No one says anything as they exit the store and for a long moment, Kazuma looks at the street in front of them, as if he was lost in thought.
"You know this kind of reminds me of back then, you know before Meguming and Darkness joined us."
'How we had to work every job we could find and then as if fate had finally had enough we ended up meeting them."
'Okay so it's not exactly the same, but" Aqua tried to comfort Kazuma, but she seemed to lose whatever train of thought she had at the end.
"We're going home, Aqua see if you have anything that fits Sasha." Kazuma says to Aqua before he turns to look at Sasha.
"Or are the clothes that you are wearing easy for you to move in, in case we have to run and climb over things?" he asks her
"I'm fine with this." Sasha answers Kazuma.
"How about you?" he turns to ask her.
As she looks down she realizes that while her clothes may be almost intact, they are torn in more than one place she was so worried that she forgot to change.
The reason no one has said anything is that it's not out of the ordinary to see someone in the state she is in.
'I have to get home and change, I have some clothes that will make it easier for me to move." she says to them before Kazuma and Aqua nod and says that they will wait for her.
She quickly walks back home and she can feel the hope inside her, maybe David come back, but as she walks into her apartment she finds that no one has come back yet, as nothing inside has changed.
The walk to her room seems longer and emptier than it truly is and as he changes into a black T-shirt and blue pants she is about to leave and rejoin the others when she sees her old EMT jacket, unlike the new one that's yellow that everyone work uses, the one that's in her closet is red with blue stripes.
She grabs it and puts it on, the jackets are given to everyone at work because they help people know that they aren't there to fight and if someone does shoot at them the coats can stop some bullets.
Her bracelet alerts her that the flashlights on the collar of her coat have synchronized with it and her implants so she won't be completely blind when she enters places that don't have any light in them.
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The sound of thunder makes me look up, it's going to rain soon, it's almost as if we're being warned about something that we aren't aware of.
I don't like it but it's not as if the job we just accepted was any less dangerous than the ones we have taken in the world we came from.
Hell had we not stopped to buy the bracelet for Gloria we would have probably been given an even worse job by the Fixer that we were going to meet.
I know that everyone in this city that isn't a part of those that are at the top, has to make extra money by other means, but for whatever reason, I can't help but feel as if we just bit off more than what we can chew.
My team isn't the best, but when has it ever been, if things go from bad to worse I can just teleport everyone out of there and if anyone dies Aqua can bring us back to life.
So why can't I shake this feeling?
"Okay.' Gloria says to us as she finally comes back.
Without saying anything Gloria sends each of us a picture of her son and with no clues other than what the man told us we begin to look for the girl that use to help the street kids.
"Okay, let's split up."
"Gloria you and Sasha will go that way while Aqua and I will go this way we will meet here by the end of the day."
"If you find any clues call us, and we will do the same don't go anywhere unless we are with you." I say to Gloria and Sasha.
"Waite where are supposed to look?" Sasha asks me.
"The girl use to help the street kids, our best chance is to ask them, one of them must have heard or seen something." I answer her before we go our separate ways.
We spent the rest of the day asking random kids and whoever is just standing around doing nothing if they have seen Gloria's son or the girl that use to help the street kids but everyone just insulted us or tell us to buzz off.
I was about to give up when Aqua stopped a kid with blond hair who was walking around with his head down.
"What's wrong?" she asks the kid who just keeps his head down.
"I miss my sister." he says to her and Aqua and I immediately look at each other.
"What happened?' she asks the kid.
"These guys took her somewhere and she hasn't come back, she use to help us but now she's gone and everything sucks." the boy answers Aqua.
"Can you tell us what she looks like, we might be looking for the same person?" I ask the kid who looks at me before reaching into his pocket and pulling out an old folded foto.
The picture has a girl that can't be older than fifteen surrounded by a bunch of kids and the first thing that sticks out of the picture is how everyone on it is smiling.
I use my tablet to take a picture of the photo and ask the kid if he knows anything else, but unfortunately, he doesn't, so we let him go back to doing whatever he was doing.
We are about to walk away when the kids stop walking before he runs back to us.
"Here there was a woman with them and she dropped this." the boy says to us as he hands us a flyer for a strip club.
'Let's go see if her uncle." I say to Aqua.
'Why?" Aqua asks me.
'Isn't it odd that he gave us the job but didn't give us a picture of her, just that she helped the kids?" I ask her.
Aqua doesn't say anything as we walk back to the pawnshop.
"Hey found a clue, but I'm not telling you what it is unless we have something that tells us what the girl looks like." I say to him and the man just looks at me with cold eyes before he puts a picture of him and the same girl that's in the picture that the boy showed us.
I put my tablet on the counter next to the man's picture and I hand him the flyer.
"I'm not going to tell you who said this, but from what we found out she was taken by some men and a woman, from what we were told the woman dropped this." I say to the man who just grips the flyer tightly.
"I'm not putting my team in danger." I say to the man who continues to look at the flyer as if he wants to burn a hole threw it.
"You found out what happened to her, so here," the man says to u as he puts the money he showed us earlier, but he puts an even bigger of money in front of us.
"I didn't show you her picture because if you couldn't find anything with what I told you then you wouldn't be any good, but if you can bring her home, I'll pay you this much.": he says to us.
"I'm sorry." I say to the man.
"I understand, you want to keep your people safe." he says to me.
I call Gloria and Sasha to come back and when they return I split the money evenly between us, as I hand Gloria her share I shake my head as she looks at me with hope-filled eyes.
I can see the light in her eyes fade as her pain grows.
"Kazuma." Aqua says to me but I ignore her.
"Kazuma." she repeats again and again before I finally have enough and ask.
"What?"
"We have to help him." Aqua says to me.
"And then what have people that don't have any problems kidnaping people coming after us?" I ask her.
"That didn't stop you before?" she says to me as I'm about to walk back home.
I stop walking before turning around and looking at both Sasha and Gloria.
'If the two of you don't want anything to do with this go home now because I can't promise that you will be safe f you come with us." I say to them before I walk back into the store.
I can see Aqua smiling at me from the corner of my eye.
