This is one of the longest chapters I have composed for any story. It is 4790 words excluding the AN. Lots of stuff happen here and it starts to get serious towards the end. This chapter will contain sexual and faecal references as well as some strong voilence so be warned kiddies!
4. Faces
Thankfully I did get some significant shut-eye that night. I figured that perhaps the whole vector thing might just be a dream but just to be sure.
"Gnh. Grr. Argh! Dammit." So it must have been a dream then. I should talk to Nana about it anyway since she is a Diclonius; Nyu would be too stupid to talk to.
My constipated noises wake up Mayu who yawns louder than a lioness with ten kids (if that's possible!). "Good morning Ben. Sorry I fell asleep on you." She says in the typical crusty 'just-woke-up-from-big-night' voice.
"Oh it's alright you were just tired from the whole stuff from last night."
She frowns upon memories of last night. "Why did Bando-san have to hurt Nyu like that?"
"Well he is a creepy Biono man so I'm not surprised." I have to concede though. "At least he did some good by getting rid of Alucard-man."
"Actually Ben..." Mayu draws her eyes down to the ground. "He only bragged about most of that fight. He didn't punch a hole in the man but something invisible did."
"What? But Nana-chan was incapacitated so it couldn't have been her."
"Yeah whatever it was it made him run away with bleeding buttocks." Mayu lightened the mood with a laugh at the thought of a man with a bleeding rear, either because she is thinking of haemorrhoids or the thought of male menstruation. She sighs from her excessive laughter. "Okay then lets get some breakfast."
My stomach dog barks at the noisy neighbour again and tells me that I haven't had a meal since coming here – two whole days without food!
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I wasn't surprised at how I dealt with the table before me. He other members of the Maple Inn just stared in awe. I wasn't sure the bounty of food I was eating exactly; one thing looked like a whole fish with a white dressing on it, there was also some plain noodles in a bowl of broth (I love noodles and since I hadn't eaten for that long I slurped up a whole bunch of them making me look like the man who stuffs his mouth with twenty cigarettes). I moved on to some vegetables and an omelette stuffed with colourful things – no time to guess, just EAT!
After a gluttonous five minutes of stuffing my entire insides I guzzled the glass of green tea before realising the heat of the liquid burning my throat. If I was really stuck in Anime-land then it would be right now as my neck to my head literally lit up a bright red and steam blew out of my mouth as I screamed in agony.
"Well Ben, it looks like you have quite the appetite for someone of your size." Yuka smartly commented.
"And the tea thing was just Karma." Kouta also muttered cleverly.
A new grumble entered my body but it wasn't from being massively hungry. I had eaten a meal for three in a span of five minutes and the other two servings were lining up to exit. I felt solid material well up in my oesophagus and kindly excused myself for a moment.
I made it to the toilet – hoping it would be the fancy one that would say 'hello' to me while I puked out most of my first meal in Japan. Worse still I can't be subtle about it, when I spew the whole house has to hear as I heave out my insides.
"UEUERRGGHH!!!" Something like that. After a minute of regurgitation and panting whilst I watch the omelette and still whole noodles float around in the pond of excrement I flushed away my food for someone else down the sewerage line to deal with. Only problem was that it wasn't going down. In fact it was making a gurgling noise like a dolphin stabbed in the neck – and I don't like hurting dolphins. I'd better deal with this.
I look at the festering build up of food and bile and without thinking twice a part of me reveals itself (NOT THAT PART) and pushes down the food enough so it can be flushed away. My vector did the unsanitary job for me, yet why couldn't I produce it before? Maybe I should take this whole vector thing in a new light – it could prove to be useful among other things.
The best part was because it was insubstantial I didn't need to wash my vector hand afterwards. I came back to the dining room where everyone else had to make do with what I left behind.
"So how much of the breakfast is still in you?" Giggled a girl I hadn't heard speak like that before. It was Nyu.
"I didn't know you could speak properly."
Kouta slapped a palm to his face and Nyu seemed a little insulted (I just hope she doesn't revert to Lucy). "I can speak properly why did you think otherwise?"
"Because when I came here the other night you were flapping about yelling 'Nyu', 'Nyu'."
"I only do that when I'm exited." She mumbles.
"But Nyu was like that when she first came here." Yuka interjects. "She just doesn't remember all the embarrassing times."
"Yeah like when she peed on the floor first time here." Kouta laughed as he sipped his tea.
"I never did that." Nyu said blushing.
