CHAPTER 11. DESCENDING, AGREEMENTS AND THINKING ORDERS
(The events of this chapter occur spontaneously during the start of season 2 'K: Return of Kings" until the new attack from Jungle against the new alliance of the three kings at Mihashira Tower on episode 7 of the anime, just two months later after the events of Jungle Mission 44).
Descending
" Finally… finally…at last you have returned, the First King, the Silver King, Adolf K. Wisemann. You have returned to this world, to join again this game of ours again." Nagare was watching with fascination the monitors infront of him, his obvious stalker waiting habit for the Silver King to come out from the shadows was being payed off at that moment. His heart yearned for him to become his accomplice in his plans to come and was the main piece of the chess board he was creating and for now, it was complete, except for… a radiant light in the video frame made him look on that direction and made his medium parrot fly to that high part of the bridge where the Black Dog and Yukari were fighting. "Damn you." He had not yet assigned her a piece of the game, he did not know where to put her against, he could not decipher her special touch not even after what he put her through, she did not die as he had forseen it. In fact, she had made his previous headquarters been buried to the ground.
"You really think you are the only fan of the Silver King and knows the affairs of this world better than anyone,Nagare? Get in the damn line, you fool!" Her words came back into his head and damned her with all his might, she was smiling looking down to the Silver King like if she was completely waiting there because she knew he was about to descend just there.
"Damn YOU!" He shouted sending some bolts to the monitors with disgust, the major threat player of the game had already appeared and maybe, just maybe, she was another problem he would have to resolve somehow. He saw how she saluted the parrot with a big smile looking directly to him like mocking about the situation. "Enjoying the view?" She said and then he demanded Yukari and Sukuna to leave the battles behind and come back to headquarters, the game was about to really get interesting at its full potential.
The night had fallen over Shizume City and from the summit of the highest skyscraper Hikari Mei was watching over it with hovering feet, waiting and smiling for the night to become more interesting. He appeared on the roof just in time to see her dancing at the edge of the building with some delight not making any move with his arrival.
"You knew?" He limited to ask just before jumping to the edge with her and taking a step beside her, Mei stopped dancing.
"About the Gold King? Yeah, I did, I even said farewell in a dream while flying to Japan." He arranged his glasses a little angry with that fact. "I suppose was the first matter taken on today's coffee table meeting.
"Were you listening?
"Just for some of the first details, but then I decided to leave the matter to you, you are my voice and in the end this is a matter that affects all the clans and their kings, I am just the shadow of the legend behind the scenario of th main theatre. it is your moment, no mine, Reisi.
"Scepter 4 has joined forces with the red and silver clan. We have united.
"You have united before for a same neutral cause, haven't you?" She smiled seeing the city.
"Well there are some that oppose directy to that order.
"Fushimi will have a part to play, you will see it coming." Munakata titch his teeth, he was not customed to be left outside the box.
"One thing was out of line, though." She added after a pause." For many years I left aside my responsability as the governor of the Dresden Slates, not because I was bored, but because someone researched it and was born as a King after some years of that power being dormnant. I left Adolf and Dai do their own will and shape Japan as the potential country they are now with me watching and making the power stay at bay as I saw fit because I cannot yet shape it, it is not yet my time… And you are not the Gold King, Munakata Reisi, and you do not know the Slates as Yashiro or I know them, next time bite your tongue and let someone help you instead of sending a bomb to their heads. " she made a pause and she could sense how angry he was with her, Reisi was actually refrening himself of responding." If you don't let anyone help you, not even me, then at least have Shiro have a peace of mind or next time I will act as I see fit and if means make it fall over your cubic head, I will do it, understand?
"Is that a direct threat?
"Yeah." Her voice did not shake a bit."Do not meddle in something of past lives that you will not ever possibly understand." He clenched his fists." You are now the guardian of the Dresden Slates, I am the one giving you that free lance job,but they are consuming you, they are making the cracking process of your sword decay on a higher level that you do not want to accept. I can get it, you are a very genius and proud man, that is some of the qualities I admire from you, I could not ask for more, but if sacrificing your life like an idiot with a consciusness by doing so, well, I will make it fall even before you can say my name.
"Damn, you can be so heart colded." He said with a smirk.
