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The Trinity of Tokiwadai
Chapter Ten: Paradies Gefunden
Beta: ShadowofAxios
Even as the high-pitched screech that was Capacity Down rent the air, both Ruiko and Naru-san faced MAR's army unafraid. Neither of the Level 5s had anything to fear from the device. A fact that sparked curiosity in the mind of the brunette.
"Naru-san, how is it that Capacity Down isn't working on you?" Ruiko asked with genuine interest, even as she casually fired out yet another salvo of beam attacks into the thinning but still numerous crowd of powered suits.
"Nothing as fancy as your offloading to your AIM body," Naru-san replied as she fired off a brace of fireballs at the enemy. "Capacity Down was developed by my Power Development Team so I ended up training a lot with it, learned how to work around it in the process. Plus the frequency Lifeline is using is off for me."
Ruiko nodded in understanding. "Thanks to the unique nature of your powers?"
"Yup." Naru-san said cheerfully even as a bloodthirsty grin stretched across her face. "So want to make a game of this turkey shoot?"
Impaling a dozen powered suits on a volley of Dark Matter spears, Ruiko tilted her head curiously to the side while playing along. "I'll take the hundred on the left and you can take the hundred on the right?"
"Bonus points for the big ones?" The blonde asked, an eager gleam in her eyes.
Resisting the urge to sigh at her friend's bloodlust, Ruiko just shook her head. "No, they only count as one!"
"Tsk, spoilsport."
"Done chit chatting, you brats?" The Kihara woman's annoying voice blasted out from the speakers of all the suits arrayed in front of them. "What arrogance! Do you think just because you two are Level 5s that you can reduce standing in the way of my experiment to a game?"
Naru-san looked like she had a witty comeback, but managed to stop herself.
Saten glowered at the voice. "I won't let you carry out whatever sick experiment you're planning with my siblings!"
"You think you have a better claim, [Multi-Skill]? Just because your powers were awakened by grandfather's experiment?" The mad scientist mocked.
Naru-san nudged Ruiko, and the taller girl nodded in reply. Acting in sync the duo launched a combined attack.
With an exaggerated stomp of her right foot, the [Elemental Empress] caused a localized earthquake that shook the flyover they were fighting on to its very foundations. Many of the lesser powered suits lost their balance due to the tremor and fell to the ground. Even the three massive Gigantic Advanced Movement Armors were forced to fire anchoring lines into the ground to remain upright.
Taking advantage of this, Ruiko unleashed the biggest barrage of beams she'd fired in the fight so far. With the earth still shaking under them and many of them helplessly rolling on the ground, dozens of the lesser powered suits were vaporized by her attack. Unfortunately, the GAMAs were made of sterner stuff. The huge mechs simply brought up their bulky arms as shields. Even though the beams melted them into slag, they simply ejected the destroyed parts and replaced them with one of the three pairs of spare arms mounted on their backs.
"Staking your claim by force?" The delusional woman shrieked. "Well, you'll have to do better than that. My claim precedes yours! And I'm not giving it up! As the first subject in the experiment to test Ability Body Crystals, I'm the only one who has the right to see it through to its fruition and use it to create a Level 6!"
The towering armor units aimed their mounted artillery at the Level 5s. Rapid popping and booming releases filled the air as they began to rain mortar and gunfire on the group. Considering the suddenly increased rate of fire from these heavy weapons, MAR had only been warming them up till now. Not that it mattered to Ruiko, her barriers could withstand an assault of this caliber nigh indefinitely.
"Looks like you're the one who needs to do better." Naru-san shot back. "And about your so called claim? Grow up, you bitch! Just because you were a victim too doesn't give you the right to victimize others!"
"I was never a victim!" The psychotic woman bellowed in outrage. "I brought a new age to science! It was my suffering that led to the invention of the Body Crystal! Even to the creation of a level 5! I'm a martyr for science and I won't let my sacrifice be in vain. I will not let that blasted Kiyama steal my valuable samples for her own ends!"
With each word that came out of the deranged hag's mouth, Ruiko's outrage grew. Something that manifested in the fury in her eyes, which were beginning to glow with a slight rainbow light. "We aren't like you. We don't see my siblings as samples, they're people! My family! I'll never let you touch them!"
The demented woman let out a snort of disbelief. "And you claim I'm deluded."
Ruiko's rage unleashed itself in a warcry as beams bombarded the enemy forces, destroying scores of MAR's lesser forces. She was ready to charge in like a mad girl but Naru-san stopped her.
"Woah there Miss Gundam." Naru-san chided as she put a restraining arm on Ruiko's arm. "Don't forget you're the only thing keeping the others safe. You stay here and play defense and provide fire support, I'll do the CQC."
The brunette looked at her in frustration. "But-!"
"No buts! You've gotta keep that head of yours on straight. We need to play to our strengths on this."
Ruiko knew she was right, but still, she wanted to do more than hang back. She wanted to charge right in and destroy every last thing the Kihara held dear.
"Fine, get out there and bring hell."
Naru-san smirked at her as red energy - the kind she only used in her trump cards - poured out of her body and formed into a solid piece of armor. The result, to Ruiko's mind, was a suit that looked liked something a demonic and robotic red Power Ranger would wear. It was an overall very lean looking suit, made up of various armor pieces constructed out of hardened energy that were worn over a undersuit of roiling red chakra. On her right forearm, there was a small diamond shaped shield with what looked to be a blade folded into it. One hip held a sheathed long blade. while the other held a short sword. It was completed by a compact jetpack on the back that had a pair of bladed wings folded to its side.
She watches way too many sentai shows. Ruiko couldn't help but think to herself even as she opened a portal in the dome to allow her friend to blur through to rip into their enemies.
Naru felt the rush of her blood as she ran so fast that her surroundings began to blur together. If not for the specialized enhancement to her senses that came along with her Jäger Frame to compensate, she'd probably have ran straight into a wall. It was issues like that and the little problem of the damage to her surroundings that her pushing the Frame's Mach 1 upper speed limit would cause that prevented her from using this Frame often. It was also why she felt exhilarated every time that she did get the chance, even if it usually meant toning it way down from its full potential.
Julienne this hunk of metal. Kurama cheered as Naru closed in with the nearest of the GAMA mechs.
