Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic, is a Sakura Taisen story. I don't own Sakura or any of the characters of the series. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others original characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. Anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline.
It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to. I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story.
If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics. If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this:
"You have been warned."
For those of you who have read everything that I said before and want to continue to read this story I hope that you enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
Explanations, details and rantings in the bottom of the page.
"Text"= Talked sentences, "…'text'…" quoting from something during a conversation, reading from something on loud.
'Text' = Thoughts .
-Text- = Sounds effects.
(Text)= Talked sentences in a foreign language as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.
: Text: = Messages show in an electronic screen or written.
Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.
Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.
Chapter one: New displacement
Looking at the mirror Benji nods pleased at his appearance, it took time to get things right, first it was growing his hair to get on the style that he wanted, the 'main character of hentai game' style, second was getting the leather jacket with sheepskin collar, it was really hot, but it was cool, besides the weather was a little on the chilly side so it was okay, on his neck two ball chain necklaces, one with a sword pendant, the other with a NERV pendant, both bought in anime conventions.
Benji is also wearing a graphite colored long sleeved t-shirt, dark gray denim pants, black leather boots, a sturdy black leather belt around his waist. Benji moves back to his bedroom, it was time to finish the cosplay, he picks up a metal gauntlet and puts it one, first the forearm protection and then the hand protection, the two snap together with a soft click.
Then Benji puts on a pair of spaulders on his shoulders and upper arms, then tassets on his legs, also firmly held by his belt, lastly a three points belt, around his waist and then over his right shoulder, making sure that is tight but comfortable Benji then gets the final piece of the cosplay, a dragon slayer made after Gatts dragon slayer.
"Now I am good to go." Benji commented casually, he makes a final check to see if he is taking his wallet, money, admission tickets, keys, bandanas, cell phone, Mp3 player and everything else that he would be taking. Finding everything on their places Benji gets his backpack, there he loads two large bottles of soda, some food and everything else needed to survive at a long day in an anime convention.
Benji knew that he was being stared, he was looking pretty attention grabbing with that attire, specially the huge sword that is now hanging on his back, held by the belt and a chain. Benji greets the neighbors in the elevator. "Now that is a pretty interesting costume of yours." An old lady that knew Benji since he was a small kid said with a smile. "Going to a costume party?"
"Sometime like that." Benji answered with a smile, yes he was right in deciding to expend the night at his grandmother's since was closer to the event site. "It took a while make it." The woman nodded slightly, her daughter was a little more disturbed by it, but she wouldn't just say anything about it.
Leaving the building Benji greets the door keeper who makes a light joke at Benji, and that man too worked there as since Benji could remember. Walking down the hill of the building Benji didn't met many people, the few that did stared at him and made room for him to pass.
Ignoring the stares Benji reaches the event site, it was before the convention started and there was already people there waiting, but not many, Benji chatted with them because there wasn't anything to do, there was also other cosplayers in their costumes there, some were simpler than his, other much more complex, but no one could place Benji's outfit.
Benji had to explain that was an original, he just picked random parts and used them together as he simply wanted to dress like that, in the third time explaining he just said that he was cosplaying as a cosplayers that ran out of money during the production of the costume, it made people laugh and approve the idea.
The time to start came and Benji after a short wait was given access after s quick search on himself and his belongings looking for forbidden material as real weapons or alcohol, as he doesn't care any of those he enters on the convention, he was carrying a couple of pocket knives, he just hid them well in a zipped inner pocket of his old, beaten and trusty backpack, not the he intended to use them, it was just habit carrying them around.
Benji steps out of the entrance hall and looks around in shock, he wasn't facing the good and old club that he knew so well from his childhood that was hosting the event, no, he was now inside a large store, and the place was ransacked, clothes racks fallen on the floor, displays broken, goods destroyed.
It was impossible for that place being on the club, there wasn't anyone there, and the search hardly took one minute, there should be others there, besides the design of the area doesn't match the club at all, there wasn't space after the entry hall for such a thing. Then there was noise, actually the eerie sort of grunts and groans from undead in games, Benji spins on his heels and see a group of rushing people.
