Chap. VI - Oh My motherland, it's Blood! Please Help Me!
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{{Op. Blue Bird, Eurobeat Remix}}
~Ultra-Eastern Project~
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{Human Village at 03:30 pm, Day 1, 3rd pov}
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The scene opens up somewhere on the street of the human settlement, where we can see villagers passing by and minding their business.
On one side of the street is a traditional Japanese-style bar with a wooden signboard that reads Geidontei.
Although it isn't open yet, Even though it's already afternoon.
Nevertheless, we move on and go inside.
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From there, we found that the bar is quite empty, the chair and table are in palced, well kept and clean of any dust, behind the counter are shelves holding different types of drink including western, kitchen from behind the back.
Sitting in front of the counter, we found a certain school teacher who is now committing bad examples if any children were to find her here.
"Ahh, that's better, I need some of these since this morning, Arigatō, Okunoda-san, and sorry for coming in when you're not open yet.'' She says to the bar owner.
The person behind the counter 'Okunoda' is the bar owner. She was a young lady around her twenties, wearing a long-sleeve light-blue shirt with crossed ribbons on the chest that somewhat acted like an extra holder for her rather impressive around of knockers.
Author: cameramen! Knock out of it!
Cameramen: sorry sir!
Anyway...
a blue apron with a stylized drawing of a whale, The whale seems to be the symbol of Geidontei bar, A purple skirt with two more crosses on each side, red and white papers stuck on them styling after something.
Her hair is strangely pink in color, She wears a blue hat shaped like a cute little whale resting on her head, her right sidelock is shaped up like a hook, and her eyes are forestry green.
Despite her appearance, she seems fully capable of managing the place by herself.
"Hehe, it was no problem Sensei, how is your day if I may ask? Other than your reason for being here of course." Okunoda asks as she prepares some stuff behind the counter to officially open the bar.
"The usual really, the children come and study, some learn faster or slower than others but I teach and treat them all equally." Took a small sip as she says.
"That's nice to hear, though be careful not to let the kids see you, will leave a bad example, though, at the same time that means fewer customers for me in the future, which is bad, I don't know what to think." Isn't that true?
"Let's just do what we feel is right. They can decide what they want to do when they're older. What about you though? Managing the pub alone I mean, why not hire some staff or part-time workers?"
"I will if I start to feel overwhelmed but for now, I can make it. sigh, maybe I will need that sooner, you're right, manning the place all by myself can be so tiring ever since I reopened the bars as a pub years ago after Ojīsan..."
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She stops in her sentence at the mention of an Ojīsan. Sadly gaze at something.
Sensei follows her gaze and Looks at one of the shelves.
Instead of holding bottles of drink, There is a portrait of some elderly man resting on it. Some incense sticks are burning and bottles of sake are in front of the portrait.
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A moment of silence.
"I'm sorry Sensei, ara, this is not like me, can't be such a downer when you are a deputy pub owner and poster girls of say pub."
"I'm too, sorry for your loss."
"It's all right, it 'bout to come eventually and I have accepted it, even knowing that it still makes me very sad..."
"But speaking about being a deputy owner, are you truly planning to sell it? From what I know the Ojīsan doesn't have any hair to inhabit the place so he'd leave it to you and you gonna sold it? Please forgive me if I'm being sound cold."
"All forgiven and yes you're right, it does seem like a cruel and dishonorable thing to do but don't worry, I'm not gonna just unreasonably sell it just because someone pays the cash for it, they have to do a few following conditions."
"And that being...?"
Okunoda then does a freaking pose and counts her fingers.
"One, the buyer has to have a clear interest in starting a career in either being a bar, restaurant, or cafe, and the name of the shops will still be Geidontei!" 1 finger.
"Two, half of their business impression and currency have to be in the betterment of say three mentioned options: cooking supply, drink, or upgrading the place." 2 fingers.
"Three, this is important, have to be able to cook ten or more different dishes of any culture in the limited time of fifteen minutes." 3 fingers.
"Four, Handsome, respect women, and butler's bow. Wait, what's a butler??? And Oh! Address me as Miyoi-chan or Miyoi-neechan!" 4 fingers.
This brought a massive sweatdrop to the back of Keine-sensei's head if the first three haven't already done that...
"And finally Five, I'll still be the number 1 mascot and waiter of Geidontei!" All 5 fingers.
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"... ... ... So, in the end, you sold the pub, someone buys it and gains ownership but in actuality, you still own the place and bosses them around? That doesn't make a lick of sense, and is the handsome part really necessary???" This just makes her day weirder than it already was but then again, she has seen weirder things across history…
"Giggle~ Ojīsan say this 'if a drink tastes good for you then it's good enough to you' which can go to something like 'if that makes sense to you then it senses enough to you' so it makes sense to me. And Yes, it does."
Finger point up to heavens.
"Grandmother says this 'He who -"
Sorry, Sir! Not here!
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Anyway...
"Sigh, at least it wasn't some unreasonable five lunatic request, there's 'bouts to be someone whooo..." She trails off as she tries to recall histories of who can fit those descriptions...
And the result was...
~(Bon appétit, Mon professeur...)~
Couldn't be...
