I spent the next few days dealing with suppressions. Of course it was mostly familiar faces from x-394 standing by hod and netzach. But of course. A couple of people from that world came as well. After suppressing laetitia. The screen showed up showing a sad guy getting rocks thrown at him. He returned to his house.
"Why? Why am I being treated like this? I just wanted to help. That didn't mean to use me as a scapegoat. The experiment going wrong is not my fault…now i'm hated for something i didn't even do…" the guy said as he began to cry in his pillow. He soon found the invitation under his pillow. "The library…anywhere is better than here." the guy said as he got the pen.
"A scapegoat?" angela asked.
"It means to have a sucker you can pin your crime on. Though considering what we saw. Clearly that poor guy got a pretty serious crime pinned on him." roland said.
"That's just not fair…to have your life ruined so some pathetic wretch can save his own face." i said. With anger in my voice. I came to greet the guy.
"Welcome to the library can i have your name?" i asked.
"Z-z-zack. Zack kurayami." zack said.
"Right. My name is jon karakuer tenshi. And i saw that you got the invitation. Normally you would be put through an ordeal to overcome to get books. But we're here to give you a job offer. And don't worry. We believe you when you said it wasn't your fault. Your job is simple. Fight the guests that come here for the books. You get free board. A paycheck. And a cute girl to follow." i said.
"Well…beggars can't be choosers. I'll take it." zack said.
"Alright. Welcome to the floor of literature team zack." i said.
After that. We dealt with the abnormalities on the floor of art. And after defeating alriune. The screen showed up. Though at first i was confused it was black for a bit until i heard a voice.
"Varissa! Varissa! Wake up bounty hunter! Wake up or i'll call the guard! I don't wanna have to drag you out over all this puke!" someone yelled. And we finally got a clear picture. A red haired woman wearing chainmail with a longsword on her back got up. She was in a lobby of a hotel. One that was covered in vomit. Clearly she partied a little hard last night.
"Ugh…feel like shit. Sorry about the mess." she said before handing some money to the guy. "That should handle the clean up duty." varissa said as she left. And then outside she looked into her wallet. And saw only a few dollars was there. "Damn…I'm almost broke. As glad as i am that we're no longer living under the boot of a tyrant…doesn't change the fact that theirs considerably less bounties…which means i either have to join the guard or get a boring 9 to 5 just so i don't go broke…lame." varissa said. A flash in an alleyway appeared varissa investigated and found an envelope on the ground…
"The library huh?...eh, got nothing better to do. Might as well see how this goes." varissa said as she got a pen and signed.
"Great…another alcoholic idiot. Who would give someone like that a sword and chainmail?" angela asked baffled.
"Who would give any of the lowlifes we've seen weapons. Nobody gave her anything. She most likely bought that gear." i said.
"The place she lives in sounds peaceful. Where bounty hunters are struggling to find a criminal to hunt down." angelica said.
"Maybe we can find a way to go there….any place is better than the city." roland said. I went to greet our new hire.
"Greeting's varissa." i said.
"An knight of the tenshi clan? Not what i was expecting to find here. So where's this trial i have to overcome to grab some books?" varissa asked.
"Normally that would be the case. But yours is special. You're not a guest. You're a recruit. As a bounty hunter that means you have skills in fighting and we could use that. In exchange for handling the guests. You'll get a free room and paid handsomely for every guest to deal with. Not to mention all the alcohol you could want on your floor, The floor of art. Run by netzach." i said.
"Is this netzach cute?" varissa asked.
"I can't really answer that considering i don't know your taste in men." i replied.
"Meh…i'll see it for myself…still a fat paycheck. All the beer i want, free room and board…and all i gotta do is slay the chumps who come here for the books…yeah I can do that. Where do i sign?" varissa asked.
"You don't sign anything, just head to the floor of art. It's green. Can't miss it." i said. And so varissa began her new job.
One day. I headed to the floor of literature and found angela and hod having an argument. I approached.
"This is clearly different from the past." angela yelled. Everything once again went black as i saw the memories…i saw how angela was forced to to accelerate the sephirah's suffering to be this heartless machine as dictated by the script. She tried to be helpful. Try to ease everyone's pain. Make things better like i did. But unlike me. She didn't have the power to delete that fucking script….over 50.000 loops of pure hell.
