Head of Department Meeting

"I wanna go home," I mumbled as I sat on the chair with my name on it. I looked at the two nameplates beside me which read Head of Investigation and Head of Health and Safety. "Now I really want to go home," I mumbled again as Hiro walked into the room. He waved at me and found his seat.

"Hey, I'm sorry about my dad yesterday," Hiro said taking a seat beside me.

"Don't worry about it, if anything you should be apologizing to Luciel," I said making a little arm bed on the table.

"Ugh, I don't even wanna think about that guy," Hiro said annoyed, I giggled and that's when Mina sat down beside me. She smirked and looked at us.

"You guys seem to be getting along well," Mina said in a teasing tone.

"We are, don't ruin it, Mina," Hiro said glaring at her.

"I won't, I won't," Mina said giggling. Mina, Hiro and I used to be the best of friends since 6th grade. We stopped being friends near the end of senior year of high school for multiple reasons but whenever the 3 of us are together it's almost as if it's the good times again.

"Welcome everyone," said the government official responsible for the manifestation unit. We call him Adam only because it seems fitting for an AI. Adam looks and sounds exactly like a human but if you were to take him apart you'd see that he is a robot. "Sorry to call you all out of your busy schedules but we're here to discuss a few things," Adam said with a smile. "Hiro, let's start with you today. I remember you had a request,"

"Yes Adam," Hiro said standing up, "I requested that the Investigations Department and the Inventions Department be merged since we have to work so closely together,"

"I refuse," I blurted out, sitting up straight.

"Why's that Director?"

"Adam, I have reason to believe that Hiro is doing this for reasons unrelated to his work," I said standing up from my seat.

"Which are?"

"Romantic reasons," Mina said.

"Oh, I'm glad you finally gave Hiro a shot," Adam said smiling.

"I did not,"

"Oh, what do you have to say for yourself, Hiro?"

"I know what it looks like but I promise it's only for work," Hiro said.

"Hm alright, I'll think about it and let you both know by the end of the meeting. Hiro, I got your email about finding something worth mentioning today,"

"Yes, my department got a call about a defiled statue of the #1 saviour, when we got on the scene it was a crystallized arrow sticking out of the statue's face. A few of my men tried to get it out of there and bring it in for research but no one could pull it out," Hiro reported then he looked at me, "That's when Director came along and she had no problem pulling out the arrow and carrying it,"

"I see, Director I'd like to hear your side of it now," Adam said interested.

"Of course, after speaking with Ms. Vasquez I had left my office and ran into a friend of mine. He had told me about the statue and as intrigued as I was we went to see it, when I got there I noticed the uniforms and found Hiro. Then while Hiro was babbling on about something I made my way up the statue and pulled the arrow out of the face. I fell and my friend caught me and I had no trouble carrying said arrow but Hiro and his men couldn't do my friend and I took it back with us and I ran some tests on it," I explained.

"And what did you find out about this arrow?"

"Not much actually, as soon as I was having fun, I mean starting to understand its nature it completely dissipated. No fingerprints, no origin but it was in fact 100% crystal,"

"Great you broke it," Mina mumbled.

"Did you say something, Ms.Vasquez?" Adam asked her with a smile.

"No, not at all Adam,"

"What were you doing over at Inventions?" Adam asked Mina.

"There was an issue with a manifestation and I was called but it came up empty, "

"Empty?"

"Yes, Director and her assistant were at a meeting when it happened and unfortunately only 2 people were in the room where it happened, being the victim and the perpetrator and the perpetrator wasn't anywhere to be found,"

"Is everything alright?"

"Yes, the person who was affected by the manifestation is alright and has her memories back," I said reassuring Adam.

"Wonderful, now back to business, Hiro do you where this arrow came from?"

"I have a rough idea of where it came from, I firmly believe that the Archer had something to do with this, I also believe that they're planning a come back so we need to find them quickly, "

"Do you know where they are or who they are?"

"No, but this is part of the reason I wanted to merge with the Inventions department, "

"I still refuse," I said getting up out of my seat again.

"Yes Director, I understand your viewpoint. It would be a hassle for you to work and dodge Hiro at the same time but think of all the material you could gather from it since Hiro is the one that wants to merge you'll obtain the intel he has. Deal?"

"Let's merge," I said without a second thought.

"Wonderful, just let Katsuo send me a weekly update on Fridays and you guys are good, oh and Ms. Vasquez?" Mina stands up from her chair, "Since that's 2 departments in one place I'd like you to send a representative to work with them on-site,"

"I'll go myself," Mina volunteered.

"Absolutely wonderful, now if there are no more comments or concerns that conclude this meeting. I'll see you all at the end of the year or if anything else pops up," Adam said leaving the room.