"can... match... those five conditions... Hopefully...?" (I probably should keep my thoughts for myself...)
Oooh~? Seems like we have some 'History' here~!
They laugh for a bit with that like good friends, not a hard thing to imagine considering they also have a somewhat similar ability.
Okunoda finishes preparing the place and goes to open the door.
But before her hand can lend on it, it automatically opens itself.
Or rather someone opens it first and that being.
"Oh? Welcome! I was about tooo..." Miyoi drops her voice when got the look on the person behind the door.
"Ufufufu~ why, long time no see Little Whale, am I coming a bit too early?"
"Eh, Uh, N-Not at all Yakumo-sama, I was about to open the pub, please come inside." She welcomes nervously, after all, it's not any day your ex-boss would come to visit you and it usually means business, bad business.
"Ufufufu, then I'll make myself comfortable then, please continue with your work dear."
That right, it's the ever so young and well-aging Lady of the Gap, she is the living example of why you should never and ever mention a woman's age.
She helps herself at the counter sitting on a chair that is dangerously close to Keine-sensei.
This is not good...
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A dreadful moment of silence...
"Yakumo..." Keine spoke with a cold and dreadful tone.
"Ara ara, how cold I feel like chilling but nothing a good old Vodka couldn't warm up, Miss History." Please don't play the bass, Comrade.
"I don't drink much so I wouldn't know, now cut to the point you say we hold a meeting here, something about new allies that hold the power to combat those monsters, Is that about it?" No nonsense, straight to the point.
"Ufu, you heard right, an ally, or should I say, a weapon, yes, an Anti-Kaiju weapon that will make short work for those Holy S*t Nazi wannabe Empire and their Kaiju, ufufufu~ this year is certainly gonna be interesting, I can tell." Well, Manipulation isn't she?
"Sōdesu ka? Now you make me curious as to what this ally of ours can do, what is their name, and when will they arrive?"
"Ufu, soon and I will leave the introduction to them. Miyoi dear! Vodka!" Please don't play the bass!
"Hai! Coming!" Okunoda goes to get the drink in question, she returns with a glass of ice and lemon, and most importantly, the silver bottle that drives people insane on the train.
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"за Родину," Yakumo says before taking a sip of her glass, prepare yourself, comrade.
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Hmmm, that's strange, usually, it be-
{{Red Alert! Red Alert! Evening Narkotik Kal Star ~ Night Falls Dance for the Nonsenseland!}}
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Ich bin raus hier.
[Meanwhile.]
Just kidding.
in some other parts of the streets in the human settlements, is it afternoons and people are out buying various cooking supplies for dinner at the market, children are allowed out playing for a few hours, for some, it is freedom from the torture of homework!
But let us return to the main focus of the story, our lovable trio of miss-match.
one is a tomboy not so Ordinary Witch with a major case of mushroom high.
Another is an ex-poor Shrine Maiden who shamelessly shows the world her shoulder and triggers people with weird fetishes.
Finally, the not-so-right-in-the-head chosen hero who can miraculously survive any Back-breaking situation life throws at him.
Four if you count a certain cheerful Cortana-wannabe AI in a small box on the boy's hand.
The three 'four' of them are walking in the middle of the streets, the people ignore them and mind their own business, despite the two particular girls popularity with their accomplishments in helping the village with solving many incidents, the people don't think much about it and go on their deity life the next day the incident was solved.
No one pays them to do their work either, which is sad, you work your butt for free and nobody cares when it's all said and done...
That is not to say that their efforts would go unrecognized however as there is a good number of villagers greeting them as they pass by, from the old elderly married couple to the young dating one, children of different age and height, all greeted them variously and they, in turn, return the gesture.
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Though the same can't be said to our poor boy as he was bombarded with gossip from other same-age teenagers with weird fetishes.
Girl1: Oh my kami, look over there, he's so cute~!
Girl2: Yeah, but what with the two hairs? That looks weird.
Girl1: weird? I think it's stylistically nice, though his clothes are rather tasteless. What with the shoulder pads and metal shoes?
Girl2: tasteless? I think it looks cool, with that dark hero vibes and all, though his boyish face might say otherwise. giggling~
Girl3: Thats so lame...
Unfortunately, it is a different reaction with the opposite gender...
Boy1: TSH, dammit...! Just when you thought there can't be more, another one has to show up and catch all the girl's attention, damn pretty boy...!
Boy2: Yeah, and he's with Kirisame-san and Hakurei-san, two of the top 100 babies around here, lucky bastard!
Boy1: crap! I get it now! He must have blackmailed them into going out with him, he may look like a pretty good guy, but at the end of the day, he's a rapist maniac who wants to make all women in the world his slave as they chant his name the harem king!
Boy2: ughhh! This can't be allowed to stand! We have to get rid of him before he rallies up all the pretty boys and starts the campaign for women! Ready the boy guys! We have a war to win! A war that'll end all pretty boys! We'll show them how much better regular boys are!
Boy1: Regular Boy F*k Yeah!
Boy3: Sigh, remind me again why we'll never get a girlfriend...?
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God Bless You, My Boy...
"groaning, Oh Gott, someone killed me already..." was all he could muster in dismay.
