"Issei's phone, in other words, that rectangular device he kept fucking around with when you two came to visit me the other day?" Lee tilted his head.
"Yes, it is quite the interesting piece of tech indeed." I nodded, "The technology of our world is still a far cry from the precision required to stuff so much into such a tiny container, but upon inspecting it for a few hours, I had learnt a lot about its inner workings."
"Yeah, but didn't he say he had it enhanced by the Gods or something?"
"No, the technology remains the same, as he said." I shook my head as I booted the System's BIOS, "The only thing he required is the battery life, so he had Pry meditate him an unlimited supply."
"First Aru, now Pry..." He smirked, "I get you got your own God you believe in, but I don't really understand how you can call them such casual and friendly nicknames."
Ah, I shortened Prylos to Pry on accident. No, it felt more like it was done out of habit, but as far back as I can remember, I always called him by his full name. Right, he is a God, and I am a mere human being. Getting too friendly with them might make them angry. I was an atheist before, but after personally meeting that knucklehead God of Fighting, I can't really say I doubt their existence anymore. After all, it's factually proven, the Gods' existence that is.
"So then, if I just go into the settings here... Ah, there we go!" I pressed the Enter key, "That ought to do it!"
The giant screen exited the BIOS as the System rebooted. After booting back up again, a few lines of code on the command prompt I wrote just now executed themselves and a new window popped up. This window had but one number on it - Issei Kaido.
"Huh? What's happening?" Issei's voice anxiously picked up after a few rings.
"Whoa! It really is him!" Lee stood behind me, baffled, "Meil, how did you...?!"
"Simple, really." I explained, "The problem is divided into two main parts required to make this work. For starters, since the Server is already connected continent-wide, all I needed to do was to reprogram the antenna up above us on the roof of the warehouse to put out and take in signals. After that, I only required Issei's phone number to know which address to call, which is something he gave me the other day while I was studying the device."
"Holy crap, so it was you who called me, Meil." Issei sighed in relief, "Do you know how scary it was to receive a phone call in another world? Damn, I haven't heard my otaku ringtone in decades..."
"Issei, run back to the campus and gather reinforcements." I listed off, "Kevin, Lem, Javi... Honestly, if possible, Lune and Edward would be enough, but they are imprisoned."
"What's wrong? You guys ran into trouble?" He sounded a bit nervous, "Alright, I'm coming over there."
"Stop, did you not hear a word he said?!" Lee shouted, "We're surrounded by God knows how many of these dirtbags, you alone can't do shit! Go home and call for backup, okay!?"
"But...!"
"Do it!"
"Tch, fine..." He sounded ticked off, "But when we come, you better watch my sick moves! I'll take the record for most beatdowns, even surpassing Lune and Edward!"
"That would be very helpful of you." I chuckled as I hung up, "Then, see you soon."
"Yeah, jyaane~!" He sang a tune as the line cut off.
I guess that's settled then, but we still have another issue to resolve. Namely, while we were talking, the officers and the inspector busted open the trapdoor to the basement and surrounded us completely. It seems we were allowed to finish up our conversation with Issei in no small part thanks to Rotriko's goodwill and mercy.
"Whose voice was that, boys?" He struck a match before lighting his cigar.
"Just a friend." I replied, "By the way, smoking is bad for you."
"And is that friend in this room right now?" He turned around, "I don't care what a murderer has to say about my habits."
"No, we talked to him over the System." I shook my head, "Still, just because I killed a few dangerous people does not mean you should dismiss my honest advice."
"Bullshit, you can't talk to someone far away. He's gotta be hiding behind the screen or something." Rotriko spat out the nearly untouched cigar before stomping it out, "And double bullshit, you must be sick in the head to excuse murder but condemn smoking."
"Will you two stop it with the dual conversation?" Lee grabbed his head, "It's hurting my brain!"
"Maybe I am crazy." I smiled, "They say pleading insanity is a surefire way to get sentenced as not guilty. How would you feel if you learned I am schizophrenic?"
Hearing this, some of the officers gasped, others were taken aback, and some even began turning to their subordinates to question if that's really true. I have them now. I take my meds (mostly), I have the doctor's notes to prove my condition, and my time spent studying the laws of the world for my job in Oden will surely aid me in convincing the judge to let me off with at most a slap on the wrist. Rotriko can't do anything to us now, cause if he does, we can rightfully sue him and he and everyone with him can kiss their jobs goodbye!
"So you're fucked up in the head, no surprise there." He squatted to pick the stomped cigar up, "Though it seems you've made a mistake in your calculations, ami. We are not associated with the court, nor the police force."
"Huh?"
"Yep yep! We're just that - Vigilantes, freedom fighters, justice warriors, whatever you wanna call us!" He flicked the cigar straight into my Eyes, though I dodged it in the nick of time thankfully, "Either way, we're not afraid of killing a crazed murderer because of some petty laws! Right boys!?"
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"Aye!" His subordinates whom I previously thought were officers shouted.
