CH 026
the president was white with greyish-blond hair, his face was mostly covered with pink wrinkles. He invited me to sit beside him, and that's when I noticed something. "Mr. Stark you didn't touch the red liquid did you" This was my question because I saw his left hand was inside a sling bag. Everyone in the room looked at him, he was embarrassed. "I kinda thought that you did something to the red liquid, you were able to touch it so why not me," he said showing his hand which now looked like solid gold. "stark you, idiot, what was it this time" asked Timothy. "the red ember stone." Mr. Stark replied. The room became quiet. "so what did you do Kaneki" asked Katie, the president turned his head towards me. "I just contained it nothing else. The reason why it didn't work on me is confidential, which means I can't say." I answered. Cassie quickly came with a follow-up statement "You can trust us. I promise that everything we talk about will stay between the four walls." She said. the president agreed "Yes you can trust us, we consider you as a member of the special hero force". for some reason, the way he said it was sarcastic to me. "It's alright, leave him be," said Mr Stark.
Two people walked inside the room with an apologetic tone "Sorry sir president, we both had to take a longer route due to traffic." Said the male guy. He was around his 40s and had a shaven face and blue eyes. The other one was a lady, her age was closer to 20. Her hair was pulled back with a ribbon tied to form a ponytail. She was also flat like Sakura. "No need to apologise, we were just introducing ourselves. Kaneki this is our IIG [international information gathering] General Dale and his PA. I will introduce you to the known ones. Katie the researcher, Cassie the number one hero; namely Star and Stripe, Timothy the general of the special hero force, Howard Stark the researcher and the president of the Stark Academy or should I say owner of the whole establishment. Finally, you have me, President Benjamin Trump. Just call me Trump or Benjamin I don't care about these kinds of stuff." Everyone except me looked at him proudly. I nodded "Thanks for the intro, now can we enter the real meeting.". he nodded.
Timothy started the meeting by activating the projector while Dale and his PA took their seats. "let's start with our main agenda, while Kaneki went to rescue our hero Cassie and Bubble Man. They encountered a person. An anomaly to be precise." Said Timothy playing the glitchy video on screen. "I would like to thank Kaneki for helping us out," said Dale. "let's not get sidetracked here, we have already said thanks for his achievements. Let's get back to the topic " said Timothy " the topic being, what he wants? And is he really an extinction-level threat.".
Everyone looked at me "Why are you all looking at me" I said. "well it's obvious you responded to him by saying something about singularity. Also, that person said that you have one of them. So care to explain." Said Timothy. "listen all I can say is that he is a real threat but not the worst one. About the singularity, yes I have one which rightfully belongs to me." I said in a serious tone. Dale snorted "Who told it belongs to you? if this person is after the singularity then you should give it to your higher-ups for safekeeping." He said looking at his iPad. "I don't have higher-ups Mr. Dale. So if you think that I am some underdog who is here to be your slave forget it." I was super mad at him.
"ok, calm down. let's start it again For the sake of safekeeping as a president, I will request you to hand over whatever this singularity is to Timothy. Sounds good" the President said without a hint of shame in his words. He then brightly smiled at me, hoping that I would hand over my space stone. "I am sorry sir, Benjamin. That won't do and before you try to say that you will give anything and everything I want in this world. I would like to remind you that I am not under anyone's control" I replied, his smile slightly twitched. "well Kaneki if you are that adamant, and can guarantee its safety. Then I don't know why we are fighting among ourselves. " said Cassie. I agreed "Tell that to them." I said. Seeing the unwanted tension growing between the three of us, Timothy came up with a different proposal "We don't know when that anomaly will come to our planet so, let's not talk about that. What he has is his and we don't have a say in this." He said and paused "But at the same time, I would like to propose a truce. Kaneki we Americans have done a lot for you" I interrupted "and I have saved the president's ass, became a campaign tool and saved the Cassie here. I am not the type to say my achievements out loud because I always make sure that they are flashy.".
The room became silent, both Benjamin and Dale looked at me with anger. I don't care about the mortal gains, the only reason I agreed to save Cassie was because that would give me some publicity, not the Island, not the Golden State citizenship. "cough" Cassie coughed breaking our tug of war. "it seems your coughing is getting worse, I told you to get some sleep" Katie patted Cassie "what are saying, I am fine" she said hiding her face with discomfort. "you should have stayed at the base. "said Timothy. Benjamin sighed "How is your health Cathleen?", Cassie sighed "It's getting worse every day, that guy used his purple stone directly on my head." She rubbed her head as purple veins started to pop. I analysed the whole conversation and the pattern on her forehead. "I think your soul might be damaged," I said after some consideration, it's not hard to figure out since I have used my power stone for the same purpose multiple times. "what kind of soul damage are we talking about here," asked Mr. stark, the man of science.
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