seven the youth (ultraseven for adults) #23 tomorrow seeker

This story is a homage to Ultra Seven, Tsuburaya and dedicated to The Youth

#23 tomorrow seeker

If I was not ERO, I wouldn't be alive.  If I couldn't ever be ERO, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

ERO is power.  The less ERO you are, the less power you have.  ERO varies between individuals and changes as time goes by.  ERO in teens is different from in fifties.  ERO, who had no ERO as  young, is really satisfied with ordinary ERO.  ERO, who had good ERO in teens, is not at all satisfied with ordinary and is eager for extraordinary ERO.  ERO enough in fifties had a  almost no extasy, but ERO poor rises in libido, no matter what ERO may do.  ERO is interesting, ERO is difficult, ERO is wonderful, and ERO is endless.

HATAORI Kazuo feels that his sex desire has just weakened.  When young, his desire for sex was as strong as vitality.  In his late forties, the desire became weaker and weaker.  The weaker his sex desire became, the weaker his life force was.  

Kazuo had more and better sex than average in his teens and twenties.  However, suddenly in thirties, his penis came not to erect, or got impotent.  To cure the impotence, he got a variety of extreme stimuli, only to be in vain.  In forties, he got well a moment, but his sex view had so seriously changed that his liaido rapidly reduced.  The reduction, combined with age and depression, deprived him of even more life force.

Between living and bedroom in his room, a rope ring is still hanging down from above (#16).  He is  not sure what he will be and do tomorrow.  He would like to seek tomorrow, but no idea how he should.  He wakes up in the morning, and soon flies to the evening like an arrow.  Sunday, turning on TV, he finds it on, oogiri, or the last piece of Shou-ten.  Certainly, he also watched it last week, so another week has just passed.  A month since Father went into hospital, and four months since his first son appeared on the Earth.

Last January, his training to return to workplace started.  Kazuo attended the training three days a week, Mon, Wed, Friday, and saw a doctor every fourth Tuesday each month.  My psychiatrist advised me to try three habits, studying, exercising, and keeping regular hours.  But he found it difficult to carry out every piece of advice, because he had to visit Father in hospital and Mother at home.  Nevertheless, he never missed a single day of training.  He was always lack of sleep, but every crowded train and return training led him a regular life.

From April, Kazuo is going to school.   Into this March, he is growing more and more uneasy, overwhelmed with anxious feeling.  He is exhausted.  When he stands in front of the rope ring, the light of television behind has projected his shadow over the dim wall beside bed.  Staring at the shadow face, he finds the shadow eyes staring back at him EROtically.

Surprised, rubbing eyes and doing a double take, there is his usual shadow standing on the wall.
(Just my imagine.)

Next day, Father have his fourth surgery.  First, right femoral artery.  Second, right foot amputation.  Third, heart coronary vein.  Finally, skin grafting on right foot and left toe amputation.  After that, it matters how Father gets along with amputated parts and diabetes.  

Mother repeatedly tells Kaz that she has stomachache, probably because she is too worrying about Father.  Learning home for TOKIO, she often gives a phonecall to say, "You took my money.  How I can live, no idea.  Return my money."  Her dimentia is getting more and more severe, but she never forgets to see him off until his car out of sight.

Kazuo always feels lonely whether he is at parents' home in Ashikaga or at his own rooms in TOKIO.  To ease his loneliness, one day, he has made up his mind to call a sex club, or adult entertainment shop.  
"XXX…," as is usuaj with such a shop, a receiver says the shop name quickly and unclearly.  Once the receiver has recognized the other is a user, he says politely and clearly, "Nominate?"
"Recommendation, please," answers Kaz.
"Got it.  22:30, YYY parking, she'll give you a call five minutes before.  OK?"
"Sure, thanks."