Flicking out the blade folded in her shield while drawing her long blade from its sheathe, Naru crossed her blades. With a furious cry, she began to dance around the towering machine like a red streak, slashing at it. Her corrosive blades sunk into the armor with ease, leaving deep cuts even as the deadly chakra they transmitted continued to spread through its structure like a metallic cancer. The ungainly thing tried to futilely fend her off, but in moments it was reduced to nothing more than rapidly degrading scrap metal. The only part unscathed was the escape pod that shot out of the wreckage to safety.
"Next." Naru spoke with a demonic tenor to her voice, her visor glowing red.
Her blood pumping, she blitzed towards the the next walking piece of scrap.
"So confident! Well, why don't we see how you like this little Miss [Alien]-chan!" The oddly unfazed Kihara taunted.
The reason for the woman's confidence revealed itself when Naru was suddenly hit by a powerful blow that knocked her off her feet.
What!? The Level 5s surprise was wholly warranted. Not only had she been running at an absurd speed thanks to her Jäger Frame, but said Frame despite being the physically least protective of her special Frames still offered protection equivalent to a modern main battle tank. Taking that into consideration, that anything had the accuracy to even hit her and the power to do so hard enough to send her flying was a shock.
She rolled along the ground and her wings folded out, digging into the ground to slow her down. Coming to a stop, she attempted to get up, only for her shoulder to release an explosion of pain that made Naru cry out.
Keep calm, you've got fragments in your shoulder. Kurama told her as he focused his chakra into the wound. They're proving hard to push out, give me a minute.
A anti-regenerator fragmentary bullet? Made of anti-chakra Dark Matter? Naru asked incredulously.
Yes, now be quiet and let me work. Oh, and roll to the left.
Huh?
Before the blonde could even process what the fox was on about, she was teleported back inside the barrier dome, right next to Saten who fired a barrage of beams at a distant rooftop while a plume of dust exploded where she had just been as a powerful bullet impacted the ground.
"Naru-san, are you alright?" The brunette asked her, her eyes locked on a small moving object that was hopping from rooftop to rooftop.
"I've been shot." Naru stated in a stunned tone, still trying to process what had happened. She winced as two tiny pieces of metal popped out of her shoulder. "Kurama, hurry up."
I'm going as fast as I can.
Go faster. I've got a bastard to utterly destroy. Naru thought to her tenant while she grunted as another bullet fragment was pushed out of her shoulder and she followed Saten's gaze.
Using her chakra, she enhanced her sight and saw what looked to be a specialised powered suit. Like her own Jäger Frame, it was a largely lean thing but that was where the similarities ended. Where her Jäger's appearance revolved around blades, her opponent's suit was focused on making its user the best sniper possible. It had a large helmet that was probably full of various devices that enhanced the user's aim and was large and bulky around the hips and upper legs, probably with hidden machinery under the armor to provide its user with the enhanced speed it was displaying. It sported small thrusters across the body as well that greatly increased agility with well timed bursts, allowing the suit's occupant to pull off moves that should have been impossible. Something that proved essential to whoever it was as she evaded Saten's persistent attempts to introduce her to a side of some flavor of energy beam while lugging around a sophisticated looking sniper rifle.
"That son of a whore [Dark Matter] is really pissing me off now." Naru said as she slowly got to her feet, wincing as more bits of metal were forced out of her shoulder.
"Get him later. We have a-Oh shit!" Saten's eyes widened in surprise.
Turning to look at what had the other Level 5 so spooked, Naru's face blanched as one of the GAMAs reached into the open roof of a trailer and pulled out a big gun that had a series of fat cables trailing behind it and back into the vehicle.
"Is that a particle accelerator cannon?"
We're screwed. The chakra construct sealed inside Naru noted with a tinge of real fear as the weapon's muzzle began to glow with a steadily building charge.
"...I don't think my shields can handle that." Saten swallowed heavily.
"No, they won't." The wicked bitch cackled like a cliched villain. "Not for long at least!"
"Use your electromastery." Naru told the Number 3 hastily, she knew that kind of cannon was just a scaled up version of [Meltdowner]'s ability. Their sempai's electromastery was a direct counter to the psycho Number 6, something that the blonde knew well from that wannabe fashionista's bitching about it on more than one occasion when they had crossed paths. "Hell, or accelerator!"
The final bits of metal came out of her shoulder.
And the healing's done. The ancient fox said with a resigned air. Not that it'll matter against that thing.
"I can't manage both the power and control needed at the same time." The other Level 5 exclaimed, "I'm not Sempai or Accel!"
Saten had just finished making that disheartening assessment when the cannon finished charging and fired an immense beam of green energy at the barrier dome they were hunkered behind.
"That damn bitch came prepared for us."
Saten nodded, too focused on keeping her barriers from collapsing to respond verbally.
"Ha! Did you think I was stupid!? Of course I did!" The Kihara jeered. "Now perish, you little guinea pigs!"
As the knitting of her skin finished, Naru looked at Saten, who looked slightly strained as the beam carved into the dome. "I'll go and take it out. Just hang in there."
"Just go!" Saten said through gritted teeth, her arms starting to shake.
The blonde dashed towards the edge of the barrier, an unevenly edged hole opening in it to let her through. It was a far cry from the perfectly circular portal Saten had created for her the first time she'd sallied forth.
Damn. The strain must be terrible.
Her pain right now is insane. Worse than you can imagine. Kurama confirmed, his tone radiating respect. The only thing stronger is her determination. She's one hell of a girl.
Yeah. Well, let's not let her perseverance be in vain. Naru replied with all her resolve. Just hang in there, Saten!
Determined to save her friend, Naru readied her blades as she charged at the hulking titan with the large cannon. She made it halfway there before she stopped herself short when a bullet grazed her side. Whether it was due to her bad luck or the superiority of the bullet's design, the fleeting contact was enough to cause it to fragment. Like before, the accursed Dark Matter shrapnel passed through her armor like it wasn't there and Naru released a pained curse as a half dozen or so bits pierced her skin and lodged themselves in her flesh.
Despite her pain, she ducked behind the broken remains of a powered suit for cover, meagre though it was, barely dodging a second shot in the process.
"Come on, we need to take that thing down."
It's not that easy, these things are tearing into your flesh even as I push them out. Why not just go Festung?
"And leave myself open for a headshot? Yeah, no." Naru grunted as three bits wiggled out her side.
Throw in some zig zagging?
"Against a pro like this sniper? Seriously!?"
We could risk a teleport? Kurama suggested uncertainly.
