Don't Run Away From Living!

Oc x Oc

"Normal Speech"
'Thoughts'

Disclaimer: I do NOT own God eater burst or any other show/anime nor do I own any of their characters aside from mine

This is an AU Fanfiction of the game God Eater Burst

This has not been beta'ed by anyone so i expect that there will be errors... Despite that, i hope it is enjoyable~


Chapter 7: Meeting New-Types and butchering a giant humanoid fowl

Rindow told Shin that they were assigned a simple mission to relax a little before the next important mission, the mission's targets were simply three cocoon maidens and three Ogretails, after telling Shin to prepare for it, Rindow left Shin to his devices.

'I might as well check what is new in the Terminal."

Shin approached a free terminal and accessed his account. The very first thing he had to do was store the materials gotten from the Kongou and Zygotes yesterday, after doing so and checking his stock of Aragami materials. He then checked his equipment and found out that his rail gun barrel could be upgraded with the materials he had gotten yesterday and proceeded to do; he then inspected his new rail gun II and suffice to say he was a little disappointed, the gun had no new features aside from a more powerful spark modifier.

Wanting to change the shield he had been using since the first time he had arrived in Fenrir, he decided to check the craft menu for anything interesting shields he could craft, he found that the best shield he could craft was a Gboro-Gboro one and proceeded with the request. He then changed his equipped upgrades to a Sunder Kit 1 and a Crush guard 1 to lessen damage from all those heavy attacks the Aragami have been dishing out recently.

After doing everything to his satisfaction, Shin made his way to the main lobby and met with Rindow & Co. After they had received the mission info, they made their way to the Den Gate and headed out.

Time Skip: Shin's mission

Scene Change: City of Mercy

Soma had finished scouting the area and was heading back to the extraction point where the helicopter was waiting for him, when he saw a figure near the entrance of the church. Finding that suspicious he decided to investigate, when he entered whatever was left of the church, he could not hear any footsteps in the church thus thought he imagined it, walked towards the end of the church for further inspection, the phone in his pocket then begun to ring. He answered it.

"This is Soma… So far no contact with the target… I'll continue to investigate." After checking one more time, he left the building, if he had turned back; he would've seen a being clothed in rags watching him walk away.

Scene Change: The Den

Shin & Co had just arrived from a fast paced battle with a cluster of Aragami in an area; they were pretty roughed up but overall had no problem with the mission. As they arrived, they saw that Soma too had just arrived looking contemplative. After reporting their mission's success to Hibari and Tsubaki, Shin went and asked Soma if anything had happened during the mission he was assigned to.

"Hey Soma, why the face? Anything wrong?"

"Hey New-Type, have you ever felt someone's presence around the old office ruins, more specifically the church area."

Shin racked his brain for a moment, thinking if he had ever felt such a thing, coming up with a blank, he told his answer to Soma. Soma then looked puzzled.

"I see… All right, forget I asked. Sorry to bother you."

"No problem, sorry I couldn't help, see ya around Soma."

Shin then made his way to the cafeteria for some grub and decided to treat himself to a ramen bowl considering his account has been collecting money for quite some time and he could afford it.

While enjoying his ramen, the teen that Shin remember was outside of his room after he had just finished his medical checkup, who had also told him that Tsubaki had wanted to see him came into the cafeteria looking around possibly trying to find someone.

Once his eyes looked at Shin's direction, they sparkled a bit and he made his way to the still slurping teen. Once arriving at his table, the teen said.

"Hey there, nice to see you again, I haven't gotten to introduce myself the last time, my name is Shun Ogawa, assigned to the 3rd unit."

"Yo, nice to formally meet you this time, the name's Shin Asakura, is there anything you needed from me by the way? You looked like you had to find someone for something important."

Shun had a sheepish expression from being read easily and told Shin "I was asked to tell you, that Rindow was looking for you and that he would be in his room right at this time so please go see him after your done."

"Alright I'll finish this and head there as soon as I do." Shun seeing that his business was done; he said his goodbyes and went on his way back to his room leaving Shin to finish his ramen.

After finishing his food and placing the tray at the counter for the kitchen staff to wash, while thanking them, he then made his way to the veteran section and headed for Rindow's room. Upon knowing that someone was outside his room, Rindow opened his door and saw that Shin had come to see him just as he had asked.

They both stood near the window facing each other. Rindow then said something surprising.

"Hey… listen; I have a favor to ask of you… "

Putting his surprise aside Shin asked what was it about and the following answer was even more of a surprise.

