A small giggle rose from my throat. "A king?"

"A king. You also need a new name, you know?" Yokai responded, before leaving the room. I trailed behind, letting the gigabots on my back fall into a relaxed position. He stopped, before turning to look at me. "Any reason why you're following?"

"Not really. I have nothing to do, really." I replied, nodding.

Yokai met me with silence, before nodding.

"Well, since you're assisting me, might as well know the plan." he said, before facing forward again. "Follow me back to the control room, and I'll talk to you about it there."

I nodded, before smiling underneath my mask. "Alright." I spoke, before following him around the various bends to get to the control room again.

It took a while, but we eventually reached the door where we needed to be.

As always, Yokai let me into the room, before stepping in and around me. He walked over to the control panels, befor grabbing hold of two seats - one for me, and one for him. I sat down in one of the seats, and Yokai sat across from me.

"I'm pretty sure you already know about the microbots, correct?"

"Correct."

"Okay, alright. After all of the microbots have been finished being made, we're going out and retrieving the pieces of the portal. I have them buried deep in the ocean, undetectable by virtually any federal authorities. You following?"

I paused when Yokai had mentioned the part of being undetectable to federal authorities. My mind pondered on the thought, before coming to the conclusion that the thing that I had signed up to do was - in fact - illegal in every way.

But maybe it wasn't.

I nodded my head, before replying. "Yes, still with you."

"Okay, good." Yokai said, nodding in reply. "Once all the pieces of the portal are in place, it should be time for the opening of the new Krei Tech building downtown. We come in - I'd hold the portal up while you defend - and put the portal pieces together, causing the entire place to be torn up and disappear into the portal."

My eyes widened with the last sentence he had said. My thoughts earlier were correct - this is purely illegal. I'd never do anything like this.

Now, botfighting I would do. But this? This... I would never do. Not in a thousand years.

"I..." I said, small.

"Yes, Hiro?" Yokai responded, leaning in closer.

"I will not do this."

"Hiro." he responded, angrily. "You promised you would assist me. But now you say you will not help. Do you have a problem with this?"

"I do. This is... This is absolute tyranny..." I spoke, getting rash with my voice as well.

"Hiro!" Yokai exclaimed, before growling.

The eyes on his mask started to flicker, getting faster and faster with each passing second. My mind felt instantly numb, and I began to feel like I have the day before at Tadashi's services - lightheaded, nauseated. It wasn't long before I fell out of my chair, before falling unconcious.

-「a little while later...」-

I awoke to the sounds of small motors whirring. My senses came with a delay, and I soon felt myself bolted down in a chair. There were restraints on my legs, on my wrists, around my chest, and around the top of my head. My coat was hanging on the far wall, and all that was left on me was the black bodysuit and the boots.

"Hiro... you're awake." an unfamiliar feminine voice spoke. She revealed herself from the shadows, before nodding.

She wore an all-white kimono, with traditional makeup obscuring her face. She also had a surgical mask over her mouth and nose, and had one hand right behind her.

"Wh... Who are you? And why do you have me locked down?" I demanded, before watching her come around me - and the thing she was carrying behind came along. It was a flat tray, with various surgical instruments wrapped up in a plastic wrapping.

That was when I started to go into a full-on panic.

"Don't fret, young one. It won't take too long." she replied, before reaching below the cart to grab a bottle and a rag. I couldn't see the bottle, for tears were blurring up my vision. "I'm just going to implant a little something-something. Trust me, you're in good hands."

If my head wasn't bolted down - if I weren't bolted down, I would be trying to excape and run for my life.

I watched as the woman opened the bottle, before bringing the rag to it and pouring whatever liquid was contained inside onto the rag. "Now, I want you to breathe this in, alright?"

"N-No!" I screamed out, struggling against my constraints. She turned to look at me, before bringing the soaked rag to my face. "N-n..." I repeated, before taking in a breath. My mind went numb, and I instantly felt fuzzy and warm.

"There you go..." the woman said, smiling. I kept breathing in whatever was on the rag, before falling into a deep sleep.

-「a little while later...」-

I awoke in the control room I was in just not that long ago. I was in my new outfit - mask and all - but something on the top of my head felt different.

"Hiro, you've awoken." a familiar voice spoke to me. I looked up, before seeing Yokai standing right in front of me. He whispered out something under his breath, but I didn't bother to listen as he sat down across from me.

"You told me you would help me to get your brother back, correct?"

"Correct."

"We would have to take down Krei Tech in order for you to fulfill my wish - and so you could fulfill yours. Alright? I have pieces of the first part of Silent Sparrow awating in the ocean around this island."

"But isn't that-" I started to protest, before feeling a sharp pain in the top of my head.

"Isn't that what?" Yokai inquired.

"Isn't that kind of a problem? The pieces might be waterlogged and everything." I said, completely forgetting what I was originally going to say.

"Good..." Yokai said, before nodding. He explained the rest of his plan to me, and I agreed with everything. Even though some of the things just felt wrong.