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Meanwhile, in a huge garage filled with various vehicles, equipment used for maintaining them and several Seans fixing and trying them out, three of them were having a private conversation in a little room deep inside the garage. One of them was grumbling a little while another seemed to be waiting impatiently and tensely. The third seemed to be pondering about something.
"So let me get this straight, Trans ( Transformer Sean's nickname(note:Since all of the Seans are the same, they call each other by their codenames like for Butei Sean it is just Butei) as it is too long it too much of a bother to say the whole codename ). You want me to transport both you and Abyss ( Pandora hearts Sean's nickname for his codename )Sean to Butei's world right now? I thought it was until he gave the signal?" Asked the third Sean, confused.
"Look here, Traveler." Replied Trans sternly as he showed Traveler Sean a piece of written paper. "Real Sean has ordered us both to go there immediately and this permit was made just to prove it." As Traveler was reading it, Trans Sean continued. "To be honest with you, I wanted to wait for the signal too. But it seems that he is coming as well so we might as well go together." He pointed to the third Sean when he said that.
"And just why are you going to that world in the first place, Pandora?" Asked Traveler Sean curiously.
"It's because I will be testing him as his senior to see if he has what it takes." Replied Pandora Sean. "Besides that, I always wanted to see what Lady Aria is capable of." He added with a smile.
"Well. That makes sense, but it seems that there is someone who is coming with you to do the same thing with Master Kinji." Announced Traveler Sean as he finished studying the permit and gave it back to them.
The two Seans were surprised at what their senior had said and checked the permit carefully. Indeed, written as clear as day, typed the words, "This permit is proof to allow three Seans to go into the world of Butei Sean whenever they please."
"Bu...bu...but this doesn't make any sense at all!" Exclaimed Transformer Sean in surprise.
"If two of them is us, then who is the third?" Asked Pandora Sean puzzlingly.
"That would be me."
The three Seans turned in suprise to see a fourth Sean entering the small meeting room annoucing his appearance. He was wore a black jacket(the one with a cape like in matrix)with a white shirt that is unbuttoneed on the collar area. On the upper left of his exposed chest is the romanized number, '13'. He had sharp Amber eyes and his hair was more spiky than the other Seans. He also had a gun on a holster attached to his right leg and two swords attached to his waist, one a giant with a European handle and other, a fencing one. He also seems to be wearing an unusual glove only on his right hand, a bandaged one on the other(in case you are wondering, sweeper Sean is from a certain world there are bounty hunters known as Sweepers and the assassins are known as Erasers).
"Sweeper Sean, I should have known. Does that mean you are now part of the Chronos Numbers?" Asked Traveler Sean referring to the number on the latter's chest.
"In a way, my dear senior and juniors. It is actually more of a deal. I help rebuild Chronos for them and serve them as one of the numbers. In return, they gave me a ton of Orichalcum and still allow me to be a Sweeper." Replied Sweeper Sean with a smile.
"Why are you coming with us, Senior? I'm already going there to test them, so they don't need you to test them." Shouted Pandora Sean, irritated.
"Oh ho!" Exclaimed Sweeper Sean loudly, nodding as he said that. "You think you are a better candidate on testing them on their skills of using guns and their powers?" He asked with his eyes wide.
"Of course I am! You may be my Senior, but do you have a better reason why you should do it?" Challenged Abyss Sean confidently.
Instead of replying, Sweeper Sean ran towards Pandora Sean. Before he could respond, Sweeper Sean had already drawn out his Hybrid handgun and aimed it at Abyss Sean's chin. The Seans were too surprised for words at this.
"Is that enough reason for you?" Asked Sweeper Sean curiously.
Abyss Sean hastily nodded to his senior. "Good answer." He said as he moved his gun away from his junior's chin and put it back it's holster. As he did that, Transformer noticed something.
"So you really did to that operation?" He asked Sweeper Sean, pointing to his bandaged left hand.
"Yes, but it works like a charm as it was from Miss Eve's own body." Replied Sweeper Sean.
"And you also had learned their techniques as well, haven't you?" Asked Traveler Sean.
"Well what can I say? I have to prepared for the unexpected." Replied Sweeper cooly.
"Oh, by the way." He said to them who looked at him curiously.
"I guess Real Sean might have forgotten to mention this but you aren't going anyway, Abyss."
"What!" Exclaimed the three Seans
"Yeah, instead of you Abyss, it will be Senior Music."