"Two new God Eaters will be assigned to this branch soon. Probably New-Types."

Shin must've showed his surprise on his face since Rindow gave a light chuckle before turning serious again.

"I can't prove it, but our director seems to be gathering New-Type God Eaters to the Far East Branch. Which brings me to my request, if he ever says anything about that to you, could let me know?"

Shin was puzzled by Rindow statement and told him. "But aren't you the highest ranked god eater here? Wouldn't it be easy to just ask the Director?"

"… Sure I could ask him myself but I just find it hard to talk to that guy."

Shin was amused by how Rindow had addressed Johannes and playfully berated Rindow

"Hey! You shouldn't talk about your superiors like that."

Rindow gave a sheepish face for awhile before asking, "Well do you think you could help me with this? Only if you feel like it. If it's confidential, you don't need to reveal it but I'll give you a reward for any other important news you could bring to me"

Shin thought about this for a while and made his decision. "Sure I'll help, I'm sure your suspicions are not unfounded, if he tells me anything, I'll make sure to tell you".

Thanking Shin and letting him know that he owed him one, Rindow waved goodbye as Shin made his way to the elevator. A passing God Eater told Shin that Hibari needed him for an urgent mission and that Tsubaki had an important announcement to make so he had to be in the main lobby ASAP.

Making his way towards the lobby as fast as possible, Shin, Sakuya, Soma and Kouta were briefed with their mission first seeing that Tsubaki was not there yet.

Mission Name: Awakening God of War
Mission Client: Fenrir,
Location: Infernal Subway
Anticipated Mission time limit: 30 minutes
Mission info:

Rewards: Avian Flesh, Avian joint and 500 Fenrir credit

Defeat the rampaging Chi-You at the Subway remains, they are very mobile but are weak to deep freeze. The battle will take place in a narrow underpass. Make sure to secure your escape route.

Finished with the brief, they all went on with their activities while waiting for Tsubaki to arrive, always being diligent, Shin went up to the terminal and accessed Norn. He then checked for info about the Aragami Chi-You and the location Infernal Subway.

He first found info on the Infernal Subway,

The subway is located below the underground city ruins where magma flows. In the past, the subway tracks were used as a refugee intake route leading to the den. The keloid-like Aragami wreckage covering the walls is thought to be evidence that giant Aragami once burrowed deep underground and tried to devour magma only to burst when they were unable to withstand such tremendous energy. Details are unclear; the sigh of magma continuing to flow in the pitch black darkness is like a scene from hell.

Shin felt a bit excited at reading the 'scene from hell' part and honestly could not wait to check it out for himself.

Shin then searched about Chi-You and what he found interested him a lot.

Chi-You

A human-form Aragami with rigid wings. Good at using melee attacks using them, as well as focusing its energy in its fists and letting it loose. It first appeared in Central Eurasia.

Additional info:
It's difficult to run a sword through Chi-you's wings. First destroy its lower body and wings with crush type gunfire before striking with the sword. When enraged it will glide even faster.
Vulnerability: Fire/Ice.

Shin had never known that there was such a thing as a Human-form Aragami so he was a little shocked with this information, however he quickly got over it and checked his bullet storage, he then equipped Crush blaze and freeze bullets even though his sniper would not work with crush bullets, he could still use them albeit to a lesser degree compared to those with a blast type gun if the situation called for it.

He then went to the Equipment menu and upgraded the his previous Blade long sword into Blade II and further upgraded it to a Chill blade which he equipped just for this mission deciding that having an elemental advantage would wise against this opponent.

After double checking all his equipment and items once more, he made his way to the rest of the group who were sitting down by the sofas waiting for Tsubaki to arrive. While waiting for Tsubaki, Shin overheard a god eater who was also in the lobby at the time, talking with Licca, the god eater asked Licca "Did you hear? They're assigning two more New-Type to this branch"

Licca obviously did not know about this piece of information because it showed on her face, she then said

"Oh? That's news to me. There has been a flood of New-types lately, huh?"

Shin then nudged Rindow who was sitting next to him towards the conversation and Rindow probably thinking that it would be important did not berate Shin for eavesdropping on people's conversation.

The god eater who was talking to Licca then said "I hear the Director brought one over himself, from the Russia branch while the other was found from some part of the ghetto."

Both Shin and Rindow looked contemplative with this news and begun to think of reasons on why the Director would need to bring the New-type personally while Shin was especially curious about the New-Type that also came from the ghetto. Shin and Lindow mulled about this piece of information but eventually decided to put the matter aside first because without more information, they would end up heading to a dead end.

