Discordant Harmony
Chapter 5 Power of Capital
Current location: Singapore, Malaysia
Time: 7:00 PM
Day of broadcast
In the country of Singapore there exists a marina bay, across from it, is the Batam islands, separated by the Singapore Strait. In this marina bay you have one of the most extravagant casinos. Three towering skyscrapers supporting what seems to be an immense shipping boat. While this sight may dazzle the many tourists that come to gamble in one of the finest casinos in the world, it was nothing to the current owner of the marina bay sands casino, Anastasia Hoshin.
The young purple haired casino magnate is counting her dividends from last night's haul. Smiling to herself she uses her metia to diversify the portfolios at her command and checks up on the international stock markets. Furthermore, with a couple of swipes of her fingers and some verbal commands she acquires some more stock from her rival Russell Fellow, a thorn that has been at her side.
Using predictive algorithms alongside implanted booster chips for processing power in her formidable and scheming mind, she manages several hostile takeovers of other competitors. Further pushing the Hoshin Conglomerate into an even better position in the most valued businesses and practices throughout the globe.
She pulls up her records of the casinos owned from Vietnam, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, and Macau in China, one of the few legal places to gamble. Now, the young entrepreneur and business savant has her hands in many pies, always trying to calculate what profits she can make and what losses she should take. Calculating the total revenue of her business and gambling enterprises she is one of the most wealthiest individuals in all of the Asian continent.
While sighing to herself after a long day of making millions of credits she thinks to herself:
"It's been quite some time since little ol' me got a well-deserved vacay, Let's seeee, where to take Mimi, Tivey, and Hetaro to next? France? Nah, that prissy orange haired bitch is there, always unsavory business dealing with pompous royals. The U.S? They are greedy folks like me but I don't like their new policies on demi-humans such as Ricardo and the triplets. Hmph, racist assholes. Hmm, well I ain't sure at tha moment. I'll just ask Juli whenever he shows up."
Here she gets up and stretches her body while faint bones are heard cracking due to her slouched position in front of her monitors. She is wearing a white fur coat made of the highest synthetic material available in the market, and she often sports the prototypes being designed in the clothing centers as well.
A way for her to combat her hellish childhood is to surround herself with wealth, yet at nights she still has nightmares to what she had to endure in the streets of Sri Lanka.
As she frowns at the unpleasant memories she hears two firm knocks at her door, then they wait exactly three seconds and the knocks are repeated once more. Before Ana can tell the person knocking to come in, they rush inside automatically with a frenetic energy.
The person in front of Anastasia can barely be called a human, with long shaggy hair, and not from his scalp but surrounding his whole body, a dark metal alloy is used in the construction of his chest armor, with kinetic shielding's in place for any surprise weapons.
He has zweven boots as do all of the mercenaries under the employ of Ana with a broken silver collar surrounding his neck. At his sides he carries a plasma pistol and a disruptor rifle is slung across his back.
However, since he likes to get close and personal with the enemy as the team's captain and vanguard, he also carries a heavy phaser battle axe, that with a flick of a button can materialize quite the energy blade. Usually just displaying it once is enough to mitigate any battles of confrontations.
His optical nerve gear is looking around and analyzing any threats to his person or the VIP he is in charge of protecting, and since he only has one VIP in his whole life he is satisfied upon seeing his lady not sleeping on the desk again. Anastasia has a nasty habit of overworking herself very badly and the triplets and him have to carry her off the massive bed she has on in the penthouse suite overlooking the marina bay.
Anastasia furrows her eyebrows and he hesitates to speak since it was rather rude how he entered, yet this is necessary for the information he just found out is too critical to have been postponed for any longer, Ricardo Welkin clears his throat and speaks:
"Boss Lady we gotta go to Japan ASAP, something real-."
The frowning billionaire put her hand up in the air to interrupt Ricardo where he promptly shuts his mouth, then she replies:
"Where are ya manners Ricardo, bargin' in all crazy and nearly giving me a heart attack settle down. Since ya surely have some interestin' news, sit down and have a drink." Not waiting for an answer she goes to a fridge and pulls out two cups and a sake bottle from her homeland.