"Angela…how long have you endured this solitude?" hod asked.
"This is horrible…" roland said…guess even someone like roland who suffered the abuse of the city enough….even he can see that angela's agony is miles beyond anything he suffered.
"Ironic…here i am killing people…yet hoping to be a better person…i had my chance at freedom. Yet i threw it away…for this…no matter what i do. I'll never get to reach what i want." angela said. She turned into some bizarre bird version of herself…a version with no hope.
And after beating that. The next form was her wearing laetitia's dress. Would be cute if not for the eyeballs. And after that. The next form was a black dress and sword with the red eyes of spider bud all over it. Including a metal helmet that had three red eyes on it.
The next form was terrifying. Her eyes were black and red like a demon's even wearing a red coat with bone protrusions. Blood all over her. The final one was the one i dreaded. Today's shy look. And it was as disturbing as i thought it would be. An dress made from flesh with people's faces protruding from it. A blood soaked veil hiding her face.
After fighting our way through angela's several forms. A bright light flashed showing another flashback…it was my first day at facility x-394. And i deleted the script. Something i wasn't allowed to do. But i did it anyway. Because that script was inhuman to me…besides I didn't need it did i?
"The first day you showed up…and you already freed me from one of my many torments…because of you…I was able to open my eyes again. You gave me that strength." angela said as everything returned to normal.
"Angela, to move forward, you need to rely on yourself. Not anyone or anyone else…jon gave you that strength. But it's up to you to make that strength enough to weather the storm." hod said.
"I won't always be around to have your back angela. I'll be there when you need me as much as I can. But someday you have to stand on your own two feet. But i'll always support all of you the best I can.
"You're right….i'm trying desperately for a place to call home…but i already found it, and i've been blinding myself to that…it's not easy to forget all those countless years of pain…i've been in the dark for so long…" angela said.
"We all have…jon pulled us from that darkness. But you keep falling back into it. But i know jon won't give up on you. He'll keep pulling you out as much as he can. That's the white messiah for you." hod said.
"Hod. you're embarrassing me." i said.
"You don't seem to mind the praise hero." angelica teased.
"All of you shut up!" i yelled as i ran out of the room.
3rd person pov.
When jon ran out with his face red. Angela did something everyone in the room didn't expect…she giggled.
Jon pov.
Once again. I stepped into a conversation between angela roland and angelica and netzach as i approached everything went black with more of angela's memories. With angela standing in front of the monitor.
"So after all this…all those years of constantly reliving this play. You calling it quits and handing it over the reins to a new director…so that i can suffer for another 10,000 years?" angela asked as she then put her hands to her eyes crying. "Why? Why do i have to suffer like this? Why do I have to keep repeating this play over and over…" angela said as she cried. "Well…can't do anything might as well set a neutral face. And meet this new manager…not like anything will change." angela said. The flashback ended.
"I want to live! I need the deaths of others to thrive!" angela yelled as she turned to a form replicating de capo. An abnormality that wasn't there during my time as the manager. But it was during one of the loops.
"That form of hers reminds of the pianist." roland said. And so another long battle began against angela began.
After fighting passed the music reaper. She took on a form of a hooded figure wielding a spear the entire outfit was just like fragment of the universe, looked like a kid drew it.
And after that. She took on the form of "our galaxy" long hair. A dress that looked like the universe. Plus a crown. She looked like a sad space queen.
The next form she replicated was that of porrcubus. Her hair short yet crazy with red highlights. While she was covering trying not to laugh. Hits with porccubus killing method. Her outfit looked like one of those silly flower outfits you'd see in a school play.
The next form was off alriune. Taking the form of a pink mourning dress. With blue flowers acting as the veil. And armed with two pink and blue swords. The final form was back to the del capo form. But with some of it's more dangerous tricks that made it an aleph. After defeating it. The flash came it was a flashback to well my old memories. The interactions i had with the sephirah.
