This chapter has some problematic elements because this whole story is based around shoujo manga cliches that get characters to fall in love with each other. I just wanted to give a fair warning to that.
Also I didn't edit as much as I really should because I wanted to play more DND today. Sorry.
The truth or dare game had failed spectacularly, the play had also somehow managed to fail. "Ugh! This book hasn't given me any actual progress yet!" Saburo complained to himself. "I mean I know it's facing the impossible...actually getting together a successful romance." And sometimes he felt that in this universe that was impossible. If Momoka still hadn't worked up the courage to confess to Fuyuki and he was still as dense as bricks, nobody had any hope. After all Momoka and Fuyuki were the most given romance and even they weren't together yet.
"I am Saburo Hojo." Saburo frowned. "I don't care about the impossible or challenging. I don't care if Mois doesn't know or doesn't have feelings for Kululu, yet. I will get her to have them. And then I'll get Kululu to realize he's happier like this too." He wouldn't let fate or bad luck stop him.
He dramatically flipped the pages of his book over and over again. There had to be a chapter or section big enough that would have the perfect plan.
It had to be large enough that it would spark feelings in both of them, and he couldn't have it have something to do with asking Kululu favors. Kululu was getting way suspicious and he was not only really mad about the blind date thing, he was beginning to suspect something was up with the play thing as well.
"What's going on? Trying to pull as many pranks as you can before leaving, Saburo? That's something Keroro would do, not you." Keroro was still out of commission, and Kululu had approached Saburo when they were alone.
"Why do you think I'm trying to pull a prank on you?" Saburo had tried to play innocent as he flipped his pen around.
Kululu didn't reply. Instead he narrowed his eyes in anger.
"I don't know who let it slip to you about the relationship between me and Mois-"
Saburo raised a brow very interested. Nobody had. What relationship? There's still something I'm missing here.
"But you only have so much time left in this country. Don't waste it pulling a petty prank on me. Ku, ku, ku. I thought we had moved past that point where we were trying to one up each other." Kululu tried to reason, for once his voice dropping to a serious tone.
"No prank, I swear. I just thought she'd be a good princess. And you were my best friend so I put you in the role of a prince." Saburo tried to reason.
Kululu's anger dropped a little to only mild suspicion.
"What relationship do you two have?" Saburo asked trying to keep the hint of interest out of your voice. "There's definitely something it sounds like you've been hiding from me."
Kululu paled. "I thought we were over this. She's….In my nightmares." He confessed.
Bull crap. Saburo had wanted to say. "Why? I'm still so confused."
Kululu looked like he really didn't want to go over this, or even confess to this folly of his. "I...Um...It seems I'm afraid of Angol Mois. My life has flashed before my eyes several times around her." There was a full seriousness to his voice.
Saburo did not know how this could be. Was it because she was a planet destroyer? But Kululu didn't ever sound like he had a problem with that. "I, I didn't know she was that threatening...Is she that big of a threat to the planet?" This was an issue.
Kululu shook his head. "She's a threat to me! Her intoxicating innocence….She's trying to make me pure!"
Saburo just blinked. Kululu had lost him again. "Excuse me?"
"I'm a dark and evil soul. That level of purity could bring me to the bright side. And I won't let that happen. She's almost killed me several times..." Kululu chattered. "I didn't want you to know about my fear...My weakness. I knew you'd be the type to use it."
I don't know if I can use it. It's a level of idiocy I'm not sure how to feel about. Saburo thought. At least he knew how Kululu felt about things now, but….It sounded almost unreal. He knew Kululu was utterly convinced of these facts and honestly he wasn't sure how Kululu said those things out loud without realizing they were probably bull crap.
Kululu calling him out now seemed like a distant memory, but it still made him know that Kululu was suspicious of his plans. So there could be no more favors that he could ask for. Luckily the chapter he found seemed overly-dramatic, almost over the top and wouldn't need Kululu's knowledge of the plot at all.
"How to spark feelings in two people who either don't know they're in love or make two people fall in love." Saburo smiled. "Warning: Could possibly cause a severe amount of anger."
He didn't mind anger. It would fade eventually after all, and he could handle it. And anger only happened if Kululu managed to find out what he did.
He started reading the chapter more in depth so he could organize a good plan for what to do. Reading the text made Saburo sure that Momoka had read this book. It was so over-dramatic.
"Operation danger: Fake a dangerous situation or a near death scenario to make the couple realize they're in love with each other. They'll confess when they think the other is about to die." Saburo shrugged.
