FIRST OF ALL, I DO NOT OWN PSYCHO PASS AND BAH BAH BAH. I might (definitely) make some grammar mistake and some factual errors that does not correlate to the original psycho-pass (I was too lazy to do research, my bad). There is a slightly OOCness in Kougami character, just bear with it.
It been three years I had heard the last of him.
When I was summoned by the Chief, I harshly concealed my disgust and walked into the dim lighted office. As always, the Chief was sitting on her soft cushioned black chair in the dark.
"Chief, you requested my presence." I stoically stood in front of her, glazing at her side profile.
The cyborg turned her face toward and lazily operated the hologram. I unconsciously leaned forward her table to get a clearer look of the hologram.
"A foreign terrorist group had illegally entered our nation. And within their memory, we found an image of an Enforcer who took flight three years ago." And then, she flicked an image of the face I wanted to see for all these years.
"Kougami Shinya." I narrowed my brows and tried my best to not break my calm composure.
So now, he joined a rebel group to uproot the Sibyl system. The Kougami I knew never change. I supressed a smirk upon that thought. "As always, Kougami, you never changed. Just like the day you insisted to kill Makishima and left both of us in this dystopian."
The Chief following words almost sent me in shock. "So now, Inspector Tsunemori, subdue and capture the terrorist and eliminate former enforcer Kougami upon sight." I should foresee that. The obvious reason she asked for my presence was to kill him. I could not do that, she knew it. Damn it.
"What if, I could not do it?" I looked into the cyborg cold and calculative eyes and asked.
She curled her lips into a hideous smirk and said, "You will do it. For the sake of your child and his future. You will do it." She paused for a while and continue," You just need to do your duty as an inspector and eliminate him as a runaway enforcer. He is just a father who abandoned his son. He deserves this wrath."
"I had been too soft on you, Inspector Tsunemori. Your son lives in the system's mercy. By right, his existence cannot be tolerated in this society. However, the system is willing to let him lives, as long you remain committed to the system."
As if she dared me to voice an objection, she brought her hands together and looked at me dauntingly "Should I remind you, what happen if you stepped out of line."
I struggled to choke back my sob and replied, "No Chief. I will carry out the order." I turned my back and solemnly exited the room as the Chief heated eyes burned my back.
Three years ago, when I shot my fellow enforcer to paralyse for the sake of preventing his death, I realised that I loved him. The thought of him vanished in front of my eyes in the blast of the Dominator killed me. I could not believe his psycho pass exceeded 300 and so without hesitation, I pointed my Dominator and paralysed him with a shot at his leg.
In the sterile room, my body wanted to succumb into a deep slumber. But yet, looking at his calm face, I wanted to savage all the details. His raven hair, the brows that would furrow suddenly and the warmth of his palm.
I lifted my hand and gently caressed the raven fringes off his face. Abruptly, both his hands grabbed my hand and his eyes snapped open.
I blushed heavily upon his glaze. "It is so embarrassing," I thought.
"Akane," he gently whispered my first name. "Thank you."
Blushing like a ripe tomata, "Kou—" I said, before I felt his lips were on mine.
He tasted like tobacco. His breath lingered with his own scent. Without realising, my lips moved according to their own account. I clenched at the fabric of his cloth, closed my eyes and allow his tongue to access.
Vaguely, I felt his hand started to skim beneath the fabric of my cloth. My skin heated and the rest was a blur.
When I woke up, the single bed was cold. I looked around the room, trying to locate his presence and a brown envelope was visible on the coffee table.
Picking up my cloth and covered myself. I walked toward the coffee table and took the letter. "To: Akane". An uneasy feeling overwhelmed me as I opened the letter with trembling fingers.
The letter with familiar handwriting started with, "I'm sorry. I could not keep my promise…."
The last thing I remember before I lost conscious was the sound of a bullet pierce the silence amidst the golden oat wheat fields.
The sterile smell of medicine invaded my sense when my conscious slowly resurface. I slowly opened my eyes and instantly the bright white light blinded me. It took few seconds for my eyes to adapt the brightness and I saw Shion besides me.
"How long I lost conscious?" I asked croakily as my throat lacked of moisture.
She looked at me sympathetically and answered, "A few weeks. You are being put in sleep due to your condition."