"I was wrong…and I was happy to be wrong…you did change things...you did what i wanted to do. And I saw your heart. Your anger. Your sadness. Your pain. And at some point…i found myself rooting for you. I wanted you to find that redemption. That peace you sought. You were not ayin. And I was not carmen. And i now know why ayin sent that letter to you…the only one who could bring light to the city was you. Your fixer title says everything…you truly are a messiah. A beacon of hope…I would know." angela said as the flashback goes to the day where I made her human. The tears going down her face as she hugged me. "You freed me…you gave me hope…no matter what happens…i will always be by your side. I will be your assistant till the end…being by your side is where i want to be." angela said as the flashback ended. And found myself back in the floor of arts room. Angela's face was glowing red.
"D-dammit! You were not supposed to hear that! Oh now i wish i was shut down back at x-394!" angela yelled freaking out like a teenage girl who's crush found out her feelings. I had to do my hardest not to laugh at her cute freakout. I rubbed her head.
"I won't laugh at you…you've been through a lot angela. And even though you still have a ton of pain to work out. But I'm glad I was able to ease your pain. You've been through enough. Once this is over. I promise that you live every day with a smile." i said. Angela took my hand. And put it on her cheek. I swear i was seeing hearts in her eyes. However whatever spell she was under broke and she pulled herself away. She coughed in her hand.
"Get back to work all of you!" she said before teleporting away. Roland and angelica laughed.
"Looks like jon here has got some mad skills with the ladies huh?" roland asked with a grin.
"Tell me about it. Our cold library director just doesn't have a crush. she's madly in love with the white messiah." angelica said. A pile of books fell on both of them. Clearly angela could still hear them…and was not amused.
With angela's feelings somewhat sorted. It was time to get back to work. And urban plage means more dangerous individuals and bigger freaks as shown by our first new guest's the carnival. A syndicate of freakish robots with big mouths to consume flesh that they use to create silk and the kind of cloth that most fixers with any kind of moolah picks up cause that cloth actually makes clothes on par with body armor. Though what came next surprised me. Some kid with a huge broadsword named yan showed up. He's a messenger for the index. One of the five finger syndicates. And the one that's basically a cult. Their prescripts are basically no different then the fortunes in fortune cookies. But they treat them with zealous praise. But then their customers came…and i was shocked to see my aunt sayo was the one who was buying from them. The way she acted with them was different with how she acted around me. Despite being a kurakumo clan thug. Enjoying the life mom fought like hell to leave behind. It was obvious she still loved her sister and her nephew as proven with what she said next.
"Is it possible to get some extra cloth." she asked.
"Not today. Why do you ask?" alpha asked in that robotic voice that was bound to get annoying real fast.
"The dame has a sister and a nephew. Wanted to get them a present like a good little sister and aunt." her underling yang said only to get her fist to his jaw.
"Let's go!" sayo yelled walking away with a blush. And soon the freaks got an invite to the library.
"Is that an organization producing fabric?" angela asked.
"Yep. quality fabric is a rarity, tailors are just as important as syndicates and fixers. Those guys seem to be operating underground. Eating people to make silk." roland pointed out.
"Yeah…blegh. Thanks but no thanks aunt sayo." i said. Getting everyone's attention.
"Wait, that kurakumo clan dame is your aunt?" angelica asked.
"Yeah. i'll tell you later once we deal with those…things. Cause the way they speak is going to get annoying real fast." i said.
"What's so special about that cloth though?" angela asked.
"You noticed how a lot of our past guest's weren't wearing armor despite having the resources to do so? That's because that cloth is as durable as any armor. Makes regular looking clothes as tough and durable as metal armor. Finding that kind of cloth is as hard as finding bullets in the city though." i said.
"I'm starting to feel dazed from all this information." angela said.
"Well that's enough of that. How about we close our eyes and make a wish?" roland asked.
"And your not helping!" Angela yelled. But me and her played along. Though neither of us wished that the index doesn't target the library. "I wished for you to stop babbling nonsense."
"I wished to know if angelica pegs roland. She seems like the kind of woman who would." i said with a smartass smile.
"Oh for…why that!?" roland asked with his face red.
"Well your observation of me is right…cause yes. Yes i do." angelica said with a smile.
