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Kurome-5'4
Tatsumi-5'7
Seryu awaited out the door of Captain Oger's office. Recently a new stream of recruits had been added to the imperial guard. While that was good and all, they were undisciplined and with crime on the rise whether by Oger's doing or not it was still a worrying situation.
If these recruits were let loose without any sort of supervision things would spin wildly out of Oger's control.
So because of this a new program had been put in place to deal with this. They would pair a rookie with a veteran who would supervise and work with them.
Hence why Seryu was waiting outside Oger's office. She wanted to be the first volunteer to teach her new young protege!
Together they would spread the light of justice all throughout the capital and maybe even the entire world Seryu thought to herself.
Captain Ogre may have not been here yet but he would soon and then she would get assigned her new partner. She'd pet Koro before looking at the clock. Three AM only six more hours till Captain Ogre would arrive.
She giggled excited at the possibilities. So much justice to do so little time!
Unknowingly during that time waiting she had fallen asleep unaware of people passing her by and getting their recruits.
Oger too say the least was bewildered too find Seryu right out his door especially since he didn't even notice her when he came in. Lightly he nudged her to wake the imperial arms user up.
Seryu however hadn't woken up and sleepily mumbled "Hmm justice, no Koro she's not for eating"
Oger was nudged her harder this time getting a little impatient at her heavy sleeping. She still didn't wake up and continued to mumble about justice. Oger was about to try and get Koro too try and wake her up only to find the small dog also asleep and sure as hell wasn't going to risk waking up the organic imperial arm.
He was definitely not going to lose his arm trying to wake some mutt up.
Resigning in a bit of frustration he picked up Seryu and started to shake her violently. Even that wasn't working so he resounded too yelling at her as well.
"Seryu! Wake your sorry ass up already dammit!" he yelled repeatedly.
Alas that did nothing either.
Then Ogre thought of something it was a long shot and weird in his opinion.
"Uh... justice" he said after placing her down. Contrary to what he thought it would do she woke up immediately.
"Seryu Ubiquitous reporting for duty!" she yelled jumping out from her seat forcing Captain Oger to fall down on his butt.
It took Seryu a mere moment to realize what had happened. "Oh I'm sorry captain Oger, are you alright?" she asked frantically. Oger winced, stood up, and dusted himself. "Yeah, yeah i'm alright" he grumbled.
"Oh thank goodness I thought that I hurt you or something" Seryu said letting out a breath of relief. Seryu glanced at the time and instead of it being 9 o'clock it was 10:40.
She gasped before looking back at Captain Oger with anime tears "Oh no I must have overslept! All the recruits are gone aren't they?" she cried out. Captain Oger furrowed his eyebrows by pinching them together.
"No Seryu, their not gone now let go of me dammit" he said already seemingly exasperated and annoyed but Seryu didn't notice this.
"Besides don't you remember in the letter we sent we pre assigned them all. We assigned you to an imperial arms user remember?" Oger responded gruffly. "Eh what do you mean captain…" then it hit her she had only read half the letter in her excitement .
Seryu looked disappointed in herself at this revealment. However before she could say anything Oger cut her off. "Really? Well just ******* great now I gotta fill you in on him" he grumbled. Seryu couldn't but feel a bit of sadness at upsetting Captain Oger."Bah, he'll fill you in anyways. Just go to room 7" he said as he walked away. "Damn I need a drink" he grumbled thinking about having a cup of wine, bread and cheese.
Seryu grabbed Koro who had woken up from all the ruckus. She quickly walked to the door observing her surroundings. The imperial guard station seemed a little dusty. Well when you're fighting evil daily you don't have time for silly things like cleaning! Evil was always on the move and justice couldn't afford to waste an inch!
Well at least in her opinion.
Room 7 was now right in front of her. She readjusted Koro and whispered too the meat eating Imperial arm. "Alright Koro we have to make the right impression so that our new partner won't be tainted by evil"
She opened the door to see a young man in the room. He seemed to be rather young. He wore the standard imperial guard outfit with iron platings and all. Based on what she could see he was around 5'6 meaning he was just an inch below the average height for someone his eyes were the standard black as most human beings had. Weird she expected it to be a different color like maybe purple or something like that. There were no battle scars whatsoever except for a small scratch on his finger that was barely even noticeable.
