Romeo Syndrome: Count Down to Heaven!
Prologue: I'll be The Savior Of My Princesses! Hayate The Heart Stealer!
Ayasaki Residence...
Hayate Ayasaki P.O.V
Whew... What a day, today was the deadline for the submission of the manga I was working on... Good thing I manage to finish and submit it on time. I thought I was going to be deprive of my paycheck today as well... with thanks to my good-for-nothing parents who are, again, indebted to some yakuza group that is own by a russian individual named vladimir risculov, or someone who has the almost exact name as the vladimir in the vampire stories that were written by... aargh, ah forget it... I don't want to think about this right now... I crashed at the subway after delivering that volume of the manga I am working on to that certain company I was working with until I got... fired, due to that lousy father of mine who said he is unemployed and because of that, my boss thinks I'm a criminal and kick me out of his company. Geez, this is the last thing I need now damnit! "Sigh... Then again, it's no surprise that this kind of thing happens to me... I am considered as the most unlucky guy in the world... Huh, and the only one I can trust and rely with is myself... Hm... I'm all alone huh... ...Such is my fate... I guess... ...Ah... ...Oh well, I'll persevere... as usual..." And no not 'usual', but rather, 'always', ...at least I got the paycheck before I got fired. I'll survive with this. I open the door to our lonely apartment since, apparently, I'm the only one using it. Ikusa-nii-chan went somewhere and no one knows where he is right now... I wish he would be here... but... looking at this list of bills that we have, I don't think he'll be happy to come back here and get entangled with our lazy parents... no... not just lazy... 'Uncaring' would be the best description for them since apparently, they don't care what happens to me... ...Why was I raised by parents like them...? "Sigh... I wish I could find the truth of all these... strife that I'm going through." Just as when I was about to go to bed to get some rest... "Hm?" I notice an envelope on the small table beside the window with curtains. "What is this?" I pick it up and rip it open. Inside is... 'Dear Hayate-kun, that Vladdy guy seems to be more demanding than we thought. Our lottery ticket turns out is just a 500 yen ticket and that is not enough to pay off our debt to him, so... WE SOLD YOU INSTEAD! HA HA HA! You understand our logic? We sold you, and we get away to our honey moon! ha ha ha ha...!' ..."What... the... HELL IS THIIIS...!" Solding me to some vladimir guy huh! Leaving me to pend for myself will you! "Grragh... Ah DAMMIT!" Slam! I slammed my fist angrily on the table, leaving a crack on it. I have this unique strength thanks to... Ugh... ...A-tan... where... are... you... right... now...? I don't need this darn it... I want to be reunited with her!
Knock, knock! ...! "Ayasaki-kun! We are Vladimir's men! Come out of the door peacefully and we won't have to force you out! Again, come out of the door and we won't drag you out!" Oh great... They're here already! Oh God... what luck do I have? I need to get out of here...
Normal P.O.V
With no response coming from their victim of kidnapping, the "gentlemen" decided to barge through. "Hey! If you're not coming out, we're going in!" Slam! slam! Crack! ...They barge in with no sight of their victim.
"Huh? Where did he go?"
"Ah." One of them, who is wearing a sunglasses, points outside the window. Hayate is cycling as fast as he can to get away from his family... no, he does not no longer considers himself as their son but rather, he is now a stranger to them since they have abandoned him, he decided that he'll forget about them and will not care where they go or whether they will come back. "He won't get far. Fetch me the car."
"Hai!" The 'boys' do what Vladimir, the boss, said.
"...Ayasaki Hayate. Your organs. Will be ours." He said as he stare out of the window before Hayate disappeared from his view. "You won't get far. We have eyes everywhere." He leaves the now abandoned apartment. It all begins here... The Truth is not cruel... even for someone who is considered as 'the unluckiest guy' in the world like Hayate... And that will be his salvation from here and on... and he will be considered as 'the luckiest guy' in the world after this night... Just when it hits evening...
Later... At the park...
"Sigh... I've run out of stamina..." ...If this would be an RPG game, his stamina right now is 0%. ...that and his bike got broken down due to the incredible speed he was exerting earlier. His bike was sent to the dump site by the garbage truck. "Ah... I'm so tired..." He sits on the bench that is near a vending machine then... from out of nowhere... a 'gospel' appears... to save a poor soul... "What am I going to do now...? I can't get away... those guys' goons are everywhere and I can't hide from them. Sigh... I'm doomed..."
