Chapter. 38
The fallowing day Connar woke up, the thief rubbed his and got up. "Warning! mental sta-"
Connar stabbed his accessory in the neck and shoved it aside. Outside of his cell he saw Ann and Beatrice walking towards Hal. Connar leaned on the railing to see what happens.
"Sorry about my little sis here. I just don't know what's got into her lately." Hal glanced at his sister.
Beatrice shook her head. "Please, it was no trouble."
"I-I"m so sorry!" Ann bowed to Beatrice.
As this went on Connar noticed Alice was saw them too and went to join the group. "What's up everyone!"
"Oh, hello." Greeted Hal. "Well, it's Ann, you see..."
"Please... Hal..." Pleaded Ann.
"She managed to get herself lost wandering around on citizen's promenade. Beatrice brought her back." Explained Hal.
"I-I wasn't lost! Tell him, Beatrice! I wasn't lost, was I?"
"Erm... well, umm..." Beatrice was at a loss for words.
"I wasn't! Honestly!"
Alice smiled lightly to Ann. "Why don't I believe that?"
"Look, whatever happened, you ended up making a nice new friend. That's a real development." Hal turned back to Alice. "I was worried she'd never manage to stand on her own two feet, always following me around like she-"
Ann stomped on Hal's foot. "Hey! Why don't we talk about this later, hm?"
"The main thing is that everything is alright now." Pointed Beatrice.
"Thank you so much! It was so fun just hanging out and chatting!"
Beatrice nods with a smile. "Hm! I rather enjoyed myself too!"
"Hey, what's the special occasion? Someone forget to sent me an invite?" Elfriede approached the group to join in.
"This should be fun." Connar watch Elfriede walk. "Struten in like you own the place, you haven't changed at all Elfy."
"Hello Elfriede!" Greeted Beatrice.
"Oh!" Alice clapped her hands together. "Elfriede, this is Hal and Ann."
Hal stepped back. "Elfriede? Wait, THE Elfriede!? The royal round champion!?"
"Royal round?" Thought Connar.
Elfriede put her hands on her hips. "You know your stuff."
"Sixty three victories in a row, wasn't it? No one else has ever come close! I just never thought you'd turn out to be a little kid-" Elfriede punched Hal chest. "Arrgh!" Hal fell to his knees, holding his stomach.
"That's for judging a book by it's cover!"
Connar was covering his mouth. "Damn girl, no mercy."
Ann gave a quick bow to Elfriede. "Please to meet you. My name is Ann. you've... er... met my brother, Hal. I'm sorry for what he said. He just can't help himself sometimes."
"Don't worry about it. He's not the first person to get the wrong idea about me."
Ann spins back to Beatrice. "So you and Elfriede are friends, Beatrice? You're so popular."
"Still, Elfriede you did have to hit Hal." Said Alice. "With a record like yours, how would anyone think you're, well, you?"
Elfriede scoffed. "If you and your friends ever want to compete at my level, you're going to need to do some serious training."
Alice shook her head. "Just like Connar, always too serious."
"Anyway, I've got business to attend to. See you around, sinners." Elfriede walked away.
Hal let out a gasp of air. "So that was... The punch that knocked out sixty three challengers... Hurgh."
"Umm..." Beatrice thought for a second, needing to change the subject. "Oh, I almost forgot! Julien wishes to speak to us about something."
"Then let's go!" Alice and Beatrice took off for the elevator.
"Time to ask Elfy some questions." Connar leaped down for the railing and followed Elfriede.
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Down in Zakka Alice and Beatrice found Julien. "hey J, How's your day?" Asked Alice.
"Good, you're here. I found out something that could be of interest."
"Well, don't keep us waiting."
"Well, as I'm sure you know, everything you sinners do is recorded, and the data is transmitted to the authorities."
"Okay, that could be useful."
"Now, older data which is deemed to be of little immediate interest is stored in a restricted sector on level four of the cell garden. In other words, that sector contains a whole wealth of information about sinners from times past."
"But how will this all help?" Alice was a little lost.
"Well, do you remember how we registered Beatrice as a sinner?"
"Yes."
"It occurred to me that perhaps someone had done something similar in the past . Like when certain other sinners appeared out of nowhere , for example... What I'm saying is that we might be able to uncover something in those records that will lead us to Beatrice's father."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Beatrice nods. "Yes, we must! We absolutely must!"
Julien hands a card key to Alice. "Okay, here's the passcode you'll need. See what you can find, just keep your wits about you. it's a restricted area, after all."
Alice was having second thoughts. "Ah, maybe we should think about this."
"What, why?! We now know where to go!"
"But if we get caught our years will go up, Maybe we should get Connar to help us."
"...Okay." Beatrice was hesitate but could see the logic in the idea. The two left zakka to find their thief.
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"Hey! Elfy!" Connar caught up with his friend. "Hey, I wanted to ask-" He slid to the right, evading Elfriede's punch.
"Didn't ever learn that spying is bad?"
"Ha, Still perceptive. Like I said, I want to know about the royal round. What's that?"
"You there!" Some officers with accessories approached the two sinners. "Connar 'Dracula' Vaniah. You're to come with us now."
"I don't think so." Connar reached for his weapon and the accessories put out their hands to bind the two sinners.
"Beginning observation." Said the accessories.
The officers turned to the machines. "What do you mean?" They heard a loud snap and one of the officers coughed up blood.
Connar was free and his eyes were glowing. Another officer reached for their weapon, Connar grabbed the officer's wrist and slit their throat with his hidden blade. The thief let go of the dead officer and stroke the third officer with his elbow.
As the officer fell back, Connar stabbed his blade into their neck and then threw them to the ground. The accessories put up their hands up to bind Connar again.
"You can't hold me." Connar broke free once more, he thrusted his blades into the foreheads of two accessories and shoved them into the last accessory. The two broken robots fell and Connar grabbed the last accessory's head and ripped it off. "Ahhh! None of you can stop me!"
"Connar! Please calm down!" Shouted Elfriede.
Connar retracted his blades and turned to his friend. He walked towards her and grabbed the light ring binding her and ripped it off. The sinner kneeled down and brought a hand to his head. "Elfy?" The glow in his eyes faded away. "What was that? What's happening to me?!"
"Connar..." Elfriede placed her hand on his shoulder. "Something's inside you, it seems to come out whenever you get anger of when you try to do something you can't normally do."
"What is it? What's in me? What's taking control?!" The glow returned in Connar's eyes.
Elfriede grabbed her firend's arm and leaned closer. "Connar! Calm down, We'll figure this out. You need to trust me, like old times."
Connar slowed his breathing. "Okay, okay. I trust you Elfy." The glow faded again, Connar lost his strength and collapsed.
Elfriede caught Connar and laid him against a nearby wall.
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