Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 291 — Start-up
When news of Hiryuu knowing the secret about Eden spread. The world is quickly filled with chaos. Before Hiryuu disbanded the Shin Jidai Organization, he went to meet his son who lived with a Five Star Hero.
The figure of the man nicknamed the Iron Hero took care of Hiryuu's child from childhood. A fifteen-year-old girl who inherited the power of Hiryuu is the power of the White Spirit.
“I'll go take something that becomes the sacred treasure of Kitsune Island. That Holy Spirit must not fall to just anyone.” Hiryuu smilingly looked at the fifteen year old girl who did not care about him at all.
“Kirara, I want you to use this power. I'm sure the Holy Spirit will choose you. Because in your blood flows my blood.” Hiryuu squeezed out her son's hair.
“Hiryuu, you're always at will. You are not responsible at all. Your wife has died and now you intend to leave Kirara alone!” A white-haired man with a thinly growing white mustache stared coldly at Hiryuu.
“Tetsuya, you have to take care of him. Although we are always different opinions and hostile out there. I need you to take good care of my son. After all he is your nephew.” Hiryuu smiled and took a barrel of sake before pouring it on the glass.
“Daddy, are you really going to die?” The son of Hiryuu named Kirara looked sad and moody.
Hiryuu drank the sake and closed his eyes. Then she smiled faintly at her son. “I will not die. My soul will live on. People die when they are forgotten. As long as the people closest to me still remember me then my soul will continue to live until whenever it is.”
Kirara threw away her face. “Death! Basic father useless!” The girl slammed the glass and went inside her room.
Tetsuya showed the badge to Hiryuu. “Your son has reached the One Star Hero. But hiding his identity was not easy. If it wasn't for the Bahamut Empire that owed me a great debt, then I wouldn't be able to become a Hero because of my blood.”
Tetsuya understood that Kirara was still traumatized in the past. The blood that flowed within the veins of the girl was a most wanted criminal. In addition, the name of the Kitsune clan that became his name made Kirara always feel desperate to live life.
“When you are nicknamed the Iron Hero or I am nicknamed the King of Criminals. Both of us do not have enough power. My name is not accepted by everyone in the world, just like Kagutsuchi Mugen.” Hiryuu let out a long sigh and drank his pocket while staring out the window.
Tetsuya recalled the time of the great battle against the Kagutsuchi group of Mugen. “Why are you such a pessimist. The fight at that time we managed to win it even though we did not kill them.”.
“At that time Bisma felt that Mugen's ambition to become the King of the World threatened her dream. He's on our side four of us. But in fact Mugen really not found his body.” Hiryuu looked at Tetsuya who was both reminiscing about the past.
“Kazan and Bhishma are now the Five Rulers. Yoru, Tarot and King. All three have no news. At least before I die, I want to drink sake with them.” Hiryuu added with a laugh.
“Maybe you and Bhishma will die from drinking poisonous sake. Your heart disease—” Tetsuya did not continue his words.
Hiryuu drank her saket and looked at Kirara's room door. “Don't tell him anything about this. I just want to see him happy one day. The boy has suffered for a long time. At least as a father I want to sacrifice my life for the sake of my son.”
Tetsuya let out a long breath. “A Five Star Hero like me takes care of the son of the King of Criminals.”.
Hiryuu laughed loudly at Tetsuya's complaint. There was no long sound from Kirara's bedroom door.
“Kirara, are you in the phase of falling in love?” Hiryuu opened the door to Kirara's room. A pillow and bolster landed right on his face.
“Then I go first. Kirara, may you live happily. You are now free..” Hiryuu smiled gently at her son and walked out.
Tetsuya did not stop Hiryuu's footsteps. The last smile of Hiryuu implied happiness, but to Tetsuya it was sadness. Kirara, however, is unaware of Hiryuu's sacrifice to her.
Before actually leaving Tetsuya's house, Hiryuu turned to the enemy and his friend.
“I leave my son to you..” Hiryuu smiled and waved at Tetsuya.
“Stupid! A Hero will not weep over the death of a criminal. Let alone that villain is you, brash!” Tetsuya closed the door.
