>"rakey, rakey, mistah merriku..."
>yakuza thug splashes water on joe's face, causing him to cough and wake up
>"you harv dun verryu badu theeng, mistah merriku..."
>joe's eyes, while blurry, suddenly clear, and with horror realizes who his captor is, and the long, squirming creature held in the man's left hand
>"m...mister masuda? sir?"
>"you havea dissappointed me fora the lastu timeu, mistah merriku. the gaijins of vee pee haveu notu all bought mai gameu. in factu, i see thata goodu portionu of the gaijinsu harv, piratu de gaimu. can ru...explainu why, mistah merriku?"
>joe thinks across his life, across the decades he's been alive, of his loving girlfriend back home, of the love he's had for his favorite game series since he was a child, of the burning bright future he thought he's always had
>and joe finally thinks, i've had fucking enough.
>"No, Mr. Masuda." said Joe unflinchingly. masuda looks taken aback
>"are youa backtalkingu me, mistah merriku?!?" shouted the small japanese man
>"Yes, I fucking am, Mr. Masuda. I'm done with your racist Japanese accent, I'm done with your shit, and most of all I'm done with those FUCKING BUGS!"
>joe bursts out of his chains with a flex of his mighty muscles
>"I make more money than you do, my net worth is bigger, I have an actual job and girlfriend, what the fuck do you even do? Look pretty for Treehouse? Suck Ohmori's tiny cock? Fuck, I'm practically bigger than you when it comes to Pokemon!"
>the visibly scared masuda starts backing up, the yakuza thugs are too scared to draw their weapons
>"mistah merriku...preasu understandu, i did it fora youru own goodu...preasu....p-preasu....tasukete...."
>"No, Mr. Masuda. This time, I'm putting the buggeru in YOUR ANERU!!"
>joe at the speed of lightning grabs the caterpie from masuda's hands and pins him to the ground, the thugs begin running at this point