After few minutes later, Shin saw along with the rest of the group that Tsubaki had came in through the Den Gate. Pondering why on earth Tsubaki would come through the Den Gate, Shin then saw two other figures on each side of Tsubaki, as they came into view, Shin found out that they were both female, one had slivery free flowing white hair with a hat that was red in color with a pattern that Shin couldn't describe properly, while the other had dark purple hair that was tied in a pony tail with a small white ribbon.

Shin found himself to be paying more attention on the purple haired girl; she wore a sleeveless black shirt with a gold tie and with white outlines. In addition she wore a dark blue skirt that Shin noted to be quite short though appeared to be longer due to the long black stockings she wore along with black shoes.

Shin then blinked 'why am I paying attention to a girl who I've never met before…'

Before he could continue his pondering, Tsubaki announced to them.

"I have an introduction to make. These two are New-Type recruits; they'll be joining your ranks starting today."

The Sliver haired girl first introduced herself to the group, "Nice to meet you. My name is Alisa llinichina Amiella. As of 1200 hours today... I've been transferred here from the Russia Branch. I look forward to working with you."

After the girl now known as Alisa had with her introduction, the other girl started hers.

"My name's Shirayuki Yukie, I was recently recruited from the Ghetto and like what Alisa had mentioned I too look forward to working with you all,"

As she ended her introduction, she looked to see her sempai's reactions and saw that most of them were giving smiles aside from the teen in the blue hooded jacket

Shin greeted "Hey welcome to Fenrir and I hope we'll get along, "

Alisa and Yukie were about to return the greeting when Kouta opened his mouth

"Hey, girls are more than welcome here anytime!"

The two new New-Types narrowed their eyes not at all amused at what Kouta was saying

Alisa then said "I'm amazed that you've survived so long around here with that frivolous attitude."

Shin noticed that as Alisa was berating Kouta, Yukie merely scoffed and murmured something too soft for him to hear.

Tsubaki not wanting them to start arguing especially If Kouta actually understood what Alisa had said, informed the group "Both of them don't have much experience in actual combat, but their scores in simulated battle were quite stellar. You guys better train hard, or they'll soon surpass you."

Kouta looked worried "Y-yes ma'am" while Shin was actually eager to see other New-Types in battle.

Tsubaki then turned towards the two girls saying. "Alisa… Yukie, I want you two to serve under Rindow's supervision. Understood?" to which they answered stiffly "yes ma'am!"

Which lead Shin to thinking they both had experienced the same thing both he and Kouta had.

Tsubaki then turned towards Rindow and told him that she had some documents to pass to him thus he needed to come with her. Rindow gave a nod and they both proceeded to the elevator heading off to who knows where.

Kouta then tried again to make some common ground between him and Alisa, "Hey, hey… so you're from Russia? Isn't it freezing over there? Oh, but I guess with all the global warming these days, the temperatures are getting higher."

As Alisa began her conversation with Kouta, Shin approached Yukie and said

"It's nice to meet you; it was a one-sided introduction earlier, my name's Shin Asakura, also a New-Type using the Long blade/Sniper variable God Arc."

Yukie gave a nod acknowledging the introduction and told Shin,

"Well sempai, I look forward working with you."

Shin smiled and returned the nod, he then gestured to Sakuya who was approaching them.

"This is Tachibana Sakuya; she's our medic/sniper specialist."

Sakuya gave Shin a mock glare "I can introduce myself you know"

Shin just smiled sheepishly while Yukie couldn't help but grin at the interaction. Shin then continued the introduction, gesturing to Soma, he said "That's Soma, he's the buster blade user of the group, and finally…"

Shin then pointed at Kouta was being berated by Alisa before continuing "that's Fujiki Kouta, he also came from the ghetto like you and me, he uses an assault gunner God Arc."

Yukie then cocked an eyebrow and asked, "So… sempai, which are of the ghetto are you from?"

Shin blinked not expecting that question but answered nevertheless "I come from the west of this branch, I don't really have a fixed venue as a house but my previous and last one was at the west district. Not sure about Kouta though."

Yukie nodded and thanked Shin for telling her that. She then asked did Soma not have a last name

Shin told her that, if he did have one, he hasn't told them yet so it was probably something he doesn't want to talk about.

Peering behind Shin, Yukie noticed that Soma was giving a nod signifying that Shin's assumption was correct.

