38Here's chapter 103. This chapter takes place at the same time as the previous chapters, but focusing in another group of characters from Aggretsuko.
The morning for Koka, Hana, Izumi, and Daisuke hadn't been out of place in the slightest. That day Koka had gotten up as always, he had had breakfast with his father, mother, uncle, grandfathers, grandmothers, great-aunt, great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers. Everything felt pretty good to him. No worries or anything. Everything seemed like it would be a normal day like any other. And as had happened in the previous days, every time they ate together, his paternal grandfather always ate away from the others. Every day he had taken his meals at his expense and then sat in a corner of the dining room away from the others. There were times when Koka wanted to get closer to him, but the way he looked at him made him get intimidated and change his mind.
Half an hour after breakfast, it was time for some of his family to go to work. His maternal grandfather and his paternal uncle Jiro were the first to go to work. Just like the day before, since his sister in law's father job at law was on the way to his, Jiro had offered to take him to work and bring him back home. In their few moments of interactions, the two had gotten along well and Jiro could see how different he was from Retsuko's father compared to his own father. Now he understood why Haida once told him that Retsuko's father had been more of a father to him in the years he had been married to Retsuko than Juzo had been in his entire life. Now Jiro understood everything. After saying goodbye to the rest of their families, Retsuko's father and Jiro got into the car and drove away.
After 15 minutes, Hana, Izumi and Daisuke had arrived in the company of their parents. That was the sign that Haida and Retsuko had to go to work too, so they said goodbye to their families and finally to Koka, after which they left along with Fenneko, Ookami, Komiya, Tsunoda, Manumaru and Resasuke. With that, the children stayed with the other adults. During the morning they did their homework as usual. Even Haida's mother with Retsuko's aunt had gone to the store and bought some tea leaves at the request of Retsuko's two grandmothers. When they were brought in, the two oldest female red pandas began to prepare some cups of tea for everyone present, they even gave some to the 4 children. Although they weren't used to drinking that, they decided to drink it, at least the taste was not unpleasant for them.
Just when it was almost noon, the children had already finished doing their homework and in the case of Hana, Izumi and Daisuke, they had put their school supplies in their respective backpacks. At that time they were watching television while having lunch. That day they decided to have lunch half an hour earlier than normal. At that moment they was watching their favorite show. The episode was already ending, and the battle that was happening was quite epic for them. While watching that, they wondered if their mobian friends had ever fought giant monsters like the ones seen in said show. They knew that they faced Eggman and his robots very often, but they were curious if monsters the size of buildings existed in their home dimension.
Just a few minutes after they finished lunch, the program ended and all the plates and cutlery were washed, a siren suddenly began to sound throughout the city, the Prime Minister's voice began to be heard over the air. the whole city: "This is Prime Minister Oowada. I need everyone in town to stay calm. We have detected a problem and we need to do an evacuation in the city. We need everyone to gather orderly on the streets of the city, where police officers will arrive and lead them to safe areas. Just try to stay in a group, follow the orders of the guards and don't panic. Sonic and the rest of the mobians will take care of all this, so you don't have to worry about anything, everything will be resolved before you know it. That's all and proceed with the instructions I just gave."
Everyone fell silent upon hearing that. Even Juzo himself (who was alone in his room) suspected that something was wrong if the prime minister made that announcement to all the inhabitants. He was in government long enough to know when something serious was happening and they wanted to hide the seriousness of the matter from the citizens. He was sure that what was going to happen wouldn't be good. And that the evacuation was to protect the population from a possible attack. He didn't know how things would turn out, but it was best to follow orders and leave the city as quickly as possible. When he left the room he saw that the others were in the living room getting the children ready to leave. When everyone saw Juzo they watched him for a few minutes before continuing with what they were doing.
The children were a little nervous because of what they had heard a few minutes ago, almost all adults around them told them that nothing would happen to them, and before they knew it they would be out of the city. They even assured them that if the mobians were in the city they wouldn't let anything bad happen to them. None of the adults were yet aware that the children already knew the Mobians, but just telling them that was enough for the children to calm down. At that point Hana, Izumi and Daisuke already had on the backpacks they arrived with. They put Koka's backpack too, but what he kept in it were some precious things that he didn't want to leave behind. Seeing that everyone was ready, they turned off the television and any other electrical devices, took their cell phones and finally left the house, locking it.
