The Life Of Normal-Taro

Right after their meeting with the principal in her office, everyone heaved a breath of relief; well, except one. "Okay, what was that?" John asked, slightly furious that he was intentionally left out.

"What?" Thankappan acted oblivious to it.

"Ah, don't you dare do that! Why did you leave me out? It's not like you guys have a degree too, you know?" John asked yet again.

Thankappan sighed. "Okay, look. I got a message from Lonappan right then. He wanted you to stay closer to him than with us. Like, he said that it would be nice to have an experienced veteran by his side to lead him on. So, there's that." He replied.

Upon hearing that, John's pride grew up to no bounds. "I see. I get it now. Of course a guy like Lonappan might need my experienced insight sometimes. There's nothing wrong with that. Hey, I'm sorry for lashing at you. Let's head to your boss here and talk about it, shall we?" He asked, as he walked up front.

"Sure!" Thankappan followed shortly. However, he was dragged back by the aliens.

"So, what's the real reason? It's because he received the orders, innit?" Kunjan asked.

Thankappan looked towards John to check whether he's eavesdropping. Once he confirmed that he wasn't doing that, he whispered. "Okay, yeah! Since his mental prowess is like up top, there's a really huge chance that he'll regain his memories in a jiffy. Then we're all screwed! So, Lonappan's keeping him close so that when he does regain his memories, we could keep on flashing the neuralyzer on him until he can no longer remember it." He replied.

"Hey, weren't you the guys who said using the neuralyzer twice on a person could cause neural damage?" Kunjan asked.

"Ah, that's for the normies. This guy isn't a normie now, is he? So, if we gotta keep him in bay, we gotta do something radical." Thankappan replied.

"Very well. Do whatever you want. I was just concerned about you guys since we were accomplices on this after all." Kunjan spoke.

"Meh, it's more like we were the masterminds and you are the innocent bystander dragged into this mess with no way out, so you ended up being the accomplices." Thankappan shrugged.

Kunjan sighed. "And here I was trying not to picture you guys as the bad guys."

"Well, that's due to your narrow perspective, my man. If we are to look at it from another angle, we might be the rebels who stand up against the laws, trying to protect the alien rights." Thankappan gave out his view on the issue.

"I see. Humans do have a knack in glorifying themselves even if they do the worst shit." Kunjan replied.

"I guess so. Shoot! We better go. John's waiting for us over there." Thankappan spoke as they walked towards John.

Meanwhile, Shivani who came to the principal's office for some reason was surprised to see her neighbors coming out of the office. Little did she know about the deal that happened inside the office!

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The rest of the day was incredibly uneventful. The crew talked about their new job opportunity to their current boss and told him about how they were leaving this job. Francis wished luck to the boys, while the co-workers gave them an emotional farewell since those guys were the reason why they could loiter around without any worry.

Meanwhile, back in the Holy Land, they decided to dial Lonappan up since he was still in Snehatheeram for some reason. "Hey, Lonappan!" Thankappan spoke.

"Yea?"

"Remember how you talked about how we should bar ourselves from heavy work and focus on some desk job instead?" Thankappan asked.

"Well, yea. What happened?" Lonappan wondered since Thankappan sounded excited.

"You see, we have been offered to teach kids in the Heavenly Flame School." He replied.

"What? How? Why?" Lonappan was confused. He didn't expect for them to score a job when they didn't even have the right credentials. Sure, he could've supplied them with the documents and got them a job, however getting one without them was surprising.

"Well, Taro's translator glitch made him speak English and the principal out there was impressed and offered us the job." Thankappan replied.

"Wait, what? That's it?" He had hoped for some epic scene involving the principal and the guys. "So what you're telling me is that the principal, who has no idea who you are, came up to you while you were doing construction work, got impressed by Taro's english and then randomly offered you the jobs no questions asked? Damn, did the job interviews get so simple these days?" Lonappan asked.

"You see, we did lie about us four having the degree and stuff. So, we need the MIB's help on this." Thankappan replied.

"Sure. But what about John? Surely he was offered one before you, right?" Lonappan asked.

"True. However, considering the… circumstances, I told the principal that he doesn't have a valid degree. So, they left him out. And later, I told him the reason too. Therefore, that part's fine." Thankappan explained.

"I see. I'll talk about it with Ponnappan then. See you at home." Lonappan hung up the phone and looked before him. "You heard that, right?" He asked Ponnappan, who was listening attentively.

"Yup. I'll ask them to hand the necessary documents to you before you leave. Don't worry." He replied.

"Cool. I'll wait here then." Lonappan spoke as he laid back.

Ponnappan sighed. "Dude, there's tens of rooms in here. Hell, we literally have a resting room. So, why'd you have to cave in here?" He asked.

Lonappan thought for a while. "Well, I feel comfortable in this seat. So, there's that." He replied.

"Ah, if it's the seat, I'll just ask the people to move it to the resting room. Then you'd move there, right?" Ponnappan asked.

"Hmm, if that's the case, I like your coffee maker. So, are you willing to move that as well?" Lonappan asked with a smirk on his face.

"You bastard!" Ponnappan was fuming. "You do know that I bought it with my first salary, right?" He asked.

"So? Aren't you gonna put that in the resting room so that I'll get the fuck out of here?" He asked.

"Damn you. Try to understand the emotional meaning behind it." Ponnappan pleaded. Upon seeing that it made no effect, he finally caved in. "Fine. Do what you want. I don't particularly care." He slightly pouted.

Lonappan smiled as he went to spend the entire time curling up in his comfortable seat, waiting for the documents to arrive.

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Few hours later, Lonappan arrived at the Holy Land with the documents. However, he was welcomed with an ominous silence. "Sheesh. Who ruined the mood in here?" He asked as he saw the council of men (aliens) gathered around him.

"Oh, hello Lonappan! We've been waiting for you. We got a lot to talk about, you know?" Taro spoke as he pointed to a seat.

Lonappan nodded as he headed towards the seat. "So, what is it? And where's Thankappan and John?" He asked as he looked around for them.

"Ah, those guys? Well, I asked Thankappan to take John out for a while so that we could have a nice long talk." Taro replied.

"I see. What do you wanna talk about?" He asked.

"This." Taro placed the translator on the table.

"What about it?" He asked.

"You heard about the job, right? The problem here is the only reason I got the job is because the translator glitched out on me. However, that's not a stable solution, is it? I got no idea if the translator would glitch again or not. There's even a chance that with this shit, I might never be able to speak English again, which would be a sham." Taro explained.

"So, what do you want me to do?" Lonappan asked.

"Look. I know we talked about this before, but I gotta have a new translator, my man… With the heavy lifting work, no one really cared if I talked or not. However, in this case, I really have to talk fluently if I am to work in this sector. So, is there any way that I could get a new one?" He asked back.

"Okay, listen to me. There ain't a new ready made translator in our sector. And the new materials will only arrive in a week." Lonappan was about to continue, before Taro interrupted him.

"I can make one for myself, you know?" He spoke.

"You know as well as I do that Ponnappan isn't gonna allow that to happen. So, no ready made ones and no new materials for you. I truly believe there's no way to get hold of a translator legally." Lonappan replied.

"Is that so…" Taro seemed disappointed as he looked towards the ground.

Lonappan sighed. "I did say legally though. So, if you want me to set you up with an illegal translator, I kinda can." He replied.

"What? Can you really do that? How?" Taro asked.

"Well, clear your schedule tomorrow. We're going on a trip!" Lonappan proclaimed.

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