6 Days after previous events.
Blake sat on a lone rock in the centre of a small clearing, watching idly as leaves drifted and danced their way to the ground from their own tree's, seemingly never ending as if it were snowing. Blake always liked that calmness about the forest, it was somewhere she could sit and read for hours on end and not even realise the time had changed, though right now is not the time for reading.
She's waiting for the signal, the signal from her beloved partner that the target would make its pass, but before this she could only wince at the sudden headache, she'd been getting them a lot recently and they annoyed her to no end. Her thoughts were dragged back to reality as a voice started. "Blake, are you okay?" She turned to see Adam, with his usual monotone and seemingly uncaring expression. Though he always cared, right? Otherwise he wouldn't ask, right? She thought to herself.
"Blake." Adam asked again, this time a little more forceful. She shook her head and mentally berated herself for thinking such things. "I'm fine." She tried to keep her tone steady and it seemed to work as Adam nodded. "Where's Sparrow?" He asked to which Blake then looked around realising that he to should be here. "I'm here." a deep'ish teenage like voice rung from behind a set of tree's, the 18 year old black eye'd and green haired boy stepped into the clearing with the other two.
He wears a white buttoned up shirt with a waistcoat that has a red front with a set of lighter red swirling patterns travelling around the front and black back of the stylish waistcoat, the shirt folding up not so neatly at his elbows. His overly spiky green hair and large bat ears hidden by a black Fedora with a white band traveling around the lip of the Fedora itself, a brown bird of prey feather being glued to the Fedora by the band. His shirt is untucked from his blue denim jeans with two chains acting as a belt, his blue and white sneakers looking oddly out of place on the guy.
He takes a pair of black rimmed green aviator shades and puts them on, the greatsword on his back starting to ignite, though his clothing and himself seem entirely unaffected by it, his weapon is colossal. In total the sword goes to just over 200 cm in length, the handle being just over 30 cm with a black bandage wrapped around the seemingly black steel the weapon is made out of, there isn't a hand guard and the blade itself is double edged and completely black, besides when Dust is infused with it, right now Wind dust is infused with the blade leaving a white intricate pattern along the blade though it still looks like it's aflame, the look of the blade would make anyone think that this weapon is forged a millenia ago.
"You're late." Adam gave a scolding look with a monotone voice eliciting the now named Sparrow to shrug with a smile on his face. "Let's get going, we've got work to do." He then said in a no nonsense tone. At this they each started sprinting in a certain direction, each of them appearing as blurs to the human eye, they slide down the hill as their target makes its pass, at the very last moment they each leapt on top of the train. As they land Adam starts dishing out orders. "Sparrow, move further up, Blake stay close to me." At this the two nod before Sparrow sends Blake a look which she knows the reason for, her headache returning slightly, her expression hardening to cope with the pain.
Sparrow runs further up the train eventually landing next to a fully black armoured individual without a trace of skin showing, just a neon green reflective visor showing his own glasses and eyes. "Are they on board?" The armoured man asks with a deep computerised voice. His armour is completely streamlined and fits to the body perfectly, the material being flexible enough to move freely in yet seems durable and resistant to most forms of weapons fire, the black material under the armour seems to blend in with the rest of the armour. If in the dark the armour would make the user almost completely invisible, the only thing that would show colour would be the visor, the same neon green as Sparrows glasses, the helmet shapes around the head and the mouth piece would remind someone of a set of mandibles."Yeah they're just walking into the welcoming party now. Soooo, I hear one of the boss boys is coming out to play-" "I'm here to evaluate you." A deep grizzled voice interrupted over the conversation through the comm.
"Suit up Sparrow, your targets are making mince meat out of the test we set up, Advent recite what you should've memorised by now." Sparrow grunts as a pod reveals itself from camouflage next to him, opening up and revealing a suit of armour completely different to the one now revealed to be named Advent and started putting it on. Whereas Advents armour appears to be used more for lightweight stealth scenarios, Sparrows appears to be...just a little different (sarcasm*). The design appears to be more for protection in appearance, the parts of the armour on the limbs and chest being more blocky and thick rather than streamlined, the design offering as much protection as possible whilst allowing perfect movement. The helmet still shapes to the head but keeps to the thickness of the rest of the armour, though it would be confusing as to where the eyes are as there doesn't seem to be a visor at all, just an armour plate and a tiny dot.
