THE BLACKLIGHT

Few weeks has passed. Akagi slowly knowing more about Mutants, As the first day in the job, Yamamoto has shows the managing office, where Akagi will going to work, gathering the doc.u.ments and papers about the restaurant, Akagi hesitates "Are you sure, you can rely on me for big responsibility such as this?"

Yamamoto nod with confidence "you will do just fine, at first time might be difficult handling the staffs, what they should or shouldn't do, but you once get hang on that, there will be no for you to worry"

Akagi nod with a smiles "So, what am I going to do? I gather all information about restaurant's management but I really appreciate your opinion sir"

"Hahaha, you are the first manager asked me to my opinion" Yamamoto proudly laughs and slowly walks with help of his walking stick towards the office window and opens it, a flow of wind coming from the window then he asks him to look at it. Akagi comes near the window, "See, the yellow zone, also known as commercial zone, lot of Mutants and middle class people lives here, many of them decided to make shops or stores. Now you see Shinsuke-kun, you don't have to work hard like the rest of us"

Akagi confuses "Huh! I don't understand"

Yamamoto speaks again "This place is a covers, a front"

Akagi questions "A cover?"

Yamamoto nods "Yes a cover, most of the civilized Mutants who wants to live in peace, they often using shops or any commercial business as a front, for hiding their true identities. The Friendo's bar is either popular nor unpopular around this area, most of the people sees as a regular snack bar and family restaurant and I like it this way, you have to make this mild as possible ,if you make the bar more it might attracts the Blackwatch's soldiers for hang out place for them. We don't want this to be happened, would we?" Akagi nod in agree. Yamamoto Commands him "Now go down to Misaki-Chan, she will introduce you to the rest of the staffs. Akagi again nods put his glasses and went downstairs. The restaurant has two floors upper floor has family restaurant along with the owner personal room and the manager's office where Akagi will be working, it also features a separate entry and exit for those people who only wants to eat not to visit the bar and ground floor has the bar, kitchen and staff's personal rooms. When Akagi reaches the downstairs he sees his brother Akiho, setting on table eating a cheese sandwich and black coffee, Misaki standing right beside Him. After seeing his brother in the Restaurant, Akagi questions him with serious tone "What are you doing in here Akiho?"

Akiho smiles after hearing the question "Well, I was going my way to school but suddenly I saw your restaurant, thought I might visit you in. After entering, I saw no one in there" Akiho points his finger on Misaki "Then this girl saw me, welcomed me to sit and offered this delicious meal for free, since I was hungry, I thought why not" he smiles at Misaki "Thank you"

Misaki response with fruity voice "No need to say thank me, it's my p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e". A few days ago Akagi told his Mother and brother that he got a part time job on a restaurant, his mother was extremely happy heard about it, she always said Akagi to get a part time job, she even mentioned him as spoil lazy brat, from his mother Akiho knew that his brother got a job in the restaurant. After eat his meal Akiho is about to leave but he was stopped by Akagi. "Hey, you should pay for this ,I know mom gave you the money for lunch" Akiho stretches his left eye by his one finger push his tongue out his mouth making a funny face toward Akagi and leaves from the restaurant. Akagi heavily exhales in disappointment "He isn't going to change, I sure he will spent all that money in gambling". Misaki pulls a bubble gum from her pocket and puts in her mouth, starts chewing "Make sure that he doesn't discover your secret" Misaki spoke out from Akagi's back. She is again went cold as normal, Akagi winks "Yeah, I get it"

"If he suspects anything about the restaurant he's going to report to the Blackwatch then I will have no choice to kill him" Misaki warns Him.

Akagi is shocked after hearing "Why? How couldn't you, he's my little brother you know"

Misaki bangs on the table from her hand "god damn it, I said "If". You want your brother to be safe then tell him to stay away from this place"

Akagi questions in high voice "Why? Why you so secretive why you all people are so secretive around this area?"

Misaki Hoarse "Why, Do you know anything about The Lex unit roaming around the zone, the Spotter mixes among the civilian, and worst thing is, you can't do anything if you and your brother are in danger, so keep quiet do as Mr. Yamamoto told you to do"

Akagi downcast and keeps quiet after that.

Misaki realised that she was acted little rough on him, she asked Akagi "You don't know anything about Blackwatch and Lex, so let me tell you briefly". She focused her eyes on Akagi "They kills Mutants both brutally and ruthlessly without even asking what they guilty of. Not any of that scares me" Misaki bitten her teeth Clenched her hand "If somehow that Mutant got family, they first kill the Mutant target they tasked, going to take everyone from the family including women and children. Put in the MRC's laboratory, from there they become living test subjects; they will keep on experimenting until they found anything that helps them to get rid of us. In their eyes, we just soulless infected murderer"

Akagi was surprised to see Misaki's true intentions, he down his head in regard thinking "I am a fool, she just thinking about everyone safety, including Akiho and mine and I shouted on her likes an imm.a.t.u.r.e brat" he slowly lower his voice "I'm sorry" After the conversation, Misaki replied nothing and goes to the kitchen's front door but she suddenly stopped, while she is on the Kitchen's door turn on her eyes toward Akagi and said "Oi, four eyes" Akagi turns his eyes on Misaki holding the one hand on the door "Don't just stand there, come along, there some people, the owner would like to meet" Akagi smiles and follow her.

