Never Not
Ch. 138: Yuta Realizes

..."Because life doesn't always talk about rainbows that come after rain. Like a morning that is not always sunny even though the sun has risen."...

...~Yamazaki Shohei~'s...

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Being in one room after being together for quite a while, makes Rai and Yuriko look awkward with each other. Moreover, after the expression of the heart that separated from their respective mouths. For some reason, the sudden atmosphere was strange and clumsy when their eyes met each other. The two were silent for a while with their bodies fixated and found it hard to move.

"I. .. want to take a shower!" yuriko pointed stiffly at the bathroom in their room.

Rai nodded. "I ... want to clean this room!" he said quickly while squatting on the edge of the futon as if he was fixing sheets.

(Futon: japanese folding mattress)

As soon as Yuriko entered the bathroom, Rai immediately sat down while exhaling. Recalling what happened on the plaza just a moment ago, it made his face flushed red. So wanting to get rid of his embarrassment, he rolled around here and there, hiding his head under a pillow, and salted like a fool. He never shed a tear for a woman. Not once and not for anyone!

So was Yuriko who was leaning behind the bathroom door. Recalling the vain farewell, coupled with the expression of his heart that was heard by all the team, made him instantly drown his head in the bathtub.

In the next room, Ryo approached busy Kei face to face with his laptop. "Kei-san, what are you doing?"

"I'm forming a SJW movement on Twitter" Kei replied with agile fingers on the key board.

"SJW?" Ryo cringing.

"Social Justice Warrior or the warriors of justice. Currently, social media is very influential to issue all aspirations and sharp criticism of the government. I will gather critical netizens who are not easily consumed by media incitement. Maybe this can help us have support on social media."

"Oh, so. Kei-san is indeed a true activist, the youth mover of today!" puji Ryo's. He watched the wall that became the barrier between their rooms with Rai's and Yuriko's rooms. "Kei-san, don't you feel like their room is very quiet?" ryo asked with a look still fixed on the wall.

Kei also stared at the walls of their room, then shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe they're on a break."

"Where possible! I know Oniichan well, he's a member of the world of extension. No woman can resist her charm. Oniichan and Yuriko must be busy ...." The sentence was not continued, Ryo even giggled.

"really? Then I have a lot to learn from him!" sahut Kei was suddenly enthusiastic.

Yuriko came out of the bathroom clad in only a minimal towel wrapped around her body. Rai who was rolling around, then went back to pretending to clean the futon. Meanwhile, Yuriko was still standing in front of the bathroom door. To ask Rai out of the room he could not do. In fact, once every shower and want to wear clothes, he will ask the man out of the room and even expel him by force.

Confused by this strange atmosphere, Rai immediately picked up a towel and hung it around his neck. "I ... want .. take a shower first!"

"Ah, yes ...." Yuriko immediately moved quickly so as not to block Rai who was about to enter the bathroom.

When entering the bathroom, Rai immediately patted her cheeks while staring at the mirror. "Aarrggh, awake! You are Rai Matsui! Rai Matsui the conqueror knows no awkwardness towards women!"

Feeling that he had mastered himself, Rai also opened the bathroom. He had forgotten that Yuriko had also just finished her bath. Suddenly, he was immediately greeted by the hysterical screams of the girl who had just stripped her towel and appeared innocent.

Yuriko's screams were apparently heard across the room. Not to be surprised, Ryo instead said, "What I said, right? Oniichan is a bed expert, the proof is Yuriko-chan to moan like that!"

Ryo and Kei left the room. Coinciding with that, the door of the next room also opened followed by Rai who was kicked out and immediately fell on the floor. Two pillows that flew from the room hit Ryo and Kei.

On the other hand, Shohei is still shrouded in grief over Seto's death and Ai's criticism. Taking Seina home, along the way the man just kept quiet and focused on driving with a straight forward gaze. Meanwhile, Seina also silenced her mouth, even though there were many questions in her brain. He still could not believe knowing that his lover was the figure behind Black Shadow all this time. Somehow, this makes it awkward because before he was even crazy about Black Shadow, a character created by his own lover.

"Shohei-kun," called Seina slowly after the two maintained a silence.