Shin then remembered that they had a mission to attend to and told Yukie and Alisa while dragging Kouta towards the Den Gate "Let's talk again when we get back, we still have our mission which can't be stalled any longer or else our target will escape. See ya later!"

Soma had already gone ahead and simply waved a hand back at the two while Sakuya said "Well we'll see you two when we get back, bye…"

Kouta simply gave them a wave before turning his head towards Shin which was feat in itself considering he was dragged by the ground facing away from Shin and began telling him to let him stand already.

Alisa and Yukie gave their sempais a wave before turning towards the elevator and headed for 's lab for the medical check-up that Tsubaki had told them about.

Scene Change: in the elevator when Shin & Co were talking to Alisa

"What promising rookies…" Rindow mentioned to Tsubaki, while thinking of the possibilities of having two new-types on a team. He then tried to see if Tsubaki had any idea about the rumor concerning the Director bringing in New-Types to this branch by continuing to mention the two... "We've got to be the only branch with two more of these rare New-Types"

Tsubaki not knowing Rindow's attention told him "Yes ... I suppose so. But we'll be stepping up the search for New-Type matches from now on… HQ's new policy" Rindow then narrowed his eyes at that piece of info but did not confront Tsubaki about it because he knew she would not tell him anything, rather she would be suspicious on why he was so interested in the policy.

Rindow then turned slightly towards Tsubaki when she said "The thing is, aside from Yukie. Alisa may be a match as a New-Type, but she's also somewhat mentally unstable." Rindow looked a bit worried but was mollified when Tsubaki said "However, the doctors have her attending a medical healthcare program on a regular basis. At any rate, I want you to stay alert around her."

Rindow couldn't help teasing Tsubaki by saying "Understood Big Sis." Tsubaki not liking the way Rindow called her, told him all the while glaring. "Rindow… don't ever call me Big Sis here again. Got that?"

Rindow just ruffled his hair while having an amused grin on his face thinking "It's still easy to rile Sis up."

Scene Change: Infernal Subway

As Shin entered the Subway, he began sweating instantly, it was just that hot, but then again why wouldn't it be hot, the whole place was surrounded by magma. Although, the information from Norn was spot on, the scene was really alike one would see in hell all that was missing were little demons running around with pitchforks.

Kouta, who was rubbing his arm across his forehead to wipe away his sweat, commented on the obvious.

"Damn, this place is really hot. Don't you think so?"

"Yes Kouta, we all know that its hot, we are after all not impervious to heat" Shin commented.

Kouta then began to mutter to himself while Shin just shrugged at his behavior. Shin then told the group, "let's spread out and keep an eye out for the Aragami, immediately signal for backup the moment you encounter it and engage cautiously, don't try to be reckless okay?"

Although Shin wasn't the leader of the group, the four of them agreed to the order. The four then headed in different directions spreading out to make the search quicker. Eventually, it was Shin who was the unlucky person to encounter the Chi-You, or at least he thought it was the Chi-You from its giant footsteps that were coming from a tunnel which entrance he was right next to.

He then contacted the rest of the group. "Spotted the Chi-You, sending you guys the coordinates right now."

Shin finally saw the Aragami; he couldn't help but think that the Information given through Norn was right once again, it looked like a humanoid bird creature with the stature of a human since it was standing tall and walking.

Shaking his unnecessary thoughts, he saw that the Chi-You was heading in a different direction and quickly changed to gun form and shot a bullet aimed at its head. The Chi-You then turned around and noticed Shin as the one who had hit it, while Shin expected the bullet to provoke the Aragami, he didn't expect it to rapidly sprint towards its prey.

"Shit, the info in Norn wasn't joking when it said this thing is very mobile" Shin muttered as he dodged the sprinting Aragami. He then switched back to his sword while checking his map for his teammate's position and saw that they were quickly closing in on his location so he decided to engage the Chi-You, not like he had a choice in the matter since it quickly turned around and began charging up an energy ball in a kamehameha fashion.

The Chi-You then shot the ball right at Shin which caused him to dodge to the side as it impacted the place he was standing previously.

"Gah, that was close!"

Shin then rushed at the avian Aragami and when he got in range, he slashed his sword upwards, the Chi-you however wasn't a pushover as it brought its claw to parry Shin's slash which caused Shin to recoil not expecting resistance when he slashed at the Aragami.

As Shin was about to try his assault again, the Aragami shot out a claw right at him which caused Shin to quickly bring out his shield to take the hit seeing that he'd be too slow to move out of the way.