She proceeds to motion the wolf man to sit down in the comfortable actual leather couches which are extremely expensive in this day and age to buy and pours both of them a drink. She raises her cup as Ricardo repeats the motion, smiling she proclaims:
"To prosperity, perseverance, and profits, tha 3 P's that led this little lass to own half the casinos in tha world, kanpai!"
Both sling down their shots down their throats, letting the chilled sake do its job as they feel their cheeks slightly flush, with a wave of her hand she compels Ricardo to speak while she pours two more shots.
"So what's goin' on Ricardo? I can tell it's somethin' mighty serious to be riling ya nerves up so badly." Inquires a slightly flushed merchant, getting into a more comfortable position and patting her scarf.
"Oh shit, you're right I almost forgot, here lemme pull it up." Ricardo rubs his head cheekily in embarrassment. He swipes his metia and a holo display is present in the room, at a verbal command from Anastasia the lights automatically dim and the recording plays.
Anastasia's eyes open wide in surprise to see the focus of the news being Neo-Shibuya.
Fires are burning in several sectors of the city, as fire suppression drones fly out and use extinguishing foam to put them out, the other parts of the city don't look good as well. Burned out vehicles are seen as some mercenary groups are fighting the other.
There also appears to be looting, as various people are breaking into certain kiosks and stores trying to get food, medicine, drugs, and whatever else they desire. The absence of security and police drones is notable, since it seems they are taken to different sectors where critical help is needed.
And in every VR display outside buildings there appears to be, two wanted pictures of a silver-haired girl with amethyst eyes and her current location is being displayed on a city wide map.
Besides her mugshot is an image of a black haired boy with fearsome eyes, smiling at the camera menacingly. Under each of their images there are a respective price of twenty million for the silver haired girl, and one hundred million for the boy.
Furthermore, there are reports of several SS class mercenaries overturning the entire city to find these individuals. One can see the private police force of the city trying and failing to quell this madness. Children are depicted being scared as many residents have locked themselves in in fear of their life's, the once vibrant hub of the pinnacle of society.
The city itself seems to have taken a dark turn and looks almost dystopian in nature. Marshal law, and requests of aid, are being demanded by the concerned citizens, yet it seems almost like there is an opposing force making sure that things stay as chaotic as possible.
People are using illegal non sanctioned streams to show the madness of what is occurring. The biggest enigma is where is the council of Neo-Shibuya, and why aren't they helping.
For Anastasia to say she is shocked would be an understatement, she knows how pristine and serious the Japanese government is with allowing weapons into their borders. For instance, she has to pay a serious amount of money whenever one of her Iron Fang operatives needs to get special weapon clearance to even be able to be allowed entry.
Neo-Shibuya is arguably one of the strictest cities in the whole world. All of the facial imprints, origin chips, IRS tracking and being scanned by drones routinely make it one of the most safest as well. For something of this scale to be present in this city evokes dread for the world.
For if the safest city in the world is being put under such circumstances, then what does that mean for the less developed countries?
"This ain't good, this is ain't good at all, this can have serious consequences in tha global market, and create fear for the masses of people just tryin' to get by with their day to day life. What the hell has happened while I was busy with my businesses throughout Asia?"
Anastasia thinks as she quickly turns to Ricardo who has a stern expression on his face, he rubs his snout in annoyance and replies to his ladies alarmed expression:
"I know you ain't got the most fond memories of Japan, but there is some big shit going on right now, hell our information network just pinged us about this literally ten minutes ago. They got the whole city on lockdown, no one getting in or out, they even got that, whatcha m'call it? Oh yeah Engels Wreckers from INTERPOL there, all very hush hush."
His lady processes this information with alarming speed, comes up with some theories, discards them. Wonders on the impact such an event will due to her business as well as the global market, and decides to lay bare her thoughts:
"I can see that some stuff is goin' down quite severely, but what's this about? That city got tha best mercenary teams in the world, with tha exception of us, that haughty French bitch, the Russians, and that damn anarchist in Detroit with her walking flame haired nuke, their shouldn't be anything ta scare them with."
