Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34904368-20190928123838/@comment-35738644-20190930210238

I hid behind a nearby dumpster and peered over to see the knife wielding man yelling at a battered karakasa-obake. “Fork over your cash right now before I carve that disgusting tongue off your head!”. With a shaky hand the girl outstretched her arm, holding a plastic cup filled with coins. She must have been begging for change just as I had, living on the streets off of the generosity of strangers.

The man looked inside the cup for a few seconds before tossing it aside, spilling all of the coins on to the the ground as he roughly grabbed the karakasa-obake’s tongue. “You think I’m stupid!? You gotta have more than that. Hand it over NOW!!”. “I-I can’t. This is all I have". She teared up and whimpered and as the man prepared to slice into her tongue.

I wanted to do something to save her as I desperately scanned around looking for anything I could use as a weapon. I then noticed that the dumpster that I was hiding behind had wheels on it. I gave it a powerful shove and it careened down the alleyway much to the shock of the mugger who turned around only to have it slam directly into him, continuing on it’s path with the man now clinging onto it until it crashed against a wall.

I ran over to the crashed dumpster afraid that I might have accidentally committed a murder and found the man pinned to the wall, roughed up and unconscious, but still alive. I breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the karakasa-obake who was now crawling along the ground, picking up the small pieces of change that had been thrown onto the ground by the mugger. I too got on the ground and gathered up some of the coins and placed them back into her cup. She looked up at me and gave me smile. “thank you, thank you so much”. She spoke in a shy, quiet voice. I smiled back at her, “Don’t worry about it, are you hurt anywhere?” I asked. “I’m ok thanks to you".

She ended up accompanying me over to the convenience store to buy the bottle of water which we ended up sharing. I decided to walk her over to the spot where I had been keeping all of my stuff. I had become painfully lonely the past few days so I felt happier than I had been in a while with my new company. But that happiness didn’t last as we reached my spot only to find that it had been ransacked and looted, what little I had left to my name was now gone. I fell to the ground, a feeling of despair creeping over me until I the arms of the karakasa-obake wrapped around me in embrace. “I’m sorry. I can’t get your stuff back but I can at least give you a place to sleep”. Her umbrella canopy closed around us and then expanded into a room the size of a small walk in closet. Wrapped in the first warmth I had felt in a long time, I drifted off to sleep in the loving arms of my new partner.