"Everybody, get down!"

Tom and his robbers shouted in a bank.

"No one will get hurt if you just follow us."

"T, we got the money! Let's go!"

"Got it. Hey! Who are you! Get away from the gate!"

A bank staff was blocking the gate.

"You...! You can't pass here!"

"Damn it. Shoot him!"

The bank staff rushed to the robber and twisted its arm.

"Ahhh! What the hell is this guy!"

Gud, the bank staff caught every robbers in an instant.

Gud himself couldn't even believe that he did that.

"Gud is the hero of this city!"

"Mister Gud! Mister Gud!" People shouted.

Meanwhile, Tom ran away to a mountain far away.

"Gud, instead of the bank staff, please be a police officer!"

"Thank you, mayor!"

Gud became the police.

People trusted him due to his behavior.

"Gud, this money is my little gift. I look forward to work with you."

"You should not give me money."

"Unless no one knows. Please take it."

Ten years have passed.

During that time, Tom has grappled with loneliness.

"What was I doing after the ten years from that moment?"

"No one will care even if I die right now."

But then in the middle of a lake in the midnight, Tom cried like never before.

"It was all my fault. I want to go back to the people!"

"Hey, Be careful to hold it!"

In the midnight, in the port of city AAB1, smugglers were importing weird stuffs.

In their sight, someone was coming.

"Wait, is that a human? Looks like it's wearing a weird mask."

“This is how I get to the people.”

"What the hell is he saying? Hey! Get him!"

A few days have passed.

"Officer Gud, have you heard about 'Delete'? He's pretty famous in recent news."

"Delete? Who cares. Did you bring the bribe?"

"Of course, officer. But this fella, Delete, is pretty okay since it caught several armed criminals in the port alone."

Gud watched the news carefully.

"I know who this is. Criminal! I am the hero enough for this city!"

In one night, Tom, also known as Delete, was rescuing students in a high school on fire.

"Everybody is safe now. Go to hospital, students."

"Look behind you, Delete."

As Delete looked back, Gud was there, scarily staring him.

"Be careful, students! This man is a criminal!"

"Delete's real name is Tom. The robber that tried to rob the bank that I worked ten years ago!"

"I will arrest him. Everybody get back!"

"What are you saying, Gud! Delete just saved us!

"You were getting bribes for ten years! What did you ever do to us?"

Gud's face got red.

"I will arrest you all."

"Stop it, Gud. I am enough for your greed." Delete said.

"If you can win me, arrest me then."

Gud smirked. "As you wish."

Surrounded by the students, Gud and Delete looked at each other.

"Ahhhh!" They wildly yelled.

Delete's fist heavily flew in the air.

Gud effortlessly dodged the fist.

But Delete flipped his body and kicked Gud.

"Wham!"

Gud was thrown far away.

Delete started to talk.

"We were in the reverse back then. You were the hero, and I was the bad guy."

"You think you don't understand, but you are still a bad guy, Tom! I AM THE HERO!"

"Well, there students might think differently. I decided to help others, just because I want to stay with them. The ones who decide who are good and bad are not us, it's them."

Gud takes the knife from his pocket.

"You are right. I wanted to be a hero after arresting you. But if I kill you, I will be the mightiest." Gud said.

Gud rushed and cut Delete's arm.

Delete screamed as the pain comes.

"Whip!" The knife almost cut Delete's head.

Delete's mask was thrown away.

"Argh!"

Delete was stumbling, and Gud rushed to Delete.

Gud stabbed the knife to Delete's heart.

Delete fell down to the ground.

Gud shouted to the students. "Who was in his side just now? Come out while you still can."

Then, Delete suddenly got up and grabbed Gud's head.

Then he punched heavily to Gud's face.

"Ahhhh!" Gud screamed.

While Gud was confused, hundreds of police arrived behind him.

The situation finished quickly.

Delete's body was burned and buried at nowhere.

"Mister Gud, Did you really need to kill him?"

"I swear, mayor. Tom the criminal rushed to me first, and he was about to kill me and run away."

Gud become the mightiest hero, who finally got Tom the criminal.

But the scar on his face didn't get deleted, so Gud started to wear a yellow mask.

The high school students who saw their fight argued about the hidden truth, but no one trusted the students.

"They are just kids! They don't know much cause they are young. Study, and focus on the university!"

The students were disappointed.

But there was one thing that the students could do.

It was commemorating Delete.

At that day, police could never find Delete's mask.

Delete's mask was hidden in the deep school basement, where even teachers don't know.

And every students promised not to say about that day again.

So the incident was almost forgotten...

Delete, the hero? -end-

Delete the Hero? © 2023 by Yuaeyin is licensed under CC BY 4.0