More metal fragments popped out and Naru shook her head. "Since when have we pulled a teleport off when Capacity Down is in play? You know how it messes with my perception of the 11th Dimension! Do you want me to lose a foot in the middle of this?"
Alright. But you better get out there like a bat out of hell, because you're all healed up.
Taking a deep breath, Naru nodded and waited a second before leaping out of cover and narrowly avoiding a shot in the process. The instant she landed, she pushed off the ground again and darted towards the GAMA unit.
She banked left and shifted to the right in random intervals, never stopping even as shots trailed after her. She knew that the moment she did, she'd earn herself a third eye and a trip to the afterlife.
Fuck this! Without Saten's fire support the ass isn't even bothering to reposition between shots.
A powered suit reached out to grab her and she banked right, but the damage had been done. The suit had successfully herded her into the way of the sniper's shot. Realizing what was going to happen, Naru twisted her body around desperately trying to move her vitals out of position. Her luck held and she managed to get away with nothing more than a shot through the right kneecap.
"Son of a-!" Naru shouted as she quickly scampered into cover behind a car, hissing in pain. She glanced at her mangled knee and banged the back of her head against the car.
"I'm ripping him in three." The Number 2 grunted as she looked at her knee again, but frowned. "They haven't hit anything vital yet. Either they're sadists or my speed has to be throwing off whatever system they're using to assist with aiming."
An extra layer of Kurama's chakra coated her injured leg.
You won't be moving that joint on your own in your condition. The fox said sounding oddly wary.
I don't have the time to wait for it to heal. Saten can't hold out much longer.
I know. So I'll move it for you. Kurama replied as the excess chakra formed into a series of new mechanisms centred around her shredded knee. It's gonna hurt like a bitch though.
More than Saten is hurting?
Dunno. Kurama shrugged.
Then I'll just handle it.
"Once more unto the breach!"
With that, Naru broke out of cover once more, the thruster on her back firing, propelling her forward like a rocket towards her target as a bullet whizzed past her head.
While Naru-san was braving the deadly sniper, Ruiko was too busy to help her with fire support. Something that killed her. Not that she had any choice in the matter, not when the enormous beam from the particle accelerator cannon was eating away at the barriers of the dome keeping everyone else safe and she struggled to keep it up.
Kaa-san, Uiharu, Misaka-sempai, Shirai-san. I'll keep you all safe. Ruiko vowed with every scrap of determination she could muster even as she devoted every spare bit of computational power - reduced as it was by Capacity Down shutting down her biological brain's load - to maintaining the barriers.
As a result, layer after layer was added to the barrier dome. Unfortunately this only barely kept pace with those that shattered, forcing the Number 3 to put ever more of her dwindling reserves of calculative power into just keeping it from collapsing altogether. The strain was starting to take its toll, already she'd been forced to shift computational power from motor control and her pain perception. As a result, she was only dimly aware as she fell to her knees and blood began pouring from her eyes, ears, and mouth. Though considering the intense headache that she'd been experiencing before the pain had cut off, that might be a blessing.
All the while, Naru-san was reduced to playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the sniper. One that despite the blonde's best efforts she was losing. Even with Ruiko's reduced sense of perception, she'd seen her friend shot and forced away from the cannon yielding mech at least three times now.
Ruiko's situation was even more desperate, as the inevitable happened and she finally lost the fight to keep up with the beam's destructive power. Slowly but with growing momentum it began to eat into the dome.
"Hahaha! Look at you scurrying around like rats!" The monster of a woman, sensing victory, jeered. "You think you're humans? Everyone in this City are merely resources for experiments! Lab rats that eat too much! Why not just die alre-"
Her voice was silenced as the oppressive beat of Capacity Down abruptly stopped.
"-Who stopped it? Get it back on! Get it back on now!" The Kihara shrieked like a banshee.
With the disabling noise stopped, Ruiko's calculative power began to pick up again, and she began to turn the tables. With gusto she began to force it back by adding barriers to the dome at an accelerated rate. Even then, she could feel her vision swimming as the strain from earlier started to catch up to her.
Gotta hang on. Just a little longer. Ruiko encouraged herself even as the edges of her sight faded to black.
Just as the brunette collapsed to the side and her dome of protection finally began to completely fall apart, her Sempai jumped in front of her and pushed her hands forward as if pulling against some great weight. In response, the beam of stampeding electrons came to an abrupt stop as if it hit a wall. One seemingly more sturdy than the barriers Ruiko had managed to construct.
"Saten! I've got this," Misaka-Sempai grinned back at her, looking proud. "Take a break and recharge."
"Sempai…"
"Hey! Therestina!" The [Railgun] called out. "We don't want your shitty laser! RAH!"
With a mighty shove, the particle beam curved upward, soaring into the sky.
With her friends in the game, Ruiko could finally focus on healing herself. Calling on her regenerative powers she began to fix the surprisingly extensive injuries that she'd acquired.
I've had seven aneurysms. One in my brain no less. The Level 5 noted idly even as she repaired the damage. I should be dead. Sometimes I'm really thankful for being a monster.
She was pulled from her self-deprecating thoughts when in her recovering vision, she suddenly saw a large chunk of rubble be teleported right over the particle cannon courtesy of Shirai-san. The broken bit of flyover must have been over a hundred kilograms - close to Shirai-san's upper limit - and combined with a over ten metres drop, the rubble hit the gun with the force like a small bomb and badly damaged it. Reacting quickly, the pilot of the GAMA operating it dropped the gun and raced away. He barely avoided the blast that erupted as the fragile weapon's containment failed and the escaping supercharged electrons caused the whole thing to explode in a powerful detonation.
"Nice work, Kuroko!" Her tomboy senior exclaimed at the impressive sight.
Stiltedly, Ruiko turned her head to see Shirai-san shoot them a thumbs up even as she panted from the effort. The [AIM Sovereign] would have added her own bout of thankful congratulations on the impressive feat but had to hold back when the sense of pain she'd been previously suppressing came back like a tidal wave as her healing finished repairing her battered nervous system. Biting back a scream, all she managed to offer her yearmate was a grateful nod.
"Hey, assholes! Take back your shitty suit!" Her Sempai shouted as she charged forward with an electrified fist cocked back. Her fist slammed into one of the powered suits that Ruiko had impaled early in the fight. Her blow sent the hunk of wrecked metal flying through the air like a massive bullet as she applied the power of her railgun to it.