Nozomi started trembling at the mention of peeing for some reason. A strange scent entered the room much like the one from last night. "Oh what's that smell?" I instinctively yell. I must have struck the record for awkward moments because now Nozomi was running out of the room crying.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't know it was you who farted." I said ignorant to what was really the cause of the smell. I ran over to the kitchen where she was holding something over the sink. Some liquid puddle around where she stood.
"I'm sorry Ben. I didn't mean to do that in front of you." She moved her body enough so I could see the object she was holding. It was an adult nappy.
No way! This chick wears adult nappies? Should I be freaked out...or turned on right now?
"Oh please don't feel bad. Everyone makes mistakes in their lives in fact. I wanted to make her feel less self conscious so I tried to grunt out some yellow waterworks of my own. It wasn't working. I pushed so hard a loud popping noise was heard (and felt) on the other side. "Oh crap!"
Nozomi giggled in the schoolgirl fashion "Tee-he you pooed your pants."
"Hey that's not fair I wasn't intending to do that?" The smell must have attracted the others as I head them standing up. "Oh no this is gonna be so embarrassing. I could feel the warm skid-mark slide around in my undies.
"Hey Ben hurry up and give me your pants. I got an idea." Anything to make me save my reputation. I striped down my pants and underwear to which I quickly wiped away the faecal stains from my anal flesh just in case. She chucked them into the sink and blasted it with water and scrubbed in some cleansing product.
"Ahh! You're good at this." I compliment her quick skills at hiding the evidence. Maybe she could give me some tips on (ahem) other kinds of stain removal.
"What the hell are you doing Ben?" A raging Kouta alongside the others came in to their surprise at why I was naked from the waist down.
Nozomi elbowed me slightly "Just play along." She whispered slyly. She spoke in her submissive tone again. "Oh I'm sorry, Ben-san came in here but he startled me..." She even generated some crocodile tears for show. "I peed all over your pants Kouta-san...I'm sorry."
Surprisingly they were very forgiving. It was like they already knew she was incontinent.
Yuka explained to me that Nozomi had a very weak bladder. She wanted to be a singer and apparently she has a really good singing voice. It was enough to convince me that she was alright. Besides there's nothing wrong with a lady as attractive as her peeing every now and then. (It was then I worked out Nozomi would have had no panties on during that whole scenario which almost made me wet myself in a different way.)
After everyone settled down again Yuka referred to the time with a look of dismay. "Oh no we're going to be late again!"
"For what?" I say.
"We have to go to Uni. Come on Kouta, Nozomi and Nyu." I was surprised Nyu was actually intelligent enough to go to University. I really underestimated her personality and I was beginning to enjoy being around such a diverse bunch of people. "Mayu you better go to school as well." She said to noone as Mayu already showed up in her navy blue sailor style uniform.
"So wait what should I do?"
Kouta groaned. "If you promise not to strangle anyone again I guess you can come along and just say you're a transfer student."
"Yes! I'm going to Uni!" I cheer ecstatically. However my enthusiasm doesn't seem to catch on with the others. I forgot to talk to Nana about the vector. She was the only one staying home but I would've thought if Nyu was smart enough to go to Uni then Nana could go to middle school. Anyway I would talk to her in private after Uni."
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The University of Kamakura looked amazing from the outside. The buildings were all several stories high and the courtyard had fountains and various Japanese trees most of which were losing their leaves for the winter. It really was beautiful and was the first time I saw some sights for the fractured holiday.
The people here were a mix of typical Japanese appearance and some more stand-out types with spiked hair and massive Mohawks. I was really impressed at the individuality of some people. If only I could do a degree here.
"So what degrees are you all doing?" I ask the quartet.
"Yuka and I are doing Molecular Biology. Nyu isn't really a student here but just joins our class anyway. Nozomi is doing a Music class." I agree to tag along with the Biologists due to my forte being in that general field.
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Class seemed to fly by. It was very informal and I didn't even need to write note down. It was great because they were discussing enzyme for this particular lesson which we learnt in year 12. I contributed with my own knowledge to a degree but eventually it went a bit complicated so I just played around with my vector in the classroom. A brunette girl was sitting diagonally in front of me with a loose top on. I flipped up her shirt several times unbeknownst to her and observed her tight panties. I also managed to spot some Japanese nipple when I pulled down the top of another girl to my side. They had no idea it was me. It was the perfect scam!
The four of us were now walking along the corridors. They were discussing the lesson and I continued with my upskirt game for every attractive girl walking by. Some yelped as they noticed the mysterious updraft and others just passed by unfazed.
There was one particular target I wanted to try out on. She must have been an assistant science lady due to her white lab coat and ponytailed purple hair (I was used to seeing weird hairdos by now). She was strolling in front of us at a rapid pace. I think Kouta was muttering to the others we should get away from her.
