Now with Kael in the secret forces of his universe, what will he do?
Two days after introducing Kael and Aria to the team, they receive their first mission, which consists of an assassination. Mikasa Hayami, Kael Katsuro and Aria Greenfield are assigned to this mission. Our group arrives at the house where the target is, it is on a planet called
Seikan, in a beige house practically falling into ruin, cracked walls, broken glass, vines everywhere, at that moment the sky was quite gray and darkness took over that planet. On top of a mountain near the house, Mikasa explained to Kael and Aria how they worked on that team, saying:
-Before we go in I have to inform you how we work here, 1st rule never leave anyone behind, this is a source of information for them 2nd always check your wires before starting the mission, good communication is always the key and 3rd …if…if
Interrupted by Commander Takami speaking on the wire:
-The 3rd rule is if someone betrays the team, finish them off at the exact moment, you can't let anything come out of here. And I would also like to take this opportunity to let you know that I have mobilized Shiro to the top of the building on your right in case you fail and someone runs away from home and Renji goes with him to guarantee protection. I'll be with Toru and Hikaru here at the base to give you updates. Now when you are ready you can enter.
The 3 look at each other and nod and move towards the house the entrance Mikasa peeks inside and asks Kael and Aria to stay there for now she will see the place. Inside Mikasa finds nothing, it's just a house being taken over by vegetation, she observes the entrance which is a corridor with furniture all destroyed and there is a broken mirror on the wall, as well as 4 doors and a bathroom at the end (the door was broken), Mikasa analyzes the entire corridor and makes sure there are no traps.
She calls Kael and Aria inside and the 3 decide that Aria and Mikasa should stay together since it was their first mission and Aria had no experience hiding her presence, and so Kael enters the first door on the right and Mikasa with Aria in the first on the left.
Kael enters a kitchen where the refrigerator was completely lying on the table and it had been broken along with another chair, the counter was full of broken dishes and rotten food, Kael carefully checks every corner of the kitchen and looks for anything. but finds nothing, returning to the main corridor and putting his hand on the wire, he says, reporting to Takami:
-Command command.
Takami:
-Yes ? Kael.
Kael:
-I just searched the kitchen and didn't find anything. Should I proceed to the second door on the right or wait?
Takami:
-Wait, you're still inexperienced, keep Shiro's sights on the door and you'll be safe until they leave.
Kael:
-Understood.
So Kael going to the door and waiting for them in Shiro's sights.
Mikasa and Aria, entering the first room on the left, come across a completely destroyed room, a television lying on the floor, a destroyed sofa with springs sticking out, a shelf stuck on the wall, a completely destroyed piece of furniture, pieces of wood and cotton were the floor of that room. room, no matter how much Mikasa and Aria looked for something, they didn't find anything like that, going out into the hallway and reporting to Takami, now the three of them are together again, it's time for the two doors at the end of the hallway. Mikasa and Aria enter the second door on the left, which is a room with a bed broken in half, a closet without clothes because it was all on the bed and on the floor, a carpet completely destroyed and glass on the floor, where Mikasa and Aria were not find nothing.
On the other hand, Kael, when he tries to enter his door, realizes that it is blocked, so he slowly and silently melts the lock, opening the door and finding a small warehouse where he feels a presence and immediately erases his hiding using Analysis, he realizes that There is someone hiding there behind some barrels of wine, Kael passes by some broken shelves and shards of wine glass and rotten food. Arriving at the barrels Kael realizes that whoever was there tried to hide their presence but not enough Kael could see him with the analysis he had forgotten to reduce the power due to lack of experience. Kael illuminates the place with the flashlight that came with his uniform and reports to Takami:
-I found the target.
Takami:
-Attention to the code, we are professionals in missions. But I'm glad you found him, finish the job and get out of there.
Takami, realizing that Kael hasn't moved for 15 seconds, asks:
-Kael… are you okay? Are you scared? I know what the first mission is like and the first murder like that right away is very heavy but you have to do it, this man was one of those who caused this war to happen so he has to pay for what he did, now choose.
You can kill him now or pick him up and take him to the door and Shiro will finish it if you don't have the courage.