It sounded like the classic sort of thing that any of his friends would use in their own romance plots. He could definitely see someone like Giroro falling for it too. He wondered if Kululu would get caught up in the moment too.
He might not confess, but he'll definitely worry about her. I mean...He's not terrible. And saving Mois's life will make her love him more too. Saburo was sure of. She was always going on and on about 'prince charmings' and 'romances' to be honest he didn't think the girl had a thought in her head besides romance until he had read her letter about her type being someone who could cause mass chaos.
He better have Angol Mois be the person in danger then. And he knew exactly the person to ask so that Kululu could take the situation seriously.
It's all pretend and staged so she won't actually be in danger...Things will be fine. Saburo had to be enthusiastic about this plan. He'd put himself fully in it.
It would work. It had to.
Saburo was no alien, but it was really easy to put on some pipe cleaners and pom poms and walk around alien street and pretend to be a poyon.
Eventually he came across who he was looking for. The creature was smoking in a back alley, looking like a classic bad boy. Half of it's body was made out of metal, the other half organic. It had a gun for a hand and a head of a snake. It was the creature known as Viper.
"Yo Mecha Viper." Saburo waved.
"Do I know you?" The mecha viper asked, unable to distinguish who Saburo was thanks to his clever disguise.
"Eh, just ignore that. How ya doing, bud?" Saburo knew they were not buds, especially since Mecha Viper now lived on Pekopon antagonizing the Keroro platoon now and then. Still the viper would serve his purpose well, he was always looking for mercenary work and Kululu would take him as a proper threat when he really wasn't.
Saburo had seen the Vipers they were virtually harmless.
"Whaddya want?" The viper crumpled up his cigarette and stomped on it. He could tell that Saburo had a glint in his eyes that said he wanted something. And he was happy to take a job if he was awarded cash.
"Ah so you saw that I had a job." Saburo smiled and complimented. "Yeah I have a task for you, but it's difficult..."
"You want me to kill someone?" The mecha viper asked. "I no longer do those sorts of tasks. I'm no longer that type of person, also they always blow up in my face. The kids that I run an orphanage for don't like me being a murderer either." The viper frowned.
"No! No heck no! I don't want you to kill anyone!" Saburo said hurriedly. Unlike Kululu he did care about life and death. He cared a lot about others lives. "I need you to pretend you're going to kill someone though."
"The fake death charade, huh? I've been around that block a few times." The viper frowned. "What are the mechanics of this job."
"I need you to kidnap someone, write a fake ransom note, and then pretend that they're in a fair amount of danger. However you do not give them back if money is involved. Only return them when the other party shows they truly care about them." Saburo instructed.
The Viper grinned. "Kids. I've done this job about a thousand times. It's the pretend someone else is in danger so their love interest will pay attention to them, huh?" The viper nodded. He understood this task very well. "I can be the dangerous villain. And the person you need to confess will be way into the other person by the end. Who am I doing this task for anyway?"
"The person you will be fake kidnapping is this girl." Saburo took a picture out of his pocket. "Her name is Angol Mois. Be careful to separate her phone from her, it serves as a weapon. Don't break it though."
"Ah yeah. I know her." The Viper nodded, "Whenever I attack the Keroro Platoon she's rather nice. Sometimes she offers a cute band-aid to me afterwards, or some cookies. So she's doing an over-the-top desperate plan to get the attention of that Keroro finally?" The Viper winced. "It isn't going to work. I don't think I've ever seen Keroro show any romantic interest in her."
"It's not Keroro who's your target." Saburo said, "Since I'm not doing this on her wishes. She has no idea about this plan."
The Viper raised his eyebrow.
"The other target is Sergeant Major Kululu. I trust you know who that is." Saburo replied.
The Viper's face boiled in rage for a second as he nodded quickly. Everybody knew who Kululu was. "Jerk till the end my ass. I don't know how he did it….But he even managed to be a jerk to a great viper like myself! Giving me two asses that one day..." He grumbled. "He's the biggest jerk around!" He just looked like he was filled with rage.
Saburo sighed. Of course this Viper didn't like Kululu. Would he be willing to try to get Angol Mois and Kululu together then?
"But of course, I am more than willing to do this task for you. I'd love to get under that jerk's skin. I've never seen him express real emotions, but...I'm sure I can get him too. Making someone precious to him, or hearing that someone is precious to him will make it so much easier to get under his skin the next time I attack the Keroro platoon!" The viper laughed. "I'll do it. Here's my fee."