His hair was short, black and was tied in a small bun as well(Think Tye Dillinger). She also managed to notice a revolver in his gun pouch. She couldn't fathom why he would choose a revolver of all things sub machine guns were obviously the best way to deal justice on evil she thought to herself.
The last little detail was a ring that he had on his index finger. There was nothing actually fancy about it just a plain old iron ring from the looks of it.
He seemed to notice her and stood up. "Sota Reiko reporting for duty… ma'am" the young man now identified as Sota said.
"At ease no need for formality" she said giddily. She had always wanted to say that and now she could!
"Soldier, tell me what do fight for?" she all of a sudden asked.
Sota was taken aback from this question. He didn't expect for this to be something he was going to be asked!
"For the people of the empire" he said. It wasn't very strong, charismatic, or done well enough to fool Seryu.
"Don't lie to me! I can see right through it you know! Lying will lead you down the path of evil so now tell me once more why are you fighting?" she demanded ticked off by the lie.
This time his face hardened. "Fine I came here because I wanted to land a steady job while actually being useful" he responded while rubbing the back of his head.
Seryu smiled,
"There we go. Now wasn't that better than lying?" Seryu exclaimed giving him a pat on the back.
Sota shot her a mildly annoyed look but she merely laughed it off.
She picked up Koro who had been following her the whole time and remaining silent. "Koro what do you think? Can he be trusted?" she asked her faithful imperial arms which responded with a wag of it's tail. "Now it looks like you got Koro's endorsement." she said happily. Sota sweatdropped at this… too say getting an endorsement from a dog was weird would be an understatement.
"Well than recruit show me your imperial arms and i'll show you mine" she said pointing straight towards him.
"Well this is my imperial arms it's called Spark" Sota responded showing her the plain iron ring on her finger. "Eh that's your imperial arms?" she asked. Sota nodded proudly at it.
"It may not look much but I'm telling you right here that Spark is one of the most versatile imperial arms there is!" he exclaimed proudly with a smile. "Really what does it do?" she asked curious. "With this imperial arms I can fuse my body with whatever material is available. With whichever part that has the material I can shapeshift that into whatever I want from a sharp end too a bird if I wanted too. Heck if I have enough material I can extend whichever body part has that material."
"Well what are its weaknesses? I need to know if i'm going to take you as a recruit." she asked.
"Who says it has any weaknesses" he retorted sheepishly. Seryu put a finger to her lip. "Well every other imperial arms has a weakness Koro here would die if someone found out where his core is" she said lifting Koro up too Sota's face.
"Wait a minute that dog's your imperial arm?" Sota asked with a tone of disbelief. "Well yeah he's an organic imperial arm meaning he's alive but still an imperial arm now don't avoid the question. What are your imperial arm's weaknesses?" she asked once again.
"Fine. Weight gets transferred so i'm not the fastest one around when that happens, i can't absorb water or any other imperial arms for that matter, if my arms were metal and they were cut off with the metal they are cut off for real since I don't have a regenerating factor, and if I have this ability on I won't be able to swim at all" he finished reluctantly a blush of embarrassment creeping up his cheeks at the plethora of weaknesses his imperial arm had.
"Well that doesn't seem too bad but I'm sure we can fight around it too make us the perfect team of justice!" she exclaimed fist pumped up in the air.
"Eh well fine whatever. So what now?" he asked curiously but with a hint of excitement at being able to do something. "Huh, come again?" she asked. "What now?" he repeated.
"Well than it looks like we're going out on our first patrol together!" she said excited as she grabbed his hand and dragged him out the room.
"Well at least I can finally look around the capital like I wanted too" Sota thought to himself.
"Oh god it's freaking hot out here. Damn this southern weather ain't nothing like the north eh?" he said complaining at the heat of the capital city. "Sota don't be such a big baby besides it's only spring just wait till you see summer." she said right back at him.
He couldn't hope from dread the very thought of having to deal with a summer's worth of this glaring heat. It was never this hot where he came from!
