39 Tampered

"Okay, that'd be all for today!"The master said as they bowed towards each other. "You did pretty good for just a beginner. Have you tried martial arts before? Your body looks like it's familiar with some amount of martial art." He said.

"Well, tried some before." Taro answered with minimal words as possible. The master didn't ask further questions since he could see Taro's discomfort with holding long conversations.

"Cool, you can go now." He waved goodbye. Just then, he remembered something. "Wait! Take this. Next time, change to this when you are inside the dojo. It's your uniform." The master handed in the uniform and replied.

"Thank you." Taro bowed and received the uniform. However, he had nothing to put it on. The dojo master noticed this and gave him a plastic cover which was just lying around. Taro thanked him for his generosity. However, the master was thankful towards him because ever since the government banned the mass usage of plastic, these covers had just been lying around. He just didn't want to throw it away and take part in polluting the Earth directly. He was totally fine if Taro threw it away though. Just didn't want to carry around more sins than he already had.

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"Shit!" Taro shouted out loud, visibly furious about something.

"Where is Lonappan?" Taro asked. He looked seriously annoyed.

Gibli had tasted a fraction of Taro's power when he was as calm as a rock and hence, didn't want to imagine what the case would be in his annoyed state. "Oh, don't worry! I'll get him as soon as I can." He said and ran as fast as he could, far away from a fuming Taro.

Kunjan, who saw Gibli running like a madman, wanted to ask him the reason. However, Gibli didn't seem like he wanted to stop. Therefore he headed inside to check on what he was running from. "What happened to Gibli?" He asked Taro.

Taro sighed. He looked slightly relaxed. "I don't know man! I wanted to know where Lonappan was and he started running away saying that he'd find that guy." Taro replied.

"Did something happen?" The plankton asked.

"Well, I'd like to talk with him about something." He replied.

"Yea." Taro nodded his head.

Suddenly, Lonappan came bursting through the gates of the Holy Land. "What happened? Gibli came up to me and said it was something important and then started spouting some random gibberish. I came running since I heard it's something important. What is it?" He asked, as he tried hard to catch his breath.

Lonappan sighed. "Oh, was that it? Didn't I tell you that it's a fast tracked product. So, it's supposed to have certain faults." He explained.

"I know that's the case. However, that's not my problem." Taro replied.

"Then what is it?" He asked.

However, Lonappan didn't care much about Taro's outbreak anyway. Everyone has their own reason for losing it one time or the other. "Meh, it's fine. You know what? I'll meet up with Ponnappan on this one. Don't worry. However, it might take a bit of time to make you a new one. Will you be fine with it?" He asked.

"Yea, no worries! I'll use this one in the meantime. Who knows? It might just stop annoying me!" Taro chuckled.

Before leaving the premises, Lonappan looked back and asked one more question. "Didn't you say that you're a support class graduate or something? Why couldn't you fix it?"

"Hmm, understood." Lonappan gave out a thumbs up and exited the Holy Land.

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"Weren't you a super busy person? Why are you here for the second time this day?" Ponnappan indulged in a little bit of sarcasm as he saw Lonappan in his office.

"Oh? What about it?" Ponnappan asked.

"How did he find out? Not that I was planning to keep it a secret, however, I didn't expect him to find it out on his own." He replied.

"May I give out one more suggestion?" Lonappan asked.

"Shoot."

"Even though I don't like how ominously you phrased it, I'll be generous enough to take your suggestion to consideration. I don't really like 'calamities', you know?" Ponnappan smiled.

"That's all I wanted to hear. Now that that's done, I'mma scoot!" Lonappan waved goodby and exited the room.

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