[(Unfortunately, that were be the 'Game's Over' for us should you die too early and triggered the 'Bad Ending' before you could even slay the overlord and save the princess.)]
(Why does it feel like my life's suddenly being turned into an RPG?)
[(With that phone and me around I'm sure it's already one but don't sweat the detail, just enjoy it, No Pain No Games.)]
(Sigh, Whatever, anyway, are you seeing this? The village I mean, is practically a town, bigger than what a village should be, and not to say, there's electricity, I see houses with light bulbs, auto-fan, or even a TV, all of that is old technology though, hack the entire place look like it goes way back to 1940s, there weren't any auto-vehicle though, except bicycles, which is strange, but overall, it seems like the village or town was a mix between feudal and early 20th century Japan. Theory, T?)
[(Well... The only explanation I can measure up is that while it's indeed that gensokyo being cut off from the world, people are still allowed to develop technology or were bought in from the outside but have to undergo a check out for 'Safely' use or rather to keep they from being TOO developed with new tech since according to what we already know, human society being too develop was mean trouble for the youkai since youkai mostly rely on human's spiritual belief and fear of the unknown, technology came along with logic and logic mean less religion belief and less thing to fear since there would be an explanation for why this or that happens, whoever in charge here must have known about this and makes a deal with the youkai social or even one themselves, want human life to improve better but also keeping them in a non-threatening reasonable around of development, why they would do such thing? We can only guess. Did you catch all that LeLeDarling-sama?)]
(Groan, please don't follow in their footsteps, but yeah, I got what you mean, a good youkai governor? what about the tv though? If humans come across things like Discovery Channel and others such, that would be a big screw to anything they work so hard for.)
[(Eh, maybe they can censor, ban it?)]
(How?)
[(I dunno, Magic? Not really a thing for those in the hyper would but that's normal here like how Kirisame-san put out food from her hat.)]
(Speaking of Kirisame-san, we already know her name 'cause of her danger entering and she likely knows mine too since Reimu-san called me with the incomplete name.)
[(Are you sure it was incomplete? Lee is a pretty easy and common name, what else it be?)]
(I don't know, suggestion?)
[(Mmmh, Leeon?)]
(No.)
[(Leeonardo?)]
(Bangō.)
[(NapoLeeon?)]
(Nein.)
"Lee-san, where are you going? The village center's this way." Reimu calls out to him as they make a turn and he walks past that.
"Huh? Oh yeah, sorry, lost in thought for a bit." Sheepishly scratches his face and replies as he gets back to the trio formation.
"More like lost in inner-talking." She says while putting up the tough girl's act.
It's nothing else just to keep up her image, but he didn't really care since he'd already seen a brighter side of her.
"Huh? How do you know? I didn't say out loud right?" That would be embarrassing if anyone thought you were talking to yourself.
"No, but that little friend of yours says she can do something about your mind so I figured she can also read your mind too, so you two can hold some inner conversation am I right?"
["Excuse me!? I have you know Miss Greedy that I am not little, this just happen to be my current form, my physical form is somewhere else."]
"Wait, you have another body Ti? That's new, did your dad separate your body somewhere Ze?"
["Eh, in a way yeah, I suppose? Don't worry though, it's nothing illegal, we Grid-AI are capable of such things and it's normal, we can switch our body to anything that can be 'Connecting' to the 'Grid-Network'."]
"Such as T?"
["Computer, Phone, Wi-Fi, you name it."]
"Hah, you be one heck of a Hacker then, don't know if I should worry you might look into my google search history, wait, do I even have one???" Worry about what she might find aren't ya?
["Gasp…!? How could you, Lee-sama…!? I would never do that to you, Otousan program better than that!"]
"That's a relief..." Indeed it would.
["Though I will keep an eye on you should you decide to go to any certain hornet site~!"]
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"Hehe... I... I'm not into that, Yeah, Am not, No sir…"
"Huh? I don't get it, what are you two talking about Ze?" Nothing you need to know.
["Oops, Gomen, can't tell, classified information."]
Yeah right...
"Whatever, and I'm not greedy, I just... like money, Yes, that sounds right!"
"Pff, yeah right, that's the same thing, just admit it, you're greedy Ze."
"Shut up! Mushroom high!"
"Armpit explorers!"
"Head Butter!"
"Kick happy manic!"
"Thief!"
"Racist!"
"Uhh, guy? Girl?"
""Stay out of this!!""
"Ok." Poor boy...
["The best strategy things to do is shut up and stay away."]
"Yeah, I figure. But we're catching attention here."
People are looking at them, some show annoyance by the name-calling match that disturbing the peace.
["If it weren't already with the girl popularity or those weirdos gossiping behind your back."]
"Sigh, no need to remind me-"
"Onii-chan! Watch out!"
"Huh? Woah!"
The timely warning allows him to dodge an object going for his head.
*bonk!*
"Ouch!" Only for it to bounce off the pole behind him and back to hit his head.
In the end, it doesn't even matter!
"Ouch, was zum...?"
The object in question is a sports ball, a football to be practiced.
He looks around and sees that they have come across a small playground fashion with several sports games such as baseball, basketball, and football. which is strange, considering this is 1940s Japanese or at least looks like it.
