Yo. Guess it's time for another chapter, yeah? Well, time to head into the story now that all the intros are done.

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Card games.

They had a lot of uses. Entertainment mainly, followed by gambling. It provided a good show for those watching, more so the ones who understood how the game was played and if there were stakes involved. For the players, it was either fun or challenging. Reading your opponent as well as keeping your own composure. There was skill to a game focused on luck.

It was also open to cheaters.

Zuko shuffled a deck of cards before dealing some of them out as Johnny took a look at his hand. A two and a seven.

The smiling Zuko placed the deck to the side, holding onto his own cards. A pair of aces.

Zuko had to hold back a chuckle, wondering how Johnny would handle this situation, though a part of him knew what was coming.

They played the game like normal, though both sides kept their hands until it was time to play their hands. Zuko wasn't surprised to see a royal flush...which was the exact same hand he now held after a quick flick of his cards.

The game was very open to cheaters.

"Seems we came to a draw."

Johnny gave him a look, taking the deck into his own hands. "Not that much of a surprise, is it?" Zuko laughed it off for a little bit.

"You know, it's a shame." Zuko smiled, looking down at the cards in his hand. "People can so easily group up on another when someone points it out, yet are blind to the bullshit that their saying, that the preacher is preaching, you know?"

Johnny glanced up from his hand. "What does this have to do with anything?" he asked.

Zuko shrugged very nonchalantly. "Nothing really, just the general matter of things." he chuckled a little. "It's true though. One person can cause the downfall of another so easily by rallying a group together, yet most people are blind to the preacher's bullshit as well as the preacher themselves."

Johnny huffed. "Just play your next hand already." Zuko was a tiring individual.

"Very well." the man grinned from ear to ear.

Demelza sat at a table, there was still a lot for the new arrival to go through. She was having a bit of trouble processing the whole thing with Akita that happened earlier.

So that was the so called 'top bitch' of the female ward? She seemed...nice? Was that the correct word to use with her? The new arrival had no idea what to really believe, Sora said that Akita had a screw loose, but Koneko said that she did in fact had a large majority of the female ward under her wing.

There was also the interaction itself. She came on a bit uh, strong. Though it was also clear that she laid down the ground rules of her being the top bitch in the ward.

"The first few days are kinda rough..." thought the girl as her dull coloured eyes glanced down to the barren table she sat at, alone this time as the others had to leave for a multitude of reasons.

She was then brought out of her thoughts as a foot slammed itself down onto her table. "Eh?!" Demelza tumbled a little of her seat and when she looked up, she saw a woman with light, bluish-green hair and pink eyes as well as having tattoos on her.

"Hey, new girl, right?" grinned the newcomer to her table.

Demelza fumbled to gain her words back after the shock, it didn't take too long for her to respond though. "Y-Yeah?"

"Nice! I'm Chikuha Ueno, nice to meet ya, fresh meat!"

"Fresh meat?"

Demelza didn't like the grin on Chikuha's face. "Nice to meet you too!" she responded with the same vigour.

The woman with constellations on her forearm tapped her foot onto the table. "I hope you got into this prison for a fun crime! I hope it's not something stupid like shoplifting."

"Wha?" the poor girl didn't really know what to do here.

Chikuha tilted her head to the side, still holding that grin. "Well, I guess from your appearance it doesn't seem like a big crime like most of us here. So why are you in Styx?"

"You don't know my crime though..." she brought up, but whatever that was supposed to do didn't stop Chikuha at all.

The bluish-green haired woman's foot on the table started to push down a bit. "Are you saying there's a chance to find out first hand?"

"...N-No?"

Sadly, that response was a millisecond too late as an explosive roar echoed in her ears as she was once again, sent down to the floor.

"Show me a good time, you bitch!" shouted Chikuha, still having that same grin as before.

"Why me?!"

"Seems that Shi is back from her vacation." mentioned Bunri as he just re-entered the guard's break room.

"Shi?" Hokori looked up from the table. "Who's that?"

"Ah, that's right. I almost forgot." Bunri rubbed the back of his neck as he pulled out a chair before taking a seat. "Shi, well, she is known as—"

"The Guard Dog of Styx." Shimaru finished as the Bunri shot him a look. "Apologies, I couldn't help myself."

"Guard dog? You mean like Cerberus?" Hokori's innocent answer had caused the more butler-like guard Shimaru to chuckle.

"You could definitely say that." he shot the new guard a smile. "Cerberus is her nickname within Styx."