Here the worried merchant and CEO gets up and starts pacing back and forth as she considers the variables, the video is paused at the moment for she knows the important parts have not even entered into the equation yet. Ana thinks:
"If this is how bad it looks from a video, then how bad is it inside the city? We'll have ta figure that out eventually." She continues explaining to a focused wolf man, all thoughts of vacation gone from her head:
Hell that city is nigh impossible ta breach unless that damned superhuman decides ta finally cause world war 3, and violate all tha international laws placed on him. Furthermore, he won't dare ya hear me, he a big ol' softie, and so is his lady.
So pray tell ya lady Ricardo, what in hell's bells is goin' on? Cause from what I'm seein' this don't look like the jewel of Japan, but more like a war torn country in Africa like Kenya.
This is rather worryin', not only is it bad for business, but it will affect global trade, and can lead to life losses. "
Here the wolf man just grabbed his snout harder and sighed as he let the video resume and stayed silent, the drinks forgotten, the slight buzz killed by this world shattering news.
A recording of a sinister, malevolent, and disparaging voice is played which makes Anastasia frowns in anger at how crass and rude they are being. Yet, her eyes widen in surprise for a second time when she hears mention of the Sage's tower, barely paying attention to the bounties listed on the targets she heard.
She quickly gets up at the end of the recording and basically sprints to her chair, pulling up a wide variety of different holo diagrams, Venn charts, statistical equations, and personal algorithms. So entranced is she with what she is composing that Ricardo sighs and gets closer to her and squints at the myriad monitors, giving up rather quickly as he can't keep up with his boss's mind.
After a scant few minutes she pin points the information she wants and enhances it so it shows as a virtual map which displays in the center of the room. She walks up to it with a laser pointer and turns it on.
"Ya see that Ricardo? That's an incomplete portion of some nonsense data that I received a couple months ago, at first I didn't care one bit. For ya see this info is useless by itself, however with what ya told me, well let's say that we are leaving right now. Pack your things, inform the triplets and Juli to meet us at tha private air strip."
"But Ana, it's gonna be hella hard getting in there and keeping us all safe, you should just stay and supervise from here. I don't feel comfortable taking you to a dangerous are-." Anastasia interrupts as she speaks over him:
"Who pays your bills ya lumberin' oaf, who rescued ya and the triplets from them bastards in Saigon? This lil' lass has seen plenty of action, and while I ain't got an itch for it, there are times a merchant has to make a risky investment. This is one of those times ya hear me? Now let's get going."
"Understood Boss lady, I'll go ahead and talk to Julius right now." Informs Ricardo as he grew a bit fearful of his benefactor, yet he smirked at her devil may care attitude when something she truly desires appears in front of her eyes.
After her words to Ricardo she hurriedly syncs her metia to the computer and downloads all the relevant data, as she barks out commands over the Hoshin linked comm lines about managing the business for several weeks in her absence.
Furthermore, she makes sure all of her safeguards are in place in case that sly Mr. Fellows tries to steal some of her hard earned capital.
"Not over my watch ya sly fox, I'd rather go back to eatin' rotten food then losing a penny to that weasel of a man."
Grins Anastasia with a fire in her eyes the likes Ricardo hadn't seen since she opened up her first little shop after rescuing the triplets and Ricardo from Vietnamese organ traders. Demi-humans organs are valued desperately due to their high adaptability.
"Bos.. Boss Lady, I haven't seen you this passionate since we took over Indonesia's casino empires from that greedy fool Russell." Says Ricardo as he is amazed at how motivated Anastasia looks like, as if she needs to go to Japan or all is lost. Like if a house of cards is a gust of wind away from toppling down.
"I'll explain on tha way since time is money, and I ain't lookin' to waste it. Let's just say tha we need to protect Natsuki Subaru at all costs and maintain cordial relationships, that's what their called ain't that right?"
