COI C163

“Tabitha, after hearing your story about your city. I would’ve seen it more if I have a chance”

“This is a fun talk, Yui. Let Tabitha let loose after her training. Hey! Get the alcohol before she goes older sister with us”

“Coming!”

Within their table, after finished dinner. The main course comes in with drinks. Tabitha watches Juela gets the drinks, Kiege talks senses to Yui for not making personal questions, and all while Yui herself not hesitating to talk about her. Yui persists to wave out her voice with her magic. She breaks off the noise and says to Tabitha again.

“About your people . . .”

Kiege tries her best to use of her own abilities to distract her, but Yui’s magic is strong and the distractions were left into the emptiness of her illusion. Kiege acts like a mute trying to get through the barrier like a mad mime. Tabitha had no choice to talk with her

“I just want to help them, they don’t deserve it, they are too reluctant to use their magic and forced to use it against their will. Those people were abusing them, because what they fear. I don’t want to use my power that way. Especially, something else lurks within me . . .”

Tabitha wakes up from a dream, a dream that is identical in her memory. It was the time they have their nightly dinner together. Yui was brought along because she hears Tabitha’s side of the story and slid herself within the group. They both are in Mihayara district, resting in a hotel. Looking at the room, where the other bed is where her partner sleeps. Covering his face with a pillow, and the mask lies next to the lamp. She turns on her side of the lamp and sits up on her bed, rubbing on her face to feel herself wide and awake.

She stood up from the bed and brings out her wand, a swing on it and led to the equipment she had does far. The words she had to remember, to the people of Enders spoke out to her throughout her days in Enders Bridge. The difference between ‘us and them’ were going to appear in the future. Haw is one of the rare few to warn her about Enders while those other Enders with them never say a word about his claims.

“. . . I understand their disappointment, and to think of the consideration of your city’s worries. Our guild master, Daygen had no choice among the group who joined us a while back. You’ll find out why”

Azin is one of the Enders who entered deep within the city. If other Enders look around inside, it is far worse to judge how the people who are rude, but this is Fuku City he got himself into. She remembers again the opinion of their actions. Faye and Syri were hesitating to answer Haw’s question. It was an easy question

“How do you deal with criminals?”

That silent went on, as Illtended breaks it off and return to their enjoyable conversation. That cut off at the time really makes her worry. And it was true, she heard the details from the city guild. The last day when the Enders guild helped them, they left without a friendly response, in silence.

Tabitha shakes her head and goes into the bathroom, washes her face and checked her device. The news, about Azin was apprehended after the incident. It gets wilder when the coverage gets through the eyes of the citizens. Fuku City have grown more negatively as before. The realm destroyed showed no proof that it belongs to the same gangs who made trouble in Mihayara district. Rumors spread into conspiracy where they shouted out in the comments.

“JUDGEMENT DAYS have upon them, the gangs finally taken them for granted”

It keeps going on and on, as she leans on the bathroom wall and pester herself to what Azin wanted her to do. Azin left with the people who are connected with her community. The true people who wanted to get out from there. Azin fails to reach out to them because of him being a foreigner, but they never lose an opportunity to be protected like the others. Now from what he did, the people who thought they used him for protection purposes are now in fear of judgement days. She remembers what he said to her

“Save first the people you know, I have met people who are taken advantage of me. The beads know, and only you among your locals can convince them”

The internet becomes a living trend once again as she turns into the archived news cast. “This man is an Enders, who brought the rumors of judgement days throughout Fuku City. We thought he was a con man, and he becomes the man who will be far worse than Asahara Shoko or Jim Jones”

“His performance alone single handedly pierces through the sky with his magic, breaking through the city barrier both dusts and Fuku City’s private barrier altogether. You could see here. He surrenders to the authorities after the incident”

Azin’s plan was too bizarre and why he did that. Tabitha don’t know anything about his master plan and doing so in public. Haw have said to her so much to think about.

“Criminals” She whispers to herself, now she thinks about it. There are no criminals in Enders Bridge. As her bind is active, Archivist and Kiege are still sleeping. She slaps herself to keep herself to think straight than overthinking only Azin. Is this the right time for her to bring them out? There are some who are ready to leave, but they have to deal first a place for them to stay. The lifestyle shock will ruin their struggling daily life.