Shohei turned his head, but still made no sound.

"Can I stay at your condo tonight?"

Seina's request, surprised the man a little. However, he immediately nodded in agreement. Remembering, the girl had just experienced kidnapping and captivity.

"It was the residence of both of us. You are free to come at any time" said Shohei.

At the same time, Kazuya Toda entered the office building which is home to the Prime Minister. He got a call from the number one Japanese official after a press conference. There, the prime minister questioned Kazuya Toda's remarks about the Black Shadow terrorist group.

"Is that really all? Really ... Black Shadow is not a person but a radikall-savvy group?" ask the Prime Minister still not to believe it. Because, he was impressed with the figure of Black Shadow even though many officials under his reign have been rounded up.

"Do your best for the safety of the people and the country!" the Prime Minister's direct decree gives full confidence to Kazuya Toda in mobilizing state security personnel to search for four people suspected of belonging to the Black Shadow group.

Kazuya Toda walked out of the kentai building with a triumphant smile.

"Why do you only want to hunt down those four people? Isn't Yamazaki-san and the son of the national police chief also part of them?"

"My main goal is to make Yamazaki-san have no other way but to join me" said the old man with a cold smile perched on his lips.

In a room with little light, there was the sound of pain from someone due to the torture that continued to be experienced. Yes, that man is Yuta Inoo who was caught by Kazuya Toda's men while trying to escape abroad. His bound body was weak. His entire face was covered in punched scars, so it might be difficult to recognize.

A man in a black uniform with a face full of cruelty stomped on his chest. "Just tell me, who are the people you're working with in breaking into the safe room?"

"I ... don't know!" weak answer. Although his life was on the edge, but he still held to the principle they formed when carrying out the mission, that is if one of them was caught committing fraud, he said, it will be the responsibility of yourself not the members.

One kick hit his face again, until fresh blood dripped from his nostrils.

Someone pulled her hair, then said no less strongly. "You must be working with Black Shadow! If you want to live longer, you better tell us where Black Shadow is!"

"I don't know him! I really don't know what Black Shadow you're talking about!" yuta shouted with a sense of fear that controlled him. He did not understand why they accused him of cooperating with a completely unknown figure.

"He lied! Obviously Black Shadow acted right when he broke into the safe room security system" said one of them.

"Yes, right. The time is exactly the same! This man still does not want to admit to cooperating with Black Shadow," another timpal said while kicking Yuta's stomach.

Hearing their conversation, Yuta tried to rewind his memory. That night, just as Rai said the safe room door had opened, suddenly their communication was cut off and had no contact with him until now. Then, he recalled the time Rai came to see him to borrow money.

Before that, he was stunned when Rai helped him from the four people in the same uniform as the people before him at this time. Honestly, he had not expected that the one who helped him was really Rai. Because, for ten years of friends and seven years of living together, he knew that the man was not good at fighting let alone mastering martial arts. However, that night Rai actually showed a heroic martial ability, like he was not.

One of the men in uniform said, "This man still pretends not to recognize Black Shadow to protect the man. We better kill him!"

"I remember now!" yuta shouted for a moment.

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author notes ⁇ ️

SJW stands for Social Justice Warrior.

In Indonesia there is also SJW... They are active on Twitter and dare to speak up about less uplifted issues related to justice, discrimination and gender. They are mostly feminist activists. On social media, they are less liked, even often made fun of until made up of memes. Yes, the risk of fighters is always that, many do not like.

But, there are also those who do not like them because they often think people who are different ideologies with them are wrong.

If I myself, Mandang SJW Indonesia there are plus minuses, they are very helpful to raise problems that are initially unknown to many people and not touched by the law. Such as harassment that occurs in the university scope, harassment of public figures, cases of bullying/bully and violence that are not carried out by the police and many more.

But there are some of their ideologies that do not match my ideology. You see they support the 🌈. I'm also a supporter of gender equality, anti-toxic masculinity, anti-double people standards, anti-sandwich generation, and not a person who perpetuates patriarchal culture. But, to support the rainbows, I don't, because it doesn't fit my beliefs. So I'm enough to listen and support what they're fighting for. To be a part of them, no.

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