"Respectfully sir, but shouldn't we be preparing for the targets?" Advents deep computerised voice asked. "Agent it is not your place to ask but rather to obey your orders, callsign is Bain by the way." The now revealed to be Bain retaliated forcefully, Advent looked over to Sparrow who just shrugged at him before Advent began.
"Our orders are to kill or capture Adam Taurus and return to base with the corpse or unconscious target." Advent recited leading Bain to audibly chuckle. "I see you've been following the radio silence orders, your overall objective parameters have changed. Your orders are to-" Bain was suddenly interrupted with someone speaking to him in the background on his end of the conversation. "Sir?" Advent asked. "Orders will be put up on screen now, targets have moved on to the train car outside, Bain out." As he says this the two fully armed and armoured individuals hear weapons discharging outside and their orders appear on screen.
Advent simply hummed whilst Sparrow remained deathly silent, Advent looked towards Sparrow, slight concern behind his green gaze. "Sparrow." His reaction was to silently look towards partner. "Copacetic?" Advent asked. "Yes." Sparrow replied, his voice exactly the same deep and jumbled computerised voice now that he's fully armoured.
They waited for what seemed like a few tense hours to eventually hear the door behind them crash open, they both turned their heads to the door that flies past them slightly, entering camouflage mode. Adam opened a crate and smirked at the contents, which disappeared sooner than it came to be. "Perfect." He turns his head to Blake. "Move up to the next car." Blake hesitates. "What about the crew members?" Adam replies simply. "What about them." At this they hear the whirring of machinery and a Spider Droid drops from the ceiling, what they didn't hear however is Advents announcement of: "Dropping Test #2" Before the two Agents sneaked outside to watch how they would react to the brand new threat, evaluate the enemies capabilities before taking them on.
"Adam..." Blake says slightly worried as Adam moves to engage the massive robot, only to have to dodge bolts of energy that are being fired at him, Blake also dashes to engage the new enemy but stumbles a little as the concussive blasts affects her balance making it so that when she jumped to strike the hulking machine it simply swatted her away like an annoying fly eliciting a yelp from her as she lands on her back, the headache forming in the back of her mind again. As she manages to get her bearings and at least get to her hands and knee's, Adam slices at the robot once more only for it to swat him away to as the machine fires more rounds at him he simply dodges them with ease. "Don't try a direct approach in an enclosed space with an enemy that's faster than you are." Sparrow whispered to himself unknowingly causing Advent to smirk at the memory that brought up.
As the Spider Droid is about to crush Blake, Adam dives in and picks her up bridal style and jumps backwards to safety before the Droid could crush them both. He placed Blake on her feet again eliciting Blake to nod her thanks to him before saying. "We need to get out of here." As she says this however the guns on the Spider Droid joined together and charged up to fire, the Agents standing outside the door simply looked up from the camera feed to the door, the last words both of them heard before they were launched to the other side of the train car were. "Oh shit." from Sparrow.
Adam and Blake however were blown into the open space of the car the Agents currently occupied. Sparrow groaned and by the time he got up and stretched, helping up Advent they looked over to the spider droid and knew that it wouldn't last long, so as it fired a beam of energy at Adam, charging his semblance, Advent kicked Blake next to him, the Spider Droid now disintegrating not all that much different from how a Grimm would, Adam helped up Blake who's still holding her gut from the blow, they both turned to see two figures seemingly appear from nothing, one with a giant greatsword and one with yellow lightning arching off its body.
"More Androids?" Adam asks as he charges at one of them only for each blow to be blocked by a green bladed machete, as each strike grew faster they were eventually brought to a clash of blades. "Adam Taurus, disappointing." At this Adams eye's slightly widened before he's uppercutted and kicked back next to a now slightly worried Blake with a much more worse headache. What are you?... She thought. "You shall soon find out." The one with the greatsword answered as he draws his sword and charges.
Blake backflips as the giant sword destroys her last location, she starts firing at the armoured being but it reflects each bullet with a twirl of its blade, sepperating the greatsword into halves now having two one handed longswords instead of a colossal sword. Her headache is steadily becoming a migraine, Adam being launched over its head, the other armoured one soon following. "Adam, what do we do?" He didn't have time to answer as they both have to dodge one giant blade, but at this they start attacking its wielder with as many rapid strikes as possible before he can move, forcing him to let his armour take each blow, he seemed to be unscathed and after a couple of brief seconds Blake started getting attacked by a very fast Machete wielder, like, Really fast.