"Gomen'nasai..." Say a group of children about ten, younger or older, they're acting a bit nervous for accidentally hitting him and that he's probably an outsider, the parents have taught them to be wary of outsiders.
Stared at the younger group for a moment before to the balls in front of his feet then, whip up an idea.
Taking the balls in his hand, the kid watches nervously not knowing what he will do.
Then, he throws the ball high up in the air and...!
"Kyūkyoku!"
Doing a backflip!
"Shainingu!!"
Then!!
"Kikkkkkkkkku!!!"
Kick!!!
!究極 • シャイニング • キッ!
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A moment of silence...
And is a GOAL!!!
I can't believe it! The unknown man has scored a Goal for the Japan team against, well, Japan! And he does it flashy with that backflip kick and catches the ball on fire! A Fireball! This is anime balls*t! I can't believe it!! I. Can't. Believe it!!!
Random someone: dude, you suppose to be the story narrator, not a football announcer.
Shut your trap and enjoy it! Anyway,
"Woooaaah..." Which was the general reaction for most of the kids as they looked at the still-hot red balls, then looked back up to the older teen standing there after his little performance.
And he was… posing!?
Not a single reference here~!
Then he was bombarded with questions like, How do you do that? That was awesome, can you do it again? Can you teach me? Around other things.
"Come Play with us Onii-chan!"
"Hah, sure, I got some time to waste, you guys okay with that?" He asks the girl, they nod and quiet down after his Kyūkyoku! Shout out!!
[(Lee-sama, need I remind you that we still have a meeting to attest to?)]
(Nah, I'm pretty sure we're late, so what's a few more minutes were made a difference?) He mentally replies as he makes his way to the football ground and sides with one team of younger players.
[(It's that really a logical thing to do? What if they get mad at us and lowing our chances for any possible chance of forming an alliance?)]
(Well, you do have a point, but I'm not about to back down after accepting to do something, be it something big or small like playing with this guy here. Don't worry though, if it comes to that, I'll figure something out.)
[(Oh no, I'm pretty sure that was my job, figuring things out is part of my job of being a tactical AI, but for now, go ahead and play so we can continue being on our way.)]
(Hah, well, if you're so proud of your work then I'll leave most of the heavy thinking to you then, that just means less of a headache for me, don't worry, it wouldn't take long.)
And thus, he goes around and plays sports with the kids, showing them a few performances tricks, and skills. The girls sitting on the benches nearby, just enjoy the little show.
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Ten minutes later, he stops for a breather and blows the sweat as well as unzips the front of his jacket, showing the red undershirt dripping with sweat, Hugging his well-shaping athletic build despite what It may look like outside the jacket.
and the two ladies, as well as some random other, try to steal a gaze, though the two of them hiding it quite well the bit of red on their cheek states that they're enjoying it.
[(Ara ara, you scoring fast, not just with the balls but also with something else~)]
(What do you mean by that?)
[(Giggle~ Figure it out yourself, Pureibōi~)]
(Mm? Okay?)
Then he heard a tune playing, he looked to see that it was an Ice cream man, the children immediately coming to buy the cold sweet from his cart.
Feeling up for something cold, he bought three for himself and the girls.
Thanking the ice cream man and making his way back to the two not-so-popular girls and presenting them with the cold sweet.
"Huh? Oh, Arigatō, Lee-san."
"Oh sweet! You got my favorite flavor, thanks, dude!"
"I did? What a coincidence, guess I am lucky enough to know what girls like."
["Yeah right, you just choose it randomly based on their color, Kirisame-san's yellow, and Hakurei-san's red."]
"Well, it works out in the end and that's good."
He's about to take a bit of the double popsicles but stops when catching something or someone in the corner of his eyes.
There is a boy, sitting on the benches all alone, looking about six or seven, wearing a simple blue shirt and white shorts. Messing black hair and equal eye color.
Though those eyes seem pretty hollow right now...
Lee looked around but couldn't find anyone who could be his parents or guardian, this gave him a disturbing feeling in the guts.
but curiosity got the better of him so he approached the boy, careful not to make any sudden movement that was seen as threatening.
"Hey, how're you doing kid? Sitting here all alone?"
"... ... ..." Silent was his only response, no reaction whatsoever...
"Hmm, I didn't see you play with others or buy ice cream, want some?"
"... ... ..." Again with the silent treatment.
Lee scratches his face, not knowing what to do even though he want to know what got the boy so down.
Looking around he sees that the ice cream man has gone on his way and most other kids either go back to playing or having their parents take them home.
"You..."
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"Huh?" Hearing the boy suddenly address him.
"You… from the outside, right? Go away, I hate outsiders." The boy says as he looks up but doesn't make eye contact.
[(Well, that's too bad, he hate us so let's go Lee-sama.)]
"And why did you say that? I didn't do anything bad yet, I just got here." Unfortunately, he decided to ignore her and pass on the question.
"Outsiders are bad people, you disturb the nature, you don't believe in Kami-sama, you fight and kill in war, and...!"
Only six years old and the kid's already listing the dark side of humanity, which gave our bearer of the light a solid idea of what he will say next.
"An-And...! And...! You set our village on fire! You...! You kill Otousan and Okaasan!!"
The child spoke out of anger and glaring directly at him.