.....

Few weeks earlier

Masamune and Tomotaki in on the helicopter on their way to the Blackwatch's base, while them on the helicopter Tomotaki shouted because the helicopter's wings noise. "How's the view?"

Masamune also shouted "Well, it's not all that bad, I see normal people roaming on streets, chatting to other people, driving cars and going to their usual work, I do see many Blackwatch's patrols on the checkpoints when I see closely, most of the people wearing green face mask, I expected to be lot worse, when you mentioned passing by the Red zone and even expected to see dozens of zombies on every corner of the streets"

Tomotaki laughs "Because you only see the West Red zone is a quarantined zone where citizens are under suppression of Blackwatch. It is heavily influenced by the military police or the Wall Keeper who guard the front wall however it is extremely regulated. If civilians decide to travel, they have to proceed through multiple checkpoints. This zone is overcrowded with camps and shanty towns of refugees while the virus slowly grows here. The East Red zone is about to come"

Masamune asked "East?"

Tomotaki nods "Yep, you heard right, because the river Red zones has divided into two zones but trust me there is a huge difference between the two zones, you'll see"

Masamune thought back to his history book, before the outbreak, Tokyo peaceful once, but the Supernatural beings suddenly appeared and mixed around the civilian population, and soon after, huge human population starts to disappearing. Later found out that Supernatural beings were responsible for the disappearance. These beings consume or absorbed the whole human bodies' biomass, for increasing their power or healing wounds.

Humans started to name these breed of evolved humans species as Mutants, not sure, when and where they came from but they bear hatred towards all human beings especially the military personal. However they intention was clear when they started to rebel against the Government, and killing everyone in order to seize governing power over the Populace.

Humans recognised the threat and planned to get rid for them because they also created a fully-fledged Civil War over the city, killing thousands for accomplished their goals.

The Government called Blackwatch to handle this situation, once they arrived, they quickly created a new division unit called the Lex specially to counter Mutants. That's how the Lex unit is born. From then, it's very hard to kill the Mutants, because they have 3 times of the physical strength, speed, dexterity especially and one of the greatest Mutant's ability is to shape shift, they can easily escaped from Blackwatch soldier's assaults by consuming humans and take their forms and never be found once escapes. For those reasons they decided to study in Mutants even more. After long time researching, they had developed a virus named it VX-1118 or the Blacklight. The virus was synthesized from Redlight, an antibody commonly found from Mutants. The program was to create a cure for the cancer, but it went wrong the virus spread the Eastern side of Tokyo and spread westward it effecting on the human whose came into the contact with the virus. Instead of becoming Mutants, they all died for organ failures and became walking dead and started to infect all the non-infected.

Hopefully Blackwatch and it's military quickly seal off all the entry and exit for the infected walkers to come. For their quickness, they will able to save many humans lives and they are still the real hero of Tokyo and this country. The outbreak name as the Catosphatopic Outbreak that swaps the half of the entire city population, within a few years they pushed all the walkers to the East-Red zone and divided the city into five zones and exit the city has impossible for normal people. The Blacklight project was meant to be the end for Human suffering but it just had been started.

Soon Masamune went back to the real world and about to see the conditions of the East-Red zone.

*Zezeze...* The helicopter's wings blowing crossed the wall, the zone walls were created by Blackwatch to prevent the walkers and the infection each zones division because the zone wall, the walls are 50 foot , full concrete made with Razor-sharp fencing and watch towers with heavy armed soldiers authorised to kill any trespassers tries to cross the wall, in each 100 metres along with the walls.

He warden his eyes for surprise to see East-Red zone, the Zone portrays a nightmarish vision where the Blacklight virus has completely overrun the city's shattered skyscr.a.p.ers and population, with infection and the risk of death at every corner. This is the zone where some dangerous Mutants resides, and is crawling with deadly mutant creatures. It is the deadliest out of the five zones and is mainly populated by Infected. There are few to none civilians, in the southern and northern parts of the zone respectively

"Holy Shit" Masamune screams,

seeing his face Tomotaki chuckles "Told you"

Masamune nodding his head "the Walkers are everywhere, nearly thousands of them walking on the road, thousands of empty cars on the road, toured traffic lights and the building nearly about to collapse"

