I am so sorry if this is late. It's just that the past year has been hell and heaven combined, can't say that the updates will be regular, but I'll certainly try.
I'm going to be moving to another school by this academic year so it's going to be contributing to the update times as well. If its for the better or worse, I have yet to see.
Found a cute little twist to explain Tenma's sudden 'OOC-ness' at the end of last chapter.
Thank you to all those who've been patient in waiting and to everyone, my sincere apologies as well.
Here's the next one. Hope you like it!
P.S: Reviews are greatly appreciated.
Somewhere inside the base of operations. SARU stood beside Meia, monitoring what seemed to be Tenma muttering something about showing some arrogant prick whatever he planned to. Meia was confused, shocked even, by Tenma's usage of words.
As Tenma drifted off to sleep, SARU switched the screen to a camera monitoring the soccer practice field outside the headquarters.
"It seems that Tenma's usage of words is quite… colorful. " Meia comments.
"Yes, this only proves that the medicine is doing wonders." SARU replies, which only made Meia even more confused.
"Ah, Fei was the only one who knew about the medicine after all." He motioned to one of the persons manning the computers and said "Open file 1A98. Password: 7D40Q349A" to which the person opened in a matter of seconds
"Now Meia, if you'd kindly look at the screen. " to which she did, trying to comprehend certain names of compounds that were vaguely familiar to her. The only ones that made sense were Tenma's emotional diagnosis showing that he was 'kind, persistent, self-less, and naive'. Although Meia had no idea how the diagnosis was made, she just went along and listened to whatever SARU was going to be explaining.
"The results show that he is too kind for what we have planned, after all. He is going to be the center of all this. " he paused for a moment to get something from his pocket, only to pull out a small rectangular container that had the medicine Meia assumed Tenma was taking.
"So, as another excuse, we gave him the medicine to alleviate the bouts of pain he is experiencing, the same medicine that also contains the compounds needed for his emotional state to slowly transition to what we need. " after SARU explained, Meia finally understood. The medicine practitioners at Feida would have easily made Tenma numb to the pain he was probably experiencing every now and then until he got better, but before she continued on in her thoughts. SARU raised the rectangular box he held and continued
"What he is drinking now is the first stage of the medicine, I hold here the second stage of the five stage process. He will run out of medicine by next week so be sure he already has this by then. " he handed over the box to Meia, who only nodded.
"That is all Meia, you may leave if you want. "SARU said.
"A question, if I may. " Meia said, to which only SARU nodded.
"Why is that you just don't replace all of Tenma's memories of Raimon with other memories that'll make him hate them? "
"Well you see Meia" He started "You can only change the memories, not the emotions, and certainly not the mindset. I will not be erasing his memories since he is going to go back to them, and I won't have his teammates suspecting that something is wrong. "
"I see." Was her only reply. She casually left the room after exchanging nods with SARU.
Meia was almost out the sliding doors before someone who seemed to be from the Intelligence division burst through and nearly knocked her off.
Before she even scolded whoever that was, SARU beat her to the person.
"Why did you just barge in informally, and nearly knocking off one of your superiors in the process?"
"My apologies." And the person turned to Meia and bowed as a sign of apology.
"My erratic behavior cannot be excused, but we have a problem in the past that all of us in the intelligence division agreed to its urgency. "The person said quite normally for someone who seemed to be in trouble earlier.
"Hmm, continue then. " SARU replied and sat down his chair. Meia, curious as to what was the problem, stood at the side of the door, attention on the two speaking a few meters from her.
"Well, it would be better if you see it for youself. " The person grabbed the tablet in his bag and placed it on the table in front of them and a hologram popped out of the screen, the person motioned some commands in the air and the video played, showing two figures sitting on a bench a few meters from a soccer field by the river.
*Video Starts
"So what are we going to do to him? " A blue-haired teen asks the figure beside him, hair and a part of the figure's face covered by the cap and its shadow.
"It would seem too coincidental if we do the same thing we did to Matsukaze. " The figure pauses and thinks for a moment and looks up, purple eyes glistening in the sunset.
"I got it. " The figure says "We won't be able to do something drastic, but at least something convincing enough to be considered a coincidence. "
"And what exactly would that be?" The teen asks.
"Well-"
End
"This is not good." SARU says sternly. "What's the reason behind it? "
"We found out that Shindou Takuto inferred that it was them who were behind Tenma's disappearance, or at least part of it. Shindou is now on the way to Raimon to tell his teammates about it."
"This is bad." SARU says "We have to intervene. Send for Delta, tell him to meet me here in five minutes, earlier if he can. "
"Right away, sir" The person from Feida's Intelligence Division stands and presses his earpiece to call the Intelligence Division and send for Alpha, while walking away towards the door.
SARU leans back on his chairs and closes his eyes, barely noticing that Meia already was seated in front of him.
"I thought you left already." He ays to Meia, eyes still closed.
"What are you going to do." She replies, ignoring the question or statement said by SARU.
"I'm still thinking." He says "We can't just allow the accident to proceed. "
He pauses for a minute, Meia also trying to think of a solution to their current problem.
"Hmm, I think I have a plan." SARU says and stands up to find someone in the room.
"You." He points to someone regulating something inside the base walls, probably the electrical stuff "Contact Intelligence, tell them to also send Retrieval Team 05. I want them here in ten minutes."
"Yes sir." The person replies without question and does what he is told.
SARU sits back down, only to face a baffled Meia.
"What have you thought of that requires Delta here?" she asks "And what is it that you are planning? I only know it involves Matsukaze and that's about it."
"Ah, well you see."
And that ends Chapter Six.
I am really sorry for the long wait, also. Please review.
Till next time!