i hope everyone is enjoying the story so far :) a lot of things are yet to be explained, but dont worry! thats intentional. for all the readers i have so far please leave a review maybe? i would greatly appreciated.

also im sorry for the late update, ill try to update regularly again.

I woke up to the sound of cloth rustling in the room, it was still early morning so there wasn't much light in the room to allow me to see. Turning to my side I notice a silhouette moving around the room, arranging different items into a bag quietly.

"oh, you're up. Good, get changed and take something small to eat on the way to the HQ, we won't be staying any longer." 6Q looked at me briefly, her lavender eyes shining in the darkness of room, as far as I could tell, she probably had night vision or something. Which explained why she was able to move about the room without crashing into all the furniture.

I yawned and stretched as far as I could, the sound of cracking and crunching empowered the dead silence of the room, which caused 6Q to look at me once again. "are you injured? I wasn't aware that you had damage on you- ", I smiled and looked at her in response, "it's fine, people sometimes get their limbs into uncomfortable situations, the sound is just everything coming back into place, that's all. Thank you for your concern though."

6Q was extremely quick to pack our belongings, in the blink of an eye we were already walking inside the busy streets of the social district.

The streets were covered in flags and signs advertising different shops, inns, and specialty stores. The people were also dressed completely different from me and 6Q, they wore extremely expensive looking clothes, some women even walked with umbrellas to cover them from the sun. the men mostly wore suits from what I could see, the kind that you would expect the boss of a major business to wear. Children received the same treatment, there was some that from a distance didn't look like kids at all, they looked more like string-less dolls walking beside even bigger dolls.

6Q on the other hand, along with some random erasers coming up and down the streets, were the completely opposite of the civilians, wearing combat attire, some wore plated armor, some masks and helmets, which made them stick out like blue dots on a red painting.

"what is the matter." 6Q asked without turning to face me, her monotone voice was something I was used to at this point. "it's nothing really, I was just wondering why you guys don't…get nicer clothing I guess?"

Pod was quick to jump into the conversation.

[use of non-protective clothing severely degrades battle performance and survivability percentages. Conduct code 635 states: that all un-]

"I know, you can shut up now" 6Q flicked Pod with one finger, causing it to skyrocket upwards due to the immense force. A shockwave spread around the area causing everyone to stop and stare, some mothers took their children into their arms to protect them from harm.

"ah…my apologies, it was not my intention to disturb your morning." To my surprise, 6Q was bowing in apology, her blindfold was still on, but I could tell she was gazing at the floor the entire time.

"who let these damn animals into our peaceful district! she could have hurt the children! We demand justice!" the crowd roared, ignoring 6Q's apology entirely.

Shortly after a group of soldiers broke through the crow, picking up 6Q from her bowing pose.

"damn it! How many times do we have to tell you freaks that if you're going to traverse our streets, you have to keep away from us!" without warning one of the guards punched 6Q in the face, causing her body to recoil from the impact. The other soldier was holding 6Q by the hair, repeatedly jabbing his fist into her spine, causing her lower body to fling forward with each strike.

"h…hey! What do you think you're doing! It was an honest mistake! Why are you hitting her!? ANSWER ME!", my mind was clouded from all judgement, before I knew what was happening, my body had already moved from the sidelines, right into the action.

"oh? And who are you? Another freak? Why would you show worry for a damn monster like this?" a sharp pain enveloped my stomach, causing me to look down in reflex, the soldier's fist had implanted itself into my stomach, causing me to throw up in the process. "damn kid, learn your place before i-"

"before you what? Please do continue, I would love to see where this little statement ends", with whatever little consciousness I still had in me, I forced myself to look up. In front of the soldier stood man, probably in his early 30's from the look of his face. It was rough looking, a couple of scars above his left eyebrow showed that he had combat experience, his hair was a fiery crimson red. His clothing however, was different from everyone else's, it was a combination of the style and elegance of the civilians, and the combat efficient uniform of the erasers.

In a split second the soldiers let 6Q go and proceeded to salute the man with great fear in their face.

"S-Sir! Our apologies, we didn't know you were watching….", the soldiers were shaking in their boots, cold sweat started trickling down their necks. "oh? You're telling me that if I wasn't here, something else would have happened? What would that have been exactly? Would you have taken this lovely lady away from the angry crowd and treated her to some tea?"

The crimson haired man stepped slowly towards the soldiers, "I want all the children to cover their eyes, and all women to leave the area immediately", within seconds of his command being given, the street had almost entirely emptied itself, however, people still looked from the windows of shops and from balconies nearby.

"excellent. Now, as for you. Well…let's just say, things won't go well today", without warning the crimson haired man placed his index finger on both of the chests of the soldiers. "you have about…hmmmm…7 seconds to tell me a good reason why I shouldn't do this", the crimson haired man smiled, revealing a set of razor sharp teeth that had not been there before.

"we were trying to keep the peace…. sir", both soldiers answered simultaneously, their voices breaking from the terror.

"oh ok", the crimson haired man smiled and pushed his fingers into their chests, causing the soldiers to explode into a mist of red. "see, the problem with that, is that you're damaging HQ personnel. And I just can't have that.", screams of horror and fear broke through the street as men, women and children covered in blood ran for their lives.
"oops." The man laughed to himself and proceeded to pick up 6Q from the ground. "and as for you, young lady, I highly doubt those skinny boys put a number on you, so you can drop the act."

"my apologies, I thought letting them do as they pleased would make them let us go sooner, me and the boy have somewhere to be rather soon." Stated 6Q with her signature monotone voice as she dusted off her clothes and fixed her blindfold back into place. Despite the lack of visual pain, 6Q's face had been damaged rather badly from the blows, her upper lip was leaking a small line of blood which slithered all the way down to her chin. She quickly walked over to me and helped me to my knees as I tried to stand up.

"thank you 6Q, I was really surprised there for a-"

Before I could finish my sentence, a sharp, extremely painful feeling came from my right cheek. 6Q slapped me as hard as she could without killing me, causing my body to spin and fall down to the floor once again.

"do not place yourself in harm's way for no reason again, do you understand? Had you been killed i-…my record would have plummeted severely and my reputation would have all but vanished", something wasn't right with what 6Q had said, her lip was quivering once again, which gave up her façade immediately.

"got it, no more trying to help.", I said with a business-like tone before standing up and continuing on the route that me and 6Q were heading.