Rainfall in the city; kids playing in the rain are getting cold. Nixxin woke up early in the morning. The city is so dark he thought it was night until he looked at the clock.
The brightness of his skin and body is weaker than last night; it's because he slept with thick wings behind his back and he didn't eat anything last night. Nixxin stands up; the bed creaking feels like it will fall anytime soon.
Nixxin wears his jacket to hide his wings. He picks up a small cube and puts it in a mug; the water evaporates quickly. The water is hotter in just a second. Nixxin puts all the black coffee in the mug, and he looks outside the window. "Damn... This is early morning? This aesthetic is amazing though... I could be Sherlock Holmes today, and then I will drink coffee and listen to jazz music... Or... I'll do absolutely nothing."
Nixxin walks on the bed; he looks at the edge of the sheet. Is the bed tweaking? The top of his head was; it was very dangerous if that shit fell on me... Ohhh my... My head is aching. Why do I have these random pains lately?
Nixxin, stand up and pick up the mug. Do I need to go to the name change process? Nixxin looks back at the bed; he remembers when he always had someone to share one with. Nixxin drinks the coffee, although it's hot; he drinks it all and he pick up a brown envelope near him.
Nixxin goes out of the hotel. Nixxin walks in the city. The city isn't empty; the kids acting like rain will never happen again are outside while their mom is cleaning the house or cooking their breakfast, hmmm? Why do I need to become popular again? I have completely forgotten my purpose... Ahhh... Anytime soon, I don't really care if I die.
Nixxin walked past the street; the street lamp was still on, kids circling around the pole while her friend was talking beside her. Nixxin looked inside a fast food place. Did I already go to this restaurant?
Nixxin entered inside the restaurant; he sat down as he waited for the menu. After it, he just ordered a burger, soda, crispy chicken, and taco. After eating, he goes out of the restaurant. The rain stops, but the street is still full of kids. When will this cloud fly away? It is still dark; it will obviously rain this night again.
Nixxin goes to a local civil register; it was quite inside, and the lamp inside is weak. Nixxin asks the guard near, "May I ask where the office is?"
The guard points at a room. Nixxin approaches the door and opens it. What he sees is an old man watching his phone. The old man turns off his phone and puts it down. "What can I do for you?"
Nixxin sits down in the chair. "I wanted a change of name; this envelope has the reasons, employment certificate, birth certificate, and my diploma in elementary. I didn't graduate high school... Well, I am a minor, but there's hundreds of grand inside."
Nixxin looks at the old man opening the envelope. The officer is feeling suspicious of this action. "Depends... if the reason passes, just wait five months; if it doesn't... I'll call you a lawyer."
Nixxin stands up. "That's it?"
The officer looks up. "Yes."
Nixxin steps out of the office and goes outside. Five months feels so long, I mean... It's one hundred and fifty days; doing nothing for that long is dangerous. My wings will be longer... And I... I should hide better; I still have three million with me anyway. I need to get a surgery...
After a week, of finding a hospital that will operate him, Nixxin finally finds it, Nixxin entered a hospital, it has less patient that day, "May I ask where is doctor Shen?"
The nurse tap button at the desk, "Dr. Shen someone is outside calling you."
The nurse turn his head to Nixxin, "What's your name sir?"
Nixxin smiles and said "My name is Nixxin."
The nurse tap the button again, "His name is Nixxin."
After a minute a doctor coming from upstairs is rushing towards Nixxin, "Nixxin."
Nixxin offer a shake hand, but Shen just took at it, "I don't touch anyone when I'm inside a hospital."
Nixxin look at his hand, "So about the surgery, I have already written my reason, and I also brings my medical certificate."
Nixxin and the doctor started walking slowly around the hall, "You see the skin rejuvenation, your case is about erasing those photophores from you body, there's so many of it, it was going to be hard."
Nixxin looks at the doctor, "How long does it takes?"
The doctor look back with concern, "It will took, around, half a year."
Nixxin look at the reflection of himself in the tiles on the floor, I can't afford that much time, I need about one to three months, "I'm sorry for wasting your time and I pay that time for you."
Nixxin pulled his wallet, doctor Shen holds Nixxin hand, "You don't have to do it. It fine!"
Nixxin walk out of the hospital, after half an hour, he is staring at his room, thinking of how he will loose these photophores, Nixxin search through social media... But nothing shows... He searches everywhere, every site, web, app, doctor, and documentary; nothing shows how... but... But my body won't glow because of nothing, unless they're hiding something... I have to find something that will lose this bioluminescent body.
Week after week, Nixxin searches through many medical libraries; he can't find a single case where someone solved his problem, not even a random suggestion from Bluedit. Do I really have to change? But it's annoying. How can I solve this problem?
Nixxin walk in a medical school, he was supposed to be college next year, when he was eighteen years old, if he didn't vanished that night, he looks around, seeing student learning, but the reason he is at the campus is because of the teacher, Nixxin wait after school, "Sir."
He said while sitting at a bench just the time a teacher walk past, the teacher look back at him, "I don't see you around, who are you?"
Nixxin looks at him, "I don't study here, I just wanted to ask."
The teacher look at his watch, "You see, the time is passing by."
Nixxin stand up, "How does my body glow?"