"And you could be so conceited, damn you in return. Now, let me see your Sword of Damocles, I want to scan the crack on it or I will pick up a fight her and now with you to see it, better ask for it than make you feel some pain in your pride." She smiled and turned to gaze upon him. He sighed.
"Now you order a king after threatening him, Mei-chan?
"No, I just boss around, Reishi-kun.
"Such a pain." He said and let his sanctum flow through his body.
"That should be Fushimi's line.
"Mmm, for now it is only mine," he saw how the sword uneveloped in the heavens and watch the crack from afar.",there you go, scan it…" but he stop as he proceeded because she was already on the high spot of things putting her hands on the Sword like if that was something as vain as fixing a car, when she put the palm of her hand on it he felt how his heart stopped in the instant and fell to his knees without being able to breath. That feeling come and go while she was finding the soft spots in his own power and somehow he knew she was not going easy on him after what he said so coldly to Isana Yashiro before, he smiled and coughed during the exam of his Sword of Damocles, she really could be very heart cold upon the situations at hand.
"Do you hate me right now?" She said plainly while being around his arms that night on the apartment. Munakata had his other arm behind his head against the pillow looking to the ceiling, thinking."Munakata?" He put his hand on her hair.
"You just turn out the physics of things and made me feel like drowning a hundred times in less than an hour. A normal man could probably be hurt, me, not that easy…but being threaten by your bride to be is not something I would love to see again." She let a sweet kiss fell on his cheek and he smiled. "Damn you sometimes as just YOU." Silence fell between them.
"Hey, Reisi… I will…
"NO." He said abruptly and made her open her eyes with surprise." You will not interfere with the process, I do not know what kind of power you need to take out of you or what methods can be used to heal the crack, but you are not going to perform them on my Sword of Damocles, putting you in danger is not something in my agenda or play card, such is also for you not interferring on the plans ahead of our new threesome alliance. That is my say on the subject, if the sword must fall, we will let it fall, you just threaten me with it for my behavior today, there is no difference of those words you spoke to me, we will let it fall, in the end, is my weight of burden to have killed your previous lover, isn't it?
"Reisi…" but he turned around on the bed to end the discussion about it. She narrowed her eyes and stand up, she dressed up and decided to leave the apartment, Munakata heard her descend the stairs and open the main door. "Jerk." Is the last word he heard before the door closed with a 'bang' and he closed his eyes without regreting what he said, in the end, he was not risking her doing something she had not performed ever before. He was not risking finding out how much amount of her well being will be compromised to be safe of the Damocles Fall that was threatening him.
Agreements
Mei knocked the door twice. Kuroh opened it.
"Hello, I have come to see Adolf K. Weismann." She said like if nothing was out of the ordinary. Kuro narrowed his eyes.
"What for?
"I am not discussing it with his clansman, even if it's you, sorry." He let her pass and entered the tiny apartment where the silver clan lived.
"A blue is here!" He announced.
"Hey! I have no contract, I am no clansman, not red, not blue and definitely not green, I am just a neutral party that ws live stream electrocuted. Hello, Adolf, do you remember me?" She said oooking to Shiro knelt infront the table with a bowl of white rice all gowned in white. His eyes looked at her with surprise and then she saw Neko surrounding her with questions in her face.
"Who is she, Shiro?" Neko asked jumping beside him.
"I have no idea." Mei smiled and took a place infront of him. "Who are you and why are you here? Why are you referring to me as Adolf K. Weismann?
"My name is Hikari Mei and I've come to join your Coffee Table Alliance in the knowing that you have openly declared war with the Green King, Hisui Nagare and put a 24 hour surveillance of the Red King, Kushina Anna upon the Blue King, Munakata Reisi, because of his threat of unstable power due to the guard of the Dresden Slates all by himself after the dead of the Gold King, Kokujoji Daikaku, your lieutenant from seventy years ago.
"And why a non king neutral party as you would be joining us, you are no clansman, you have no power, what on earth could you possibly offer to enter an alliance of kings? " Mei smiled with superiority.
"Something that even Neko with her strain powers can't give you because I was the one to sealed them a long time ago: your real memories." The three of them gasped then Shiro laughed.
