Yo here we go
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With Karasuba after her episode at Shin Tower
When Karasuba got back to Maison Izumo, she just walked in normally, it was still a weird feeling for her to walk into the house of her archenemy but it seemed like there was a ceasefire right now, of course her objective for the future hadn't changed in the slightest but there was always a time and place and she wasn't ready yet for this sort of confrontation, so Karasuba was willing to turn a blind eye if Miya did so too. As Karasuba stepped in she took her boots of before walking to the room to put away her things.
As Karasuba entered the room she found it empty with so she walked in and began to unpack, putting her things away and setting her priceless momento on top of the small cabinet that stood at the wall.
After putting her things away Karasuba began to undress, shrugging of her messed up haori, slipping out of her worn down dress before she went to get her bathing robe with the plan of having a bath after dinner.
After slipping into her bathrobe and getting some slippers on Karasuba walked out of the room and towards the living area to get some dinner in.
When she arrived at the living room and she slid open the door, Karasuba was greeted to the sight of everybody sitting at the table.
There was Miya at the head of the table, to her left was Homura and Uzume, to her right at the same spot as before sat John in his new clothes she had purchased and next to John on the spot that belonged to her in her opinion sat Matsu happily munching away on the food that was served.
"Heeey buddies look who just arrived at the right time for dinner. It's your favourite new Inn mate." Karasuba said as she walked around the table in an overly friendly tone that had a mocking undercurrent to it.
Hearing this all the occupants of the room sans Miya and John blanched when the situation actually dawned on them that Karasuba was going to live with them.
As Karasuba got close to Matsu, Matsu lifted her head to frightfully look at Karasuba and when she did she saw her motioning with her hand to slide over and effectively vacate the spot next to John.
Of course Miya observed this with the scrutiny of a Hawk to see if trouble would arise so soon but she was pleasantly surprised again when John spoke up showing that he had the reigns in hand. "Sit down on the free spot next to Matsu and behave." There was no room for negotiations.
Karasuba tried to protest but was cut off with a "SIT." from John.
And to the shock of everyone except Miya, Karasuba complied while grumbling "But it's my spot."
After that little episode the dinner resumed quietly with everyone munching away on their food happily if not tense for Homura, Uzume and Matsu.
After a few minutes Matsu noticed that John wasn't eating anything and that he was just staring at his chopsticks while his hands remained on his thighs, so Matsu ventured a guess that he didn't know how to use them. "Need help John?"
Matsu watched John snap his head towards her so fast she thought he might have broken his neck.
"That would be appreciated." John said after a moment thought.
"Well here you have to hold them like this, put one into the grove by your thumb and lay the other one onto your pointer and support that one with your ring finger, yes that's the way." Matsu said as John did as instructed but when he tried to put them to use and grab a slice of fish he ended up putting too much force into it which resulted in the snapping of the chopsticks.
When the others on the table heard the snap they moved their heads up to see what had transpired.
"Oh oh silly you, well it seems like it can't be helped, I guess I will have to feed you, uf uf uf." Matsu said obviously enjoying the situation as she lifted a piece of fish up with her chopsticks and moved it up towards Johns mouth, having to reach up slightly because of their height difference.
Creasing his eyebrows together obviously not enjoying this, John stared at the offered piece of fish.
"Come on don't be shy John." Matsu coaxed.
John already knew that he was going to be teased for what he was going to do, if Cortana could see this she would be laughing her virtual ass of. But having not eaten since the battle on Requiem hunger won out. Slowly opening his mouth and as fast as he could John took the offered piece of fish in and began to chew. When he was done chewing John leveled Matsu with a serious and stern gaze. "Never again." Was all he said making Matsu pull her head in slightly while she had the next piece of fish ready. "Bbut that was so cute." Matsu tried.
"For fucks sake, Miya could John please have a new pair of chopsticks I can't watch this any longer!" Karasuba complained, getting annoyed that Matsu was already trying to suck up to her Ashikabi.