Having finished visiting Father at 21:00, Kazuo drives to YYY parking.  It is located where he passes the interchange, goes straight some minutes, and turns left at McDonald's corner.  There are almost no private houses and street lights but McDonald's big yellow 'M.'
A minute excitement moves him a little.
Just five minutes before his cell phone vibrates.
"I'm Hoshi Kage.  Could you tell me your plate number?"
Then, in the darkness, a darker shadow is staring at him.  Its eyes are the same as Kaz looked at the other day, but he is not in the least surprised.  The shadow turns to a woman and gets into his car.  
"Hello, my name is HOSHI KAGE.  Nice to meet you.  You are a stranger around here, aren't you?  Let me lead you, OK?" she makes a charming smile.  He is amazed that she is MYSTERIOUSLY beautiful and wonderful, because it is often the case to step on a landmine.  Which means that they often have a face that shows they have some big trouble.  Even so, It seems to have been comparatively rare to step on the mine, even in the provincial areas.  The popularity of 'Delivery Health' might be naturally selected, because it is not necessary to clean playrooms, and even to have the building itself.  All needed is just a mobile phone.  Driving down the national route a few minutes, he finds a glittering sign 'hotel ZZZ' on top of small hill.  She shows him the way in familiar routine.
(Such a lonely place, such a lovely face.)

HOSHI KAGE treats Kazuo with natural kindness and serious EROticism. 
"Shall we take a shower?"
They go to the bathroom hand in hand, and take off clothes.  She says that she is married in her mid twenties.  Introduced by a friend, she began doing the job, because she cannot live on husband's salary alone.  Called ladies often talk about their life and want to.  Waiting men seldom listen to and want to play sooner, because time flies.  Almost all the ladies are not so prostitutes as humans, and depend on the men for service.  So to speak,  shes is a mirror he is reflected in.

With the light off, HOSHI KAGE cuddles up to Kazuo in bed.
"What do you want me to do?" asks she.
"Nothing," whispers him.
"Why?"
"But just being there hand in hand."
She holds his hand kind.
"You cannot seek tomorrow, can you?"
"Mm?  What'd you say?"
"Shall we seek tomorrow?"
"How can we do it?"
"Easy.  You must not hold back yourself.  Feel free to do anything you like."
She holds his body tight.
"Close your eyes…  Come with me… "
(Awesome, my GOAT…  )
His orgasm everlasts.
"Society, Nation, World, and Earth is to blame.  Shall we destroy everything?" proposes alien SHADOW.

He wakes up to find himself lying just under the rope ring in his room, TOKIO.
(Dream?)
Her number remains in call register.
(Not dream!  But why?)
TV news announces that there happened a series of MYSTERIOUS vampire cases in various areas during one night along the highway from Sano-fujioka to Ooizumi, to around Nishi-ogikubo.  The victims say unanimously, "Shadow!"  Seculity cameras have no evidence.  Just thinking about last night, Kaz pays no attention to the news.  It is time to go training, so he leaves home as usual.

On his way home, he finds the student singing on the pedestrian deck at Ogikubo Station.  As he expected, there is no audience around him.  But he is making a poor performance so hard.  Kazuo is passing him.
"Kaz sensei, wait!"
MOROBOSHI, stopping singing, approaches Kaz, when his shadow glares at him.
"I'll suck up red blood of blue Earth to death."
Alien SHADOW gets into Kaz and turns him into an invisible vampire GABULA.  Just a MYSTERIOUS negative aura brings nobody closer.  MOROBOSHI can see Kaz through red glasses, who has changed into a vampire monster, but cannot attack him.
(How can I save him?) 
His consideration makes his knuckles meet on his chest and his eyes closed.  His concentration makes light around him gather at the center of his body, and it becmes dark right around him.  When he releases his energy as a flash from all over him, the shadow of invisible Kazuo is reflected behind clearly on the wall of department store.  The next moment, he releases his energy as ULTRA BEAM, which hits the forehead of alien.  Then, black shadow master turns into red blood stain.  Kazuo, turning visible, falls down onto the deck.  MOROBOSHI helds up Kazuo on his shoulder, and making sure of nobody around, teleports to the ring rope room.

Kazuo wakes up to find not hoshi KAGE (alien SHADOW) but MOROBOSHI.
"Are you alright, sensei?"
(It's you, again...  )
"Return is not only to school.  I respect your effort to return to school, but don't feel it under pressure.  When you have a pain in mind, take it easy."
(…  )
"If you feel uneasy about future, you won't have to seek tomorrow.  However far away you go back, tomorrow will come, absolutely, as long as you live."
(…  )
"Bye now, sensei.  See you street."
Silence returns.
(not have to seek tomorrow…  )
Neither god nor buddha has existed since he fell down to the dead bottom of Hell.
(Could I get out of Hell one day, as long as I live?)
He and his shadow are staring at each other, forever and ever.

#23 the end

 

 

to be continued…