The Greatest of All Time

[InThePooPoo]

"Fujimoto no Fushichou...
The Phoenix of Fujimoto...

omae ga hontou ni ninki mono da na?"
you're really popular, huh?

His words ring in my ears like a drill being pressed through my skull.
My back is on fire. I've never been in pain like this before.

A needle is tapped in, slowly, piercing my skin just beneath the surface.
Then it is removed, tapped in again just the same in rapid succession, somewhere nearby.
It has been days. Weeks of this.

"Omae nande anta, 
How did you...

yatsura mitai na renchuu ni kuuichatta nda?
end up with guys like them?

As always, he was right. Every day with this shit.
I knew it then as well as I know it now.

They're not good people, these guys.

They were the reason I was getting this stupid thing done.
A needle stroked into my skin, pushing ink permanently beneath my epidermis.
A sign of both their ownership of me...
and of my rebirth.

The how of it doesn't matter anymore. It's all happened already.
What they did wasn't right...

But my father owes them so much as it is.

"Dou demo iika...? 

Who cares anyway?

yatsura mitai na renchuu ni kuuichatta nda.

You have the ink now. No going back.

Omae wa aishiteiru hito ni sayonara o itta hou ga ii to omoou kedo...
I’d say you should tell the people you love goodbye, but…




ima no omae ja, aitakunai darou na."
I don’t think they’d want to see you like this.

He was finally done, the irritating old bastard...

But he was right. What father, what mother would want to see their only son,

branded like a criminal?

I couldn't face any of them like this... it was best to do what they told me to.

Go to Meranthe. Make myself disappear.

Let Jianghu forget the name Fujimoto Yosuke.

Maybe they will forgive me in time.