I blinked my eyes, "my condition?"
"Inspector, you are pregnant a few weeks," she said grimly.
It took minutes for me to let the news sank in my head. "Pregnant, I am pregnant! Kougami is going to be happy. Is he?" My lips unconsciously curled into a silly grin when I realised I am going to be a mother.
Then reality hit me hard. Kougami! Is he alright? Did the Sibyl system executed him as I failed to stop him from murdering Makishima. Perhaps, he didn't kill Makishima.
I grabbed Shion's arm and asked "Where is Kougami? Please tell me he is safe," I begged
The blond looked at me sadly and answered, "We have no idea where he is, Inspector."
In the end, the Sibyl system accepted my failure and my child with in condition that I would continue to fight for a better future. With my ability to challenge and accept the system, I could evolve all of them.
I pushed all those memories aside as I picked up my three-years-old from the day care centre.
"Tsunemori Sekai! Your mother is here!" The nanny shouted as my son remained invisible from her sight.
I sighed as my eyes hovered around to search for my son, without realising that my son ambushed me behind.
"MAMA! I missed you so much!" He grabbed my legs and pouted.
I kneeled down and pinched his chubby cheek lightly and said, "You sneaky little wolf. Where did you hide from mama?" My son inherited his father sly, cunning personalities. Sometimes it worried me when my son could sprout loads of philosophy at such young age. However, he inherited my clear psycho pass. Sometimes, I did wondered that the system spares him because of that trait.
Regardless, he was still my only treasure Kougami left me.
"Not telling you, mama." My little wolf smiled cheekily.
"Come, let's go home." Suddenly, I surprised my little wolf by hugging him and then standing up. My son struggled in my warm embrace for a while before he clenched on my black jacket.
"Bye bye!" My son waved exuberantly toward the nanny.
I inhaled my son scent. He smelt like sunshine and innocent. He looked exactly like his father except he inherited my hair colour.
Once we reached home, he was already asleep on my shoulder. Hoping the exuberant pink jellyfish can sense my son sleeping, I quietly entered the room. Luckily, the jellyfish sensed and quietly floating around with a smile.
I placed my son on the sofa carefully and covered him with his favourite blue blanket. Then, I proceeded to the kitchen to cook dinner.
Listening to the sizzling sound of cooking meat, my mind could not help but wandered around.
"Kougami, I wonder do you know about our son's existence. If you do, why are you not here? Would you be happy to know that you are a father? Kougami."
"Akane. Akane. AKANEEE! THE MEAT IS BURNINGG!" Suddenly, the hologram shrieked and the burning meat smell registered to my sense.
"Oh god! The meal is ruined!" I lamented and grabbed my boyish hairstyle. Now, I felt like lightning a cigarette and smoked. God, I missed his smell. May be when Sekai slept, I shall smoke. Smoking reminded me of his father but yet, I didn't want Sekai to see me smoking.
"Mama, I am hungry. Can we eat out tonight?" a small voice behind me is heard.
I kneeled down and looked into the greyish eyes and rubbed his brown bobby hair into a mess. "Hehe, guess it can't be help. Let us eat out then. May be we should go to your favourite restaurant for hamburger."
My son bursted into ecstasy while I held his tiny hand to his favourite restaurant.
"He was the only reason of my joy, Kougami do you know it?" I looked upon the night sky and asked. Illogically hoping, he would answer me from another side of the Earth.
"Kougami…"
After a successful mission in capturing and eliminating the foreign terrorist group in Tokyo, I found out that outside Japan, there was a war on the edge of breaking. The Sibyl system wanted to expand its influence across the world and some countries started to accept its influence.
Kougami was one of the leaders of the organisation that opposed the Sibyl system and its influence. He was leading a group of latent criminals and all of them witnessed wars beforehand.
The Division One had identified the location of the base, which was in China, a neighbour country. Subsequently, a report had been summited.
Once again, I was summoned by the Chief. In the dim lighted office, I was trying my best to supressed the nauseous feeling. Something bad was going to happen. Of course, I was standing in front of the system. The system wanted to eliminate whoever that opposed it. That whoever included Kougami.
"Inspector Tsunemori, now that we had identified the base. Now, I want you to complete the mission. Kill former enforcer, Kougami," The system said it without mercy.
