"So the sword that you're getting made from is from the material from the moon?" Harriet is confused as she sat next to Adam, who continues on looking over his labor work papers. "That's new to me."
Adam neatly put away his paperwork. "I was surprised as you, but it's only a theory that this kind of material is the only kind that could withstand my Semblance." Adam looks at her.
Harriet casual wear is; shirt with a zippered up hoodie, track pants, sneakers with socks. She seem to be sweating.
"Aren't you cold?" Adam is worried about her condition due of wearing casual sports wear.
Harriet grinned. "Not really. Well, I was this morning till I finally work up a sweat. I keep myself warm by doing some exercise. But due of my Semblance being an Enhancer type, I need to work far more in order to work up that sweat. So I had been exercising since this morning."
They got out of the carrier.
"So where are you picking up your sword?" She asked.
"Follow me, I know the place. But if we get lost, that's on me." Adam lead the way.
Both of them walk around towards the Eden Mansion.
"So how have you managed to get into the high class?" Harriet asked.
"Seer luck." Adam replied.
Both of them finally reach the Eden Mansion.
"Woah! This is a mansion?! This is far bigger than most homes from where I live!" Harriet is surprised over the Eden Mansion. "Like, I imagine so many people from my town could live in this Mansion alone."
Adam smiled at her astonishment. "I was like that too when I first came here. Actually, it was first shower in weeks since I got here." Adam rubbing his teeth. "I didn't really know how yellow my teeth was."
Harriet looked over. "I tend to skip a shower or two myself." She's trying to make Adam feel better about his lifestyle. "Especially whenever I'm at a hunt, and a small rabbit is being so crafty to hunt. Sometimes I get in trouble, and had to spend nights where I stand guard in order to keep an eye out for my prey. I was curious about something, how does the SDC deal with the Grimm?"
Adam looked at her. "Well normally the Faunus that are registered as Night Guardsman, and SDC workers that aren't paid much, tend to take care of them. The the SDC workers tend to keep the living trailers while the Faunus Night Guards tend to do the work, and dying in the process. But we continue on doing our work."
"Did you ever want to leave?" Harriet asked him about if he have a bigger lifestyle.
"Not really. Because that life is all I had known. I just want to do good things for the Faunus. Help those who can't defend themselves, and whenever their voices are silent, I'll take it all. All the punishment and beatings that comes with it. That's my goal." Adam smiles with determination in his eyes.
Harriet is inspired by his words. "Then I'll do my best on being the best Huntress I can be."
Harriet offers a fist bump. Adam looked confused at first, then he finally fist bumps with a smile.
Adam walked up to the intercom. "Ms. Eve?"
"Cattle! Glad you finally came!" Lucifer answered on Eve behalf. "So please come on in!"
Adam and Harriet enter the mansion. Harriet is surprised on the overall design of the Mansion.
"Holy shit!" Harriet said out loud.
"Is that Bree?" Lucifer walked up of the living room. "Why is she here?"
"She's my guest?" Adam replied.
Sign. "Well, whatever cattle. Let see your new sword." Lucifer lead both of them to the living room. "By the way, cattle, you smell like sweat. How about you bathe first."
Adam sniff himself. "Well I had been working on a small time job, to pass the time. So my apologies for the scent."
Harriet is embarrassed to raise her arm, but she's on the same page with Adam when it comes to body odor. "Umm..." She kept her arm up while covering her pits. "Does she mind if I use the washroom too?"
"Were you working, Bree?" Lucifer asked.
"Exercising. Nothing to special." Harriet answered.
"Well I guess Eve won't mind. She does have a few guest rooms, so feel free." Lucifer said to Harriet.
"Oh! I know those rooms. I walked pass them a few times. Want me to escort you there?" Adam offers.
"Sure. I would be lost without my guide." Harriet smiled.
Both of them walked to the guest rooms.
Harriet is bewildered of the whole mansion. "Woah! Just imagine living here."
"I don't imagine it, Ms. Hare." Adam chuckled. "I just live my life how it is. Deal with the cards that I've been dealt with. But I do get frustrated though. Should had saw me in a game of poker. I have the worst poker face." Adam smiled.
