“For men like me a good life isn’t really true and for us being normal is a lie. I still remember when this all happened, although it has been 30 years since I saw Japan. I still remember everything. Even back then the name Kazuya Hotaru was a big thing sometimes things do not change.” –Kazuya Hotaru (1889)
It was a warm summer evening the trees are blooming and the excess of youth was all over but for 2 men this was quite the opposite, for them it’s the climax of a political battle between the 2 political parties now they sit in a Roppongi Restaurant to fix the underlying issues.
“It sure is a warm evening Minister.” A man compliments the weather the other man visibly annoyed by his carefree behavior expedites his putting documents into his bag. The man looking very worried pleads to the other “Mr. Hotaru please don’t leave we still haven’t talked about how we’ll out maneuver the PM?!” The man pleads and begs the Minister to not leave. Hotaru shrugs off the plea of the man and when he starts to leave he receives a call from his Smartphone.
“Hello?” Hotaru receives the call. Hotaru wonders about the sudden call, its 10 at night shouldn’t be people be asleep at this time.
The person on the other side phone answers “It’s Jun from the Intelligence Agency.” He insists to Hotaru.
Hotaru was surprised by his call; it must be important then. “Jun?! What’s the sudden call? It’s like 10PM.” He inquired Jun about the bizarre call.
Jun finally getting to him alerts him about some sensitive news “Sir Hotaru we’ve been informed about an assassination plot against you!” He fervently warns Hotaru about the plot.
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Unimpressed by the news Hotaru disregards the warnings “Yeah… Yeah… It’s just a scheme to threaten me nothing will happen. Anyway see you later.” He confidently assures Jun that nothing will happen and hangs up. His words he would regret later.
Having Hotaru hung up on him Jun gets his radio and shouts a command “SECURE AND PROTECT HOTARU!” His command being affirmed teams rush to his location but this was too late.
The man overhearing the distressing news tries to persuade Hotaru “Hotaru don’t go you’ll be killed!” The man persuades but ultimately fails to convince Hotaru. Hotaru leaves the table and says a message before leaving “Don’t you worry Mr. Yamano I won’t be killed.” Hotaru adds to Yamano before leaving the restaurant.
As Hotaru left the restaurant he felt the cool summer air surround him. He walks to his car when suddenly hears a yell “Stop!” He glances to where the yell comes from and suddenly he feels an ache in in his head. Hotaru suddenly collapses to the sidewalk, still having his sight he sees blood coming from his head. He was shot, Jun was right after all he chuckles until he coughs up blood.
He was gone, He was dead, and this was his end. Hotaru understood this and spent the last moments of his life contemplating about his life. “I never really got married huh…” He thought to himself; even after all this he was a Minister, a Diet member and millionaire he still considered himself a failure. His intentions was corrupted by greed, well that’s what he thought to himself. “I never really enjoyed life.” Hotaru regrets as he hears the sirens of ambulances and police cars.
As his vision fades, the sirens became more louder and before his last breathe he omits his last words “I wish I could’ve changed the country.”
In what seemed like a century or decades he can’t for what he seen, the pitch-blackness was the only thing he saw. And then he saw a light, he came closer to the light and his world turned black again.
In what was like a nightmare he suddenly wakes up in what looks like a hospital, He looked around it looked like a primitive hospital. “Where am I?” He asked himself as he saw was a fictional land, It wasn’t Japan though and that he was sure about.
To Be Continued