Chapter 4 - Set Things Right

Zyro and the others had gone and done exactly what Tsubasa had told them to do - pack whatever they needed for the journey that they were about to embark on, the one that they had somewhat mapped out, or at least where to start.
There was no telling how long they were going to be gone for, or what they were going to have to face while they were gone and searching for the psychopath that they had failed to get rid of before.
They had all met at the B-Pit with lack of knowledge of where else they could go and simply waited in the lobby, Kite and Eight being among the first to arrive while Zyro had already been there anyway.
Kira showed up not to long after Madoka and Maru returned, claiming that he didn't need much so he didn't bother bringing anything - none of them bothered to question why, seeing as how that always lead to sass from Kira that was just his personality and eventually something back from Shinobu (who wasn't there yet) before it became a small argument.
Shinobu soon arrived as well, who was soon followed by Benkei as Madoka and Maru were getting ready upstairs.
Those of them that did pack anything had simple backpacks that wouldn't weigh them down too much, while a couple of them - like Kira - seemed to be bringing nothing but the clothes on their backs.

"So I take it we're actually gonna do this?" Ren asked, mainly to break the silence that was between them all in the lobby of the B-Pit.
"Certainly looks and sounds like it.." Kira said plainly, not even sparing the blond a glance as he looked at his nails.
"The Director seemed pretty bent on it, too.." Shinobu pointed out, "But I guess it makes sense, since Gingka was his friend..."

"Yeah, Madoka too.." Benkei said, joining in on the conversation, "They were both closer to 'im than I was, of course." Eight looked up towards the purple-haired man with curiosity in his deep green eyes.
"Weren't you closer to Kyoya?" He asked, taking in account what Maru had said several times.
"Yup!" Benkei answered with a grin, that caused most of them to smile in response - though Kira simply rolled his eyes as he leaned against the wall solemnly.
It wasn't long before they heard footsteps quickly coming down the stairs, Maru being the first to appear with the backpack that she had used when she went to the Mist Mountain Shrine on her back.
"Ready!" She said, saluting in that cute way of hers which plainly showed the newly acquired bracelet on her wrist that none of them had ever seen before.
"Hey, what's that?" Ren asked out of curiosity as she eyed the bracelet that was around Maru's wrist. The pinkette looked at her with confusion for a moment before looking to where her eyes were planted, and then brightened up a bit once she realized what she was talking about.

"Oh, this?" She asked, lifting up her wrist a bit before answering her, "Tsubasa gave it too me. It's a type of thing we can use to stay in contact with him."
Zyro raised his eyebrow, looking at girl with interest despite his mostly solemn expression that he'd had for most of the time they'd all been there.
"Is it supposed to have, like, those holographic screens or something, like in the movies?" He asked, which Shinobu, Kite, and Eight sweat-dropped too, before came Maru's answer.
"Actually, it does..." She said, scratching her cheek a bit.
Everyone, even Kira, looked at her with wide-eyed shock and interest, which Maru noticed before continuing.
"He said it was something that he and a few people from Tokyo were working on for a couple of months." Maru continued, looking down at the silver bracelet around her wrist, "Apparently it's connection relies on some sort of satellite, so we can kind of talk to Tsubasa whenever... And it has a map, too."

"Wow..." Kite lamented, "That's pretty high tech.. Surprising what people come up with now a days." Before anyone could say anything else, one more pair of footsteps came down the stairs, of which soon revealed themselves to be Madoka with a backpack slung over her shoulder as well.
"Well, are all of you ready?" She asked, stopping at the foot of the stairs and looking down at Maru before back up at them all. Necessarily, she had changed her outfit for the most part.
Despite still keeping her regular jacket and boots on, she had put a beige, long-sleeved shirt and jeans with a brown belt; likely because she knew that they were all going to be traveling a bit and going around in her regular outfit likely wouldn't be as comfortable was what she currently had on.
"We've been ready for the past 10 minutes.." Kira said with a soft sigh in his voice, pushing himself up off the wall as it seemed they were now aiming to leave.
"Shut up, Kira.." Shinobu mumbled in irritation at the mere presence of the ex-DNA blader.
"I'm just saying.." Kira replied back quietly with sass as they all got their bearings together, Madoka grabbing her keys off the shelf so that she could lock up for their long absence.
"We all have everything we need, right?" The brunette asked as she went to lock the door, all of them standing on the corner of the street just outside the B-Pit while the streets buzzed with traffic and what-not.
"Do any of us even know the way to Mito?" Benkei questioned, the thought suddenly coming to mind as he realized how he had never been North of Metal Bey City let alone the city they were heading to first.

