Nagisa was finally back as Daichi Ushioda, luckily after the events with Kiyomi which he paid for and was now staring at her before giving up and pulling on the yukata he borrowed and his hidden blade. Inhaling deep he closed his eyes and focus on his eyes, opening them to reveal a darker world with Kiyomi highlighted in blue, closing his eye the world returned to normal.
'Good it seems my eagle sense is working just fine, so that will help' he though while pulling up a sheet over Kiyomi and left the room quietly. He then activated his Eagle sense and walked down the corridor following a trail that was laid out in gold. But soon Daichi didn't need it when he heard a woman's scream. He rushed down the corridor to where Hoshimitsu was staying, he opened the door quickly and saw one of the Oiran was up against the wall while the other one was being held down by Hoshimitsu's foot. Daichi stood firm
"And who are you?" Hoshimitsu harshly said
"Yasuraka ni nemuru" Diachi said and with a flick of his arm, Hoshimitsu was grasping his neck as he fell back. Upon hitting the floor Hoshimitsu was dead, looking back the Oiran underneath Hoshimitsu's foot grabbed a blade and swiped it across the wound and wrapped it in a piece of silk and bowed
"I'll say I killed him in self-defence" the Oiran said bowing
"Very well" Daichi said removing the small pouch on Hoshimitsu's belt and threw it at the Oiran "Your payment for the night" Daichi said as he left the room.
"Arigato" the Oiran said bowing. Once he returned to his room, he saw Kiyomi still sleep. Smiling he slipped in and wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forehead.
"Okay, time to end the day" Aguri said as Nagisa was pulled out of the Animus. Handing him another dose of the medicine. Something was different; he's eyes were a bit sore so he closed them to rub them, upon opening them Nagisa froze, he was seeing the world in Eagle vision. Looking around he saw the other Animus users with a blue glow, the scientists and guards in a red glow, but one thing didn't add up Aguri had a blue glow. Nagisa passed this off as being friendly to him "you okay?"
"I'm fine, just seeing the world in a new light"
"Nagisa, did the assassin use something called Eagle Sense or Vision?" Aguri asked
"Yeah he did" Nagisa said
"Oh shit, this wasn't supposed to happen, the bleeding effect should only be around if they link with a genetic memory of a ancestor, but we've made sure that doesn't happen" Aguri said
"How?' Nagisa asked
"It's why you keep having random assassins in the past, the higher the genetic memory link the more susceptible to it you are" Aguri said "And that means you have been linked to an ancestor. Sorry Nagisa, but I have to report a bleeding effect, but here" Aguri said handing Nagisa a third pill. "This should lessen it"
"AGURI!" the head scientist said making Aguri flinched
"Hey Kotaro" Aguri said nervously
"What is going here, I got a red alert from this station" Kotaro Yanagisawa said before he blocked Nagisa's arm who was glaring at the lead scientist
"Sorry, reflexes" Nagisa said
"Don't tell me!" Kotaro said
"It was a slight exposure" Aguri said "Eagle Vision or Eagle Sense"
"I see, so what assassin was the last one viewed?" Yanagisawa asked
"Daichi Ushioda" Aguri said
"Did you say Ushioda?" Yanagisawa asked
"Yeah why?" Aguri asked
"Ushioda is an older version of the name Shiota!" Yanagisawa shouted
"I'm sorry, I just continued the simulation, it was Moretti who set it up" Aguri said blocking a slap from Yanagisawa, or would of had Nagisa not grabbed Yanagisawa's arm mid swing
"Don't you dare touch her" Nagisa said
"Who cares" Yanagisawa said wrenching his arm free before leaving
"Well, now that's all taken care of, its dinner time. Rumours are it's a nice roast dinner tonight; even for the Animus users" Aguri smiled
"Cool" Nagisa smiled
"Hold up, you've experience the bleeding effect?" Muramatsu asked as he dunked some of the slow cooked roasted pork belly into the smooth mushroom gravy and took a bit of it.
"It seems Abstergo has had bad experiences with Assassins they captured using the bleeding effect to escape and take them down, so they found a way to limit the effect; random assassins so you don't get the same assassin twice. But those who get linked with an ancestor is more likely to experience it, which happened to me" Nagisa said
"So did it work?" Fuwa asked
"It did, I got Eagle Sense through it" Nagisa said
"Incredible, we could use that to find out who's running this and take them down" Fuwa said
"But that would mean that we would also need the bleeding effect to get the Eagle sense " Maeharra said
"Hey guys" Yada said sitting down with her meal
"You okay?" Kanzaki asked
"Not really, I had an...embarrassing session" Yada said
"How so?" Nagisa asked
"well, you know how I had that Oiran Kiyomi? Well I saw what she did with the samurai"
"So what happened?" Muramatsu asked as he took a huge scoop of the mash potato and shovelled it into his mouth.