"Hey, we came over that a year ago, I do not think that my memories..." Mei narrowed her eyes and Shiro felt the wave of power against him, so swift and sweet and he saw in his mind the lab he had seventy years ago with her sister and someone he was greetng with purple hair, with purple power and was denieing them to research the rock with knives at hand, with a grim face… "You are…" but he was not sure what to say.
"As I said, I sealed them long ago. So, what do you say?
"What do you want?
"My fiancé will not tell me all the details regarding how and when will you stop the Slates from being robbed, even when I have my own ways to know that kind of information I will like to stay in the shadows as much time as possible even when you have already descended into this world again, so… What I want is for you tell me all your plans in advance and all the arrangements you make with the other kings for this matter as if I was one of your own allies, obviously with some discretion for not them to know.
"So much for a straight forward." Said Kuroh.
"You have no idea." She smiled and took one of the crisp macarrons that were on the table and chewed it with delight. Then, she standed up and handed Shiro an envelop." You will find a PDA inside with all the information I am willingly to share with you for a better result in the battle, including all the details regarding my kidnapping and the information I gave to the Blue King about Hisui Nagare that has not yet been put on official reports becuase I ordered it not to be, also, you will find all my contact information, I will be waiting for your call, Adolf, no, Isana Yashiro. I will make my eave.
"Just, who are you?" Asked Shiro taking out the paers, the PDA and some photos from the envelop and she turned with a merry face before leaving.
"I am a legend." And she left the apartment. When she went out of the buiding she smiled and looked to the sky, everything will move as planned adn said." Now you are following me on your duty hours. Are not enough Jungle low members to pursue in the streets for your own delight?
Fushimi came out of the shadows of the building and the bushes and grimace towrds her even when he stand up beside her.
"For someone who is not willing to answer anything and is keeping at bay all her moves, coming out here in the middle of the day alone just a few days after the Silver King descended, well, you can find it a little amusing.
"Is that so?" He 'tsch' his tongue.
"I came here to see some of the arrangements for the reconstruction of some of the areas affected when I fought Gojo Sukuna the other day, then I saw you coming here with so much confidence, I wanted to know what were you planning to do, for the time you expended, well, some threats should have been made or agreements of flowing information for you to come and went so quickly. You really know your surroundings of the situation.
"Really? Well, you made and error, you must have said Gojo Sukuna against Fushimi Saruhiko and M-I-S-A-K-I." she teased him with a smile and saw how he clenched his fists." Now. Now, really, you two should just say your sorrys and keep going on with your friendship summer days, how idiotic for being against each other because of your own prides… Well, what can I say against it, I have not come home for days now and even evaded headquarters for a jerk smirking face.
"How come that headquarters have come to be a peaceful place where he can puzzle over his boredoom without a trace of disgust without a meddlesome girl around…How we have come to that?
"Hmph, let me think." She imagined Munakata drooling over his desk while doing a break up photo puzzle of them both and began to laugh, apparently Fushimi think of something similar so he laughed loudly and Mei turned to see him." Is not very often to hear you laugh, not a merry Fushimi I may add.
"Shut the hell up.
"Have you eaten lunch yet?
"No.
"Well, I know from high level intel that your favorite meal is jabba and blue ice cream, I happen to know just the place in the whole city, come, is on my treat.
"Will you answer my questions? If not, I am not interested." E said plainly. She began to walk. "Such a pain.
"I do not know, who knows, maybe… but at least if not you got to eat the best jabba in the whole world and apologize to Ryuu-sama.
"Tsch." And he followed her through the campus.
Thinking orders
Munakata was in the upper evel of the Mihashira Tower doing his daily routine of going into the room of the Slates, probably it was not a daily thing but and hourly thing to do, but he stopped in the door knob when a voice resonated in the great lobby of the level with the shadows of the night making her voice more furious.
"You shouldn't go in there, you know?" He was not looking back to where the voice was coming, but he clearly found the displeasure on it without looking to the owner.
"You haven't come back at home." He added with a strict emotionless voice.
"Well, in fact I have but you're at headquarters or, no, they said to me you spent more time in that room than in your office.
"Who tells?
"I have my resources." He move the door a little to open it. "I could order you not to go in there and let me be the Slates guardian as it should be, you know?
"I was chosen by the Slates.