"Of course. How could we forget that he is supposed to be there." Groaned the three Seans, thinking how they could have forgoten something that happens in all the worlds they have visited.
"Well, where is he?" Asked Traveler as he began making a portal for them for them to go.
But Sweeper Sean immediately made his own and just before he hopped into it, he replied three words.
"He's already there." He then disappeared along with the portal.
"I Swear. That Sweeper Sean is getting more and more dangerous everytime we meet him." Commented Transformer Sean as he disappeared into Traveler's portal. As the portal had closed up, silence filled the room.
"You'd better leave now." Warned Pandora Sean.
"Oh boy." Muttered Traveler Sean as ran out of the room like there's no tomorrow.
A few seconds, the room was skewered from the inside by spiked chains, slashes of a long blade and bullet holes. The Seans outside the room didn't even bothered to see what happened, already knowing who was the one who did that.
"Must be Pandora Sean."
"It's not surprising."
"Must be a temper tantrum."
"Could be."
"He always was a bit crazy."
"Can you blame him? He is has tea parties with 'them' as his maters and mistresses."
"Have you forgotten we serve them too in a way."
"Guess that makes us all crazy."
"We always are!"
Inside the battered remains of the room was Pandora Sean, he was wielding a huge black scythe on one hand, his gun on the other and had a dozen chains protruding out from his back. He had a thin, long sword on his mouth, but you can still see the 'Cheisure Cat' smile on his face. He then created his own portal to Butei Sean's world.
"You may a stray black cat, Senior. But can you handle a Bloody Black Rabbit?" He said before he jumped into his portal.
Back in the world of Butei, Akari Mamiya was fidgeting with the new rainbow-coloured ring on her finger and kept on avoiding a certain someone's scarlet eyes. Two pairs of scarlet eyes, that is.
They were in Aria's room, everyone except Aria, Kinj, Sean and Akari had already left the room for them to talk privately.
"Is that why you tailed me, Akari? To know why I follow Kinji and found out why I wasn't able to be with you all this? I thought I had told you that Kinji has become my partner and that I now have more important stuff to do than Amica." Aria reminded her junior sternly.
"I...I...I just wanted to learn from you, Aria-senpai. I mean as your Amica, I should help you in any way I could." Stuttered Akari, not knowing what to say next.
Before Aria could say anything else, Butei Sean started talking to her 'little Battle Sister'. As they were talking, She noticed that Sean seemed to be getting restless. She then asked Kinji. "Do you think he is getting sleepy?".
"I don't think so. He seems more than that, athough I'm not sure what's wrong." Replied Kinji quietly.
"So you are Lady Aria's Amica? It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Akari." Said Sean as bent his down his head, took Akari's hand and kissed it.
"Mi...mine too!" Exclaimed Akari, who immediately took her hand away. "So, you are Aria-senpai's and Kinji-senpai's friend?" She asked after calming down a little.
But instead of answering, Sean suddenly became pale, ran away from the table and leaped onto Aria's bed, grasping her blankets and pillows and taking in deep breaths as if he was enduring a painful surgery.
"Sean, what's the matter with you?" Exclaimed Kinji as he, Akari and Aria went over to him, not knowing what to do.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Asked Elle as she and the others heard Kinji's shout from inside and came in to find out the cause.
"Elle! I need your help! Sean is having a seizure for some reason!" Screamed Aria as she tried to calm him down by patting his back.
Elle immediately ran to Sean's side and checked his pulse on his wrist with her hand. She later looked up to everyone with a shocked face.
"His blood preesure is beating faster than an average human! I have never seen anything like this! I don't know what to do about this!" She panicked.
"Don't worry. He just needs his song."
A Sean suddenly just appeared in the room with a red device resembling an MP3 player on his hand, playing a japanese song.
Berfore anyone could ask, a scarlet light was resonating from Butei Sean, surrounding him entirely. The song 'Scarlet Ballet' from May'n started playing.
"shinjiteru mono wo tsuyoku hikiyoseru
kogoeta manazashi mo mamotte ageru kara"
With strength, I draw close to me everything I believe in.
I will protect even that frigid gaze of yours,
As the first verse ended, Butei Sean started to become taking slow deep breaths and the light became even brighter. Since it seems to help him, everyone else stayed quiet and listened to the beautiful song.
"negai wa hi no rasen ni maioriteku
while my wish slowly descends down into a scarlet spiral.
