Hello new and old to this little fic of mine I hope this update finds you all well this time I have to say something important before we get this show on the road, this chapter includes mention of several crimes and alludes to both human trafficking and child prostitution if any of you find this distasteful I apologies but I wanted to specify the criminal activities of the gangs as there are going to be part of our store for the time being. So once more if anyone finds this unappealing I apologise but the Mature tag was in the fic from the beginning.
Now without further delay the disclaimer
Disclaimer: I do not own either fate grand order, Highschool DxD or The Gamer, all of them belong to their original authors and I highly recommend the source material for this fic [this is not a prerecorded message]
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The combination of her unique travel method and the extra safety of having taken care of security for the time been meant that Mashu made it to the Night manager's office relatively faster than normal, the use of [Reinforcement] on her [Agility] brought the stat all the way up from D to C-. Making the fifteen-floor journey extremely short.
The Couple of employers she did pass by never realized that an invisible shadow crawled across the ceiling at superhuman speeds shy of 30 times an Olympian sprinter. Even if only applicable in short straight-lined one-second bursts, an approximate speed of 1200 kilometres per hour meant a speed of around 330 meters per second at her current top speed. So even if she wasn't using her [Cloak of Presence Concealment] and the people that she passed by were actively looking at the ceiling no regular humans would see her.
So only 5 minutes after leaving the security room, she reached her destination unnoticed by anyone.
After one last check around the hallway and an application of [Structural Grasp] to have a clearer sight of the office's inner distribution and her target's location inside it, Mashu opened the door.
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Yoshiya Kazuo was not having a good night. As the night shift manager of a hotel, let alone one of Tokyo's premier ones, his long hours and heavy responsibilities left many problems in his day-to-day life.
He never had time to meet up with friends or spend with his family. His irregular hours made prospects like that impossible. And even if his job was something he enjoyed, whit good pay too, there were times like tonight that he wonders if all the problems it brings him were worthed.
Nanao, his wife, had been complaining about his job recently.
He didn't spend enough time with the kids.
He never accompanies her to meetings or gets together.
He never wants to make time to visit her parents in Hokkaidō.
On and on and on she went.
It was getting to the point that Kazuo was starting to dread entering his own house after work. So looking to relieve some stress and be away from his nagging wife he started seeing prostitutes. It wasn't that he didn't love his wife because he did but she just wasn't as loving and caring as she used to be and the younger girls that he could easily and discreetly sneak into an empty room in the hotel were so much more understanding of his problems or needs that it was an obvious choice to make.
After months of enjoying the company of many girls, he received a recommendation from an associate. one thing lead to another other and he ended up calling one of the most exclusive call girl services he have ever used.
The Crimson Sirens.
Differently from their competition, their "selection" was incredibly bast, so diverse in the fact that any combination of physical attributes he could think about was available and the girls themselves were not only beautiful but also eager and obedient, a stark opposite from his wife. They were the most discreet service, using private cars and bodyguards to quickly and effectively escort the girls to and from their location.
He enjoyed being a regular client of the Crimson Sirens for around half a year before he received a short call from their boss. The man thanked him for his patronage and gift him a 10% permanent discount on their services for any future transaction as a complimentary gift before informing him of the primary reason for his call. The girls that Kazuo usually chose from were not their full selection and only their most trusted and important clients got to request girls from their VIP catalogue.
He was understandably surprised when he entered the hidden webpage to see the VIP catalogue and realized why it existed. The girls in the hidden webpage were just as beautiful and diverse as the ones he had been seen for months if not more so. They were minors. As their profiles not only showed their sizes and sexual specialities like he had seen on the regular site he normally choose from but also their ages it was something that couldn't be ignored. Even if by some of the photos he could lie to himself and say that they just looked young the age stated in their profiles dispelled that notion.
He didn't call the service for weeks after that revelation.
He tried to live it all behind
He couldn't possibly call a service that offered girls as young as his 14-year-old daughter to anyone that would pay the price.
He should have confessed to his wife and gone to the police with what he found out.
That was the right thing to do. Confess his crimes and face the consequences like a man
But regrettably, he couldn't ignore the forbidden fruit.
And that's how he discovered what the Crimson Sirens truly were.
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"… then when they had enough video recording of my nights with their underaged whores I received a call from their boss who threatened me with the video proof to get me to work for them. They have been using their leverage to get me to make discreet reservations for clandestine meetings here like the one you asked me about and also to recommend their services to 'people of interest' as they call them." Even when she could tell that the man before her regrated some of his actions and what he was been forced to do Mashu couldn't find it in herself to feel sorry for him.
Thanks to her recently upgraded [Command] she was able to get the full history out of the manager and different from the previous version he was quite forthcoming with the details without the need for specific proving questions.
[Charm Person (D+): an upgraded version of the [Command] Skill, this skill allows the user to put a target in a hypnotic state. While under it, the target will see the user as a trusted friend and obey commands that do not directly threaten the afflicted person's life. At this rank, the user can leave suggestions implanted in the subconscious of weak-minded targets.]
To be honest mental manipulations always leave a sour taste in her mouth but she was pragmatic enough to see that it was the best option available to her.