"You play poker?" Harriet asked.
"I'm pretty sure that I said so. So how about we have a game?" Adam asked. "We would normally make wages on the only thing us workers do have, hours of work."
Harriet is confused of the idea of the wages. "Hours? How does that work?"
"The winner get the losers hours. For example, we both worked the same nine hour shift. And you waged around one hour, so that means you only take an hour long of what they made." Adam explained.
"Is that how you managed to get that much?" Harriet asked.
"Not really. I ended up losing a ton of Lien from a poker game. So yeah, I have to earn my Lien back." Adam is embarrassed over his Lien lost.
Harriet looked down to the idea of poker. "Eh. Not a fan, unless there's something on the line."
"Lien isn't good enough for you?" Adam asked her.
"I prefer something more personal." Harriet grinned. "Like buying me stuff. Like buying me the ton of energy drink."
Adam with a sign of relief. "I thought you were gonna ask for something lewd. We had a few players like back at Mistral." Adam doesn't seem to be proud of the idea. "I recall someone was making that bet. Talk about a worst odor after a long day with no showers."
"Ew!" Harriet is disgusted. "If that was their body odor smell, then I guess the underwear was far worst."
"I was talking about the underwear. I remember the damn smell. Just be grateful that you weren't a Dog Faunus, because they have that smell in their memory banks. So they can't forget it." Adam adds a Faunus fact.
"Curious, what does it smell like?" Harriet awkwardly asks about the scent.
"Rotten cheese." Adam reply with a disgusted tone. They walk by the guest rooms. "Here we are. Hopefully you'll showered well." Adam bows to her.
"See you in an hour." Harriet smiled as she enter the room.
"Then I'll be waiting by half." Adam chuckled.
He goes to Noah's Ark guest room to take his shower.
Lucifer is looking at two cases.
Eve had entered the room. "Had Adam entered the mansion, Luci?"
"Yeah. He's cleaning himself up at Noah's Ark. And then there's Harriet Bree at a guest room, doing the same. Both of them smell like sweat." Lucifer explained.
"Ah okay." Eve doesn't mind the additional person. "I've been looking forward on this day. We finally get to see Adam's new sword." Eve tries to carry the sword, but prove to be heavier than she expected.
Lucifer looks worried. "Do you want some help?"
"I'm fine!" Eve respectfully declined the offer but she's barely could lift it up with her fingers.
Lucifer decided to go to the second case to see that he has a new sword. A cutlass with a name underneath the handle, "Inferno". An updated flintlock pistol, the Morningstar. And no angelic A with angel wings emblem. His new emblem is a broken A with nine chains.
"So seem happy over your new sword." Eve is breathing heavily over her failed attempt on lifting up Adam's sword case.
"Well..." Lucifer picks up the Inferno while posing with the Morningstar flintlock pistol. "I had to pay a small fortune in order to rival a sword to both the Schnee's and the cattle upstairs. Plus with Atlesian Steel, I have the strongest sword out there."
The Inferno and Morningstar are black ash color with gold streaks on the handle.
Lucifer starts a couple of swings while practicing his footwork. He kept switching from a slash to a pistol point.
"Not a bad form." Eve gives Lucifer a compliment. "But you should maybe take it easy on Adam, since he's still new to combat."
"I don't think so. Killing a Grimm that big requires something else. Not many people can kill a Grimm on their first go around." Lucifer somewhat giving Adam compliments.
"Well I saw what he did, I'm only giving him a chance, so he can become something far more than a trades worker. His Semblance is far powerful, even your Elemental Class won't be able to rival his." Eve compared their Semblances.
"Then perhaps I should give it my all. Because when I become a Huntsman, I will end up facing powerful people and Grimm, and I'll admit to this, I won't have the cattle to save me like he did on that day." Lucifer remembers seeing the Beast. "Such difficult creatures to deal with."
"What were you planning on doing if you haven't met Adam?" Eve asked.
"Just be living off from Winter's name. Like how Jacques does." Lucifer answered. "If you're not either the Headmaster, the General, a Council member, or a Schnee, then you're not on the top of the high society."
"I'm a member of the high class society." Eve said to Lucifer.