"Haha what do you mean new chopsticks, we don't have any anymore. And I don't find this so bad." Came the sly reply from Miya, having found an opening to pull a fast one on that rapid dog. Hearing that kind of response Karasuba growled before standing up and walking towards the Chief. When she was next to him she gave him her chopsticks and said. "I'm not hungry anymore, here, but don't break them again, I'm taking a bath." With that done Karasuba was out the door and heading towards the bathroom to fill up the tub.
Back in the living room.
After Karasuba had forced her chopsticks at John peace and quiet saturated the room leaving its occupants to finish their dinner. After a few more tries even John was able to handle the chopsticks leaving Matsu jobless in that aspect.
When everybody was done eating Uzume helped Miya out in removing the dirty dishes while Homura, John and Matsu relaxed at the table.
Suddenly an idea dawned on Matsu. "Homura do you by any chance need more hosts at your club, because John here is looking for a job."
Hearing that Homura sputtered. "Wwwhat do you have in mind? You can't be serious?" Even John looked at Matsu as if a second head had grown on her.
"Well John is quite handsome and fit so I thought he might get a job there if you are looking for more staff." Matsu elaborated.
"Well not to be rude but I don't think Chief is what we are looking for in the host business sure he's tall, scratch that he is huge, stern and a terrible conversationalist from what I have seen, no offence by the way." Homura explained.
"None taken." Chief said.
"Well what about bouncer?" Matsu tried again.
"Hmmm I'm not sure, least I know is that we have that covered. Well anyway I'll keep my ears open and see if any of my regulars knows something." Homura said as he looked at his watch. "Oh crap I'm going to be late. Well good luck, see ya." Homura said as he stormed out the door and towards his room, the two he left behind not knowing that he had a very important customer to meet that had called him earlier before dinner.
"Oh what a bummer, you would have looked awesome in a suite John, with your rugged and stern look you would have made the guest go crazy for you. Wait that was a terrible idea. I don't want to have more competition that could get in the way of my experiments ufufufu!"
"MATSU!" Came the yell again from Miya out of the kitchen.
"Ugh yes Miya I'll behave!" Matsu shouted back. "Well let's take a bath you must be pretty tired John." Matsu said as she got up from her seat and started to drag John along who decided that there was no point in fighting it and he didn't really have an aversion to mixed baths, back in the UNSC in Castlebase there were only mixed baths.
Getting up from his seat John followed Matsu towards his room to get his bathing utensils while Matsu went to her hidden room to get her stuff.
Inside his room John went to undress and grab a few towels that Miya provided with the room, slipping into his new bathrobe and into his slippers he left his room and saw Matsu already waiting there naked with a towel wrapped around her intimate areas and a basket of her bathing utensils. "Come on here I'll show you the way." Matsu said.
With Karasuba
There was few things Karasuba could say she really enjoyed other than the ecstasy of carnage, bloodshed and bullying weaker beings than her. But in all honesty she loved to bath and that evil witch of an archenemy had the mother of all baths in her little Inn. Currently lounging in the giant hot tub that was in the bathing area Karasuba was soaking her worries away with her head laid back on the edge of the tub with her eyes closed, her body under water placed into a comfortable yet alluring position.
Everything was so peaceful and quite, Karasuba vowed to herself in that very moment that when she was able to cleanse the earth off of all the vermin's that crawled around on it, she would built hot tubs like this everywhere.
Still lost in her thoughts about her personal utopia Karasuba was more and more pulled out of her glorious fantasy by the racked her new hated bond sister made as she approached the bath. So far Karasuba couldn't clearly make out what that annoying pervert was talking but she vowed to herself that she would dish out some punishment later on for disturbing her.