With the added mass allowing the bullet to travel further before disintegrating from the friction, the range of her Sempai's railgun increased greatly beyond the normal fifty metres limit her arcade tokens afforded her. Knowing it was the target the GAMA that had been toting the cannon hastily raised its arms to form a guard even as its pilot decided that discretion was the better part of valor and ejected. A wise move it turned out as in spite of his last ditch attempt to put up a guard, it didn't save the mech and the railgun easily ripped right through the whole machine before continuing to cut through the air unopposed in the direction of the sea before fizzling out in the far distance.
"Oh! And all your stupid talk about us being lab rats?" Misaka-Sempai demanded furiously, as she stomped her foot and sent sparks flying in the process. "So what?! Even if the higher ups think that, my friends and I? We love this City! It's our home. It's where our family is! So grit your teeth, because my fist is going down your throat!"
Shirai-san teleported next to Ruiko. "Saten-san, we should move to cove-Oh my god!"
It didn't take a genius to figure out what had spooked the teleporter. The Level 5 was lying in a pool of her own blood. Sure, she'd stopped the bleeding but by then she'd already bled enough to threaten the life of any normal person. Though she doubted her friend knew either of those facts.
The teleporter thus understandably began to freak out. "H-Hold on, I'll get a first-aid kit, or your mother, or-uh."
At her fretting, Ruiko gingerly shook her head. "It's okay. It'll take a bit but my healing powers will finishing repairing all the damage soon."
"Why didn't you use that Angel Mode of yours, Saten-san? Why would you risk hurting yourself in this fashion?" Shirai-san asked as she knelt down and cradled her carefully, using her handkerchief to wipe away some blood from her nose.
"Do you think I had the computational power to spare? Where would I be able to find the capacity to activate it?"
"Because you, Saten-san, pull off the impossible all the time."
The compliment gave Ruiko a flutter of happiness and she spared the other girl a genuine smile.
I think her song just ended. Kurama grinned viciously.
Naru's grin mirrored his. Then let's go punch her dance card.
The Number 2 teleported out of cover and dashed at the sniper. The gunman released a shot but she teleported out of the way at the last second. As she reappeared, the blonde teleported away immediately not giving the sniper any chance to get a bead on her. Repeating the feat over and over again, she very quickly closed the distance with her opponent and in under a minute she'd rematerialized right behind the sniper. The powered suited soldier was in the middle of repositioning and was just about to sprint across the roof she was on and jump to an adjacent roof when Naru introduced her to a powerful spin kick, her armored heel slamming into the rifle slung on her back.
The blow snapped the gun in half and sent the soldier flying across the gap between buildings with a grunt. Despite that, the sniper was a professional and reacted quickly. With some expert firing of her suit's thrusters she managed to turn an uncontrolled flight through the air into a controlled but rough landing on the opposite roof. She shook her head and tried to collect herself but sadly for her, Naru didn't give her the chance.
Instead, she teleported right in front of the disoriented sniper and swung one of her corrosive blades in a bid to bisect the female sniper. Yes, it was clearly a woman in the body suit, that curvy body was a dead give away.
Wait, don't kill her! Your friends are watching.Kurama, ever the rational one, screamed at her urgently.
Already mid-swing, Naru had only a fraction of a second to agree and act on it. Twisting her wrist so abruptly that she heard something pop, she redirected her swing such that instead of gutting the woman, the corrosive chakra blade instead sliced right through the woman's elbow.
All this happened in the same motion as the woman jumped back in a desperate bid to create distance between them. As such, she overbalanced and fell, all while silently grabbing the bleeding stump that was all that remained of her trigger arm. Acting quickly, the soldier pulled out a glowing knife with her good hand and cut even more of her mutilated arm off.
She just amputated more of her arm to stave off the corrosive effects of my chakra with a heat blade, cauterizing her wound in the process to boot. All without making a single sound. Naru noted, impressed by the act. Damn! This woman is a hardcore pro.
Not that it stopped her from taking out more of her frustration on the woman. The bitch had shot her repeatedly after all, and Naru wanted some payback for that. As such with a light tap with her left heel, she caused the roof beneath the sniper to transform into a series of spikes that skewered the joints in the woman's limbs. Most people would have screamed their throats raw at such treatment, but the only sound that the woman made was a hiss of pain.
The petite girl walked over to the now spread eagled woman. "Gotta say, you are really tough. I applaud your pain threshold."
"Too bad, you just had to pick a fight with us. You might have stood a chance otherwise." Naru commented airily as she admired her handiwork. Giving a satisfied nod, she continued. "Now just sit here quietly - not that you have a choice, mind you - and wait for Anti-Skill to come pick you up okay?"
Her only response was a defeated nod.
"Good talk."
With Capacity Down offline, the particle cannon wrecked and their sniper neutralized, the rest of the powered suits were nothing but cannon fodder for the Espers. MAR seemed to realize that and was in full retreat, with dozens of the rank and file members abandoning their positions in their trailers and fleeing the battlefield while throwing the automatons at the girls to cover their escape.
One of the machines closed on a barely standing Ruiko and she tried to launch a cryo blast at it, but only managed to conjure a lone snowflake. Thankfully, Shirai-san was there to pick up the slack and easily filled the thing with her nails. The effort however was more than enough to send Ruiko's recovering body crashing back to the ground. Thankfully, before she could suffer the painful meeting with the dirt her Kaa-san caught her.
"Easy, Ruiko. You're still recovering."
"I-I have to help." The [AIM Sovereign] managed in between desperate gasps of air.
"No you don't." Shirai-san reassured. "Just leave this to us and focus on healing."
Disrespecting the tender moment, the Kihara hag cried out in defiance. "Whatever you think, you can't do anything for those lab rats without the First Sample. Which I possess you small minded brats!"
"I want to punch her." Her Kaa-san murmured into her ear and Ruiko couldn't agree more.
Ruiko glared at the final remaining GAMA and taking a deep breath shouted her response. "You're wrong! I know we can save them without that bloody crystal! If not for you, we'd have done it already!"
"Yeah, so get out of our way!" Misaka-Sempai followed up just as Naru-san teleported near them, her armor frame re-assimilating into her body.
"Yeah, what Sempai said you psycho bitch!"
The GAMA took a step back, almost as if afraid.
"I guess we don't really need you." Ruiko glowered as she pushed out of her mother's arms and stumbled to stand between her fellow Level 5s.
