(***Yoko Flashback***)
Hikaru and the dryads returned 3 days later after clearing the vegetation and planting the new crops. The dryads had sped up the growth and development of the crops and poured their mana into the ground revitalizing it. With that, done Hikaru then contacted Hammer to have the construction worker come in 2 days to begin their work. Hikaru spent the next 2 days checking in on the businesses of her group and finalized everything before preparing to leave.
The day before she planned to leave she visited Yoko who had been spending a lot of time with Nova since the earthquakes had caused damage to the building in the area all schools were temporarily closed. When she knocked on Yoko’s door and was let into the room, Hikaru noticed Nova had fallen asleep on the bed. Hikaru motioned for Yoko to talk with her outside as to not disturb the sleeping child. Outside the room, Hikaru asked, “I wanted to know if you’d like to go with us tomorrow when we go to the island.”
“Yes, I will I’ve been meaning to go there for some time now anyway.” answered Yoko
“I’m glad to hear that now that everything is basically handled we just have to investigate that tower. I need to know if it is dangerous. We’ll meet up in the lobby tomorrow morning at 7 so I’ll see you then.” said Hikaru before she walked away
“Okay I see you then.” said Yoko before she entered her room
Yoko then entered her room and found little Nova awake and looking at her. Nova then asked, “Are you leaving again mama?”
Yoko walked over and sat beside the little girl and said, “Yes I have to check on something for aunt Hikaru so I might be gone for a few days. It’s a bit dangerous so I can’t bring you along so I hope you can be a good girl and wait for my return.”
Nova looked a bit dejected as she listened to Yoko’s words but she still nodded like a good child. Yoko noticed Nova’s mood and hugged the little girl. Nova must be feeling quite sad that she and Zero would constantly leave her alone. Although Nova seemed mature, she was not even a year old so she did not have much in the way of social development. Nova like her father so she had yet to learn how to really express her dissatisfaction. Zero and Yoko needed to do better when it came to the little girl. After Yoko was done with the tower, she promised herself that she would not leave the little girl alone again like this for a while.
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“I’m sorry mommy and daddy haven’t been spending enough time with you. I promise that when this is over I’ll talk with Zero and we’ll take a trip just the 3 of us okay?” said Yoko
“Okay, pinky promise. I learned it in school that if we do it we definitely have to keep the promise.” said Nova as she stuck out her pinky.
Yoko smiled and interlock her pinky finger with Nova’s and to her surprise, a green glow occurred when they promised. It seemed like Nova had unconsciously created a contract through a pinky promise. While it surprised Yoko, it was not a contract that troubled her so she decided to consult about this ability with Zero when he awakened. The 2 went to sleep hugging each other.
The next morning Yoko woke up and asked Dahlia to watch over Nova until she returned. She went down to the lobby and found Hikaru waiting with Hammer and Hel. She walked over and asked, “Hey are we ready to leave?”
Hikaru then turned to face her and said, “Yes but we’ll need your help.”
Yoko looked confused and asked, “My help? What do you need?”
“I remember Zero once telling me you can control people as he can. I need you to make the construction workers unable to notice how unusual the work they’re about is.” said Hikaru
Yoko paused for a second before nodding her head agreeing. Yoko then followed Hikaru outside the hotel to find a crew of 60 construction workers with a lot of machinery. Yoko then called for all the workers to come to listen, which they complied. Yoko then added mana into her eyes and activated her succubi ability that she had never used but had seen Zero use multiple times. Yoko’s eyes change to a glowing deep ocean blue color unlike Zero purple as she politely asked the workers to disregard any strange thing they might see while doing this work and to never speak of it to anyone. The workers all had a dazed look on their faces for a second before nodding and returning back to normal.
Hel then raised her hands creating a large gateway for the large machinery to fit through. Hikaru then ordered the construction crew to follow as she entered the gateway. Yoko, Hammer, and Hel followed behind the crew before the gateway shut and sank back into the ground.
The group arrived at the island and Yoko walked over to the cave entrance and activated her spatial magic. The entryway was large enough for the machinery to fit but it would have been a tight fit so she expanded it. Hikaru then called forth the foreman and asked them to repair the lightly damaged buildings and demolish the heavily damaged buildings while showing them the marked map created by the reapers. The foreman suggested they walk around and inspect the buildings themselves first to under how they’ll need to repair these buildings. Hikaru agree and left with Hammer to answer any questions the workers might have.
Yoko and Hel walked over to the tower ready to investigate. Yoko touched the building and tried to apply force to her grip and found that the liquid metal-like exterior stopped moving around and a spike formed on the exterior. Yoko pulled back her bleeding hand and looked at it unconcerned as she said, “Hmm looks like the building has self-defensive capabilities so we can’t force our way in.”