Then the door to the bathhouse opened and Matsu skipped into the room with a noticeable spring in her steps, her face was covered with a healthy blush and a bit of blood was leaking out of her nose, apparently she was fantasising again. "John I wanna wash your back ufufu." Was what Matsu said in a singsang voice. Looking towards the door Karasuba saw Johns Huge form enter the bathroom and when he gave the bathroom a once over and he gave her a cursory glance Karasuba unintentionally arched her a back a bit in order to make her perky breasts more noticeable, to her displeasure she was wholeheartedly ignored.
"That won't be necessary." John said towards Matsu.
"But, but, but I want to, every Sekirei has to wash her Ashikabi's back. Its custom!" Matsu exclaimed hurriedly making up an excuse for it in order to do perverted stuff.
"She's right." Karasuba said as she got out of the tub and sauntered towards the two leaving her naked body glistening as the excess water flowed of her form. As she got close to the two Matsu finally noticed her and with an eep shrunk back a bit as Karasuba honored her with the look of a predator in an effort to intimidate her bond sister and to get her to back off of their Ashikabi. "Now let's get you washed before you can go into the tub or can't little Johnny boy here handle two woman." Karasuba challenged John as she motioned towards a stool that was situated in front of a showerhead and shelve. "Seeing Karasuba support her idea Matsu regained some of her lost vigor and started to bounce on her heels. "Yes, Yes come on John."
An annoyed sigh escaped John as he begrudgingly went along with the idea of the two. "Fine."
John went towards the stool, lost his bathrobe and without any sort of inhibition sat down on the little stool. The moment he let his whole weight settle on the stool, it was crushed under him making his bottom hit the tiled floor. The moment this happened a loud laughter rang through the room in curtesy from Karasuba. "Hahahaha no way how heavy are you that a stool can't support you?"
Not realising Karasuba was making fun of him John answered. "130 kg." At that both woman gawked, he was weighing as much as the both of them together. "Uh well then that's no wonder the stool couldn't support you." Matsu breathed out before shaking her head and doing a 180 in settings again as she chuckled with her fingers wiggling. "Ufufufu where have we been, oh right let's get the bath started."
And so the twos little bathing event left of with full swing.
After the bath and in Johns room again
Feeling quite refreshed and a bit annoyed by the twos relentless assaults to coax a reaction out of him but John supposed it wasn't too bad.
Karasuba and Matsu though were a bit miffed because of the slight dent to their self-esteem. Like seriously they belonged to a race of super-hot alien woman that put human supermodels to shame without even trying and even though their various advances were more on the kinky and provoking side the lack of reaction from their Ashikabi was still a little worrying. Like how many bloody human males were out there that could resist to having soap applied to them with two sets of breasts or being entangled with their out of this worlds bodies in a tub.
Poor Matsu and Karasuba for not knowing what that little chemical cocktail that was used to enhance John did to sex drive.
Currently all three were inside John's room sitting in front of Matsu's laptop browsing through the online job market.
"Looking for a Chef at Super Dooper Ninja Ramen Shop, pay 15000 Yen monthly." Matsu read out loud then looking expectantly at John.
"Pass."
"Come on this is already the 10th Job advert, at some point you will have to decide on what to do." Matsu whined.
"Well stop picking shit then." Karasuba yelled at Matsu from her left.
"Okay, okay you do it if you think you can do a better job." Matsu said to Karasuba annoyance quiet clear in her voice. In the past Matsu would have never dared to speak like that to Karasuba but since both of them belonged to the same Ashikabi Matsu decided she could be a bit friskier and not let Karasuba walk all over her and if push came to shove Matsu was sure that John would step in.
"Duh well yeah sure I can do a better job. Give it here." Karasuba replied while reaching for the laptop. Setting it down in front of her she began to scroll around a bit before she reached for a piece of paper from the stack that they had taken beforehand and a pen to scribble some things down. When she was done writing she gave the sheet of paper to John, closed the laptop and pushed it aside.
John took the offered piece of paper and read aloud its content. "Need for a helping hand in construction monthly pay 30000 Yen and looking for a part time barkeeper at Maidcafe monthly pay 20000 Yen." On the paper the address of said job offers was written down too.