Luckily, there're not many people nearby anymore, some don't know what's going on or just irresponsibly mind their own business.
The young chosen one, with shadow cast over his window of souls, unconsciously fisting his left palm, hearing this just fueling his fire angrier and resent toward those the true antagonizing of the incident as well as further increasing his already distaste for those who hid the truth, feeding the people lie and blaming it on someone else.
[(It's possible that many villagers dislike outsiders so the memory alterer may use this to their advantage for an easy and believable story.)]
(That's still so wrong...)
"sniff ah... sniff..."
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"I hate you people- sniff it only- sniff it only you weren't so evil and selfish- sniff th-then tousan an-and kaasan would still be here- sniff ah... sniff you burn our sniff village when we gave you a place to stay sniff… I thought you're was our friend..."
"sniff sob... sniff- huh...?"
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The boy stops in his sobbing when feeling something or someone patting his head.
Looking up and saw that it came from the older teen in front of him who he has accused of things and saying bad things about his people.
But instead of getting mad or feeling insulted, he pats his head, caressing, while smiling warmly, he can feel a strange warming aura of light, the warm feeling that reminds him of the happier Time when his family was as a whole and also somehow reminds him of someone, of the only family he has left...
"Daijōbudesu, yeah, I know it can be hard and you have the right to be angry but you gotta keep on going and live, find happiness again, and remind yourself of family, do you know why?"
"sniff, Why...?"
"'Cause for as long as you live and continue to remember them by with the happiest time you can remember spending with them, that way, I believe that they will continue to live on in your memory, even with just a tiny bit of what you remember about them, should there come one day that you can no longer rememberings them by, it would then that they have truly press away..."
"sniff, but... My parents are g-gone, I'm all alone..."
"Wrong."
"Nani…?"
"They are here." He taps the kid's forehead with his index and middle fingers.
"And here." Then to his chest, where the heart of young resists.
"They're in your memory and your heart."
"Always by your side."
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"Huh? What's that?" Hearing his junior mumble something in his breath.
"Onīsan used to touch my forehead like that too…"
"Oh? You have an older brother?" (That's a relief, at least he wasn't all in this village.)
"Hai, Onīsan took care of me, but he's been really busy with his job lately so he doesn't have much time to play with me anymore..."
"Mmmh, well, do you have any friends? I didn't see you playing with the others earlier."
"Uh, Well... There's Naruto and some others... But I haven't gone to play with them for years now..."
"And why is that?"
"When my parent's gone, I'm always getting mad and angry then one day I just... Drive them away 'till they didn't come to invite me to play anymore... They must have hated me now..." The boy says chest dropping but at least now he talks more ease and comfort with The supposed evil outsiders.
Lee's about to say something about that but stops when his eyes catch something hiding in the little bush nearby, he gets a good idea of what it could be and smiles at it.
"Well, I don't think that's true, I'm sure your friend just wants to give you some time alone to get things straight and when you're ready to tell them yourself they'll come and play with you again."
"How do you know for sure?"
"Called it a GUTS feeling or..." He gave a wink to the bush as if to give a signal for-
"You wrong Sasuke baka!!"
A shout came out from the bush, revealed to be another kid of the same age as the boy 'Sasuke', he's wearing an orange T-shirt with a Ramen bowl paint on it, black shorts. Got spiky blonde hair and sky-blue eyes. And strangely have some kinda three wrinkle marks on each side of his cheek that kinda make him look like a cat or fox.
"Naruto...!?"
"The Oniisan here is right! You just see so mad and angry at everything at the time so Itachi-Niisan tells us to let you rest until you get better, it's been years or more but we, or at least me and definitely Sakura-chan are still waiting for when you finally decided to come out of your home and play with us again."
"Really...? Even Sakura-san? After I've been so mean to anyone..."
"That's all right, Big bro says 'water under the toilet' or something like that. Anyway, are you hungry? I only have my Ice Cream."
"That's fine, I don't-"
*crack!*
"Here you go." Lee broke his double popsicle in two and gave Sasuke one-half of his ice cream.
"Huh? But it's your, Oniisan."
"Nah, that's all right I need to take less sugar anyway."
[(With that little workout earlier I don't think you have much sugar left in that Body~)]
(Please, no harassment in front of youngsters...)
"Hey! Let's go find Sakura-chan and the others, let our friends know you're back, and play again, I'm sure they'll be glad, come on!" Didn't even let the boy chance to respond, Naruto took Sasuke's hand and spirit away to search for their friend.
"Oh, wait-wait a minute, uhh, tha-thanks a lot for earlier Oniisan and I'm sorry for saying bad things about you and your friend, you're very nice, thanks again Oniisan. I'll introduce you to my Onīchan someday." Sasuke, now on friendlier terms with the older teen, thanking him for the talk and listening earlier.
"Haha, yup, and remember when you feel lonely and doubt, you still always have friends and family, if you can remember still having those then you wouldn't feel so lonely anymore."
"Ok, I'll keep that in mind, Sayōnara Oniisan."
"Play balls with us again next time ok!?"
"Hah, okay, if I'm still around here then yeah, I'll play again."
And with that, the kids go their way holding hands, leaving behind the teen with his now rapist Cortana wannabe A.I.
