"Dad, I'm here." In the quiet graveyard stood a single figure as he knelt down in front of a grave which read, 'Nagato Aora'.
"Watch, set up." Watch's knobs rotated outwards in an anti-clockwise direction. Kiran's civilian clothes changed into a black top and dark blue pants and a jacket materialised. He then draped the jacket around the grave and placed Watch in front of the grave.
"They're the first two you gave me, and the last two that ever saw you again." He couldn't remember what else he was wearing that night or he would have added them as well. "Although I had them modified, they still look like the original. I hope you will pardon my five minutes of weakness." A tear nearly formed in Kiran's eye but he blinked it off. From that incident, he swore never to cry again, no matter the emotion.
At ten thirty in the morning Kiran took the two items back and Watch went back into standby mode. He started to walk back into town when Watch started to beep. A video chat from Lat Cartos was received.
"Sir, did something crop up which requires me back?"
"I see you know the motive for direct messages now. Riot force six has discovered something which may be a breakthrough for Ginga's current case. The situation has turned red, so I want you to work on it with her. Ginga is already heading to their position. I will forward their plan of travel. I want you to go in the opposite direction, from end to start, to catch up with them as soon as possible."
"Yes sir. Is there anything else?"
"Yes, you have permission for flight the city to get to them. Cartos out."
"I don't really fly… Watch, set up." After his jacket materialised, shards of ice grew on his feet until they were completely encased in ice.
"Water jets." The shoe-like case fired a jet of water into the ground. The pressure was so great that it propelled Kiran across the graveyard, firing another jet when he touched the ground. Watch estimated the time of arrival and Kiran almost laughed when he saw it.
"To think that it took me one and a half times as long to get here via public transport…"
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"I've found it!" Caro went over to take the metal case, unaware of the four energy spheres heading towards her. When she finally noticed them, she dodged clumsily, dropping the case. Lutecia then picked up the case as Garyuu and Erio engaged in combat.
"You're in the way," Lutecia said as she fired a burst of magic at Caro. She quickly put up a shield but it was broken, sending her flying towards Erio. Ginga then attacked Garyuu, allowing Subaru to confront Lutecia. When Lutecia ignored her, Teana took out her daggers and threatened her.
"Starling Howl!" Agito smashed a sphere of energy into the ground, letting lose a deafening sound and blinding light. Teana lost her grip on Lutecia, allowing her to gain some distance before Garyuu attacked Teana.
The sound of metal resounded though the air as Garyuu's foot collided with Kiran's ice sword. His other hand formed the ice cannon, driving it towards Garyuu as he stuck out his charged claw as well. The resulting explosion threw the three of them back as Teana fired a shot at Lutecia, only to have Garyuu block it.
"It's ok now Lulu, after all, I, Agito, the genius…"
"Ice shard." A shard of ice flew past Agito as she barely dodged it.
"Oi! I was talking here!" Kiran kept silent as Agito glared at him. She howled as purple flames started to erupt out of her hand, bombarding the battlefield. A resulting smokescreen allowed Garyuu to charge, engaging Ginga. The two forces caused another explosion, which Kiran jumped through, attempting to slam his ice cannon into Garyuu. Garyuu leapt back as the cannon drove a hole in the ground. Agito fired four highly charged flames, forcing them to take cover.
"Tea, what should we do?"
"Sub-commander Vita and Master Sergeant Rein are on their way here…"
"If we can hook up with them we can take them out right?" Teana gave a hmm of approval.
"Good reading of the situation you two." Subaru and Teana jerked their heads towards the voice, amazed that Rein could hear their telepathic conversation.
"Where are you right now?" Vita's voice came in. After receiving the coordinates of Lutecia, Garyuu and Agito, Graf Eisen turned into its giant form and smashed through the ceiling of the tunnel below. Rein emerged from the smoke, encasing Lutecia and Agito in a glacier while Vita made quick work of Garyuu. She went to inspect him and her eyes widened.
"They escaped?" A hole to the surface was left in the wall Garyuu was smashed into while Lutecia and Agito completely disappeared from the inside of the glacier. The ground then shook violently, making them stumble around.
"Subaru!"
"Yes, Sub-commander Vita! Wing Road!" The pathway made its way to the surface, denting the road above.
"Subaru, you and Ginga take the lead. Rein and I will fly up last." They nodded and Subaru started to skate to the top, charging a revolver shoot to break through. As Ginga followed her she dug into her pocket and took out a small hemisphere, about the size of a headphone. She called Kiran and tossed it down to him.
"What is this?" he said as he looked dumbly at it.
"Consider it a gift from section six! We know that you don't really use magic so telepathy will not reach you. The rest of us have one similar in size which boosts our reach for long distances but that's beside the point. By placing it in your ear and pressing it, a telepathic link will be created, allowing you to mentally contact anybody in the device's database and vice versa, which is a lot faster than video chatting from Watch." Rein explained as she gave him a big smile.
