It's amazing how the world can become so quiet yet so loud at the same time, I'm suddenly are of the people on the street walking past us and the conversations that they are having either with each other or with someone I can't see.

As the wind blew and I realize that even though the alley we are in doesn't have a ceiling we aren't getting wet.

I can't do anything but listen and wait for something to go wrong and somehow the sound of the raindrops hitting the hot neon lights reaches my ears.

I turn as I feel someone pull me to the side. as a woman wearing leggings that light up from time to time walks past me, I turn to see Aqua who has a finger over her lips as she silently tells me to stay quiet.

What am I doing? I should be looking for David but instead of doing that I'm here.

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Kazuma

You would think that a strip club would be filled with half-naked or completely naked women, with drunk men sitting around buying all sorts of overpriced drinks but this place is clean.

The room is bright so there isn't a place I can hide unless I use my skills and the only loud music in here is coming from the different rooms.

"Welcome.' the receptionist says to me.

Just like everyone else that I saw while walking she is Asian, but I don't see any cybernetics on her.

I notice her eyes give a faint purple glow, so either Sasha is doing her thing or the woman's implants are meant to draw as little attention as possible.

"How may I help you?" She says to me.

"Yeah, a friend of mine gave me this and he recommended the special service." I say to her as I show her the flyer.

The receptionist smiles at me, but her smile isn't the same as the one she had on when I first walked in, her expression is strained as if she doesn't want to be near me right now.

"So what kind of dream are you looking for?" she says to me as her eyes glow and the counter becomes a screen showing the various girls that I can choose from.

This is going to be easier than I thought.

"I'll take this one, and I don't know if you have this option but do you have something to do with school?" I say to the receptionist as I see the girl that I'm looking for, long blonde hair- grey eyes, and light almost pink skin.

The receptionist clicks on her picture and frowns.

"That's odd, it says here that she." The woman becomes quiet before showing me all of the pictures again.

"Sorry but she isn't available right now, but we have other girls." she says to me as I feel the tablet in my pocket vibrate.

"Got it." is the message written on it.

I look at the counter and take a deep breath before I look back at the receptionist and I can see that three men are watching me from behind her.

They aren't a big enough threat to activate my skill, so they must be security, guess the people that come here must cause problems if they don't get what they want.

"So any idea when she'll be back?" I ask her, and I watch as her eyes flicker on and of.

'Tomorrow, are you sure that none of the other girls catch your attention?" she asks me.

'No, I came here because I wanted that fantasy." I say to her and she just nods.

"So do you have the address or know where she's at?" I ask Sasha as I walk into the alley.

"That's the problem." Sasha says to me, as my tablet begins to vibrate and I look at the address written on it.

"What?' I say to myself as I look at the three of them.

"What's wrong?" Gloria asks me, as I hand her the tablet and she sees the address that Sasha gave me.

"NC Police Station." Gloria says as she reads the address.

'Not only that but it says that the club's manager sent her there t keep her safe, but it doesn't say from what or who." Sasha says to us as her eyes glow brighter.

"So the owners or whoever in charge didn't kidnap her?" I ask Sasha who doesn't answer.

'Sorry, it's hard making her do things and making her think that it's her idea." she answers me.

"As in her, do you mean?" Gloria says to Sasha.

'The receptionist"

"No, she was brought here because she borrowed some money and she did work here so she could pay it off and I don't have to tell you what that means, but they let her go when she paid it, and the interest." Sasha says to me as her eyes lose their glow.

'That's it." she says to us as she looks at me.

"Okay, I guess that's where we're going, if shes there then we will just call her uncle and our job is done." I say to her.

"So what do you guys choose do we take the train or should we get another taxi?" I ask them

"Way ahead of you," Sasha answers me as she points at a taxi that's just arrived.

I don't bother saying anything, because she takes out some money and wordlessly says that she's the one paying this time.

In the end, everything turned out just fine, it turns out that the girl was handed over to the police after a client attacked her, and since she wasn't the club's problem anymore they weren't going to bother protecting her.

So we called her uncle and he went to pick her up, and because we were all tired by the time we were done we all went home for the day.

It's a good thing that things went so smoothly, Aqua and I have been doing everything to keep ourselves from standing out and so today we're going out to celebrate a job well done.

We all stop walking, as we hear the sound of the sirens and as we slowly walk closer to the sound, we see that the police have surrounded the pawnshop.

There's blood splattered on the door and the bodies of three women lay on the street, each of them has some sort of sword or knife that came out from under their mechanical wrists.

I try to turn around and lead both Aqua and Sasha away, but it's too late, as the paramedics carry the bodies of the clerk and his niece out of the store.

'Poor bastard" I hear a man behind me say.

'What?" I ask him.

"He's been looking for his nice for over a month, but everyone he hired told him to give up cause some big shot was after her."

"Guess he found her and they didn't like hearing no. At least they got to spend their last moments together, in this city that's all you can ask for." the man said to me before he walked away.

My tablet vibrates and the first time I answer the call without looking at it.

"Kazuma, the green of Blue and Green, or is it Green and Blue."

"You like to ignore people's calls, anyway I heard that you are now taking heavier jobs I have a few lined up, if you're interested." the man hangs up, and an address appears on the screen.

[Timeline change.

David meets Lucy and overuses his implant, which gets him marked by the woman in the ambulance, because he needs help with dealing with the effects he ends up going to the Ripper Doctor.

Then spends the rest of the day and night with Lucy, which causes him to not meet his mom again.

Gloria finally mages to contact someone thanks to a machine that someone bought her, and it's the same woman that marked her son earlier.

The woman tells her that her son has the implant in him and is now with a woman.

Believing that David could be in trouble she calls the Edgerunner that bought the implant but again he ignores her call.

Not knowing what else to do and having completely exhausted her options she joins Kazuma and his team, hoping that they can help her find David