From the information she gathered previously thanks to Wedge, the Crimson Sirens were one of the three biggest Kuoh gangs alongside the White Serpents and the Azure Eagles.
It was a known Fact in the Kuoh underground that the Sirens concentrated on controlling prostitution inside the city and the surrounded areas. And even if normally Mashu didn't have a particular problem with prostitution if all parts were willing adults, even more so after spending nearly a month in Uruk during the Babylonia singularity, it was obvious that this wasn't the case here.
Wedge had heard rumours of the diversity of the girls that the Sirens employed, particularly the ethnicities of them as more than half their employees were not Japanese and around 30 per cent of their total employers were non-Asian altogether, something that made them popular in an isolationist culture like Japan according to those rumours.
Now whit Yoshiya-san's confection it was obvious that the gang also deal with Blackmailing and what was looking more and more like not only international sex trafficking but also child prostitution.
All of the gangs in Kuoh were criminals that she was going to stop.
'it seems I know what our first major target is.' Her clenched fist shaking in barely restrained fury she bowed to destroy the Kouh Crimson Sirens as soon as humanly possible.
Taking a deep breath to control and calm herself Mashu focused her attention on the man sitting behind his desk passively waiting with a relieved look on his face, apparently confessing his crimes to what he saw as a trusted friend had taken a weight off his shoulders.
Thanks to his confession and wedges information beforehand she had confirmed which gangs and leaders were in attendance for tonight's meeting.
Hachibara Ryonuske Leader of the Kuoh White Serpents. This gang specialised in weapon trading and smuggling alongside protection fee extortions.
Nakatomi Ryushin Leader of the Kuoh Azure Eagles specialises in Narcotics and illegal Gambling dens.
And finally Kamiya Hitoshi the newly minted leader of the Kuoh Crimson Sirens had officially taken over the family business last year.
The Gang bosses were meeting in a private lounge on the 6th floor accompanied only by one bodyguard each. As much as she wanted to beat them to death while they were practically isolated Mashu knew that it wouldn't do much good in the long run, it will not stop their gang's activities and her mission tonight was to gather information on their plans and this particular meeting.
Luckily for her, their paranoia presented her with the perfect way to spy on them.
One of their requests when making their reservation for the private lounge was for the staff that attended the food and drink of the event to be as removed from Kuoh as possible. That meant that originally Yoshiya-san had to make arrangements to have some friends from out-of-town act as waiter and barman for the evening.
Witch an opportunity for the young gamer.
When she originally had come up with the patchwork disguise method that ended in her taking the appearance of Artoria Alter to hide her activities from the devils she didn't have access to the resource and experience she now had. So of course, when she was making her infiltration gear for the evening, she took all of her notes and modifications she did to the original designer and combine them into a new mystic code that now surpassed all the previous prototypes in effect, efficiency and quality.
Opening her [Inventory] the violet haired girl took out what seemed like your run of the mill generic smart fitness band from 2020 if the 'screen' was made out of a pill-shaped onyx covered in nearly invisible runic arrays. Easily slipping the black band on her left wrist she channelled her mana onto it while focusing on the mental image she intended to use.
Different from before instead of a visible change her form simply blurred for a split second before settling on her new appearance thanks to the ability of her creation.
[108 Empty Phantom Faces: A mystic Code on par with a low ranked Noble Phantasm created by Mashu Kyrielight based on the Doppelgänger Skill of the Heroic Spirit Yan Qing and the Empty House Noble Phantasm of the Heroic Spirit Sherlock Holmes. While using this item the user can fully change their physical characteristics to that of another, additionally, their scent, voice and other esoteric signatures, like energy or aura, could be used to identify or track the real identity of the user is distorted to make this impossible without specialised means]
She could see the surprise in the face of the manager when the change took place but it was nothing that a couple of friendly worded suggestions from her new distinctly deeper male voice couldn't correct. Taking a minute to make sure that the manager called and informed the barman over the phone that his services would be required tonight they finally leave the office and walked to the elevator that would lead them to the 6th-floor lounge.
Using the reflecting surface of the elevator door to make sure that her short peppered grey hair was properly combed and checked her outfit for any inconsistencies while they waited for their ride the face of James Moriarty in his Gray Collar costume smiled back at her.
'Let us test how good of a Napoleon of crime impression can I pull off'
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Not much to add about this chapter but as always I appreciate any kind of feedback both good and bad, I know that I don't normally address questions mostly because the answer would be kind of spoiling plans but know that I read all of the reviews you leave me this been said there is something I want to address.
From this point on there is a minor spoiler for the future of the story if you don't want to know this information then this is the end see ya next time.
Some people have pointed out that this is not a SI but just Mashu with extra knowledge and I want to reassure you that this is a SI, only with a twist that I'm trying to not be obvious about but the problem with this is that because the character interactions that would show the differences between Base Mashu and This one would need to be with people that knew the original before the SI so even if I think is kind of a spoiler I will let you know that sooner rather than later more FGO Characters will make an appearance as I always intended for servant summoning to be a part of this Fic.
See you all next time and please take care everyone.
Next Chapter: A new spider spins her web.