There After
The next day, I went to Doc’s laboratory. Unusually he was not doing experiments. Rather, it seemed that he wanted to talk about the Physical Society meeting.
“Well, at the Physical Society, we’re…”
But I cut him off and said, “Hey, Doc! The company my father was going to do business with was connected to a terrorist-supporting nation!”
“Great Scott!”
“Well, yes.”
“So it would have been a serious situation. If the terrorist- supporting nation had obtained the technology, they would have applied it to guided missiles.”
“Yes. My father was also talking about that.”
“The system is so compact and light-weighted since it was built for R.C. aircraft. They could have developed very small guided missiles. And if they had loaded them on a fishing boat or something and approached the seashore in the mid night near a nuclear power plant, then what would happen?”
“Wow!”
“Also your father developed a very accurate system. So it would be possible to make pin-point attacks on important facilities.”
“Wow! It would have been heavy!”
“It might have lead to a catastrophe. And it is such a tragic future.”
“Well, yes.”
“But we have changed the future.”
“Yes. We have changed it! It’s fantastic, isn't it?”
“Well yes. And to talk about the future, it is possible to change your future. Change your future to a splendid one!”
“Using the Time Age Machine?”
“Oh, but the Time Age Machine is broken beyond repair.”
“What? But I guess you can repair it in an instant like my bike.”
“The Time Age Machine is far more complicated than a bike. And perhaps it was destroyed by the energy of ‘fate’.”
“The energy of ‘fate’?”
“Yes. But I think it is good since we should change our future for ourselves.”
“OK. I’ll…do my best!”
“Come on, Ichiro! Oh, well I’ve heard that Dr. Gestalt came back from the Himalayas yesterday.”
“Really?”
“Yes. And Karate practice begins from today. Go there and change your future. And…study hard! ”
“Yes!”
Then I began to practice Karate and continued it for years to be strong and to have a robust body. But I’ve never injured others since Dr. Gestalt always told me not to.
And…, I became close friends with Devil! His name is Toshio Tanaka. And sometimes I call him ‘Toshio’ and sometimes ‘Devil’ depending on the situation. But even if I call him ‘Devil’, he knows I’m only joking. And he is still a wild boy while I’m still an ordinary boy. But we are still good friends. We talk about all kinds of things. I sometimes tell him how to study and he sometimes shows me how to fight. And he has never extorted money from others since then. This is partly because I’ve always told him not to do.
Now I think, it was lucky that I didn’t beat him on the day of the duel, and needless to say that he hadn't been run over, since now we are close friends.
to be continued to the next episode