Lucifer slightly wave it off for a bit.
"My family may have not been the Schnees, but we're still trying to make a deal. Or at least I am." Eve said.
"Speaking of which, you never said anything about it. Only that you wanted a bodyguard for a meeting. Nothing beyond that." Lucifer asked.
"A merger, between both families. Since you mentioned Jacques, I got some a little confession here. Do you know about both Weiss and Whitley Schnee?" Eve sat down.
"Only through Winter, but she has no positive reception for Whitley." Lucifer answered.
"Then like your arranged marriage with Winter, Jacques is planning on doing that for the other two. But now he's having second thoughts after Adam destroyed the Archangel."
Lucifer nods. "Knowing Jacques, he'll find a way on making the Schnee Dust Company. If it wasn't for him, the Angelos or the Edens would had been the top family of Atlas instead. Jacques had always been the trickster, stepping on others toes. I was hoping I would step on his toes for once. What were you planning on doing?"
Eve looked disappointed. "I lied that I have a little sister, around Whitley age."
Lucifer chuckled. "You're the only child here."
"I know it was a lie, but I was gonna pay one of my maids. Apple came up with the suggestion, and she might have a sister to play the role of my sister, but we're carefully trying to come up with an overall plan." She looks up to Lucifer with a grin. "You're not the only family that wanted to bring down the Schnees for once."
Lucifer gives her a drink, orange juice serve in a martini glass.
Adam came out of the Noah's Ark room. "That felt good." Adam came down with his hair down. He carries his work clothes to the laundry, but first he went up to Harriet to check up on her.
Knocking on the door. "Do you need your clothes to be wash?"
Adam wanted to open the door. He hesitate due of the idea that he might end up seeing Harriet naked, so he pull back his hand. "Perhaps I should go alone."
Adam walked to the laundry room.
The moment he enter the room, Adam entered the laundry room. "Hey!"
Adam nearly caught Harriet naked, and he immediately shuts the door. "My apologies!"
"Ever heard of knocking?!" Harriet shouted.
"I did! Well, at your room, but I thought you were still using the shower." Adam explained.
Harriet tries to cover herself, then sign. "Well..." Harriet signed then accepted it. "Let me cover up first." Harriet grabs an unused maid uniform. She quickly put on the uniform. "Come in!"
"I deeply apologize for nearly seeing anything." Adam sees Harriet in a maids uniform. "You look... professional."
"It's not weird!" Harriet is embarrassed over the uniform.
"Why wasn't there any other outfits in the room?" Adam asked. "Plus..." awkwardly looking at the chest due of it being loose. Adam walked up to Harriet, kind of giving her an embarrassed expression, "You need to tighten this up a tad more." Adam helps her up on tying the corset up.
"Do you usually tied these up?" Harriet asked.
"Not usually" Adam finished it up, "But tying things up isn't new."
"Well, I'm not used on having nice looking clothes. Or wearing fetish wear." Harriet said while looking at herself in a maids outfit on a full length mirror. "I never understood how girls can wear skirts. Especially during combat."
Adam start putting his clothes into the washer. "Do you want to do your clothes first?" He asked.
Harriet looked around to see there's plenty of washers and dryers. "I'm sure we can do ours together. Plus, to answer you question; I look around for any clothes, but no, so I took a quick shower and hoping to do my laundry before you came by. So yeah, I wasn't hoping to see you in half hour or so." Harriet is embarrassed.
"Don't be too embarrassed. I actually walked around naked at one point in my life, as a prank. So I know where you come from in this situation." Adam laugh it off.
After they done the washers, they decided to head to the living room.
"Hello, Ms. Eve. Mr. Lucifer." Adam softly bows.
"Hello!" Eve happily waves at Adam.
"Good afternoon, cattle." Lucifer drinks his orange juice martini.
Both of them stares at Harriet, who's embarrassed and blushing over her uniform.
"I thought I send all my maids off today? It is their day off." Eve is confused.
Lucifer looks then quickly put the pieces together. "Did you managed to put clothes for your maids today?"
"No." Eve quickly answered.
"Ah! That would explained why." Lucifer offer them a martini orange juice, and a water bottle to Adam.
Both of them accepted.
