I huffed to myself while leaning against a wall. I arrived a little late for lunch, so I had to speed eat my bacon, I caught BongBong wearing Schadenfreude's EGO suit and weapon and Gonzales was now sporting the Funeral's suit.
Not completely confident in my... current mood, I didn't approach them. They were just leaving when I came in here, so I just simply let them go. Right now? I was just waiting for Amelia to show up, she apparently is going to Safety with me.
So I was... just standing there in the elevator towards Safety with my eyes closed, extending my empathic sense around, trying to relax. It was making some progress, but even then... I couldn't get 'B' outside my head. I gritted my teeth and started to take deep breaths to calm down.
My eyes snapped open, and I glanced to my left, seeing Mathias with his same black clothing with gold hexagonal motifs, and he's holding a big metal box. He flinched back when my gaze landed on him and I took a deep breath and let my expression soften, "Sorry... been having a bit of a rough day." My shoulders tensed at the wave of amusement I felt way down the hallway. I ignored it, but I saw the clerk from Information just stopping near the door.
He nodded, "Yeah, heard you kinda... well, had an episode." That's putting it bluntly, but yes. I gave him one brief nod while STILL trying to ignore the amused clerk.
My eyes landed on the box and I gave him a curious stare, "So... I know it's E.G.O, but what should I be expecting here?" He thought about it for a moment and seemed genuinely worried for a second.
"Well... it's ALEPH gear, a weapon to be specific. Considering your current mood, I would advise against doing... whatever it is you are doing." I glanced at him once and released a breath of exasperation at the amused clerk that just didn't get the fucking memo.
My eyes moved behind and made eye contact with the clerk, he froze and was about to leave, "You have anything to say to me?" I asked and kicked off the wall while walking towards him. Mathias seemed perturbed by the action.
I was already in front of the clerk. I didn't glance at his tag, that isn't his real name, "I'm not going to do anything, so speak." I demanded, and he seemed to gulp before giving me a smirk.
"You just got a wake-up call... that's all. That's what delusional people get..." I gave him a brief nod, he sounded scared but also eager to see my reaction.
What I gave him was only pity, "Now what? Go do some papers? Maybe ask for a promotion?" He blinked at me, and he took a step back as if to leave. I stomped the floor, and he froze.
"Get going then, I thought you had something important to say... guess I was expecting too much." I saw him flinch back and open his mouth as if to say something, but the moment we made direct eye contact again, he snapped his head away and left through the door. A small whimper leaving his mouth.
Mathias coughed after a brief moment of silence, "That was... intense, not that he didn't deserve it." He glanced at me nervously, and I relaxed while giving him a tired smile.
"I had a... couple of troubling days." In too many ways, I'm including emotional turmoil to that list.
Mathias nodded and opened the box, showing me a big golden gauntlet that's about the size of my torso. The overall style of it looked like abstract paintings using mainly yellow colors with the most used being gold, in the middle of the back of the gauntlet was a golden colored diamond, black metal in the fingers and each joint covered in gold trimming. There is some kind of white cloth covering the surrounding gap to shove my hand in.
I blinked and glanced once at Mathias before shoving my right hand inside of it slowly. Out of pure curiosity, I let the thoughts inside my head, trying to get a glimpse of what to expect from ALEPH ge-
It would not be wrong to engulf the world with your desire, let it flow and consume those t-
I quite literally shoved the thoughts aside while glaring at the gauntlet that INSTANTLY tried to make me disregard everything for... I sighed and kept the walls around my mind up for the time being, not willing to deal with this today, "Yeah... definitely above everything else." I commented while Mathias gave me a nervous glance.
"Yeah, just try not to do that again. Your eyes... well, you looked ready to kill that clerk after you put Gold Rush on. Your gaze snapped behind you in an instant." He commented, and I frowned. That's... not a good sign.
He waved at me while leaving back to the lower floors, and I leaned against the wall again. After about another three minutes, Amelia came through the door still wearing Punishing Bird's full E.G.O set, "Son of a... you look like shit, and also moody. Guess there was a reason you didn't go eat with everyone else." She said with a small frown on her face.
I shrugged while glancing at Gold Rush in my hand, "You could say I'm not in the mood... got some ALEPH gear though, so at least not everything is bad." She gave me a strange look before simply returning to a frown. I THINK I felt worry from her.
"The giant gauntlet? Looks gaudy." I didn't deny that, but I strongly disagre- oh... that's not good. Gonna need to keep an eye on that kind of reactions just in case.
I took a deep breath and let it all out, trying my best to calm myself down, "I'm going to go on a limb and say all ALEPH gear is an over exaggeration of something. This one is... an expression of desire? Probably." I flexed the fingers of the gauntlet that felt weirdly natural to move around, not that different from moving my hands.
Amelia hummed to herself before glancing at me again, "Uh... so are you... maybe we should just go meet our new boss." I gave her a small smile and a nod. I don't know if she noticed I didn't want to talk about it, or she just didn't know how to bring it up, but I'd like to deal with that bag of emotional baggage... later.
Yeah... later.