving your sentence - but you also got a special thank you from Life herself.

You are truly surprising us all."

Chiyoko's eyes shot daggers at Yusei. "What do you mean with two more acts of kindness?"

"When stomping that ladder, you prevented Kenji from falling and breaking some crucial bones: act of kindness number 1," he said as he held one finger in the air,

"and by stabilizing the ladder you made sure this gig will be finished swiftly securing an important contract, preventing the old man from going bankrupt and saving his life too: act of kindness number 2," he spoke as he held two fingers in the air.

Ruri's space buns jumped up as she hugged Chiyoko. "You saved their lives. I knew you wouldn't hurt them. You're the best!"

Chiyoko turned red. Her lip pulled down and her eye twitched as it burned with rage.

Yusei smirked. He jotted down two more markings in the table in his notebook. "This gives you a total of 3 acts of kindness and it's still early in the morning.

I thought you said you were bad? If you keep up the pace there's no doubt about you being good."

Chiyoko exploded in rage. "I'll show you I'm bad! Just watch me."

Yusei held his hand in front of his mouth and laughed. "This promises to be good."