"My, my, you seem to be a horrible predicament."
"Huh...?" Looking to his left, someone who is dressed like Sherlock Holmes, is sitting right next to him. He looks at his face. He has a raven hair and violet eyes complete with a brown hat, a jacket and... "Whoosh." ...a smoking pipe or a tobacco for short, one can only wonder if he is cosplaying or not. "Umm... Who... are you, mister?"
"Hey, watch it. I'm just about 16 years old you know." He blows out his tobacco.
"Oh uh... s-sorry, I thought you were-"
"Nevermind about me. Whoosh. Seems to me you're in a world of trouble, isn't that right Ayasaki Hayate?" He said in all-knowing tone.
"Eh? You... know my name? Who are you, m-"
"Don't call me that." He's about to refer to him as "mister" again, so he stopped him. "To introduce myself... Whosh. I suppose you can call me Leon Salazzar." He said after blowing another smoke from his tobacco.
"Eh? S...Salazzar?" He wonders if he's a French man due to his last name. "Are you... a foreigner?"
"Hmm, I guess you can call me that. But... I'm also your... 'benefector' in your path to the Truth."
"Huh...? What-"
"Do you want this?" He brings out a plastic with a small box of cigarettes on it.
"Eh? Uhh... I... I'm afraid I don't smoke. Haha..."
"...This is not a smoke."
"Eh?"
"Just take it. The choice... is not yours to make." He said in a demanding tone in which the option of declining the "generous" offer is not acceptable.
"Err... O-Okay..." He feels like this guy is a mafia as well due to his clothing and the way he speaks is almost of that of an Italian, so he just accepted the "gift" he is offering. "So... what do I with this...?"
"Eat it. Whoosh."
"Huh...? E-Eat it...?"
"Ah, grab one, will you?"
"...*gulp*" He does as he told and pick the small box in the plastic and opens it... To his surprise, there is no cigarettes inside but rather... "Huh...? This is...?" ...A glowing bean.
"Consider that as my 'gift' to you... Ayasaki-kun."
"But what- huh?" Turning to him, he's no longer there, as if he just disappeared into the winds. "Where? Hm..." He stares at the glowing bean on his right palm. "Eat this...? ...Well... I'm sort of hungry so... *munch*" ...he does what the "Sherlock Holmes" guy said. And then... "Hmm... Not bad. This is kind of sweet, you think it's- Guaargh!" He suddenly drops the plastic he's holding. Right now he's feeling... "This is..." He stands up from the bench... "This is... this is..." his eyes are starting to rush quickly as if he just lost his eye color then... "Ha ha... ha ha ha... HA HA HA!" He suddenly begins laughing as if he has lost his mind but he is not actually insane but rather. "YOOSH! I'll rescue any princess that is harass by those guys!" He becomes a romeo! He is now on his Romeo Mode! That 'bean' that "Sherlock Holmes" guy gave him is actually a 'Romeo syndrome' which allows an individual to become fearless and would save women who are in trouble and those who are either harassing them or giving them a hard time like those...
"Uh ah! There you are Ayasaki-kun!" ...guys who are working for Vladimir.
"Ho ho it's you guys..." He turns to them with a confident expression on his face.
"Ah, you think you can get away from us? We have guys all over the city to look for you."
"Come along quietly Ayasaki-kun and we won't have to-" Strike! "Ow!"
"What the-!" Hayate stepped on the fat guy with sunglasses and jumped to his back, causing him to fall.
"Sorry if I ran away from you guys earlier, I do not intend to miss the party!" He said with a snicker.
"Wha-? What's gotten into to you? Have you gone mad? Well, anyway, we're here to take you so-" Strike! "Guh!" Bang! "Gyaah!" Hayate kicked his pistol gun to his jaw then he accidently pulled the trigger, thank God, Hayate slip pass the barrel to upward or all else he'll be dead by now, causing to scream in terror. "Wh-Wh-What do you think you're doing!"
"Trying to 'save' you guys of course. 'Saving' you..."
"Huh?" They wonder on the word 'save' then...