"Ha! I knew it. Varissa owes me 50 bucks now. But roland's fear is not without warrant. The index alongside the other five fingers syndicates are tough and psychotic as hell. If they come after the library…we better be ready for one hell of a fight. The five fingers are persistent and practically have the backstreets under their boot. They're on the same level as the wings. I know getting their attention is unavoidable. But we should be ready for war." i said.
"I'll keep that in mind. For right not it's time to receive our guests." angela said.
"Oh goodie." i said with the littlest of enthusiasm. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to this one.
"Greetings guests." angela said.
"Greetings." all three of them said simultaneously.
"Okay to eat. Could produce wonderful silk?" beta asked.
"Will make pretty blue and white slik." gamma said.
"Both of them. Would taste much better than sweepers." alpha said. My patience was already getting real thin. Which i made known.
"SHUT UP! I swear you freaks are an insult on the eyes due to how hideous you look and an assault on the ears with your annoying as hell speech pattern! Step through the door! Win you get your silk. Lose and your books! May you find your books in this place. And may I find some aspirin to deal with the headache i'm getting!" i yelled. The floor of art dealt with this one. And varissa really showed her skills. Despite being someone who downs the booze every chance she gets it certainly hasn't effected her skills with the blade. And soon the three were now books and all i have to say is thank god!
"Exhausted? Tired. Want rest? Hungry. Want out?" roland said imitating those carnival freaks.
"Want amputated? Bones melt. Flesh explode? Won't die." angela said. Clearly just as annoyed as i am.
"Sorry ma'am i'll stop here." roland said.
"Good…i'm sorry for my outburst. Ugh. jon was right. That did get annoying real fast." angela said.
"Well. the battle's over. So jon. About that family history?" angelica asked.
"Curious about it huh…can't really tell you much before mom met dad. She was a member of the thumb. And judging from how she dodges the question whenever i ask about it…it's safe to say she's ashamed of that time of her life…it was most likely a way for her to survive nothing more." i said.
"I heard a while ago that an entire chapter of the thumb disappeared. Despite no bodies being found. That entire chapter was believed to be dead." roland explained.
"Yeah…that was the chapter my mom ran. And as far as being under the thumb of…well the thumb goes. Being in my mom's chapter was good luck. She was willing to let comments or jokes about the thumb sucks slide without dismemberment being involved. The only thing they had to worry about was those above her coming over for an inspection. Mom did her best to make sure everyone played an act to make sure that those who arrived didn't harm anyone. But sometimes someone would slip up and pay the price. Mom would be devastated and be more proof that she needed to get away from the madness that is the thumb. And that's when dad came into her life and gave her a way out that got the thumb off her and her surviving men's back. Not sure how dad did it. But the thumb didn't bother trying to find them. Mom and the others of her chapter were free from the thumb's…well thumb. And soon she dropped her heavy rifle and got married to the man who freed her and they had a child that would become the white messiah." i said.
"Wow..you ever thought about writing a book jon. You'd make one hell of a storyteller." angelica said.
"Maybe i will once our job is is a library after all." i said.
"So what happens now?" angela asked.
"No doubt that we'll be in the sights of one of the five fingers soon…so like I said. Get ready for war." I said. The next day came and the screen showed a woman named eileen. Judging from the gear sticking out from her head. She's the leader of the church of gears…i thought i got rid of that damn cult. And we're showed as to why that cult needed to go. As some poor bastard sat in that chair only to find out how big of a mistake this was as his body was shredded and morphed into one of those gears. But those cultists aren't our new guests. No. Our new guests are the fixers of full stop office. What makes them unique is that they have guns…like i've been saying guns and ammo are damn hard to come by in the city. So to have a fixer office all armed with them is a surprise. They blew away ten of the cultists and managed to hit eileen. Just as they were about to blast her rusty sickly "thought gear" out of her head. She was saved by argalia. Who deflected the bullet and chased down by him. When he caught up to them. He gave them an ultimatum. Go to the library or deal with him.
"Poor guys…either way they are going to be killed." i said.
"At least this way. You can bring them back…still i wonder who that man with the scythe was, the blue reverberation. Sounds alot like the red mist or white messiah." angela said.
"Yep, that sicko is another color fixer like me or gebura. But the guy is screwed in the head. He came after me just to see "if i live up to my legend" honestly i don't know what iori was thinking training him." i said.
