Chapter Twelve: A Late Warning 一个新的警告
"No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality." – "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", Panic at The Disco
When I crept in the door, I saw Ryou, Keiichiro, and the Mews watching the news with their mouths agape. I heard my voice echo metallically from the tv: "For your evil actions, I will make you pay!"
"Don't look now, Ichigo, but I think someone stole your line." Keiichiro observed.
"What? It's a good catch phrase." Ichigo shrugged. The title at the top of the screen was: The Mew Mews are back! There was also quite a bit of footage on the aliens that helped me, too. Ryou turned around when he heard me walk in.
"Komori! Are you okay?" Ryou asked looking me over.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I lied innocently.
"A monster attacked while you were out!" Keiichiro said, coming up to me.
"Oh, I didn't notice." I lied again.
"Right. Well now whenever you go anywhere outside, you have to take Masha with you." Ryou concluded. What? I have to tote around that flying hairball? I was about to object, when three figures materialized in the room. I recognized them as the aliens that had helped me earlier, with the exception of the winged one. Everyone that was still over watching the TV fell over in surprise. The black-haired alien eyed Ichigo hungrily.
"Ah, Ichigo! You've grown even lovelier over the years!" he licked his lips, going over to her. She grabbed the lamp that was sitting on the coffee table and held it out threateningly.
"Take one more step and I'll give you some lovely bruises, Kish." She retorted.
"And you still have your usual humor, too, I see." Kish grumbled, backing away.
"And you've also brought along little Tart, I see." Ryou said. The tallest of the three walked over to Ryou.
"We came to warn you about the kirema animas and Resu, but I guess we got here a little too late." He said with an analytical tone to his voice.
"You think?" Ichigo said sarcastically, motioning to the television. Tart ran over to the tallest alien. Kish walked over to join the other two.
"So, Ryou, when did you make that new Mew? She's pretty hot." Kish asked, watching the news footage.
"I actually didn't make her, she just…appeared." Ryou sighed, looking down at his feet.
"What do you mean?" the tallest alien questioned.
"Yeah, what Pai said!" Kish repeated.
"I think someone breached our security system and managed to get into my lab--." Ryou stopped right there and remembered me.
"Ah, Komori, why don't you go upstairs and finish your homework or something?" Ryou said. I got the hint that I wasn't wanted down there, and walked upstairs.
--But not before putting a recorder on top of the staircase, so I would know every word that was said.
