The Life Of Normal-Taro

John, ecstatic about the golden opportunity handed to him on a platter by "lady luck", thought it to be the perfect moment to approach Juan and clear his doubts. So, he waited for quite some time for Juan to walk out of his classroom. Yet again, it seemed as if the luck was on his side as he saw Juan walking alone. It looked as if he'd been lucky that day. Too lucky, in fact. Normally, he would have been suspicious of his bizarre luck. However, since coming to India, he had been interested in looking at the weekly horoscope seen in the Sunday supplement of the newspaper. Even him acting out covertly that day was because the horoscope said that the best day for people of his zodiac sign. So, one could say that somewhere along the line, John turned into a believer of Astrology. So, what seemed like a suspicious event turned into a totally believable one because some astrologer said that it'd be a good day for him.

Anyhow, once Juan walked towards the area in the school where people extremely" don't walk through, he was dragged into the dark by John. Juan struggled so that the mystery person doesn't have an actual grasp on him. When it seemed like it worked, the person pushed him to the wall instead and covered his mouth with his hand.

"Don't talk!" John ordered, to which Juan nodded his head. Although he couldn't clearly see the male before him due to the lighting of the place, he noticed the man's stature and hoped to take him out in due time. However, it seemed that he was wrong and the person wasn't someone whom he can face by himself. However, Juan didn't know why someone would try to do something like this to him. The only reason he could think of was his old man, so he cursed inwardly and acted as obedient as he could.

John sighed. It seemed like Juan had an accurate grasp of his strength and he made sure to obey his orders. Initially, it seemed as if Juan was an ordinary citizen. However, he knew that no ordinary person would be this composed before an impending danger, which meant he had extensive training on how to behave in a situation like this… A training like maybe the one that MIB gives? Anyway, John was incredibly suspicious by now.

"Hmm, certainly not an ordinary person! Looks like I was right all along." John thought, thus making the incredibly idiotic mistake of judging a book by its cover. It seemed as if his judgement skills were messed up by the simpler situation that led him here. For a person who worked under high pressure situations, his skills lost their edge when he had to handle things in a rather simpler atmosphere.

"So… MIB, huh?" John spoke, yet again cracking under the relaxed atmosphere and revealing something that shouldn't be revealed to a normal person. However, to him, Juan was a rookie MIB official, so he just talked the way he did with any other MIB official.

"What the hell?" However, for Juan, this was not the case. Some random person just came up to him, dragged and slammed to a wall and was talking about some MIB stuff. The only MIB he remembered was a movie series that he watched way back.

"Are you from the Spain branch or something? By the way, what's with the name Juan? Are you like, telling every one about your identity? Oh, I'm Juan from MIB, you know that… Something like that? That's pretty stupid for someone of our profession. How the hell did the Snehatheeram base even approve of someone like you to do a mission? Like, I guess I can understand why the branch you came from is unaware of the culture of this place and stuff and accidentally asked you to play yourself while acting as a native person, however the Snehatheeram guys shouldn't be this stupid, right? Clean up your image, kid! I don't want you walking around with the name Juan anymore. It sounds stupid in this place. Also,what's with the mental age of twenty-two jokes, huh? It isn't a joke, right? It's your real age, isn't it? Don't do stupid stuff like this. You're sullying the name of our organization." With that said, John let go of Juan and quickly left the premises, not even giving enough time for Juan to comprehend what he just heard.

"What in the world just happened? Why is some random guy so irked about my name? Crazy guy… He sure is strong though. I guess I'm weak in that aspect." Juan sighed as he walked back as if nothing happened. From that day forth, Juan started on an insane muscle training routine, a speck of madness second to only Taro's madman routine.

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"What did you just ask?" Lonappan was surprised by the stuff that Taro asked. While John was thanking the God of luck and had a brief interaction with Juan, Taro and squad was listening to the stuff that John spoke to Juan, while giving out a live report to Lonappan on the phone.

"I asked whether Juan was part of the MIB as well. It kinda makes sense though…" Taro replied.

"Hell no! How did you come up with that?" Lonappan asked back.

"Well, it wasn't me who came up with that. John just asked him if he was from the Spain base or something. Ah, he said that he had no idea why the Snehatheeram base would allow such a thing to happen… I guess it's about Juan's actions and stuff…" Taro replied.

"What the hell is that idiot on? Of course not! That kid isn't an MIB agent. How the hell did he get that idea?" Lonappan sighed.

"I mean… Juan's kinda sus… So, I guess I understand where he's coming up with such claims." Taro spoke to which the other three around him nodded their heads in agreement.

"Ha… Anyway, that kid's not someone from the Spain base or an MIB agent. If he was, we would've got info on that and as John said, we wouldn't allow him to behave this way which would bring in unnecessary attention." Lonappan replied.

"Hmm, I guess John was mistaken then. But, how come he made such a grave mistake in assessing a person?" Thankappan came forth and asked.

"Well, I believe that we gave him too much space that he dropped his guard on literally everything. I don't know what made him drop his guard this bad though. I would've expected him to sense something off with the strange stuff happening and Juan's expressions. Maybe he's under the weather or something?" Lonappan replied.

"Speaking of Juan… What should we do with him now? He learned about the MIB too, right? Should we flash him with the neuralyzer? However, there's the side effect problem; we don't know how much his mental strength is… Also, the neuralyzer is with you, so…" Thankappan spoke.

"I guess we won't need it." Taro raised his voice, grabbing the attention of the surrounding three.

"What do you mean?" Thankappan asked.

"Juan seems to be unaffected by most of what John said. Hell, he didn't even notice John speaking of MIB. Also, he's thinking of John as some crazy guy as well. I guess if some random guy says stuff like John did, everyone would think that, right?" Taro explained.

"Hmm… Let's not flash the neuralyzer on him… not that we can do it now anyway. However, Juan… He's definitely a strange kid. How can he be so composed even after the strange events that just occurred? Definitely strange." Lonappan replied.

"But not MIB?" Taro asked one last time as a confirmation.

"Definitely not." Lonappan replied firmly.

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Back in the Holy Land, John welcomed the four like he always did when they came back. However, he seemed a bit tired. It looked as if what Lonappan said was the truth. John seemed to look tired and lost his edge. The four guess that it would be some sort of midlife crisis. After all, John seems to be at that point of his life.

"John, did something happen while we were gone?" Taro asked, genuinely concerned about him.

However, John was suspicious about whether Taro might've noticed his presence back in school, so he decided to answer a bit carefully. "I don't think so… Why'd you ask?" He asked.

"Well, you look kinda tired for some reason, so I thought something might've gone wrong…" Taro replied.

"Ah, it's nothing… Guess the age caught up with me!" John laughed as the squad looked at him in concern. However, John believed that those gazes were of doubt and was still cautious.

"But you're like thirty-something, right?" Taro asked.

"Yea… I guess, I became old a little early?" John continued with his laugh.

"I guess that happens to people. Don't worry about it." Taro patted his shoulders and went off. The other three did the same as well, since John's words basically proved Lonappan right. They decided to give John a little bit more attention from that day. Lonappan followed suit on this as well. However, John was confused with the treatment he got from that day.

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