Hyper Arc; White Story - Part 2; Truth about C-Sha
After some time passed, Alex and Blanc helped many civilians of Lowee by obtaining stuff or eliminating monsters that are causing trouble. Sadly they couldn't find any information of where their younger siblings could be at currently. After a big quest Alex was getting tired and returned to the hotel room.
"Ugh, what a day. I worked so hard having to do so much. I should take a short nap for now." Alex says to himself detaching his Duel Disk and placing it down as he lays on the bed and closes his eyes. His deck starts glowing suddenly for some reason.
-Alex's Dream-
Inside a large room a young boy was looking through a similar deck of cards to Alex's strangely. While doing so a person stopped in front of the boy causing him to look up at a young girl with white hair.
"Hey there! What are you doing?" She asked the young boy.
"I'm just looking through my cards, especially my most favorite in my deck." He tells her and pulls out the Dark Magician card. "This guy has always pulled me out of tight spots, but I always believed in my deck."
"Yea he has, I don't think you ever lost once yet. Everyone is changing their cards to come up with ways to beat you." The girl says sitting next to him.
"You were pretty close you know, having a spellcaster deck is pretty tricky. However there are three cards that one person would be unstoppable." He says
"You mean the three God Cards?" She asks him which he nods to her. "No one has found them until now, someone said that one of the Cards is gonna be a tournament prize and a look inside a special box they found."
"Awesome, hey let's enter that tournament and win it. If I collect all three I wanna see someone try to beat me when I have all three!" The young boy says excited
"You bet, but first I think your magician should have an apprentice in your deck." The young girl pulls out her own deck of cards and looks through them until finding the certain one. "Here you go." She gives him the card, which he was curious about, and why she is giving him one.
"Dark Magician Girl? Isn't this your Main favorite in your spellcaster deck?" he asks her.
"Yea she is, but I accidentally had a second one. So I thought I would give her to you, and you can always think of me when you see her." She says with a bright smile.
"Thank you …, I'll always treasure it." The boy says to her, really happy.
-End of Dream-
Alex suddenly woke up and was curious about what that dream was about. He sat up and grabbed his Duel Disk and pulled out his deck then looked through the cards until he found his Dark Magician Girl card and looked at it carefully.
"Who was that girl I dreamed about…? Why did I suddenly have that dream…? Did I forget something that I lost which was important?" He asked himself so many questions wondering what his dream was about, and how he had forgotten about it strangely. While he was in deep thought both Blanc and C-Sha entered the room and Blanc looked down, which Alex could guess is that they had no luck again on searching for the twins and Seth. While the two talked as Alex was distracted he suddenly heard running and he noticed the two girls gone which he worried about Blanc wondering what happened. He puts his deck back in and slips on his device and hurries out and follows where the two are running and they are attacked by some monsters. He joins the fight by summoning his Silent Magician, it wasn't a big problem and they quickly got rid of the monsters. However Blanc was chasing C-Sha because of having a photo of something embarrassing.
They returned to the city figuring on where else the twins and Seth could be at, until C-Sha entered the room suddenly.
"Hey you two, listen! I found a great clue concerning Rom, Ram and Seth!" She tells them.
"Wait are you serious?!" Alex asked her, really surprised to hear that.
"It's probably better you talk about it with this person instead of me. Come in." C-Sha says and a girl in a maid uniform enters the room who looks very familiar to Blanc and Alex.
"Pardon me. Nice to meet you. My name is Financier." She says. "So you are Lady Blanc and Lord Alex! I've heard all about you from Lady C-Sha. If I may start, will you please listen to my request?"
"Huh? Request…? What about Rom, Ram, and Seth…?" Alex asks, slightly confused.
"Well, you'll see once you've listened." C-Sha tells him.
"I wish to ask if you could search for two girls and a boy that have gone missing." Financier explains which makes Blanc and Alex have a grim feeling about what she is telling them. "The three that have gone missing are the ones you are searching for: Rom, Ram, and Seth."
"What do you mean they're missing?!" Blanc asks her, now sounding worried.