"I'll be saving you guys... From the Devil's grasp! HA HA!"
"EH!" Strike! strike! strike! ...A wild party ensues at the park with the guys in black suits being sent flying all over the grasses, some to the ponds, and then later...
"Sa, mata ne! Hehe!" Whoosh! Hayate leaves them playfully running to the sidewalk.
"Ahh~" The "gentlemen" have been put on flower costumes as Hayate told them to 'play nicely now' to children in the park.
"Wow! A flower man!"
"This one's yellow!"
"This one's red!" "That's a rose!"
"Waah~!" The "good" guys cried out as the 'payment' that Hayate intended for them to pay for their wickedness, well, there is a saying that 'evil do not go unpunished' and 'those who are living in delusion will have a hellish life for living with their ego', this proves true for everyone as those who are truthful to themselves, like Hayate at the moment for taking that "Romeo syndrome" ealier, will have a beautiful life and will most likely have the last laugh ha ha.
As for the "hero" who is the enemy of the "Devil" when he is at his 'Romeo Mode'...
"La la... Oh!" He is at the sidewalk playfully walking then he spotted a young girl with her mother and she dropped her ice cream. "Hmm, say mister, can I have one blue cone ice cream." He asked the nearby ice cream vendor.
"Huh? Oh uh sure. That will be 50 yen please, it's the special one you know-"
"Here." He hands over his 100 yen which is the last money that he got from his pocket since his paycheck was left behind in the abandoned apartment that once belongs to... ...to two strangers who left for somewhere. He refuses to acknowledge them as his parents for they have abandoned him and sold him to some yakuza who got "retribution" just now, for that evil deed. They tried to kidnap him that is.
"Ah, arigatou-gozai-"
"Keep the change."
"Eh!" He left without acquiring the exchange money but he didn't mind for... "H-Hey! What about-"
"Here you go young lady." He hands over the ice cream to the young lady.
"Eh?"
"Good night, and have a good Christmas!" That's right! It's Christmas tonight! It will be the beginning of a journey for him!
"Uhh..." Both the mother and the young lady are stunned, along with the vendor, for the noble deed he just did!
"La la. Hm?" He then notices another young lady who seem to be staring on a reward hat on a glass pedestal near an entrance to the park. "Does she... Hm?" He then notices a coupon in the garbage can on his right. "Hmm..." He picks it up then... another noble deed of,
"Hm? What are you- Eh?" He inserts it on the 'insert the "grape"' hole and the hat is given to him as his "reward". "You got-"
"Here you go, ojou-sama. Have fun with it and have a good Christmas!" He left playfully walking towards the west entrance of the park.
"Umm..." The girl is speechless after that. She was just visited by 'Santa Claus' and he gave her a "gift". "A-Arigatou... gozai... ma...zu... uh..."
Back to the 'hero' who is an enemy of the "Devil" of... well...
"Another ojou-sama has been given happiness... YOSH!" Riing. riing. "Hm?" His cellphone rings. "Hello?"
"I see you have inherited the "fruit" that I gave you." It's that Sherlock Holmes guy. "And I see you begin to acknowledge its influence on you."
"Ah, so this what you can call... the 'fruit' of Eden... Hehe."
"Yes... I'll be calling you here and now giving you guidance in your every step, don't forget to leave your phone 'alarm' all the time. Got it?"
"Ah... sure thing..." He hungs up. "Ha ha... HA HA HA! I'll go save more ojou-samas!" ...It is then that the 'fruit' that "Sherlock Holmes" guy mentioned wears off. "...Huh...? Did I just...?" He returns to his "usual" self. "Did I just... beat up those guys and..." And the journey to 'redemption' begins! Will he save the one who he intends to be reunited with and intends to "steal" her heart? The exciting journey of the "savior of princess" begiinss!
End of Prologue.
Note: The 'Romeo Syndrome' and the "Romeo Mode" is similar to that of Kinji Tohyama's 'Hysteria Mode' in Hidan no Aria in which... well those who watch it knows what that state of... well, unstoppable confidence does to those who have it. In here, Hayate will be using that 'Romeo Syndrome' in is way to reach A-tan who will be... well, I won't spoil the last chapter so I won't mention it, yet. For now, I hope you enjoy this. Until then, enjoy!