"So where from the north are you?" Seryu asked whilst keeping her eye's sharp looking for any troublemakers. " I lived in a town named Geru it's not to far north but still it was cold 24/7 not like here though." Sota responded to his new mentor.
"What about you? You from here or somewhere else." He inquired as he took his water bottle and dampened a napkin with it. "No, not really i was born here actually. My father actually served in the imperial army." She stated happily. At this point he had already put the wet napkin on his head and pressed down on it.
"Really? So what was his rank? Was he a general or something?" he asked curious about him. "He… he was a Colonel. He fought in a lot of battles he won most of them though. In the end he was a great man that served the empire with all his heart." she started feeling a bit uncomfortable.
Sota was going to say something but quickly went against it. He realized that when she had said was that either he had forced to retire, demoted, or dead. Either way it was best not to push his luck on this situation. The way that she had told it was also more than enough to tell him that.
They had continued to go through the capital in their rather long patrol. However they had stopped every once in awhile thanks to Sota's insistence on buying some pastries, sweets, or whatever seemed to catch his eye.
"He really seems too like sweets maybe I should buy some for him later? Maybe than we won't have to stop so much during patrol." Seryu thought as he quietly ate a chocolate bar that he bought much to her chagrin. Could he not see that evil was always working and therefore justice would have to work even harder if they were too hope to destroy evil!
However, she would be nice for now after all he was new. She would teach him and steer him away from a path of evil and one of righteousness without having and constantly stopping for snack breaks was not in Seryu's vision!
The heat continued to bombard the capital of the imperial empire. As such this led to Sota visibly sweating while the residents and Seryu seemed totally fine with this.
Sota just couldn't fathom how these southern people could deal with this unbearable heat while he was using a wet napkin just too prevent himself from overheating. "Freaking southerners and their damn weather." he thought to himself somewhat bitterly.
He knew it would be warmer than his home, but Sota had never expected it to be this hot. However it's not like his trip to the capital was all bad. He now had a job and Seryu seemed nice enough to him.
"So does crime happen often around the capital?" he asked Seryu. She turned around to him with an expression that looked like she was teaching a student algebra. "Well to be honest evil has spread slowly throughout the capital. You just have too look in the right places like Captain Ogre. He's already made a record for most arrests since he knows just the right places too look." she said as if it was the best thing in the world.
"So is that a yes or no?" he responded
However before Seryu could respond there was a scream. "Help, thieves!" a man screamed out. Seryu looked towards Sota now with a serious look on her face. He seemingly knowing what she meant pulled out his revolver and they both ran to the source of the scream.
They arrived at a semi crowded market place with a population of approximately 10 wealthy merchants.
The sight they saw was a late middle aged man with a brown tuxedo. He was on his butt seemingly having fallen down. There was another one with him a girl seemingly in her teens cowering in fear next to her father.
The girl had short blonde with a fluffy hair accessory. This came with a long sleeved white shirt, a blue bow, and black boots. One of her notable features was her big blue eyes
The bandits in theory were a group of four they weren't really very similar except for the fact that they had their own shade of light brown skin. One big burly man, a thin woman, a brown average man, and the person who he assumed to be their leader another woman with various accessories. In their hands was the wallets and purse of the two people that were being robbed.
Quickly examining them Seryu noticed the various pieces of poorly done raider armor. Sota was about to say something before Seryu had managed to beat him too the punch. "Stop thieves surrender now and you won't receive capital punishment for your evil deeds!" she shouted.
It was then that Sota noticed a grin forming on Seryu's face as she said this. To say the least Sota was a bit unnerved by this.
"Woah lady you obviously don't understand the situation here-" the leader said but was cut off by Seryu. "If you're not willing to surrender than all that waits for you is oblivion!" she shouted before looking at Sota with her twisted grin.
"Sota use your imperial arms show me what you've got!" she yelled. At this point Sota didn't even bother objecting thanks too what she was currently like. To the amazement of the people around him the gun, and his armor seeped into his hand and what was once two arms were now two long
blades.
Not wasting a second he charged at them.
Seryu also followed suit but didn't activate Koro's special ability. If she did than the merchants around her might be killed by accident.