On the news, it revises again from last night, the update of the case when Azin was apprehended. The results are in. “Azin is pleaded guilty under the investigation. He will be under jail within the Fuku City’s private security facility. It is unheard of that the only man to be imprison there instead the police headquarter in the Mihayara district. However, given the fact that the man is able to escape. Him being apprehended was willingly, so it is better according to sources, to let his do his time until the case clears up. On other news . . .”

CHEERS*

“YES! YES! YES!” Their sole enemy is in jailed. They don’t care what is going to happen to him, and only care how long will he be in there. They are all in the private chat cheering on from screen to screen, hiding their faces with their disguises. The background is posting their memes, anime memes. Going along that they are the heroes and Azin as the villain, and the irony of these people, they are not whole heartedly unified. They joined their forces just to end him. Their interest is finally safe from the judgement days. Now they could continue their daily lives.

The original C makes contact with the other realm owners, discussing about the situation. Their frightening expectation that he would be coming for them is over. They gone back their own personal business, while made a discussion with his peers.

“Phew* I’m just glad it is all over. Just a few days, and we almost lose it all for just one person”

“Yawn* I’m finally made a good argument on the internet for once. Those haters finally shut up with their casting judgement on me crap”

“Laugh* Our doubles are gaining substantial amount of money over there. I was thinking asking for more to my celebration”

C sees them feeling happy once again. It made himself grateful after being so worried of all these things lately. Azin in jail, and that’s all he could only happy about. His realm, he is flourishing. His harem is already starting to build to the next phase of his own upper floor building. Giving a little kink to his eyes as he given them some sexy, skimpy, and seductive outfits. He enjoys the view as they are thrilled to see him. Especially something happened under the table, he is able to hide his bliss.

Back to the topic, one of them wasn’t too happy what happened to other two. The last fight against Azin with his group. They were in shock to hear the name of the notorious rapist. The people in that last realm were all male. He is happy in the inside but his expression shows otherwise. The man is the double of the man with the lump of coal, the shrunken head, the cursed name that will not be messing with. He breaks the mood

“I can’t believe those two are gone”

“Augh! Again, with that topic, just enjoy the moment, sheesh. Why not get to a spa and hired a prostitute and stay away from this important moment?”

The people don’t have doubles laugh at the situation, but those who do have doubles already know the conflict between them. It was because of last week. The defectors found out about their hobbies and rose to complication among both sides. They were never been positive together. The doubles take advantage among the defectors to be able to gain the resources they need in their respective areas. The cult leader segregate them in order to separate between the good and the bad people of society. In order for the normal communities to be efficient without being annoyed by the strange neighbors.

C did what he can take advantage from between the non-defector and with his own peers. He was surely lucky to be able to have him to have good relations with the defectors as their green horn, newbie, or their side kick. He is grateful at that, and thanks to his double for being hardworking as any defectors should. Their relationship is now between master and servant. The people who have no defectors as their doubles comment on to the man about being Col’s double.

“Why so worried about him? You got lucky you’ve got him while we have none. We work by ourselves to the brim to get our earnings”

“Don’t try to say like that, even the double I have is known only to the defectors”

“Tch* Why would I care? You guys have one and gain a share from their income. Be grateful that those idiots should focusing on the weaklings first”

Someone joined the chat. It was Flashes’ double. He is late, and didn’t have reason to join in. To their surprised, something is wrong with the chat system.

“Hey! I thought we have blocked you”

“Heh, sorry I was testing my devices. Kicked me out, I’m busy with . . .”

Flashes got kicked out manually from the moment of the administrator, them, saw him. Then he comes back. Flashes returned with an annoying smile then logs off.

“Ugh! That brat, his double is truly a technician. How good is his double able to grant him that kind of resources?”

“Or do you think that he is able to muster up new invention like C here”

They all look at C with mad respect. His illusionary magic to brings forth their ideal characters from adult games, erotic visual novels, and such. Now they return to the man who says it and compared him to Flashes, they scuff it off like no dumbass to believe that. It wasn’t the case though, behind their laughter and success were the past grudge of themselves envied in Fuku City. Their introvert grow stale as they found out those people become defectors or gangs.

Their own colleague joined as Fuku adventurers, brought the introverts less and less to become nothing as liabilities. It wasn’t a great idea for them to fight against them last week, and to see themselves become the laughing stock. In their heads they thought so, the defectors didn’t care about them, only those doubles of theirs seem to be abusive as much. It wasn’t a long relationship between the strangers and the residence of Fuku City. The high prestige residence didn’t care, as long as they are working for them, there is nothing else they could do but work under their district.