Replies The grinning merchant as they both head to the Heli-pad and await the helicopter that is taking them to her private jet. Not a moment too soon they see the helicopter descending with Mimi waving and shouting:
"Eeeyoooo boss, we're all here and ready for action, let's go kick some ass!"
"Mimi, can you control yourself, we need to focus on our mission and not be so excited, we are professionals." Mutters Tivey as he is cleaning his tranq sniper gun.
"Both of you calm down, this is gonna be a blast, It's been awhile since all of us joined in some fun!" Snaps back a visibly excited Hetaro.
Furthermore, he double checks all their equipment including their phaser guns; stun rods, tranq equipment, kinetic shielding and attachment barriers, EMP scramblers and a plethora of other top tier gadgetry that even the wealthy would think twice about purchasing.
However Anastasia Hoshin, CEO of Hoshin Conglomerates spares no expense in equipping herself and her family with the very best money can buy.
The helicopter reaches down and lands smoothly as the rotor engines keep going yet due to the advancements in tech, make nary a whisper, and the pilot steps out, who is none other than Julius Juukulius.
Dressed in an impeccable white uniform with black and red stripes etched on, a bright sword hilt is on his left hip and he bows down gently as he intones:
"Lady Anastasia, Ricardo, the preparations are ready for our objective. Furthermore, the other active and close members of the Iron Fang are ready and are proceeding to Neo-Shibuya. However, If I may ask a question without being presumptuous?"
Ana motioned for Ricardo to go join the triplets and he does with joy as all three jump on him and play around, while Tivey scolds them to be more professional yet yelps as Ricardo throws him in the air, making Mimi and Hetaro bust out laughing.
With a smile on her face looking at who she considers family she turns to the man that helped her out of the hell hole that was Sri Lanka. Her best friend and fellow partner in crime, despite him vehemently denying such a title.
As it wounds his pride, she cracks a smile as she pats him on the back and says cheerily:
"Ahh, always nice to see ya Julius-kun, what can this lil' lady do for ya?"
"I am aware of what is transpiring in Neo-Shibuya, as well as to who the targets are, yet are we going to resort to kidnapping a happily engaged couple?" Questions Julius as he furrows his eyebrows.
While he serves as Anastasias personal bodyguard, as well as the knight that would sweep other's off their feet if they threatened his ladies sovereignty.
He also would never allow themselves to be involved in any malicious activities such as kidnapping and he is aware his lady would not perform any of those as well, he can't help but worry.
Here Anastasia's face which was joyful turns sour. And slightly angry she shoves her best friend away which made him surprised at the vehement actions taken by his lady.
"What tha hell Julius, I thought we knew each other better. What did ya think I let my mission muddle my mind or somethin'? Our number one priority is to assist both Natsuki Subaru and Natsuki Satella, we ain't gonna nap 'em or somethin like that.
We are to be leavin' a good lasting impression on the couple, for I don't believe that broadcast for a second, sounds mighty suspicious to me, don't ya think?
Also, to establish a cordial partnership, it's essential to leave a good first impression ya know?
Don't forget my roots and that shithole ya took me out of. Or did ya forget all the charities I manage to run as well, we are best friends but accusations like that wound my young maiden heart ya understand?"
At this point they are both smiling at each other as she is ever grateful for her stalwart companion, to keep her from ever truly turning to the dark, and keep herself ethical and above board.
Julius has similar thoughts as he knows his lady's heart carries good intentions. He has personally seen her manage charities and helping in the kitchens of some orphanages, despite her being able to hire whoever at times she prefers a personal touch.
Julius bows as he replies with a smile on his face:
"Forgive my doubts and transgression, for I was merely seeing your resolve. And I am convinced again over how following you is the best plan, as we can help many people far and wide."
"Glad to hear that Julius-kun, let's get goin' since we have no idea who else is after that poor couple." Happily states Anastasia as they get back in the helicopter and depart to the landing strip. With her gaze on the outside and Mimi happily in her lap she wonders:
"Japan ey? I guess, it's time to confront the demons of my past, as well as look forward to tha future. With Subaru's help I can end worldwide poverty, and erase the stains of my past. Now then Japan, Anastasia Hoshin is comin' home."