When they were outside, they saw that the neighbors were doing the same, they were leaving their respective houses and meeting with the police who had arrived in those areas. The group approached the group that was forming closer to the house. Could be seen worried faces among all the neighbors, and how the police tried to calm them down. Even though the children were sure that nothing would happen to the Mobians, they could see worried looks on the faces of all of Koka's relatives, with the exception of his paternal grandfather, who still had the same serious face he had had since he had arrived home two days ago. He didn't seem afraid or at least he didn't want to show it for some reason.
When the police began to give instructions, the groups began to move. So that children wouldn't be separated from adults; Retsuko's mother, Retsuko's two grandmothers, Retsuko's two grandfathers, Retsuko's aunt and Haida's parents had begun to walk in a kind of circle with the children inside so that they would all be together. They hadn't been walking long when Retsuko's mother and Haida's mother's cell phones started ringing. Retsuko's mother received a call from Retsuko, while Haida's mother received a call from Jiro. They didn't spend long talking on the phone, at least they didn't receive bad news.
When the calls ended, Retsuko's mother told the others that Retsuko and Haida were fine, as were Hana, Izumi and Daisuke's respective parents, and also the rest of those who work at the company. And she also informed them that they were already evacuating the building where they worked. She also told them that Retsuko had spoken to her father and he told her that he was fine. Hearing that made everyone sigh with relief (everyone except Juzo). After that, Haida's mother told them that she had spoken with Jiro, and he told her that he was also already evacuating the city, although unlike others, he was going in his car. She also said that he would try to locate Retsuko's father to come with him in the car so they could get to the city limits faster.
After being at least more relaxed that his other relatives were okay for the moment, Koka suddenly started remembering others he didn't know were okay, like his friends Nicole and Jerry with their relatives. They were in the center of the city, so it would probably take them longer to get out of there. He also wondered what had happened to his "uncle" Tadano and his "aunt" Puko. Or with his father's friends Shishido, Shikabane and Dokachin; whom he had met a while ago. Where in the city could they be right at that moment? He hoped that like him, his relatives and friends, they were in a group on their way to evacuate the city as well and had not been left behind.
As they continued walking, the children noticed that of all those who were present in that place, only Juzo still didn't show any type of emotion, he was still quite serious. He didn't seem to show any kind of nervousness. Because even though the other adults tried to act calm, there was a slight nervousness on their faces, but about Koka's paternal grandfather, there was nothing. It seemed like he didn't have any type of emotions, even since he got home they never heard him speak, not even Koka, who was the one who had lived with him for the last two days. In those moments the children didn't know what to be more afraid of, the situation they were in at that moment or Juzo, who was as expressionless as a stone.
All the children's thoughts were gone when they suddenly saw a cloud of blue dust suddenly begin to fall from the sky. They didn't know what it was, but to the kids it looked pretty cute and impressive. It was something similar to fog, but a different color. Although it was impressive for the children, the adults on the other hand did not take it the same, since no one had ever seen something like that before and they knew that this was not normal, they didn't know what caused it, but it was not normal. That was not something they had heard of happening in any other country either. They didn't know if this would be something bad or just something unusual that might not have happened in several centuries, although if it was the latter it was strange that it wasn't recorded in history books.
The children's moment of happiness was interrupted when suddenly Hana and Daisuke fell to the ground with a severe headache while putting their hands on them. Koka, Izumi and the adults who were with them noticed this reaction and tried to approach them with concern when they saw what was happening to them. Even several adults around them also noticed this with concern, but things didn't last that way, since many adults began to have the same reactions than the two children, including Juzo and Haida's mother. Retsuko's two grandmothers and aunt approached Haida's mother; Retsuko's two grandfathers approached Juzo. Retsuko's mother, Koka and Izumi approached Hana and Daisuke.
But things got worse when they saw everyone who had fallen stood up again and were looking at everyone with their eyes constricted, their fur standing on end, their fangs and claws were exposed. Seeing that, all the red pandas and the meerkat-gazelle hybrid began to retreat, as did many of the neighbors when they saw how a group looked like wild animals. Retsuko's mother carried Koka and Izumi in her arms. No one knew if the others were about to attack, both Retsuko's mother and the rest of her relatives were in a state of shock at seeing two Koka and Izumi's friends, and Haida's parents in that state. That made them realize that if this happened here, it could be happening in the rest of the city, so it is possible that something similar is happening with her other relatives and friends.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.