Apparently deciding her men had the right idea, the Kihara quickly turned her machine around and burned rubber as she desperately retreated from the three middle school girls glaring her down.
"No no no, you don't get to run!" The [Railgun] snarled, sparks flying off her body. She made a fist once more and punched another of the many wrecked powered suits and fired it off with her patented railgun.
Naru-san didn't want to be left out either and called up a orb of that corrosive energy of hers and began to rotate it in her palm.
"[Demon Force]!" The blonde declared as she tossed the sphere right behind the hulking bullet.
I'm not really in any shape for anything too fancy, Ruiko thought with a pout even as she made the calculations for her own addition to the combo. Well, this will have to do.
With a thought, strips of Dark Matter materialized in the air all around the three girls even as a beam of green energy was launched from beside Ruiko's head. As it impacted the first of the Dark Matter strips, the beam dispersed thus transforming what had been a single laser into dozens which in turn impacted more of the strips and fractured even more. Each of the beams were weak but they created a maze of still deadly particle beams.
Sempai's railgun hit the fleeing GAMA first and blew off the hulking machine's entire right side sending it tilting to the left, allowing Naru-san's attack to hit it centre mass instead of just clipping it. The mech's remains crumpled under the destructive power of the corrosive energy and literally began to decompose before their eyes. Recognizing that her weapon was done for, the Kihara ejected and flew right into Ruiko's own beams. Conjuring a handful more Dark Matter strips, she redirected her beams to scythe over the escape pod disabling as many of its systems as she could without killing the woman within.
Death is too easy for you. Ruiko thought to herself darkly as the remains of the GAMA exploded and the escape pod hurtled uncontrolled towards the ground for a hard landing.
"And that's what we call [The Trinity Tragedy]!" Naru-san crowed as they all took a moment to admire their handiwork. "Whoo!"
Ruiko shot her an incredulous look while their Sempai bonked her on the head.
"Stop being a moron, Usagi."
"Ow! Hey, stop stifling my artistic creativity!"
The rest of the Trinity ignored her and began to walk off towards the transport trucks that the Kihara had been guarding.
"...You guys suck." The blonde pouted as she sulked and followed behind them.
Her mood reaching its limit after the stressful day, Ruiko turned around and chided her friend. "Can you stop being a spoiled brat for five minutes? We still have to save my siblings and Haruue-san."
Naru-san thankfully looked shamefaced at this and kept her eyes on the ground. "I was only joking around, yesh."
From where she was shorting out the electronic lock on one of the trucks, Misaka-sempai joined the scolding. "Read the mood, Baka-Chibi."
Looking into the now open trailer, they found nothing but some shaken looking scientists. "You all. Stay and wait for Anti-Skill."
They all meekly nodded at the Number 5s order.
"Alright, alright, let's just save the kids." The Number 2 quickly said, attempting to cut her scolding short.
"They're the same age as you, aren't they?" Mikoto noted as she used her powers to disable another door, this time leading to a compartment filled with equipment. "Damn, wrong truck."
"It's the next one." Ruiko confirmed tiredly. "And yes most of my siblings are the same age as Naru-san and I. A few of them are slightly older or younger."
"Pardon me for not being politically correct." Naru-san grumbled, crossing her arms as they moved to the last truck.
"Stop complaining and let's get going."
[MainForce] cursed under her breath, but said no more on the matter.
In the aftermath of the battle, Mikoto had never felt so satisfied before.
Therestina had been arrested, and was in fact currently unconscious in the back of a prison truck where they'd dumped her after Kuroko had pulled her out of her busted escape pod.
"It was easy. She was sleeping like a baby the whole time." Her roommate had commented at the time with a satisfied smirk.
Yomikawa-san from Anti-Skill was handling the mad woman's delivery to prison personally.
Once they had located the comatose kids, Kiyama-sensei had freed them and moved their comatose bodies to a lab the frog faced doctor had prepared. That took a while so the girls had hunted down Haruue-san and freed her too. Uiharu-san was particularly comforted by the reunion with her roommate, but everyone was relieved to see their new friend safe.
Right now though everyone - Haruue-san included - was at the frog faced doctor's lab, watching as Kiyama-sensei hesitated over pressing the button to start the procedure to treat the kids.
It had already been a good few minutes and still the silly woman was hesitating. Mikoto was about to step in, when Haruue-san stepped up to the plate first. She walked over to the scientist and took hold of her hand.
"It's alright." The telepath assured the scientist, before turning to do the same to a stiff looking Saten and offering the two a smile. "Banri-chan believes in Sensei and Saten-san."
That small, pure smile caused the woman to choke back a sob and Saten's breath to hitch.
The Usagi nudged Saten toward the computer terminal. "Come on, let's see those smiling faces."
The mother and daughter exchanged a look. Determination filled their eyes as they both turned to look at the button. Exchanging a nod, they reached out and pressed it together.
For a moment the room was filled with the sound of a low buzz as the Testament machines that the comatose children were hooked up to did their work. As the devices shut down and the sound faded, everyone waited eagerly to see the results.
It took a few minutes but eventually the prone bodies began to stir, limbs weakened by long disuse began to twitch as their owners slowly regained consciousness.
On shaky legs, Kiyama-sensei moved to Banri-san's bedside with an utterly stoic Saten hovering over her shoulder.
The long comatose girl's eyes fluttered open and immediately smiled at the sight that greeted her. That was surprising enough but it was the first thing that the girl said after years trapped in her own mind that threw Mikoto for a loop.
"Sensei, the bags under your eyes got worse."
A tear rolled down the woman's face. "It's because I've been very busy as of late." She sobbed, grasping the girl's hand tightly, her body shaking.
"Sensei! Your hair got longer!"
"So? It's still Kiyama-sensei. Split ends and all!" A boy laughed merrily as he struggled to sit up.
A girl looked curiously at Saten and pointed at her. "Rui-chan is acting super weird. Like she's a statue."
Banri frowned at her sibling. "That's not nice! Ruiko-chan was really scared for us."
Uiharu-san walked over to Saten, whispering in her ear.
"Saten-san, it's okay to cry you know."
The Number 3 stiffened and turned to look at the rest of the gang in turn. As she turned to her, Mikoto saw how vulnerable Saten really was. She looked like a nervous child, unsure what to do as she begged them for guidance.
Kongou-san offered a supportive smile.
Haruue-san looked away from Banri-san to offer her own tentative smile.
Kurozuma-san tossed her a thumbs up.