Blake could barely manage to block each blow coming her direction, or any direction at that, and then her migraine hit much harder than it could before and she soon found herself freezing up from loss of stamina and sheer pain. She fell to her knees and looked dizzily up into the green visor of a cold and uncaring machine as it pressed the blade to her forehead. "Advent...It's my duty..." A voice said from behind him eliciting him to lower the blade from her head and for the thing named 'Advent' to step to the side revealing the other...thing.
Her heart and breathing started to slow as she suddenly felt calmer, almost, accepting. Everything around her seemed to drain out, even the shouts of Adam in the background gradually faded away as she started seeing the train car she was on get evermore distant, she started to feel a wet patch in her shoulder, making her touch there to reveal blood in the form of a bullet wound, even though she heard no gun go off, she didn't feel her Aura disappear, she felt no pain, just, calm.
She passed out in a few minutes, back on the other train car however Adam is in sheer rage, the two Androids have Overpowered them and Blake is gone! GONE! At those words his mind simply stopped, the headache started to set in as he could feel his blood boil, the outlines of his eyesight turn a hazy blood red, every muscle in his body burned and pulsed with his heartbeat. You Failed. Blake. Is. Dead.
The words filled his mind in whispers of many different voices of different people, each with an accusatory tone that gradually grew louder and louder in his head and eventually...he just...snapped. Gripping his mask he screamed as loud as he could before he looked around for the armoured men that had attacked them and caused Blakes death. They simply turned to him as he charged, his strike towards the smaller one being blocked easily and then he was pushed back. "Remember our orders." The larger one spoke in a seemingly robotic tone. At this the smaller one made no noise or even a gesture to acknowledge that he'd even heard him, what happened next didn't exactly surprise Adam but to say the least it was Shocking.
The smaller one started to launch yellow lightning at Adam only for him to draw his blade and constantly adsorb the attack, but this left him vulnerable to something else. Sparrow drew a pistol from a hidden pocket and emptied the entire clip into Adams gut, the final bullet causing him to stumble, as he did this Advent stopped throwing lightning at him. Adam smirked and tried to activate his Semblance, but he felt no build up in power, no euphoric feelings of vengeance would occur. "What..." He said before he looked at himself and noticed the wet patch in his gut, his Aura is down.
He looked back up to the odd androids but they'd seemingly disappeared into the wind. Seemingly..."Praefectus this is Exercitus Duo, Advent, mission parameters completed, out." Advent announced into his comm unit, it took a few seconds for them to respond. "Affirmative Advent, orders are to go to a rally point tomorrow at 18:00 hours local time, Bain over and out." Bain announced in a monotone as the information is uploaded to the pairs suit computer. "Copy that sir, will lay low until then. Advent over and out." As he says this he looks over to Sparrow, a look of concern growing behind his almost bullet proof helmet. Advent held no quarrel with the girl but he knew Sparrow did, Adam however is a whole different story, it's why he instantly volunteered for this mission, however, the mission changed, it annoyed him to no end but his annoyance with Command was overridden by his concern for the mental state of his younger friend.
Sparrow is simply standing there staring at Adam as he rages and cries to himself, the effects of a psychopathic state starting to enshroud his mind, it made Sparrow sick on the inside, but orders were orders, what was done had its intended effect and now they would just play the waiting game. Sparrow however could only find worry in his heart, worry that he'd be caught out for giving Blake a flesh wound rather than actually killing her, same with Adam, worried that she might bleed out before the tranquilizers wore off. The only thing he could do, is Hope. He took his helmet off to allow the sweat on his face an extra layer of wind to cool his face, luckily enough these suits have aircon inside, whoever designed these is a mastermind and obviously knows what it's like to live in these suits.
They both made sure Adam made it back to his base of operations before going their separate ways and disappearing into thin air. Down in Patch however two people are very, Very unhappy.