It wasn't that bad of a fee and Saburo had money to spare. Am I doing the right thing? He wondered. The viper was mostly concerned with getting Kululu attached to someone so Kululu could suffer. And he didn't really want Mois to be frightened...But this was one of the plans that would surely at least show that Kululu cared a little.
He knew Kululu wasn't a terrible person. And he had boasted about Angol Mois's great skills as a co-worker. He would not let her face any danger.
It's sure to work. Saburo nodded. Even if morally it was a bit of a terrible plan, it would work. And that's what mattered.
Saburo shook hands with the Viper. The transaction was made. Things were done. He could just hope that things went well.
Angol Mois was all alone as she looked around alien street, holding a list in her hands.
"Uncle sure has a lot of materials he needed for the invasion plan." Didn't he realize that after so many years it just wasn't going to happen? Of course years didn't mean the same things to keronians and angolians. Pekoponians had a lot shorter lifespans so they aged a lot quicker and had a feeling that life was much more fleeting.
Angol Mois knew keronians should have had that feeling too. Especially since they were an invader species. Giroro definitely had those fleeting feelings, she knew. Like he was growing and learning along with Natsumi's lifespan and he had been reborn again on Pekopon.
But Keroro...Keroro for some reason always seemed to have the atmosphere that he was a child. Years, months, days...None of it meant anything to him. And he never accepted any reality that he didn't agree with. It was childish. But Mois didn't fault him for it.
After all, observers might call her childish for sticking to him after all these years. She'd like to think of it as love, but someone else might call it pure stubborness. She would have called them rude in response.
Still she was dedicated. Even if Keroro might have been doing something stupid, not accepting the truth, she'd keep helping him in his pointless invasion. She couldn't do her own task of destroying the planet until he finished after all.
Angol Mois squinted at the scribbled down words of materials that Keroro needed. It was mostly fancy foods. Sometimes she wondered if these things were even useful materials. She should know better than to question Keroro's wisdom.
"I wish Kululu would have come with me. He at least makes these trips a little more bearable." Sometimes he would fix the list by cutting off a few items that he felt unnecessary. Usually he would ask to go to some sort of tech store though after they were done shopping. It was always so much fun to look around at computer parts with him, because he always got so excited and even when Angol Mois felt she knew a lot about the materials he would still teach her a little bit more about the world of technology.
She sighed a bit, feeling a bit lonesome as she passed the computer store the two of them usually toured together. Kululu had passed on going out with her today for invasion shopping. She didn't know why, although she had plenty of guesses.
It either had to do with the fact that he was still avoiding her over the blind date fiasco- although he assured her he was not avoiding her, Mois was positive that if somebody pretended that they weren't there by ducking under a table that meant she was generally being avoided.
Or it could be that Kululu just wanted to spend some time with Saburo. She had heard some sort of rumor from Fuyuki that Saburo was picking his college that he was going off to, and that it might not be in a different country.
A different country isn't that far away. She thought to herself. She knew Kululu had looked a little bummed out lately, so it could be that, but she just couldn't process the distance between countries. They all came from another planet, that was much farther.
Heck, she came from another dimension! That was about as far away as you could get. Another country shouldn't be that far from the keronians. They could visit in about an hour thanks to their superior technology. Mois could travel around the planet in less than a second so she really didn't understand how Saburo moving was a big deal.
Still...I hope it was that reason. I'd hate for things to be awkward between me and Kululu just because...I don't know, Saburo tried to play a prank on us. It was really mean spirited too. The more she thought about it the more sure she was that Kululu was just spending a lot of time away from her was so he could spend time with Saburo.
It was reasonable and made logical sense. It also made her feel less weirdly Kululu sick over the fact that he wasn't shopping with her. It was something that she always looked forward to, spending time with him and making working for Keroro better than it actually was in reality.
"Okay...Just a few more things..." Angol Mois squinted. At least she thought it was a few things. She really couldn't read Keroro's hand writing well.
"Yo." Angol Mois looked up from her list and saw a Viper standing in front of her. The crowd of people seemed to move aside so that they wouldn't run into him.
Like a sea being pulled apart, it was just her and him. Does he want Uncle's super secret invasion plan? Angol Mois wondered. Well, she highly doubted he'd translate Keroro's plan. After all it sounded like a bunch of nonsense to her.
"Hello." She greeted. "Is there...Something you need?" She quickly put the shopping list in her pocket so the Viper wouldn't see it.
The Viper frowned. "I'm...Uhhh going to kidnap you today." Usually he was much better with these fake danger plans and all than he was today. But Angol Mois...She was a sweet girl and he didn't want to scare her too much. So he just straight out said his plan.
