Here's chapter 102. This chapter takes place at the same time as the previous chapters, but focusing on the characters of Aggretsuko and Beastars.

At Carrier Man Trading Co., Ltd, it had been a quiet day all morning. The work hours had been pretty normal. That same day, the CEO of the company was supervising the new employees to see how they were performing in their work area. Having already worked with them for a week, he wanted to see how good they were at what they did. Everyone had been doing a good job. Even the CEO himself mentioned that if they were interested, once the internship was over, they could stay working there. Hearing that offer made the 7 of them think, if the circumstances were different, they would like to work there, since they made new friends and the environment is quite calm. Even for one of them who was the owner of a company, this accounting job was not as bad as it seemed at first. Although they obviously couldn't say yes, since sooner or later they would have to return to their universe of origin, they still said they would think about it.

Once the CEO left to return to his office, the rest of the morning had passed as normal in the accounting area. Just hearing the sound of employees typing on their computer keyboards or Director Ton doing some calculations with his abacus. Even though he would have already learned to use a computer, he still liked to do calculations the the old way on certain occasions. That made Legoshi, Jack, Collot, Durham, Miguno, Voss and Louis wonder why he was still using a computer if he preferred to do it the other method. What no one knew or had even discovered was the fact that he had a file saved there, which was a photograph of his two daughters when they were still in their teens, which served to relieve him of the stress he might have from time to time. That image of his daughters always made him smile, although when he saw it he tried to be discreet with his emotions so that no one would notice him, he had even managed to hide that from Kabae, who was very gossipy.

It was almost noon. Most of the employees were already waiting for 12 o'clock to go to lunch. That day there would be something special surprise for lunchtime and everyone wanted to know what it was about. The announcement had been made during the morning just when the work day began. What was it? Nobody knew. Retsuko was beginning to wonder if Washimi or Gori knew anything about it, but since they told her when work hours were starting, she couldn't call them to ask if they knew it would be such a surprise. At least there were only 5 minutes left. If there was a wait during half a workday, 5 minutes would be nothing. Already at that time, she had already finished doing her part of the work for the moment, and she had already saved the documents on the computer she was using, now she only had to wait for the clock to show that it was noon.

Just when it was already noon, all the employees turned off their computers so that they wouldn't consume energy while they went to lunch, they got up from their seats and were about to leave their respective workstations when suddenly a siren began to sound in the entire city, which could be heard on all floors of the company quite loudly. There was no one who didn't hear anything, it was heard in the accounting area, in the sales area, in the marketing area, in the administration area, in the CEO's office. There was no place where it could not be heard, everything had gone silent throughout the building. Many with expressions of fear or nervousness, but definitely the atmosphere of peace and tranquility had completely faded. Just a few minutes later the prime minister's voice began to be heard throughout the city.

"This is Prime Minister Oowada. I need everyone in town to stay calm. We have detected a problem and we need to do an evacuation in the city. We need everyone to gather orderly on the streets of the city, where police officers will arrive and lead them to safe areas. Just try to stay in a group, follow the orders of the guards and don't panic. Sonic and the rest of the mobians will take care of all this, so you don't have to worry about anything, everything will be resolved before you know it. That's all and proceed with the instructions I just gave."

Upon hearing that, work to evacuate the building began. The workers left their work areas. They momentarily went to the locker room to get their things out of the lockers. The women didnt change their clothes, because that would delay them leaving the building, so they would go out in their work uniforms and carry their regular clothes in their bags. While the men went to look for their jackets and briefcases. Since they did come to work in their work uniforms. As the evacuation began, all the hallways in all areas began to fill, with all the employees. Some were even calling their loved ones to check that everything was okay in the areas where they could find me. While all this was happening, they began to go down the emergency stairs, since in this type of situation the use of advisors was prohibited.

As they walked down the stairs: The CEO called his father, wife and cousin; Ton had called his wife and daughters on the phone; Anai called his wife Hakumi; Kabae called her husband, three sons and nephew; Tsunoda called her mother; Gori called her father and mother; Washimi called her younger sister Washiko and her ex-husband; Fenneko called her father and mother; Haida called his younger brother Jiro; Retsuko called her father; to confirm that everything was okay with them. Everyone received affirmative answers to that, now we only needed to know how the last group was doing: The children who were together with Haida and Retsuko's other relatives in their house. Retsuko dialed the phone number, at the same time that Haida, Fenneko, Ookami, Komiya, Tsunoda, Manumaru and Resasuke approached her to find out how their children were doing at that time as well, if they were okay or not. Or if they were calm or scared.

When Retsuko's mother answered the video call, it could see that she was walking down one of the streets in the area where her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. She was walking and as she could see her mother was not alone, since she heard several voices in the background, including those of some neighbors in the area. Retsuko quickly asked her mother how was doing in that area. She replied that when the prime minister's message was heard, everyone left their houses quickly. She told her that she, as well as Retsuko's two grandfathers, Retsuko's two grandmothers, Retsuko's aunt, Haida's parents, and the four children are fine. All the adults walked in a kind of circle, so the children were in the middle, so they wouldn't get separated from them. Knowing that, Retsuko told her mother that she had already spoken to her father and that he was also fine, and that she herself along with her co-workers were already going down the stairs to go out of the building. And she assured him that at the moment nothing bad had happened in her area. Seeing that everything was fine for the moment, they said goodbye and closed the calls, promising to go look for each other as soon as they were out of town.