The helicopter carrying crucial individuals that will affect the tentative balance struck in Neo-Shibuya is on the way, not realizing how important their presence will be for a current ignorant black haired youth currently working without knowing the hell that is approaching him from all sides.
(Scene Change)
Day of broadcast
Time: 7:15 pm
Natsuki Subaru is not having the best day at work, first his boss scolds him for forgetting his grappling gun and being late. Then he slips on some residue where he fell, and had to wait till the washing machine was done with his clothes, afterwards he had to go buy lunch for him and his boss since he was late.
With a sigh he finishes fixing the last of the servos used as remote upgrade stations for the myriad drones in the city. He hasn't had his metia on all day and wants to call his fiancée. Finally as he is about to activate his metia, a booming voice resounds:
"Here boy, have an Appa, you did good today."
A high velocity red projectile is thrown at Subaru as he barely catches it, he thanks his master Shaula for all the training he received or he would have been hit in the face by the dangerous fruit.
"A little warning would be nice you know Kadomon? Last time I had a bruise for a week, Satella was worried sick and I was too embarrassed to explain it was due to my slow reflexes."
Here Subaru turns around and grins at his boss, Kadomon Risch. A tale man of considerable bulk that is visible, as he usually wears a vest due to how hot some of the metallurgy work they do get.
With a signature straw in his mouth and sky blue eyes looks at his apprentice and laughs out loud as he pats the tired black haired boy's shoulder with considerable force.
Even if he didn't mean to be rough, Kadomon was simply built different with several strength augs that helped him haul around some work pieces that were four hundred pounds and more in weight. Suffice to say no one dared steal from his work shop despite being located in a rougher part of the city.
"Stop complaining so much boy, or else your wife will think you're weak! Look at these guns, Raksha loves them, you need to put on some muscle boy." Laughs the green haired muscular man as he flexes his massive biceps.
"Easy for you to say boss, I don't have muscle growth augs like those! My body is incompatible, besides I wouldn't even be able to vector with so much weight dragging me down." Exclaims Subaru as he is perfectly happy with his body type, aerodynamically fit for Vector.
Here Kadomon just roars out in laughter as he continues:
"Whatever you say to make yourself feel better boy. So when are you and the missus gonna have kids? You have seen my daughter Plum.
Nothing more adorable than her exists in this whole world. Yet she needs a friend so get to it, unless you are lacking in your equipment down there, Bahahaha!"
Subaru flushes red as he remembers him and Satella's daily morning routine, and while his boss may be a muscle head, he is rather insightful and can perceive other people's emotions, if it weren't for Subaru knowing for sure, he would have thought his boss was a damn Hunter or something.
"None of your business old man, I'll tell you when we are ready, you can be the damn godfather if you want."
"Ha! I'll hold you to those words boy, remember men don't break promises!" Firmly stated Kadomon, as Subaru sighed and motions he understands that. He smirks and questions:
"Oh yeah? Weren't you supposed to be on a diet? Then why did you make your poor, destitute apprentice go buy us some fried chicken? I'll make sure to let Raksha know."
"DON'T YOU DARE BOY! She'll have my head, sigh ever since she got me on this weird meatless diet all I want is fried food, don't take away my once a week temptation. And I'll stop teasing you, how about that?"
Subaru secretly did his victory shout in his mind as he fist bumps with his boss. Both of them smirking at the exchange. They both start cleaning up the shop and bantering as usual. Some time passes and it's official closing time and they are both ready to leave.
Subaru approaches the bench to activate his metia when the door is opened even though the closed sign is displayed. Both Kadomon and Subaru turn around, both in synch:
"Scram, we're closed already, come back tomorrow if you need help."
"What that big muscle head said, works over sorry buddy."
Yet their eyes widen in surprise as they see over six people show up with stun rods, all wearing masks on their face and some type of helmet obscuring their faces. They are lightly armored, nothing that would stop a good quality phaser gun, but can mitigate the shots quite easily.
