Ch. 22
(POV:Neko)
As I sat against the door of the room, I thought about what was just happened. Then I thought back as to what she had said. Her first words about Yamada was that she had just learned about the assigned marriage. But that wasn't where my thoughts of disgust came from. Those were directed towards her parents. But they didn't strike me as the kind of people to do that. So I decided to do some investigating. I opened up my computer and opened a folder that had not been opened in two years. In it was a homemade concoction of virus, malware, and encryption hacking software. Using this, I had full control over the network in a matter of minutes. I then set a monitor on her parents computers. I also marked an unknown device that was on the network. This monitor tracked and logged the packets, as well as the destinations. The two computers in her parents room were on standby, but the unknown was in the middle of a video call. I hooked in.
"...he put up a fight. Even when presented with orders from the family head he tried to stop it. I had to use full authorization to get him to agree." A man in a car said. The interior matched that of the car outside the house. The unknown must be a phone then.
"But the girl slammed the door huh? Even though she knew what she was facing?" This man was in what appeared to be a traditional building. The location was several scores of kilometers north.
"Correct. Also, there appears to be another boy in the house. Non-family related. Name is Harry Aki. He was close to Nemu in SAO. Came over from America. Dual citizen. Fluent Japanese."
"I guess you can make a visit to this boy when he leaves the house then. Tell him to get lost, and run back to america. If you must, put a challenge in his face. Also, install the program we talked about on her PC. I want to render all communication with him inoperable."
"Understood. I will upload it now. Goodbye, Master Raku."
With that, the call ended. I watched the connection info coming from the phone. It uploaded a package that immediately went for her PC. I blocked it, then rendered it null. I scanned the code for the install successful message, then faked it so the man thought it worked. Ten seconds later, the car started up and drove away.
I began to search the internet for info on the family of Morino. I found a huge database on them. The family was a very influential one based out of city north of here. The apparent heir was a young girl by the name of Nemu. That struck me as odd. Why would the heir be one that was so far from the rest of the family? Anyway, as the girl had been sick with a major disease for two years, when she finally recovered the family head rushed to find her a partner of another high level family. The disease must have been cover for SAO. So it would stand to reason that Yamada was one of a very important family.
"So what now?" I said to myself. Of course, I could just stand to the side and let events run their course. This had nothing to do with me, after all. However, I hated the practice of forced marriages, and I was never one to back down from a fight. Plus, judging by the look on Nemu's face earlier, she wasn't to thrilled. I we had been through way too much to just leave her to fight her own battle. I helped her with her fights, she helped me with mine. That was how it worked. However, that didn't solve the problem of what to do next. Talk with her parents? Or fight this one on one? I knew the IP addresses of the Morino family up north, so I could rack some serious havoc on them. But in the end, that wouldn't be enough. Then I thought about what happened earlier. This Raku dude had said something about a challenge. An idea started to form. One with swords.