"Is iori another color fixer?" angela asked.
"Yep…the purple tear." i said.
"You know quite a few color fixers huh?" roland asked.
"The only one I'm not familiar with is the black silence. He or she is like me in the regard of being a real ghost. Does their work and disappears." i said.
"What the hell are you doing argalia?" angelica asked.
"She knows him?" i asked.
"Yeah…that sicko is her brother. And he's not a fan of me let's just say." roland said. Clearly things got ugly between the two.
"Well. now we both have something to worry about. I fear what would happen if he found where my mom and dad live. Knowing him. He'll probably slaughter my parents and smother Orlando in his crib." i said. Angelica slammed her mace on the table breaking it in half.
"If he does…i'll kill him myself." angelica said. Angela snapped her fingers and changed the subject before angelica broke anything else.
"He's quite skilled to deflect gunshots…haven't seen many using firearms." angela said.
"That's because getting guns and ammo is a pretty expensive investment. Hell two clips of bullets cost just as much as a decent gun. And it's because of no other reason than the head being unreasonable dicks to the people below as usual. I say that because the pricks don't care if the people kill each other with whatever other method. But guns are the thing they choose to slap a big price tag on…it's also why i'm glad i left x-394 with these." i said as i drew solemn lament. "That's one massive upside to the weapons we developed to suppress abnormalities back in l corp. Ones that take the form of guns like these beauties don't use bullets but some form of abnormality energy. Essentially giving you infinite ammo. Which means i'm free to riddle whatever i want with holes and don't have to worry about the ridiculous price of bullets. Ha! Suck my head, head!" i yelled.
"How funny. Death can be pretty insignificant even without guns." angela said.
"Not wrong there." roland said. It was time to greet our new unfortunate guests. Angela gave her usual greeting. I'm beside her as usual.
"Hello. I'm stephan. Soon to be dead and shelved into your bookcases." stephan said. Not very confident is he? I sighed.
"I hate to do this to you guys. If it was up to me. I would just warp you somewhere far away from the blue sicko. But alas the rules of the library dictate me from doing that. Anyway go through the door the ordeal begins. Win and you get the books you came for lose. And well what stephan said will be your fate. Again sorry to do this to you." i said.
"Thanks for the kind words." stephan said.
"You're ruining our mood." tamaki said. Annoyed with stephan.
"Don't mind him. We're in a bit of a hurry." i said.
"W-wait. Aren't you the white messiah. Rumor has it you fought won and spared the blue reverberation." stephan said.
"Well…that's mostly true. I didn't spare that sicko. The only reason i didn't finish the job was that ally was about to have her head blown off. So I prioritized saving her over killing him…sorry about that. If I finished the freak off then. You three wouldn't be here standing between a meat grinder and a hydraulic press right now." i said.
"Think nothing of it. The live of a companion means more than finishing off the enemies even if your companions argue all the time like mine does." liwei said.
"Thanks…may you find your book in this place." I said. This reception was taken by the floor of technological sciences due to uriel's experience with dealing with gun users. She knew all the ways to disarm gun users. And because of that they were defeated swiftly. After wards. I got their books and brought them back.
"Woah! We're alive!?" stephan asked.
"That's right. You're alive. Because i want to recruit you guys." i said as i conjured up stacks of cash. "This amount for every reception you help with. What do you say?" i asked.
"I say this is too good to be true. What's the catch?" tamaki asked.
"No catch. Guns are hard to come by and your skills with them will come in handy for future receptions. And two. Coming here wasn't exactly your choice. Was it either coming here or be killed by the blue reverberation…that's basically like deciding if you want to get mauled by a shark or a bear. Doesn't matter which way you go. Either way you're getting covered in cuts and animal spit. Not exactly fair. So willing to gun down some other idiots who come here?" i asked.
"I say we do it! We get paid handsomely and we don't die!" stephan yelled.
"You really are spineless stephan." tamaki said with a face palm.
"Still…we could get a nice supply of ammo with that kind of cash…alright white messiah. You got a deal" liwei said with a smile.
