Noriko
"Oh, I had no idea!"
Clearly.
"Dumb question but... why would anyone think you're a pervert?"
Shef and Yuki
Pavilion Square. Once a grand palace, then a central station, now a shopping mecca. Its flooded expanses stretch out before you overgrown with plants and train-tracks alike, an immaculate palace in immaculate ruins, the glass still as clear as the crystal waters below, the marble still as pristine as fine as your illusory appearance. So Yuki assures you anyways.
The place is a garden, as much of tracks and ruins as it is of vines and flowers. New platforms rise from beneath the water like the lilypads around them, signal posts grow haphazardly, a few have become bird roosts, a few more signs to help navigate the grand market and train tracks grow and tangle, blooming with ruins of rooms that never were. The tracks have become walkways, and new tenants have settled into the ruins, the broken rooms symbiotic with the creepers that grow up their walls and the merchants who have set up inside, nourished and reinforced, royal elegance intertwining with natural greenery and fresh metropolitan style. You see gardeners tending to the place, pruning it with shears of thermite and guiding it with trellises of steel.
It is beautiful. It perilous. Foot traffic is high, who knows what lies within the crowds? The skeletal rafters and dense treetops make for excellent vantage points or sniper positions, while the ruin-shops and undersides of the platforms could work well for ambushes. It's a tactical nightmare. You mentally kick yourself for not searching the place up, for not interjecting when the lady proposed it, of course she'd suggest it - whoever sets up the meeting holds all the damn cards.
And then, and then you see her. You her waving at Yuki, and your stomach just drops. Those eyes! Dear God, those eyes! They're the eyes of a seasoned soldier, trained and alert with a piercing intensity yet relaxed in spite of it all. You had thought her another eccentric. You had thought wrong. Make no mistake here, this lady is dangerous.
"Hey Yuki! Over here! Over here!"
Sakurako
From your vantage point nestled in a tree above you Shef and Yuki exit the train and make their rendezvous with a lady just inside Pavilion Square. The little boy stayed in the train while Baghead and co rushed up another tree. You take care to remain out of their sight. Something feels wrong. The meeting is going forward as expected but you can't shake that feeling, that almost sickening gut feeling that something's not right. Instincts screaming you scan your surroundings again. Nothing. You scan the rafters, tracing all the way across just in case there's a sniper. Nothing. You shift your gaze back and... wait... what's that? There, deeper in the markets, you can see the same scene playing out a split second in advance.
You see what appears to be Shef and Yuki meeting with the exact same lady.
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Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226558 times)