Fearing for his life. I begged, "Please Chief, spare him! I promise he would not do anything reckless. I will convince him not to rebel. Please Chief." I kneeled down, my forehead touching the carpet and tears were flowing like an unstoppable tap.
"And how you gonna stop him, Inspector Tsunemori? Obviously, he cannot be stop or else he would not leave you at the first place". She looked down at me icily.
Her words stricken me hardly. It was true. Kougami could not be stop, he was as stubborn as a mule. He promised me he would stay as a detective. However, in the end, he wrote his promise on water.
What should I do? Sekai needed to see his father. Kougami needs to be alive.
"Sekai!" I replied. "Sekai can stop him. He is his son. Of course, he will stop for our son's sake." I could not believe I said that. Am I throwing away my son's life? No, I would be my son's shield not the other way around. I need to offer myself before she took my son's life.
"Chief, let me bring my son to China. You could plant a mini bomb on my heart to monitor my movement in case I rebel," for Kougami and Sekai, my life didn't matter.
The cycborg smirked, "Very well then, since you offered yourself. We shall not touch your son. Your son could evolve us if you die anyway."
She flicked her finger, typed some instruction on the hologram and said, "An operation is scheduled. After the operation, division one be deported to China. Of course, your son shall have extra protection. He shall granted teleport service if anything unsavoury befall him. Your son is lucky that he is an essential asset."
Teleportation, the latest invention only reserved for high ranked officer. I felt like puking after hearing her words. We were always the assets of the system. Perhaps Kougami was right to rebel.
Sekai, don't worry. Mother would always protect you.
At evening, we arrived China with a paddy wagon. Inside the paddy wagon, it consisted of a main room and 7 quarters for every member of division one.
Inside the main room, a meeting was conducted. Adjusting my sleeve, I looked at the whole division one and addressed them, "Ok, now we have reached China. Our main objective is to arrest Shinya Kougami alive. I repeat, ALIVE. Secondary objective is to obtain more information in this terrorist organisation."
I paused for a while and took a breath. My eyes skimmed around, my team were wearing the t shirt long sleeved white uniform with a dark blue protective vest instead of the usual black and white office look. Our code numbers were sew at the right side of our upper sleeves. Even our indoor enforcer, Shion was here.
Well, everyone didn't look happy with me. Their sights fell on the little figure besides me who casually smiled around. All of them disapproved the presence of Sekai in a battlefield. His psycho pass could raise easily especially when he witnessed sorrow and despair in war.
Guess it is another test for the system to test my son's psycho pass. May be he was criminal asymptotically like me. My psycho pass didn't raise much after knowing my grandmother death in Kamui case.
"Shion would act as the main control in our base, doctor and of course Sekai's caretaker," I looked at her. She just puffed out some smokes in return. "Please, take good care of me," said my little wolf as he bowed slightly.
His little gesture managed to make Shion smiled slightly, "Ok well, boyya. I will take good care of you."
"The rest we shall move out for the mission tomorrow morning. Take a good rest for a day," I addressed the rest.
"Shion, another thing, if anything happened to me or the team, please teleport Sekai back," I added another remark.
"Oh well, inspector, I didn't know that the Chief authorised Sekai to use teleport. Your son must be very important," said my fellow inspector while the other grimaced.
"Oh well." I kneeled down and pinched one side of Sekai's cheek and said "The Chief could not resist his charm and he is needed for this mission to complete." Sekai pouted and started to look at me with puppy eyes
"He looks just like both of you guys," Ginoza, the former inspector said while looking at Sekai in an unknown expression. Was that sorry or sympathy.
I stood up and said, "Any problem before we dismiss?" I quickly returned to the main topic and everyone was shaking their heads. "By then, we are dismissed," I kneeled again and carried my little wolf to our quarter.
Laying him down on the bed, he spoke "Mama, I will be seeing you right?" His father piercing greyish eyes looked at me.
"Of course, my little wolf. We will be seeing each other after mama complete the mission," I patted his head, trying to calm him down. My little wolf was too smart for his own good sometimes. He had sensed something was going wrong.
"By the way, little wolf. Everything was difference in China. Whatever you do. You must protect yourself. Survival comes first," I took out a revolver that I hided under the pillow and gave it to him. Before coming to China, I had taught him how to use the revolver and some self-defence.