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Many went back to the realm where Azin destroyed it. The realm of making dolls, C and the other doubles work hard for this realm to reunite them. Now gone to the point of no recovery. The people only have little time to get it build right up. The resources and the manpower they spent on were wasted, all those magic materials got outside of the city were destroyed. The dusts made it more expensive for them to refill their powers back. The replacement dolls, the spells conjured with magic products, and the protection of itself were all gone to nothing.

They keep their heads with regrets especially who are now become Fuku adventurers. “Fuck! They saved him, but not those two. They were new members”

“Stop complaining, those two idiots were lucky at the start and continue on to the next”

“You said that, because you were not part of the guild”

“Gibberish* That attitude of yours really made you even less than an adventurer”

The creeps were not too keen to understand their situation, and this man also acting rude without even knowing the consequence. More and more they have starting to regret to stop the fight from last week.

They have the same separate organization. Same goes with the Scraypers gang and the rest of the gangs throughout the city. They have brought forth their own business and the stable organization. Now almost all of them unite under the representative, Bokushi Hidari. They never forget how he steps up into power. Soon, they able to reconnect this realm back to their control. The magic left here is gone. The judgement thoroughly vanquished this place without a problem. Their twisted minds go through deep once again as they hear complaints with the doubles.

“Shit! Fuku City turns to shit because of a con messiah”

These people were easily riled up at the disappointment of their own work falling into pieces. All of their hard works fell to one man, many gone crazy to chase after him. They even abuse their membership to come help the idiots. All of that and some fell to their deaths. Everyone here is getting sensitive over this realm. The only left they set their blames now were the

“. . . Defectors! They said they are strong. Survivors from the east coast, couldn’t even care less that our city is being attacked”

“They should protect us too. We are the opportunity doubles to get back in the city”

“You’re not even part of the doubles program. Why would they care about you?”

The silent creeps in so fast as the man who complains look around with envious people halted, and some already enraging with their magic moving out of control. They work and some complains after the other. Their envy grew and their powers remained uncontrollable. It is the worst thing to happen to them, the only first thing that happened to them. They couldn’t control themselves over the first realm destroyed. Their favorite realm. They continue to clean it up until.

Random magic appeared out of nowhere, they are starting to make a fit among themselves. They rushed to see what’s going on and they saw a strange crystal glow hidden beneath the realm. No one knows how the realm continue to exist, and such materials made it to persist its existence is there. The power within the crystal is ancient and never once opened until now. It spreads among them receiving such unimaginable feat of mana. Including the mana flow of Alga’s light, the glow grew ever stronger as one of them have a random figurine doll on their side. It starts to act up.

They have discovered something amazing, and the figurine is acting like their previous dolls. This one is better. The figurine uses the abilities they have known in their head. It shoots at the crystal as it almost breaks. The creeps were not expecting that and proceed to defend the crystal. The figurine becomes stronger and stronger as the crystal continue chips off shards. They tried to fight back. They cast their spells on to the figurine but its protected magic shell blocked their every attack. It shoots them down as their mana flows are broken through. The figurine uses its jets to move side to side to maneuver. It’s laser weapons phase through them only to cut off their mana.

Alone, it able to beaten them down. Weaklings with no experience of fighting, even the size of the figurine fits only with one hand. So soon to be over in this fight, the figurine continues to take aim at the crystal. It charges up its cannon as the others are recovering by the crystal’s presence. They can feel the magic flowing through them even stronger. One of them lashes out before it shoots. The figurine disappeared and appeared behind him. He countered it with a quick round kick, but it disappears again. The figurine didn’t even move, it just cloak and threw an image at itself to him. Now fully charged cannon, it moves side ways to align between him and the crystal.

The laser shoots and it hit both of them. The Crystal cracks and shatter some bits. The desperation of their eyes never been this quickly fallen like this. They are as weak as they have ever been trying to stop it. The figurine alone able to take them all without a single hit on it. They couldn’t even save this realm again. The humiliation, they lose their mind. Then time stops. Flashes come forth and someone goes in lightning-fast speed. The figurine reacts but easily taken down with a rune lightning fist. C appears before them, taken out the figurine with ease.

The Flash was able to hold off the destruction of the crystal. C drops the device and pulls the stasis laser out from the crystal’s position. With his own magic spell cast to it, he was able to stop it and left with sparkles of small light out to the air. C’s hands are shaken as this magic he used was his first time. Merging with the runes together with his magic, it loses its stability and vibrate both his skin and the equipment on him. He drops down on the floor laughing while electrocuted.