At a closer look Benji can tell that they aren't 'people' at least aren't looking like normal people, they are closer to zombies or some sort of lower demons, covered in blood, with missing patches of flesh all over their bodies, and they are getting closer of him. "Now if this is a sort of practical joke that is going way too far." Benji said seriously. "The sudden surprise was pretty shocking by itself."
The something flies at Benji's direction, he acts more on reaction than will, he blocks whatever it is with the large dragon slayer, the impact was large, whatever it was it would hurt badly if it hit him, Benji sees a stool rolling on the ground, whatever is happening it is serious, that stool was solid wood! Only the fact that the dragon slayer was made of wood, steel rebar, bolts, and solid polyurethane foam granted Benji with a decent level of protection from it.
Benji knew that he couldn't just stay in there, he looks for the closest exit and rushes there, being careful to not fall down on the racks, that would be bad for some many way including breaking a leg. More people come out from the way that Benji wanted to leave, but they are far less than in the other way.
Without any other choice Benji brings the mock sword up and swings it violently, because the construction materials it was light enough to be maneuver with ease and heavy enough to cause plenty of damage, the construction method gives it a solid frame to take in the impact, the result is a crushing blow that sends three of the charging people away.
Mustering all his strength Benji slashes again this time in the inverse direction slashing away the remaining two, clearing the way out, but Benji finds that the way wasn't out of the store, but only out of the shopping area, he was now inside a smaller room, by the scent where they sold perfumes, and there wasn't a good way out there, the windows are too high and small for him to use them.
Looking back at the main room Benji sees the approaching horde, he kicks away some obstacles, at least inside the room only few of them would be able to enter at once, so he could resist there until they give up or help comes, whatever comes first.
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Benji's arms ached, swinging the sword took much more than he first thought it would, and he swung it for a long time until the horde ran out of people. Benji didn't stop to look at the fallen people, he knew that he had killed or at least badly wounded them, all that he wants is to find the way out.
When he does Benji instantly regrets it, surrounding the building was a solid line of soldiers and in front of them some sort of robots, it takes few instants for Benji to identify the robots, it was koubus, Sakura Taisen was his favorite anime, he could recognize the machines, specially the colors.
Benji does what anyone would do, he simply drops the now cracked sword and raises his hands, he knows that he has no chance of escaping from there. "Just to make clear to everyone I surrender!" Benji shouted in English, Maria's black koubu was there as well, she at least would understand him. "I have no intention of resisting!"
The surprise is visible on the soldiers, Benji could also tell that the hanagumi was surprised by the way that the koubus moved, Benji simply kneels down with his hands up adding to his statement. After few moments of discussion between them Maria's black koubu advances halfway between him and the defense line, then it stops, the hatch of the machine opens and Benji sees the blonde that he fancied, but remains calm, Maria was armed and as soon she got out of her koubu she was pointing her revolver at him.
Maria was also holding a small length of rope, Benji was a little surprised with that particular item but remains in silence. "You aren't Japanese are you?" Maria asked in English. "No." Benji answered. "I am descendant of Japanese though." Maria takes Benji's left hand and wraps the bow of the rope around it before tightening as much as she can, she knew that the gauntlet would keep it from hurting him, then she lowers his left arm and then right arm before she ties his wrists together.
Maria pulls Benji up. "Move forward." Maria said seriously. Benji nodded silently, feeling the hard barrel pressed on his back against the backpack. 'So much for a fun day at the event.' Benji thought with an internal sigh. Maria wasn't going to let Benji out of her sight until he was safely held inside one of the cars, covered in blood splatters as he is, there is no way that he is so pacific.
From the command truck Yoneda and Kaede watched everything, including Benji being taken away for questioning at the base. Maria returned to her koubu while two soldiers retrieved the sword, discovering with surprise that it was very light and wasn't made of metal.
"That is very odd." Yoneda murmured, it wasn't the first time that they faced fallen humans, but was the first time that actually someone came out of it without falling. Kaede listens to the reports, they found every fallen human dead or crippled inside the store, wounds consistent with the blunt mock sword that they just captured.