"You cheated!" Ruby cried. "I can't cheat it's a console game!" L responded as Qrow just sighed with a smile in the background. "Can't you two just call it a draw?" He asked. "NO!" The two both shouted in unison eliciting Qrow to raise his hands in surrender and walk off to the kitchen, likely to refill his whiskey bottle. It'd been two hours and both of them are still unable to get a clear victory on this God forsaken game, both of them have won hundreds of victories against each other but they were still neck and neck. Fortunately enough the battle between video game Gods would be interrupted by a simple conversation that would change the very course of the future, though some things are bound to happen simply because Fate does not like it when things don't go according to plan, which is why it confused L that Fate married Karma. She's always been the 'make it up as you go along' sort of person. But that's a topic for later.
L's scroll rang and he growled at the number. "You win by forfeit." At this Ruby just froze as L walked off, one of Ruby's eyes twitching. This battle is not over Brother. Ruby thought before the door closed, L walked out of Ruby's room, then walked downstairs and out the back door, answering the phone. "Fade." He answered with a monotone. "Fade, it's Bain, the pair out on Operation Psychosis have reported a success." At this L's eyes narrowed before he closed them and searched for a certain Psi signal, he found it, but it had grown stronger rather than turning a grey color, he clenched a fist in gradually growing anger.
"Did the Operation have the intended effect?" He asked, no emotion sounding through his voice. "Affirmative, we may now move on to stage two." At this L let out a half sigh half growl. "Change meet up co-ordinates tomorrow, tell them to go to the base in the White Cliffs, I wish to speak to them personally." He said with ever growing anger laced in his voice. "Yes sir, might I ask what is bothering you, sir?" There was a pause for a few seconds. "One of them didn't quiet do as he was told, I will correct this." He answered before hanging up.
He gradually put his scroll away and stood there for a few seconds, then he looked up letting out a blinding and incredibly loud beam of red shift energy for a few seconds straight before stopping, Qrow and Ruby coming straight outside to see what was going on since Yang was out. "Leanardo! You okay bud?" Qrow asked, not wanting to upset him anymore than he currently is since his skin is literally steaming. Bad sign if he had to guess. "Yes. Just need to vent a little." He responds as he sits down in a cross legged position, Ruby proceeding to hug his arm as she sits next to him.
L exhaled a bit and smiled a little as he roughed up her hair a bit earning him a childish pout. "Stahp it." He chuckled to himself as he poked her nose. "Boop." He said making her smile and shake her head. "You're a child you know that?" Ruby said. "Says the 14 year old." L quipped making Ruby's pout intensify. "14 going on 15! Besides, I drink milk!" He couldn't help but snicker to himself as she said that eliciting Ruby to smile internally now that her mission was accomplished, make her big brother smile, it's what she loved to do, especially since he's very vulnerable to negativity, it puts him in a cold and uncaring mind set.
As L calmed down he put his hands together and closed his eyes, concentrating solely on one person on Remnant, his body giving off a purple ethereal glow, he opened his hands into a curved palm shape revealing a glowing white orb. Ruby's eyes widened and she woahed at it before attempting to poke it only for L to smack her hand away. "Owwww." Ruby rubbed her hand and pouted. "Don't touch it you'll make it very difficult to concentrate." L said with a slight amused smile, eyes now opening revealing a pair of glowing purple reptile eyes, he smirks as he finds what he's looking for.
10 Minutes earlier, a long way away.
Blake opens her eyes, fluttering her eyelids to make the blurriness go away, eventually her body started to obey her commands though everything has pins and needles. She gradually began to get onto her knees, her head felt like a truck just crashed into a bullet train head on and she was the truck. She checked herself to find a bullet sticking out of her shoulder and a few bruises, she removed the bullet to find the wound isn't bleeding anymore, as a matter of fact it barely seemed to pierce the skin, enough to make it bleed a little but not that much.
Ignoring the pain, she looked around and found that the train she's on is still moving, she grabs Gambol Shroud and jumps into the treeline, she didn't know where to go, so she just started walking, after a few minutes of walking and a disintegrating Ursa later she found herself with the same large headache as before, she tried to fight it but it only drilled into her head harder causing more pain, she growled and gritted her teeth as the headache set in and intensified. She started to hear the voices, whispers that belong to many different people of different genders, each of them whispering things that she either could not hear or understand, but they're there and they're annoying. Like when Sparrow uses a laser pointer to get her attention.