The teacher look back at Nixxin, "Because of photophores."
Nixxin stared at the teacher for a second, "How?"
The teacher scratch his head, "I don't really know, maybe your body really just make photophores glow."
Nixxin got angry at his answer, no one can answer his question, "That's it? You know nothing about it?"
The teacher thinks for a second, "My co-teacher do a research about it two years ago, he may have answer."
Nixxin eyes widen as he heard, as if hearing a speech from hero of hope, but before he can even ask, "He is dead... You can't ask him anything because he is dead, but one thing is for sure, before he died he lost all of his photophores without going to surgeries."
Nixxin go back to his home, he do a research about the teacher, named, "Van."
Van died a one and a half year ago, he died from wild attack, but before he died something changed in his body, he lost all of his photophores... He is dead. The only way is surgery, but he lost all of it without going to surgery?
Animals glow because of fuel; everyone knows that, but no one explains where the light comes from... He died from wild animals; why would he be in that place?
Maybe the government knows about him, and he goes to the wild to hide... But do I find these guys? Nixxin asks everyone who knows Van, but he can't find any reasons; all they said is how impossible it is until he reached the house.
Van lives in the wild; it was now empty. Nixxin sleeps inside because it was already night, and he hears something that wakes him up: a sound of sticks cracking. A wild animal is outside.
Nixxin opens the door and sees a wild boar; it tries to run, but it can't outrun Nixxin. Nixxin cooks the boar. While eating, he sees lines written on the stones around the campfire. What does that mean? Is this how long he lived in here? As far as I know, he just came back losing all bioluminescence in his body. Do I have to live here for that long?
Nixxin spent twenty-five days in the cabin hunting and cooking the wild animal he caught; he lived in that process every day, without going out, until... "Gahhhh!"
Nixxin woke up after twenty-six days; his skin is already fine, and it won't glow again. He can now never glow again; the luciferin will never appear. After the photophores vanished, he felt more energized than normal because his skin glowing caused much energy.
Nixxin comes back to his normal life in the southeast of Bridhy-E; he wakes up, he exercises, he eats many foods, and he sleeps. After three months of waiting at the office, he took out his new name, "Feauv Kitgod."
Damn... My name is cool, unlike my name, Nixxin. Feauv looks at his reflection. Why do I always look at myself? I didn't notice that my wings were bigger than me; it's obvious that people seeing will always freak out. Should I try flying?
Feauv came back to the place he always wanted to come back to, Bridhy-T; he wanted to see what would happen if he were still recognizable and how people would react if they saw an angel. Nixxin dropped to a near food park; he can't believe the whole empty park with the kids cooking every day is now full of kids playing.
To the right of it is Wia's house; he sees Util talking with the kids. Since he left, only Johan and Util guard the kid. Feauv approaches the food stand; the people around him keep looking at him. Kids stopped playing and just stood in shock; even a half-owl, half-man kid and parent were shocked to see a full human body to have a wing, a wingspan longer than they have. "Can I have beef noodle soup?"
Util stared at him; the kid can't move by just seeing Feauv. Then he looks at Util. "Can I ask what your name is?"
If he was a hero, he could carry us to popularity and reach the star system faster. "My name is Feauv Kitgod." Feauv smiles.
Util stands up and shakes Feauv's hand. "My name is Util. I live in the library if you go there," he said as he pointed to his left, the direction to the graveyard.
"You live in the graveyard, huh?" Feauv sits at the chair.
"So are you a hero?" Util looks at him. "Ahhh... I'm a 6+ rank, pretty high."
Feauv smiles. "I didn't expect that we have the same rank."
Util looks at him. "Really? Maybe... Maybe you can join our guild."
Feauv looks at the badge Util shows him; it has a logo and name below, Coffin... Coffin? That's their group name? "How many members do you guys have?"
Util smiles. "We have six members currently: me, Drei, Aeolous, our manager Brondu, and Satsuegishii, you can call him Sats, and the owner of the graveyard. He is an old man but strong; his name is Qon."
The kid gives Feauv's order. Feauv stretches his wings, and the kid puts it on his wings, and Feauv gently puts it on the table. I didn't think it would be more useful... "So, I would be the seventh member, huh... Who's the highest ranked in your group?"
Util looks unimaginably happy when he hears that. "Our manager is a hero face; from bullet point ranking, 8.31."
Feauv looks up in shock. 8.31? That's damn strong; no matter how many times I am multiplied, I don't think I'll win. To reach bullet ranking, you have to bypass the sound barrier. At that time, speed is really important.
The fastest in that rank is literally running at fifteen mach per hour; that's with equipment already, but... The fastest thrust speed is faster than light, but once you reach the speed of light, it needs extreme durability to protect the body through magic or zooms. "So how did he reach this rank?"
Feauv picks up the chopstick and carefully eats the noodles. "He isn't really that special; he is a physical fighter... He just punches, kicks, and waits until the villain passes out."
Feauv looks at Util. I think I shouldn't overthink everything; he'll think that I was going to be very similar to my past self since I will stare at someone for so long and then think, and I'm doing it right now. He'll be suspicious of me. "You know... You're like my friend; he always stared at someone. I almost think he is gay."
Feauv eats his noodles. "I'm sorry."