The limb crashed onto the shield and he had to take few moments to get rid of the numbness due to the force of the hit. The Chi-you seeing its prey currently stationary decided to charge up its energy using both hands.

Shin wasn't paying attention to the Chi-you due to him still trying to get rid of the slightly numbness in his arms. However, he heard a cry "Shin! Look out!" He looked at the Chi-You and saw it charging for the energy blast again and quickly moved out of the way and gave a sigh thinking the coast was clear and was about to turn to see who gave out the warning when he noticed a projectile heading for him and started sprinting around seeing that the Chi-You was actually using a barrage of those balls instead of a single huge one.

Shin then turned around to the direction where he heard the warning came from and saw that his teammates had arrived and were about to join in the fray.

Shin focused his attention on his enemy knowing from what he had experienced so far that he could not have his attention diverted again. The Chi-You then jumped high and energy began covering its body and it then proceeded to glide heading straight for Shin.

"I was wondering if it could actually use those wings..." Shin muttered but then focused his concentration and broke into a sprint heading for the gliding Aragami. Nearing the rapidly approaching Aragami, Shin turned his sprint into a slide underneath it and lifted his sword as it glided past him.

Despite how cool he thought that was, Kouta couldn't help but comment. "Nice one! Though I thought you said not to be reckless!"

Shin gave him a smirk shouting "I meant when you are alone! Besides I wouldn't have done it if I knew I would fail"

As Shin bickered with Kouta, Shin then heard that footsteps were getting near his position looked towards the direction of where the Chi-you had landed after the glide only to see that it was placing its hand on its chest due to the pain due to the large slash mark across its torso.

The Chi-You which was actually just mere steps away from Shin positioned its body as if going for a spin. Shin then released his predator and pedaled backwards away from the Aragami who then proceeded to spin in a spot which was quite a stupid attack if one saw it coming. As the Chi-You was spinning.

Shin saw an opening and went in for the chomp, true to his aim; he had managed to bite onto a wing of the Chi-You which stopped its spin abruptly. Shin then pulled his God Arc back which caused the Chi-You to fall to the ground while entering burst.

They then proceeded to beat the shit out of the avian that was in a daze from thinking it was a ballerina. After a few slashes, the Chi-you looked as if it was in agony proceeded to jump towards the direction of the magma pool and ran towards another part of the subway. Seeing that their target ran away to recuperate, Shin nodded towards his teammates and they sprinted towards the area that the Chi-you had gone to.

After a few minutes of running, they came across their target munching on some lava rocks. As they drew near to the Aragami, it noticed them and begun to charge up energy on both of its hands,

"Hey guys move aside!" Shin warned the group that was behind him, and in the case that they couldn't move fast enough, he dashed ahead and deployed his shield and held his ground against the barrage of energy balls.

As Shin took on the full brunt force of the attack, he skidded quite the distance and was exhausted with the effort needed to keep his shield up against the attack, Sakuya then threw a stun grenade at the Chi-you which stunned it giving them the chance to assault it while also giving Shin a few moments to catch his breath. After doing so, he too joined the fray.

Quite some time had passed; Shin thought that this was one of the most tiring battles he had experienced, between dodging the Chi-you's gliding dives, energy ball barrages, spins and strafing claw slashes. Each of the group got injured at one point, Soma was slashed when he was a little too close to the Aragami and it slashed.

Sakuya actually got blown away from being hit by the impact from a energy ball, Kouta was injured due to not noticing that the Chi-You was gliding towards him and rammed at the teen sending him crashing into a wall which surprisingly didn't make him unconscious. Shin's injury was a case of bad luck as he was performing a somersault slash when the Aragami suddenly spun and caused Shin to be blown away with his outfit torn.

Eventually, there was a point where Shin was taking advantage of the Aragami's focus on Soma by slashing at It from behind, he noticed that the Chi-You had both limbs raised in an attempt to swipe at Soma who was about to jump away. Shin ran around the Aragami and called out to Soma,

"Soma! Deploy your shield and take the hit and then follow my lead!"

Soma not bothering to argue in a mission, instantly followed the order and took the hit, Shin then released his predator and timed it just right to capture both limbs in a chomp and held it there just as the Chi-you was pulling its limbs back from the failed attempt.

"Soma! Climb on and slash its head!" Soma now understanding the plan jumped on to the limbs and jumped again into the air raising his Buster blade to perform a massive helm breaker on the Chi-you's head. The Chi-you seeing the danger it was in, struggled hard to try and escape its predicament, Sakuya then fired multiple lasers on its legs which brought it down to its knees.