The leader steps up as he lifts the visor of his helmet, looks at his metia and smirks as he declares:
"Natsuki Subaru is it? You're coming with us, just follow us and this shop can stay intact. Or else there will be consequences, understand?"
"Oi, Fuck off and get the hell out of my shop before I throw your sorry ass out of here." Angrily replies Kadomon, as he will be damned if anyone will come intimidate him in his shop.
"You better leave before you get beat down, I've seen what my boss can do. It isn't pretty." Counters Subaru as he starts analyzing what these people want, however since his metia was turned off he couldn't run a quick check of who they are.
He is slightly worried since they called him out by name, and to his knowledge the only people he pisses of are those that look at his eyes. It isn't his fault that he has had run ins with gangsters that got intimidated by his gaze and wanted to beat him up.
The leader gets angry as him and his boys all flick their stun rods and dangerous currents start flowing through the Nano carbon weapons, satisfied with their display the leader tries to intimidate:
"Well you choose the hard way, good thing we got here first boy's, easiest one hundred million creds of our life. Just wait till another team captures your fiancée, heh I bet they'll have fun with he-."
The leader was interrupted as two high velocity appas impact on his head with such force he was thrown back and collided with his goons. Both Subaru and Kadomon waste no words as they throw the Appa's simultaneously.
Without a word Subaru grabs a heavy pipe wrench and throws it at Kadomon who wields it as if weighed nothing, and he grabs a lead tool used for measurements and in synch proceed to engage in battle with the helpless and shell shocked enemies. They had quickly gone from being the prey to being the hunted.
Subaru dodges a stun baton by pivoting his left foot and moving a couple of inches to the left, the baton missing him entirely. He then gets close and grasps the man's jacket from the bicep, positions his hip and flips him over his shoulder to the ground in a perfectly executed Judo throw.
Kadomon sticks to the tried and true method of bashing a man's head with such force he gets propelled and hits the wall where he falls unconscious and is bleeding profusely. It doesn't take the two of them working together long, before all of them are on the floor moaning in agonizing pain.
Kadomon looks fine as if this was just a simple morning workout while Subaru is panting and thinking he still needs more training. Now that Subaru and his boss had neutralized everyone he goes to the leader and smacks him awake.
"Who the hell are you, and what was that about my fiancée and I being worth millions of credits. Don't fuck with me you bastard, I won't let anyone threaten my future wife again!" Roars Subaru as he slams the leader against the wall, Kadomon going around knocking whoever else was still conscious out.
The leader chuckles and spits blood at Subaru's face which make the furious boy slam the guy's head into the wall, not caring if he was going to be able to wake up ok again.
"What the hell is going on here." Asks Subaru to no one as he is confused at what has occurred today, until he hears his boss tell him:
"Subaru you need to see this, now." The black haired boy turns around in shock since he can count on one hand how many times he has heard his own name be called by his boss. He sees that Kadomon's eyes have lost all humor as he reconnected the streaming and news devices and is watching what is occurring.
Seeing a picture of himself and his fiancée on all streaming channels evoked a feeling a dread inside of Subaru, he has a need to immediately drop everything and go look for his wife. As he turns around and is about to ignorantly step out of the shop a rough hand grasps his shoulder. For once, Subaru had lost all cheer and yells:
"Let Go of me, they have my fucking wife on the cams and streams, I can't sit here and do nothi-!"
A firm slap echoes across Subaru's cheeks, almost throwing him on the floor before a pair of rough hands grab his collar and bring him eye to eye with his boss, who is exuding such an aura of menace that it instantly quells whatever thoughts he was having.
After the green haired boss makes sure that Subaru's mental clarity returned he pointed out:
"You can't activate your metia to call your lady, the minute you do half the cities mercenaries will be on your ass before you can say I surrender. Secondly, that lass is quite strong and she has George with her to remind her head to stay clear.
I'm sure he just did the equivalent of me slapping you, more gently of course. I'm sure she'll be fine for the mean time. Whatever shithead did that broadcast probably wants to lure you both together for some reasons we don't know. Wait here a moment."