"Go ahead." Konori-sempai said even as she smacked Kurozuma-san on the arm.
Kuroko bobbed her head encouragingly.
"No need to hold back now, Saten-chan." Namikaze said earnestly.
Mikoto chuckled, offering her own supportive grin. "What the Chibi said. Let it all out."
[The Robot] moniker was forever broken in Mikoto's mind as Saten Ruiko collapsed to her knees, rivers of tears pouring from her eyes as she sobbed her fragile heart out.
"Geez," One of the boys sighed. "Ruiko-chan is just like we remember, our favorite crybaby."
Kiyama-sensei moved to Saten, pulling her into a tight hug.
Mikoto looked down as she was nudged in the side. The blonde of the group was smirking at her. "We rock."
She held out her fist and the [Railgun] chuckled, pumping her own fist against her Kohai's.
"Damn right."
A few days later, the whole group was gathered in the rehabilitation centre that her siblings were receiving treatment in.
"Ruiko, I know what this is about. You know that right?" Kaa-san asked with amusement as Ruiko escorted her mother through the centre towards the activity room.
"Oh?" Ruiko replied coyly as she pushed open the door to their destination.
"It's my-"
"Happy Birthday Sensei!" A loud chorus cried out cutting the woman off, leaving her in shock. "We love you!"
This elicited tears from the scientist as she looked at the enthusiastic smiling faces of her precious children. Conjuring a handkerchief, Ruiko reached over to wipe the tears from her Kaa-san's face.
An action that earned her a laugh from her siblings.
"Looks like Ruiko is as much of a Momma's girl as always." Ai-nee commented teasingly.
The rest of her siblings all jumped in on the teasing and Ruiko couldn't hide her responding blush. It didn't stop her from continuing to help her mother compose herself however.
"Okay, okay, that's enough everyone." Kaa-san said at last, offering Ruiko a smile. "Before Ruiko combusts from blushing too hard."
"Kaa-san!"
The entire party burst into a laugh at that but it was a good natured thing and Ruiko just huffed as she stalked off to the refreshment table. Uiharu joined her there as the rest of the partygoers offered her smiles and the celebration got underway.
"Uiharu!" Ruiko declared as her best friend walked up to her.
"Y-Yes!?"
"Skip for me."
Uiharu looked befuddled. "Huh?! Why?"
"I'm not a skipping person but this is clearly a skipping moment."
"Seriously?" Misaka-Sempai told her dryly as she too walked over and filled a cup of punch. "You can't skip?"
"She's protecting her image." Naru-san sang out without looking up from picking out some snacks. "Which I think she can screw today. Live a little Saten-chan."
"I am. Vicariously, through Uiharu." Ruiko gave her best pouting face to her friend. "Please?"
"Mm, you're lucky it's a special occasion." The computer wiz chided her. "Next time, you're skipping with me."
"...I cannot believe we are even talking about this." Shirai-san commented as she put down her half eaten plate of cake. She stared in a deadpan as Uiharu began to skip.
Heck, the flower loving girl even hummed as if she was Disney's Snow White while passing around slices of cake.
"Rui-chan, your friends are funny!" Park-chan called out, while shooting all of them an odd look.
"No way! Misaka-san is really cool." Her otouto, Kenta, called out from his wheelchair. "Hey, Misaka-san, wanna go on a date with me?"
Ruiko chuckled a bit at seeing her sempai blush.
"I-uh, no thanks. I'm not really looking f-for a date." She stammered a bit while Shirai-san nodded.
"Exactly! Onee-sama already has me after all."
Naru-san scoffed. "Please, she's already got a boyfriend. A plain dork at that."
"WHAT!?"
"Usagi!" Misaka-sempai raged as she started to chase the petite blonde.
"Hehe! Catch me if you can!"
Looking on at the happy madness, Ruiko allowed herself a broad smile.
Naru waited patiently for her guest in a well furnished private salon room. It had a television that had satellite and internet connections as well as a video game system installed next to it, and shelves with various board and card games. Food could be ordered with the touch of a button and there was even a refrigerator stocked with drinks.
Why she was here, you may ask. Well, Shutaura wanted a private word with her and what better place to 'chat' then one of her favorite salons? They offered rooms which could be hired for a amount of certain time for various purposes, such as having fun or parties, away from observation.
With most of Academy City's students living in dorms, under the stern eye of adults, these rental places were very popular to relieve stress.
More importantly to those on the Dark Side of the City, it was a great place to meet in private. Particularly as the information regarding who used the rooms were a closely guarded secret of the establishments, as ensuring the privacy of their clients was their main selling point. They weren't, of course, fully secure, but they were secure enough for most things.
Yup, like a raunchy make out session. Kurama commented as he thought back to the one time that Naru had run into just such a scene.
Oh, grow up you perverted fox. We're on the clock here.
Like you're any less perverted than I am.
Shut up! Naru shot back angrily. Or I'll have you muzzled for a week.
The blonde's conversation with her tenant was interrupted when a knock came from the door.
"It's open."
In response, Shutaura walked in looking as stern and no nonsense as usual, giving off that cool beauty vibe. Amazingly, she wasn't in her usual skin tight bodysuit and actually wore civilian clothes. A very plain looking t-shirt and jeans outfit. The blonde figured it was just to blend it, not that it helped the other girl. Not when she couldn't even pull off looking casual. Even without her usual eye grabbing suit, her attitude alone would have made her stand out like a sore thumb.
"Come on in, I ordered some drinks." Naru said as she presented a glass of juice.
"No thank you, but I appreciate the offer." The older girl said in her typically curt fashion.
She probably thinks I spiked it or something. Naru mentally rolled her eyes.
It would be funny to see if you did. What would you do if you roofied her?
Hmm… I have a few ideas. Naru replied with a mental smirk.
Sitting down across from the blonde, Shutaura put her small handbag down and folded her hands on the table.
"Will that Kiyama woman and those children cause anymore trouble?" The older girl said, cutting to the heart of the matter. "This is the second time [Multi-Skill] has caused an incident within Academy City, Namikaze."
Naru put her elbow on the table and cupped her chin. "Listen, Shutaura, Saten-chan doesn't mean to get involved in all these shenanigans."
Ignoring Naru, the brunette began listing things she blamed Saten-chan for. "Vast amounts of property damage, civilian endangerment, off the grid experimentation-"
"That's a bullshit accusation and you know it, especially in this City." Naru huffed, leaning back and crossing her arms sternly.