Angol Mois raised her eyebrow. "Um…?" She took a step back. Maybe it was a good idea to just avoid eye contact and walk away? "No thanks?"
"Sorry, it's for a good purpose." Revenge on Kululu in his mind. "I just wanted to warn you and assure you that I wish no harm on you." Perhaps this was the wrong way to go about this.
"It's just your vendetta on the Keroro platoon, I know, I know. I just don't really feel like getting kidnapped." Angol Mois shrugged. She really didn't want to be gone for days on end and then come back after the Viper gave up on holding her and Keroro still asking about the shopping list.
I don't think I'd be any leverage against the Keroro platoon. I know he's a mercenary but I'm not going to let this happen. She frowned. "I'm not just kindness and rainbows. I'm not just going to say 'mmkay!' and let you kidnap me. You could say, not good at fighting but if it's a fight you want…?"
Angol Mois took out her phone. Before she could transform the viper shot his gun arm and created a net around her.
"Sorry. I really do apologize. The net has sleeping gas in it." Mois was a sweet girl, so doing something against her wishes really did make him feel at least a little guilty.
He didn't particularly care about the rest of the Keroro platoon's feelings though.
No! Sleeping gas! One of my several weaknesses! It's just too tempting to sleep! Angol Mois's eyes widened. "N-no." She gasped out a small plea.
Of course the space police didn't help at all. They knew who Angol Mois was, and angolians didn't fall under their jurisdiction to protect at all.
Mois passed out, unable to stop herself.
When Angol Mois woke up, she wasn't uncomfortable. She was seated in a nice chair and there were plenty of flowers around her as if to make amends for the bad situation. Snacks were in front of her too. Although one hand was hand-cuffed to a pole, most of the rest of the place wasn't bad.
The Viper stood in front of her as Angol Mois tried to look around as to where they were. She knew she'd most likely have to get herself out of here on her own. It appeared to be a mostly empty warehouse.
"Sorry again. I'm just doing a job. And it...Really doesn't have anything to do with you." The viper apologized. "Cookie?" he offered.
Angol Mois felt a stab of guilt. He's already treating me better than Uncle. This sucks. She'd be here for who knew how long and she felt useless, scared, and alone over the fact that she knew for a fact that nobody would be looking for her and the person most concerned with her safety was the person who had kidnapped her.
Maybe I can talk my way out of this. "Why did you kidnap me? What purpose am I supposed to serve? I thought you were dropping this mean act to raise an orphanage of children, mecha Viper?" Angol Mois pointed out.
"Orphanages take money. That's why I took this job." The viper shrugged.
So someone else set him up. She tried to mentally run through the Keroro Platoon's enemies, but her mind kept coming up with Tamama. For some reason she felt he was the one who most likely wanted her out of the picture.
"I'm going to be ransoming you off to the Keroro platoon. The notes already been sent and left. So don't panic. You won't be here long." The Viper assured.
"Ransom?" Angol Mois gave a harsh but sad laugh. "Uncle won't spend any money getting me back. I mean he's sweet, but Uncle cares about his gundam model money." Her voice was so hurt. She knew sadly Keroro still didn't care for her in the way she wanted him to.
But something hurt more than ever to know she was less important than money to him.
"The note wasn't delivered to Keroro." The Viper corrected.
Angol Mois raised an eyebrow. "Who then? Giroro? Dororo? I mean, I suppose they might help me out." She had a good chance then.
"Kululu." The Viper corrected.
Angol Mois's eyes widened. She...Actually didn't know what Kululu would do. Her hand relaxed a little bit, knowing that she'd probably see Kululu soon.
"But I'm not taking his money, don't worry. I don't accept cash twice for one job." The viper told her.
"So you just want him to show up? Wait, you're not luring him out here to fight are you?" Angol Mois asked. "Because if you are...I won't let you. I don't care what it takes I'll free myself and-"
The Viper laughed. "Didn't know you two were so close from your side. It would be sweet if he wasn't such a jerk." He frowned. "Nah, I just want him to show up."
"Show up?" Angol Mois was confused.
"Sorry, I can't reveal my plot. That's my instructions. But let me assure you I mean no harm." The Viper told her.
She didn't want to believe him. After all she knew kidnappers tried to trick you all the time. "I don't believe you! If you truly meant me no harm, you wouldn't have kidnapped me and drugged me with sleeping gas. I wouldn't be handcuffed. You could say, actions don't fit your words?"