"Okay I can understand a job in construction but seriously a Maid café?" Matsu asked incredulously.
"Well they were the best paying once that I've seen and anyways wouldn't you want to see John wearing a frack?" Karasuba shot back. Thinking about the frack thing Matsu blushed as she imagined John wearing one and serving them tea while sweet talking them. "Ufufuf your choices have been approved." Matsu chuckled while offering a hand up for a high five, but sadly the high five was ignored by Karasuba which after a few seconds of waiting elicited a depressed awwwww from Matsu.
"I don't have any say in this do I" John questioned the two and getting a simultaneous "NO!" from Karasuba and Matsu.
"You should go check them out tomorrow morning, we know both of the jobs don't really fit your expertise but I doubt a full blown alien invasion is going to happen anytime soon, well expect the Sekirei Plan." Matsu said before she began to tidy up the room and put the sheets, the pen and her laptop away while Karasuba walked to another closet to get a second futon out that she started to set up right next to Johns leaving no space in-between the two. "We should go to bed now it has been a long day." Karasuba said as she slid out of her bathrobe leaving her form exposed save to the black thong she was wearing and slid under her futon. Seeing this John decided that some shut eye wouldn't be bad and stood up to walk towards the cabinet that held his pyjama. Removing his bathrobe and getting into the nightwear he found it to be quiet comfortable before walking to his futon. Standing next to the futon John decided to create some space between the two and so he got on his knees and grabbed the side of his matrass and gave it a tug. Noticing that the matrass didn't budge John looked up and saw Karasuba smirking at him with her hands having a firm hold on the matrass. Releasing a sigh John locked eyes with Karasuba and gave the matrass a stronger pull which managed to move the matrass but it also managed to drag Karasuba with it while a loud ripping sound echoed throughout the room. Removing a hand from the matrass John dragged it down his face in frustration, this action managed to bring an even bigger smirk onto Karasuba's face who's upper body had been uncovered by Johns action. "What's it gonna be Johnny? I don't mind letting you under my futon if we break that one." Karasuba teased. With a heavy sigh John removed his other had from the matrass and watched it being pulled closer again towards Karasuba's own. Deciding the would be spent energy wasn't worth it John just got into his slightly ruined Futon, filling it out completely with his feet sticking out for almost half a meter.
"Where is my futon?" Matsu decided to bud in the shenanigans with a question, receiving the bird from Karasuba as an answer. "You have your own room, turn of the light when you leave I'm tired." Karasuba said as she snuggled into her futon. Matsu growled at this but she would not be denied, the night was still long and even the mighty Karasuba should have her guard down while she was sleeping. Starting to form a plan for later Matsu left the room with a growl and turned the light off.
Seeing the lights of and the door closed Karasuba made her move as she scooted closer to Johns form wrapping an arm around one of his she place her head on his chest and entangled her legs with his. This would be their first night in a normal room and Karasuba would enjoy it that was for sure. "Good night Johnny." Karasuba mumbled as she made it more comfortable for her which ended up pressing Johns arm in-between her breasts. The only response she got to that was a groan.
With Homura in front of the club he works as a Host at.
After Homura had excused himself, Matsu and John at the dinner he had gone to his room and got himself prepared for his usual late night shift at the club he worked at. Walking to his room to don his suite that was his uniform as a host Homura went over the information that he had gathered so far. It didn't seem like much but he sure had a few pointers for his helping associate inside MBI. Dressing himself up didn't take too long and in a few moments he was already out of his room and on his way towards the club. When Homura got onto the street in front Maison Izumo he took a cursory look around to see if somebody was watching. Finding the coast clear he took a running start and leaped of unto the closest roof and continued this action across many roofs throughout town to get to his destination faster.