"Looking forward to working with you full stop office." i said. Our next guests would be the dawn office. The head of this office salvador being served tea by philip. Most likely a new guy. Though i didn't know there was tea that involved eggs…that just sounds gross. Another fixer with a guitar on her back arrived. Her name is yuna who just got back from dealing with "thousand needles" an urban legend class request…yeah besides philip these guys are no rookies. Gonna have to be careful with this one. But things got dangerous at the end of it. Apparently the distortion or abnormality whatever this "thousand needles" is. At some point the needles got hot enough to melt buildings. And on one of them was a strange symbol. One i saw before…it was the same symbol that was on the poor sucker that those rats were harvesting during our first reception. They believed it was due to yesterday's promise. Either a distortion that i haven't heard of yet. Or one that formed only recently. Either way. It sounds like it should be dealt with.
"Huh. that gramps is still doing fixer work." roland said.
"Friend of yours?" i asked.
"Not really. I came across him a few times in the past and owed him some favors." roland said.
"Not like he'd recognize roland. Considering he wore this black void mask to hide his identity during fixer work." angelica said.
"Not a bad idea, you're bound to make some enemies if you survive long enough. So them not knowing who you are could save you from retribution later down the line." i said.
"He's certainly doing better than these two." angela pointed out.
"We're still rank one i'll have you know!" angelica yelled offended. And so we greet our guests again. The usual greetings.
"A pleasure to meet you both. You must be angela and jon." salvador said.
"So it's true…didn't think the white messiah would aid with this." yuna said.
"I have my reasons…now step through that door. The ordeal begins. Win you get what you came for. Lose and your booked. You got that?" i asked.
"I hope you realize young man that you won't find a peaceful end after covering you hands in so much blood." salvador said.
"Neither of our hands are clean old man…may you find your book in this place." i said. The floor of general works took this one. And salvador didn't recognize roland. Good. That would have made this harder. However just like lulu and san before him. Philip made a run for it while salvador and yuna became booked. He'll back…and when he does i'll be sure to reunite them.
With that. Three more floors soon opened up. The first one was the floor of natural sciences. Run by enoch and lisa. As soon as we entered the sound of running was heard.
"Big bro!" enoch yelled as he jumped to hug me. Despite being bigger i was still able to lift them up the air like before.
"You've grown big. Keep growing like that and you won't get to call me big bro anymore." i said.
"Really enoch? I get that your excited to see him. But you shouldn't jump at him like that. We're not kids anymore." lisa said as she approached only for me to pull into the hug. She resisted a bit before hugging me back. "Glad to see you too big bro." lisa said. Roland and angelica where watching with smiles on their faces. The two introduced themselves to the two fixers.
"I thought doing science required thinking though." roland said. Clearly lisa didn't like that remark as she tried to punch roland in the face who he swiftly dodged. It was obvious roland was enjoying annoying lisa. As that went on i entered the floor of language. The redness of it and the ashtray on the desk gave me an idea of who runs this floor. The person i've been wanting to see again. As i soon felt a pair of arms warp around me. The feeling of breasts on my back.
"You let your guard down dork." gebura said in a cocky tone. I smiled and put my hand on hers.
"I knew this room was yours…what reason would i have to have my guard up around the woman i love?" i asked. Her face turning red.
"You dork…I missed you." gebura said as she held me tighter. I was enjoying this tender moment. Only for it to be interrupted by the approaching laughter of roland and angelica. Who noticed the position me and her were in.
"So I take it she's the librarian of the floor of language?" roland asked.
"Yep. and my girlfriend gebura." I said.
"Well that's a shame for director and catt to know your taken." angelica said. Gebura rolled her eyes.
"I saw what was going on…I know about those two's crushes on this dork…and i'm willing to share. But only if I get to set the rules." gebura said.
"Quick question…what is the punishment if director or catt breaks the rules you set?" angelica asked.
"A very very hard pegging." gebura said. My face turned red. The saint side of me would feel bad for catt and angela considering that their women hoods would hurt like hell the next morning. But the sinner part of me really wants to see that, for it would be super hot. "But enough about that. What's your two deals? Why are you here?"
"Jon saved my life…so we owe him. Just here to payback our debts." angelica said.