When that shot rang out in the background music, the scarlet light surrounding Sean brightened up in an instant, surprising everyone.
"Ohhhh!" Exclaimed Sean as if he was being 'turned' on, blushing a little as the song continued
chippoke na MONO utsusanai sora
hitori hashireba kowaku nakatta
koko de ashita wo uragireba
mou doko ni mo ikarenai"
Under this sky, onto which nothing tiny would be reflected,
even though I was running alone, I was not intimidated at all.
Right now at this place, if I betray tomorrow,
then I won't be able to go anywhere anymore.
The scarlet light then started to fade after the second and third verses. That was when Kinji noticed something amazing. "Everyone! Your Rings!" He exclaimed pointing to Aria's ring. It seems tht the rings were also glowing brightly with a scarlet light. But only a few noticed the strange coincidence as everyone else was busy listening to the other Sean's device's song with mesmerised looks on their faces as it continued without stop.
"ima tsumi ni samayou machi tada motomete hikari wo"
In reality, on the streets where sins roam about, I'm merely searching for light,
As the first part of the chorus had finished, the light had completely faded and Butei Sean stopped struggling on the bed and got out of it.
"Thanks Senior. I needed that really badly too!" Exclaimed Butei Sean happily as got out of Aria's bed and putting his hand up, implying to stop the song now.
"You're welcome." The other Sean replied cooly as he had switched the device off and started handing out music sheets to the ladies.
"To learn and use when it is time." He said, pointing the song's title 'Scarlet Ballet' on the top of the sheet.
"Everyone. Meet my Senior, Music Sean. He is in charge of all the music we gather in the all worlds we visit." Introduced Butei Sean, putting his hand on his Senior's shoulder as a sign of identification.
"Pleased to meet you all." He bowed deeply as he said that.
After everyone had bowed in response to him, Aria asked. "So Sean, what happened just now with you just now?".
"Well, you see my Lady. I basically need to hear that song to fuel me up. Think of it as a power-up for me to take every day. It also increases my strength for as long as the song is playing." Explained Butei Sean as he himself took the music sheet from Music Sean.
"So you are like a human battery that runs on music." Said Momo understandingly.
"I guess you could put it that way, Lady Momo." Replied Butei Sean. He then turned to Music Sean with a serious look on his face.
"It's both of them, isn't it Senior?" he asked.
"Let's not talk about this till tommorow, okay? In case no one has noticed, it is now pretty late." He replied as he walked over and picked up a yawning Koneko from her feet and placed her on his arms, stroking her head and singing a melody to help her sleep.
"...Mizu no nagare wo shizumete
Kureru daichi wo uruosu shirabe
Ima wa doko nimo nakutemo
Kitto jibun de te ni ireruno
Itsumo, itsuka, kitto..."
A melody that can quench the thirst
Of the land that calms the waters' flow
Even if it does not exist anywhere right now,
I will come to possess it
Always, someday, for sure
"He has the ability to change his voice to suit any song." Explained Butei Sean quietly to everyone as he and everyone else left the room and went to their respective rooms. "Good night, everyone." Whispered Butei Sean as he went to Kinji's room with Aria, Kinji, Shirayuki and Elle. Riko and Momo went to their dorm room while Tamamo and Meiya followed Reki and Haimaki to their room.
Finally, Music Sean followed Akira to his room, still carrying and singing to Koneko as he walked.
"...Mizu no akashi wo kono te ni
Subete no honoo wo nomikonde nao
Hiroku yasashiku nagareru
Sono shizukesa ni tadoritsuku no
Itsumo, itsuka, kitto..."
Let the token of water be in my hands
Even after engulfing all the flames,
It still continues to flow, gently and broadly
I will reach its tranquility
Always, someday, for sure
"Here we are." Said Akira as he pointed to his room door.
"Here you go." Said Music Sean as he handed Akira his daughter back.
"Sorry for the trouble." Akira said as he cradled Koneko in his arms.
"No problem. You make a good father."Praised Music Sean quietly as he waved goodnight to them and walked towards Kinji's room.
When he entered it, Buei Sean repeated his question. "It's both Abyss and Sweeper, isn't it?".
Suddenly, there was an explosion seen outside the window in the sea
He replied to Butei Sean. "Does that answer your question just now?" Pointing to the window.
"Plenty." Answered Butei Sean grimly