"I had requested monster extermination from them since they're Hunters, but they don't seem to have returned…" Financier explains "So I become extremely anxious… Then Lady C-Sha appeared."
"I happened to meet her while gathering information on the two." C-Sha explains
"... I understand the situation. Tell me the place where those monsters are. I'll go there." Blanc says understanding the situation. "Rom and Ram are my precious sisters. Of course I'll go and save them. I swear I'll find them."
"Seth is my brother, I worry about him a lot. This is the time for a big brother to be there right now!" Alex says to himself determined to find Seth. They are given the location where the trio went. They get to the place and Alex summons his Queen's Knight and his King's Knight which it's ability allows Jack's Knight to appear. He drew his two magicians and summoned them and he looked to a higher platform and noticed some monsters seeming to surround something or someone, which told him that they needed to get up there quickly.
Up on the platform is the trio surrounded by the delusionary monsters with bright blue lines pulsing through the bodies.
"Urgh…! Why are there so many tough monsters like this…?" Ram asked as she is getting annoyed that their attacks aren't doing much.
"Ram, what should we do…? I can't…" Rom asks while getting scared of their situation.
"Y-You can't give up! Right now, we have to run… ow…?!" Ram tells her sister though she has gotten an injury as Seth has MudballMan to defend against most attacks but won't be able to survive for much longer. The monster goes in for an attack which the twins scream scared.
"Double Dark Magic Attack!" Alex yells out as his two magicians blast the enemy away from the trio. "You stay the hell away from them!"
"Rom, Ram, are you alright?!" White Heart asks her little sisters.
"B-Blanc?!" Rom says surprised.
"Oh, Blanc, we were looking for you!" Ram says happy to see her.
"Don't give me that, you dummy! Damn it, why have you been wandering around?! Don't you know this is dangerous?!" White Heart yells out scolding them.
"Scold them later! We got this one to deal with!" Alex warns them as the monster gets back up ready for more. "You've been a pain in the ass for them! So now I'm gonna deal double for what you'll get! Magicians! Attack again!" Alex commands his magicians for a double attack.
"I gotta help, so time to bring out the Fusion Gate!" Seth says as he activates the field spell. "Now I'll fuse Avian and Burstinitrix to call forth Flame Wingman!" He summons his second Fusion warrior. "Burn that monster!" Seth's warrior shoots a stream of fire at the large fish monster.
"Take this!" White Heart slams her Axe onto the monster and smashes it into the ground as the twins cast element attacks on the enemy doing some damage.
"Now with the Fusion Gate in play I'll fuse Dark Magician and Buster Blader in my hand to form the Dark Paladin!" Alex says as his magician and Warrior rise into the cloud above and form into a powerful Spellcaster. "Now Dark Paladin, attack!" he commands his spellcaster and it does a powerful attack against the monster as Seth's warrior strikes it. The monster spun and smacked the two away, but it suddenly got a surprise attack from Alex's Dark Magician Girl.
"Now I'll fuse Sparkman with Flame Wingman to bring out Shining Flare Wingman!" Seth says making a new fusion appear. "Time to see the light, attack!" His warrior shines brightly burning the monster as Alex's Dark Paladin blasts it causing it to burst into cubes.
"That should do it. Jeez, what futile resistance." White Heart says with a smirk on her.
"It should be safe here now. I'll keep a lookout, so go ahead." C-Sha tells them, giving Blanc and Alex time to catch up with their younger siblings. Alex turned to Seth with a serious expression and he knew Alex is mad. Alex walked to his brother and slapped his head.
"The hell were you thinking of going on your own?!" Alex yells at him. "You should know full well that you have a limit on your strength and don't get confident that you can always win."
"Of course I do, I became a hunter to search for you… and it didn't go so well." Seth explains to him.
"... Ugh… you know I shouldn't be upset at you since I did the very same thing. Now come on let's head to the city and get yourself cleaned up, you look like a mess right now." Alex says to his brother seeing that he has gotten a bit roughed up.
