Chapter 14: Loose ends
15:12 PM (Japan Time), Saturday December the 17th…
"… Really… We haven't made any progress!"
"No… And I'm worried about what they're up to."
Netto and Enzan were walking down a street and talking.
"We need a lead!"
"Obviously. The problem is finding it." Blues calmly replied.
Enzan narrowed his eyes and looked over his right shoulder at a navy blue Toyota van belonging to a security company parked nearby.
"Blues. Is there anyone onboard that?" Enzan asked.
"I can detected four signatures, Enzan – sama." He reported.
"Four…? Damn. I think I know who they are." Netto cursed.
"The Four Heavenly Kings…!"
"Time to cut you lowlife into pieces…!"
"Let this city become swallowed by my sands!"
"Hmpf. Let's hypnotize them and have them kill themselves. That'd be interesting."
"And I'd made sure it's forever recorded!"
Beast Man, Desert Man, Flash Man and Video Man materialized.
"Meijin – san! We need a "Dimensional Area"!" Netto called out.
"San wa iranai! Dimensional Area: Activate!" Meijin replied.
"Synchro Chip, Slot In! CROSS FUSION!"
Both assumed their "Cross Fusion" forms and calmly faced the four opponents surrounding them.
"So? Who goes first?"
"Great Lion Head!"
"Jumping Claw!"
"Neon Light!"
"Wind Cutter!"
"Battle Chip, Wide Blade, Long Blade! Double Slot In!"
"Battle Chip, Wide Sword, Long Sword! Double Slot In!"
"CF" Blues jumped into the air to dodge both Flash Man's and Desert Man's attacks while "CF" Netto ducked and used the two swords so as to block Beast Man's claws and Video Man's tape.
"Go! Beast Man! Slaughter 'em!" Inukai commanded.
"This place is my climax!" Sunayama announced.
"Destroy them!" Saiko commanded.
"I'm gonna get the Pulitzer award!" Narcy laughed.
"Shadow Clone!"
"Needle Cannon!"
Multiple copies of "CF" Miyabi showed up and all attacked Flash Man at the same time, inflicting heavy damage.
"That wasn't enough!"
"CF" Yuriko's projectiles bombarded Desert Man while he was trying to attack "CF" Blues and opened some wounds on his body as well.
"Not yet!"
"CF" Netto kicked Beast Man on the lower jaw and plunged both swords into his chest emblem as a finishing blow.
The attained damage forced him to dematerialize while "CF" Netto jumped towards Video Man.
"Play…!"
"Too slow!"
"CF" Miyabi's clones attacked him from all angles and made some deep cuts to him before "CF" Netto plunged his swords into the chest emblem.
"What the hell!" Inukai cursed.
"Damn it"
Narcy bit his own scarf out of frustration.
"Two down!" "CF" Netto announced.
"Area Steal!"
"CF" Blues warped and maneuvered his swords around to make six cuts to Flash Man's body, who roared and had to escape.
"No way…!" Saiko gasped.
"Flare Needle!"
"CF" Yuriko sliced Desert Man into pieces and he had to flee, too.
"Damn!" Sunayama cursed.
"Run!" Saiko yelled.
"The car won't start!" Inukai yelled.
"What the hell!" Narcy cursed.
"You shall not run, you criminals! I, Knight Man, shall stop you!"
"Great! Knight Man entered the car's computer and has locked it!"
"They were very easy to handle, too. We know them all too well by now."
"And given this morning's talk… I guess there's a reason for that which is roaming close by." "CF" Yuriko muttered.
"Hmpf. Obviously!"
"Guess Twilight powered them down in purpose!"
"Maiden – sama praises you people!" An amused voice rang out.
They looked at the roof and spotted Sidier standing there.
He wore a piece of cloth over his body.
A red mantle covered the upper torso from the front and reached towards the waist from the rear.
The mantle was decorated with two golden diamonds, which were the origin of string made of gray and hollow horizontal diamonds.
It was tall enough to hide his head when seen from behind.
The interior had yellow and gray patterns drawn into its body.
"Damn. Sidier." "CF" Netto cursed.
"Come down and fight!" "CF" Blues challenged.
"Sadly… I'm not allowed to. Just make sure to enjoy what little time you guys have before the calamity descends into the mortal world from the immortal world."