"I have a map in this thing." Maru suggested, lifting her wrist and gesturing to the bracelet that Tsubasa had given her.
Before anything else, the pinkette brought her wrist down and a bit and pressed something on what appeared to be the top of it, a small point that somewhat resembled the end of a Laser Pointer, glowing a bright blue before a thin light shot up and brought up a holographic screen, much to everyone's surprise.
"You weren't kidding..." Eight commented in awe as they all watched Maru with interest, watching as a map appeared on the screen while her fingers narrowly hovered above the screen that looked relatively solid, narrowing to down close enough for her to get a close enough birds-eye-view to their route.
"Well, it's a long ways away, but I think we can make it there by tomorrow or something.." Maru explained, observing the map that she had pulled up in front of her, "Basically, just follow the main road heading North out of the city, which is... That way!"
With her opposite had did Maru point one down the street, having the map in her bracelet at her disposal for directions just in case - considering the connection it had to a satellite, it was unlikely to quit out on her.
"Well, I say we get going!" Ren said with confidence.
"That's what were here to do." Zyro joined in, a small smile on his face. All of them were able to agree with the two, setting off on their journey that would likely have much more in store for them than they could ever begin to imagine.
But all that was on their minds now was finding Alcorin and taking him down for good, wherever he was - yet somehow, Zyro just had this tingling feeling the back of his head that told him there was something else in store with the unexpected...

Tsubasa, knowing that Zyro, Madoka, and the others were likely on their way out of the city, had already begun undergoing the process of gathering any information or profiling that they could get from other cities, having already spoken to a couple of the workers of the WBBA who would be heading to Niigata, and Sendai.
He had already sent those 5 on their separate ways to separate cities that Zyro and the others likely wouldn't be coming across, though he still had a few others - one of them being Tokyo.
"You wanted to see me, Director?" Sichiro asked as he came up beside the silvernette, who was walking down one of the many hallways of the building.
Glancing beside him to assure that it was who he thought it was, Tsubasa nodded his head and looked forward.
"Yes." He answered, "I have a mission for you, Sichiro. I know it may seem a bit sudden, but it's important right now."

"No worries, Director." Sichiro assured as they walked beside each other, brushing a strand of his long black hair out of his face, "I take it it has something to do with postponing the tournament for longer?" Looking over at him, Tsubasa shrugged a bit with a small nod that almost seemed awkward.
"Kind of.." He said awkwardly, which simply earned a small smile from Sichiro, "Anyway.. I'm sending you and Ayano to the one of the major WBBA corporations in Japan. I've already sent a few others to other cities for profiling, as well as getting as much information on someone as you can. Seeing as how you already knew what was going with Gingka a week ago, it's kind of related to that..."
Sichiro hummed slightly, recalling some of what the Director had told him just the week before and how he had called off the BTF tournament for a short time until the entire matter was resolved - it was why he had to do a full scan of the city, and why they had searched everywhere within a 3 mile radius of Metal Bey as far as he knew.
"I see..." The black-haired man lamented, before looking back to Tsubasa with his steel grey eyes, "Which one are sending us to?"

"Tokyo." Tsubasa answered simply, which made Sichiro's breath hitch in the slightest bit, "Of course, I've already told the Director of the Tokyo WBBA that you two will be there shortly for profiling and such, but I didn't tell any of the WBBA Directors what are motives for it are."
Sichiro was rendered speechless for a few moments with his mouth hanging open a bit, but managed to get himself together before stuttering a bit on his words towards his boss.
"Um, D-Director..." He began nervously, "A-are you sure you couldn't, uh... Find someone else to go with Ayano?.."
Tsubasa raised an eyebrow and halted along with one of his most trusted colleagues, a slightly confused look on his face as he looked at Sichiro and noticed the paleness in his face.
"Why do you ask?" The silverette questioned, a bit suspicious on Sichiro's sudden behavior considering how he usually was.
"Well..." Sichiro began, adverting his eyes for a moment before looking back to the director, "Surely there are more highly skilled people here to do so rather than me, isn't there?.. I mean, me and Ayano aren't the most compatible team, considering how skilled she is with this kind of stuff." A small smile crept up Tsubasa's lips, and he placed a hand on Sichiro's shoulder with an eyebrow raised.