The fennec fox shot up from his seat as his tail wagged excitedly. "Whoa, really?!"

"Really." came the voice of Bunri, already making himself comfortable with the provided table and chair. "We'll tell you now, she didn't get that nickname for nothing."

"Ooooh?!"

"I wonder if he knows his tail is wagging?" wondered Shimaru as he watched the energetic fox practically bounce where he stood. "You're really interested about this?"

"With a nickname with Cerberus and Guard Dog of Styx, there has to be a reason, right?" Yep, he was definitely interested.

Bunri, who was leaning back in his chair with his feet on the table had just shot Hokori some finger guns. "That's right."

The guard who had the aura of a butler sent a glance to Hokori and his enthusiasm to learn about the Guard Dog of Styx. "Don't worry though, you'll probably be meeting her shortly."

Realisation then dawned down upon Bunri's face. "Ah shit, I forgot..."

"Hm? Forgot? Forgot what?" the curious fennec fox tilted his head.

Bunri shook his head, "just with Shi. Knowing her, she got straight back into work mode."

"Is she that passionate?"

"Considering she had to be forced to take a vacation, I would say so."

Hokori tapped his foot as he absorbed all the information. He was definitely curious about this guard dog. He wondered when he could meet this person! He was pumped!

Elsewhere, Akita scratched the chin of one of her most loyal followers as another follower acted as a camera in the female ward thanks to her quirk, allowing her to watch what had just unfolded with the new girl Demelza and Chikuha.

Though camera was kinda pushing it...

Nothing much really happened yet, but it was still interesting nonetheless. "Are you sure we should let this play out?" asked one follower.

Akita however shook her head. "This is fine, it's just playing its course is all."

The follower gave Akita another look over, wondering if she was truly fine with it. It was incredibly hard to tell with her, though she expected that a part of her wanted to do something. So she just decided to nod with Akita's current move and just watch from afar.

Demelza looked up at the table she once sat at, it was no longer considered a table. Just a small pile of broken rubble, debris.

She had coughed as she got herself up, sadly not standing.

"Weeeeell, I'll give you credit for getting out of the way in time, if that was intentional." the sudden attacker applauded from near the wreckage.

The new prisoner was not prepared for such a thing to occur, especially once the other woman began to approach.

"Why?" Demelza asked the approaching woman a rather simple question, though Chikuha responded with one of her own.

"Why not?"

That wasn't reassuring…

Demelza looked down to see a spoon, that wasn't there before. A quick look towards Chikuha gave the poor girl some bad vibes. Demelza scrambled to her feet as the spoon suddenly exploded. "Ah!"

"What was that called?" Chikuha's grin dropped down a little bit.

"I don't know what I did to you, but I don't want to fight!" The masked girl moved quickly to explain herself.

Chikuha huffed, holding another spoon. "Do I need a reason?" she asked, throwing the small spoon up and down.

Chikuha lifted the spoon up, holding it similar to how throwing knives were being held. Demelza was still confused about why this woman wanted to fight. Was this testing her? Proving her worth? She had no idea.

She almost braced herself for the spoon until something caused her to stop. Thank god, something or someone intervened...at least she hoped. The spoon had lowered and the brief thought of her being seen as 'waste of a fight' played out in her mind.

Chikuha looked up soon after she lowered the spoon and Demelza followed her line of sight and gulped. They both looked on as a large and intimidating woman with the head of a jackal stared them down while wearing a collar that said: Cerberus.

"Fuck me. The dog's back..."

The jackal headed woman began to growl, it was clear she was ready.

"Who...is that?" Demelza asked as this sudden arrival stood back, glaring daggers at both of them.

"Well fresh meat, all you need to know is that she's Cerberus here in the Styx." Chikuha took a step back. "Good luck with dealing with her, newbie."

When Chikuha tossed the spoon onto the ground, Cerberus charged. At full speed too!

Demelza was not ready for any of this...

Alexios whistled as he watched Cerberus arrive on scene.

"You just going to watch?" asked the bus driver, Zugaikotsu.

The male guard shrugged. "Didn't want to take the guard dog's spotlight."

The skull headed woman just looked towards Shi, taking care of the situation. The bus driver sighed as she did, things seemed to be getting back to normal it seemed. It was like Cerberus never left at all.

"Well, I'm going to continue my patrol. See you, Zugaikotsu." Now the bus driver watched as Alexios walked off, back to work.