"Come on guys let's turn around, she's a weird lady." But I wanted to flip her coat and see some fine scientist legs. Now I was being tugged away so I had to act fast. I flipped the coat at least up to her head level. I got a nosebleed (Animeland) though when I found too much surprise she had absolutely nothing on underneath – not even panties.
"KYAH!" She tried desperately to push the coat back down. She managed to get it down just before she turned around. She had tears of shame but was soon taken over by anger. "Alright you four to my office now!"
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I felt a little guilty for giving them the blame but the old rebel in me couldn't help it. After focusing so much on the lower end of her I felt obliged to focus on the upper end. She wore rounded glasses and had a young looking face so I guessed she must have been in her mid twenties.
"Now I don't know exactly who did it but I know you four were right behind me when it happened..." She had her eyes squinted the entire time so when she opened them to see Nyu she suddenly ended her rambling. Strangely she leapt over the table allowing me to finally see some vag before tackling Nyu to the ground. "I finally got you. Now I don't have to be a pleasure slave!"
Kouta and Yuka tried to pull the mad scientist off of a distressed Nyu. "Why are you doing this to me?" Nyu asked what we were all thinking.
"NO I WON'T BE A PLEASURE SLAVE!!!"
I decided I could be of use and slapped her with my vector. She instantly knew what the invisible feeling was. "No don't hurt me I'm sorry-I'm sorry-I'm sorry." She crouched down and waddled to her desk which looked quite hilarious as her arse was poking out from her coat. I used my vector to push down my Pinocchio of a penis.
"Yuka and Nyu get out of here. She is a nut." Kouta ordered. Yuka picked up a rather confused but not injured Nyu.
"What is wrong with you? Why did you try to apprehend Nyu-chan!?"
The science lady pickled herself up and tried to remain of a sensible appearance. "I needed to get Lucy before the man in glasses does or I'll become a pleasure slave."
I instantly thought of Bando and his attempts lately to capture Lucy. But then again what was that Alucard man doing in the Maple Inn?
"Hey Kouta you go ahead and catch up with Nyu and Yuka. I have some more to discuss with..."
"Arakawa...Professor Arakawa." She boasted. What kind of professor comes to a prestige university all commando?
"Tch if you want Ben. She is a nut."
Kouta left and I got to business. I slammed my fist down on her desk. "Okay how much do you know about Diclonius?"
She tried to play dumb with me. "I don't know what you mean...Such nonsense."
"Will this convince you to talk?" I lifted her sleeve with my vector so her arm would suddenly rise hypnotically.
She was instantly spooked. "Don't tell me...?"
"It was me who lifted your coat. My name is Ben McMullen and I have seen some weird shit over the last three days."
"But how could you do that? I thought only female Diclonius had vectors."
"Well apparently not. I just have the one and it stretches about twice as far as my normal arms."
"Do you have the horns as well?"
I feel around my head to find no irregular bumps. "No Arakawa I do not. I am a human but somehow I have attained the Diclonius power."
She paces around the room. "This is bad...what if more people like you develop this...I really should have caught Lucy when I had the chance."
"Nyu is not like Lucy!" I try to reason with her. "I know from experience Lucy is a cold-blooded killer, but Nyu is nice." Suddenly the small of my back where Lucy touched with her vectors those many nights ago shivered. "Wait maybe you can catch vectors like a disease."
"That's preposterous." She pouted. "You can only become a carrier of the vector virus but not grow your own."
"And also the girl from the plane crash."
Arakawa seemed shocked by the plane incident as well. "You survived the plane crash?"
"Yes and everyone sound just the same when I say that."
"I was told everyone died but Lucy caught someone in the air and threw them onto the beach."
Wait! Lucy was the one who saved me? Why me? I'm not special...
"I think I was that person you mention. Do you think...Lucy chose me for something?"
"What you? You're just a perverted brat. Why would she 'choose you' for anything?"
"It is the only reasonable explanation for these series of events lately."
"Look kid. If you talk anymore you will be one of Director Kakuzawa's next targets."
"Kakuzawa...I have heard that name before...on the plane two men were talking about some ecological research facility on an island... I thought nothing of it."
She seems to grit her teeth in despair. "Get out of here now, kid. You need to be wary of those around you or you'll end up in a strange underground lake with tombstones and a giant brain."
I take no reaction to her last remark and decide she has given me enough information today. I will have to try and find the others now.