["Hehe, aww, look at them go, hand in hand like that, it's probably nothing but there this old-fashioned way of thinking, have you ever heard that holding hands can get people pregnant? Though since they're boys I don't think the rules add... Hopefully...?"]
"Please stop giving me weird ideas. I don't want to imagine what they will do when they grow up and if that is true then I might already impregnate Reimu and Marisa, just gonna wait a few months for the result." He replies and now he can finally take a bite at the 'Half the cream it's used to be'.
["You're awfully calm about it, I would expect you to freak out with that knowledge."]
"Got to expand the Redfield bloodlines."
["I'm sure that not even your bloodline to expand."]
"Yeah, whether."
He made his way back to others. The lady, having finished their own cream sometimes while he was talking with the younger, witnessed how he behaved among the children of tomorrow and silently having their own opinions on the matter.
But they can agree on one thing, he has a brother or father figure in him, especially around kids.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, should we get going?" He asks as he gets back to their delta formation.
But are unaware of a shadow making its way to them.
"Perdon me but are you perhaps Lee-dono, the warrior of light?"
"Huh?" Hearing a voice addressed to him with a title he never heard, turns to face who is were.
He bears great similarity to the boy, Sasuke from earlier, fairly tall and around twenty or so. With long jet-black hair and equally black eyes, have long, pronounced tear-troughs.
His Uniform is similar to the two Gatekeeper from earlier, which we now have a better look at since it doesn't cover in sand and dirt, consists of a long-sleeve black shirt and pants, having two red symbolizes circles on each of the shoulders, black fingerless gloves with metal plates on the backhand, and a pair of sandals? Socks? That leaving his toes explores.
The only real protection he has was a headband with a metal plate that has a leaf symbol on it. And a green flak jacket, which has three pouches storing something on each side of the chest, a neck guard, extra padding over the shoulders, and a zipper down the middle. The same red circle symbol is integrated onto the back of the jacket.
Overall, somehow the dude just screaming Teenage Ninja Turtles in our Boy's head.
"I am, I guess? Not sure about the title though but I did fight some monsters," he answers the man honestly.
[(Are you sure it's a good idea to be THAT honest?)]
(Normally, No, but he seems to know and I got a good idea who could have told him, don't worry I'm not that naive.)
[(I hope...)]
"Wonderful, I have been sent here to search for you and your friend since you did not show up at the center at the meeting time."
"Haha, yeah, we encountered a few problems along the way, and I kinda thought it's fine to be a bit late, sorry to bother you Mr...?" He trailed off, not catching in the man's name.
"Uchiha Itachi, at your service. I am a member of the Kaze, special shinobi squad under the direct command of Colonel Namikaze." The Man 'Itachi' introduced himself.
"Oi, how ya doing Dark Bro? your little bro was here a few minutes ago Ze." Marisa suddenly calls out to him.
"Naruhodo. And I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you call me that, Kirisame-san."
"You two know each other?" Lee asked.
"We're acquaintances, Kirisame-san and Hakurei-san help the village with many incidents before, we don't directly involve but we do what we can to support them as long as it's within the village's walls," Itachi replies.
"Uh-huh, how are you doing, Uchiha-san?" This time it's Reimu.
"Better, but we're not here to talk about me. As stated before, I am here to find the Warriors and escort Lee-dono to the meeting place. The colonel and our other guests are already waiting, please follow me, Min'na."
The trio agrees and continues making their way to the village center.
A few minutes later, they finally got to the center...
Butt...
"Was...??? It's empty, there's nobody here except some villagers." As our boy says, there's nobody here who could look like a colonel or a certain ol-young! guests.
*zzziiippp!*
"Huh?" Hearing a zipping sound open up, he looked up and saw a note being dropped.
Catch it and read...
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"Uggghhh... Das kann doch nicht wahr sein...!" Well, that can't be good...
"What does it say?" Reimu asked.
Not feeling up to read it again he passes her the note and...
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*ripping!*
"That Hag!! After we get all the way here!" Angrily, she rips the note to pieces.
"You know about this aren't ya Ze?" She says, glancing at the shinobi who begin to sweat.
"Uhh, hai... I was just... Yakumo-sama told me to, so..." The poor man's just following the lady's request...
"Sigh, well, it can't be helped, please show us to this 'Geidontei' pub Uchiha-senpai." Yup, no use complaining, just deal with it.
"Yes, forgive me, now please follow me."
"You better take us to where we need to go or..." When does a Shrine Maiden start threatening people...?
"Eh, ha-hai, understood..." Poor man, there's no gender equality here...
Thus, the four make their way out of the Center to their destination of a meeting point, which is clearly not here…
{I try so hard! And got so far!}
{In the end, it doesn't even matter!}
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{A few moments later, Lee 1st pov}
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"Geez, wish I could just fly over Ze."
"Well, you can't, not anymore with the new law unless you have a good reason to fly around the village overhead."
"And it's stupid, anyone in the village saw us fly all the time, it not gonna cause any political problems ze."
"If you have to complain, take it to the village council, which I doubt they will listen..."
"Man, why are those old geezers still in power? excepts old man, of course, he's cool."