"Your father used it pistol before," Sekai hand was fumbling with revolver. I hold the pistol warrily and said, "Remember, this pistol is only for self-defence, nothing more else."
"For self-protection," said Sekai. "Papa is protecting me with this revolver, like how mama protecting me." I hugged my little wolf and said, "Yes, we are protecting you."
My son wriggled to escape my embrace as he could not breathe in my tight embrace. "Another thing, whatever you saw. Try to be strong and keep your psycho pass clear," I said sternly, looking at his eyes warily.
"What if I could not keep it clear, mama?" my boy said cautiously. I looked at my son sadly at said, "Try your best, if you failed. Mama will think a way to protect you."
I started to sob, "I'm sorry that I dragged you into this situation. I should not offer you to come here. What I was thinking?" Tears started to flow freely and a tiny hand gently caressed my cheek and rubbed away the tears.
"It's ok, mama. You want Kougami-san to see me right? He is my father, right?" he looked at me expectantly, waiting for my answer.
"How did you knew about it?" I said in shock. "Mama always said his name in your sleep and sometimes when mama smoked, you said his name too. So, I figured out that he is my papa." My son was too smart for his own good. He even knew my smoking habit, like father like son. Both of them are as sly as a wolf.
"Yeah, he is." I replied. "Now, let get some sleep my little wolf. Mama needs to wake up early tomorrow."
"Give me a kiss before you go," my son requested with his signature puppy eyes. Am adorable husky.
"Sure," I hugged him and inhaled his scent before I fell into deep slumber.
"You are under arrest, Kougami-san," I pointed the pistol at him, kneeling one with one knee and confronted him. Opposite me with a distance, Kougami was kneeling on one knee too, two hands on the floor as if he was ready for a sprint. Kougami had built up more muscles in three years, a t shirt was hugging his bulky body.
He smirked and replied, "To think that you would come this far." Then, he charged at me before I could shot him. He kicked my pistol off and grabbed my left arm backward while used his right arm to lock my right. "Akane, why did you come here? You are an inspector, not a soldier. Why?!" he literally yelled at me.
His grips on me were not as hard as I imagined. I landed a solid backward kick at his abdomen, pulling a distance between us before I charged again. "Because of you. I promised myself that I would land you a few punches or kicks when I see you again," I smirked as he dodged all my punched and kicks.
He was really good but he was not attacking me. I didn't care. When I managed to land my first kick on him, I screamed, "This is for breaking your promise in being a detective." On my first punch, "This is for leaving alone in that place." On my consequent attack, I dropped the bomb, "This is for leaving our son growing up without a father for three years," I said as tears started to roll down my cheeks. I halt my attack as I started to sob uncontrollably.
Abruptly, I was squeezed into a tight embrace. The scent that I missed for three years overwhelmed my sense. I clenched at his shirt and sobbed, not caring that I wetted his shirt. "I'm sorry, Akane. I deserved those punches and kicks. How could I be so irresponsible? Leaving you alone to look after our child. I am a selfish bastard. I should not initiate those moment in the first place."
He is referring to the moment in the hospital room?
Rage blinded my sense as I slapped his face hard. "Take it back. Sekai is the only joy you left me. Don't you regret that moment. Take it back!" I shrieked as I punched his chest over and over.
His left hand caressed my left cheek, right hand on my waist. A pair of azure greyish eyes looking at me gently, "I'm sorry that I brought so much sufferings upon you. I don't deserve your forgiveness," tears started to accumulate at those greyish eyes.
I wanted to freeze this moment forever. However, I had a mission aboard. I took the paralysis and instantly rejected it before he regain his senses.
"Sorry, Kougami. This is necessary," I said sadly before he collapsed on the floor with a loud thud.
Kougami was laying on my bed with the same calm face three years ago when I shot him with a paralyser. I was sitting on floor with Sekai on my lap. He looked at his father warily.
His tiny palm reached out to touch his father hair and he retracted his hand back. I smiled at him encouraging, held his tiny palm and placed it on Kougami's cheek. Kougami would not mind and he owned Sekai so much.