It took him less than half an hour to arrive at the club but rather than go inside he waited in front of the club and pulled out his mobile phone. Flipping it open he searched for the number in his history that he wanted to call and pressed the call button. Putting the phone to his ear he heard it ringing and not a few seconds later he heard a voice answer. "Homura it took you long enough." Came the gruff female voice from the other side of the line. "Yeah I know I had to keep up appearance, but I'm at the meeting point."
"Alright I'll be there shortly." The female voice said before hanging up. Having finished his short conversation on the phone Homura pocketed his phone and waited.
Sure enough after a few minutes of waiting, a black limousine drove around the corner of the street that the club was situated at and pulled up in front of him. Stopping in front of him a blackened window of the limousine opened up revealing a grey haired woman in her late 30ties. "Get in." ordered the woman curtly.
Doing as ordered Homura walked around the limousine, opened the backseat door and got in sitting himself next to the women and closing his door. "Driver take us around the block and shut the compartment window, I want some privacy." The women ordered the driver, who complied with a "Yes Ma'am" before closing the compartment window and driving off.
As the compartment closed the grey haired woman spoke up. "What do you have for me Homura?"
"Well Takami not much to be honest, you most definitely know already that he winged Matsu already so I'm going to start off with some basic information, if that is alright with you?" Homura said to the now named Takami. "Well sure, any information is welcome at this point, so we can stop moving in the dark." Takami answered.
"Alright so to describe his appearance, he's Caucasian and sticks out like a sore thumb in a crowed due to his height which is about 2 meter to 2,20 a few centimeters give or take." Homura started out. "Jesus that sure is like a sore thumb, we Japanese are like midgets compared to that stature." Takami exclaimed.
"Well going into further detail his hair color brown and his eye color blue (I know I said it was green in the beginning and I'm rectifying that right here), he is very muscular in such a way that he would make bodybuilders or wrestlers look like toothpicks and he might weigh some 140 kg give or take a few." Homura said.
"Well that seems to be a pretty good description to start off with, considering where we live, not many people with similar appearance are around. Did he say anything more sensitive like name, age, birth place?" Takami further inquired.
"Well he looks like he is well in his forties (I like him old) and he introduced himself with Master Chief Petty Officer Sierra 117, he said his preference was on Chief for short but Karasuba and Matsu started to call him John at some point and apparently his place of birth is Eridanus 2 whatever that is supposed to mean." Homura said.
"So he's navy? Do you have anything specific about his armour and such?" Takami questioned.
"Well apparently and his armour, well I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like it before, all of his equipment seemed very advanced even his weaponry that clung to his armour seemed out of this world with the eerie way they glowed, he gave Matsu this data storage device that had this crystals in its center. What I can say for sure is that where ever he came from, his people are way more advanced than us Sekirei are or used to be." Homura said kind of bitterly.
"Hmm that is worrying, indeed." Takami frowned. "Do you think you can procure a sample of his tech?"
"Hmm I'm not sure if that is wise, he seemed very guarded and like everything that happened inside the room was in his focus, but I can try." Homura said.
When Homura said that he noticed that the limo they were in began to slow and as he looked out of the window he saw the club coming in sight again. "Well it seems our little chat has to come to an end." Homura said.
"Yes so it seems, we can't have somebody get suspicious, you know Minaka has watchful eyes everywhere. Anyway keep me posted and see if you can do something about that sample we talked about." Takami said as the limo came to a halt in front of the club.
"Will do, I'll keep you posted." Homura said as he opened the door and stepped out of the limo. "Talk to you soon."
"See you." Came the reply from Takami as the door was being closed, leaving her alone in the limo. "Diver, take us back to MBI." Takami ordered the driver via the intercom that was housed in the limo. "Certainly, Ma'am". Answered the driver, while driving off towards MBI and leaving Takami to her own thoughts.
In the back Takami mumbled to herself. "Troublesome indeed."
Back at Maison Izumo at around Midnight in Miya's room
Miya couldn't sleep. No wonder really, a lot had changed over the last couple of hours, for the good or for the bad Miya didn't know. Currently sitting in front of the shrine that was dedicated to her late husband Takehito Asama, Miya was praying and just talking to her Husband.
