Kaiju Fighters Ch. 46

Kimiko paces back in forth in Mosura's office. "How come it never crossed my mind of this happening?"

Mosura tries to calm her down, "In the moment, many things escape thought!"

"I mean, I'm the liaison. I should have known that there'd be consequences?"

Gojira steps in front of her and gently grabs her shoulders. "Kimiko, it'll be alright!"

She smiles at him before hugging, "I know, it's just," the agent never finished as she sighs. Kimiko then turns to Mosura "I'm so sorry for causing you so much trouble."

"Kimiko, as far as I'm concerned, you've done nothing wrong," the guardian of peace smiles. "Not to mention you're a good friend. Now, we better prepare for the investigator's arrival."

"When would he be here?"

A man's voice reaches their ears. "Right about now!" standing in the doorway is a man with hair slick backed, wearing a tweed jacket, blue button shirt, a red bow tie, and is carrying a suitcase. "Tendo Choi," he introduces while offering a hand to them. "Internal affairs."

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Choi has requested to use Mosura's office for his interviews. A knock comes at his door, "Huh?" he looks at his watch. "It's not time for the first interview. Come on in!" he shouts, and two familiar figures walk in. "Newt, Gottlieb? Nice to see your sorry faces again."

Newt runs up to hug the man. "Tendo!? You're no better off."

Gottlieb walks up to him. "We heard the name, but we didn't think it would have been you. How are you an investigator for Internal Affairs given your conquests?"

"Hey? I'm a married man now, and when I joined the agency, I was able to choose a job of my choice. I figured that being an investigator would mean less distance between me and the family," he then smirks, "Plus, they don't necessary know of my conquests."

Gottlieb rolls his eyes while Newt smiles at Choi. Newt then asks, "What you trade for this?"

Tendo, "I told the agency I knew about our kaiju and a little about the Jaegers."

"You mean you didn't create false documents?" Newt asks again as he gets smacked behind the head by Gottlieb. "Ow! Hermann?"

"Nope!" the investigator starts pulling out papers. "I told the full truth. Well almost. I left out the fact that you guys aren't locals either. That's why I especially requested this case. If it came out that you guys are here under forged documents, then who knows what would happen?"

Hermann hums, "Well, it's good to know that we are safe."

"Yeah!" Newt agreed. "Not to mention Kimiko and Gojira. By the way," he faces his colleague. "You owe me twenty. You said that they would never get together."

Tendo clicks a pen. "Interesting. So, you knew they had feelings for each other?" and takes a note as the interviews began early.

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"So, Mr. Ishiyama," Tendo walks around Anguirus. "You're married, right?"

"Yeah?" the spiked kaiju raises a brow. "It's not like I keep it a secret."

"We know," the man goes over a file. "A Vegas wedding? Those don't tend to last long. What do you have to say about that?"

He shrugs. "I really don't get it. For most of us, when we choose a life partner, it's just as it says. For life."

"Yeah well, humans tend to change as time passes. Not to mention, you apparently won it big in the City of Sin? That tells me a lot about that woman, who apparently already had a child."

Anguirus growls as his spikes tear through his clothes. "Leave them out of this!"

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"A priestess, huh?" Tendo asks as he sits across from Lora. "How that happen?"

"Me and my sisters were the last of our kind," the youngest of the Shobijin explained. "Mosura saved and granted us some of her power. We have been serving under her wings for millions of years."

His brows rise at that. "Millions? You look good for your age," he takes notes. "but you're much closer to human than anyone else here. Uh, aside from Doctors Geiszler and Gottlieb," Choi receives a nod from Lora. "Uh-hu! And I don't have to guess your viewpoints on interspecies relationships."

"I… don't know what you're talking about"

Instead of responding, Tendo pulls out a photo and sets it in front of her. The photo is of her leading Baragon into the hotel room. Lora suddenly finds it hard to breathe as the room seems much smaller than it actually is. She soon starts crying. "Don't tell Moll! Please don't tell my sister!?"

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Liz enters the room and slams the door. "What did you tell my husband!?"

"Mrs. Ishiyama?" Tendo welcomes. "Even though you are married to one of the Fighters, you are technically a civilian. So, as much as I would love to interview you, I can't."

"You are going to, because I want to know why Angy is ignoring me?"

"Perhaps it's because he opened his eyes to your intentions?"

