A/N : Yo, I'm back.

I was playing game and preparing for my exams that will happen two weeks after my vacation ends.

They are my final exams for the entirety of my school, so it's kind of important lol.

Anyway, I'm going to write this week, I both got the inspiration and time to do so, so I will.

Let's see...

Zet4 : Arknights' world is one of the most brutal I read/played. It's really up there in the disturbing and borderline mad stuff. About Emperor's gun, It's a real one, and while he does have ammo for it, he usually doesn't use it or even pull it out. It's practicly just for show.

BaizarKaiser : Ch'en will still fight for 'Justice' no matter what Dante do, it's just in her nature. What he is trying to show her is that 'Justice' has limits, and that she doesn't have to be afraid to simply go for the kill if need be.

Well then, let's go !


Well, I guess Canon will happen no matter what.

Why am I saying stuff like that ?

Well, it's about the Lupo in front of me, you see.

"..."

She's seen places, considering what kind of face she's making.

She also seems ready to jump at my throat if I show the slightest hint of moving for my sword.

I'm pretty sure she didn't see Fia yet, since she's a little behind me.

"What do you want."

"Sheesh, what happened to you ?"

"... None of your concern."

"Is it really ?"

"Yes."

"You could at least tell me why a wounded Lupo in torn fancy clothes is doing in the middle of the street. You got into a fight ?"

"... Somewhat."

"Not up for conversation, huh."

"Why do you care ?"

"Who knows ?"

"... Do you know my name ?"

That's a good question.

Well, I do know it, but what's she's wondering isn't if I know her first name, its if I know her last name.

Considering the state of her Famiglia, that's understanable.

"Mhm... Well, not really, but I can wager a guess, if you want."

"... Shoot."

"Heh, didn't take you for the joking type."

Confusion, then understanding.

She just told a Sankta to 'Shoot'.

"... Never took the Sankta for jokers."

"No, this one is just an asshole who likes jokes as bad as him."

She widen her eyes at the prescence of Fia who arrives in the alleyway.

"You took your sweet ass time."

"..."

"There was a sweet stall wasn't there ?"

"Shut up."

"Pff... You and Mosti are a pair, you know that ?"

"SHUSH !"

"Alright, alright. So, your name, right ? Mhm... I heard that a Famiglia was wiped out recently, so if there's a wounded Lupo who'se leaving Siracusa, fleeing for her life, and asking that kind of question, I guess that would be it, right ?"

"..."

"Texas, then."

Mhmm... I can't really describe that look in her eyes.

"What. Are you picking up strays again."

"... I do not pick strays."

"How about that time when we were in 12th street, 8 months ago ?"

"That was just a lost kid."

"You spent two month training him."

"He was being bullied ! I just showed him how to kick those dumb kids asses."

"Two month."

"Urgh, sure, sure. I pick up strays."

"Thank you."

Looking proud like that, you want me to make fun of your eating habits...

"Don't get fat eating all of those right ?"

*Click*

She's... Pointing her grenade launcher at me.

"I. Do not. Get Fat."

"Heh."

"I know that face, if you make that joke, I'm taking the shot. This is not a challenge."

"Fine. Back towards the little wolf."

She has that distant look of 'What the hell am I watching.'.'

"Here, follow us."

"Urgh, you sure of that ?"

"Yep."

"... Another one of your 'sight' ?"

"Ehhh, It would've happen anyway."

"*sigh*, fine. Here, come with us."

"What do you mean by 'sight' ?"

"Mhm, I got good instinct."

"... Alright."

And with that, we're off.


After another hour, we found Mosti.

And this just confirm my suspicion on the fact that the event I saw just finds a way to happen no matter what.

It's both a good and bad thing, good as in I actually know the accurate outcome of everything that's going to happen, and bad as in I can't change said outcome no matter what I do.

"So, where did you find a talking penguin ?"

"I'm the Emperor damnit !"

"Well, you see, I was walking on the streets, and he tried to recruit me into his logistics company."

"Wow, what company ?"