Kael, almost crying, looks at the gun on his belt and picks it up and remembers the words Taro said to him a few years ago:
"-If you can't control yourself, how are you going to keep going?"
Kael, encouraging himself with the memory he had of Taro telling him this and applied it to the situation like this, pointing the gun at the person behind the barrels and with one hand he threw a barrel away and pointed the gun at the person's head, pulling the trigger. of the weapon. Mikasa and Aria in the other room heard the noise and ran there. When they look through the door to see what had happened, they see Kael sitting on the floor against the wall and the body of their target with his head blown off. Aria is completely shocked and moves away from the door, but Mikasa puts her hand on her back. not letting her go back and says:
-Aria, don't comment on the same mistake as me, remember the first rule, never abandon your teammates.
Aria looking at her with tears almost coming out of her eyes and Mikasa continues:
-I lost the person I liked most because of the same thing you were going to do now, it doesn't matter if you don't like him but anyway if you ever do don't make the same mistake as me none of us are here because we want what we do It's because we have to.
Aria looks at her and asks:
-Thank you? by whom?
Mikasa responds with a straight face:
-By the general and the army leader. The man I liked most did almost the same thing as your friend and betrayed this universe once by not being able to kill a person because of me, I knew almost nothing at that time, and the target escaped, when we arrived at the barracks... he … he..e (starts crying and can’t speak properly)
Takami, feeling sorry for her and a little melancholic, says when listening to her and Aria:
-Aria listen to me well Riku Akihara was the man that Mikasa is talking to you about and he was a completely different man from Kael where he got a little demonic taste of what he did so Mikasa as he was the one he was talking to the most him and managed to put him in place but in the next mission he had a breakdown just like Kael is having now he had one before killing the target and so he let him escape due to Mikasa's words, he revealed his love that day put Mikasa and said he did everything possible to see a smile on her face, but somehow the general found out what had happened and when we arrived at the barracks we were all welcomed except for Riku, who was knocked out and taken away by the guards. and I, Tetsuya Takami, did what he asked me to do, not to let Mikasa know what had happened to him if he died, but the general a few hours later appeared there with his head completely disfigured and threw it in the direction of Mikasa saying:
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-Your beloved "Riku Akihira, The Traitor" has just been killed and as his last words he said:
-"General, as you already recognized me as the greatest killer on that team, I want you to accept a favor before I become a traitor (I nodded to him since he deserved something for what he did before becoming a traitor)-General I want you to tell Takami anyway that she can forget what I told her and tell Mikasa Hayami that I loved her. I also ask her to let her live, I know she knows what she did to me but let her live"( How he was the greatest killer that this team has ever had I recognized his words and Mikasa Hayami has just gained another chance at life be happy and I will take this head since he wanted to see a smile in you). After that Mikasa collapses on the floor crying and the team was stopped for a few weeks for her to recover.
Aria, upon hearing this story, thinks:
(This story seemed like exactly what was going to happen I was really going to take him to his death... I'm going to get him and return the favor I owed him for the day we met)
Then Aria enters the room ignoring everything that happened and comes close to Kael who was completely in shock and not knowing what to say, Aria sits next to him and puts her hand on his left shoulder as if she were going to pull him towards her. her edge but Kael was motionless with his thoughts, so Aria says:
-Kael, calm down, I'm here with you, I won't let them get close to you.
Kael looks at her and gives her a hug while crying, Aria says softly to comfort him:
-Take it easy, you were the one who gave me emotional support to get me this far, pull yourself together Kael
Kael hears a voice that came directly from him saying:
-Kael pull yourself together, remember my voice, one day we will face each other and I want you as strong as possible, Junior Destroyer.
Kael wakes up basically as if nothing happened and looks at Aria and thanks her with a hug and saying:
-Thank you Aria.
Aria:
-Don't worry about anything else now, I'm here with you.
The two get up and go to Mikasa who has already recovered and report the situation to Shiro and Renji and everyone returns to the barracks. When they arrive there, the general is at the door waiting for them.
