CHAP 18: Shinkansen Down

The whole corridor was an machine, and it shot an laser in my direction, i dodged but the seal Doctor had made, which i had already destroyed part of so that the blond woman (which i now realize i never asked the name of) could flee, was fully destroyed and the contaminated air from the Absolute Quarantine zone entered the wagon, making all of us cough.

|You've been poisoned by an highly poisonous substance

-1 HP per second|

Fuck. Doctor threw another of her pots which once again closed the train, Hacker started hacking the robot, but i did it the faster way, shooting at the claws and the big eye-like structure, the claws were destroyed but the eye was not. Hacker managed to override the security system, with the colors changing from red to green, and the final of the corridor rolled out of the way, leading to an all white room with an complex door at the end, we had about 3 minutes until we arrived at Kanto, so an bit less than that to the Decontanimation zone, and subsequently our death.

"Hacker, open it, fast!"

"You love to make me work."

The holographic keyboards appeared and hacker rapidly opened both of the doors, behind of which there was an bank safe openening system, which meant we needed an specific key.

"The safe only opens with an special seal. We're doomed."

Hacker sighed.

"Huh, is there really no way, Hacker?"

Olivia exclaimed.

"I'll open this things with my fists, out of the way."

Brawler said that, but he couldn't even walk right at the moment.

"You've all done well, thank you."

Black Cat said that, and started desintegrating.

"Mr. Black Cat?"

"The last part to open the vault... is me."

Olivia tried to hug the cat in an unfounded hope of stopping it of turning into dust, but she was too late, and ended up with only an seal in her hands.

"Open the vault, quickly!"

Hacker said, his voice filled with anxiety.

"1 minute to the Decontamination zone"

The mechanical voice of the train announced. Olivia seemed to recompose herself and put the seal on the door, at which i rotated the steel wheel and opened the vault. Behind the door, there two children, an boy who seemed ready to get out of the place they were locked in and an smaller girl who was looking at us from behind the boy.

"Children? This, i did not expect."

I thought out loud.

"Thanks, you've all made an great job."

The girl took an flute from the boy's backpack and played an note, which then proceeded to make an shield around her and stopped the wagon we're in.

"So, who exactly are you two?"

The boy didn't respond me.

"Now that this is done, i'll go back to Kansai and hunt that Executioner, no one stabs me by the back without consequences."

Brawler started walking to the wagon's entrance.

"What about your 100 million?"

Doctor asked.

"You can keep it, i don't care about money."

He responded.

"I fear you're all wrong, your job isn't done yet."

The boy said.

"What do you mean, we got you out of the damn vault!"

Brawler retorted, it seems his ego has been injured by being stabbed in the back, i wonder what'll happen when he realizes it was not only in a literal way.

"The job was to get what was inside of the vault to an detemined location, we're not there yet."

"I don't care, i'm going back to Kansai."

"I understand, but our destination is Kansai aswell. Since you're going back anyway, you could atleast bring us back."

"Ah"

The big man responded.

"Where is the location we're to supposed to bring you to?"

Courier asked.

"I'll tell you when we're out of here."

I was listening to the conversation while looking at the wall created by Doctor and wondering how to open it up. I wondered how we would safely traverse the Absolute Containment zone without dying, and how i would cure this poisoning of mine before i died, i believed the children would have an idea about the former, and would ask Doctor for one of her chemicals for the latter. Brawler punched through the wall and it seemed the flute note had created an spherical shield around the wagon which prevented the contaminated air from entering the sphere. So that's how we'll go back to Kansai. All of the Akudama and the children, minus Hacker got out of the rest of the train. I looked back at him.

"Aren't you coming aswell?"

"I'm proceeding to Kanto."

"You know you'll find nothing but death there, right?"

"Even then, it's an great opportunity for me, if i manage to get to Kanto, atleast i won't be bored, if i don't, well... atleast i've tried. I have been bored for most of my life, in Kanto, maybe i would have the chance to have fun once again."

He took off his collar.

"It took some time, but i managed to get rid of it. Overriding this system was already fun, if Kanto can make something like this disposable, i wonder what other things they'll have?"

"Your loss, partner."

I turned my back on him, and Olivia seemed distressed i was going to let him basically commit suicide. Don't worry, girl, i've made sure it won't be suicide.

We parted ways with Hacker. The children were unaffected by Hacker's "betrayal" and started walking down the tracks back to Kansai, Olivia, me and the other Akudama followed behind them, the spherical shield was centered on the flute the little girl was holding. I looked back to the wagon and saw he was welding an piece of metal to block the entering of contaminated air with his drones. I smirked and got back to following our contractors, after some time, when i couldn't see the wagon anymore, i pressed the detonation button to Hacker's collar.

'Boom.'

|+300 EXP|

I said it wouldn't be an suicide. Shinkansen down.