"You know Takehito, the last few days were interesting for sure but the weirdest one was today that's for sure." Miya sighed as she spoke to the imaginary spirit of her husband.
"I used to be content with the way things were so far, but I used to have this uneasy feeling for quite some time that things were going to change, that it was so soon I didn't know." Miya said while smoothing out some wrinkles from her nightwear.
"Today somebody new showed up at our doorstep, lost and without a cause as far as I can tell, and he brought that much hated lunatic with him."
"I would of never had thought that I would let that disgusting Karasuba stay at our Inn after all she has done." Miya took a shaking breath at that point.
"But deep inside of me I know that you would have looked at the situation with a more neutral stance and her Ashikabi is quite the curious person. This Chief as he introduced himself or John like Karasuba refers to him, he is such a burdened individual, he doesn't let it show on his face, no not face, his mask, but his eyes tell a story. A brutal story about destruction, pain, sacrifice and the worst of it all he seems to not know what he is. Weapon or Soldier. I can tell that much about him from my short conversations with him but the most telling was Karasuba's statement about their bond that they had formed. That she didn't feel anything from him, Matsu said the same as I took her aside for a moment. That he felt shackled." At that point Miya was curiously studying the incense sticks glow deep in thought.
"As far as I can remember from ancient Sekirei lore that was taught to us before our journey, there is no passage in it that would describe such an occurrence." At this point another heavy sigh escaped her.
"Only time will tell if I made the right decision and troubling times are ahead of us. The first stage of the Sekirei Plan has reached its breaking point with half the Sekirei being already loose in the city." Miya said.
"Well it's always good to talk to you dear. It eases my worries. Good night." With that said Miya clapped her hands in front of her face for a short prayer and then stood up to walk to her own futon to get some sleep. Tomorrow would be an interesting day again.
With Matsu at the same time as Miya talks to herself in front of her shrine
The time had come, the coast was clear and the mission had green lights across all boards. Slowly the door of Matsu's hidden room opened and a mop of red hear appeared at the doorframe to glance down the hallway. Seeing nobody in the hall Matsu lightly stepped outside of her room and on her tip toes she started the long and agonizing journey to John's room. 20 Meters of hazardous terrain lay before the location that held her personal tri force. The key in clearing this level was to manage those 20 Meters without making any sounds so as not to wake Cerberus that was guarding her prize. So far everything had been good, the first half had been crossed without an incident and things were looking up for Matsu there were only a few more meters left to go. 4 Meters, 3 Meters, 2 Meters, 1 Meter and now slowly and tenderly opening the doo…..
"Hey Matsu! Whatcha doin at this time of the night tip toing around the hallway?" The overly happy voice of Uzume utterly destroyed Matsu's stealth mission as she rounded the corner by the staircase.
"Uuuzume!" Matsu stuttered out in a high pitched voice before the shock hit her, she clamped her mouth shut and raised a finger in front of her mouth "Ssshhh, not so loud." Matsu whispered.
"You're the loud one here." Uzume replied sassily. "Ohhhh now I get what your doin, going for some late night snack eh." Uzume said, her eyebrows wiggling as she counted one and one together.
"Ugh yes, please don't tell Miya." Matsu whispered while clasping her hands together in front of her face in a begging motion.
"Don't worry, I've got you covered, go get em tiger." Uzume cheered on Matsu without caring for the volume of her voice as she passed her she gave Matsu a thumbs up, before vanishing in her own room.