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I lose sight of the others as the next sessions begin. I decide to check out the Environmental Science classroom. I slip into the front row next to a blonde haired girl wearing a green shirt. I noticed the sleeves only covered her shoulder.
"Hey there." She says in an American accent. "I don't believe I've seen you around."
"Oh I'm just on temporary exchange. I'm Ben." I offer my hand to shake.
"I'm Amanda nice to meet you-"
"Please don't disrupt me while I'm trying to give a lecture." The teacher interrupted which made things awkward. "Anyway where was I...?" The lecture went on for about an hour. I actually found a lot of the stuff quite boring even though my passion for the environment was strong. Maybe an environmental scientist isn't my life's calling.
As we left I managed to start conversation with the young American. She said she was also on exchange and took up the course because of her passions for the environment. She also told me she was doing a degree in philosophy which was another of my interests.
"Wow we have so much in common." I smile.
"Yeah we do don't we...Oh well I'll see you next time then."
"Wait!" I call out to her. "If you're not busy this afternoon...uh gee...do you wanna get some coffee?"
I wasn't sure how she'd take it since I've had bad luck with previous girls but she nods and says she'd love to.
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A NEARBY CAFE IN KANJI CHARACTERS
Amanda and I soon met up at the cafe. I decided to shout her as it I thought of it as a date. I ordered the small cappuccino and she had a flat white. We instantly clicked. I told her about the people I'm currently living with and the shenanigans I had gotten myself into (I didn't mention me shitting myself though).
"Ha-ha! Wow that's so funny...Maybe I should go meet them."
"I don't know if you'd want to. They're a weird bunch. They remind me of Anime-style people."
"Oh my god I LOVE Animes!"
"Oh my god so do I!"
We both cracked up laughing at our common love for Animes. I told her my favourites such as Bleach, Deathnote and Ergo Proxy and she told me she really liked Witchblade, Chrono Crusade and Psycic Academy.
"Oh my! It is great we managed to meet up today. It is a shame though."
She leans forward revealing her small cleavage – I refrain from staring as I have a newfound respect for Amanda. "What is a shame?
"That we eventually have to go our separate ways...I...really like you..."
"You do? It's funny but I kinda like you as well."
Yes she likes me...for once I'm not rejected!
"What should we do then?" I ask with a bit of glumness. It would be a shame to lose such a wonderful person to the other side of the world.
"Maybe we should get a house here." She suggests like it's an easy task.
"Yeah but I have family back in oz...How would I tell them?"
"Well I don't really have a family to go back home to...they don't appreciate my goals...so if it's okay with you."
I decide instantly. "We'll do it if you're serious about it...but first I have to go back to the Maple Inn and let my friends know the good news."
"Sure I'll come with you..."
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Night had descended and we finally arrived from the long walk to the Maple Inn. "Knock-knock"
Mayu kindly answered the door. "I wondered why you were so late Ban-san, dinners on the table." She gives a cautious look to Amanda.
"There you are Ben. We thought we lost you to that mad scientist." Kouta actually looked happy. Maybe it was because I stood up for Nyu.
Yuka was equally ecstatic to my arrival "And who's the lady."
"Oh yeah guys I wanted to tell you all...This is Amanda...And I'm moving in with her."
The reactions were mixed of sorts. Kouta seemed happy for me but Yuka was a little disappointed the way a mother would feel at their child moving out. Nozomi and Nana were a bit sadder. Nyu was unfazed but nodded. And finally Mayu gave the most reaction of them all. She stormed from the room sobbing.
"Oh I didn't think it would be hard on Mayu like that." I said.
"Maybe you should talk to her Ben." Yuka recommended. "She told me she had strong feelings for you."
What? Mayu has strong feelings for me?
"Can you wait here Amanda? I have to just talk to Mayu for a sec."
I entered Mayu's room to which she was sobbing into her pillow. "Hey there Mayu-chan."
"Go away Ben...I don't want to see you anymore." She pouted past the muffling pillow.
"Now why are you saying such things? I thought we we're friends."
"But why do you need a child like me as a friend when you have her."
"Don't put yourself down like that. You are an intelligent and mature young woman and I care a lot about you."
She lifts her head up from the pillow. Her face was soaked with her tears. "Then why do you have to leave so soon?"
"Well to be honest I didn't intend living here with you guys as much as I'd love to. I eventually have to carry on with my life just as you have to as well.
She hiccups several times. "But...I...want...to...stay...with...you."
I feel a guilt tear down my heart as I break Mayu's own. I feel terrible now but I can't burden these people any longer. "Please Mayu...This is difficult enough for me as it is-"
She tightly snatches me with her thin arms and brushes her head against my body. "I love you Ben...and I don't want you to leave."