"The enemy is down. Go for it!"

Soma gritted his teeth in effort and successfully delivered the slash which gave the Aragami a large gash from head to body. The Chi-you recoiled in pain, Shin then used the opportunity to take in the piece his Predator had gotten from the chomp earlier and entered burst.

He then charged at the Chi-you and jumped at the height of its head and fired a point blank impulse edge right into the mouth of the panting Chi-You which ended its life by having its head blown off. Shin then leaned down on a wall tired from the intense fight they just had.

"Man, this Aragami was tiring to fight, by the way great job guys"

Kouta commented"Exhausting is more like it… although that was a pretty gruesome way to kill it..."

Shin shrugged "Meh, just went with the flow and besides there isn't any mercy for these guys."

Kouta looked away from the body and moaned in disgust and exhaustion

Sakuya merely giggled at their actions while Soma hnn'd and went up to the body to being extracting the core and materials from the Aragami, Shin & Co took a breather before heading back to base.

Scene change: the Den

The group had just finished reporting their mission to Tsubaki; Shin was back in his room taking a shower. While relaxing in the showers, his thoughts went toward Yukie and Alisa remembering that he told them that he would talk to them after his mission, thus he decided to go look for them.

He found the two sitting at a table in the cafeteria; Shin went to grab a tray and sat next to both of them. As he did, he asked "Hey, have you two just gone on a mission?" It seemed that Yukie did not notice that someone had sat right next to her because she jumped a little when she heard Shin's voice. Calming down she berated herself for not focusing on her surroundings.

Shaking her head to get rid of the meaningless thoughts that would lead her to nowhere at this point, she addressed Shin "oh hey Shin, and about your question, yes we just came back from a mission at the tranquil temple, though was that the only reason you came here?

Shin smiled "Hey I did say that I'd talk to you two after our mission didn't I?"

Yukie and Arisa had their mouths in an 'oh' expression which caused Shin to chuckle.

They closed their mouths with click and Shin then suggested, "Well since we didn't really get to say much in our introductions earlier how about we do it properly this time? And from there we'll continue our conversation."

Both Arisa and Yukie agreed and asked if Shin wanted them to start first.

"no no its alright, I'll start first this time, My name is Asakura Shin, recruited from the west district of the ghetto and in the case that you forgot, I am a New-Type just like you two, my old residence was quite the distance from this branch although it was a walk-able distance. I am 17 years old, my likes are music, technology and peace, my dislikes are too many to say although I'll inform you that the one thing I dislike most has to be insects. My dream is a bit childish but it is to create a world where Aragami no longer roam around. Once again I'm pleased to meet your acquaintance."

Yukie blinked when she heard that Shin number one dislike was insects but did not comment on that neither did she do so when Shin mentioned his dream since she did not think it was childish at all. Alisa then began her reintroduction.

"My name is Alisa llinichina Amiella; I was recruited in Russia and like you've mentioned I too am a New-type. I'm 16 years old; my likes are basically anything that came from the pre-Aragami era which is beautiful or amazing. My dislikes are annoying people, betrayal and the one thing I hate the most is sadly also the one thing I don't feel comfortable in saying, so forgive me for that the thing I loathe the most is also connected to my dreams so the same thing goes for that."

Yukie and Shin were curious about the blanks from Arisa's introduction but respected her to not question her about that.

Alisa and Shin then turned to Yukie as she began the last introduction among them.

"I'm Shirayuki Yukie; I'm from the opposite district than you, sempai. I'm of the same age as Alisa. My likes are objects from when this country, Japan hadn't been infested by Aragami and knick knacks, my dislikes are messes, things that annoy me and Aragami in general. My dream is more or less same like yours sempai."

Shin smiled not really expecting Yukie to have the same dream as he had,

They then went back to their meals in peaceful silence. As they finished their meals and left their trays at the counter, they headed up to the main lobby since Alisa had wanted to buy some more health pills while Shin wanted to take a look on what was on sale besides the regular stuff and Yukie having nothing better to do thought she might as well go check it out.

While browsing during the time Alisa was purchasing some health pills, Shin found a disk which cover said that it was some kind of traditional event disk. Deciding to buy it, he went up to the vendor and gave him the necessary credits for the disk.

Yukie then asked while Alisa was also looking curiously, "So Shin, what'd you get?"

Shin then showed them the disk which they then instantly asked if they could watch it as well.

Shin replied "Sure, I have no problems with that."

