Logan, Hajime Prologue: The Lost
Monday, May 28th, 2007This story describes the aftermath of the film Tale of Logan: Winning Style II by Sean Terry and acts as a prologue for its forthcoming sequel. And no, you’re not crazy for not knowing what I’m talking about. Hopefully, the narrative stands well enough on its own.
The group of young Japanese men have just finished a meal and moved on to doing sake bombs. The look of forlorn resignation that the sushi shop’s owner wears as he surveys the swath of destruction the men have cut across his shop, his pride, indicates that he knows the men will not pay — and knows he can do nothing about that. More than anything, he wishes they would get bored and leave him alone to reorder the chaos in time for opening the next afternoon.
Four more sake bombs later, the men finally leave. The shop owner bows in humbly and thanks them for their business. The men did not pay, but he weeps for joy. They let him keep his fingers. This time.
The men file out into the dingy, littered, neon-painted streets of downtown Honolulu, after hours, after the tourists have retreated to the safety of their hotels. Except for the ones with something other than white sand beaches, Don Ho, and drinks with umbrellas on their minds.
But even they were off the streets by now, leaving only the young men, the occasional police cruiser just for show, and the people who have neither hotels nor homes to hide from the night in. And one other.