“Lau-la-lau-laugh*!”

The other doubles come in late and saw the crystal. “It can’t be, so it is true. C, you’re right about it all along!”

The others were pulled themselves out from the ground and feel their magic is returning. The crystal before them, nearly shattered and only a third of it breaks from the crystal. A small glimpse of a human body from the cracks, almost destroying its secret. The amounts of mana were suspicious for others as the crystal continue to glow. C and the others who had doubles suspect of it. Now they found it on accident.

C remained down on the ground keep laughing. They don’t know who made this, but it seems like the creator is embezzling them all this time. Further inspecting within the crystal, they thought of a magical being. It is a doll like figure. They feel the warmth of the doll as if it is alive. They look at the doll closely, a young girl. A common identical of a loli girl. Others suspect around them to whom who belongs to. C recovers and said,

“That girl has enough mana to rebuild this realm, or should we ask the owner to convince us to let her live”

“Live?”

The crystals broke open. The girl wakes up and see around the men eyeing on her exposed body. Her power has the presence of the succubus. Frail after being sealed inside and the crystal manifests itself back into her body. The doubles know too well that they are not the one who is able to create such a thing. Others divide themselves to only they know and closes to. Suspecting who made her, the powers inside of her is gleaming with Judgement, able to resist it. None of them know who made it, and one random person stop them.

“For once of our lives, we should stop fighting. We don’t know who made her . . .”

“It’s better not to know . . .” The young girl spoke to them. Her disappointing gaze look around them as they show no unity. In their eyes looking desperate, wanting to protect this place that they could not. Even the strange magic affecting someone’s figurine was able to take them down so quickly. She raises her seat from the ground and takes relaxing sit.

“. . . You people need to work together. If this keeps up, you people will never protect anything dear to you. Even I myself know this. Sigh* Even though my creator wanted to protect me from all of you. It seems like you just need protection from them”

C stands up and with other doubles were not convinced, but the desperate people around them seemed to like her. Just be her own looks, and her own attitude among them. This girl is not those wanted to be protected, but she seems serious about this leaving them nowhere to trust to. The anime freaks were absorbing the moment of her existence. It is something they could not resist over. She said to them nicely

“Then please, all of you. If you can’t work together like this. Then how about protect who are left . . . Me!”

She secretly casts her spell on them, already being influenced by the powers of her magic. The doubles who sure know how to use their magic resisting the temptation. It was a trap. They didn’t react in time, the people who are influence are able to gain some power. Confidence grew within their minds and body, and resolved their differences. Too quick and sudden for their days of having a sufferable relationship between them and the defectors or themselves on the matter. They have no choice but to play along. C sends a call to his double

“Hello?”

“I don’t want to say this, but you should take the day off”

“What?”

It’s been two months after the siege. The third month is closing in within the few weeks, and Tabitha is nearly closing in to her deadline. Her reflection of her action grew numb as she is able to get them all to cooperate. The private server has able to convince themselves that they have to leave Fuku City. More and more of them figure it out the people here are getting stronger. Family, friends, and acquaintances are acknowledging the fact. The first people who got out from Fuku City is the old man, a child and the woman who rescued in the city guild.

Haw and the other Enders who reside in Stranding Island made their way to convince the leaders to settle there. The embassy island who stayed isolated from the city had finally respond. No one know why it secretly sanctioned itself, and they put their trust, the Fuku City residences, to live there outside from the threat they have indebted to. It3ch and Chelly are trying their best to get through to Tabitha with all the people they have trusted to leave this corrupted place. Tabitha without even knowing receiving an app called Wheatley.

Fuku City is becoming lively than ever from what she had saw, but the people from the private server had something different in mind. Thanks to Azin’s bead, their addictions are slowly fading. The scams are revealing to them, the food turned bland, the excitement gone away easily, the adrenaline fell drop as soon as they get exhausted, and everything else they have worked here are becoming less and less sociable. The beads are becoming their conscious able to think to themselves and lose their negative minds.

They found out why, and the old man was the one who explained to them for the past months or so. Tabitha wants to hear it than to read his long essay. She picks out her device and let Wheatley reads it to her. Behind the scene

“You got to be kidding me . . . Sorry, sorry. I told you that I shouldn’t be involved with her. You make an app just to make me your voice messenger. I got it, you tricked me . . . AH! That girl, alright fine. I’ll read it to her”

Chelly made this idea in the first place. Tricking Wheatley to read messages in order to contact with Tabitha. Because Wheatley speak lively when explaining the danger would she be facing.