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Benji now stripped of his armor, necklaces, wallet and every belonging other than his clothes is inside a small cell, sited on the bed with his feet against the sturdy metal toilet of it, leaning against the wall facing the ceiling, he wasn't expecting a warm welcoming, he was more realistic than that, but being held in a cell was a little too cold for his liking.
Unknowing to him Yoneda and Kaede are watching at him sited there unmoving by a monitor, behind them every item that they took from Benji. "We can't get any explanation from his belongings." Yoneda muttered annoyed, they found some documents there, with a little knowledge Yoneda recognized the shield of the Brazilian republic and Brazilian army from his documents, he couldn't make out the words, neither could Maria while she could easily recognize the letters, in the end Maria wrote everything to a different paper so Yoneda could have them translated.
Kaede also found everything very intriguing, there are items of clearly advanced technology on his belongings that she has absolutely no idea of what they are, but found unwise to have it dismantled and studied, she knew that advanced technology is a very frail thing.
"The translation arrived." Kasumi announced while entering on the command center, sparing a glance on the items over the briefing table. "In the front of the document with the Army's shield it says 'Army Ministry, Directory of Military Service, Certificate of Dismissal of Incorporation'. It follows a faintly stamped number and printed three letters, then two printed letters and a long number, no sense was made of them."
"What else it says?" Yoneda asked seriously. "It follows 'Name Benji Himura', bellow it says 'In case of summoning it must present immediately', then 'Expedition date 24/10/2001'." Kasumi continued seriously. "By the numbers of the date, as well knowledge of the way of the Brazilian republic writes the date, it says twenty fourth of October of two thousand and one."
The date makes no sense for them, it must be wrong they thought without saying anything. "What says in the back?" Kaede asked, if Kasumi mentioned front side then the backside also had information. "It gives the names of his parents, Kaori Himura and Leandro Abi Harb." Kasumi answered. "The date of birth, once again the date is confusing, it says twenty third of August of nineteen eighty three, followed by his homeland name Vitória, and the reason of his dismissal of military duty by excess of personal."
The date was once again several decades to come, but two mistakes are too much for a coincidence. "In addition several other documents, papers and cards show dates that doesn't match our calendars." Kasumi added. "All the documents had the same date of birth, as well name of the parents and of the wielder, the dates in random papers vary, but they go from between nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and eight. So does the dates in few items confiscated from the subject."
"Far too many to be just a typo." Kaede said seriously. "There is anything else of value in the translation?" "Nothing of great value, random numbers, random names handwritten, some names of places and schools." Kaede looks at Yoneda confused with the situation.
Yoneda seriously ponders on the information that he was given, it was too odd to be real, but it was also too odd to dismiss as fake, he saw Benji's capture, he looked really surprised by what he saw, but surrendered when he seemed to understand something, as if he knew that he would be captured and not killed.
"Tell Kayama-kun to take three men down to the holding cell and to take the boy to the interrogation room." Yoneda said to Kaede. Kaede nods and obeys, Yoneda then turns to Kasumi. "Call Maria-kun and tell her to go to the interrogation room as well, she speaks English better than anyone else here and the boy clearly also speaks it."
Kasumi nods and leaves to obey the order. "You think that is wise to let Maria-san question him?" Kaede asked seriously. "She will only translate." Yoneda answered. "I will be the one doing the questioning." "But that is dangerous." Kaede replied. "The boy responded to the situation quite passively." Yoneda said seriously. "He gave us everything that he had when asked, he is being cooperative, so wants to get on our good side. I want to hear what he has to say."
Kaede can't help in feeling worried about it, the boy as Yoneda called him defeated sixty two and killed fourteen fallen humans with a blunt wooden sword, she is worried about what he would do with his bare hands.
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Benji looks at the solid handcuffs around his wrists, later he would learn that was a darby styled one, they felt solid and he knew that he wouldn't escape them, not that he would try, but he liked the design of the cuffs themselves. Kayama remained in silence in front of Benji, taking Benji to the interrogation room was pretty easy, Benji followed the gestured commands, there was a little misinterpretation that Kayama forgave until they succeeded, now Benji is quietly sited on a chair waiting without complains.
