Unlike Russia, in Japan, at this time, the evening was cool. No rain, no snow, no storm, no harsh weather conditions. Everything was just boring and calm.
Especially in a small ghetto-like area. At this time of the day, most people were already asleep, or at least trying to. Sleeping at a typical slum like this proved to be a hustle on its own, unexpectedly due to the loud noises the animals made every night.
Houses were packed together, so a dog barking in its cage, could be heard by the neighbouring houses. As for the cats, most of them were hovering over the houses, and meowing, on the roofs. Even though that wasn't noisy enough to prevent a person's sleep, it still contributed to the noise.
Let's not even talk about the howling of the wolves. It could be heard, even though it seemed to be far away, but the howlers could not be seen. Tonight's howls were even worse, due to the risen full moon, which glowed up in the sky.
Surely, one would never guess that there was a place like this in Tokyo.
The only road, that led to this area, was an unpaved road, which had parts of itself higher than other parts. The unpaved road even got worse than one can imagine, whenever there was a heavy downpour.
Because of the nature of this unpaved road, vehicles such as cars, had refused to take this route. In fact, it was once in a blue moon that a car had make a stop in this ghetto.
Although, today was one of the ghetto's lucky days. A long, and black limousine strode across the unpaved road, suffering as the road sent it up and down, like a boat in a stormy sea.
After getting through the unpaved road, and finding their way into the ghetto, the limousine finally stopped, and its doors finally pushed open.
A teenage boy, with a long, black hair, walked out of the limousine, and gazed at the houses with disgust in his eyes. It was Tayo, one of Takumi's grandsons.
"We're here, guys." He announced "Remember, no screw ups."
Another boy walked out, through the other door, wearing his cap. He was just a feet shorter than Tayo and his eyes were green and lazy. He also turned and gazed at the slum.
"This is where he stays?" He said, with a sigh "Tayo, are you sure?"
"Yes. I'm sure, Yeong." Tayo answered, with an evil grin "This is the location Master Takumi gave to me. Hey, Kwang! We don't have all day, you know?!"
Kwang suddenly appeared right beside Tayo, with both his arms pocketed.
"Yeah, yeah. I know." He said, with a deep sigh.
Kwang was shorter than Tayo and Yeong, and looked younger too. He wore a green hoodie, with his arms in the hoodie's pockets.
"To be frank, I'm disappointed in him." Yeong said, walking towards them "He couldn't find anywhere descent to settle."
"I truly don't know why Master Takumi will send us on such a mission." Kwang said "He said it himself, that we would lose against him in battle."
Tayo clenched his fist, and looked up into the sky.
"I look forward to proving him wrong, Kwang." He said putting on thick, black gloves, and changing his expression, to an evil grin "We are coming, Soran."
***
Soran sat in a dark messed up room. His house was at the far end of the ghetto, and he could just see the house beside him through his window.
Unfortunately for him, the family nearby, unlike all the other families, hadn't slept. And they kept frustrating Soran with their noise-making.
However, Soran didn't care much about them. After all, eventually, they will get to sleep. Soran's attention was rather on the 50 inched, flatscreen TV, that'd been positioned against the wall. He held the remote with his arm, as he kept watching, with halfway shut eyes, that expressed boredom.