"Penguin Logistics."

"Well, this is as good of an opportunity as ever."

"You know them ?"

"Not really, but kinda."

"That doesn't help at all."

"Eh, you should know what I mean."

And with this, she realized what I meant.

"Oh, I see. Yeah, so we should ?"

"Yep. Let's see where this will lead us."

"Sure, I'll follow you, like I told you."

And with that, the first day in Lungmen came to an end.


The following months came and went.

With the begining of Penguin Logistics, the company grew slightly in size thanks to the arrival of Croissant, two month later.

As for Ch'en, she was trained in the art of killing, and even had to take a life herself, even if that guy was a crimminal that was going to be executed anyway.

It allowed her to steel herself ready for the comming years, after she would graduate from the Victorian Guard School.

Speeking of which, she came back to it in the begining of the second month. As her vacation was over.

All in all, this was a period of calm.

Until...

"Hey, I'm going to need to head out for a bit, I won't be there for a while too."

"Huh ? Why ? You need to do a express delivery, Dante ?"

"No, I'm taking my paid leave for a week, I've got something to do, Fia."

"Then, tell us where you're going."

"Complicated, but essentially, it's related to the Chalice."

"Chalice ..? Oh, that thing ? You still have it ?"

"Yeah, I need to do something with it."

"... And we can't come why ?"

"I'll be moving fast, it'll be annoying to transport someone else..."

"Simply say you need to do some secret stuff instead of that kind of obvious excuses !"

"Heh, why would I do that when I have you to perfectly translate what I say ?"

"Shut up and leave, asshole !"

"Yep, yep, I'll be leaving now~. Tell Mosti where I'm headed !"

"Sure, now go."

And with that, I take off.


Coast of Iberia, two days later.


The goal of going to Iberia's coast was to find a way to make contact with the Aegirian.

The best case scenario would have been to simply find Ulpian and manage to convince him of my plans.

Which, I highly doubt wouldve worked.

Because of this, I thought of a better plan.

Step one, find Laurentina that's currently being held inside of one of the abyssal church. Shouldn't be hard because of my status as a Sankta and my identification paper that still belongs to a high rank in the Notarial hall.

Step two, with Laurentina, find Skadi and convice both too join my rag tag team.

Step three, get Tahlula and her growing team in Ursus out of there.

Step four, profit.

Well, to start this whole domino chain I need to find the correct church that's holding Laurentina, but I have a couple of hints at where it could be from her files.

One of those is the person who is running that particular church, wich should help immensly.

...

Being capable of flight, too, really helps.

Since I found the correct one just after two days of searching for it.

"Ah, what might a Sankta like yourself in our humble church ? I thought the Sankta do not take care of the churchs outside of Laterano ?"

"We don't do much, but we do some kind of checks everyonce in a while, see if everythings going swimingly."

"I... see."

"Then, can you give me a tour ?"

"Of course..."

Considering his face, he probably didn't expect anyone to arrive.

He also seems reluctant to show me his basement, I wonder why...

Welp, let's go with plan C~.

"Are you sure everythings going nicely ? You are avoiding some part of the church as if you were hiding something ?"

Put pressure on them to force their aggression.

"Urgh, you see, this part of the church is under renovation, so it isn't in good condition."

"I see, yet the outside of the church is completly clean, do you mean you took care of the outside part before the inside ?"

"Y-yes..."

"Mhm, I see, I see."

With this, I move towards the restricted area.

"W-wait- !"

*BANG*

*SPLAT*

"... I don't do kindness to people who worship the sea."

Urgh, it's even worse than I thought...

As I enter the underground, I see a lot of people who seemed to be in pain.

They seemed to have experimented on a lot of people before.

The people who suffered those experiment seemed... Alive...

"..."

*BANG BANG BANG*

Rest in peace.

It's way better for you to stop here than to either understand or see what you all became...

...

Well, here she is.

...

She seems... Not broken ?

I guess that would be the best way to explain her apperence.

If it's like this...