Crap, that cigar did a number on me...! I managed to turn my head in time to avoid major damage to my Eyes, but it still hit my cheek and left a strong burn mark at the point of impact. Precision, connivery, strength, agility...!
"This guy has it all!" Lee readied himself for a fight, "Meil, watch out!"
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"Hup! Ough!" I failed to dodge the first flurry of strikes in time.
"Meil!" Lee yelled as he tried desperately to fend off the horde of enemies.
"What's this? Aguilar and Heffer said you put up way more of a fight, but I don't see it at all!" Rotriko knocked me to the ground, "Shit, you're not worth even a sliver of my strength!"
"Augh, m-my Sinus Wave... Ack!" I lost the air in my lungs after one too many kicks and punches.
"Ah, there's that crazytalk kicking in finally." He raised me up by the hair, "Tell me truthfully, how many have you taken?"
"Ptu! What do you mean?" I spat on the ground next to him before getting decked in the face for asking.
"Hmph! You kill without remorse, then get let off the hook for being a madman." Rotriko gave me a look of disdain, "What the fuck is wrong with you, Meil Deram? You sound so sure you'll be alright, which tells me you've done this before. So tell me, just how many people's lives have you cut short with that madness? When will it be enough!?"
"What? No, these guys are the only ones!" I shouted, "Well, give or take a few since I did get targeted by a ton of bad guys in the past."
"You...!" He snapped, "You disgust me, Deram! Die, right here and now! Repent in eternal damnation with the ones you've subjected to the same fate!"
"Oi." Lee blocked his punch for me, "Kid, you're not seriously letting this guy win, are you?"
"Lee..." I turned around to see all the other guys splaying on the ground around us, "Heh, I guess I was just waiting for the Sinus Wave to turn positive."
"You knocked all my subordinates out by yourself!?" Rotriko gasped.
"So, that Sinus Wave is basically a representation of your luck, am I right, Meil?" Lee ignored him as he continued, "Lemme tell you, kid, you can't keep waiting for your luck to turn around, cause by the time it happens, it might be too late to do anything by then."
"Lee!" I got up with a newfound spring in my step.
"That's it, you're quick on the uptake!" He dapped me up before inviting me to join in on the double beatdown, "When luck ain't going your way, turn around and deck it in the face!"
"You mean chase after it yourself?" I raised an Eyebrow.
"Same thing, really." He gave Rotriko chills with his psychotic grin, "Cause we're demons, you and I. It's a given that when we chase after someone, they're already dead. Lady Luck ain't no exception to that, kid."
"Ugh, let g-!" Rotriko tried freeing himself from Lee's grasp, but instead got his teeth knocked in by his forceful punch.
Before he could even hit the wall behind him, I traced Rotriko's trajectory and ran into position to bash him into the ground midair. The momentum actually made his body bounce just enough to set up Lee's kick into a volley that sent him spinning in place. With both attackers in position, I kicked the spinning Rotriko's head and Lee kicked his feet, making him spin on the second of three axes. This combo was enough to discombobulate him, if not surely make him puke from the forces at play, but we didn't have enough fun just yet. There was but one more axis to spin!
"Y'know, they say kids these days like to use those skateboard thingies to do tricks." Lee suggested, "Meil, you're good at anything you dip your toes in, so wanna do the honors?"
"Could not agree more!" I jumped, slamming Rotriko's face into the concrete floor as I stepped on his back, "Kids these days think they are hot stuff, but I doubt anyone thought to treflip a human before!"
Using his nose as, well, the nose of the skateboard, I managed to lift myself off the ground enough to do the trick. Well, that's a lie actually, since I didn't lift myself up the way a skateboarder would traditionally, that way being to slam with my back foot and slide with my front. No, I actually just used the momentum of jumping on him again to bounce us up, just like one would a basketball. Either way, it doesn't really matter, cause with this, the flashiest end of them all, we had defeated our foe.
"Gahk! Augh!" He couldn't help but cackle at us still, even as he spat out blood, "You idiots! Killing us will only add to your crimes!"
"Hey, no witnesses, no problem, right?" Lee joked.
"That's not it!" He smiled with a bloody mouth, "You think I'm stupid enough to not call reinforcements?"
Snapping his fingers as if he knew they were there already, he had easily assembled over 50 men into the room like that. Assigning two doctors to tend to him in the back first while the ones in the front went to fight us, he had secured himself the advantage yet again. Crap, we could deal with the 6-7 folks that were here before, but this much is just impossible. Besides, some of them even have weapons...
"Bom!" Issei's voice announced an explosion that cleared the way for them through the crowd, "Heh, that guy got blown to pieces, did you see that!?"
"Brutal..." Ed followed behind with his mouth agape.
"Seriously, how many more lethal gadgets you got in that backpack of yours?" Lune smiled excitedly.
"Watch to find out!"
Lune and Edward!? How come they're here with Issei?! Did he bail them out, did he break them out? Who cares, right now what's important is that they're here, which means the scales have balanced out yet again, and it's time to fight!