“Ok, you little whipper snappers ahem* I’ve been walking around the city with my tired legs before you guys being lonely within in your rooms. This city can’t be saved, and we need to get out of here. One problem to the next. Nothing will stop them as it only replaces the better or worse of all evils. Isekai City, what those people called it nowadays are not going to help us. Chojima district is barely struggling to keep themselves off from both Mihayara and Fuku City. They are honest folks with hope to leave this world. They are flat out tired, and no experience with magic or even fight against it. ‘Ooh, that’s hurt for all of us here ow!’”

“The young man did help us removed the bad influence from this city. I still hate for him to lose my taste with my favorite sake, haha. I knew that brand can’t replicate, but sigh*. I miss the gold-old days. Put yourselves together and ready the paper work to move. We will be heading out, not to Chojima, you people know well we are hated neighbors because ours are siding with those bastards. I can’t blame them ‘Wait a minute, they can’t move there? Wow, I can’t say to that’. Always checked your forums, and let’s all pray that the people who keeps Azin’s beads. There is still hope, and let’s all see each other again”

Tabitha steps in once again in Fuku City, it’s been a few weeks. She had done what prepared for. The trickle exoduses of her old community. Archivist holds her lower back as she feels worse than she had faced. The slowly realization of her old community starts thinking of leaving this place. They can feel the powers of certain people, the defectors are getting stronger in the ruins. The presence of shamanism over there made her community’s magic obsolete. Now the low lives are becoming stronger than usual. Her people here are starting to become less safe on their own.

Archivist knew this kind of superiority have brought the people less freedom and provided more security. The paradise city here is nothing but a caged domain of their own heavens. They spend and spend to the point of no value at all of their free time and keep themselves in fear. They enjoy the luxury just to avoid the people who are next to them plotting to their next move. They can’t speak out, they can’t fight back, and they can’t get away from it. They are enslaved by their own fear. Azin shows them judgement days, and it was nothing but an entertainment for them. Only left in the social media worth mentioning is the Enders hitlist.

They accidentally walked into a barrier as they witness a fight. The securities are fighting against the low lives as they struggled to fight against their new powers. Archivist steps in as he barely pushes back the criminals’ familiar strength. He is able take his stance quickly and the security comes to his side blocked the hidden attacks to his side. As he blocked it, Archivist receives Tabitha’s magic cards, then able to control the enemies’ magic. They hold it firmly than he had imagined, such mastery, but expect no knowledge against him.

Large seismic waves send to the ground and rose from near their feet. Tabitha sees it and brings out her wand and swings it to the ground with a light tap. The small tip hitting on their foot soles, piercing the ground to their flesh and flows magic in their bodies. They quickly fall to the ground without noticing the pain. The securities able to hold them off. The spy greets him and Tabitha.

“Sorry for bringing you here without giving a warning”

Tabitha was not ready for it, and only did it with muscle memory with Archivist.

“No, but how do you know that we can fight?”

The head security comes in and finally meets Tabitha. Their eyes meet and remembered each other’s faces. Tabitha’s mouth lie shut as Archivist and even Kiege hear her in the bind.

“It’s her, that’s the woman that the old man showed me in the private server. No way, is she a member of Fuku City’s security?”

The woman greets her and her partner “I’m the head security, I’m so glad to see you. Let’s first deal with the suspects. And I like you to come to the headquarter with us. We all know that you’re one of the witnesses”

Tabitha froze, yet able to speak out only a question. “Witness?”

The spy reaches out to the cult leader, telling him that there is another Enders cooperating within the headquarter. The cult leader explains it to him “Let them be, you gathered too much I have expected. I know this city will become chaotic, but I will handle it just like before. Continue to follow them, they won’t remove everyone from this city. Since, he is still in jail. Figure it out if they have connection together, if you are ordered not to hear their conversation. Then play along, I heard so much that she trusted you too easily”

As the telepathy ends, the spy said to himself “It is because I know too much”

The head security walks passed him. The spy’s impressive skills were happening too convenient.

Whereas the city is starting all over again to uprise another revolt. The cult leader is waiting for the right time to strike, if all odds turned against him. His old friends will come and aid him. This organization he brought up is closer to reunite, and the opposing people are turning against him, while the people are leaving. It doesn’t matter, Fuku city will be migrating back again. The people of Mihayara district still needs a home as the ruins still stand. Nothing will change Fuku City to become what it was, the home of the elites.