Yoneda is waiting for Maria in another room, they are seeing everything through a camera. Kaede still is wary of the course of action, Maria arrived wearing her uniform. 'There wasn't a need for her to change.' Yoneda thought without saying anything, it was clear that Maria simply doesn't want to be seen as a civilian. After a quick explanation of what he intends Yoneda leads Maria to the interrogation room.
Kayama leave the room and waits by the door with the two other tsukigumi members. "Before we start can I get something to drink?" Benji asked to Maria. "I was locked for two hours and I did fight a lot before, and I didn't get a chance to drink anything." Maria translates the request to Yoneda, it sounded fair. Yoneda agrees and speaks with Kayama, a short while later Kayama returns with a pitcher of water and a glass.
Benji drinks three glasses of water before returning the glass to Kayama who leaves the room. "Better now?" Maria asked translating Yoneda's words. Benji nodded confirming. "First I will explain what we learned from your belongings." Maria continued. "Your belongings say that you should be Brazilian, your name is Benji Himura, your age is around twenty five years old, your mother is named Kaori and your father Leandro. How much of that is true?"
"Everything." Benji answered seriously. "Then how you explain the dates in those documents being at least sixty years in the future?" Yoneda asked seriously. Benji sighed at that, he can't really come with an explanation. "I am not sure of the exact reason myself." Benji answered. "I came with a few theories based in what happened, they should be close of why."
"Then let us hear it." Yoneda said seriously, Maria looks pretty confused by what she is translating, she can't make much sense of what Yoneda is saying. "Somehow, I don't know how or why, I was taken from not only my time, but my world and brought to your time and world." Benji said seriously. "It is hard to believe, I wouldn't really believe on it myself, but I can tell few more things that can make my point a little more believable."
Maria looks even more confused at what she just translated, Benji looked serious and she couldn't see deception on his eyes, Yoneda was also serious as well, as if he is believing on him.
"You are the leader of a secret governmental group, the imperial defense force, Maria here is the vice leader of the hanagumi, the main fighting group of the organization, alongside with her companions she fights demonic threats that appear in the capital." Benji said levelly. Yoneda understood the word hanagumi, Maria translated everything else making the old man look sternly at Benji.
Benji only continues. "Before the imperial defense force was established you were part of the anti-kouma butai." Benji continued. "It was composed of you, Ikki Yoneda, Fujieda Ayame who back then was a teenager, Shinguji Kazuma and Yamazaki something, I forgot his full name, Yamazaki defected somewhere around the battles and disappeared, years later he would return as the enemy as known Aoi Satan or something, Kazuma died in a desperate action to kill some powerful enemy using the three relics that I forgot the name to save the city, that should be stored somewhere in this base if I am not wrong."
Maria can tell that Yoneda isn't pleased with the just revealed information, but keeps it to himself. "I am unsure of what happened to Ayame, as the information gets a little conflicting, some say that she went to the enemy and became a powerful foe with black wings, I also forgot the name that she took during that, afterwards she becomes Michael a angel and takes Satan's soul away after he is defeated." Benji said seriously. "Other say that it never happened and she left or will leave for a mission in another country, leaving her little sister to take over her position as vice commander of the defense force."
Maria only felt Yoneda's hands on her shoulders when Benji mentioned Ayame again, it was a good thing since she was about to hit him for bringing up such sensitive issue so carelessly, but she also felt his fingers tensing pressing on her shoulders as she translated, indicating that Yoneda was restraining himself as well.
"The Hanagumi was first composed of six members before the arrival of Ogami Ichiro, who became the active leader of the unit." Benji resumed after Maria finishes translating everything. "Once again the information gets conflicting, but the consensus is that there was some bad blood in the beginning, until everyone came to understand the other as a team, Kirishima Kanna pilots a red koubu for short range combat, she is afraid of snakes and ghosts, and is very conscious of her height, Kanzaki Sumire pilots a purple colored koubu that is equipped with a naginata, she fears spiders, she also was the one who helped to develop the koubu by being the test pilot."