"That's not our to decide, though if you want to fly so much, go-ahead, not like nobody here can stop you anyway since we don't have enforcer or shinobi that can fly."
"Hmm, I think about it, thanks Dark Bro."
"Just don't tell anyone that I told you that, Kirisame-san."
Marisa and Uchiha-senpai continue to talk about things, Reimu stays quiet most of the time, must be still angry about the poor note that she mercilessly ripped and tear until it's done.
Me? I have some time with my Cortana wannabe, which is a lot of time since we spend most of the time talking in my head.
Wait, who's Cortana??? Nevermind.
Man, why does she have us get all the way to the center only to have us gone all the way back to the street?
[(Maybe she just has a lot of free time to mess with people for fun or she's drunk, or maybe both, most likely both.)]
How do you know that?
[(Called it a GUTS feeling but I think since she's a sage and a youkai she must have live far longer human, so she must be-)]
Halt! I get a bad feeling something will happen if you mention her age with the word O, and besides, she looks seventeenth.
[(More like 17th-centuries giggle~ I didn't say the O word~!)]
That's loophole abuse...
Anyway, there's something else you want to tell me regarding the Gear right? Well, we got some time.
[(Right, well, you may not know this but the Gears are not exactly 100% complete as you can see that it missing a few other Moves in the Multi Type Move-set list, it's the same case with its other Type, not fully-combat ready like its younger sibling model Dynamic.)]
Dynamic? Sibling model?
[(Spoiler! but the point is, it's because the Gear designer has to cut soon their work and develop it for emergency use, so they don't have the chance to do the final touch for it.)]
By emergency means coming to save my butt, how encouraging...
[(Don't be like, it's not that bad a situation, sure it's lacking Moveset but that can be downloaded from across the dimensional, the same can be said for sending equipment to our location as proof for when they sent us the TIGER, with us Grid-AI that is possible, it just slower to complete it than do it directly in the laboratory.)]
Mmmm...
[(Well, that's all I want to let you know.)]
Mmm, alright, thanks T, I'll keep that in mind.
"Lee-dono, may I receive a bit of your time?" A voice brought me back to reality.
"Huh? Sure Uchiha-senpai, what do you need?"
"Hai, I am aware that you have been talking to a boy named Sasuke correct? He is my brother."
"Oh? So I see, yeah, we talk for a bit and he goes with his friend."
"Yes, and I'm also aware that he had been quite harsh about your stats as being from the outside, I'm sorry about that."
"That's all right, I kinda expect that somehow, though I have to wonder if it's really an outsider responsible for his parents? Your parents? Forgive me for asking." Well, if he's aware of my stats as some kinda monster hunter he might as well know something about 'That'
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"...I'm sure you're already aware of that so I wouldn't get into detail, yes, the night of the attack has cost us our parents, not just us but many as well, parents, lovers, even children... So much life has been lost in a single night, some didn't even have much left to bury or none at all... All in a single night by an unknown enemy from the outside..." ...
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"..." I can only stay silent, what else am I supposed to say...?
"With that said, Lee-dono..."
*shink!*
"Nani!? Uchiha, Nanishiteruno...!?"
"Woah! Dark Bro what the heck...!?"
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Uchiha Itachi... Put out a kunai from seemingly nowhere and pass it against my neck, threatening to cut my throat open in one smoke...
Yet, despite that, I can't give in to panic or show fear. It seemed like he was tasting me, those ones black orb turn to cold crimson at this moment, like the eye of the demon...
"...Uchiha Sasuke, he is the only family I have left, he had suffered enough, I don't care if you are a Kaiju hunter, Outsider, Ally, or Weapon, I don't care, if you are my enemies and are aiming for my brother or anyone I care about... Head. Will. Roll." ...
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Silent was all there is to it, nobody dares to muster a word, glancing straight at each other's eyes, the word has spoken, the massage has received, all there's left was a cold silent, waiting for who will shed first blood...
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"An apology Lee-dono, I must have been more ill than I thought, I forgot to take my medicine today..."
Fortunately, there will be no bloodshed, not today...
"That's all right, I understand, you must have been under stress, Overwork?" At least we press that, for now...
"Hai, I haven't got enough sleep, being a Shinobi is tougher than anyone makes it sound to be, a very tiring career to have..." He says while massaging his eyes, it has gone back to its normal black.
"Well, I hope you get better Uchiha-senpai." I just hope you won't make my Head Roll when you do...
"Hai, Arigato Lee-dono, again, I apologize for such insolence, I hope it did not disturb your stay in this village, now let us continue being on our way..." and with that, he goes on ahead of us, leaving me and the two shock girl to catch up.
I touch the side of my neck and see a bit of blood, it's nothing serious though just a small skin scratch, but this guy isn't kidding...
[(Well, so much for an escort huh? I can send an electric shock to teach the edgelord a lesson.)]
Stand down, that's an order. I seriously don't want to start a bloodbath here...
[(Eh, Gomen… I just try to be helpful…)]
Don't worry, I'm not mad, though you can still zap those weirdos from earlier if they mass with us.
[(Okay! And when I'm done, they will never get a girlfriend.)]
Uhh, I'll edit that back a bit, please don't go that far...
"Geez, I know he's an edge but he doesn't need to be such an ass, Ze." Annoyingly, she says.