She needed to stick up for herself. She didn't know if Kululu would actually show up after all. She wanted him to. She wanted him desperately to come and help her out, but a little voice in the back of her head was scared that he'd leave her just like Keroro might.
The Viper frowned. "I'm really sorry about all this. You'll understand and thank me later. Trust me." He knew this was for Kululu's humiliation, so he had to do it.
Saburo knew from experience that Kululu would do pay whatever it took to help a friend out if they were in trouble. He hoped Mois counted as a friend.
He didn't deliver the letter directly but he left it so Kululu could get it at the same time the kidnapping took place. He didn't want Mois to be scared for any longer than necessary.
Kululu was typing on his computers, trying not to think of his millions of problems. There were so many anxious insecurities circling around his head. Saburo leaving, his unfortunate mistake of saying Mois and him were on a date, Mois rejecting him and the worry that she was thinking about it and over analyzing it just as much as he was.
A note slipped under his door. It took a few minutes for him to realize it was there. "Ku, ku, ku? I wonder who this could be from."
It was probably Keroro asking for some sort of invention. Sometimes he slipped notes under his door.
Couldn't have been Mois. I know she likes the almost childish idea of passing notes and all during invasion meetings, but I don't think she's back yet from shopping. Kululu decided.
She had been away for a long time. He wondered if he should have gone with, just for safety….Not her safety of course, others safety. He didn't know if anything would blow up on alien street on one of her whims.
That and he oddly enough just felt like something wasn't right. She was gone an awful long time. I wonder if I should have accepted her invitation to go out. It wasn't like I was doing anything better. Saburo said he was busy today anyway. At the moment spending time with Saburo took priority over spending time with Mois since Saburo would be leaving soon and Kululu was 90% sure that as long as he stayed in the Keroro platoon with Keroro, Angol Mois would be in his life.
He looked down and the note and read it. He froze as he saw the logo of the Viper on it.
He almost pressed a red alarm button to call the rest of the platoon since the Viper was all their enemy, however, he stopped himself and decided to read before he did that.
This note could be something about the Viper crying over one of Kululu's pranks after all.
"Kululu. I hope this note finds you in good health, NOT! I wanted you to know that I ran into something at alien street that I thought you'd be interested in."
Kululu read. Please don't be Mois. Please don't be Mois. Maybe the Viper was talking about a curry restaurant? Or some cool hardware he wanted and the Viper had stolen?
"I think I have stolen something very precious to you. The one called Angol Mois, right? You two are always talking and hanging out together in the sidelines when I show up to cause trouble. She your girlfriend or something?" He could hear the viper's teasing voice.
"Crap. Crap." Kululu was trying not to panic. He probably didn't realize that a Viper wasn't nearly as dangerous to an angolian as it was to a keronian. Vipers were keronians sworn enemies, but they weren't that dangerous to someone like Angol Mois. He didn't even think too much about the girlfriend line. He had bigger things to think about.
"We're in the abandoned warehouse in district 9, the address is 71243 street Bay." The letter described. "Bring cash, 1,000,000 yen and she will remain unharmed. If you don't bring it and show up armed I'll kill her on the spot. See ya soon."
Kululu's eyes widened. He didn't really have any time for his lip to quiver but he did let out a cuss word. Not at Mois for getting captured but for the Viper for putting him in the situation.
He never liked it when Angol Mois was in danger. It happened rarely, but it always sent a degree of panic through him. He always took the situation as seriously as it was in reality.
After all she was his precious co-worker. He knew for a fact that he couldn't work without her, every time she had to be in an angol stone for an indetermined amount of time and wasn't by his side safe and happy instead, he felt nauseous.
He just couldn't keep his thoughts off of Mois in those situations. He would become consumed with worry until he himself fixed the problem and brought her back. Not only that he would get weirdly lonely, imagining that she was by his side.
This wasn't like that situation though. This was much more serious. She wasn't sleeping somewhere and he just was a weakling who couldn't stand being without her. She was in actual danger. He didn't have time to alert the rest of the platoon.
He started typing wildly to get into the budget and drain the invasion funds. Finances and the keys to the invasion fund were Mois's area of expertise, Kululu wasn't really allowed in there, but he knew her passwords well enough to hack in there.
Usually when I need to steal money I just ask Mois because it's rude to step too much on the responsibilities that Keroro has given her. She'll feel useless if I do that. But this was different. She couldn't give him permission. And he didn't care if she didn't trust him if he used her passwords to help her.
She always gave him money when he needed to help Saburo out. He should be able to take money to help her too.