"You're right, there probably are more skilled people here than you..." The Director began, which caused Sichiro to hold his breath in the tension, "But you're the one that I trust the most with this. Besides, uh... Hikaru, of course, but, you know... Either way, you're the one that I trust the most with this, even if there are some others who might be better suited than you. That's why I'm sending you with Ayano, okay?"
Sichiro bit the inside of his cheek for a moment before nodding and forcing a smile onto his face.
"Y-yeah, right." The worker said with an apologetic look, "Sorry about that, I've just been feeling a bit down since, uh... What happened with Hikaru.."
Tsubasa's eyes and expression softened, his smile fading a bit but going back with a look saying that he understood perfectly what Sichiro felt.
He was the one that had know Hikaru the longest out of all of them; she had been an old friend of his as far as they all knew, so it was only reasonable that he was still likely hurting from that was well as it wasn't just the workers of the WBBA who had known and worked with her for a long time.
"Don't worry about it.." Tsubasa said with an understanding tone in his voice, "I get it. She was a good friend of mine too. So I hope you won't let me down on this."
Sichiro smiled, and simply nodded his head.
"I'll do my best, Director." He answered, and Tsubasa simply nodded before patting his shoulder and heading off down the hall.

Watching him as he walked away, Sichiro stood there, the smile fading from his face as his heart beat rapidly in his chest.
He let out the breath he hadn't realized he had been holding, staring down towards the floor with wide eyes and a pale face, a chill running through him as he once more registered what Tsubasa had said to him, what the Director had asked him to do, where he had asked him to go.

Tokyo... Of all the places the Director could send him, it had to be Tokyo.

Sichiro sighed heavily, standing there in the hallway alone while nervously tapping his foot on the floor and glancing up towards the ceiling.
"This isn't gonna end well..." He lamented, remembering back into his past long before any of this had begun, long before Zyro Kurogane had ever come to Metal Bey City, years back into when he had first started his career anywhere.
Well, maybe it was a good thing that the Director hadn't looked into his past when he had first began with his profiling - maybe some of the others had, but not Tsubasa by the looks of it.
Now that he was going back, there was no way that his history was not going to catch up with him...

The ex-DNA bladers, deciding to get out the confines of their current 'living' quarters for once, all stood atop of one of the buildings in Metal Bey.
They all did have to admit that the view was definitely nice, but the thing that troubled most of their minds was the fact that Kira was the only one that wasn't with them.
Genjuro, who seemed to the only one who wasn't really complaining (besides Captain Arrow), mainly watched in irritation as the others bickered on and on between each other and out loud.

"I still can't believe master Kira would do something like that!" Baihu whined, falling back on the landing he was sitting on and throwing his hands up in the air, "I thought we were supposed to be against Zyro and the others, not with them!" Spike grunted, leaning against the same thing that Baihu was sitting on.
"Considering Kira's actions, he obviously doesn't think so.." The scarred blader said bitterly, "Probably ran off to them by now, seeing as how we haven't seen him in a few days."

"Well, he must've had a good and honorable reason for it!" Captain Arrow suggested, sitting on the edge of the building with apparently no fear of falling off, "After all, master Kira doesn't really like anyone all that much, so there must have been a good reason for why he would help them in whatever they were doing."
Spike glanced over towards the dark-haired blader, an irritated look on his face towards the way that he always spoke in such a melodramatic way.
"Shut up, Arrow.." The scarred blader said simply, which didn't get a reply as the other blader simply looked out to admire the view.
"Master Kira would never turn his back on us." Yoshio claimed, staring out over the city as well as he simply stood around on the rooftop.
Genjuro hummed softly, chewing his dandelion stem as he finally opened his blue eyes from sitting on one the vents atop the building they stood on, looking towards them all with a rather calm look on his face.
"Might as well leave him to it." The dirty-blond said dismissively, "There's no sense in stopping him, with how he is."
These words caused Baihu to shoot up from the position he had originally been in, picking himself up off the landing he had been laying on and staring at Genjuro.
"How are you so okay with this?!" The raven exclaimed out of surprise at Genjuro's rather shocking reaction towards all of this, "You were the one that seemed the most angry about it at first!"