She took out her Tonfa guns and started shooting but only managed to get the big burly man as everyone else dodged. For now though she would deal with the leader while Sota would deal with the other two.
Sota charged at the two bandits and slashed towards them only for them to dodge it. Sota extended on of his blades while losing the metal on the other arm too be able to stab one of them.
However this turned out to be a useless gesture as both of them barely managed to dodge the sharp end of his steel arm.
Bandit number one charged at him with a knife while yelling "this is for Patroclus you asshole!"
Sota merely stood there letting the knife approach his head. However, he used his powers at the last moment to absorb the metal of the knife leaving only the hilt too hit his now iron covered forehead.
Sota merely grinned at the shocked bandits face. "Sorry man but my powers can absorb any material there is and that includes your iron dagger" he said. However his face then became a frown "You tried too kill me. You dumb shit you're going to pay for that though" he said pulling a now metal fist before socking the bandit into a wall.
Before Sota could do anything else the second bandit had snapped out of shock and attempted to superkick Sota in the face.
Seeing this coming Sota quickly dodged as the metal on his forehead thinned out before finally covering his entire face.
Sota obviously was no longer in the mood for showing off and grabbed the woman's leg. He pulled her back before letting a powerful punch to her gut.
He didn't hold back and shoved his knee right up to her face possibly breaking her nose. Sota obviously wasn't done as he headbutted her with a resounding crack as metal met flesh. With a resounding swipe Sota spun around for maximum damage while changing his arm into a blade too finally swipe off the bandit woman's head clean off.
The head went rolling down in front of the leader who looked down to her fallen friends head. She stood there paralyzed with grief at her dead friend. "You ******* mons-" the woman never got to finish her sentence as a bullet from Seryu silenced her… forever.
Sota looked on with a look of surprise at this. He hadn't expected Seryu too have much of a tough time with their boss. However what surprised him even more was the wicked smile on Seryu's face as she shot the last bandit that Sota had previously taken out of commision. "Justice is served" she said too no one in particular.
Sota was now concerned about Seryu's mental health. "Um Seryu are you ok?" he asked carefully. Seryu's face went from her own bloodthirsty grin too one of confusion. "What do you mean Sota of course I'm okay" she said as if what had just happened was nothing out of the ordinary. "But you just smiled at killing those people look I may have killed one of them but that doesn't mean that i was happy about it" he protested.
"Hmm but they were criminals that's how we deal with these evil doers" she replied with a smile. "But-" he protested but Seryu merely walked past him with a cute smile "Don't worry one day you'll understand" she replied effectively silencing her new partner. Sota grunted knowing that this argument was at a loss for him. He couldn't just argue with his superior could he? Maybe he would ask Captain Ogre about this.
He than saw the two who had been the one's to rat out the thieves stand up and dust themselves off. "Oh I'm sorry citizens I was too caught up in my work are you both alright?" she asked as they stood up.
"Yes thank you for saving me and my daughter Aria. Oh where are my manners my name is Horo" the father of Aria answered. Extending out a hand out which Seryu gracefully accepted.
"My name is Seryu Ubiquitous reporting for duty and the man right next to me is my new partner Sota Reiko" she said gesturing to Sota who had gotten out of his shock. "Nice too meet you uhh-" he had stuck his hand out only too remember it had been covered in blood and quickly hid his hand behind his back.
"Hohoho it's a pleasure too meet you too Sota and Seryu" Horo responded. Aria looked at them both beaming with a smile "Hey I know! As thanks you should come over to our house for the night we promise you'll be treated just right" she said.
Sota had quickly realized that Horo and Aria were without a doubt nobles. While he had never heard of their names the section of town, how they acted and their dresses made it obvious at the abundance of money they happened to sure as hell wasn't going to deny free rich people food! "No thanks, there's still things that need to be done on the streets after all while evil never sleeps justice can't take dinner breaks!" she said pumping her hand into the air whilst interrupting Sota before he could say anything.
"Are you quite sure? The cost is nothing to us my dear" Horo said charmingly.