He got the money in a few minutes, putting it all together in a briefcase, he tried not to shake too much.
"She'll be fine. She really will. Viper's are bad, but...She'll be fine." If she wasn't...Well, after killing the Viper he didn't know what he would do.
Saburo hadn't seen Kululu's reaction. If he had he'd either have felt bad for the true level of manipulation he was doing to his friend that was causing him such emotional distress or clap that his plan was going well.
Manipulation was just kind of in both of them. Perhaps that was why they were friends. Kululu had tried to manipulate Saburo several times in nearly the same way just for a laugh as if it was a harmless joke.
Both of them were problematic. Saburo tried not to think about how this was probably all at Mois's expense.
He stayed away from the warehouse out of sight. He had headphones to hear inside and binoculars though. He smiled as Kululu approached.
"He did show up! Good!" Saburo smiled.
Things were going according to plan.
Angol Mois and the Viper tried to pass time while they waited for Kululu. They played checkers even though Angol Mois wanted to yell and protest and be more uncomfortable with the situation.
Maybe I can get him off guard. She thought to herself. But eventually after beating him in several checker games, which the Viper screamed about, she started having fun. The Viper put in some dvds of some soap operas and they started discussing various shows and who should get together with who.
Angol Mois was unfortunately getting very distracted. "And that character reminds me of Dororo, always crying about how he's forgotten!" She said.
"Well then that one reminds me of the red one….Giroro, was his name, right? Super love sick!" The Viper laughed.
"Oh and look at that mess up. That's definitely Uncle. I mean everybody loves them for it, but still..They even like anime!" Angol Mois wasn't even taking the kidnapping seriously anymore. She was just pretending she was having fun with a new friend.
"Well then that one's Kululu. The little jerk who tries to get under everybody's skin and has absolutely no friends." The Viper laughed.
Angol Mois frowned. "Kululu has friends. Saburo for one, and me. I'm his friend." She paused. "Kululu will come for me. I'm sure of it." It was unclear if she was saying this to convince herself or because she was fully sure of it and threatening the Viper.
"I know." The Viper told her. He paused for a second. "I always thought the little yellow dude didn't care about anyone, but I'm pretty sure he'll come to help you out, which is odd..."
"Since Uncle probably wouldn't and he's the one who really should be helping?" Angol Mois asked.
"Nah it's odd cuz I never thought Kululu cared about any one. What's the deal between you two anyway? You said he was your friend and looked...visibly angry when you thought I was luring him out to attack him, which I'm not." The Viper didn't know if he would get an answer. It wasn't like he was playing counselor or anything, but he was curious.
"We're co-workers." Mois said simply. "We work on the tech team in Uncle's platoon. And the bond of the tech team is a bond that is hard to break. We rely on each other s lot for work. I think we trust each other? I mean I trust him. I think he trusts me too."
"So...There's nothing romantic between you two? I mean I knew you were co-workers, that's obvious, but to me sometimes when I come to attack Keroro or Giroro sometimes it looks like you two are brushing me off and flirting in the background." The Viper tried to reason. He hadn't really seen it before before Saburo had pointed it out. He wanted to see if Angol Mois could give him more answers than the poyon Saburo could.
He'd get Kululu to realize how he much he liked her from this situation anyway, he just wanted to know where things were to Mois.
"Hahaha! That's funny." Mois visibly laughed. "Nah, I'm in love with someone else. I don't flirt with anybody in the background." She corrected. "Kululu and I are just friends."
"Then why will he show up to pay ransom when Keroro wouldn't?" The Viper asked.
Angol Mois opened her mouth. She didn't really have an answer for that. She didn't want to accept it as a truth that Kululu cared about her more than Keroro did, because that really botched her chances with Keroro, but she really had no response for that.
"Kululu and my relationship is complicated." It had a mixture of fear, friendship and trust in it. "But I do trust him more than anything to get me out of this. He would never leave me to be kidnapped. Kululu is a good person."
That made the Viper laugh. "Yeah, only to you, I think. I know where your relationship stands from just that line." Either Mois was very very dumb and didn't know Kululu was terrible or Kululu loved her a lot and really did cherish her.
He'd see soon enough. He knew he'd have to be mean to Mois for a little bit and frighten her when Kululu did show up, but it would be worth it to see her smile and thank him for letting her see just how much Kululu cherished her.
That and he wanted to see Kululu humiliated. Mostly that.
The doors swung open since Kululu didn't even knock. He put his arms up to show that he meant no harm though.