It started with a kiss before Kiyomi lead the samurai I learnt was dubbed Daichi into a bath area and disrobed him, she also disrobed and helped him into a hot bath and started to help him bathe, he didn't do anything but help her clean herself. Like washing her back and thing like that. After the bath they had a small meal and talked about themselves. But when the moon rose and the starts shined the pair disrobed and Kiyomi was lowered gently onto the bed before she and Daichi started to make love, passionate intense and loving would be how I describe it and I could feel everything emotional, the pleasure and love she felt that night. Heck I almost got off myself" Yada explained
"Did you feel that Nagisa?" Fuwa asked
"No, I skipped that and went back to the assassination of a Templar agent called Hoshimitsu" Nagisa said
"Do you think we share the same ancestor?" Yada asked scared
"I don't know" Nagisa said "But I'm not sure if I will be able to access that ancestor again" Nagisa said
"How come?" Fuwa asked
"Yanagisawa" Nagisa said before he activated his eagle sense when he saw Aguri and Yanagisawa into the room, Aguri had the blue glow from before, but Yanagisawa had a golden glow 'Its him"
"Who?" Maehara asked
"I just found who's in charge of the facility" Nagisa said
"Who?" Muramatsu asked
"That guy over the, the one next to Aguri" Nagisa said
"Who is he?" Maehara said
"I have no idea" Nagisa glared at Yanagisawa
That Night Nagisa was led back to his room by the guard and was shoved in
"Clean up and then prepare for lights out" the guard said. It was quick but Nagisa saw the guard retract his left ring finger. Nagisa went wide eyed at that before he walked into the bathroom. Nagisa had read that back in the times of the crusades that Assassins would remove their ring finger on their left hand to make it easier for them to use the hidden blade, but it was easier for them to be identified; and that means the guard assigned to Nagisa was an assassin, or at least associated by them. Nagisa was sure he was being helped from inside Abstergo. So once he pulled on the pyjama top he walked over to the door, which was usally locked and it opened.
"No way" Nagisa gasped as he stepped out into the hallway
"Subject 17 Sigma Tau!" a voice said as a bright light shone on him. "What are you doing out of bed?" The voice asked revealing Aguri
"The door wasn't lock so I was going to get somebody to check it" Nagisa bluffed
"At 10:30 at night?" Aguri asked smiling, knowing she had caught Nagisa about to snoop around Abstergo. "Back to bed" Aguri said as Nagisa went back inside his room and Aguri locked the door. Nagisa could have sworn she was mumbling under her breath, Nagisa could help but shake his head and went to bed. When he's head hit the pillows he was carried off to dream land.
Once more he dreamed about various assassins, one stood out to him though, Daichi had joined the ranks of the dream assassins and in his hand was a glowing golden orb which he placed into a wooden box and looked around
"Is this it?" a British woman said
"It is Frye-san" Daichi said handing the box to the woman
"I'm sure we'll get this into safe hands" Evie said
"And that means it will be out of the hands of the Templars" Daichi said
"Yes" Evie said as she left before the sounds of boots racing were heard
'Maybe it's time I disappeared myself" Daichi said steeping into the shadows as several Templars stopped in front of where Daichi was hiding
"It was right here" one of them said
"The assassins must have beaten us here" a second one said
"Which means they have the apple of Eden you twits" the leader said
"Should we follow them" the second said
"Where to?" the leader asked "Your death"
"My thoughts exactly" Daichi said killing the leader of the group before finishing off the group and all with his hidden blade.
"Time to awaken, it's another beautiful day, it is time to awaken it is another beautiful day" the computer said as a groggy Nagisa got up
'Did the bleeding effect cause that dream or something else cause that dream?" Nagisa said as he got ready for the day., he felt something was off in the air
"Did you hear, another beating took place" an animus user said
"Yeah professor Yukimura found the poor thing" a girl said
'Really, did that guard open the door knowing that attack was going to happen, but how could I have stopped it?" Nagisa thought.
"Welcome back to your station Subject 17 Sigma Tau" Yanagisawa said as he witness Aguri input the assassin for Nagisa's current session
"So not Japan?" Nagisa asked
"No, today you're going to the wild west" Aguri said
"Sounds cool" Nagisa said getting into the animus, Yangisawa was there to make sure Aguri didn't input Daichi Ushidoa into the Animus control.
"How does Duke Grey sound?" Aguri asked
"Awesome." Nagisa said as the Animus drew him into the session
It was hot dry and uncomfortable compared to Japan, but wild west Nevada was looking to be fun. Duke Grey was the assassin Nagisa was obversing looked at a man in a noose as he held his Winchester rifle close to his chest as he lined up on an enemy
"See you later Templar scum" Duke said as he aimed at the target and fired. But something happened he switched from Nevada to Victorian London
"Stupid blighter" the assassin Jacob Frye said before it switched back to Duke as he sniped the Templar he was aiming at just before he hung a banker
"What happened?" Yangisawa asked
"I don't know, an Animus glitch?" Aguri asked
"WHAT! they shouldn't be any glitches" Yangisawa said
"I'm just saying" Aguri stated
"Shut it Aguri" Yangisawa said
"I think we should cancel today's session and look over the data, see if its the software, or maybe a hardware problem" Aguri said
"No, keep the session going" Yanagisawa said
"Very well, but if I detect another glitch I'm pulling the plug" Aguri said
"Good" Yanagisawa huffed.
Nagisa observed Duke walk up to a woman in formal dress
"Did you stop it?"the woman asked
"Yes, now if we ask Mr Falswark about the piece of Eden we're tracking" the woman said
"What piece is it?" Duke asked
"It's called the Capstone, its suppose to lead somewhere called The Nexus; which is suppose a link of the minds meaning people could share memories" the woman said
"That was it, that is the first mention of the Nexus we've gotten since the original myth" Yanagisawa said
"But where is it?" Aguri askede
"Do ya'll know what it is" Duke said
"No" the female said "But hopefully our allies can find that out" the woman said walking off with Duke.
G'day guys Grizz here and oh boy am I pulling out the old gameplay ideas, in the first AC Game you could leave your room and explore the Animus room, this will be used later by Nagisa, also we'll observe various assassins but Daichi Ushioda will be the main assassin Nagisa observes, and don't worry Nagisa will leave Abstergo in the next two chapters
so until next time I'll catch you on the flipside