"So Gloria do you know how to fight?" Aqua asks me.

"No, I never had to learn because I usually stayed away from any fights and" I explained to Aqua but as I was talking Sasha puts her on her neck and takes out a chip.

"here use this, it's not much but at least you can learn the basics." she says to me before I can go into more details.

I look at the chip and unfortunately, it hasn't been sanitized, I've seen the results of what happens when people just put things like these in, and as much as it pains me to do this the three of them are the ones with experience.

The moment I put the chip in I begin to feel its information spreading, I can feel my head itch as the skills are being downloaded into it, the nerves in my entire body pulse, as my muscles tighten and relax as they attempt to understand the skills that they've never done before.

I watch as the words, Basic hand-to-hand combat appear in front of me- it's not much but from the description below, I should be able to block and punch people as well as kike people if I have to.

I return the chip to Sasha before a warm sensation spreads over the top half of my body and it takes me a moment to realize that my jacket is reacting to what I've just done to myself.

No one said anything after that and so we just sat quietly as we listened to the rain fall as the taxi drove us to wherever we were going.

The taxi finally stops and unfortunately the rain hasn't.

As I look around I see the various street signs and holo-billboards come to life with the different lights of this part of the city, it wasn't because of the darkness that the storm caused then I wouldn't have been able to see this glimpse of this area's nightlife.

"Sasha, do you have the location?" Kazuma asks Sasha.

"It's right over there." Sasha answers as she uses her thumb to point at a strip club that's behind her.

"Good, let's go look around before we come back, we should get a feeling of this place for when we have to have to run.' Kazuma says to us before he starts walking ahead while ignoring the fact that he's already completely wet.

I follow after him as I ignore the smirks of the Japanese and whatever eastern people that live in this area of the city give us.

It's only when we reach an area that has the ceilings of the various shops and stores lined up one after another I hear Kazuma say something.

"Aqua.' Kazuma says to Aqua and I watch as Aqua places her hand on her wrist computer before its screen turns blue.

Aqua places her hand on Kazumas back and I can't believe my eyes as Kazumas clothes become dry, and not even his hair has any signs of having ever been wet.

Aqua turns and does the same to Sasha before she put her hand on my chest and all of a sudden I no longer feel the cold rain on me anymore.

I watch as Aqua turns off her computer and as I look back I see three poodles of water on the floor behind us.

This is just something small but I have never heard of something capable of doing this.

I know that it shouldn't be out of the ordinary considering everything that I have seen over the years, but I can't help but realize how much I don't know about the world I live in.

As we walk, we see different shops selling lingerie and toys for people to spice their lives.

We see casinos and people gambling outside in the street, as well as all sorts of restaurants, while in some windows women and men dance seductively.

On almost every corner there are prostitutes ready to sell themselves to anyone that's looking to spend their money for a few minutes or hours with them.

Yet as we walk I notice that Sasha's eyes haven't stopped glowing.

"Okay I'm ready, I won't be able to hack the subnet, but I'll be able to hack the people inside when things go bad." Sasha says to us.

"Gloria I'm counting on you to keep an eye on these two" Kazuma says to me before he turns to look at Sasha.

"Sasha you're the eyes on the back of my head." he says to Sasha before he turns to aqua who looks ready to charge in.

"Aqua, I need you to stay with them. If things go bad, I'll teleport back to you, but she might, no she will need you to heal her." he says to Aqua but its clear that he's worried about her, more than us.

"I'm sorry but I'll go alone, I mean think about it, if a guy enters any building surrounded by beautiful women everyone is going to notice, but if I go alone."

"I'm just another guy looking for a good time." he says to us, but he's only looking at Aqua who stares at him before nodding.

We follow Kazuma back towards the entrance of Japantown and we enter an alley, I watch s Aqua uses her computer to do something before Kazuma walks away.

I watch as he enters the strip club and disappears, the only thing we can do now is to wait.

"Don't worry I see him." Sasha says to us as her eyes flicker on and of.