Ai placed a hand on my shoulder trying to make me stop from shaking. I looked at her and she pulled me in a big hug then and there. My heart was beating very fast the entire time and my breathing got ragged the moment I left the car. She noticed it immediately and tightened her grip on me. The touch of her soft and cold body felt nice and I leaned into her hug and hugged her back. I really needed this right now.
We stayed like that for some minutes with the passer-by glancing at us before going their own way. We finally stopped and I looked at Ai and she just gave me a gentle smile. Her hands moved close to my face and cupped them and she started caressing my cheeks.
"You’ve got a bit different in your behavior Kazu-kun. Did you notice that?" she asked and I looked at her confused.
"What do you mean?" I asked her.
"Nothing, maybe it’s just me," she said and kissed my lips gently. It made me completely forget what we were talking about the prior thing we were talking about. "Let’s go then," she said and held my hand dragging me with her.
We entered the main building and all eyes fell on us. This time, some of the faces were the ones we have seen back amongst the hunters. Right before we stood a very familiar face.
"Took you long enough," Natsumi-san said while tapping her feet. "Any longer and I would be out there for blood and when I would find you, I would make sure that you regret it."
"Okay, okay Natsumi-san, enough with the threats now. We had a bit of an incident in the cab," I explained to her.
"Elaborate."
"Dominic was in the car with us," I said in a serious tone and the mood amongst the three of us dropped.
"Come inside," she said and we entered the elevator. She pressed the button to the weapon production floor. "Now speak, what happened exactly."
"Dominic was in the car with us, as the driver of the car," I started. "I don’t know how he got that accurate with what I believe is a guess which is also highly unlikely but he said…"
"Said what?" Natsumi-san asked while raising an eyebrow.
"Yuna is alive," I told to her and her face dropped immediately. She walked over to the wall of the elevator and raised her hand.
BAM
A big bent was made in the wall of the elevator and she stayed there for some seconds before looking back at me. She walked up close to me and I could see the clear anger in her eyes. If she could find Dominic right now, he would have been cut in half before he could even blink.
"These vampires won’t even let the dead die easily," she muttered in a pure venomous voice. "Not even a little girl who couldn’t even think properly herself."
"And he said that…"
"He said what?" she asked.
"That he wants to leave her in my hands," I said and her face dropped again.
"What?"
I nodded and we heard the sound of the elevator indicating we had reached the desired floor. We all stepped out and started walking. I looked over at Ai and she looked pretty confused.
"I don’t know why is doing this though. Nothing makes sense," I told Natsumi-san and Ai.
"Kazu-kun, who is she again?" Ai asked me.
"She is my younger sister. Who died when we both were very young," I said and looked at my hands. "As far as my memories go…it looked like I was the one who killed her."
"What nonsense are you speaking Kazuki?" Natsumi-san said instantly in an angry tone. "Why on earth do you think that? And why did you never tell anyone about this?"
"Because…" I started speaking but the words would not come out of my mouth.
"Why?" she asked one more time in a commanding manner.
"B-because…I was scared back then. I was scared that you guys would leave me because I committed something so heinous. Because I- "
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"Enough," Natsumi-san spoke in a cold voice and stopped walking. She grabbed my face in her hands and brought it close to her. "Now listen here. I will say this once and just once but let me tell you that Yuna’s death was not your fault. To this day, we don’t know what happened exactly but I can say with full confidence that it was definitely not you. I am ready to fight even the entire world to prove that I am right. Am I clear?"
"Y-yes," I said and she hugged me tightly.
"Stop staying stupid stuff now," she said and ruffled my hair. It felt nice honestly. Brought me back to the old times when I was still a crybaby. When I would wake up every day crying to myself. When I would have panic attacks from time to time and run in her arms bawling my eyes out.
"You’ve gotten soft on me since yesterday Natsumi-san," I spoke my mind. "Did something happen?"
"Just…since the moment of your first confrontation with Dominic. I am not having a good feeling about this," she said. "I tried everything I could to postpone this mission to first take care of it but these idiots are not letting me. I could very easily cut the throats of each of these stupid board members but doing that will also be a pain in the ass with the VEO gone."
"I…woman’s intuitions again?" I asked her and she nod her head.
"For the first time in my life Kazuki. I’m scared for you," she said and I hugged her tightly.
We stayed like this, not saying anything at all for some time, and then broke the hug before walking towards a big door at the end of the corridor. The door opened and my eyes got shone with bright white light. We looked around and a big room was filled with lots and lots of weapons ranging from melee weapons to gloves to even guns.
Natsumi-san walked before us and we started following her and she took her to a corner of the room with lots of weapons on display. "So the surprise for Ai is…"
She clicked the button and one of the weapons got dismounted and was brought right before us on a conveyor belt. We both looked at it and right before our eyes was a pair of beautifully crafted daggers. The blade of the daggers was so shiny that we could even see our reflection in them and the daggers had white and green handles. Truly beautiful to look at if I am being honest.
"These are…for me?" Ai asked Natsumi-san and she nodded.
"How long to plan on using those wooden stakes? These are more durable and effective and even a better option overall than those pieces of wood," Natsumi-san said and Ai walked closer to the daggers and picked them up by their handle.
"They’re so light," Ai said whilst tossing the dagger in her hands with ease.
"They look really nice," I spoke my mind. "They fit you perfectly Ai."
"Hehe, thanks Kazu-kun," she said with a smile on her face. "Now I can protect you a lot easier.
"Come this way," Natsumi-san said walking over to a door it opened to another white room. This one was a bit different because it was filled with a lot of dummy targets probably used for testing purposes. She flipped a switch on the wall and the dummies came to life. "Test dummies we use to test these weapons. They are made of silicon and carbon fiber and are pretty fast programmed to know hand-to-hand combat. The only way to stop them though is to pierce them through the chest."
Ai stepped forward knowing that it was her time to test the daggers and she held them in her hands. She slid her leg back and crouched down before launching herself at the dummies. They charged at her but she quickly had the blade already in the chest of one dummy. She used it as support kicking it to get more height and jumping up high in the air.
She got down and stabbed one of the dummies in the head making it stagger before stabbing it right in the chest. One of them got behind Ai and grabbed her arm but she quickly cut it off and kicked its leg making it fall off balance and stabbed it in the chest.
"This is so fun!" she screamed and rushed at the other dummies in the blink of an Ai, all of them were on the ground cut into pieces with a hole in their chest. Ai stood right there with her eyes shining bright and she looked at me with an innocent smile on her face.
"Did you see that Kazu-kun?" she said waving at me and I just smiled.
"You did amazing Ai," I said and Natsumi-san sighed.
"I just told her to stab the chest, not cut them all in pieces," she said a bit annoyed and we both chuckled.
"Well, you should have specified it before," Ai said and the daggers deactivated before they turned into little hairclips. We walked over to Ai and she put the clips in her hair. They had a little bunny at the end of them and honesty, they looked really cute on her.
"How do I look?" she asked childishly and I pat her head.
"Adorable," I said and Ai started to blush.
"You should say that to me too," a familiar voice whispered in my ears. "Senpai."
Sigh.
Are there any normal people who work here? Like seriously?
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