Yuki had experienced a number of shocking things for
the couple of hours she had spent in Deckstoru after waking up with no memory
of who she was.
Seiren had tried to grope her, Hikaru had teleported her
away from policemen who were looking for her, a group of soldiers had kidnapped
her for unknown reasons and at the moment she was using her newfound ability –
an ice deva – to finish off the leader of those soldiers.
Having put that leader atop a 15-meter ice spike she
had created herself, the baby doll thought there would be no more surprises for
that day.
Then he shot a thick chain with multiple spikes on it
and a spear tip at the end from his mouth, sending it straight to the
white-haired beauty at a very high speed.
Hikaru and Seiren roared with their full might, having
just smashed a fist enveloped in each one’s deva in the enemy’s head but still seeing
the attack he had sent to Iceflame.
The two managed to send streams of their elements down
the thick chain which led to its disintegration, the spear tip breaking off and
cutting Yuki’s shoulder, after which it fell to the ground.
The rivals were on their way to fall to the ground as
well, the baby doll’s focus turning to them as fast as they had reacted to save
her, jumping up high and grabbing them both by the necks.
She landed back on the ground and let them go, neither
one having suffered any damage from the landing thanks to the lady of ice.
The same could not be said for the villain who led the
soldiers Yuki had been fighting until recently, Hikaru and Seiren’s attack
having destroyed a part of the ice spike which had now crumbled behind the
trio, the chainman having fallen amidst the ice shards and a puddle of his own
blood.
The three stepped closer to him as he made several
unsuccessful attempts to get up.
Eventually he realized that wasn’t going to happen due
to the severity of his wounds which made him smile while sighing.
(Grak) ‘-Not bad at all, brats. Not bad.’
(Seiren) ‘-Time for some answers, I think. Why don’t
you start by telling us who sent you and what do they want with Yuki?’
(Grak) ‘-If your sole interrogation technique is
asking questions, boy, you won’t get far.’
(Seiren) ‘-I can always hurt you a lot more than I
already have.’
(Yuki) ‘-Seiren …’
(Seiren) ‘-What?! They opened fire on civilians! They
tried to take you away! Almost killed all three of us!!’
(Grak) ‘-Nice drive, boy. I like that. I would’ve
loved to have had some fun being interrogated by you but I’m afraid I won’t be
able to stick around till the end.’
He pressed a button on the device on the side of his
belt, causing the bodies of all his men lying around and his own to be
enveloped by pale green energy, by the time the energy disappeared, all that
was left of the bodies being small piles of ash.
(Seiren) ‘-What did they just …’
(Hikaru) ‘-It looks like mass suicide.’
(Seiren) ‘-With the push of a button? I’ve never seen
tech like this!’
(Hikaru) ‘-Whoever they’re working for must be
hell-bent on concealing their identity.’
(Yuki) ‘-And you two … don’t you know the limit of
usage after which you can’t use your deva at all? You seemed like you had
completely exhausted your powers up there.’
(Hikaru) ‘-Yeah. Thanks for saving us, Yuki. The truth
is we’ve gone overboard before but have never fully exhausted our powers until
now.’
(Yuki) ‘-You saved me right after I did that and many
times before, so I’d hardly call us even.’
(Seiren) ‘-We’ll deal with that later. Let’s focus on
what we’re gonna do right now.’
(Yuki) ‘-I say we go back to the square and see if the
people there are okay.’
(Seiren) ‘-Yuki, you’re in enough trouble as it is!
The police may already be back at the square and that’s where you want to go?!’
(Yuki) ‘-Didn’t you say we’re supposed to help each
other out?’
(Seiren) ‘-I meant me and Hikaru! That doesn’t mean
you need to get involved in this, too!’
(Yuki) ‘-I’d say I’m pretty involved as it is, Seiren.
So I’ll do what I can.’
(Hikaru) ‘-Well, let’s start by …’
That’s when Yuki heard the sound of sirens, realizing
they were mixed with another sound, only now both her and the rivals noticing
the activated alarm lights and sounds of the deva sensors in the area.
The sound of the sirens drew closer, turning out it
came from a number of police cars that pulled over at the remains of the
construction site.
At least twenty policemen dressed in uniforms in gray
and dark green got off the cars and pointed their anti-deva weapons at the
three who looked at each other again, smiles on their faces.
(Random police officer) ‘-Hands in the air! And don’t
move a millimeter of anything else after you’ve raised them!!’
(Seiren) ‘-Welcome to the party, Yuki. This is what
everyday life for deviants in Deckstoru looks like.’
(Hikaru) ‘-Not for all deviants, but it definitely
counts for us.’
(Yuki) ‘-Looks like a lot of fun, boys. Guess I’ll
stick around.’
That sounded fun and very adventurous when she said it
but only seconds later several police officers pushed her and her friends on
the ground and put cuffs of a similar design to the ones the white-haired
beauty’s kidnappers had used earlier on their wrists.
She felt the same prick on her wrists like when she
was cuffed back in the helicopter. The pain from that was sharper now however, probably
because she wasn’t in a state of shock this time.
The amnesiac guessed the pain was caused by some sort
of small needles that came out of the inside of the cuffs, realizing that it
was those needles that were used to neutralize her deva.
Those cuffs weren’t going to neutralize her increased
strength and speed because they were most likely of the standard type but
fleeing a scene like the one she and the boys had left along with those two
wouldn’t lead to anything good.
Iceflame could only hope the police would give the
trio some credit for taking care of the villains who had opened fire on
civilians on the square and give them a pass.