"Yo. I'm here." Kululu tried to act cool, calm and composed as he looked at the Viper. As soon as the doors opened the Viper pushed the checker board aside.
"Kululu! I knew you'd come!" Angol Mois looked over-joyed to see him.
Kululu tried not to let it show that this situation was getting to him. He raised a brow at the checker board on the floor in confusion. "Don't tell me you made friends with the enemy, Mois. Was this situation really not as bad as I was picturing? I mean I took it pretty seriously since it's the Keroro Platoon's number one enemy, a Viper." He scolded.
He tried to make it seem like that was the reason he showed up. The Viper alone. Not Mois.
Oh good. He did take the Viper threat seriously. Saburo watched and listened in. The Viper had been a good choice.
"Well, I mean the Viper was pretty nice-" Angol Mois tried to stick up for the Viper and play devil's advocate.
The Viper grabbed her and put her in a choke hold to get her to stop talking, that and he had to get her in the mind-set that this situation was serious now, even if it wasn't. "Ha! You fell for my plot. Say another word and I'll start choking you." He threatened.
Angol Mois's eyes widened in fear as the arm tightened around her. She went limp trying not to move too much. But wait...He was so friendly a second ago….She had been tricked. Her new friend was dangerous and hadn't acted like this before.
I...I'm always like this. Why do I keep trying to give people a second chance? If someone kidnapped her she shouldn't relate to them or try to play nice. That was a one way ticket to Stockholm syndrome. She couldn't really nodded, but she closed her eyes trying not to cry or whimper.
Eeep. This is hard. Saburo thought to himself. Mois looked frightened which was what he intended to happen, but he still felt kind of bad. He'd beg her forgiveness later.
"Wait!" Kululu tried to keep the panic out of his voice. "I mean, no reason to do that. I brought the money just like you wanted. Captain would have my head if we lost her." He slid over the briefcase to the Viper.
The viper brought the briefcase to his face by kicking it upwards with his foot. He opened it with his none gun hand and looked at the money. "This is all of it. Did your captain give you permission? You got it quickly..."
"I made some executive decisions for speed's sake and because this was a serious situation. I'm not an idiot. I don't brush off a Viper threat. Ku." Kululu frowned. "There's all your money. Now hand her over." He ordered.
Angol Mois squirmed a bit, ready to be freed from the Viper's arms. She just wanted to rush over to Kululu and be away from this already.
The Viper dropped the briefcase and slid it back with his foot. He switched the arm that was holding Mois and put his gun to her head instead.
Mois's eyes widened. "W-what…?"
This must have been what he meant. He didn't want money or to attack Kululu. He wanted to kill me in front of him. Angol Mois was horrified. Her eyes desperately scanned for her phone. She couldn't find it at all. There was no chance she could get out of this.
"Wait, it had all your money!" Kululu's voice was shrill and on the verge of panic. "Whaddya want now? More? There wasn't a bill missing. We had a deal!"
"You don't really care about this girl at all, I realized. Doesn't matter what I'd ask for." The Viper responded. "I could probably get more from someone who actually cared about her, which isn't you. You just don't want to mess up for your job for liabilities sake."
"Yeah but you can't get anything from anyone if she's dead. You can't use her on the captain if she's dead!" Kululu tried to reason, trying to convince the Viper to spare Mois's life.
The Viper grinned. This was where Kululu would start confessing and begging for Mois's life. "I can see that you wouldn't hurt at all from me killing this girl. So I might as well. She's useless and pointless to me now." The Viper said like he was a big villain.
His gun arm started charging, or fake charging.
"T-that's not true-" Angol Mois tried to cry out.
Kululu was about to run forward or do something but he instead clenched his hand into a fist. The worry stopped clouding his glasses and he really thought about the situation.
He had no weapons to save Mois. If the Viper didn't want money he had no bargaining chip either. All he had was his intellect. And the Viper had let it slip what he wanted
He wants me to hurt because he kills Mois. He can tell that I care about her at least a little bit. That's why he delivered that note. The Viper was lying about his reason to kill Mois being that she was useless to him. That was bull crap. Kululu had just tried to give him a ton of money.
I'm not Giroro. I can't go in and save her and think about only her. I need to calm down and see this situation clearly. It was clear what he had to do and what would save Mois.
After all the Viper probably didn't care anything about Mois's life. He was just trying to get a rise out of him. His enemy was the Keroro platoon, not Mois. His enemy was Kululu.
"Okay. Go ahead." Kululu shrugged. The panic, the worry was now completely out of his voice and his body and posture was fake cold. He didn't even turn his back on it.