"Yeah, it also came on my way that you said that to the Prime Minister asking for his 'request' of help you and other government facilities for a high level movement to erradicate the green clan, because you were chosen by the Slates, really?
"Yes.
" Were the slates or me that grant you that power? Was the will of the Slates or mine that are letting you go freely seeing how you crumble to show a lesson? Is it the Slates or my own desires that are the same as the Slates? Really, you are so ingenius sometimes, Munakata Reisi.
He fle the door open and the Slates were shinning in the middle of the darkness.
"You shouldn't go in there, you know?" She repeated.
"Is that an order, your majesty?" He asked seeing her in the back from the corner of his eyes. She scanned the city from the huge windows of the buildings and closed her eyes sighing.
"No." She opened her eyes and began walking to leave the upper level floor."Believe me, when I make an order for you as the Blue King, all the rest of the kings and their clansmen will be aware of it, believe me, you haven't known what an ORDER means from my part. Remember that you are toying around with my heirloom." Without giving him a glance she took the elevator and he looked at her while she gave him a gesture of goodbye with her arm, then he entered the room of the Slates without hesitation for it to resonate with his power and supress it.
Four days until Christmas Eve.
Hikari Mei was at the top of the highest skyscraper as she always did theses days before leaving to her home with Ryuu-san at the skirts of the Kagutsu incident to remember her what was at stake if the Slates were disturbed. She was writing in the scrolls of the sky before sending them to the currents of destiny overscribbing the ruls of the Slates power that Dai, th Gold King, had left before, she had been doing that the past month at expenses of Munakata finding out she was somehow helping him to supress their power.
"Tiresome." Was the only thing she was thinking but the scrolls were extensive and she was really not enjoying her work, even if that meant to Japan to prosper. But she kept writing on the nothingness of the air over and over again while seeing the lights city before her, that was soothing.
Two strong arms hold her from behind tightly and she leaned her weight to his body like a magnet while keep writing the future will without saying a word to him. Munakata could see the characters perfecty but could not read them at all, they were the same encarved on the Dresden Slates and they were flaming away to the same sky where she was putting the ink from her fingers to shape the ideals of all mankind.
She kept going even when her fingers went a little dumb and even until one onf his hands made her turn her face to kiss her deliberately. They got separated but she didn't mind about it and kept going writing quickly to set the scroll in the final chart of the skies. She draw the final pattern with the ending dot and rised her arms up high, made a movement with her fingers and traced the bright strings of fate into the darkness of the heavens where a nice pattern was seen against the stars and the seventh scroll was given to the fate before disappearing as broken glass that fall under the extension of the city over the seven kingdoms she guarded.
"What? Not used to be ignored?" She said while watching her play go into the enormous chess board that she was playing, he did not answer. "You kiss, but not talk, huh? I am just going further to the future of this country and Kanto area, foreseeing the outcome of the next months and the coming battle is part of my duty, I know Adolf too well to know what he may try to do if the Slates are indeed taken away and I know exactly what to do to prevent it to happen. Hisui Nagare, my chessboard is even bigger than you.
"I am not used to cards I can't control." He said and she rest her head below his collarbone.
"I have seen more powerful men than you being absorbed by the power and infinite possibilities of that rock." She said with some concern in her voice.
"Is that so?
"Yeah, and you are the only one I will cry for, the only one's fate I could regret…" he gasped in disbelief, then smiled in an apology. "It is for certain, you will fall.
" I have the Queen of the Slates on my side, what could possibly fail?
"That you don't let your own subordinates help you, that is all, that is all it's needed for failure.
"If you start to speak like that maybe I will worry.
"Is that so?" She separated from his grasp. "You win, I will only be as I have always been all his years, not a player but a spectator, but, if the plan comes out like I have predicted because of some third party member that was during my imprisonment, I have to warn you, even I will come out of the shadows.
"Fair enough, what about dinner?
"If it's on your treat and I got to drive, we have a deal, Reishi-kun, you jerk." She said plainly and then opened her arms and let the gravity take her to the first floor going to the nothingness of the night like a bullet going to its target, down and down.
"How many times do I have to repeat you to take the stairs!?" He yelled while seeing her fall and arranging his glasses. He jumped and followed her with a big true smile into the nothingness. Their makeups were one of a kind.