They did.
They gave them a pass for one of the holding cells
inside the precinct but only after Hikaru and Seiren were given basic treatment
for their wounds and Yuki underwent a certain procedure in her own right.
Two officers escorted her to a room with a number of
medical devices and equipment of different kinds inside and strapped her to the
operation table in the center, a man who wasn’t police judging by his white
coat entering the same room soon enough.
Were they going to perform a deviant test on her?
Yuki thought it would be redundant at this point and
even if they were going to examine her, she would not struggle against that at
all.
She was willing to cooperate with anyone who didn’t wear
creepy helmets and open fire on innocent people.
(Yuki) ‘-Um … if I may ask … why exactly am I here? If
you’re going to torture me to talk, there’s no need. I’ll tell you everything.’
(The doctor) ‘-Well, aren’t you cooperative. Don’t
worry. We’re not monsters. No one in here is going to torture you.
We’re just … taking precautions. As per the law valid
in our and pretty much every other country in the world.’
(Yuki) ‘-Which law is that?’
The man who had been talking to the baby doll up until
that point suddenly pressed a pistol-like medical device to the side of her
neck.
(The doctor) ‘-All verified deviants must have an
output-limiting chip in them.’
Yuki immediately ripped the straps tying her to the
bed but the man holding the pistol-like device injected something in her before
she could stop him, the two officers taking out the short sticks attached to
the outer side of their right boots, turning out those sticks were expendable
batons.
Iceflame leapt at the man who had injected her,
suddenly feeling a wave of heat passing through her whole body, followed by great
pain which made her fall to her knees, the man taking a sigh of relief for
being released from her grip while the officers loomed on both her sides.
(The doctor) ‘-Sorry about that. Nowadays we use nanotechnology for
the chips to ensure the injection is painless even for babies but the effect
the chip has once it enters the bloodstream … (he grinned while saying that) …
I’m afraid it will be quite different for a fully grown individual with a
released deva compared to a baby with still-dormant deva-genes.’
She was starting to feel numb from the pain and the
hit from the batons, that felt like they were enveloped in some kind of energy
and electricity, at the back of her head, made her completely lose
consciousness.
*
When the white-haired beauty woke up, she was put
between Hikaru and Seiren, the three of them sitting on the bench attached to
the wall which was the only piece of furniture in the cell they were being held
in, large parts of each of the rivals’ bodies being wrapped-up in bandages.
They had rather dull expressions on their faces but
livened up once they saw Yuki was awake.
(Seiren) ‘-Welcome back to the shitty real world,
girl.’
(Yuki) ‘-Seiren? Are we … this is a cell, isn’t it?’
(Hikaru) ‘-Don’t worry, Yuki. It’s our first time in a
cell as well, so it’s still strange for us, too.’
(Yuki) ‘-Hikaru, they … earlier … I think they put a
chip in me.’
(Hikaru) ‘-Figures. Ordinari wouldn’t just let a
chipless deviant wander around, even though you’re in a cell right now.’
(Yuki) ‘-These cuffs … do they completely nullify our
deva abilities?’
(Seiren) ‘-Yep.’
(Yuki) ‘-I am so sorry … I know saying it won’t change
anything at this point … but everything that happened back there … what’s
happening to you guys right now … it’s all my fault.’
(Hikaru) ‘-You didn’t make us follow you after they
captured you.’
(Seiren) ‘-And you didn’t make us help you ever since
Summerbolt found you. That was our choice. You should actually be proud of
yourself.’
(Yuki) ‘-I should?’
(Seiren) ‘-You’ve got multiple devas, baby! That’s a
goddamn gift from the heavens!! Superstrength, superspeed and an ice deva?!
That’s just sheer madness!
You train hard enough and you’ll be unstoppable even
with a chip in you!’
Yuki turned her eyes to Hikaru for a moment who had a
thoughtful expression while Seiren had been praising the baby doll.
(Yuki) ‘-Hikaru? Are you okay?’
(Seiren) ‘-What’s the matter, mad bastard? Can’t handle
the fact my girl here’s gonna become stronger than you?’
(Hikaru) ‘-I would welcome that. That way I’ll be able
to enjoy watching her kick your ass every time you try to make a move on her.
I was thinking about something else, actually. How
what you have isn’t really a superstrength or superspeed deva, Yuki.’
(Yuki) ‘-What?’
(Seiren) ‘-Hold it, Yuki. You don’t want to interrupt
the bastard while he’s giving one of his genius explanations.’
(Hikaru) ‘-I’ll strangle you if you interrupt me
again, Blackscale. That’s for sure.’
‘-Shut it, damn brats.’
That didn’t come from any of them. A cold voice coming
from the corridor outside the cell said those words.
And as Yuki and her friends listened in, they could
hear the approaching footsteps of the one who had said it.
Suddenly the lights in the corridor started to blink
and within a few seconds all of them had gone out.
The sound of the footsteps had also stopped.
The trio heard the sound of a fist hitting against
someone’s palm and with that a burst of bright yellow flames formed in front of
them, illuminating a woman that looked around thirty years old, had an outfit
in dark purple and yellow, skin and long straight hair without a fringe the
same color as Hikaru’s, and fiery-red eyes, currently having the most
terrifying angry expression on her face.
(Saya) ‘-WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, YOU FU**ING
IMBECILES?!?!!’
(Hikaru) ‘-Mom?!’
(Yuki) ‘-That’s Hikaru’s mom?!’
(Seiren) ‘-We’re all gonna die!!!’
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