Sota was about to accept but Seryu had once again cut him off "Don't worry citizen were just doing our jobs no need for thanks in any way shape or form" she said upbeatly. Sota at this point felt embarrassed at even thinking of further pushing for her to accept. He just couldn't handle the awkwardness of them both disagreeing in front of the two nobles.
"Come on Sota we have to go evil is always on the prowl" Seryu said as Koro silently ate one of the bodies while no one was looking. "Wait what about the bodies? Shouldn't we call someone to clean it up?" he asked.
However Seryu merely waved it off. "Don't worry eventually the imperial guard clean up crew will come soon too take care of this mess now come on we have to finish out patrol" Seryu stated with a grin as she gripped his hand and quickly dragged him along with her.
"Good bye! Thanks for saving us and have a good day!" Aria said as the trio left. As soon as they were far from sight Aria turned around and crouched too the leader of the bandits. SHe looked too them with a smile on her face "Well than looks like you filthy country hicks got just what you deserved" she said sinisterly.
Flashback
"Were finally at the capital guy's!" the leader of the "Bandits" by the name of Chi exclaimed excited at the prospect of living a brand new urban life. She and her three relatives had ventured from a village down south that had been ravaged by danger beasts. Bo, Kurom, and Seru were the names of her relatives that she had brought along with her.
"Alright just quiet down will ya we're already in the town square. We don't need to attract any unwanted attention." Bo whispered to her.
"Yeah but still I'm just so excited now we can finally get some decent jobs." she replied happily.
"Yeah but from what i hear hasn't the capital become really corrupt lately?" Seru asked. "Nah come on Seru it's just the media over exaggerating things. Besides if anything's corrupt its the countryside" Chi responded nonchalantly.
Chi was wondering where to go. Where could she get a job for her and the family?
That was when she noticed a flyer on a wall they were passing by. The one word that caught her eye was the word "Help Wanted".
She quickly snatched it from the wall and read it.
Help Wanted
Maids and butlers needed!
Pay shall be discussed upon arrival at the Nobility of Zim household
Chi was excited, "Hey guys look who got us our next jobs!" she said with a smile. The trio quickly read through the letter that Chi had give them before throwing right back at her in a crumbled up paper ball.
"Like hell we're becoming maids and butlers!" Bo yelled out his eyes the size of anime dinner plates in comical rage. "Naw come on guy's who knows maybe it'll be fun" she stated trying to persuade the three siblings of her's too take the job.
"Look we didn't come to the capital just too become paid servants Chi there's got to be a better option" Kurom protested.
Chi was thinking of something they had spent more money than they planned on just getting to the capital and now they were in a bind.
"Alright then if the capital is as how people make it out to be than i'll wait here and see if you guy's can find any jobs once the sun sets then it's game over." Chi stated while picking up the crumpled piece of paper.
Bo pouted but couldn't really see any other option after all of all of them Chi was the smartest so maybe she might know what she's talking about? "So then are we all in agreement?" Chi asked cheerfully putting a fist out.
The rest of the group sighed before having the quadruplets fists connect together. "Alright then guys don't let me down!" Chi called as her three siblings split up.
Sundown
"Well, well, well I assume that you guys didn't find anything" Chi chirped happily too her siblings.
"Shut the **** up Chi" Kurom muttered pouting her head down in frustration.
"Hehe well than let's go guys best get ready for your maid costumes~" Chi said happily.
It had taken a while of navigation and asking locals around town but they had finally made it. The place that would employ them.
However, boy did they realize what a mistake it was. Aria was abusive constantly calling then "Country Hicks" and belittling them at every opportunity. This included physical abuse whenever possible whether they messed up or not.
Horo hadn't been nearly as bad however he would always drop the "country hick" insult every so often. However the mother was by far the worst of them.
She had done everything that Aria had done and more so. The physical abuse was worse so with her and she would force feed them rotten food.
To top it all off neither of the four had actually been paid yet!
Chi had finally had enough of it. Out of everyone she was the only one who as actually willing to speak up.
"WE QUIT" she yelled at the family before dragging off her siblings elsewhere. That was her fatal mistake.
20 Seconds before Seryu and Sota show up
Aria was mad really mad. How dare those country hicks quit on them! They should have been grateful that any of them had been touched by her family. She needed payback and she would have it.