Benji makes a small pause, he can tell that Yoneda and Maria are getting even more tense. "Shinguji Sakura pilots a pink koubu that wields an arataka styled katana, she is afraid of lightning and from what I heard also from injections, Li Kohran, the resident genius, she takes care of the maintenance of the koubus, her koubu is green and has rocket launchers, she fights because she doesn't want to see another city burning, and she fixed a watch that took a bullet before she joined the group." Benji said in a level tone. "Iris Chateaubriand is the hanagumi's youngest member and by far the most powerful, possessing the powers of telepathy and telekinesis even outside her yellow koubu, because of her powers she was isolated by her family, she is also bound to temper tantrums that are followed by surges of power that explodes around her, she is also very afraid of being alone or abandoned."
Now Maria tensed when Benji paused, he had spoken of everyone in the group, listing their abilities as well their fears, things that no one outside their group should know about. "In front of me is Maria Tachibana, she was part of the rebel army in the Russian revolution, her entire squad was killed by the regular army when betrayed by a man named Valentinov, who later she shot and left in an alley in New York, she can't swim and used to be haunted by nightmares, she wears around her neck a pendant with the..." Benji's sentence is cut by Maria who escaped from Yoneda's grasp and tackles him, causing both of them to fall back.
Benji lands painfully on his back, the chair pressing painfully against him, but the worse is that Maria is strangling him with every ounce of strength that she can muster, the fall took the air from his lungs so he was already short of air, Benji balls both hands in fists and drives it on Maria's diaphragm, she gasped in surprise and her hands slacken a little, Benji then drives his fists on her chin sending the woman away from him.
Benji coughs violently while distancing himself from Maria, Kayama rushes inside with his pistol in hands, Yoneda orders him to not shoot and restrain Maria before she recovers and tries attacking Benji again. Benji remains in a corner keep distance and coughing for air, feeling his neck with his hands and find blood on his palms.
Yoneda make everyone other than Benji clear the room, alone in the closed room Benji pulls his chair back up and sits down. "Kaede-kun go treat his neck." Yoneda said to Kaede once he enters on the side room. "But he just attacked Maria-san." Kaede protested. "He defended himself." Yoneda replied. "You saw it as well as I did, Maria-kun attacked him and was strangling him. She scratched his neck so treat it, I will ask to Maria-kun what made her jump on him like that." Kaede nodded and unwilling leaves the room.
Maria who is sited in one of the chairs of the room is nursing her chin, Yoneda hands her a handkerchief. "You got a cut here." Yoneda said pointing to the left corner of his lips. Maria takes the handkerchief and presses on her lips and chin, finding that she was indeed bleeding from there.
"Now why you attacked him?" Yoneda asked serious, it was just them in the room now. "He didn't do anything to deserve that kind of thing and since you stopped translating after he said your name it has to do with you." Maria sulks a little at his stern tone. "He knows about my past." Maria answered seriously and depressed. "He was speaking about it, how does he know about it? How he knows that I shot that rat in an alley and left him to die there?"
"That is why we are questioning him." Yoneda answered seriously. "He seemed to be willing to tell us everything that he knows; he wants us to believe on his story." "And you do believe in that impossible story?" Maria asked suddenly. "I am pending to it." Yoneda answered seriously. "Sure some of what he said is a little fishy, like how information is conflicting, there are little mistakes in small details, but overall he is right about everything that he said. It just isn't something that you can learn by others, years of intelligence gathering, it is almost as if he was there."
"Then what does this mean?" Maria asked confused, everything was starting to make her feel lost and despaired. "I am not sure of it yet." Yoneda answered. "That is why I want you to calm yourself down, I need you there to translate what he is saying, I feel bad for asking you this, but is better than trusting on an unrelated person to do it." Maria nodded understanding, her military mind agrees that less people knowing about it better, but she was afraid of what would come next.
In the interrogation room Benji looks at the door that suddenly opens, he finds Kaede there, she shows him a first aid kit and he understands why she is there, he remains sited and let her get closer. Kaede pulls a cotton ball and some alcohol from the kit and starts to clean the scratches on his neck, they are long and deep.