Osamu tidied up some files, more specifically profiles on the prisoners within Styx. "Have you heard? Cerberus is back." he looked back to see his sister Muika jump a little bit.

He had to withhold a laugh. Shi was an intimidating individual based on appearances, but she had done nothing to really warrant fear from his sister. Muika was simply nervous around the guard dog woman.

Osamu had to admit, when he first met Shi, he was kinda nervous about pissing her off. She could probably punt him through the roof, thankfully that wasn't the case. It wasn't as bad as he thought, it was actually pretty nice. Shi wasn't a bad person, just very work focused.

"You alright, Muika?"

Muika hurriedly turned her head and nodded. "I-I'm alright."

"Nervous?"

Muika stumbled over her words for a bit. "Not really..." she muttered out. He didn't blame her with Shi.

"Don't worry too much, alright? There's no reason to be nervous around her, alright?" he gave her a warm and brotherly smile. So he decided to change the topic. "Got another session planned out today?"

Muika nodded as Osamu proceeded to help his sister out with organising the profiles.

In a small room, a woman continued to sit alone in her cell. "Come on now, Sae." came the voice of a guard. "It's time to get some fresh air."

Sae said nothing as the guard opened the cell door, allowing the woman to walk out. Besides, it was almost time for the regularly scheduled meals.

She contemplated whether she should eat at the co-ed area or just in the female ward. There was some pros and cons to that. The co-ed ward had better meals (in her opinion) but that also meant meeting some more notable faces, even as she walked through the female ward, some faces she both recognise and couldn't recognise sent her glares.

Upon receiving these glares, she shot back an even stronger one, making them drop eye contact with her. In the end, she decided to eat her meal in the co-ed ward.

As she pulled up a seat with a tray full of food and as she ate, she couldn't shake the eyes that lingered on her. A quick glance to the person watching her showed just who was watching her.

Inyoku-Yui, she could feel like he was grinning. Unlike the others who had just glared at her, his eyes didn't hold the same resentment as they did.

So she continued eating, if he wanted to try anything, that was all up to him. Though she doubted that he would risk losing access to the co-ed ward...though that had yet to be seen.

"If you're going to act, then act criminal."

In the end, nothing had happened during her meal. Sae sighed as she placed the eating utensils down onto the tray as she just wanted to head back to her cell.

Seimei looked up from his desk as the old man Sukuinote just walked in. "Sorry I'm late, these old bones don't really help much." the old man laughed to himself.

"It's no big deal." the warden of the male ward waved his hand at the old man. "You said you brought someone with you?"

The old man nodded as said person was brought in. Remko Akko entered into the room, occupied with some Styx guards as well as a woman dressed in a business suit and a pair of black framed glasses with fair skin and long brown hair that was tied up into a bun.

She was holding a clipboard with what seemed to be a folder on top of it.

"Thank you Sente, do you mind handing the folder to Seimei?"

The woman nodded, placing the folder onto the desk. "Here you go, Mr Tokugawa."

Seimei had a quick look through the folder, looking at both the quirk and criminal records of the new arrival who really didn't like being here. "Quite a criminal record you have here, Remko." The silver armed prisoner had a bitter look in his eye. "Murder, bank robberies, theft, arson...and the list continues."

He closed the folder and handed it off to another guard. "Take the folder to Muika and tell her to file it away." the guard nodded before leaving the room with folder in hand, allowing Seimei to return his attention to the criminal in front of him. "No wonder you've been brought to Styx. I'll say this much, you'll find it a lot harder to escape from this prison."

Remko said another as a guard got him to move, presumably to his new cell. "Enjoy your stay, Remko." Seimei said as the prisoner was taken away.

"Sorry to drop this on you." Sukuinote bowed his head. "Styx was the only prison I could think of to help him."

"That's alright." the warden shook his head. "Since your here, I should go get Eris to discuss our earlier mentioned arrangement."

The benefactor of Styx nodded as he turned his head to his assistant. "Please cancel any later appointments, Sente."

"Will do, sir."

Whoa, it's been a while. Sorry, been a bit busy, but we back baby. Thanks for waiting so patiently for this chapter, I apologise for the later chapter, been a lil bit busy, but hey, back in business.

Anyways, the first arc is underway! I hope you're all enjoying your time in Styx. I'm looking forward to getting into the story and I hope that goes the same to you!

Another short chapter, but that's because I wanted to update. I'll slowly get these chapters longer. So see you all next time.