"Oh, ok. Thank you." Kiran then placed it into his left ear then formed his water jets and soared to the surface. As he was traveling upwards he thought to himself, 'Amazing, I'm just posted here temporarily and they already increased my contact efficiency. Ground forces didn't care at all that I couldn't use telepathy... '
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Lutecia noticed that the giant bug's work was done and was about to return it when metal chains started to restrain it. She looked up and saw Caro casting the spell as two Wing Roads appeared behind her with their casters riding them as Vita appeared in the middle. Agito then barely dodged a shot from Teana and fired back. Lutecia then summoned her daggers and shot them at the approaching front attackers.
Rein managed to surround Agito with ice daggers, causing her to stop moving and covered in binds by Rein. Lutecia landed on a bridge, too busy on the front attackers to notice a ball of lightning navigating towards her front while a blue stream bounced off a building to get behind her. She then saw Strada pointed at her chest while an ice sword was stopped sideways at her spine. Rein came closer and bound her was well.
"I don't like to do this; it's like beating up a little kid but… You're under arrest for using dangerous magic in the city and disrupting the duties of an officer." Vita said as she walked forward with Graf Eisen's butt under her arms.
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"Lutecia and Agito got captured."
"Should I help them?"
"Please do." Quattro then turned to Dieci and informed her of what Uno just said. Dieci then took out the cloth, revealing a huge cannon.
"Influent Skill, Heavy Barrel," chanted Dieci as the cannon began to charge. The crosshairs were fixed on the helicopter with the girl in it.
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Vita's eyes widened at what Lutecia just said. The next thing she knew was the explosion that engulfed the helicopter. She ran to Lutecia and grabbed her by the shoulders, screaming, "You've got people working with you right? Where are they?"
"Erio! There's something under you!" Ginga cried out as Sein appeared from under them and ripped the case out of Erio's hand. Kiran jetted towards the mid-air Sein and with the ice cannon in hand but reared back in shock when his hand just went through her. Teana then fired a bullet which also went through her and hit the ground as Sein disappeared into the concrete. Sein then returned and grabbed Lutecia, leaving in the same fashion. Vita tried to grab her but landed on the ground in failure.
"Long Arch, tell me the helicopter is fine!" Vita cried as she screamed into the communicator.
"Long Arch, Stars two. This is Stars one. I was close enough to save the helicopter!" Vita signed in relief as she then gave her report.
"We've totally failed here. The relic and the summoner got away. The forwards and the temps did just fine. It was my fault."
"Mine as well…" Rein admitted dejectedly. Ginga then motioned her elbow towards Subaru who nodded in understanding.
"Umm, sub-commander Vita?" She was greeted with Graf Eisen's tip as she hung her head.
"Sub-commander…"
"What? I'm in the middle of my report!"
"No, umm…"
"There was so much tension that we didn't have time to say it but…" Teana said as she raised her hand slightly.
"We sort of did a little something to the relic…" Vita and Rein gave a surprised look as Subaru and Teana laughed lightly. They continued to explain as Subaru took Caro's hat off and Teana switched off her illusion, revealing the flower on her head to be the relic.
"I see…" Vita said slowly as her jaw dropped.
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Kiran and Ginga entered the computer room after returning from the battle when Watch beeped. Kiran looked at it and told Ginga that he had to see Lat Cartos. She nodded as he left.
"Sir? You wanted to see me?" he asked after gaining permission to enter.
"Yes, it's regarding your leave…"
"Sir, it doesn't matter. I'll get back to work immediately after this."
"Okay, but we will be refunding your leave after this case. You may leave now."
"Yes Sir."
Kiran then got back to his seat beside Ginga and started to type out his report. "What was it about?" she asked.
"Just about my leave."
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After twenty minutes they were almost done with the reports and Ginga turned to Kiran and asked, "Hey, Subaru and the others have the night off for a good job and after this report we can go so I was thinking…"
"No thanks. Enjoy your time with your sister."
"Come on! Every time we have time to relax after putting in so much work you don't do anything with anyone? Just come with me and stop straining yourself for a night."
"Again, I'd rather not. You barely get any time with your sister now, just go and cherish the night." Ginga just sighed and left.
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"Gin-nee!" Subaru cried as she ran over to hug her sister. Looking around, she asked where Kiran was.
"Aww, I wouldn't mind having another person…"
"It's not you, so far he's turned down all invites to non-working festivals."
"Then next time Subaru should ask him," said Teana as she swallowed her food.
"Why, Tea?"
"Because you can get very selfish at times. I'm sure that it can overpower him."
"Tea! That's so mean…" The two continued to argue as Ginga stifled a giggle.