Chapter 26.5. Green dragons. (On behalf of Nila Otsuko)
After I ran out into the corridor behind Kaji, I noticed that this guy had already run away quite far, so I had to speed up to catch up with him. He was leaving my eyes, stopping on the floors in the most invisible places for me. And finally we reached the first floor and I squeezed him into a corner and took away the camera. Still, I didn't want to delete that photo, so I just copied it to my phone.
I flipped forward to one photo, I saw what Kaji probably wanted to show us when he came into the room. This photo showed people with green dragons on their hands.
- Ah, I noticed it anyway. Okay, I'll tell you about what happened while I was walking. So I went out into the street, it was calm and I decided to walk one street ahead and buy myself a camera to track down our enemies. And by the way, I needed this camera almost immediately. I noticed through the glass that strange people in black masks began to gather on the street. After buying a camera, I decided to try it out on these people right away and photographed them. Well, then I went back to the hotel and that's it. Then you know yourself.
- Wait, Kaji, didn't you notice anything strange in these photos? I asked, looking directly at these "green dragons"
Kaji took the camera from me and took a good look.
"Mmm, so that's it. Listen, we'll definitely need Akishito's help here, let's go, let's go back to the room.
We were slowly climbing into the room when suddenly strange female screams were heard from our floor. Then we decided to speed up. When we reached the floor, we saw that there was absolutely nothing there, and the scream was a one-time one.
We went into the room and my heart sank from what I saw. Akishito was lying right on the bed with Karu, in a position that I wish I hadn't seen. His legs were between her legs, his head was almost at her mouth, but his hands were reaching for her face. After what I saw, I immediately ran out of the room with tears in my eyes. I wanted to open up to this Akishito, but he was so brazen… Okay… Maybe I misunderstood something…
Akishito caught up with me.
- Listen, Nila, you misunderstood everything. I was just trying to get a card from her. But it was under her pillow, so I had to reach for it. And you probably misunderstood everything, as usual–" he said with a smile.
- Yes, I'm sorry for my misunderstanding, I'll try not to cry anymore. Yes, and it was you who brought me to tears! These words were followed by my light palm strike.
— And you know, you probably hit me right now, but I shouldn't have climbed on Kara's bed. I would have waited until she woke up, and then I would have taken this card.
- That's it, there's nothing to climb on the bed to a defenseless girl, she even screamed in surprise.
Akishito began to worry about this again and at the same time began to scratch his head. I noticed that every time he was worried, he scratched his head, that's why I immediately swept it up.
We returned to the room where Kara and Kaji were already sitting at the table and probably discussed what method we would use to choose a person for intelligence.
- Sit down and knock on the next room to wake up Mika and Mimica. Now we will choose the person who will go on exploration.
— I'm going! I shouted and moved into the next room.
When I entered the room, I noticed that they were not sleeping at all, but were playing dice.
- Hey, gamers, let's go to our room, we will choose the one who will go on exploration, otherwise we will decide without you and send you.
- Well, Nila… Well, we wanted to finish playing..." Mika said with a sad expression on her face.
- Don't be serious, Nila, we have a game here at the most interesting moment, the fate of all of us is being decided. Mimica said with a smile.
- Then you finish playing, and now, on-o-go - pulling them out of the room, I said.
And so we all gathered in our room and Kaji asked us all:
— Well, how will we decide who will go?
— I think we should play some kind of game to be honest, well, or just by counting. Well, or, as a last resort, we will simply choose the person who shows himself least in business.
- Let's roll the dice, then the one with the higher number will go to the exploration, and the one with the smaller one will get a prize. Mika said, taking the cubes out of her pocket.
Everyone immediately agreed to her proposal, but they simply ignored mine. It's a shame somehow.
- Hey, what are you sulking about, sis? Mika was talking in my ear.
I also kept silent in response to her.
The queue for throwing dice began with Kaji, who got a number… Yes... the most minimal on the cube. Unit.
The next one was Mimicry. She got the maximum number 6. Well, I think no one else will throw away the same amount. Now it was my turn. And again the number 6 fell out. Oh no, don't tell me…
And yes, Mimica and I had the same numbers, so they sent two of us on this fucking reconnaissance. I don't even really know this Facial Expression, I probably won't even have anything to talk to her with.
Okay, we started to gather for our exploration, bought suits similar to green dragons, covered our bodies, just in case there were some guys in that society. This was followed by the most important part of our intelligence, penetration into the building. Fortunately, there was no security at this room and we calmly went inside. It was very dark and creepy here, so at first the Mimic kept closer to me. Well, we have reached the main hall of this organization. This hall itself was filled with all sorts of signs with slogans and the emblem of green dragons. We were the last to enter this hall, after which the doors closed and a short man appeared from behind the curtain.
- Welcome, dear guests, today we will tell our grandiose plan to revive our power and overthrow our former leader Ari.
The betrayal was conceived as low, but still they decided to deal with this Ari, who was plotting against us. This is certainly their positive side. Let's hear what happens next.
— Don't forget, Ari also has a near-doppelganger from an alternate world, Akishito. So be prepared and if you notice suspicious activity on his part, then attack him without hesitation.
So, and this is already a little annoying, why the hell did they decide to target Akishito specifically…
Do they think he's a villain like that Ari? Possible… Maybe they don't realize yet that alternative versions are alternative even in character.
- P-s-s Nila, what are we going to do? Mimika asked me softly.
- Listen further, in case we find out more important information.
We continued listening to the performance.
- Ari is now in a world that was previously calm. But at the same time, soon there will be such chaos that it will be worse than it was here once, so we decided to suspend Ari's activities in this world and not let him absorb that one. It is better that we ourselves come to power here, and we will leave the power in that world to the most ordinary people.
So that's it, they want to take the book from Akishito in order to move into our world and exterminate Ari. It would be better to tell Akishito about this, in case he comes up with a peaceful method.
We were about to leave slowly when suddenly…
- Hey you! In the last row! Where are you going? Really… Seize these scoundrels! We took off our robes and ran as fast as possible, fortunately we managed to escape. Only a part of our clothes was torn from the fact that they clung to us with their long claws.
- F-u-u-h thank God, they came off. Run faster to the hotel and tell Akishito about what is happening. - said the Mimic and then ran. Yes, this girl is really fast, she doesn't even talk to her normally. Well, okay, less words, more business.
When we reached the hotel, we found Akishito and Kaji on the first floor of the hotel. They were sitting and discussing something important. But we decided not to interfere in their conversations.
We retold as briefly as possible about what happened at that event. But they didn't understand us because we were talking very fast and out of breath. Then a few minutes later, after our breath cleared, we told them again. Then Akishito got up from his chair and headed outside.
Where did he go without us? - I thought for a second, after which I noticed that when he was leaving, he was scratching his head again, after which I realized that he was very worried, heading to their lair and I felt something was wrong, I called everyone else, changed clothes and we all moved out to help Akishito.