Benji hisses at the sting, but do not flinch. "So what went wrong?" Benji asked trying to make a conversation. "You do her angry." Kaede answered in broken English, regretting that she never took seriously the language courses that her sister wanted her to take. "I guess that I should have noticed." Benji commented with a sigh.
Kaede nodded, she could understand what Benji meant. "And the sentence that you said is you should use make instead of do." Benji said casually. "It is better as 'You made her angry'." "I see." Kaede replied with a nod, it does sound better than what she said.
Yoneda returns with Maria and finds Kaede wrapping a bandage around Benji's neck. "It is that bad?" Yoneda asked seriously. "Actually they are shallow compared to cuts." Kaede answered. "But for scratches are pretty deep, and they are long as well, I thought that will be better to keep them covered."
Yoneda nods understanding and Kaede stores the items back in the kit and leaves. "I am sorry for this incident." Yoneda said with Maria translating once again. "It is okay, I should have realized that I was picking on a nerve." Benji replied. "You are willing to continue?" Yoneda asked, Benji nods confirming.
"You have knowledge about us." Yoneda said seriously. "Why and how you got it?" "That is a little complex as well." Benji answered. "I only have a theory, from where I came there is a series of games, books and shows about you, a fictional series I must add, I believe that the person that 'created' the show somehow got in tune with this world, he saw important events and wrote about them thinking that he was creating an original story."
Yoneda and Maria frown at his words. "Yes it is very disturbing." Benji said relating with their feelings. "But that is true, in my world you are fictional, part of an anime that I love, so I learned as much about it as I could, there are conflicting information between different media to keep it interesting to the fans, the books would be different from the game, the game from the anime, but they would be very similar as well."
"So let's say that what you said is true, how you ended here?" Yoneda asked seriously, he would ponder on the existential thing later. "I have no idea." Benji answered. "I was going to a costume party, the sword and the armor are part of my costume, but when I crossed the door of the party hall I suddenly found myself inside that ravaged store, everything else you already know. I don't know why and how, or even if I will go back."
"Now this is even more troublesome to believe than everything you said before." Yoneda said with a sigh. "But I still believe on it a little. So with your knowledge about us, can you tell me something that is useful?"
"I guess that I could have an useful information or two." Benji answered honestly. "But I need to learn when exactly I am, Orihime and Reni are already part of the hanagumi?" Yoneda backed surprised at his question, he shouldn't know about that, the two girls were still resting on the theater and weren't part of the siege on the store.
"Yes they are." Yoneda answered. "Well I am not sure of the name of the guy." Benji replied seriously. "But there is someone in the army who plans a coup d'état against the empire, they should be attacking or will attack soon, they also plan on cutting founds of the defense force."
Now that was a sensitive piece of information that Yoneda kept secret from everyone else, no strange boy should know that the founding of the hanagumi was getting smaller. "I will ponder on what you told me." Yoneda said seriously. "On everything that was told here before I decide on what doing with you."
Benji remained in silence, it seems that the information that he gave wasn't enough to buy him a better treatment, he kind of expected that. "For now you will be returned to your cell since we don't have better accommodations." Yoneda continued. "Because the hour I will send you a meal as well."
"How long I will be stuck there?" Benji asked in a level tone. "I don't have anything to do there." "As long as it takes for me to come to a decision." Yoneda answered. "But I will also send you some books in English, it should help with the boredom." Benji nodded agreeing and asks for a small ball, at least was something else to do. Yoneda grants the little request and leaves with Maria. Kayama enters and takes Benji back to the cell, once again Benji doesn't resist at all.
In the side room Yoneda looks at Maria. "You aren't allowed to disclose anything that you heard from him to anyone." Yoneda said seriously. "To anyone." Maria nodded gravely, she really doesn't want to anyway, she was too shaken by it to do it anyway. Dismissed Maria leaves, Kaede looks at Yoneda.