"Hmpf. The Naraku will have you lowlifes' pitiful mantle."
"Not again…!"
"Net Saviors"! You will be unable to stand up to this overwhelmingly powerful enemy! Slowly… And carefully… Crave your own graves!"
Sidier snapped his right hand's fingers and vanished in that flashly manner of leaving diamond patterns on the air.
"Shit." "CF" Yuriko hissed.
"I was itchin' to erase that smug smile from that guy's face!"
"But he wasn't kidding. We'll have to walk with lead feet." Blues warned.
"And we still have a score to settle."
"Sure thing." "CF" Netto replied.
"To ease the tension, let's figure out Higure's next ploy to defeat Stew!"
"You mean Commander Beef! Sheesh!"
15:28 PM (Japan Time)…
"Kagehi – sama! Is Yamikawa – sama absent today?"
"Ya could say so. Sitting here gives me a feeling of authority, right?"
Sidier had returned to the throne room only to find Kagehi sitting on it and writing something down in a notebook.
He kneeled and bowed while she hummed a tune.
"By the way! Sidier… Have you tried taking off your bodysuit?"
"Do excuse me?" He politely asked.
"My, my! It'd seem you haven't realized… Your bodysuit ain't your skin! It's just a suit worn over your skin!" She told him.
"Is that so? I had never thought of it. Kagehi – sama." He slowly replied.
"Saruba! Ya like taboos! Why don't ya let this guy who's just starting his puberty discover his own hide? Guess I'll have to drag you out of the Death Temple by the right ear and bring you here to be punished!"
Sidier didn't move from his pose and was slowly turning white.
"Go to your room and use the mirror. If there is any to begin with!"
"There is not." He admitted.
"There should be one in the closet two doors down yours. Check it out before Bright Man steals it off."
"Yes, ma'am. By thou orders." He confirmed.
"Don't worry! I don't peek in men's rooms as they change. It's not like they ever tried being perverts, either. I always kept all of them at bay by bringing up the music class nightmare."
"I shall… Go to my room. Excuse me."
"Sure. Mirror 'em all!"
"I fail to see the point…"
He checked the storeroom to find a large full-body mirror.
Sidier grabbed it and carried it inside of his room where he leant it on an empty wall and looked at his own body.
"I really don't see the point. It's really possible for me to remove this bodysuit? Wait. She did remove a portion once because Dia Iceburn DS left a lipstick mark on the back of my right shoulder once! Maybe I can try imaging the right forearm should deactivate?" He muttered.
He looked at the right forearm, which turned into data and entered his chest emblem.
The bodysuit continued and covered the rest of his forearm and hand.
"It's true! Let's check the right hand! I want to see if I have real skin on it."
The bodysuit around the right hand faded and Sidier lifted it to have a better look at the hand, which looked like a normal human hand.
He tried articulating the fingers and looked at them.
"Touch I can touch things and feel a sensation! Incredible! What a discovery! Could I even take the chest emblem out? Let's do it step by step! Let's try the helmet next! Helmet: off!"
The helmet faded and his messy black hair spread around his head.
Some flocks did get to cover his eyebrows even.
"I'd never thought that I looked so human under the helmet. I mean… Yamikawa – sama always has his hair loose and all, but… I thought their case was special." He looked intrigued.
He sat down on a chair and rummaged his hair with the right hand while looking at the mirror.
He kept at it before he lowered it and touched his chest emblem.
It came off and Sidier placed it on the desk.
"I guess the data is stored within my "Ultimate Program" and can be brought out whenever I want to." He guessed.
He tried the boots and they came off to reveal that his bodysuit extended and covered both feet as well.
"Obviously…"
He removed the left forearm as well and took out the remaining segments.
He walked around the room and stopped after taking a few steps.
"The ground feels cold, metallic and stable. Maybe I should try my upper torso next?"
The upper torso faded and Sidier looked at his body.
It was rather thin yet it looked somewhat strong.
He frowned and drew closer to the mirror to check something.
"What are these two things here?"
He looked at his nipples and frowned.
He looked at the bookcase and drew an e-book titled Human Body Atlas.
He opened it and looked something up.
"They're called nipples. They don't have much use even for normal human males but they can be used for arousal and they tend to be toyed with… Strange." He read aloud,
He left the e-book on the chair before looking at his lower torso section.