Taking a measured breath as Uzume disappeared, Matsu resumed her conquest of the holy land and slowly slid the door to John's room open. Peeking inside the dark room while keeping an ear open in case the occupants of the room had heard her and were awake, Matsu was pleasantly surprised to hear slow and calm breaths coming from inside. Slowly stepping into the room she again quietly closed the door behind her and tip toed to the center of the room where the two futons with John and Karasuba in them were laid out. As she got close to John and got onto all four to crawl under his covers, her eyes had adjusted to the dark and Matsu could see John more clearly now. His forehead was creased up as if he was in pain and here and there an almost unnoticeable groan escaped his throat. Moving her eyes up a little she could see Karasuba's head rested onto his left pectoral with a content expression on her face and oh my good she was drooling. Yes she was drooling, a small river of saliva onto her human pillow. Man Matsu wanted to do that too.
Snapping out of her train of thought Matsu looked back at Johns face as another soft groan escaped him. He must have a nightmare was the first thought that entered Matsu's mind. Slowly lifting the cover of Johns futon she crawled under it and aligned her body to his with her arm slowly pushing along under the cover so she could drape an arm over his upper body to pull herself closer to him. Resting her head next to Johns and pushing her second arm in between the pillow and his neck to be as close as possible to her Ashikabi, Matsu lowly shhhhed to ease her Ashikabi's nightmare and kissed his cheek. The moment her lips met Johns cheek the world around Matsu disappeared as her eyes rolled up into her head.
Her mind had gone somewhere Matsu noted as she stood in a black space reminiscent of the time she was inside the chip, but this time it was different she noted. This was more like the vision, dreamlike kind of thing that strong reacting Sekirei experienced.
Suddenly her body began to fall and from one moment to the next she was in a dark room, the walls of the room were made of metal and were painted gray. In the middle of the room sat a lone pedestal that emanated a soft blue glow. On one of the walls Matsu found a line of foggy pods, what they were she didn't know. Suddenly the whole room shook and the small figure of Cortana appeared on top of the pedestal. "Wake up John! I Need you!" Yelled the hologram of Cortana.
The moment Cortana had yelled one of the pods suddenly opened and the green armoured hand of John appeared and took hold of the side of the pod to pull him out.
"Cortana, why did you wake me?" Chief said in the familiar baritone Matsu became used to.
"Covenant Ships are inbound. Yank me." Cortana said curtly.
At this point Matsu knew what was happening. She was witnessing a part of John's memories and from here on Matsu watched again the events of Requiem. Along the way she finally understood his connection to the virtual entity that was Cortana as she watched his final moments he had with her. For the first time she could feel him, Matsu could feel him through her bond with him. She wanted to cry as she felt John's emotions when he found out that his companion was going rampant. The desperation in him when he was face with a situation he didn't know how to handle. The glimmer of hope as he formed a plan, that this Halsey would be able to fix everything.
And if things hadn't been bad already he was stuck on a planet, a constructed shield world, realization dawned on Matsu when she followed her Ashikabi inside the planet that in comparison to the advancements made in his universe the humanity and the Sekirei of their universe were barbaric at best.
At this point Matsu resolved her stance on being at the side of her Ashikabi and giving him support. She could never let it happen that samples of the technology that John brought with him could fall into the hand of MBI, not even a tiny sample of it.
The events that further happened along the way were nothing new to Matsu but now she got a deeper understanding of them as things played out with the Didact.
Her Ashikabi's home universe was unreal that was for sure and that point had surly been driven home now at least to Matsu.
The moment she really cried at was the scene where John parted from Cortana after he detonated the nuclear warhead. It was terrible, the sadness and the anguish she felt through her bond with him were unbearable and as he floated of into space after the protective bubble of hardlight shattered around him, Matsu's astral form flew over to the motionless body of John and embraced him in a tight loving hug.
And the world around Matsu disappeared again, bringing her back to the room at Maison Izumo and next to the sleeping form of her Ashikabi. A lonely tear traveled down one of Matsus cheeks as she was still shaken from the experience, sleep would befall her late this night.
Yo I'm on a roll here, inspiration is hitting me with a brick right in the face and I can't stop it. But everything has to come to an end so I'm going to leave you guys hanging at this part.
See ya all next chapter