Unconditional

"Are you sure you two alone will be fine?" Uzumaki asked the two after Kuro explained his plan to him.

"Yeah. Besides, there's only two devices that'll allow us to go underwater unharmed, right?"

"Don't worry, Uzumaki-san. Believe in Kuro." Ayame barged in the midst of conversation as she sought for his support.

"Hmm... Okay." Uzumaki himself didn't know why he was so trusting on the person he just met.

"Here we are. To take the equipment, we need the permissions from the guard. I will try asking him." As Uzumaki opened the door leading to inside, he pointed to the guard.

"Rama. Can I lend the national treasure; Ocean Submerging Devices?" Uzumaki felt unwell as he began his conversation with Rama.

"On what basis do you think you can borrow our national treasure?"

"Oh, come on Rama... Please, lend the national treasure to us. We need it right now to save the peoples on the top of bridge." Uzumaki tried his hard to convince in futile.

[Estimated Time For The Troops to Lose Their Strengths: 48:51m]

Seeing that the conversation taking too long, 17 came forward as if he was walking to the train station to ride the train back to his home.

[Shiota Style: Stealth]

Kuro eliminated his own presences as an hostile creatures as calm smile remained on his face.

Unbeknownst to anyone except Ayame, he came by Rama's side as laid his hand on top of Rama's shoulder.

*Snap*

Invisible shockwave hit Rama's brain as it made a mess of it.

"Give me. The device." Kuro whispered to his ear.

"yes..." Rama's pupils going twirl, he weakly said so.

Pushing the button with his finger, the door opened. Going in, he took the so-called National Treasure as he went outside again, his hand holding a belt.

'so this Ocean Submerging Devices is a belt.'

[Ocean Submerging Devices]

National Treasure

Durability: Unknown

Usage: Allows the user to submerge into the sea without being harmed by the water pressure.

Allows the user to breath underwater.

[Main Missions: Beat the " "]

'That was unnecessary.'

17's habit to turn the world into game came in as he shook off his mind to delete the unnecessary thoughts.

17 then took the belts from Rama's hand before taking out camera and starting the records.

"Confess your sin." 17 whispered to Rama's brain as his body shook slightly before nodding.

***

After the little brainwashing, 17 and Ayame wore the belt and they dived onto water.

Since then, through the helps of the so-called national treasures, pores from all around their body were coated—protective glasses coated the surrounding of their head like an spacesuit.

'Inconvenient. What if the protective glass shattered?' As Kuro complaints, he connected the above the surfaces with his spatial threads while connecting another thread to Ayame.

"Let's go." At the state of protective glasses surrounding their head, the sound waves travelled and hindered making it hard to hear Kuro's voice.

[Okay!] However, Ayame heard it as she nodded to him.

[Oh.] 'That feels weird.' 17 hid his thoughts inside him as he made an eye-communications with her.

[Launch me down.]

[Un.] Figuring out 17's plan through his eyes—Ayame brought her leg onto heaven while Kuro faced his body toward the hell.

As Ayame swing her leg, Kuro's feet on touch in her leg, kicked back—as the latters' force stronger than the latest, Kuro launched down at great speed.

Ayame rotated at the spot as her posture stopped at the same instant before she launched Kuro down, readying for the next moments.

Kuro whose body launched downward at great spot created a darkness to protect his own organ from the water pressures as he teleported Ayame to his place through the spatial thread he attached before.

Ayame reappeared above him once again as she once again, kicked him down.

Kuro repeated this process more than 5 times—even if a sea creatures spotted him, they couldn't catch up with his speed.

'This game(world) is buggy.'

'The oceans' really boring. Even though I am descending toward the enemies lair's where most ocean creatures should gather, I am barely seeing ocean creatures on the way.'

[No wonder the scientist back in my planet didn't explore more than 80% of the ocean.]

[Your planet? Kuro you weren't from here?] Ayame began looking worried as she accidentally hea-… looked at Kuro unintentionally says.

[O… ah… 'I am' not from this planet but 'he' is.] 17 unusually had trouble on what to say next.

[Is that so… there really was a place outside this planet!] While sighing in relief, she was also delighted about the fact the place outside the Virturan.

[Why were you so worried about him not being from Virturan?] out of curious, Kuro asked

[Hm? Don't you know about it? According to Kuro's story, those from outside this planet is usually a princes or princess, which means by the later part of story,

That character are forced to leave the planet they're in because the king or queen find the whereabout of the prince/princess. There is no good ending!]

[You're basing your story from The Tales of Kaguya. Besides, there's no way to enter planet for now.] 17 said.

[But, but, what if the aliens had a way?] Ayame said innocently

[Then just find a way to take him back or…,]

[Or?] Ayame blushed as she reclaimed. She seemed to be embarrassed.

[Ask him that you want to stay with him] 17 knew he messed up as he looked at her face.

[Will that do…?] Ayame asked without confidence.

[It will. It's him you're asking.]

[No matter how much you(s) changes, wherever you are, he will unconditionally loves you(s) and won't ask back for your(s) loves. That's how helpless we are.] 17 said while analyzing the similarities in their personality.

It may be hard for 17, 21 and Kuro to love 'things' but when they do, they will unconditionally love it without asking back anything.

[We…?] Ayame responded confusedly but their conversation were soon interrupted.

[Ayame look out!] As Kuro and Ayame were underwater deep enough, the ocean creatures' appearances became more bizarre and creepy.

As if to keep up with the changes of their appearances, their strength also became stronger and faster. Eventually, they came deep enough to catch up with the two,

and the strategies of ignoring the nearby monsters to rush toward the boss became less and less effective until it was useless and now was that moment.

Having a head the shape of hammer, a shark with creepy jaws came toward them opening it's mouth. Kuro pushed Ayame's body move out her way from shark to sacrifice himself.

'this body…' 17 inwardly face palmed as he extended his right arm forward. The shark opens it's mouth to eat Kuro's hand but the origin mana expanded from his palm as he created a spike ball.

The tenacity of the shark was not to underestimated—even though his mouth was bleeding, he kept applying force and finally, crushed the spike ball.

However, Ayame were already in front of Kuro at this moment as her hand went toward Asura before Kuro's hand held her wrist.

[Don't kill it.]

Nodding at him, crimson swords formed in front of Ayame as she held it and swung—slashing all of the sharks' teeth.

This time, the toothless shark tried to slam it's own body to the two but was kicked away by Ayame. For her to not be pushed back, Kuro secretly wrote a magic circle and made it functions like a wall, like how Shion uses her magic circle.

[We're close.] 17 said to her as the sight of ocean floor finally reached to him.

[Un. Let's finish this quickly and get back to everyone. I am also interested in your world, Kuro… 2?]

[17, thank you.]

The two rushed down as they sensed the nearby sea creatures rushing toward the spot.