The general seeing them arrive says:
-Many congratulations, it looks like you survived the first mission, now I'm going to explain something to you, the man they killed was the minister of peace on the planet Seikan, in any case he may or may not have been the cause of this war or not, but if so, we were right if not. It was a war crime to kill a civilian, we will find out in the future with the rebellions regarding the death of the person who kept peace on that planet. You can go.
Arriving at the secret division room, they are all welcomed with a party and Aria and Kael receive congratulations from Takami, Toru and Hikaru.
Takami with a big smile on his face looks proudly at the two sitting in the communications chair.
That night Takami finds Kael on the roof sitting on the edge with his back resting on a higher part, Kael was looking at the moon very thoughtfully and approaches him asking:
-So Kael, how do you feel after what happened?
Kael looks at him lighting a cigarette and says:
-You know, I know what you said when I was there in shock.
Takami looks at Kael confused:
-What do you mean you heard?
Kael:
-Don't pretend like you don't know anything, I heard the whole story from Mikasa and Riku, and I was now reflecting on it.
Takami, not knowing what to say, asks:
-How did you more or less manage to hear it? Was it your bug that caught it?
Thoughtful and confused Kael says:
-I don't know if I knew when I was with Aria I felt a strange sensation and a voice that called me destroyer junior.
Takami smokes and asks Kael:
-Are you the son of the destroyer?
Kael responds:
-I have no idea who the destroyer is but everyone says yes so I assume it's my father but it all came down to the destruction of my home planet Kaen.
Enlightened Takami responds:
-So it's you, I was the one who saved you before the military troops arrived.
Kael:
-What ? So it wasn't the military who saved me?
Takami:
-No, I was passing by there on my way back from a mission and I saw you with your mother still alive and she said to me "Take care of my boy, I've already enrolled him in school, you can take him there and explain to them the situation I can no longer continue from now on.", it was her last wish and I fulfilled it by saying at school that it was the military who saved you, thus not revealing the identity of this division but now there is nothing to hide you do part of it.
Kael:
-So... don't forget, I understand and I want to move forward just like my master told me "If you can't control yourself, how will you continue moving forward?"
Takami smiling:
-Your master knows what mine says, he has become a general that everyone is afraid of.
Kael:
-So your master is our general?
Takami:
-Exactly. What I want you to think now is that we are a family Me, you, Aria, Mikasa, Renji, Hikaru, Shiro and Toru, you are fine with us you can leave your past behind because I will be you completely Honestly, you still don't know anything and the day you do you'll have to remember your master's words because it's hard.
Kael:
-What are you talking about?
Takami:
-The truth is… I don’t wish that on anyone and you know that.
Kael:
-You know, I think it's not that bad being with you here, it's nice when we're talking like this.
Takami smiles. And suddenly the general appears and says:
-Hello, little princesses, I was looking for you.
Takami and Kael say:
-Hello general!
General:
-You don't need to be formal, I'm not here as your general but as an informant, we have a new mission which in this case is to wipe out an entire hospital, the enemy is still mobilizing troops to Seikan and they have dominated the hospital where they are healing and we have to stop them. I want to mobilize both of you and Hikaru for this mission and I will act as a helper in the eavesdropping. Go get Hikaru NOW!
The two went straight to the secret division room and informed the entire team, Aria was completely shocked but had to accept it if she didn't want to have the same fate as Riku, the rest of the team were just a little upset and Hikaru was very upset but didn't if it was possible to rebel against the general, then the 3 went but before that Kael had a conversation with Aria in which he told her:
-Aria, I want you to have this.
And Aria asks:
-What is this?
Kael responds:
-It's a necklace that was in that house, that I wrapped with my power and it's warm enough to remind you of me and not burn you (that warm that's neither too much nor too little but that comforts).
Aria is embarrassed and happy at the same time, blushing a little and making Kael laugh.
Kael:
-Aria whenever you want to see me you can take that necklace it is involved in my power it should be easy for you to locate me with Analise and that. Do you know how to do the analysis?
Aria:
-I know, don't worry, I loved the gift. (Smiling, almost crying)
Kael:
-Well I'm going to have to leave for the mission, be careful Aria.
The two say goodbye and Kael goes on the mission with Takami and Hikaru, arriving again on the planet Seikan and positioning themselves on a hill.