"Hey, wake up."

"Hngg... W-who... Who are you ?"

"Who knows."

I start working on her restraint.

"W-what are you- Urgh..."

She seemed to be seriously in pain.

"What experiment did they do on you ?"

"Something about injecting something in my back..."

"Lemme see."

I look at her back.

It's...

Not unsalvagable ..?

It might be painfull and would kill a normal person...

But as a Abyssal hunter, it might be possible...

"Mhm, there is a way to take that thing out, but it would imply you trusting me and even then it would be risky."

"So you can help ..?"

"Yep, you want me to try or not ? I'll stop if I see that's it's impossible."

"... Do it."

"Well then, that was fast."

As she say that, I focus on my arts.

My ability to move thing around as long as it's a 'weapon'.

Well, the term weapon is a very loose term.

...

I'm half tempted to say that my arts qualify everything that I want to qualify as a weapon.

But well, Originium is a weapon.

More like, it can be use and is both the fuel and/or the main component of numerous weapon.

Since that's the case, I can move it.

With Chi Xiao, the problem was 'Intent'.

With Originium it's the opposit.

It's like... Raw energy.

It's really hard to move electricity, even if it's contained.

Same for fire and other forms of energy.

Originium is just like them in this sense.

But it doesn't mean I can't do it, it means it's both annoying and difficult.

As long as it's not a really large ammount...

I can take it out of a body.

"HNGGG..!"

"Hang in there, miss."

If she wasn't a Abyssal Hunter, I wouldn't have offered.

Those guys have crazy regenration, and have high Originium resistance.

Their body is like tempered steel.

Well...

At least it worked out.

Somehow, and somewhat.

I couldn't take it all out, unsurprsingly. But well, if it's just that, her physiology as a Abyssal Hunter would conteract it, so it should be fine.

"Now that this is done... Can you at least tell me who you are ?"

"Well, I guess you can say that I'm your Savior ?"

"... That I already guessed. But what is a Sankta with a black halo is doing here ?"

"Well, I was cleaning up the churches involved with a bad cult."

"... Since when did the Laterano Church ever cared about the Church's outside of it's domain ?"

Urgh, it's not an argument that I can defend...

It's the whole reason why abyssal church uses Laternien Church as smoke screen, they don't really move out of their way to take care of those mess...

"Well, I'm not the type of letting the doctrine of my religion dictate my life."

"..!"

Her face seems surprised ?

Well, who knows.

"So, who are you ?"

"... Laurentina."

"Mkay, you got a place to go back to ?"

"I.."

Let's try it like this...

"I heard of a white hair red eyed girl searching for people like her, might you be one of them ?"

"White hair and red eyes, you say ?"

"Yep, no extra features like horns or tail, just a pretty cool hat."

"... Do you know her name ?"

"Nope, just her general apperence, and that she was a well known mercenary. In such a short time too..."

Please buy it...

"I see... Maybe... Can you bring me to her ?"

Seemed like the bait was good enough for a shark~.

"Alrighty then, let's get move on, it'll be dark soon."

"... Thank you."

With that, I have a reason to searh for Skadi, Gladia and Ulpian.

All of this is perfect.

...

"Alright hold tight."

"T-this is ..?"

"Yeah, I can fly. Get used to it, I can do crazy thing like this."

"I... Alright."

Mmm... A shame.

If I could've killed the Archbishop that was in charged of the expermient and that other Liberi girl, I couldve prevented Under Tides and Stutlfera Navis. Guess that'll be for another day.

"Where are we going ?"

"To the Mercenary Association."

"What ..?"

"It's like a big group of people that sells their skills for money. Whether it be moving stuff around, assasination, gardening, genocide or stuff like delivering package."

"... Some of the thing you said were not like the others."

"Well, it's not like I'm going to sugar coat it and say it's not a den of people who kills people for a living."

"I see."

"We'll be there in... 2 hours ? Their closest base in Iberia is around there..."

"Alright..."

And with that, the way was paved. Let's see where it will lead us.