"Sigh, Boy, always liked to show off, what do they have to prove?" I get the feeling that question adds to me too...
"Let's just be on our way guys, girls? Whatever..." Got to be the reasonable guy here.
"Where are you going? We're here already dude."
I walk past our destination, again...??? Anyway,
We've got to what looks like an old traditional Japanese pub with a signboard beside the front entrance that reads 'Geidontei' whale drink pavilion'? Oh well, this is our meeting place... Hopefully...?
"We are here Lee-dono, Colonel Namikaze, Lady Hieda, Lady Yakumo and some others are waiting inside, come."
Uchiha-senpai led us into the pub, inside was not what you would expect from the outside look of it, it is quite modern, not losing to the world modern pub.
There are several villagers of various adults of different ages, some children as well but they just have non-alcohol drinks and food.
"Welcome~~~! To Geidontei pub~! We have all kinds of different drinks over Gensokyo and beyond! Within reason, of course, nothing too insane~! wait a minute, something's not right in my sentence..." Say a pink-haired woman with a cute little whale hat resting on her head, wearing a waitress outfit, some cross ribbon on her purple shirk, and on the shirt torso that held her rather...
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I'm paying too much attention to things...
Anyway, she welcomed us with a double hand wave, luckily she didn't hold anything in either of her hands at the moment.
"You wound me Okunoda-san, I have only been gone for a few minutes and returned, have you used your ability on yourself to forget about me? I'm hurt..." Yeah right Uchiha... Wait...
Her ability? Forgot?
"Huh? Ara! Itachi-kun! Sorry about that, a welcome back then Itachi-kun!" Cheerfully smite and another double hand waves, it's that the motto here???
"The pleasure is my Okunoda-san, I have returned with some more customers, please welcome them as well."
Uchiha-senpai steps aside and lets her vision find its way to us.
"Oh! Hakurei-san and Kirisame-san! Welcome! It's been a long time since you two came, please make yourself at home and order anything! You still have to pay of course but I'll cut down the bill in half for my friend." Recognizing Reimu and Marisa she gave them a welcome dhw 'Double Hand Wave', didn't seem to notice me yet, Sad...
[(Don't worry LeleDarling, even if Za whole Warudo ignore you, I will always notify you, forever, and ever, and ever, and ever~)]
I don't know whether I should feel blessed or just straight-up creepy...
"Hai, good to see you're well Okunoda-san, when was the last time I have a drink here?"
"How ya doing Miyoi, how was that stuff I made Ze? Good, I hope."
"A year ago when I reopened the place and yes, lots of people loved it, you should really consider making a living with those stuff of yours, aside from being a youkai hunter of course."
Seems like they're friends or good acquaintances, they then talk about random things in life, completely forgetting about the reason why we're here in the first place.
And still ignore me, sad… but it's not like I'm seeking any popularity here. Can't be a masked hero if anyone knows your face.
"Ahem, pardon me for intruding on your reunion but you seem to have missed out on someone else here." Thank you senpai...
"Miss out someone? Who's that???" What am I? Invisible man?
"Uh, hey, I'm here." Got to make myself obvious to the world...
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"Oh wow! I didn't see you there, Gomen'nasai!" She gave me an apology bow, I'm not mad for being ignored or anything but wow, maybe I really am invisible man...
"Nah, that's all right, it can happen to anyone. Anyway, my name is Lee, for now anyway, nice to meet you, Miss...?" not like I didn't know her name, with how the other addressed her.
Why? 'Cause Reimu-san and senpai are technically Japanese so they'll address people by their last name while Kirisame-san didn't seem to be the formal type so she addressed people normally.
"And I am Okunoda Miyoi but you can call me Miyoi, no need for formality, and welcome to the Geidontei pub LeLe-kun~!" Knew it, she gave me a dhw, now I really want to remember my full name so people would stop calling me that...
"Arigato, Miyoi-san." I show her my hands so we can shake.
But she goes for a double handshake to the point I started to feel my arm about to pop off...
"Ahem, I'm glad that you are getting along with Lee-dono here but the colonel and the other are waiting, please guide us to them Okunoda-san." Thanks again senpai, man, women here seem to be insanely strong for some reason, my arm really started to pop off...
"Hai, Gomen'nasai, please follow me, they're on the second floor."
With that said, we follow Miyoi-san to the second floor of the pub. The pub is not overly big but from the look of it, it has three floors. There doesn't seem to be any staff or workers here. Did she manage this place all by herself???
Anyway, we came to a room with sliding doors, there were sounds of people inside talking. several shoes, boots, and sandals are sitting outside. this is it.
"Excuse me~! But we have a few new customers who would like to join your table."
The talking begins to cease as Miyoi-san calls out, we wait for the people inside to respond.
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"Ho? So they're here, please come in and join us, friends." The ones who responded have the voice of a male.
"Arigato~!" And with that, Miyoi-san's about to reach for the door.
Only for it to automatically open.
Or rather, someone from the other side did it first and that's been...
"LeleDarling-Kun~~~!"
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[(Oh Great Page, please help us...)]
Help me...
{=To Be Continued\]
{{End, Dave Rodgers; Help Me}}