Meanwhile Hiryuu laughed and went to the place where he landed the Flying Lion that became his vehicle.
After that Hiryuu returned to Kirara Island, where all his comrades gathered. Arriving at an island where his group is located, Hiryuu smiled faintly.
Forty-four members of the Shin Jidai Organization welcomed him. But only Dante and his three colleagues knew Hiryuu seemed to want to say something important.
“There's something I want to tell you all..." Hiryuu felt awkward as his comrades greeted him with a lavish banquet.
“News of you knowing the secret of Eden made many people think in the untouched land there is a treasure or power. They all know absolutely nothing!” One of Hiryuu's colleagues spoke up and was embracing Dante.
“We know everything too soon. It really makes me laugh when remembering people who are scarier than rulers!” Dante embraced his partner and laughed cheerfully.
“Bos, look at this. They say you as the King of Criminals for intending to use the power of the secret of Eden to destroy the world!” Dante showed Hiryuu the newspaper.
“Ah, that's my face. Looks like I look less scary.” Hiryuu instead complained after seeing her face plastered on the wanted poster.
“We are really a troublesome military arrival, but all we can overcome. Now how's our next trip, Boss?” The person who was embracing Dante asked.
“Lao, of course we will go to one of the three hidden continents. Although we have known about Eden, but we have not explored the whole world.” Dante embraces a man named Lao more closely.
Hiryuu looked at all his comrades. He realized he was responsible for giving dreams to his friends. They all followed him with all their heart. There was still a lot he wanted to do with all of them, but it was time to end.
“Knowing all that twelve years ago, it felt like a dream. We can find out the reason why the Prabu Family and fighters from Jaya Country are waiting for a predetermined day when the person says exactly 300 years after that endless eternal night. Right now I actually want to visit Zhang Kingdom and Jaya Country to meet two of our friends.” Hiryuu drank sake and looked up at the sky above.
“Come, Boss. You're not what you used to be. The Zhang Kingdom and Jaya State were isolated places. We never accept even knowing the news there, otherwise we ourselves go there. What is the purpose of our next trip are those two places, Boss?” Lao asked as he looked at Hiryuu seriously.
“No. My goal is not to go there.” Hiryuu stood up and looked at all his comrades who were sitting down. “I hate to say this. But you must have known my heart disease is getting worse and worse.”.
Instantly everyone who was partying, full of atmosphere in a cheerful and joyful atmosphere immediately fell silent. There was no sound of laughter other than trying to accept reality. They must listen to the words of the leader who has invited them all to go see the outside world and have a dream to be free. Humans are free without being colonized by other humans.
“We've made a great trip together. I have absolutely no regrets when I learned that my age did not last much longer. All my life, I will never forget all of you. I'm not a good leader. But thank you all. You are willing to exchange cups with me and become my friends!”
Finished Hiryuu said, all his comrades are back partying.
“Alright, are we going to go fight against those military forces from the Western Continent, Boss?”
“No, I think we better go to those two hidden continents that we haven't stopped by yet!”
“Elf Village. The dream of all men is to be the only man in the place of those beautiful women..”.
Hiryuu laughed at the opinions of his comrades. Then he looked at his entire companion before taking a deep breath.
“Not all those places. Because starting today... Shin Jidai organization disbanded!”
Hiryuu let out a laugh after saying the hardest word for her to say.
“Hah?!” All the members of the Shin Jidai Organization gasped in shock. But everyone knows it. Hiryuu's ambitions can't be fulfilled now, even Hiryuu himself can't finish it.
“Bos, do as you please. We will continue our lives.”
“When to go, it's time to go..”
“Stupid by your words, Boss. Let's all have a drink!”
Everyone is not honest with their feelings. Some of them choose to drink sake in a quiet place and cry. Among them there are those who returned to party with the sound of laughter and tears.
As the comrades of someone as great as Hiryuu naturally they should not all cry. But this is a man's farewell. Everyone saw Hiryuu who went to the place where he landed the Flying Lion that became his vehicle.
Hiryuu said something to his sidekick. His first partner, Dante, before he left Kirara Island.
As Hiryuu left, Lao approached Dante and asked him something. Which just makes Lao cry. Crying from a man.
The legend continues.