The leader of Black Crow continued. "This is the second strike against her. One more and the Number 3 will be viewed as a threat. I don't care that she's the best information broker in the City. There's a reason why there are growing countermeasures against you Level 5s."
"You make it sound like she's a rogue element." Naru mused, looking intrigued. Shaking her head, the blonde said. "Look, just back off from Saten-chan. Black Crow really doesn't want to make an enemy out of the [Army Slayer] right? Especially when she has backup."
The brunette's eyes narrowed dangerously. "Are you implying that you and [Railgun] support this wild behavior?"
The Number 2 shrugged while offering a mischievous smile.
"Who knows."
A couple days after the birthday party, Ruiko was at a deli near the rehabilitation centre buying dinner for her family. After days of eating hospital food, her brothers and sisters were tired of it. So when she and Kaa-san had visited this evening, they had convinced her to go out and get them some 'real' food.
Getting dinner ready for twelve people took some time though and Ruiko was forced to wait at one side of the counter while the deli's staff got her order ready. She was boredly scrolling through her social media feeds on her phone as she waited when Accel, of all people, strolled through the door and made a beeline towards her.
Stepping up to her, he eyed the already substantial stack of containers full of food. "Are you feeding an army or gorging on all that yourself?"
"No, just twelve people. My Kaa-san, my siblings and myself." Ruiko explained as she put away her phone. "Hello, by the way, Accel."
"You have a huge ass family, you know that?" The Number 1 commented bemusedly.
"Not going to dispute that." Ruiko agreed with a nod. "I'm surprised to see you here."
Accel offered her a shrug. "I'm in the area for an appointment, saw you were around and pit stopped to drop a hello."
An appointment? Didn't he say the same thing the last time I ran into him after the Level Upper Incident?
"I see." Ruiko acknowledged with a nod, not letting her raising suspicion show. "So what do you want to talk about about?"
"You looking stupidly happy? The reunion that good?" The pseudo-albino offered, sounding almost sincere but unable to completely hide his disdain.
No surprise there. Ruiko mused. He never did understand why others cared so much about family.
"Yes, it was. I'm practically over the moon." Ruiko nonetheless replied with a broad smile, letting her happiness show.
Accel's eyes widened in surprise at her openness, but he quickly recovered and changed the subject.
"Yeah, well, you better not lose sight of the true goal."
"True goal?" Ruiko asked in confusion. "What are you talking about."
"Level 6, you idiot!" Accel replied tauntingly as he turned to walk off.
He mentioned that last time too. Ruiko noted as she recalled their last conversation. What's with his sudden obsession with Level 6?
Setting aside her doubts, she offered her friend a farewell. "Bye, Accel."
"Bye, Ruiko." The boy shot back with a wave as he stepped out of the shop.
Watching him leave, Ruiko couldn't help but feel uneasy at whatever he was undoubtedly caught up in.
I think it's time to find out what in the world he's up to. Ruiko decided as her friend disappeared down a side alley further down the street.
Omake: First Meetings
It was the first day that Ruiko was joining this new group of Child Errors that had been assigned to be the participants in the AIM Diffusion Field Control Experiment. She honestly didn't know what the scientists behind the experiment wanted with her and the other Child Errors. There were plenty of other people in the City, including the impressive Level 4s and even more crazy powerful Level 5s to pick. Much less a bunch of kids from multiple facilities instead of just tapping an existing group. Maybe they were looking for people based on something, but if they were then Ruiko didn't know what it was.
Not that she'd complain though, getting selected to be part of this experiment had managed to get her out of her previous facility where her status as a Level 0 had led to her being bullied. Just like she had been in all the previous Child Error care facilities that she'd been assigned to as well.
She understood. She really did. Child Errors were among the lowest people in Academy City's hierarchy and thus often felt powerless. Ruiko could say that from experience. So they tended to lash out at those even weaker than they were, even fellow Child Errors. Because of this, ability Levels meant even more to them than to the typical esper. Which to a Level 0 Child Error like Ruiko, meant she was the lowest of the low.
Which was why even though she was pleased to be part of this experiment, she was nevertheless extremely nervous about meeting the new group of fellow Child Errors.
What if they reject me like all the others? Ruiko worried as she clung tightly to the side of the woman who was escorting her to the room where she was to meet the other children. What if they bully me too?
As Ruiko was pushed gently into the room, she found ten other children seated in a circle fidgeting impatiently and being watched over by a couple of childcare robots.
Oh no! I'm late and made them wait. The young girl noted with a gasp as she spotted the lone empty seat among the circle of chairs. Now they'll hate me for sure!
Terrified at the thought, Ruiko began sniffling as she was reluctantly guided to the empty seat. This didn't escape the notice of the caregiver that had led her in however, and the woman gave the girl's shoulder a reassuring squeeze even as she walked past her into the centre of the circle and began to address the group.
"Hello everyone-"
The woman continued with her introduction, but by this point Ruiko's anxiety had gotten so bad that she was actively tearing up even as she fought against it. The effort was taking so much out of her that the girl didn't hear a word the woman said.
What finally drew Ruiko out of her crying was her neighbor unexpectedly pulling her into a hug.
"There, there. I know how scary new things can be but there's no need to cry." The slightly older looking girl said as she patted Ruiko's head comfortingly. "My name is Shinoda Ai, what's yours?"
The overwrought girl tried to reply but only managed a sob. Ai-san didn't seem offended though, instead offering her an encouraging smile.
"Hey, while we wait for our new friend to calm down, why don't we introduce ourselves too?" A girl wearing a prominent headband said to the group. "My name's Edasaki Banri, by the way. Call me Banri-chan. I'm nine."
"Nice to meet everyone," another girl said in response. "My name is Fujii Maki and I'm the same age as Banri-chan."
Another girl put her hand up next to capture everyone's attention before shyly introducing herself. "I'm Park Hye-kyo from Korea and I'm eight years old."
Everyone were a little surprised at that. Sure, Academy City had residents from all around the world but non-Japanese tended to be few and far between. Park-chan did look different from the rest of the group, but it was subtle and in a city where genetic engineering was not out of the question, her subtly different features hadn't managed to clue the others in as to her origins.
The younger girl wilted a little at the group's surprise. Still recovering from her own fit of crying, Ruiko could empathise. Thankfully, another girl stepped in to draw everyone's attention away from Park-chan.