"Ok, but who is that girl there?" Seth asks looking at C-Sha.
"I'll explain later, come on let's go back to the city." Alex tells his brother and they return to the city again and were able to relax for a bit. Alex and Seth were able to know that the rules of how the world works has greatly changed so they had to be very cautious. Then some time later Alex and Blanc were asked to visit the person Financier is serving under which seems odd for someone to see people such as them. The two followed Financier to a mansion and were asked to wait in the living room. Alex looked around the room a bit wondering why they were brought to this place until the person entered the room.
"I apologize for keeping you waiting. My name is Azna Leb, and I am one who will bring revolution to this corrupted, vile Lowee." He explains to the two.
"Revolution?" Blanc asked, a bit confused.
"That's right, a revolution. It is my mission to correct the gross distortion of Lowee." Azna Leb explains which Alex looked at him curiously.
"Distortion… Do you remember…?!" Alex asks him
"Yes, I do remember. Lowee's CPU and Protector, Lady White Heart, and Lord White Knight." He says and the two were surprised to hear that.
"I'm speechless. I didn't think anyone here remembered us…" Blanc tells him quite surprised.
"Only a small portion of the populace do. We still don't know why Lowee has become like this. But as one who still has memories of days passed, I am hoping to correct these aberrations." He tells them.
"Aberrations? Are you talking about the License system?" Alex asked the man.
"Right you are, Lord White Knight. Such a system should not exist." Azna Leb replied. "However, I lack the power to do so. That is why I wish to borrow both your strengths, Lady Blanc, Lord Alex."
"Sounds like you want us to do a job for you." Alex assumed.
"You are sharp as I have heard from Financier. Despite the low shares, you are still quite powerful. Please lend me that strength, so that we can reclaim Lowee from the grip of such an outrageous leader." He tells them.
"... You're trying to use us as your tools, knowing that we are Lowee's CPU and Protector?" Blanc asks
"I am aware of how rude it sounds. However, I wish to save those who are pained by the wealth gap!" He explains to them, Alex was slightly unsure about him. Alex looked to Blanc wondering what she'll say.
"... I understand completely. We'll lend you our aid." Blanc tells him
"Thank you! Then, could I immediately request the both of you to investigate C-Sha?" Azna Leb asks the two.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Alex asks him
"C-Sha is the one who rules over Lowee." He answers which Blanc was surprised to hear and Alex was concerned about why she never told them, unless she was hiding it for a reason. "It is natural to be shocked. However, this is definite information that we've obtained."
"It can't be… C-Sha is… but… it's not completely impossible…" Blanc says silently. "C-Sha is a member of Gold Third, who defeated the CPUs, so she may be ruling over Lowee now…"
"It might also be the same for the others in their nations…" Alex assumed in his thoughts.
"As difficult as it is to believe, this is the truth. And, also… C-Sha bears a secret." Azna Leb tells them which piqued Alex's curiosity hearing that. "From the information I was given, she is the one behind the creation of the delusionary monsters."
"That seems logically impossible, even if you were told this. You would have to see if that were actually true." Alex explains to him.
"That is why I would like you both to investigate thoroughly to see if this is true." Azna Leb replied. "And if it is… I would ask the two of you to correct this abnormality with your own bare hands."
"You're basically given us an assassination job…" Alex says seemingly uncomfortable with doing such a thing.
"If you don't the damage will spread and the citizens will suffer. Are you both alright with that?" He asked them and the two were silent until Blanc spoke up.
"... sorry, but let us think about it for a little longer…" Blanc tells him
"I understand how you feel. You've been travelling with her. She's earned your trust. It's difficult to make an immediate decision." Azna Leb says. "But, please decide by the next time we meet Things are about to change, Lady White Heart. The day of revolution is not very far away." Alex was feeling suspicious with the guy, unsure if he could be trusted. For now he had to find out on his own what C-Sha's secret is behind the monsters.
