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Chapter 13 - Old people love to sit around a table playing board games.

[Flashback: Bokki & Co. leaving Giyu & Pat to fight Jing Lan]

[GORO]

Listen up boys.

Bokki & I are gonna go to the control room.

The mysterious door that Soba found should be where it is.

[SOBA]

Let me come with you!

[GORO]

No Soba.

If things go bad, it'll be my good for nothing son that goes

[BOKKI]

WHO ARE YOU CALLING GOOD FOR NOTHING, YOU SHITTY GEEZER!

[GORO, smacks Bokki in the head]

Go with Jack and Billy, Young Soba.

[SOBA, tearing up]

YES SIR!

I- I hope to see you again sir.

[GORO]

You sure will!

Let's go, punk.

[GORO, motions to Bokki]

[BOKKI, following]

Who are you calling a punk?

Damn geriatric bastard.

[BOKKI & GORO, run to the main control room]

[In the bathroom hallway, they find Iwai]

[IWAI]

Mochizuki!

I've been waiting…

[GORO]

Damn you!

What do you want?

[IWAI]

What do I want?

Well…

I WANT TO KILL YOU!

[GORO]

It was a rhetorical question.

[IWAI]

Oh well…

Sorry about that.

[GORO]

Yeah…

That kind of ruined the mood right now didn't it.

[IWAI]

You're right.

[BOKKI, in shock]

AREN'T YOU GUYS GONNA FIGHT?!

Stop standing there and start throwing hands!

[IWAI & GORO, look over at Bokki]

[GORO]

Why are you still here?

Start heading into the control room.

[IWAI]

You have to pull the door, don't push.

[BOKKI]

Oh ok…

Wait, how am I supposed to pull a door with no handle?!

[GORO]

Figure it out, kid.

[BOKKI, stabs his sword into the door and pulls the door with it]

[IWAI]

Your son is quite rude, you know.

Interrupting our stand off.

[GORO]

Sorry about that.

So, how are we settling this?

[IWAI]

CONNECT FOUR!

[GORO]

Connect Four?!

Like the game?

[IWAI]

That's right. 

[IWAI, motions a circle, a table forming in front of them]

[IWAI, pulls a box of Connect Four out from behind him]

[GORO, confused]

Where did you pull that box from?

[IWAI]

Same place you pull your hammer from.

[GORO, satisfied]

Well played.

[The two sit down and start playing]

[IWAI, wins the first round]

Whoever wins a round, gets one hit in.

Sounds fair?

[GORO, grumbles]

Fine…

[IWAI, charges a hit, his eyes go white with killing intent]

[IWAI, strikes Goro cleanly in the gut]

[GORO, spits out blood]

GAH-

[The two sit back down for another game]

[IWAI, wins again]

[IWAI]

You'll never beat me.

I've been playing this game competitively since childhood.

[IWAI, roundhouse kicks Goro]

[GORO, slams down to the ground]

Urgh-

[GO

Damn.

You're good, but I have my strategies.

Watch and learn, Iwai.

[IWAI]

Bold words, Mochizuki

[They sit back down]

[IWAI, wins once more]

[IWAI, kicks Goro's balls as a taunt]

[GORO]

YOWWWWWWWWW!

[IWAI, laughs]

Next time, I'll actually kill you!

[They sit back down for the final game]

[On one particular turn, Goro stays thinking for a long time]

[Goro thinks for so long that Iwai eventually falls asleep]

[GORO, in his head]

It's time.

[He places the rest of his and Iwai's coins and "wins"]

[GORO, stands up, walking over to Iwai]

[GORO, smashes Iwai's head with his hammer]

TIME TO WAKE UP, OLD MAN!

TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOARD!

I'VE WON!

THAT MEANS, I GET A HIT IN!

[GORO, starts charging another swing, pounding the ground, making it soft]

[IWAI]

C- come on now, Mochizuki!

Spare a fellow geezer wont you?

[GORO, laughs]

Hell no.

[GORO, swings his hammer, the ground mochi hardening as it strikes Iwai's skull]

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR KICKING A SHITTY, OLD GEEZER'S BALLS!

[GORO, pounds Iwai into the ground, turning him into mochi]

[GORO, chuckling]

Defeated.

The Mochizuki way.

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