Third person POV
The church service transitioned into a sermon about David and Goliath, one of the stories Arturo heard about hundreds of times back in the Philippines. Arturo listened attentively with a Bible opened on his side. After that and another song, tithes and offerings, and a closing prayer, he grabbed his stuff into his messenger bag and left off, planning to eat lunch at a café on the first floor of the building. There he entered the place, and surprisingly, Atsushi was at a table for 4, waving his hand at the young Korean Filipino with Japanese descent. "Hey there, Arturo-kun!"
Seeing that, Arturo was surprised but went to that table and sat down while grabbing a menu for lunch.
"So, how's your day?" Atsushi happily asked.
"It's fine," Arturo replied back while glancing at him and the menu and back. "This place had some good food…"
"Yes, the Agency and I know this place very well. This place had good food."
After some time choosing a midday meal, Arturo chose a plate of hamburger with cheese and mayonnaise, a side of French fries, and some mochi for dessert, all accompanied by a glass of water. He then said this to a waitress, who then jotted down his order right away. Atsushi then added his own order of chakuze and the same drink as Arturo's. The waitress did so, and she left off. After 15 minutes, their order came in, hot and ready to be eaten. After Arturo did his prayer, both did the "Itadakimasu" gesture and started eating their delicious lunch. Arturo tasted the meat of the burger as tasty and nice, while Atsushi was eating his chakuze a bit fast because it was his favourite.
"You know, Artu-kun," Atsushi said to him while glancing at him from his bowl, "chakuze is my favourite."
"Oh, okay," Arturo replied while munching on his hot and crispy fries. "I see then…"
But then, while Atsushi went to the restroom, Arturo paid up for their meal with his own money, funds from his family in Angeles City, Pampanga, the Philippines. He packed up his bag once more and was about to get up from his seat when a gang swarmed the hallway and went upstairs with guns. It was a gang of the Port Mafia, and its leader was one Michizou Tachihara. Apparently, they were looking for the Weretiger, a.k.a. Atsushi Nakajima, and the 'Shadow kid' who humiliated Akutagawa two days ago. That 'Shadow kid' was Arturo himself!
But seeing their march up the stairs, Arturo was stunned and shocked, while the cashier and a cook of the café were trembling in fear. "These guys…" the cashier commented.
"Don't tell me they will barge into the Agency and demand something!" the cook yelled.
"Demand what?" Arturo glanced at them.
"We don't know, kid," the cashier responded.
With that, Arturo turned at the stairs and said with determination, "I'll stop whatever they're doing in the Agency!" As he took off to the stairs, he said to the two café staff members, "Please say to my friend in the restroom that I will take care of these guys!"
The two café staff members were shocked to see his suicidal move.
"Are you crazy!"
"Don't do it!"
But they cannot do anything about his action, and the cook eventually said to the cashier, "Let's just do what that youngster said to us…"
By the time he arrived on that floor, Arturo hid behind a wall and eavesdropped on the demanding words on the scene. "Hand over the Weretiger and that Shadow kid who humiliated the Silent Dog!" Tachihara screamed at everyone in the Agency.
Luckily, though, Atsushi was in that restroom, Arturo was behind a wall outside in the hallway, and Dazai and the Agency director, Fukuzawa, are in an errand in the city. Now it's up to the Into the Shadows user to strike back at one of Yokohama's fiercest gangs.