"What could be there? They say this area is very private, so I guess I'll be more relaxed if I lock the door from the inside."
He walked over to it and spun the key on the keyhole twice to lock it up before returning to his position.
"I'll try taking off the arms and legs first…" He decided.
He removed the bodysuit around them and examined his limbs, which were thin yet strong.
"I can't stop being amazed."
He then finally removed the lower body section and ended up naked.
He blushed upon seeing his reflection and fixed his gaze on his stiff cock and balls.
"I better check the guide." He guessed.
He grabbed it up again and looked it up.
"The male reproductive organism! Generally named "penis", it has countless nicknames across the different strands of society! The lower organ contains the "testicles" which generate semen! Semen carries spermatozoids, which allow for human reproduction once they make contact with a female ovule! It's normally used by males to secrete body fluids but can be used for play or interaction! Rubbing it will get it hard and it will eventually release "semen" or "cum"!"
He left the book on the chair and closed his right hand around it to massage and rub that.
He began to look taken on and he kept on rubbing it out of instinct.
His breath began to labor and his cheeks turned re as sight lost focus.
He aimed his now hard cock upwards out of instinct and cried as he released and stained his upper body and face.
He sluggishly tried to walk forward only to collapse in top of his bed and lying face down on it while panting.
"Even while I'm a Navi… I can do that? It felt somewhat… I'm not sure… Relieving… Like all stress suddenly went off! This is why people must wish "private time"… Kagehi – sama must've wanted me to let it out and relax… I should thank Her Grace tomorrow as soon as I wake up to go help Obihiro… And this doesn't taste bad, too…" He muttered while smiling.
He turned around and licked the liquid off his body before sucking his own fingers and enjoying the sensation.
He formed his bodysuit over the waist section before he pulled the covers over him and turned off the light to let blackness fill the room.
15:33 PM (Japan Time)
"I somehow managed to shake her off… I feel bad for Sidier, though, leaving him there…"
Kuroumi sat in a Spartan – like room that only had a bed.
He was reading an e-comic from a pile of other e-comics set near the bed.
"At least these comics are cool…"
"… Great, wonderful, bravo!" A girl giggled.
"Dia Iceburn DS! Did ya put that lipstick there? Queen Virgo DS, my neechan, is pissed off AGAIN!" A guy protested.
"Not again…" He groaned.
"Who knows, Jackie Corvus DS?"
"Not "Jackie"! Jack Corvus DS!"
"John Corvus!"
"This gal…!"
"Did Rocky give you the shock treatment?"
"Spade Magnets DS? Don't mix the guy into this 'cause this whole deal is between you and me."
"Wanna have a hot night with me, boy?"
"You forced me to be your "dominatrix" buddy countless times already for 10 years! I'm running out of patience!" He grumbled.
"Maybe Acid Ace DS – sama would want to have a hot night with you?"
"I've had a lot of 'em too as well! And I don't care! What I care is that you should stop pissing off my neechan because she then gets hostile with me~! Gotcha, Dia?" He complained next.
"Poor Jack! He's the youngest here and the guys and gals pick him to play with his body!"
Kuroumi sighed and rolled his eyes.
"They can take off their armors and they have sex organs, because we updated their bodies! They develop some weird relations! Some are too big or mechanical to care about that so they aren't interested!"
"If only Net Battles were like in PKMN then Flame would beat Ice and you wouldn't be in control of me! One day I'll hack the Temple's VR so that you end up losing to Flame!" He threatened.
"Come anytime, boy!"
"Jeez. Poor Jack. Why do girls around here need to be that pesky and bully-like, picking on the young guys?" He wondered.
"Enough!"
"Yikes! Joker – sama~!"
"Go to your room and meditate! I'm fed up with your attitude!"
"Sheesh! Fine, fine!"
"Sorry, Chief."
"It's not your fault, Jack! That woman is too much of a witch!"
"I heard that, Chief! I'm not a witch! But a shrine maiden!"
"A shrine maiden doesn't go on bullying others!"
"I agree with Jack! Don't think I don't remember all the abuses you've been doing for these 10 years!"
"Yikes! T-that's…!"
"Thought I only cared about battles? Hmmm?"
"N-no, sir! I shall… offer no… excuses!"
"Then go contemplate on your mistakes!"
"Sheesh! Why is it always me!?"
This place grows crazier by the year!