They then made their way to the terminals and Shin inserted the disk and played it. The Disk was actually a video about a summer festival with the main event being a song preformed by the locals. Both Yukie and Alisa were enraptured by the sights shown on the disk by the recorder, they saw various things like a bonfire dance, game stalls and even a priestess ceremonial event. Shin was also enjoying the video albeit not as much as the other two. He smiled as the both of them chatting excitingly about the video.

After finishing the video, they then faced each other began commenting on the various scenes they liked, Yukie said that she liked the bonfire dance the most while Alisa mentioned that she preferred the priestess ceremonial dance

They then turned to Shin and Yukie asked "Hey Shin, what'd you like most?"

Shin mulled it over a few minutes before finally answering, "It'd probably be seeing all those children playing around and generally enjoying themselves all through the festival."

As Alisa also commented that the scene where the children tried to catch the fishes in a game stand was very cute,

Shin nodded and said," I never knew their used to be those kind of fish in the past, the children back then looked extremely happy when they tried to catch the fishes and got splashed by their own attempts, didn't they?"

Yukie remembered that particular scene and giggled. "Yes that was certainly funny to watch, but don't you find that the food and the sights of the festival looked tasty and beautiful? Especially those weird ball shaped food, what were they call again? Takoyaki was it?"

Alisa put a finger under her chin and hummed in thought "hmm, that should be right, if I remember what the video commentator had said, those are octopus balls that seemed to be quite the delicacy back then."

Shin decided that it'd be best if everyone would be able to watch it thus decided to upload the video into Norn and put up a notice on the video so that people would notice it when the logged in.

As Shin finished uploading the video, the trio then continued chatting about the various things that they saw until Rindow came up to them and informed that they were to be expected at Dr. Sakaki's lab for a lecture.

Shin and the two girls gave Rindow a nod acknowledging that they had received the message and as they walked passed Rindow, Shin told him.

"Hey, you should definitely check out the video I uploaded just recently, the three of us just finished watching it and it was really interesting. Anyways, see ya Rindow!" he then ran to the elevator where the other two were holding it for him.

Scene Change: 's Lab.

Shin, Alisa and Yukie entered the room and saw that Kouta was already nodding himself as if he was going to fall asleep anytime soon, Shin wouldn't be a surprise if he actually did so. They then sat on opposite sofas, Shin sitting with the sleepy Kouta while the girls sat on the other; they then faced , giving him all their attention.

Dr. Sakaki nodded and told them to inform Kouta on anything he'd want to know about the lecture later, he then said to the three people that were awake in the room.

"Hello you three, I see that you are getting along well, "

The trio gave him a nod with smiles on their faces, what Shin did not notice however was that Yukie had slightly turned her head to face him while smiling a tad bit brighter but suddenly had a slight blush on her face and turned back and hoped no one had seen her.

However as she turned to face the doctor, she saw that the doctor had a grin on his that practically told her that he had seen what had happened and his fox-like eyes somehow gave her a sly glance that Yukie knew was teasing her.

Throughout the interaction between the two, Shin wondered why Yukie suddenly glared at Dr. Sakaki while Alisa was glared at the nodding Kouta thinking how on earth did he survive till now.

The doctor however decided that he shouldn't be wasting any more time so he addressed the topic of today's lecture.

Dr. Sakaki said "As I may have mentioned before to Shin and Kouta, while you Alisa may have probably heard about it at the Russia branch, Yukie hasn't so I'm going to go through it once more. The oracle cells which comprise an Aragami will eat anything. Not just life forms like animals and plants, but also minerals and synthetic resins, such as plastics. It will even devour nuclear waste, known to be toxic to normal life forms. Buildings, solid earth, you name it… see this is what happens."

Dr. Sakaki then showed them an airborne photograph of a city, the buildings looked like they were eroded more like bitten, in the middle of the cluster of buildings, there was a giant crater that went very deep into the ground. then continued.

"As a result, the environment as we know it – 'leftovers', so to speak is diminishing at a high rate."

The Doctor then changed the image on the screen to familiar trees that had flowers with pink petals; the three of them were then reminded of the video they had just watched since it showed abundance of this tree.

Dr. Sakaki gestured to the image "In this area, people were once known to view cherry blossoms in spring and maple leaves in autumn…" As he said this, the image changed to a tree which had reddish orange leaves.

As the screen went blank, Shin took a moment to look towards Kouta's direction and saw that he slept through all of that and gave a sigh, he then refocused his attention to the doctor who said

"Sadly, by now there is no hope of ever doing that."