"Well, I managed to talk to him and found out his reasoning." Genjuro retorted, his arms and legs crossed as he sat on the vent that was relatively cold considering the metal was out on the rooftop for so long, "Either way, it's not like we can stay mad at him forever... You know how he gets when we whine a lot."
Captain Arrow raised his non-visible eyebrows, his yellow eyes looking towards Genjuro while his legs still over the edge of the building they all sat upon, seemingly having no fear of falling off the edge and plummeting to his death with one wrong shift.
"And what exactly were master Kira's reasons for helping out the WBBA bladers?" The dark-bluenette asked with interest, his tone more carefree from the rest of them.
For a few moments, Genjuro remained silent, listening to the soft crunch of the stem between his shark-like teeth before answering with his eyes closed.
"Kurogane saved his life, it's as simple as that.." Genjuro said irritably, "I guess Kira's that guy that likes returning favors or something." Spike raised an eyebrow, looking at Genjuro questionably.
"Wow, I didn't think he had it in him.." The brunette said, yet not with a very complimentary tone.
"Repaying a life dept is not an easy thing to do." Captain Arrow lamented, gazing up towards the sky with his yellow eyes, "I find it quite noble that master Kira would think to repay someone for saving his life, especially to someone that he doesn't even like."
Spike rolled his eyes at the masked blader. It was typical only for Captain Arrow to spew out that type of artsy wording with how he was.
"So where is master Kira, then?" Yoshio asked, looking over at Genjuro as they knew he was the one that had most of the answers. All Genjuro did was simply shrug and continue chewing on his dandelion stem.
"I dunno..." He answered unhelpfully, "Last I saw him, I just basically said to do whatever he wants, since he always seems to do that... I don't really care whether he helps Kurogane with whatever or not."

"Yeah, I guess..." Baihu admitted, slumping over slightly as he changed his sitting position a bit, "But where would he be, right now?" Spike grunted again, shrugging his shoulders and continuing to lean against the wall.
"Not really our thing to ask, knowing master Kira.." The scarred blader stated, huffing out through his nose, "Might as well let him do whatever.."
All Genjuro did was hum softly before looking out over the city and admiring the view that it had to offer. Granted with the rather strong heat that they were exposed to since it was suffer, and the fact that Captain Arrow could fall over the edge if he wasn't careful, it was rather nice.
The dirty-blond sighed silently, ceasing his action in chewing the dandelion stem for a moment as his eyes went down towards the ground. Looks like Kira had decided to bail on them after all... Then again, it wasn't like it really mattered - Captain Arrow was right when he said that repaying a life dept was not an easy task, and Genjuro had said it to Kira himself.
Well, as long as it was in Kira's best interest, it may as well be fine; though he didn't know him too well, he had always somehow seemed to be the one who understood Kira the best...

Zyro and the others had already long left the city when they heard and saw WBBA helicopters overhead, all of them heading in different directions and likely well past the destination that they were heading to.
All of them were roughly a mile away from Metal Bey City, sticking mainly to the forest while still being sure to follow the main road on Maru's map as they all headed towards Mito.
They stopped as they watched one helicopter fly overhead, the rumbling it made becoming loud as it drew so close before slowly growing quieter as it headed away from them and likely farther North than where they were headed, the sound of the blades rotating still ringing in their ears.

"You think that's Tsubasa?" Ren asked out of curiosity as they all watched the chopper disappearing into the distance, slowly vanishing from their sight.
"Must be." Madoka replied, "He did say he was going to send a few people to other cities for some profiling or something, so I don't doubt it. If not us, maybe he'll be able to find something."
Shinobu crossed his arms, gazing up at the sky as they all watched the continuously vanishing helicopter heading off into the distance, the sound of the blades rotating disappearing from their line of hearing as the sky slowly absorbed the object that may as well been as tiny as an ant from where they were standing.
"It's kind weird to think how crazy this is all gotten.." The light-haired blader lamented, thinking back to the very beginning from where this had all started.
"Kind of?" Ren repeated, raising an eyebrow towards the Salamander blader beside her, "It's really weird, if you ask me."