Tomotaki laughs "If someone thrown to the road, the walkers going to turn the person apart devour their flesh, well good thing is Blacklight is a slow virus, it takes lot of time to spread, even years to overrun the East-Red zone, speaking of which The East zone only consists of 3 Districts of Eastern side of Tokyo, its small area"

Masamune slowly down his head "I'm wonder how many people have died"

Tomotaki leans his hand to Masamune's shoulder "don't be, because we had entered the green zone, the biggest, organised and safest of all"

Masamune looked by open door of the helicopters, he was shocked by he saw. The huge skyscr.a.p.ers in every direction many of them have massive moving advertis.e.m.e.nts on them. Tomotaki saw Masamune gaping and chuckles "By looking at your face, let me guess you've never seen the Green zone"

Masamune nods "yeah, I have born in yellow zone and mostly grow up there"

Tomotaki points his finger on the biggest and tallest building of the Tokyo "That's the Blackwatch's Headquarters" the front of the building Blackwatch name is mentioned in golden colours alphabets

Masamune again nods in surprise "How do they make that? It's huge"

The building was full covered in non- transparent glass. The helicopter is about to land on the top of the Blackwatch's HQ.

...

Present

Akagi enters the kitchen, he sees three normal people dressing for work, Misaki waves her hand towards them "There is our staffs, I will introduce them one by one" Akagi nods. She moves towards Fukuda Taka, "You already know Taka-san, he was with me when we're first meat. He's our our cook, he can cook and prepare any kinds of snacks, and hot dogs, and burgers, taco, and you name it". Taka laughs "Ha-ha, I'm not a big of deal" He forwards his hand "Well good to see you Shinsuke-kun" Akagi also forward his hand "Same here"

Misaki continues speaking "Now behind Taka-san, there are Shimamiya Yata, and Hasemi Ryūsaku, our waiters" They reposed with hello and hi to Akagi. He is quite surprise to see living Mutants standing in front of him and without saying anything he nods to them and start to observe them.

"After I see them, they appear quite normal to me, Yata is tall, slim, has brown hair with a ponytail and wears square glasses and the other one, Ryūsaku, he is tall but not so tall as Yata's, but he has brownish-black hair is combed backwards and is very spiky and green eyes. But it is too early to a make a assumption, I don't know what this guys capable of".

Akagi questions Misaki, "Um... Mayumi-san? "

Misaki turn her eyes on him and response "What?"

"You said, four people in the kitchen but I see three people here, where the forth one?"

But suddenly something big stands behind him, Akagi turns his head backwards to see, he completely shocked

"Wow!" A huge man with big belly grey beard that reach up to his c.h.e.s.t, brown skinned and wearing a green pagri, the man growing Akagi with serious manner, Akagi leaning forward widens his eyes and asks the man "Are you... a Sikh?" The man questions with heavy tone more angrily manner "Oh! So, what do you know about Sikhs?"

Akagi turn his head looks around the people in the kitchen, everyone keeps quiet all the sudden, growing at him,

"Answer me boy, I asked you a question" the man constantly staring at him, Akagi shrugs and answers "Well not much, all I know is that Sikh are people associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century, in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. Why did you asked".

Misaki including everyone suddenly bug out, because he's got right asnwer that no could when they first meat him. The man with serious face magically disappeared, he smiles, throws back of his head laughing "Hahaha hahaha! Correct I'm surprised you got right answer, I am Dipon Singh, the dairy maker, the owner told me there is a new substitute Manager here and here you are, pretty small don't you think?" Akagi presses his lips into a thin lines thinking "I got the answer from a Geography book, one of the chapters contains northern parts of Indian subcontinent and You're wrong about one thing, I am not small, you are just big". Dipon quits his laughing "Well, I did scare you back then" Masaki interrupts "Yo! Hello, what are you doing? It's no time to chat, Get back to work we're opening soon" Dipon obeys and gets back to Bar's storages. Akagi looks at Taka "Um... I got a minor concern he's... "

Taka interrupts "Oh, relax, he's just joking around He means no harm, he's too much obsessed about his religion since they're minors he asked everyone to relate to and gets pissed when someone gives the wrong answer" He looks up "Oh shit!, look at the time, it opening time" Misaki waves her hand on the staffs "You guys, hurry up and get back to your stations!". Everyone quickly get back and ready to starts, Akagi looks at everyone, professionally Handling the staff Masaki suddenly standing behind him "Oi, nard"

Akagi anxious and turns his head and looks at her. She pointed her finger to exit door "Go with Yata and Ryūsaku-san to dining table they can handle the rest, you must know what to do, me, Taka and Dipon will take care of the kitchen" Misaki hoarse "Now go!" she went back to her work place, even after she gone out of sight Akagi Widened his eyes rises his eyebrows "Whew, how cold and scary that girl can gets, now on to business". Akagi have to take a huge responsibility with his new friends.