As he finished that sad sentence he too looked at Kouta for the moment before turning back to the three who were not asleep.

"Meanwhile the Aragami tend to occasionally take on the qualities of the things they've eaten." And to prove his point, he then said "recently, some Aragami have been actually discovered photosynthesizing."

The three of them glanced at each other to see if any of them knew that bit of info and found that none of them knew. They then turned back their attention to Dr, Sakaki

"Despite the fact that we have only a third of the plants that existed in the world 20 years ago, somehow the air of this planet has been preserved." As said this, he began pacing around the room" Don't you find it extremely ironic that we owe this phenomenon to the Aragami's photosynthesis?"

Dr. Sakaki then approached the sleepy Kouta and pushed his head a little, Kouta then responded, "Ugh… Mom, I can't eat anymore…"

Shin and Yukie blinked and then glanced at each other before chuckling and giggling respectively, even Dr. Sakaki was amused

While Alisa narrowed her eyes at Kouta and said, "Really! He has no sense of duty whatsoever"

Shin thought about any reason for Kouta to be this tired and said, "Well maybe he can't really help it, we did just come back from a mission after all. "

Alisa then blinked having forgotten about that fact and said, "I see… I guess I'm going to have to apologize later despite him not hearing what I said"

Yukie patted her back and Shin told her it was fine since its normal for people to forget things.

Dr. Sakaki then coughed to gain their attention and once he had it, he continued the lecture.

"Listen people, have you ever heard of the term "Nova's Devouring Apocalypse"?"

It seemed that both Yukie and Alisa knew about it but Shin tilted his head in confusion. Yukie then gestured for Alisa to explain, giving her a nod, Alisa turned to the doctor.

"Well…, after the Aragami battle among themselves. The extinction of Humankind is triggered by Nova, an entity grown so huge it can swallow up the whole planet."

As Alisa was explaining what she knew, Shin had his eyes widened as she said that it can swallow up the whole planet bit.

'I wonder how big is this nova entity to be able to swallow up the earth…"

Yukie noticed that Kouta had woken up during the explanation and had a worried look on his face.

Dr. Sakaki gave Alisa an approving nod, happy that she had done her research; he then proceeded to say "Exactly, no one even knows who first spoke of this event. And some people have dismissed it as an idle rumor."

At that point, Shin also noticed Kouta awake and seemed worried

He then hen surprised both Alisa and the Doctor when he suddenly said with confidence being evident in his words. , "But once the Aegis Project is completed, we'll be safe from even that so there's nothing to worry about"

Shin blinked wondering how Kouta was so sure that the Aegis Project could hold up against something that could swallow the world.

Yukie simply hoped that Kouta was right and Alisa just shook her head at his naivety

Dr. Sakaki however looked at Kouta in silence for a few moments not knowing what to say, eventually he just continued on with the lesson, seemingly ignoring what was said earlier.

"Do you guys know what kind of animal a dog is?" to which Kouta unsurprisingly said "Huh?"

probably expected that and just continued on with what he wanted to say, "Their numbers are dwindling quickly, but even now you can see some dogs existing around the Outer Ghetto. Dogs are intelligent… They may not be able to speak or understand specific words but they can communicate with humans." then used that piece of information to mention that if an Aragami were to take the qualities of a dog, then perhaps we humans could co-exist with them.

Shin found this intriguing while Alisa immediately scoffed and mockingly said "Co-exist?"

Dr. Sakaki, totally unaffected by her attitude, said "Of course, from a communications standpoint we're not limited to dogs. Long ago, you could watch an animal tamer manipulate wild beasts in a tent called a circus."

Shin then noticed that Yukie had a dark look as she said "Humans will never get along with Aragami, there is just no way that will work…"

Shin wondered what happened to Yukie for her to have such a dark look concerning this matter, Shin then briefly remembered someone who also had such a look but before he could dwell on it further, he was broken from his thoughts when Alisa agreed with Yukie's statement.

As Alisa said this, Shin blinked when he noticed that her face showed a deep pain.

sweat dropped at the tension in the room and decided to end the lecture right then.

Thanking the doctor, the group left the lab and headed for their rooms for a well earned rest.

As they were about to enter their rooms, Shin told them "G'nite Kouta, Yukie, Alisa. See you all in the morning.

They returned it and all entered their rooms, and slept.


And finally my other Oc has appeared, it was something that i just felt adding to the story one day due to a friend of mine, in any case, thanks for reading and please do review and tell me what u hate/like about the story. See you guys next time