Adam looks over to see the case. "So is that...?"
"Right!" Eve grabs the case.
"I should carry it. It's too heavy for you." Lucifer stopped her.
Eve pouts. "Can I at least open the case?"
"Alright then." Lucifer grabs the case then place it in front of Adam. "Man, your slightly sword is heavy." Lucifer is surprised on the weight of the sword.
"Time to reveal your new sword!" Eve happily open up the case.
Everyone is surprised to see shiny red blade. Black handle. And his sheath is in a form of a rifle.
Adam is astonished then carries the sword. "Not exactly a katana. It's a chokuto actually. Common mistake, but I can work with this."
"Do you mind?" Harriet asked to carry the sword.
Adam passed her the sword.
"Woah!" Harriet is surprised on the weight. "It's quite heavier than I expected. At least five to ten pounds heavier. I thought it would be one of those magical swords where the metal is that troupe of five times lighter than every metal but ten times stronger than all."
"Someone had been reading the Magic Sword." Lucifer chuckled over Harriet's assumption. "No metal on Remnant can be light yet strong. If so, everyone would have one. But Moonite Rock is the most powerful metal that Remnant been given."
"Adam, can I see what's your Semblance does?" Harriet asked with stars in her eyes.
"Alright, but we might need an open space where I won't hurt anyone." Adam is concerned if his Semblance will hurt anyone else.
"Then lucky for you, my basement should work. It should be strong enough to handle anything." Eve smiles.
Eve escort them down to the basement with Adam carrying his new weapon.
It's a massive empty basement.
"You seem like you got space in here." Adam jokes with an echo effect.
"I was gonna make a additional living room, or a cave for anything I would love to do. Like a gaming room." Eve said to them all.
"What kind of game are you planning on hunting?" Harriet asks Eve.
"Not that kind of gaming, Bree." Lucifer corrects her.
"Now, Adam, please aim at that spot there!" Eve points.
"Okay, now everyone please stay back." Adam said to them all while walking to the middle of the basement room.
Adam slowly placed his sword back into the sheath. Feeling the kinetic energy being build up. Tip draw. Adam feels his Semblance going down to his sword where it starts to glow alongside with anything red on him. Adam draw slash to release a huge burst of energy hitting and cracking the basement wall. Adam looks at his sword and happy to see that it managed to not only stay in one piece, but is powerful enough to handle his Semblance.
"This... is the perfect sword for me." Adam smiles.
Everyone felt and were shocked to see the power of Adam Taurus, all but Eve who seems happy to see his Semblance again.
"Woah!" Harriet felt intimidated by Adam's power. "Are Semblances meant to be that powerful?"
"Depends on a person's spirit." Lucifer replied but also felt intimidated.
Adam looked awkward then nervous at the others. "I'll admit, that I still don't have no real control of my Semblance, but I'll be only using this as a last resort."
Both Harriet and Lucifer looks back at the then Adam. "That would be for the best." Both of them said to Adam.
Adam put away his sword into the sheath. "Now I have to do the paper and submit a photo." Adam smiled then his expression turned. "Oh crap! What time is it?" Adam asked.
"Should be around six, I think?" Eve said.
"Crap! The office won't close till seven! I need to go!" Adam rushed out. "I'll see you all tomorrow!" Adam quickly leave the Eden Mansion.
"Hey, wait! Wait up for me!" Harriet leaves while wearing the maid outfit. Before she leave, "Actually, I'll bring our clothes out of the washer then use my Semblance to run around to dry them out." Harriet used her Semblance to run to the washing room.
Lucifer is still at the basement, looking horrified over the power of Adam's Semblance. He walked up to the feel the wall then turned to try to replicate the power with his Hellfire Semblance. Launching a huge fireball onto the opposite end, but only a burned mark but not even close to Adam's Semblance.
Lucifer walked back to the stairs, thinking to himself. "How the hell can I beat that power? That's..." Lucifer eye twitch with horror as he looks at the Inferno.
Harriet chases down Adam at a carrier in order to take them back to Mantle. Adam is running up to see Atlas Academy, and smiled that he's gonna compete and hopefully impressed others on what a Faunus can do in a fight.