"Well it better, if you're facing off against the child of some sort of god from 7 years ago." Kira pointed out, which Kite rolled his eyes to as they all saw his usual attitude that never seemed to really change.
"Even if he is Nemesis' kid, like hell we're gonna let him get away with anything else.." Zyro proclaimed, which had been one of the few confident words that they had heard from him the last two days since he had figured out what had happened to Gingka and all that they had failed in.
It was uplifting for most of them to finally see that Zyro's confidence and determination for something like this building up again, having evidently been brutally shattered by Alcorin when he had said it to his face that they had all lost the battle they had believed they won; his shattered spirit, as they had partially seen yesterday, was a rather terrifying thing that they hoped never to lay their eyes on again - even Kira, in his stubbornness, would be able to agree with that.
Madoka's turquoise eyes made their way over to Zyro, looking at him for a moment before a soft smile crossed his face.
"Well, if Gingka can't take him down..." She began, "Looks like we're the next best thing there is." Kira rolled his eyes and this and placed his hand on his hip, having seen the way these guys were and really not up for their little speeches.
"So, are we going to actually look for the psychopath, or are all of you going to spend an hour standing here with your melodramatic speeches?" The pastel-haired blader asked, exchanging a bitter look with Shinobu as he knew very well that the Salamander blader didn't like him - of course, he would never ask him to after what he did to him.
Maru, taking a bit of heed to Kira's words, opened up the map on her wrist again and shrunk it a bit so that she could she where exactly they were and how much farther they had to go; needless to say, it was definitely going to be a long trip from where they were now all the way to Mito.

"Kira's right.." The pinkette agreed, looking up towards her teacher with lavender eyes, "We have a long, long way to go if we want to make it to the city in a couple days."
Madoka nodded at her student as the girl put the map back into the bracelet on her wrist before hoisting up her backpack that she currently had slung over her shoulder.
"Okay." Madoka began, "Let's get going.. Hopefully we'll be able to get there sooner rather than later." All of them were able to agree with this and they continued on, taking heed with the fact that they did have a long way to go if they ever really wanted to make it to Mito.
It appeared that Tsubasa already had his plans underway, and now they were the ones that had to set out across a small portion of Japan to look for an inhuman sociopath that could be anywhere at this point.
"Do you think we're gonna find him?" Eight asked, looking up towards his big brother as they all trudged on, being able to hear the sounds of the traffic on the main road that they were sure to follow alongside.
"Hopefully.." Kite answered, petting his younger brother's royal blue hair, "However, I don't even know how we're gonna find him. I don't really think just searching for him is gonna do much, knowing what he is."

"Well, we can try, can't we?" Ren questioned, looking over towards the Unabara brothers of which she had overheard - of course, it was nearly impossible to not overhear anyone in the small group they were in, "After all he's done, I can't wait to give that freak a piece of my mind!"
Both Zyro, Shinobu, and Benkei smiled at Ren's enthusiasm, which definitely made sense seeing as how Alcorin had used her as nothing more than a tool to try and get what he wanted, even though he would've likely gotten it anyway.
"I think we can all vouch for that one." Benkei said in an uplifting tone, and it was evident that they were all trying to keep the spirit strong for all of their sakes.
It was blatant seen with Maru that she was sort of uncomfortable with the subject of Alcorin, after what he had done to Dynamis at the Mist Mountain Shrine, but she seemed up for the idea of finally taking him down after all he had done to them.
Zyro was the one who seemed so subdued, the most out of all of them.
With everything they had gone through, it didn't take a genius to see that Zyro had definitely changed mental-wise; that was something that even Kira felt slightly pitiful for, but the Bahamoote blader simply brushed that off and continued walking.
Shinobu's light green eyes looked over towards Zyro, who had already been looking passed him towards Ren so he was able to catch his gaze.

"What do you think, Zyro?" The light-haired blader asked, even though he already knew the answer as the Fire Blader had made it very clear.
To his hidden delight, a small yet playful smirk crossed the other's face with a fiery intensity in his eyes that they had always known to be him.
"Taking him down is probably the best idea since turkey and sandwiches!" Zyro exclaimed, which caused all of them to sweat-drop at that statement, "Besides... I don't really like the idea of him hurting anyone else.. He's done enough of that."
Shinobu hummed softly in understanding, though still chuckled slightly at the Fire Blader's earlier statement about turkey and sandwiches. Well... They were pretty good, so he was sort of on to something with that.
"Looks like he'll be doing okay.." Madoka muttered with a smile on her face, exchanging a glance with Maru who smiled back in agreement.
They were all left to their journey towards Mito, of where they knew they would start looking for Alcorin and seeing if they could get any sort of information from people if they seen someone like him, or had recently seen "Gingka" around.
All they could really do was hope that it would end in their favor...

