Chapter 90: Masquerade Party (4)

Chapter 90: Masquerade Party (4)

Gyosu was starting to get sick of Jacks smiling mask.

Is this a.. suggestion? Or a command?

Hahahah, of course, its just a suggestion. You dont need to react so sensitively to it.

Sorry, not really, for interrupting while you two are talking, but even my dense ass knows that this is weird. Is this how all of the guys from the Dome do it? Set up everything from start to finish and just announce that this is how its going to be done?

Ian knocked over the box containing outfits with his foot.

[Hepburn]

[Ian]

[Vex]

From the box came the top-of-the-line uniforms with names clearly engraved on them.

It wasnt just written on it with ink or paint, but intricately embroidered in. It was as if they prepared these clothes knowing that the three were going to agree to this from the start.

I dont want to. Asking someone whos already been discharged to come back again. Jack, was that your name? You havent been in the military before, have you? Do you know just how terrible a suggestion that is?

Seeing Ian stand next to Gyosu, expressing a strong rejection of the situation, made the others who had been getting a ready look in their direction.

Its a shame It seems you all are taking this too negatively. As I have mentioned before, this is only a recommendation. If you cant do it then we cant force you to. However.

Rustle.

Jack picked up one of the uniform tops from the box that Vex had organized again at some point.

I reckon you understand that the main character role is a sort of punishment for the ones responsible for triggering Old Picture. Since its a job where you can get killed if anything goes wrong. If you are choosing to avoid that punishment there will be several consequences that follow. Either we, the Dome, ask for compensation from the BDSM caravan for the payments regarding repairs and operation delays, or the Dome will consider the caravan a hostile group and enact a trade ban for nearby areas, or the expulsion from Area 47 will come first. They say that the first time can be an accident, but the second is intentional. Who knows? What if the man called Gyosu Park, who has been involved in an Old Picture accident twice, is actually terrorizing Area 47 with malicious intent? What if the man called Gyosu Park actually has a deep grudge against the Dome?

A snake-like face with a fake smile. And sinister malice resides behind that mask.

He knew. The events from five years ago regarding me and the Dome.

The instant he realized the situation, a fake smile just like the one on Jacks appeared on Gyosus face.

Giving information to the enemy was a foolish thing to do. Even if that information was something minor, like emotions.

Ahaa.

Gyosu curled up his lips and opened his mouth with an expression that was as far from his true feelings as possible.

You already know everything, dont you? Then I wonder why you bothered with all of the generosity and all. You could have just told us to shut up and do as you say.

Havent we already provided enough generosity already? There was actually a lot of opposition to keeping you alive, you know. Their claim was, why bother making a chance for problems by keeping someone whos completely hostile towards us alive? It was thanks to a high-ranking officer from the Executive Department who strongly disagreed that we decided to leave you alone as long as you did not act with hostility towards the Dome. The official who had taken a large hit on their political status for standing up for you lost their position not long after. Ah, comradery. What a heartwarming story.

High-ranking official of the Executive Department.

A person that would have defended me when I escaped with my mother.

Comradery.

Youve gotten better at this, bumpkin.

About three, no, four months since Ive been discharged.

I couldnt do anything. I didnt know that it was your mother. I have. my daughter and wife here.

Luwil Batross.

My comrade, who had thrown me the files regarding the terrible things the Dome did to my mother with an apology and ran away 5 years ago.

He was a foolish man. The people from the 14 Special Ops Squad were treated as heroes by the civilians at the time. If he had used that reputation well to stay in the Executive Department, he would have at least been the Head of the Executive Department by now.

What. happened to him?

Step

Hepburn, dont listen to him.

Well do as you say, so shut that mouth of yours if you dont want to drink your food for the rest of your life.

Ahahahah! To think that everyones opinions are this different with just three people in the group! Your ranks are a complete mess, its almost funny.

Thump!

Throwing the uniform he was holding at Gyosu, Jack decided to ignore the warning that Ian had sent his way.

The Dome is like a living political food chain. Its not easy for one who has fallen to rock bottom to come back up, nor does it let them.

Didnt I tell you, bastard, to!?

Thunk thunk.

Bang! Crash!

After finishing putting on his uniform, Gyosu looked around at the people working hard to make the place look more like a battlefield as he spoke.

This is definitely going to fail. This project is going to be the downfall of the Executive Department.

Teach Old Picture? As if. Since the Executive Department was a collection of mostly combat agents used in the outer field, they probably had a relatively lower number of researchers compared to the other branches. Which is why theyre calling this absurdity an operation.

Just the official number of people that died when the Inspection Bureau took all of the researchers from the Administrative Branch to analyze the guys patterns and succeeded in trapping the thing in the model garden with a seamless plan was 127 casualties. Even if this guy acted similarly to the Psycho Gang with its special patterns of action, it was a mutant. It wasnt a guy who could be treated like the Psycho Gang with just normal acting.

To announce that theyll teach this thing and control it. And with a plan that they suddenly made up just before the election at that. He could laugh at how ridiculous it was. This shows just how bad of a situation the Executive Department is in.

Do you remember what the guy said? The Dome isnt a place easy enough for one who fell to the rock bottom to climb back up, nor do they let them.

The mans triumphant face as he delivered the news of Luwils death.

I do really hate the Dome, but if its to go beat up the Executive Department buddies that hit rock bottom, Id be more than glad to go. I would even pay to join in on the action.

He wanted to see it. The faces of the people changed when their positions changed and they hit rock bottom, no digging down underground into their graves. He was going to spit on their faces, shred their bodies into pieces, and dance on their graves.

Fall down just to where I am, you bastards. Ill treat you properly, I promise.

[Snicker]

Swallowing down the fury that had surfaced inside of him for the first time in a while, Gyosu thought of the document Luwil had given him, which was still freshly engraved in his mind even after all of these years.

Three researchers are associated with the Administrative Branch. Five Inspection Bureau informant agents that were bribed. And

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Executive Department : Olinda Barbatos

Executive Department : Adler Kiel

Executive Department.

Executive Department

Executive Department

Executive Department

Executive Department

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Executive Department, 73 people.

They say an honorable man takes revenge after 10 years, but Im not honorable.. so Id say Ive waited long enough if its 5 years.

Ziiing!

When it became exactly 12 oclock, a psycho-wave shot through the heads of everyone in the Central Area.

Lets go, my friends. We dont want to be late to the Executive Department goodbye party.

Old Picture left its home to wander around the model garden when it became 12 oclock. Since it will take some time for it to get to the preparation stage, they probably started the briefing of how they were going to tame the guy.

The Executive Department has a completely wrong understanding of the Type 3 mutants. It means that they didnt have a proper exchange of information with the Inspection Bureau, which was in charge of the previous Old Picture project. The political dispute within the Dome must be worse than I thought.

This project was going to fail 100%. Area 47 was going to lose its guardian, who regularly disposed of the naturally occurring Psycho Gangs and other mutants in the Area, and someone was going to take the blame for it.

Well listen to their orders from now on, but I have no intention of dying or letting the two guys behind me die either. Ill need to move diligently.

They needed to execute the plan perfectly so they werent held responsible. The moment they make even the smallest mistake, the Executive Department will claim that the operation failed because of the mistake and push the responsibility onto Gyosus group.

All of the blame had to be turned to the Executive Departments incompetence.

So, Ill try my best. Use me all you want! Im known to make the impossible happen, so who knows? Maybe I will make a miracle happen!

Ziiiiiiiiing

As if responding to Gyosus pledge, Old Pictures psycho-wave rang out from afar once again.