"So what you plan on doing with him?" She asked worried. "I still haven't decided." Yoneda answered sitting down, he was feeling so tired. "He seemed honest, he believed in everything that he said, and he also seems to believe that we would treat him fairly." "I can't really say that he is wrong about that." Kaede commented.
"For now I want to think some more about this subject." Yoneda said seriously. "Tomorrow I want him scanned, if he killed fallen humans then he should have some spirit energy on himself, if he has any then I will make use of him." Kaede didn't like of how Yoneda worded that but says nothing.
"And if he doesn't have energy?" Kaede asked. "Then I will get him in someplace under military protection." Yoneda answered. "He possesses classified information, too much of it to be allowed to roam freely."
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Benji was once again bored, when your only means of entertainment is a small blue rubber ball you get tired of bouncing it on the wall after a while, lying on his bed Benji just waits, it was all that he could do in his situation, just lie there and wait, he can't even tell how long he has been waiting as even his watch was taken from him. Kayama isn't thrilled either, he was there to watch Benji in another room, he doesn't have anything to do either, in the end both of them are bored.
In the theater's dining room the hanagumi is worried, Maria didn't eat much, and she was drinking, not a merry drinking either, but a depressed one, as if she is trying to drink something bad away without success. After many questions Maria just stands up and leave, also leaving behind the vodka that she was drinking, she was through that already.
No one could understand why Maria suddenly did that, and Maria wasn't explaining either, Ogami asked to Yoneda since he had requested Maria to go down the base earlier, but Yoneda also doesn't say anything other than to Ogami not probe on the subject anymore.
It only made him more curious and the girls wonder even more about what could have happened down the base, all sort of rumors started to grow on their minds, ranging from the minor ones to some really bad and scandalous.
End of the chapter one:
Author explanation corner:
At first I want to thank everyone who read everything that I wrote until know. Thank you very much for your time and attention. It has been a while since I actually post anything that I wrote in the Sakura Taisen area.
Now I want to thank my friends who gave me the idea for this story as well assisted me to hammer out raw ideas to form this story. I won't name you because you know very well who you are, you guys are great.
Well now a little explanation about this story, this is an alternative version for my Outcast story, in the original Outcast story Benji is sent to the world of Sakura Taisen by the means of an accident with his computer, as you all saw earlier in this story it doesn't happen like that.
And this story is set in the time frame of the second Sakura Taisen game, a brand new world for exploring, in this story Benji is far less knowledgeable about the events than in the Original story since the anime or OVA doesn't cover this part of the story all that much, all the information that he has are bits and pieces collected from sources in the internet.
I am heavily changing the story of Sakura Taisen 2 in order to fit the changes that I have done, several events will be adapted accordingly with those changes as well to fit Benji and the changes that he causes in the story.
This story is in no way connected to the original Outcast story, while everything of Benji's past still applies here, with addition of the knowledge and more things gained from the extra years since the day of the arrival in the original story and this one. Okay this should cover enough about the story for the moment, now for detains within the story.
Anime event/convention: In the past years in my hometown few regular anime events were started, I go to them every now and then and cosplayed a few times, it is a good excuse to have Benji wearing and carrying the stuff that he is without being suspicious.
'Ah that armor and weapons are far too detailed and expensive to be plausible.' Some of you might say, however it is a well know fact that there are hardcore fans and cosplayers who expend large amounts of money to make realistic costumes for competitions or for fun, I saw a guy with a full Kamen Rider outfit in a event once, so no, it isn't unreasonable expend a fair amount of money and time to get Benji's gear done.
Benji's costume: As mentioned it is an original mix, I am sketching and gathering money to make a Dragon Slayer for myself for an event, so I took the idea ahead in this story and had it done, as well for the armor and other items. As for the armor you would be surprised with what you can find in the internet, I saw more than once tutorials of how to make pieces of armor, and I wasn't even checking for stuff for this story. The hairstyle was chosen because I find it interesting, it will be changed as that kind of cut can be pretty annoying.
Fallen: They are an original of this story, I won't get too deep in detail now as they will be explained in the future, just for you to know, fallen are humans affected with dark energy who become very low class demons, they are weak, slow and overall easy to beat. More info about them in later chapters