Both Sichiro and Ayano made their way to towards the upper levels of the WBBA building in the elevator, having been told by one of their co-workers that it was time for them both to leave for Japan for the mission that the Director had given them.
The helicopter was said to be waiting for them on one of the several landing pads, ready to take off as soon as they got there and were ready to leave, which was better now than never.
"So we're just going to the Tokyo WBBA for profiling?" Sichiro asked, wishing to specify things as he looked over at his emerald-haired companion that would be accompanying him in this mission.
"That's about the gist of it." Ayano answered making sure that her hair was tied back properly in a bun, "He said not to tell anyone about the recent events that have apparently occurred within Metal Bey. I can understand why he would want that, I guess... Either way, I hope this whole thing goes by fast, Tokyo's too big of a city for me."
Sichiro simply nodded along with her words, not knowing what else to say other than to agree with his co-worker.
"Yeah, me too..." He agreed as they continued on, the elevator going painfully slow probably just to torment him and make him think about what they were supposed to be doing and where they were going to do it.

"Have you ever been to Tokyo before?" Ayano asked out of curiosity, looking over towards her black-haired companion of who seemed to jump a bit at the question before glancing over at her.
"Oh, uh..." Sichiro began, not sure of what exactly he should say towards Ayano and knowing that he only had a few seconds to do so - why did elevator rides have to seem so slow?
"Um, y-yeah.." He finally asked, scratching the back of his neck as he watched the elevator slowly coming up to the top floor of where they would have to take the stairs the rest of the way to the landing pad, "A few times, when I was little... I used to live near there, actually.."
Ayano nodded with an interested face, having never heard Sichiro ever talk about his past to anyone.
"Well, I've been there on a number of occasions.." She said with an annoyed role of the eyes at the memory of going on so many missions there, "I've met their Director before, and he's not to bad, I guess.. A bit on the older side, but he's nice overall."

Sichiro simply nodded, biting the inside of his cheek as Ayano continued on, probably for something to do as they waited for the elevator to reach the top - it was almost there, thankfully.
"I can't help but wonder what goes on with the WBBA over there.." The greenette lamented, looking up towards the ceiling as she quirked an eyebrow, "I mean, I've overhead that they manage a lot of things and own several places, but they seem kind of secretive.."
Sichiro bit his lip, anxiously looking up towards the floor count - dear god, how slow did this elevator have to be?
"Well, that's probably just because they got a Metal Bey WBBA worker in their building." Ayano laughed with a shrug, "None of the Japanese WBBA's are that connected with each as far as I know."
Finally - finally - the door to the elevator opened, allowing them both out onto the top floor where they could faintly hear the rotating blades of the chopper up above.
Both workers stepped out of the elevator, hearing the metal doors close behind them as they both made their way around the top floor and to the stairs that lead up to the rooftop, the sound growing louder and louder as they climbed up towards their destination.
Outside, the helicopter stood ready for them on one of the several landing pads, the pilot waving to them as he saw both of them emerge from the depths of the WBBA building and make their way towards the helicopter, the strong winds blowing at their faces and causing them to raise their hands above them.

"You think this is gonna be easy?!" Sichiro asked, yelling over the sound of rotating blades as they both made their way to the helicopter, reaching the side of it and climbing inside of where the sound was no better.
"Speaking from past experience, probably not!" Ayano responded as they both closed the door and strapped themselves in.
Signals were exchanged, giving the okay that they were ready and it was time to leave.
The pilot lifted the helicopter off the landing pad, making sure they were all a good distance above the buildings before taking off towards the Southwest as it seemed.
The sky and mountains flew past them as they went high through the air, the city below them and slowly receding as they drew farther away from home and further towards what they knew they had to do.
Ayano seemed to be quite accustomed to helicopter rides, seeing as how she had had to take them many times when she had things to do away from the comforts of Metal Bey City, so they had grown on her quite fondly; glancing over at Sichiro, she saw the anxious look on his face, the paleness in his skin that hadn't seemed to be there before now.
She knew that her co-worker didn't go away from Metal Bey city that often, so maybe it was just the nervousness that came with being so high up in the air that unnerved him so much.
Humming softly, Ayano looked away from Sichiro and gazed out the window beside him, watching the landscape pass by so fluently it seemed to transcend time.