I smile and pat her soft head. "I like you too Mayu...it was fun meeting you guys." I gently push her arms and they slide away form my grasp. Amanda is standing at the dining area looking forward to our destiny.
I smile a cheerful grin. "Well it was fun meeting you guys. Arigato for everything."
"Goodbye Ben-san and good luck." They all (except Mayu) wave me off as we walk to the front door.
"This is gonna be so exiting." Amanda cheers.
Something from the other side bursts open the door. Three girls in black wetsuits and helmets stand a few metres back as a blonde man and a butch woman enter from wither side. "Who's the sweet couple then?" The man speaks in a soft but sadistic tone. I know instantly these guys are up to no good. I produce my vector but one of the three girls throws me back with vectors of their own.
"Amanda no! Get out of here."
Suddenly a dozen SWAT guys storm inside. I am utterly terrified. They grab Amanda and start flicking around her hair.
"Let her go!"
"She's not the one we're after." The blonde says. A SWAR man sees this and throws her into the wall.
"AMANDA!!!" I'm now pinned to the ground by two SWAT officers.
"What's going on here?" Kouta and the rest walk out and to their surprise of the assault squad before them. "Who are you guys and what do you want with us?"
"Oh we just need to take that girl over there." The feminine man points to Nyu. What does he want with her? Unless these guys are.
Well you can't have her." Kouta says nobly but is shot in the chest by the butch female.
"You're in our way brat." She mutters.
The others run over to the fallen Kouta. I am truly useless. My one vector can't save these people now. Only one person...
The two SWAT officers that were pinning me down lose their grip as their upper bodies are blown off by a mysterious force. Nyu has a look of deprivation in her eyes
Oh no! It's Lucy!
"Get the hell away from here now!" But I'm stopped by one of the helmet girls. "What are you doing we have to get away NOW!!!"
She is torn in two and so too all of the nearby SWAT officers. The two blondes run back as the two other helmet girls come forth to challenge Lucy.
A helicopter starts to descend from the sky and clears some land away. The craft is blown apart and falls onto the blonde man. He is saved by the two helmet girls as they suddenly flash over. Their masks come off to reveal faces of young girls with light pink hair. They are holding up a plane by themselves trying to save this man.
One of the girl's limbs flies away as Lucy shows up outside. She seems unfazed to the pain and focuses like a robot to hold up her commander who now is pleading for them to let go.
"Please Lucy you must stop." I plead with her but to no avail. She continues her torment by removing the girl's leg and finally her head. I am mortified by Lucy's potential for slaughter and yet moments ago she was a sweet and lively young woman. I have to save these innocent people.
"Enough Lucy!" I send my vector penetrating near her heart. It doesn't go through any vital organs but the pain distracts her enough to stop fighting.
"UWAHHH!"
The last girl dives under the Chinook copter and seemingly dies with her master. Everyone around me has fallen. And I can no longer say this is a dream when the reality very much kicks in.
Lucy rises slowly from the ground and faces me. "I would watch out if I were you." She says coldly and pointing somewhere. I turn to my horror and see the butch woman grasping the upper body of one of the clones. Vectors are breezing toward me. However someone takes the full blow and I watch in despair as Amanda – whom I had made such ambitious goals with plummet to the ground. Her body full of holes.
"AMANDA!!! WHY!!!???"
"You have to...go...Ben...live for...me......." As I witnessed Amanda's life slip away I also saw Lucy taken down by a bullet which took out one of her horns. The second bullet removed the other so she was incapacitated. I try and snatch the gun away from the woman but it merely makes me a target.
"So you're a Diclonius as well. A male with vectors. Kakuzawa will be interested in the both of you."
She said Kakuzawa…
…"You need to be wary of those around you or you'll end up in a strange underground lake with tombstones and a giant brain."…
I feel a heavy blow to my head as I enter darkness.
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I wake up from a massive headache. I gather my surroundings which resemble a strange swamp with large stone structures scattered. I feel myself literally restrained by something. Worse still I'm stark naked and it's freezing down here.
"So you are a male Diclonius with vectors...I am truly impressed." A croaky voice calls out from the shadows.
"Who's there? What's going on?" I ask frantically.
"Allow me to introduce myself Ben...I am Director Kakuzawa and this place is where Lebensborn will be created thanks to now you and Lucy."
Just my luck. The one man I didn't want to meet is now before me. Why am I naked and in a strange room? Am I going to be violated? I hope not...But I'll have to wait till chapter five to find out my fate.