"Hi everyone!" A older girl spoke up with a challenging look on her face. "My name's Damdin Khulan. Like Park-chan, I'm not Japanese. I'm Mongolian. Khulan is my given name. Damdin isn't my surname though, it's a name to tell people who my dead dad and grandad are. Some kinda cultural thing. Oh, and I'm nine like Banri-chan and Fujii-san."
"Call me Maki." Fujii-san, no Maki, cut in.
"Will do." Khulan-san replied confidently.
I wish I had her confidence.
"Since we foreigners seem to all be outing ourselves, I guess I'll have a go too." A cheerful boy chimed in jokingly. "I'm Wu Shengxi, originally from Beijing, China. Like Ai-chan I'm ten."
"Don't call me Ai-chan, Wu-kun." Shinoda-san shot back.
"Why not Ai-chan, after all we've known each other since we were four!"
Shinoda-san just shot the boy a disapproving look. "And that's why you should know I don't like to be called "chan"."
"How do you two know each other from before?" A spiky haired boy asked. "Oh, I'm Izumi Kenta by the way."
"We've been housed at the same facility since we were four." Wu-san explained.
"Really? Fascinating, maybe you could tell us more about yourselves? It might help me figure out what the selection criteria for our group is."
"Woah there, Izumi-san. Maybe let the rest of us introduce ourselves first?" A boy with a bandana over his hair cut in, earning nods from everyone.
"Right, sorry Hoga-san. I got carried away."
Satisfied, the bandana wearing boy nodded before launching into his introduction. "The name's Hoga Ryo, nine years old, and Izumi-san is eight." He shot the other boy a disapproving look for omitting the last bit in his own introduction. "And I'm the greatest martial artist in Academy City!" The boy boasted, throwing a few punches.
"He watches too many Kung-Fu movies."
"Oi!"
The boy and his accuser started to bicker over the topic, getting a few of the others to giggle at their antics.
"How do you even know that?"
"Simple Wu-san, he talked my ear off about it on the car ride over. Apparently our previous facilities were pretty close by to each other and the adults thought it was a good idea to carpool."
"Lousy penny pinchers. Always trying to cut corners when it comes to us Child Errors." A boy in a pinstriped suit, of all things, said angrily, before taking a deep breath and curtly giving his introduction. "Harada Akihiko, nine."
With almost everyone introduced by this point, the whole group turned to the last boy. He just offered everyone a sleepy smile. "Is it my turn already? Well, I'm nine and my name is Sato Takeshi." With a yawn, Sato-kun seemingly dozed off.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were on Ruiko. The girl's heart skipped a beat at all the sudden attention but she soldiered on and with only minimal teary stuttering she managed to say, "I-I'm Saten Ruiko, i-it's nice to meet all of you."
It was a week later, and Ruiko and her friends were finally getting introduced to their teacher and primary guardian. Up till now, they had been looked after by temporary caregivers, uncaring scientists and childcare robots. They weren't bad. They just weren't very good. None of them really seemed to care about them much and treated looking after them like it was a job and nothing more.
So everyone was holding out hope that whoever the new woman was would be better.
Because of this, Ruiko looked on worriedly as Kenta-kun and Ryo-san set up the prank to 'greet' their new guardian.
"Is letting them do that a good idea?" Ruiko asked Ai-nee nervously.
The older girl just shrugged. "Don't worry about it, Ruiko. It's harmless. Besides, if whoever it is can't handle this then there's no way she'd be able to keep the boys in line."
"I know, but…"
"Just relax, will you?" Khulan-chan reassured in her usual confident way. "Everything will be fi-"
The Mongolian was cut off as the door to the classroom was opened and the boys' prank played out flawlessly. The blackboard duster that they had deliberately filled up with chalk dust and placed over the door falling onto a woman in a skirt and blouse as she tried to step in and coating her from head to toe in dust.
For a moment, everyone just stared at the scene in shock. No one, not even the boys had honestly thought the prank would work. Now that it had, they had no idea what to do.
"Oh! It looks like I'm dirty." The woman stated the obvious in a lazy way. "I guess I should change."
With that she reached to unzip her skirt. In response the whole class exploded into pandemonium as most of the girls rushed to stop her while the boys looked on flabbergasted.
"What a weirdo." Park-chan whispered, with a shake of her head as she looked on at the chaos.
Ruiko agreed that the woman was weird. But in her opinion that was a good thing! If nothing else, it made her different from all the interchangeable guardians she'd had before now.
This is the best place ever! Ruiko thought to herself as Ai-nee and Khulan-chan worked together to scold their sensei and teach her about public decency. I can't wait to see what crazy things happen next.
And with that, season one of Railgun is finished! Phew, man that was a long arc end huh guys? Thanks to the team of Nameless and Ax!
Nameless: I hope you guys liked how we chose to challenge our MCs in this fight. We made it so that their boasts about Capacity Down's effects on them were a little hollow. Not completely so, but just enough to mean that their abilities were hampered. Plus we had MAR come equipped with counters for both of them. Technological ones. This was something that I think is a minor theme in the Toaruverse, that being that the City is always trying (and to various degrees succeeding) to come up with ways to surpass and/or counter supernatural powers. Just look at the FIVE_Overs.
As you can see, there isn't just a anti-chakra blade, but bullets as well. Giving Naru some struggle is never a bad thing guys, but seeing her overcome it? That's pretty good. Also hope you enjoyed the Jäger Frame, think a mix of Gundam Exia and Psycho Red from Power Rangers. Blades for days folks, blades for days. Jäger is actually German for Hunter. So once again, we're going through our German stint.
Nameless: Talking about German. This week's chapter title translates to Paradise Found. Hope you guys find it as fitting as we did. Once more, I'd like to thank Google for being our translator. XP
Of course we had Mikoto save the day, because we can't let our MCs take away that sparkplug's spotlight. Kuroko also aided with the takedown of the particle cannon, good job! And of course Uiharu's take down of CD.
Nameless: It was a total team effort. As was fitting. Oh, one last thing before I sign off. That long omake at the end? That was the result of us realising that it would be unrealistic for Ruiko to call her siblings by anything but their names, so we came up with an introduction scene. It turned out quite nicely in my opinion, as it gave some insight into the family dynamics in the Kiyama brood and also why Ruiko's siblings see her as a momma's girl and crybaby.
Now smash that review button and tell us what you loved! No flames and peace off my peeps!