She shook her head but the whispers remained, eventually however a voice stood out from the rest, it's male and sounded young but filled with confidence, or is that experience? "Blake Belladonna...White Fang Lieutenant? tsk tsk tsk." He scolded. "You're just a voice in my head..." Blake tried to reassure herself. "Honestly just from this information I should make your heart go so fast it explodes." "You don't exist." "But I won't, because you and I, we have the same goal, you were already thinking about leaving." At this Blakes eyes widened as everything she could see faded to black.
"I find this setting to be incredibly ironic, but nevertheless it's my favourite colour besides red...though everything besides purple is a colour I like." The male voice stated. Blake looked everywhere for the source of the voice, a source of light, or anything really, but all she could see is a void of black. "What do you want?" She asked as she closes her eyes, only to find no difference to the black void, she started to become confused and dizzy as she felt no physical difference when she closed her eyes making everything feel unnatural.
"Straight to the point? No denying my existence anymore? Very well then..." The voice soon began to take form in front of her eyes in the shape of a boy maybe a month or two older than herself, he has rough ginger hair and sharp facial features. He wears a black formal business suit with a fluorescent green tie, white gloves and blue and white sneakers which reminded her of a friend that was also on the train, she wondered of his condition for a split second before a predatory gaze fell on her.
The thing that stood out most and drove fear into her heart is his eyes, solidifying that he could be a Faunus, if so, the eyes are the only visible traits. They're a deep, glowing purple, reptile in nature, when they look at you, you can't help but stare until they leave. She could hear the clacking of his shoes as if he were walking on a marble floor, he paused in front of her. "My name is Fade, but you may call me L for the time being, so long as we're alone when you call me that anyway." He offered a hand which Blake hesitantly took.
He brushed his nose just after, placing his hands behind him in a very formal manner. "I'm here to help you, in a few days time your mind and body will completely shut down, I can prevent this but I need you to come to me." Blakes eyes narrowed slightly in suspicion, L as he called himself, just rolled his eyes. "Yes I know it all sounds hard to believe but trust me that's a part of my Semblance." He explained, adopting a slightly annoyed expression, eliciting Blake to raise an eyebrow. He sighs before saying in an exasperating tone. "I get it alot..." "I...can tell." Blake said in a half sympathetic half confused tone.
"Where am I?" Blake asks. "Oh, right, you're standing in the middle of the Forever Fall forest, what you're perceiving right now is a blank space in your mind I created for the purpose of this meeting." He explained as if it's an everyday thing, but Blake just decided to let it go for now. "Where are you and why are you helping me?" Blake then asked leading the boy to smile easy. "Meet me at the White Cliffs, I'll give your mind a subconscious instinct on directions and as to why I'm helping you? Well...that's slightly difficult to explain...your condition that is going to kill you will give you a gift if you survive and it can be lethal to others without training." He sighs. "I just want to help, can I be a good guy without my intentions being questioned, please?" He sounds sincere atleast, but a part of her instincts still say not to trust him.
She takes a deep breath before responding. "Okay." He smiles warmly. "Wonderful, I'll see you when you get here...Good luck, Blake." He nods respectfully eliciting her to do so back before the ambers, reds and browns gradually come back to form the world again as she last saw it before...that...and now the headache has stopped, or atleast it feels dulled as she does feel a slight pressure in her skull, she exhaled heavily and renewed her will before she started walking. "What is happening to me?" (She has had a bit of a day hasn't she?)
L has been sat there for more than a few minutes, but he eventually came around back to the real world. "You okay?" Ruby asked in her usual tone of curiosity and worry. He simply smiled and roughed up her hair again. "I'll be fine." he says as he gives Ruby the white orb she tried to touch earlier, it felt weird in her hands causing her face to switch to something between awe and puzzlement as she sat there staring at the orb shaped in a perfect sphere.
L stood up and started to walk back into the house, Qrow staring at him slight concern as he did so. "What are you up to?..." Qrow silently murmured to himself. As L stepped inside the house he took out his scroll and typed in the number of Yangs scroll putting the device to his ear, pushing down on his left index finger with his thumb eliciting a pop and a crack as his knuckle is crushed, but his unique biology makes the regeneration of the damaged bone and muscle tissue easy to repair as evident as he didn't even bleed.