Once she closed the call, Retsuko could notice that Legoshi was walking near her, and had just finished a call as well. He was with Jack, Collot, Durham, Miguno, Voss and Louis. She could hear that he had named two friends named Haru and Juno and that he was telling the other six that they were already in a group that had just formed to evacuate the city. But she also heard something that caught her attention and that was that he mentioned a certain Gouhin who works with the prime minister who told him that the problem that had been detected was that Eggman was heading to the city at that time. Retsuko, upon hearing that, went blank and as she continued walking she approached Legoshi; seeing that, Fenneko, Haida, Komiya, Tsunoda, Manumaru, Resasuke, Anai and Kabae went to her.

"Is what you just said true?" Retsuko said in a low and slightly fearful voice. "Are Eggman on their way to town?" Retsuko asked.

Legoshi raised his ears and tail involuntarily when he heard Retsuko's voice and what he said. He had tried to speak as quietly as possible so that no one would hear him. And when he turned around he saw a group of his colleagues and workers from other areas. This made him feel uncomfortable, since he didn't like being the center of attention. But since they had already heard what he had said, it was not good to tell them a lie considering the situation.

The wolf nodded. "Yes, as I learned, he is on his way, that is why the evacuation was formed. But how close it is to the city is not known."

Retsuko began to feel a sense of fear similar to the one she felt the day she met the Mobians. The feeling of when she thought all was lost when she and the others had been surrounded by Eggman's robots. A feeling she didn't want to experience again. Haida, seeing how his wife was doing, took her hand, although he was afraid too, he had to be a support for Retsuko at that moment, no matter what happened, he wouldn't leave her behind and would at least try to reduce her worries and fears.

For Legoshi this situation was very different from the conflicts he went through years ago, yes they were dangerous things and even Louis himself, Gouhin or even his ex-girlfriend Haru could confirm it, but it was very different. His boyfriend Jack and his friends Collot, Durham, Miguno, Voss and Juno never went through those things, so he was more worried about them. Although since Haru was with Juno at the time, Haru could try to keep her calm and tell her that everything would be okay. He just hoped it wouldn't take them that long to get out of town. And because of Gouhin, knowing him he could get out of this, apart from the fact that he also had to ensure the security of the prime minister. Legoshi, for his part, would have to ensure that his friends and his boyfriend were safe. And seeing how Retsuko was and how her husband, friends and co-workers were trying to make her feel better, Legoshi told her that if something bad were to happen, he would try to defend her and others who need help in this situation. All the support he received from her seemed to make her feel better.

Once outside the building; Retsuko, Fenneko, Haida and Ookami could see Washimi and Gori who were already outside, the CEO was with them, when they saw the group that was leaving the building, they got into it, since it was the last one left to leave of the building. When everyone was gathered, the CEO stood next to Ton, Tsubone and Buffalo. And close to them also Adachi, Arihiko, Bibanuma, Kara, Masashiro, Pen, Warabida and Yokosawa. Rinta and Inui were close, holding hands. Washimi and Gori had approached the group where Retsuko was, and learned from Retsuko what the evacuation was due to. Knowing the situation they were in, they knew that it was best to stay calm, so they simply decided to follow the orders of the officer who was in front of the group and go in the direction he indicated.

Everything was going pretty normally for the next few minutes. For the moment everything was calm. There were no signs of danger at that time, but there was a great feeling of tension in the entire group, Legoshi had his ears raised high to try to catch any sound; Jack, Collot, Durham, Miguno and Voss were doing the same thing at the time. If they detected any unusual sounds, it was possibly that Eggman would approach the area where they were. Seeing what his new colleagues were doing; Fenneko, Haida, Ookami, and Manumaru began to listen carefully to the surrounding sounds to see if they heard anything out of place. But nothing seemed to be heard apart from the murmurs and footsteps of the people who were in their group. At a certain moment they could hear a sound, but they couldn't decipher what it was, since it was very far away.

It was just at that moment that something caught everyone's attention and they saw how a cloud of blue dust began to fall across the city. They didn't know where it came from, but it was falling on the entire city. Everyone was quite incredulous at what they saw before their eyes, since they had never seen a situation like this. But feelings of disbelief were heard when many of those in the group began to fall to the ground with a severe headache. Retsuko, Gori, Komiya, Tsunoda and Resasuke (in their own way) went into a state of panic when they saw how Fenneko, Haida, Ookami, Washimi and Manumaru were. Louis had the same reaction when he saw Legoshi, Jack, Collot, Durham, Miguno and Voss. Rinta seeing Inui. The CEO, Ton and Buffalo seeing Tsubone. Adachi, Arihiko, Bibanuma, Masashiro and Warabida seeing Kara, Pen and Yokosawa.

But fear entered everyone when they stood up again looking at the others with narrowed eyes, their fur was standing on end (with the exception of Washimi, Tsubone, Pen and Yokosawa), their fangs and claws were exposed (again with exception of Washimi and Tsubone, Pen and Yokosawa). Retsuko had never seen her husband and her friends like this; Gori had never seen any of her friends like that either; Resasuke neither did her husband; Rinta when he sees his girlfriend; o Ton seeing his old friend Tsubone in that state. Even Louis though he had seen Legoshi in wild situations before, he was surprised, even seeing Jack, and Legoshi's other friends look like wild beasts. The situation of evacuating the city definitely became worse for everyone in that group and in the entire city.

So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.