"Sounds about right. This dork has always been to do what's right even if people see him as nothing more than a fool…but I saw how you fight. Those gloves of yours. A pocket space that contains countless weapons all from different workshops…rank 1s are impressive. But even they can't get a tool like those…so who are you really?" gebura asked. Angelica sighed.
"No point in hiding it now I suppose. Jon you said you didn't know who the black silence was ... .well here's the thing. You've been with her since you stepped into the library." angelica said. I sighed.
"Yeah. I kind of figured as much. To be honest i was just pretending not to know. After all, It's like gebura said. Those gloves that can summon an arsenal like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. That kind of tech could only belong to a color fixer. Rank 1's are pretty elite. But even they can't score toys like those gloves." i said.
"Let me make this clear to both of you. If either of you betray the dorks trust…i'll rip your goddamn heads off." gebura said thretangly. Clearly roland felt his pride being challenged considering what he said next.
"You think your the big boss here!? Well what was your rank then!?" roland yelled.
"The red mist." gebura said as she walked away. She then turned to me. "I know you need to go talk to . But when your done with him…i'd like to have a private chat." gebura said with a smirk before putting a smoke in her mouth and lighting it up.
"THE red mist!? What the hell?" roland asked baffled.
"Not only is the red mist alive…but you're dating her!?" angelica asked.
"Yeah." I said. Clearly the red mist was something big for them. Probably an inspiration for them.
"I will pray for the survival of your pelvis." angelica said.
"Oh god…i dread to imagine the kind of power that their child would have." roland said in fear.
"And here i thought that guy that was saying "true terror is pink" was crazy…maybe he was onto something." angelica said. I shook my head at these two idiots and went up to meet my best friend chesed. The calming blue of the floor of social sciences and the smell of good coffee brings me a feeling calmness that i can't get anywhere else.
"It's good to see you return jon." chesed said, offering me a cup of coffee. Which i gladly took the other two who showed up and introduced themselves. Chesed gave them cups as well. From the way they reacted it was obvious they were drinking that motor oil tasting crap that you get in any of the crappy coffee places in the backstreet. I reacted the same way when I first had coffee with daniel. When you spent most of your life drinking crappy coffee. You get a pretty big shock when you actually get a good cup. Not used to it.
"So how much longer until binah's floor is open you think?" chesed asked.
"Probably after the library becomes a star of the city...at least i hope she does. Could really use her strength for then. Because that's when the really big players of the city come after us…why do you ask?" i asked.
"Well…during our time at lobotomy corp. I was the only one who was willing to approach her and spend time with her." chesed explained.
"And that led to a friendship that soon blossomed into romance…i guess i was too busy trying to keep everyone alive to notice you and binah becoming an item. Sorry about that man." i said.
"I harbor no ill feeling my friend…you managed to get everyone alive out of lobotomy corp. And honestly if i could. I would reward you with a metal." chesed said.
"Thanks pal. Can't say i'm too surprised you and binah became a thing. After all. Gebura was off the menu and she was the only other woman in lob corp that would dominate you. Cause that's your thing." I said. Chesed blushed.
"I assure you. I never had romantic feelings for gebura!" chesed yelled. I laughed.
"Chill dude. I was only teasing. I don't get what you see in her…but that's my past bitterness towards her talking. If you and her are happy together. Then why should i care." i said. Chesed laughed.
"That does remind me. How are isaac and the queen of hatred doing?" chesed asked.
"Well. the queen of hatred hasn't turned into a snake and gone on a rampage. She also donned a human disguise to hide who she was from any of the other l corp facilities looking to increase their production. Bloody parasites. Their daughter sarah was born soon after escaping x-394. Cute little thing. Doesn't have any of her mom's traits. And hopefully it will stay that way. So yeah a pretty happy family." i said. Chesed smiled.
"That's good to hear…glad to see your decision led to good results." chesed said.
"Yeah." i said as i stood up finishing my coffee. "You three have a chat with each other. I'm going back to see gebura." i said.
"Five bucks says the entire library will be shaking in a few minutes." angelica said quietly. But i still heard. Which caused me to blush and groan. I headed back down to the floor of language. And during a chat with gebura. I found my head on her thighs.
"Comfortable?" gebura asked with a smirk.
"Very…" i said. Soon i would be back to fighting…but i'm glad to have this moment.