Arctic Dogs: Metamorphosis

Chapter 23 - Fire on Fire

Friday, the First Week of December

Week 1 (Day 5) of Filming

Ramen Satoshi

8pm

While arctic foxes are not usually big eaters, given Swifty's muscle mass, he was an exception.

He was in his third bowl of his spicy ramen, alone inside his favourite ramen shop. Swifty had wolfed down two bowls of ramen, knowing that PB and his mother were at home, probably drinking tea and conversing about the chaos that unfolded that afternoon.

After arriving at the nearest hospital, Swifty and Jade had to wait for thirty minutes before receiving an update about Duke's stab wound. Fortunately, the doctors had stopped the bleeding in the wound and the husky will require stitches to the wound. It could have been much worse had they arrived a few minutes late.

Duke felt much fine when the doctors stitched the wound. Holding up his bandaged paw, the husky felt jovial despite the stab injury. "I'll be alright, guys," Duke felt optimistic. At least he would not have as much scenes next week as this week.

Swifty took a taxi home at 6pm while Jade stayed behind a little longer, but rather than heading home, he told the driver to take him to Ramen Satoshi. From there, he ordered an extra-large bowl of spicy seafood Tonkotsu ramen (at the spiciest level) and the moment the server brought the bowl to the table, Swifty grabbed his chopstick and started slurping down his bowl. After finishing his first bowl with ease, he asked for another bowl.

As Swifty slurped his noodles, he felt tears streaming down. Research had shown that spicy food tend to warm the heart and soul when feeling sadness, and he felt every drop of the spicy soup inside the bowl. The arctic fox asked for one more bowl and as he wolfed down, the thoughts of his father's reappearance clouded him, but PB taught him an important breathing exercise. Stopping halfway into his third bowl, he closed his eyes and breathe in through his nose and out through his mouth for two minutes. The thought of his father creep away from his mind.

Swifty opened his eyes, wiped off his tears and continued eating. Jade arrived moments later, carrying a brown bag the arctic fox recognised. "Jade?" Swifty looked up to his girlfriend and felt much more comfortable seeing her, even though his stomach was about to burst.

Jade sat down, taking out one Japanese curry bun, and passed it to Swifty. "The hospital food was terrible, so I thought I grabbed some curry buns on my way to see you," Jade smiled. She knew his favourite childhood snack.

Swifty sniffed at the fragrance of the bun. He was sure she ordered the freshest batch because he could smell the fragrance of the panko layer after the vendors had deep-fried it. Biting into the bun, the nostalgia of the spiced curry and the chicken and vegetables inside. Swifty felt the worry of his father going away.

Swifty hurried to finish his third bowl before asking for the receipt. "Thanks," Swifty gave the server the money for his three bowls before excusing himself to wash up at the restroom inside the shop.

Once Swifty got back, Jade suggested walking back home, just what Swifty needed.

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As Swifty and Jade walked along the railings of the coast, Jade updated Swifty on what had happened just now.

The rest of the SwiftyTV gang had cleaned up the entire town and had cleared the blood from the snow. They had also called a group of handymen to fix up the houses. As there is only minor damage, they expect the fixing to complete by the timing the entire team returned for week 2 of filming.