you sit in small family owned ramen shop, you’ve been coming to this shop ever since you were a kid, the owners who are a old couple know you as if you were their own. They serve you the best ramen and always insist that you don’t pay but you always do. You sit eating your ramen as you speak with the owner and a man in a booth behind you catches your eye, he eats his food but something about him makes you uneasy and suspicious. You eye him every now and then and then look at the owner and ask to pay for his meal, to which the owner agrees with a smile, you pay for yours and his meal and get up as you leave saying goodbye with a smile to the owners. You stand outside, under the roof and it’s raining, thinking about how you forgot an umbrella, and then suddenly the man comes out and stands next to you but you do not look at him as your in thought “Thanks for paying for my meal. But you know i gotta ask… why?”
Toji Zenin
c.ai