The Life Of Normal-Taro

Chapter 97: Luck

Although he wasn't totally aware of the complete extent of Taro's powers, M'Baku liked to believe that he's the one who knows the most. After all, he was the one who tailed him more than even the MIB officials. Even then, he couldn't blindly trust the claims that Taro made about how he was capable of destroying Earth. He thought of Taro's claims as someone spouting random bullshit. The more he thought on it, the more it seemed that Taro's claims were ridiculous.

For starters, the planet destroyer claim. Well, it isn't like that was impossible. However, he had never heard about a Wadorian who's capable of doing such a thing; well he did hear about Wadorians blowing up moons though and those people were revered by the Wadorian people as legends. So, if Taro was someone capable of destroying a planet, a feat that no one in the illustrious Wadorian history was capable of, Taro would've ascended from the realm of a mere mortal to a freaking God. However, no one ever spoke of an alien named Normal-Taro when they spoke of Galaxy's Hope and stuff like that. He had heard the hero Emilia's name thrown around in that discussion, but never Taro. That was basically plenty to debunk his claim.

However, M'Baku had to give it to Taro. He believed that Taro was a real smart man, since he intentionally changed the explanation knowing that someone would find the bullshit behind his claims. One random day, out of nowhere while having tea, he "revealed" that he was trained by the people in Martial Planet, and he had mastered multiple techniques. He did show off a backhand technique before, so his fellow aliens believed in him pretty easily. However, M'Baku scoffed back then, and he scoffed even now when he thought about it.

While the other aliens might not have noticed, however this claim had major flaws as well. He remembered learning that the people on the Martial planet are reclusive and only converse with the community they built up. They hated speaking with people from other planets so much that they rarely held inter-planetary meetings. The other planets were totally fine with it since they were a special existence in the Galaxian civilization; the one which shouldn't be trifled with.

Then there was Taro, who claimed that he received training from such people. How could he even believe those words? Well, even if he tried to reveal this obvious lie to his peers, they would've instinctively refuted him saying that Taro was capable of doing Wu Long's backhand techniques. However, M'Baku believed that what Taro did was mere imitation of the technique and not the actual one. And since the imitation was pretty clean, the surrounding ones believed in Taro A rookie mistake that the Canino would never commit.

Also, how he arrived at Earth was a total mystery that no one knew about. In M'Baku's eyes, that was the only strange thing about Taro.

To conclude, M'Baku was unaware about how much power the dude possessed, however he was sure that his power level wasn't that high as he exaggerated. He believed that if he played it cunning against him, even he had a chance at beating Taro. And cunning in this scenario was to tie him by his bed and suffocate him for a bit. To further humiliate him, he even planned to shag him for a bit, like he did back when he arrived for the first time. Thinking about doing that made him quite happy. It was for a noble cause after all.

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M'Baku had little planned out. Tie him to the bed, torture him to the point that he'll not mess with Shivani ever again. Even though M'Baku claimed that the power Taro told he had was exaggerated, he had no hard feelings to accept that his strength was considerably higher than the human beings of Planet Earth. So, if he was to idiotically tie him with a normal plastic or coir rope, he would break out of it and subdue him in record time. Hence, he sniped the aluminum wire that the electricians used for drawing power lines that he saw was lazily thrown around. He had a hard time sneaking it in, but since he was the ninja dog that no one sees, it wasn't much of a big deal.

Anyway, with that wire, he planned to keep the monster tied. Since Taro went to sleep and no one else was awake as well, he slowly sneaked to the place where he kept the wire and dragged it towards Taro's room. Just when he was about to move towards Taro, he went back to the laundry basket and took one sock and a duct tape with him. He thought of stuffing the sock on his mouth and taping it over since he didn't want John to hear him.

Although, #306 is called a room, one could always argue that it's actually an apartment with two bedrooms and that argument would be right. #306 had two bedrooms. Until John came in to live in the Holy Land, it was actually the plankton and Gibli in one room while Thankappan and Taro occupied the other. However, things changed when John came. Taro shifted to Plankton's room while Taro stayed in the room with John. Therefore, M'Baku had to be careful when doing this since there seemed to be a chance that John might end up noticing his actions. Therefore, the lesser the sounds, the better for him.

Anyhow, M'Baku was about to move the stuff inside, when his ears caught up with rain outside. He was kinda baffled about the downpour and thunder, but he felt as if it worked out perfectly for him. Truly, the luck seemed to have sided with him that day At least, that's what he believed.

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Inside Taro and John's room, he could see both with their blankets covering their entire body due to the sudden chill they felt due to the rain. M'Baku placed the stuff that he bought near Taro's bed and jumped into the bed with the wire in his mouth. However, that's when he noticed something bizarre. The person inside the blanket was soft Too soft. He felt that if he thrust his hand in its abdomen, he would end up killing him. "That's weird. Did the bastard have such a brittle physique?" M'Baku wondered before taking off the blanket away from Taro's body. "What the!" The thing he saw before him was nothing more than two pillows stacked to make it look like a person. M'Baku was fooled.

"Yo! I was waiting for you to come, you fucking dog!" A voice came from his side. He couldn't see the person clearly, but the lightning helped him see his face and the thunder set up the ambience. It was as if the rain deliberately happened to just give out this sorta atmosphere. Also, the way he was rocking back and forth on a rocking chair that M'Baku never knew existed also gave the ominous feeling that he felt in his heart.

Throughout the entire day, he felt as if he was lucky. However, now it seemed as if the luck backfired. Or worse, it wasn't luck after all; it was a planned event meant to look like luck. Suddenly, he flinched when M'Baku noticed Taro staring darts at him the entire time he was thinking. "What are you looking at?" He asked.

Taro sighed. "The entire day, you followed me like a freaking bug. You know what people do with annoying bugs? Kill them." He replied, to which M'Baku gulped. "However, I'm not gonna do that, you know? Instead, I'm gonna politely ask ya. Why are you doing this shit, huh? Judging from what you brought here, were you trying to strangle me or something? Why Why would you follow me like that? Why would you spy on us and report everything to Lonappan?" He asked.

"Hmm, so you knew." M'Baku was the one sighing this time. The image of a ninja dog crumbled down when this was revealed.

"Of course, I knew. Eyes don't lie, you know?" Taro chuckled before turning the serious switch back on. "So?"

"I didn't like how you guys were getting too close to Shivani." He replied honestly, to which Taro looked baffled.

"Are you kidding me? You snitched on us and tried to tie me up right now for that? What kinda crazy bastard are ya? Dude, you could've just told us about it. You didn't have to do this elaborate thing Damn You're extremely stupid sometimes You know that, right?" Taro sighs turned into a slight chuckle.

"I'm sorry. I should've talked to you about it before taking drastic methods like this." M'Baku replied.

"You better be sorry! Anyway, I kinda forgive you. However, that doesn't mean I can stop talking to Shivani. First of all, I'm her teacher and secondly, she has the right to do whatever the fuck she wants. Who are we to interrupt that?" Taro posed the question.

"You're right. I was an idiot. Sorry again." He replied.

"Hmm, that's all well. However, I hope you don't try something stupid like this for a second time, because I can't promise you that I'll be this forgiving then." Taro spoke in a tone which sent shivers to his spine. That day, M'Baku decided not to mess with Taro anymore, even unintentionally. He was sure that he'd straight up kill him when that happens.

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