Subaru is just running through the scenarios in his mind, well aware his boss is right. He clenches his fists as he remembers that the back-up plans he gave George were to direct Satella towards Sekhmet or Carmilla. He will figure out a way to contact them.
Kadomon came with three things, one of them was a standard grapple gun, only difference it was highly illegal due to not logging into the vector system, yet it would confuse the city ordinance drones if they tried to scan it.
The second thing he brought was something familiar, another type of Pirater, probably enabling him to hack into systems he needs but only locally.
"Alright listen up boy, I'm sure you are aware of what's going on with these, use this grapple gun to get around unhindered if you do get pursued, just don't abuse it, it ain't foolproof. Second thing here, let's put this on ya."
After securing It on Subaru's left wrist he kept explaining:
"You got about ten seconds with this puppy, you can ping others but I'll recommend only do that when all is going to shit.
If they ain't on a secured network then they can backdoor piggyback their comms and you're fucked. However this will also allow you to bypass or hack any terminal for local connections. I ain't gotta specify that since you ain't as dull as you appear to be at times."
Now Kadomon had Subaru sit down in a chair as he grabbed what appeared to be a vial with a little metal spider, twitching and pulsing.. He nervously asked:
"Is that what I think it is boss?"
"You're right, this is the Oculus prototype, I'm sure you'll find out what it does shortly. Hold still this is gonna hurt, a lot."
Before Subaru had time to second guess Kadomon had him strapped down as he put the vial with the metal spider over his right eye. The little AI robot twitches and latches onto Subaru's right eye as it burrows inside and Kadomon has to restrain him with his hands, the screams were loud enough to wake up the dead.
After only ten minutes but what seemed like hours the screams and pain subsided as Subaru questioned what the hell was that.
"Sorry about that, but if I'm right you are gonna need every little advantage you need. Also congrats kid on your first cybernetic implant. I know you were hesitant but this was a tad necessary, and this Oculus is not even on the market giving you a leg up over anyone that will chase you."
He handed Subaru a mirror and he looked at his eyes, yet was stunned when he couldn't see any notable different. Kadomon interjecte:
"It won't show until you need it boy, or if it was on all the time it would tire your brain as they both sync with neural and visual pathways, enough about that just hope you don't have to use it."
Subaru got up shakily yet with more determination than ever and said:
"Thanks Kadomon Risch, I owe you a favor once more."
"None of that shit, just make it out alive and sort this mess out with the council. After this blows over drinks are on me." Grinned the verdant haired man as he fist bumped Subaru and wished him the best.
As Subaru left through the back streets, he activated the grapple gun and as he leapt in the sky his thoughts were focused on his fiancée:
"Satella, my love stay alive dammit, we still need to get married and have a bunch of cute babies. You said you wanted two, well we'll have four. Just please, don't get caught because I'll become a demon to get you back if needed. I'll see you soon, my love.
With those final thoughts he looked at the map inside his head of a safe house for him to catch a breath and vectored in that direction, unaware of the multiple eyes on him already. And so,
Subaru's Days of Despair truly began.
Author's notes:
It's been a little over a month man it's hard juggling life, multiple fics, and relationships. However I needed to put this out before starting on my other fics, this is still one of my favorite fics to write and I hope y'all like it.
I am very happy with this chapter and received very good help on Anastasia, her interactions, mannerisms, speech patterns, and how she is such a fun character to write. I could not have thought of her so well without my friend crapshak50, author of 7 tales and with an upcoming fic that makes my brain tremble. I'll get you a femboy one day Wombat.
Next chapter is going to be no separate pov at the beginning, it's all Subaru during his Days of Despair, poor Subaru.
Fic agenda for the moment:
Natsuki Subaru the Sage
Re:Stalker
Alice in zero
Then back to this one.
Also my chapter lengths are going to stay in between 2.5K-6K. So no more long chapters unless it's the end of an arc. This arc has about 5-7 more chapters and we can finally move on to bigger and amazing things in the world building I achieve. Sincerely, thank you for reading and if you want to drop any suggestions or PM about this or my other stories don't hesitate. Thanks
Oteycri000, signing off.