Saburo dropped his binoculars. Wait, what's going on?
"W-what?" The Viper asked. This didn't usually happen. The person was usually pleading with him for the others life, giving dramatic love confessions and all.
"I mean you're right. I wouldn't hurt at all from you killing that girl. I tried my best, ehh I'm tired now. Effort and helping takes too much work that I'm not willing to put in. I mean the captain might be mad but he'll get over it. I can give him a gundam model." The Viper wouldn't just kill Mois for being completely useless. "ku, ku, ku." Kululu picked up the briefcase. "Can I leave now? Or are you going to get it over with?"
The Viper just stared at him. He looked down at Mois who was now no longer squirming and just staring at Kululu like her heart was breaking.
The Viper lowered his gun from Angol Mois's head and his arm from her throat. Man...I just scared and traumatized this girl for nothing because Kululu's terrible.
"Kululu...That's just awful! I can't believe you would say something like that! You're awful." Angol Mois was now crying.
Kululu wasn't really looking at her. He was kind of ignoring her and watching the Viper unhandcuff her.
"I'm going to go now. Toss me the shopping list because I assume you didn't finish." Kululu demanded.
"I can't believe you care more about the shopping list than me…." Angol Mois continued crying but brought the shopping list out of her pocket and tossed it to him.
Thank god. The Viper isn't stopping her. That means that as soon as I leave she's free to go home. As long as I keep acting casual she's safe. And Kululu was doing a pretty good job of acting like a horrible, uncaring jerk.
He felt terrible about Angol Mois crying but it was a much needed alternative to her dying. And now that Angol Mois was super mad at him the Viper was actually carefully apologizing to her for this whole situation and looking after her like a mother hen.
As long as someone was an enemy of the Keroro platoon after all, they were an ally to a Viper. Mois was safe.
Kululu left in a hurry. He didn't go shopping though. He headed home so he could wait for Angol Mois and make sure she was uninjured.
"I..I can't believe he just abandoned me to die! I believed in him so much!" Angol Mois wasn't even paying attention to the fact that her imprisoned, the viper was right next to her.
"Uhhh I am so sorry...Usually that situation works a lot better. I had no idea. I knew he couldn't feel anything. Shouldn't have listened to that poyon brat." The Viper gritted his teeth.
"And you!" Angol Mois stood up as the Viper offered her her phone. "You tried to kill me. I was going to die….I was going to die!"
"No you weren't!" The Viper assured. "Look, this is a usual con I do that I was hired to do for money. I kidnap someone precious or important to someone, like someone's love interest or something and then pretend they're in danger. I don't free them until the person dramatically confesses how much they love or care about them. You were not going to be hurt at all." He assured. "It was just a paid job ya know? And usually the people conned are pretty happy afterwards cuz their weird love has been reignited."
Paid? Who paid the Viper? Angol Mois wondered. "But that didn't go as planned for you this time." Angol Mois hissed.
"Yeah, cuz Kululu is an awful person. You're a sweet girl. You deserve way better friends. I am so sorry for this whole situation." The Viper apologized. "Please go home...And get some good rest."
Angol Mois just frowned, wiped at her face and nodded. She was mad at the Viper, confused who had arranged this and super mad at Kululu. She left to go home.
Saburo entered the building as soon as she was out of sight.
"You had some bad insight." The Viper told him.
Saburo was still horrified. He had not expected that at all. "He...He just did nothing!" Even with him, Kululu would have done something. He would have tried harder.
"I don't think he loves her at all." The Viper shrugged.
"And I hurt her a lot from this. I thought at the end she'd at least feel like someone cared about her to make up for the whole kidnapping thing..." Saburo trailed off. He had to make it up to Angol Mois.
When Kululu did fall in love with Angol Mois, which he was now going to push more than ever, for Mois's sake too so she could properly make him take back his cruel words, Saburo was going to make sure he never treated another person like that again.
Kululu had to be better than this. He wouldn't let his friend be so awful and horrible to leave someone to die.
Okay. So maybe his feelings are much deeper hidden. Maybe he's absolutely convinced they're fear and would be happy if she left. But I'm sure there are feelings or that I at least could make them. He could conjure something from nothing thanks to his pen.
There would be feelings. There would be feelings whether Kululu liked them or not.
Angol Mois now deserved it just as much as Kululu.
Me: I will have one story where Kululu doesn't start off with feelings for Mois.
Me: ...Hmmm that doesn't feel right.
Anyway that's how this happened.
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