The woman glares at him. "What?"

"Oh, come on!" the man opens a new file. "A single mother, working in Vegas, who is, woah!" his eyes widen. "Much older than she lets on. Marries an unusual, naive fellow, who understands nothing of the value of money. What woman in that position wouldn't marry the first proposal that comes her way?"

"I was a waitress in Vegas. At a casino. Do you know how many proposals I got daily, just because they won it big?" she explains. "Those men are pigs… and a few women. My husband on the other hand? When I snapped at him that I wouldn't marry him because he's winning, do you know what he said. He told me, 'I don't know what that is, but would you I if I lost?' and then I said, 'Most definitely.' Loss of five million later, we stood at a chapel. But not before I laid everything in front of him about my life, what he would end up getting through this marriage, including Amy, and he told me that he did not care and that I was a wonderful human," she takes a deep breath. "If you truly know everything, then you know that I signed a prenup before the wedding?"

"About that," he flips through the file. "I looked into that, and I found no prenup. What I did find was that apparently, your husband requested the prenup to be removed," Choi hands the evidence to her and the woman marvels that the files state the truth. "Now, I don't know about you, but to me it seems that a gold digger has taken advantage of the poor guy."

Liz glares at the investigator.

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Everyone watches as Liz storms out of the office with a huff and slams the door shut. The door then opens back up and Choi sticks his head out and says, "Next!" he has a red impression on his face of a hand.

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Mosura storms into her office. "What do you think you're doing!?"

Choi answers, "My job."

"Is your job to make one of my girls' to cry and cause marital problems for two beings who love one another?"

"My job is to find the truth behind what's going on in the background," he explains. "I've been doing this for a while, and I find that the easiest way to get to the truth is to break people emotionally."

"Do you plan on breaking me?"

"Yes," he answers as he throws a file on the desk. "With this!"

The guardian picks the file up and reads it. Her eyes widen as it is a visitation log from the Kaiju Confinement Facility with her name on it several times.

"Why would a woman who is bent on peace visit a criminal that caused her so much emotional distress?"

"Gabara showed me an image of my daughter," Mosura explains. "She was converted to a human like us. However, I never saw her as a human yet and the image he showed was too detailed to be something he'd conjure on his own," she starts crying.

"You believe that he knows where your daughter is?"

"He must and I intend to find her."

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"Special Agent Miyagi," Choi walks around her. "Former police officer. Had taken the entrance exam into the agency many times. Denied every time because they had no need of you, despite passing every single test. That must have made you very upset."
"I will not lie. It had been my dream to do more than just write tickets and control traffic," Kimiko admits.

"Then the kaiju showed up and you took advantage that you had already made nice with them. Convinced the agency that you are needed since these guys don't trust easily. When did you decide to hook up with one of them?"

"Excuse me!? No one decides to fall in love. It's a natural thing that just happens. Anyone who goes I'm just going to love that person has no idea what love is."

Tendo nods, impressed with the answer. "Okay then. Now I must ask. How is he in the room?" he smirks.

Kimiko's face reddens at that. "Th-that's not any of your business!"

"Ah, so you two haven't yet? Figure you would have by now."

"We were waiting to have an actual date. We've just been busy since I got the notice of the investigation."
"Really?" a brow arch at that. "The two of you have been seen at this diner many times," he sets a photo of the two sitting in her diner. "By the way, I stopped by there before work and your mother makes the best ramen. She then ranted about how you two never even touched your meals."

"Oh, Mom!?" she sighs.

"Also, she wants an update on those grandkids. But I'm guessing that's going to be a while."

"MOM!?"

"Now, let's get down to the reason I'm here," he sets another photo of her and Gojira kissing on New Year's. "So, your preference is a dinosaur? That's your business. But the Agency is concerned that means you're compromised. Director Amaki demands for you to be removed from this assignment immediately and sent as far away from the influence of kaiju activity as possible."

"You, you mean that I can keep my job, but I can't be with Goji?"

Choi shrugs. "Right now, that's the most likely outcome."

Kimiko takes out her badge and caresses it with her thumb before setting it down on the desk in front of her. "As much as I like doing more, I'd rather go back to traffic control than to not be with him," she does the same with her Maser Pistol.

Choi only glances at the badge and pistol before placing them in his suitcase. "Now, send in the big guy."