"I suspected C-Sha to hide the fact she is ruling the nation, but why hide that fact? I wonder if she is hiding that because of the secret we were told about." Alex thought to himself confused of what he learned, however Blanc decided that she needed to know personally and asked C-Sha to follow her and Alex. He told the twins and Seth to stay in the room, Seth noticed Alex having his serious expression which tells him to listen until then.
Meanwhile Blanc and Alex brought C-Sha to an alleyway to talk privately for a while.
"We don't have to worry about being overheard here, so be frank with us, alright?" Blanc asks C-Sha, with no change of her serious expression. C-Sha agrees, also confused at why the two brought her to such a place.
"We heard from a certain someone that you're the current leader of Lowee, and that you're part of Gold Third." Alex explains
"Oh, you wanna talk to me about this, huh…?" C-Sha asks, now understanding the reason they brought her there. "Yeah, that's right. I'm the Gold Third of Lowee. Although, I'm not exactly a ruler or anything."
"So, it was true. Why didn't you tell us before?" Blanc asks her
"How about coming clean now, you were actually pretending you didn't recognize us being the CPU and Protector, right?" Alex asks C-Sha and she sighed.
"I really feel sorry about that… but you are right, I was." C-Sha tells them truthfully. "At first, I was trying to atone for my sins. I don't know why, but because we defeated you and the other CPUs, the world changed. I tried to bring it up so many times, but as I got closer and closer to you both, it just got that much harder to come clean about it…" Now it made sense why C-Sha never told them in the first place, Alex knew he could have gotten pissed off at her. But Jeff has told them that sometimes anger can lead to it getting worse.
"Then… the story about you creating all those delusionary monsters…" Blanc says all of a sudden.
"You heard about that, too? Where did you even get that information?" C-Sha asked, surprised to hear that.
"From your reaction, I'm assuming it must be true, right?" Blanc asked her
"Yeah… it's true. I was hiding it for my own advantage." C-Sha admits in which Alex wondered why specifically her. "Where do I begin…? At some point, I started having strange dreams… or, I guess, they were more like nightmares. Ever since I started seeing them, a strange, dark red fog would leak from my body."
"Strange fog? If it's the work of magic I could maybe determine it being Jexon doing such a thing… however if it isn't then…" Alex wondered in his thoughts wanting answers of why this all happened.
"What? From your body? Are you sick or something?" Blanc asked, concerned about C-Sha.
"Ha. It's rare for you to worry about me… thanks, but the fog seems benign. Since I had no idea what it was, I thought it might have some effect on other people, I've been leaving the city to release it." C-Sha explains. "Since I started releasing the fog, it stopped leaking out of me, but that was a bad idea… more monsters started going berserk, and these monsters were directly influenced by the fog."
"And they became the Delusionary monsters…" Alex assumed
"Exactly, I became a Hunter so I could reduce the numbers somewhat. I feel like it's solely my responsibility." C-Sha explains
"Hmm, from what you have told us… I don't think this could be Jexon's work." Alex says which C-Sha seemed slightly confused.
"Jexon? Who… wait are you talking about…" C-Sha was about to say something when Azna Leb and some army men arrived and restrained her. "What's the meaning of this?!"
"Well done, Lady Blanc, Lord Alex. We are the Revolutionary Army. Our master is waiting." One of them says
"Whoa! What's going on here?!" Alex asks confused
"We took the liberty of recording your entire conversation." The guy explains. "We were able to record solid evidence of C-Sha being the source of Lowee's chaos."
"Why?!" Blanc and Alex ask
"This is all thanks to the two of you, Lady Blanc, Lord Alex. Our master will surely reward you quite generously." he explains
"Blanny, Alex, you… you both sold me out… all for a reward…?!" C-Sha asks the two now upset.
"No! You got it wrong, we didn't know about it either!" Alex tries to explain
"Then why are members of the Revolutionary Army saying your names formally?!" C-Sha asks and they didn't know how to respond to that as the army takes her away. Both Blanc and Alex were now with regret.
"Dammit… I hate people who lie… we have to do something about this and quickly." Alex says to Blanc now determined to get C-Sha out of prison and set things right.
End of part 2 - White Story