EVENTUALLY he could hear the reply to his phone call. "Hey L, miss big sister Yang already?" L rolled his eyes with a smirk. "God yes, not enough explosions. Though I'm older than you not only by age but mentally to." L quipped eliciting a short laugh from Yang. "You know it! So, I'm guessing this isn't a 'hi, how are you?' kind of call?" Yang asked correctly. "Unfortunately not, while you're in Vale with your 'friends' do you have any 'friends' that can get you information? Price isn't a worry, I can pay for everything." He asks with a complete business voice.
"Suuuuure...whaaat's it for?" Yang asked in a childishly curious tone. "How did I know you were going to ask that?..." "Come ooonnn, I won't tell anybody!" "Yang..." "I'll admit defeat in Alive or Dead." "No deal." "Waaat? Must be serious then." "Just, show whoever your guy is the picture I'm about to send you." As he says this Yang receives a picture of a girl that in her opinion is cute. "Awwww she's so cute! This is kinda creepy if you like her you know that right?..." "Yang, it's not like that, this is business." Yang put on a deep voice and a poor impersonation of his accent. "I'm Leanardo Stason, I'm in a businessy moody pants and I want to be creepy and look up the face of a cute gir-ooo donuts." L frowned and sighed in slight frustration, Yang can be hard to work with when she's obviously had sugar, or anything in general, but atleast you can actually get somewhere in the end, not at all like Ruby.
"Just...do it...please..." He says in a slightly exasperated tone. "Sure! I'll have a looksee tonight." At this he sighed in relief. "Thank you..." "No problem, anything for my little bro!" He smiled. "Yang?" "Yeeeeees?" "Try not to make anything go bang, crash, zoom or throw anything to the moon, its had enough problems." He says with a smile. "No promises on the Yang, bash or zoom parts." She quipped in return, rolling his eyes. Little did he know that all three of what she just said would be occurring in that order.
Armour configurations. - Infiltrator. - The Infiltrator spec is meant for carrying only what you need and shedding everything else that isn't needed. The suits main feature is its optical camouflage system and symbiosis with Enhanced individuals, the most prominent usage is, obviously, Infiltration and Counter Intelligence. Though not exactly suitable for front line combat, it is outfitted with enough armour for small skirmishes in case the Operator is caught, the suits lightweight and easily modifiable system has made it a surprisingly popular choice for Operators who's Semblance relates to speed/control or Enhanced Operators who prefer not to take hits but rather to take out enemies from a distance or very close quarters combat.
Armour configurations. - Surveillance/Specialist. - These armour configurations are virtually identical though one has more emphasis on stealth whereas the other is meant for front line combat, one thing is for certain though, these are made for Combat Engineers, Scouts and Reconnaissance. The most interesting feature is the lack of visor which has been replaced by thousands of micro cameras in the helmet itself underneath the armour to prevent damage, the user can also connect to satellites in orbit to allow the quick scanning of an area and provide allies with valuable intelligence, thanks to the fact the Operator uses the cameras to see they can also modify the distance at which they see and allows for more attention to detail when working on a project or fixing something. The armour comes with an enhanced supercomputer for hacking anything that needs to be hacked at a 15 meter radius, though this takes up a lot of power from the Fusion reactor buried inside the armour which can resist almost all but the most deadly infantry weapons and ammo types.
Hey guys, we're sorry for the shorter chapter but we've got Timorems mothers wedding coming up this weekend and now our workload will increase exponentially to the point I want to smash my face into my keyboard because more and more people are resigning, don't blame them at all. So I'll do my best to try to do some writing in our free time though I'll likely have to put one or more stories on hiatus for the time being and if you haven't already be sure to check out the SWTOR/RWBY crossover on my profile, the story itself is not made by me or L, in fact the concept was made by Billmastergamin115, he will post his perspective on the story which will likely just be different authors notes, on Wattpad! (Billmaster115) We made an agreement to write half each and contribute to how the story is written and what happens, we didn't come up with the concept, I just helped create a few characters and their respective designs.
Polls for L's pairing: Weiss Schnee - 1. Everyone else - Zero. It's neck and neck. (sarcasm.*) Please be sure to go to my profile for the pole and put down who you think L should be paired with because it's entertaining to watch his reaction, plz, it feeds mah mojo and puts a smile on my face like everytime Taylor says "Train go Boom." (I'm sensing a new meme.) You can vote twice because I'm nice like that.
Sooooo yeah, that's it for now and I'll see you guys in the next Chapter, Bai!
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