Upon touching, Kougami flinched and opened his eyes. His tough and guard expression soften when he saw Sekai touching him. "So….." Kougami muttered dryly.
I smirked at his awkwardness and broke the ice between them, "Sekai, this is Kougami Shinya, your father." "Kougami, you would not mind if Sekai calls you papa, right?" I acquired. Kougami nodded. "Sekai calls me mama, anyway." "Kougami, this is Tsunemori Sekai. Sorry, I used my surname. Hope you understand," I smiled as I committed this tender look that he rarely showed into my memory.
"It is fine. Akane, call me Shinya please. Sekai is a nice name. It meant reunion right? What a befitting name," he grinned goofily as he looked at my little wolf with such care and love.
I remained silence as I watched the father and son interacted for the first time. Sekai instantly melt all his guards as Shinya smiled in such generous amount that rivals the amount he smiled when we were together. As sly as his father, my little wolf, I smirked.
In the end of the day, I didn't need to put Sekai to sleep as I usually did. He was exhausted playing all day with his papa. "Thank you, Kou-, Shinya. Sekai had a happy day with you," I said.
"I owned him so much, Akane," he back hugged him as his hit breathe tickled my neck.
I turned my back, facing him and said, "We need to talk." I grimaced.
He nodded and we left the room. On the way out, we met the team. Upon sight, Ginoza punched Shinya's face hard while the others stood in the background observing. Shinya fell on the floor without resisting him.
"Ginoza, please stop this instantly," I commanded.
"Inspector Tsunemori, I think he deserves a bullet in his head," Ginoza said without flinching. I sighed and asked them to look after Sekai as both of us need to talk.
I jumped out from the paddy wagon while Shinya stepped out steadily like he always did.
The cold air hit my face as we stood out the paddy wagon. My back facing Shinya, I started, "Sibyl system is willing to forgive you as long you stop rebelling." I finished it with a sigh.
"That why Sekai is here. To convince me?" I didn't answer as I stared at the stars blankly.
"I am not stupid, Akane. They threaten you with Sekai's life, right? What I don't understand why the system did not make you abort him in the first place." He walked in front of me and hold my shoulder so I would not avoid him again.
"I don't know, Shinya," I lied. "May be they foreseen this circumstance so Sekai is crucial. Me alone could not make you give up and Sekai has healthy psycho pass like me," I said bitterly, recalling the promise three years ago. He killed Makishima in the end, anyway.
His warmth engulfed me and said, "They are right. I am sorry." Once again, I inhaled the similar scent of Shinya, the tobacco smelt had been absent. He was not smoking anymore, guess there was no such luxury. Funny thing, I started smoking when he stopped.
Suddenly, the beeping sound of my wrist phone broke the embrace.
The hologram of the Chief hovered above the device. I pressed the button, turned my back around once again and answered the phone. My fellow inspector must had informed her. "Inspector Tsunemori speaking."
"Well done inspector in arresting Shinya Kougami. So, how the conviction went?" the chief cold voice emitted from the little device.
"I just started, chief," I spoke in hush.
"Well then, increase the volume and let me speak with Kougami-kun." No, she is not going to speak with him.
"Chief, this is not necessary. I could handle it." I replied, not wanting Shinya to speak with the wicked creature.
"As your superior, I insist, inspector." By then, I reluctantly raised the volume and turned toward Shinya.
"Kougami Shinya, it had been a while."
"It had been a while and I am surprised that you wanted to speak with a criminal like me," Shinya sarcastically said.
"Let cut the chase. I had planted a mini bomb near Inspector Tsunemori's heart," I gasped. Oh my god, why she said that. I could slowly convince him or plan an escape plan for him and Sekai without him knowing I was going to die.
"YOU BASTARDD!" Shinya howled and he struggled not to crush the device on my wrist.
"Tsunemori Sekai had been granted using teleport system. If Inspector Tsunemori betrays the system, Inspector Shimotsuki would report instantly. The bomb would set off and Tsunemori Sekai would teleport to Japan at instant." Kougami looked awful as if someone had just punched his abdomen hardly.
She paused and continued, "So what would you do, Kougami. Would you forsake your family once again? Or would you forsake your ideal and leave your family once again?" I could see the conflicts in my beloved eyes. For a selfish reason, I wanted him to choose us.