From what she knew the imperial guard that tended to kill the criminals she encountered would be coming by in a matter of seconds. Those four country side pieces of trash were already looking for another new job. She and her father knew just what to do as they laid down on the floor and got ready to scream.
Present
Sota had finished his patrol with Seryu and was now heading back to captain ogre's office. After the shit that had just gone down he needed answers as to what the heck was going on with Seryu.
He quickly entered the station but did it in a non alarming manner.
Sota stopped at Ogre's room and took a deep breath. He really didn't want to mess anything up. Seryu seemed like a nice enough but she was batshit crazy! Especially with that crazy grin that she gave.
He knocked on the door before hearing a "Come in" from Ogre. Sota stepped inside and took a seat in front of Ogre's desk.
"So you hear on where you're going to live?" Ogre asked.
The imperial guards all had housing provided by the state. This had generally kept them loyal to the capital to a certain extent. Besides it also lowered corruption in their ranks. You'd think Ogre would try to cut back on it but with less corrupt officials he looked like the only person people could go too for all their criminal needs.
"Um yeah and something else" Sota replied. Ogre raised an eyebrow "and what would that be?" he asked seemingly knowing the answer in his mind.
"It's about Seryu" Sota stated. Ogre groaned about this "Ugh say no more kid I think I know what your talking about"
Sota stayed quiet and allowed Captain Ogre too finish "let me guess she killed somebody didn't she?"
"Well yeah but they were robbing some people and they did try to attack us" Sota retorted. "My only real concern was how she reacted to it. She looked happy that they attacked us like she wanted to kill them" he said.
Sota grimaced as Ogre stood up "Look kid when Seryu was younger her father was killed by a the imperial army because of Night Raid which I assume you know about."
Sota nodded, he knew Night Raid. They were a group of special assassins that had been recruited by the revolutionary army. They represented just about everything he hated about the revolution.
"They framed her father not too long ago for a crime he never committed and let's just say that took a toll on her mental health." Ogre said. Sota was gobsmacked at this but remained silent. "Night Raid had assaulted a imperial army compound one time now just so you know this is when they weren't even considered real so when Seryu's father called for backup his mind broke after finding all his dead comrades. Everyone thought it was him but before he died he told Seryu that justice should never yield to evil. At that time and pay attention because this is why Seryu is like this, he was easily the most successful cop but he had a really black and white view on the world and that passed on too poor Seryu." Ogre said before sighing and pouring himself a cup of wine.
"So she's not crazy at all it's just her philosophy that was passed down by her father." Sota concluded.
"Yup, that pretty much it for her." Captain Ogre stated, before drinking his wine carefully so that he wouldn't get drunk. "So you want to know where you're going to live at or not kid?" Ogre asked patiently.
"Yes please." Sota replied.
"You are going to live on 234 grove street, here's a map so you know where you're going, your stuff has already been transferred there, also your living with Seryu as well." Ogre stated.
"Oh thank yo- WAIT WHAT?" Sota yelled surprised at this turn of events of having to be stuck in a house with some crazy murderous lady.
Ogre on the other hand couldn't help but chuckle. "Oh come on kid it's not that bad. She's nice so who knows how it'll turn out sides I already gave her the message about it so she should be ready for you by the time you get there." Ogre responded.
Sota wasn't even willing to put any trouble over this at this point and promptly sighed. "Fine, whatever. What time is it anyways.?" Sota asked.
Ogre reached for his desk clock and took a quick glance at it.
"Around like nine PM give or take you should get there soon Seryu's really cranky if she dosen't get a good night's rest" Ogre joked.
Sota sighed and promptly started to jog too his new home. His only actual thoughts weren't of Seryu, the killing that had just taken place but rather that he never goto buy any more sweets to eat.
1 Week Later
Sota's only thought as he stood over the toilet were "**** the capital he had Cholera!
To say the least Seryu wasn't too happy about this "What you're already sick but you haven't even been here for a month!" she yelled.
"NOT MY ****** FAULT THE CAPITAL HAS SHITTY WATER CONTROL*BLEG*!" Sota yelled vomiting once more.
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