But yet, for greater good. I need to sacrifice myself.
"Chief, please stop. I could convince him. Please stop saying. Pleasee.."
"Inspector, don't interrupt me. I am not finish yet. Kougami Shinya, if you surrender, all of your crimes will be unpunished. The system is willing to overlook even if you and the inspector wedded officially. Of course, you would resume your enforcer position under Inspector Tsunemori's watch"
The latter came into a shock for me. Chief's words registered in my head. Marriage with a criminal. The system is willing to overlook. We could have a normal life when Sekai would have both of his parents loving him in a house. We could officially become a family.
I looked at Shinya, he looked tempted as well. He was conflicted. To choose his idea and abandon us again or to choose us and abandon his comrades.
"I would give you three days to think about it. After three days, if I don't receive an appropriate answer, Inspector Tsunemore you failed your mission. You should know the consequences." With then, she ended the call with a beep sound and the hologram dissipated.
"Shinya, I-" I was going to apologize when he crushed me with his embrace.
"I am so sorry, Akane. I should not break our promise at the first place I should stay with you. Then, all these shit would not happened," he apologized continuously between sobs and placed his head at the crook of my neck. I stood there with caressing his hair and back, trying to calm him down.
Under the starry night, both of us stayed in that embrace until we could not resist the cold. Carefully not to make our son awake, we slept in the slightly over occupied single bed with Sekai sandwiched between us. My hand were on Sekai's mushroom head and another on my beloved shoulder. His hand was on waist. In the dark, I smiled at him before I slumbered.
On the next day, we didn't mentioned the incident happened yesterday night.
Now, we were eating those awful military standard food while Sekai was pouting as I convinced him to eat.
"Mama, it tastes awful. I wanna to eat the hamburger you cooked," he looked at me with his signature puppy eyes. Shinya sat behind me and suddenly ruckused Sekai's mushroom head. "A growing boy like you should eat more so you can grow up into a man," he teased him.
"Like papa?" my boy eyes shone. It was amusing to see the father and son interact in such manner as they just only knew each other yesterday. Guess blood is always thicker than water.
"Yup, like papa." Shinya replied as my boy quickly gaped down his breakfast.
"Geez, little wolf. Slow down. You gonna chock yourself," I patted his back softly as he ignored my warning.
"Little wolf?" Shinya asked with a bemused face.
"He was as sly as wolf. So, I called him little wolf." I chuckled and continued, "He is as sly as you, Kougami." I pouted at him while leaning my head on his shoulder. He grabbed my wrist and looked at me with a hungry look.
In the next second, his lips was on mine. It had been years that I tasted those lips. His lips reeked of tobacco. But yet, I still let myself engulfed by fire of passion until the sound of clearing throat registered to my hearing.
"Papa, mama. Didn't you just forget that I am here?" my son faked to be jealous. May be he is jealous. Owh, my little kawaii wolf.
"Little wolf, don't be jealous. Mama gives you a kiss now." I planted a kiss on my son's cheek. "Another one from papa." Shinya planted another on another cheek.
I wanted to savage and freeze this moment. However, time cruelly passed by.
In the end of the day, Sekai got his haircut from his father. Owhh, I would miss his mushroom head as Shinya cut his hair into spiky hair like his. Guess Sekai really wanted to be like his father. I remarked jealously.
"What is the matter? You looked like an old lady with that face," he teased. A vein popped out my head as I shrieked, "You idiot, I hate you so much!" I punched his muscular chest lightly. My psycho pass could raise anytime by just being near with this idiot.
"I asked Shion to look after Sekai" I stopped my assault. "Huh? Why? You don't want to spend time with him?"
He lifted my chin and his piercing eyes met my brown eyes. "Of course, I do. But I think we need some time for our self."
Abruptly, my feet could not felt the solid ground as he lifted me up and threw me on the bed. Then, he closed the distance between our faces. His nose was barely touching mine. In a low deep voice, "I had always wanted to try these" and then, he started to tickle me.
I shrieked all night to make him stop the tickling. The tickling stopped when Ginoza knocked on the door and yelled, "You guys are so loud. Keep it down."
I hit Shinya with all my might before I blushed like an exploded volcano.
Once again, I found myself sleeping his embrace. Inhaling his scene.
The next day, we just sat there, did nothing, enjoying each other presence.
In the evening, we were outside the paddy wagon. Laying on the earth with my head on his lap, I fell asleep.
I was awake when I felt a tingling sensation at my cheek. My eyelids fluttered, grey met brown. He was looking at me with such gentleness that I never witnessed.
"Thank you, Akanee." He blurted out abruptly.
"Huh? What?" I ask puzzling.
"I never had a real family. My mother was a single parent. You gave me a family. With both of you by my side, I felt at home no matter where I go," he caressed my cheek while looking afar. Perhaps he was thinking of his mother or past.
The Sun spread into orange and red like a melted butter in the once clear blue sky.
"Shinya, what should we do?" I asked the question that had been haunted me for few nights. "Return to Japan means acceptance of Sybil system. Even if without the teleport system, staying here means Sekai is going to witness war and brutality."
"Kougami, what should we do?" using his surname, I indirectly demanded an answer from him now, in this instant.
"As a mother, I wanted him to be safe. Living in Japan is safe. However, I don't want the Sybil system to determine his fate. I want him to have a choice." I stretched my legs. With a roll of my hip, I stood up, looking at the beautiful sunset with my back facing him.
"If you wanted to bring Sekai to the opposite side. Go ahead. I will figure out how to disable the teleport system tomorrow." Shinya stood up, his body warmth slowly approaching me. Oh god, I would like to enjoy this comfy feeling for a lifetime.
His hands reached my abdomen, head on the curve between my shoulder and neck. He inhaled and asked, "What about you? Don't tell me you are staying here?"
"Of course, not. After I disabled the bomb, I will join both of you." I looked at the ground, hoping he would not detect my lie.
"You are such a terrible liar, Akane." His grips on me tighten. "I am not leaving you again. All of us leave. Otherwise, we are going to Japan. I am protecting you this time."
"Perhaps, our son can choose his own future like those old people." One of his hands ascended to my head and patted me. "Like both of us, he can choose his own future. To be an inspector, a lawyer or anything."
I turned my back to him. "So, how about your dream? We will never be equal in the eyes of society. Sekai would be judged as a son of a latent criminal. Although Sibyl approves us, it does not mean society approves."
My tears were threatening to make its appearance, "It is all my fault. I am a burden for you. I disapprove Sibyl but society needs it. Without Sibyl, society will collapse. I continue to be an inspector to maintain peace and justice. But now, our son's future…." I feel his hand circled around my back, trying to calm me down.
Abruptly, he smacked my head, "Don't worry. I will figure out when we returned there. They promised us a wedding, right? Geez, I wondered did the bureau took all my money? How I gonna to buy you a ring, then? Hmm, such a headache."
My heart fluttered but I still could feel the uneasiness within myself, "Shinya, you willing to return to Japan? I meann, will you regr..et this decision? I won't blam..e you if you fle..e..." I struggled out from his embrace, looking into those piercing eyes. Both of my hands found way to his face. I tried my best to swallow my sobs.
"Shinya…"
He removed my hands and lifted my chin. Looking into my soul, he said, "Trust me, will you?"
"Yes." And then, we locked our lips and a promise is sealed.
We stayed in Japan for few years, trying to bring down the system from within. Although the system is spreading the globe rapidly but in the end, majority of the population rebelled against it.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
In the end, the power of the room full with brains was shut up as the result of rekindle humanity.
Humanity finally realised the bianess of the system. Everyone has their own devil within them. Everyone should be given the liberty to face the devil and conquer it, instead of sealing off their devil. High pressure produced explosion anyway.
When Sybil governed the globe, discrimination against cloudy hue colour occurred. Many families were separated, children's hue were tainted due to broken family or lack of love from parents. Surrogate families could not be compared to the real one.
The world had realised the important of liberty and been evolved into a better world.
But no matter what happened, as long Shinya and my little wolf are here, everywhere could be home.
"Akane, I'm home!"
"Welcome home, Shinya."
Author note:
I know the part where a planted bomb near the heart is dramatic. For the sake of the story, just go along with it. Sorry for painting the Sybil system into a heartless bastard. A bastard who needs a criminal desperately... PLZZ, JUST GO ALONG THE FLOW.
