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Chapter 2.

While Komakado, was dealing with the attempts of other countries to get Tuka, Lelei and Rory, Yōji and the rest of the group had gathered together and headed to the subway, though once we were underground, Rory seemed very nervous.

Soon, the train arrived, and the door automatically opened, this shocked and surprised the girls who gasped, Lelei couldn't help but state the obvious "it opened...".

Yōji nodded "so it did...".

I shook my head and then pushed Yōji inside the traing with a very weak kick in the ass "get in already".

Yōji grunted in surprise, while the girls cautiously stepped inside the Train, Serafall and I then walked inside while laughing at Yōji who was rubbing his butt in pain from the kick I gave him.

The train began to move and Rory began to get even more nervous, though I began to noticed that the people in the train were staring at all of us, I don't blame them though.

We make for quite the sight with the girls among our group, Yōji noticed as well and shook his head "I look like I work at some kinda shady talent agency...".

Serafall giggled "you do give off a creep vibe Yōji~"

Yoji grunted and flinched as if he was stabbed in the chest by Serafall's opinion of him, I chuckled and said "damn, it was super effective...".

Yōji looked down, and seemed to be trying to recover from the emotional damage he received just now, however a voice called out to him "Captain".

Yōji, turned his head towards where the voice came from and smiled, when he saw Kuwabara and Kuribayashi "oh hey! good work today".

Kuwabara sighed "I was panicking! nobody told me we were using the bus as a decoy".

Yōji sighed and nodded, we were also taken by surprise by the sudden change of plan, Yōji then said "well, we met up, so it's okay, right?".

Kuribayashi nodded but then moved her gaze towards Piña and Bozes, who had arrived with them, both girls seemed rather nervous "they've been shaking ever since the train went underground".

Kuribayashi shook her head and seemed perplexed about the way Piña and Bozes were acting "they think we're taking them to the bottom of the Earth".

Yōji sighed "they've never been on a subway, so we can't really blame them".

Serafall giggled "its funny, it's like they think we're taking them to hell or something".

I chuckle at the irony in Serafall's words, the subway suddenly shook, which scared Bozes quite a lot, she grunted in fright and grabbed hold of Kuwabara who is standing besides her.

Though she quickly realized what she did and let go of him, but both of them blushed, Serafall and I both gave Kuwabara a thumbs ups, and grinned at him, which only made him blush even more.

Bozes ignored that and decided to apologize "I'm sorry".

Kuwabara just nodded and looked away from her "its fine...".

The subway shook again and Rory grabbed hold of Serafall, which caught my girlfriend by surprise, but she quickly recovered and hugged Rory "what's wrong Rory?".

Rory just hugged Serafall tighter "Hardy controls what's under the ground!".

Yōji raised an eyebrow while Serafall just smiled and hugged Rory even tighter, Yōji was curious about who Rory just mentioned "Hardy?".

Rory shook her head "she's bad news! two hundred years ago she told me to marry her, and she wouldn't shut up about it! she might drag me off to be her bride! Rean! do something about her!".

Everyone turned to stared at me, which not going to lie, made me jumped a bit, but I sighed and shook my head "and what exactly do you want me to do?".

Rory whined "tell her to stop! or better yet get rid of her! she doesn't like men, so I bet you can hurt her with your presence alone! she has to listen to you, you are- omph!".

Serafall suddenly hugged Rory's face to her chest, while everyone sweatdropped at this, Yōji turned his head towards me "I would like to know why Rory thinks you can do anything to a Deity of the Special Region".

I shrugged "who knows?".

Yōji just deadpanned at me "right...".

Suddenly, an automated message system, announced the station we arrived in "Kasumigaseki, Kasumigaseki".

The door opened soon after and Komakado immediately greeted everyone "hey there!".

Soon after Komakado got into the subway and Yōji began to give him a report "we're moving up the schedule and going to Hakone, we'll take them to Tokyo and change trains there".

Komakado noddedto Yōji, then he decided to ask Komakado how the decoy plan went "how did the bus work?".

Komakado scoffed and the grinned "they all fell for it, the fact that they didn't know about the change in plans narrows the leak down to two suspects.

Right now I'm letting them go to find out where they're headed, though I was ordered to ask Rean for support".

I nodded and then tap my foot on the ground, Giratina's red eyes showed up in my shadow. I smiled at my Pokemon "Girantina, go to Command, they'll give information on two individuals, follow them and keep a watch.

As soon as it's ordered, capture them along with anyone they meet, hand them over to this Old man afterwards".

Girantina hissed growled, then she disappeared within my shadow, Komakado and everyone else who haven't seen Girantina or a Pokémon began to nervously sweat.

Komakado gulped "so it's true... you have real breathing Pokemon".

I just grinned at Komakado, not even bothering to confirm what he said, suddenly the subway shook again and Rory, who was still in between Serafall's chest whined "I want out! I can't take it anymore!".

Serafall smiled and began to rub Rory's back "I think it's best we get out soon, we wouldn't want her to panic and act up".

Yōji sighed, what Serafall said, made a lot of sense and he really didn't want to see the amount of destruction a panicking Rory could cause inside the Subway.

Suddenly, the automated announcement system began to call out the next stop "next stop is Ginza, Ginza, please transfer here for Hibiya and Ginza Lines".

Yōji nodded and as soon as the doors opened he turned his head to tell everyone the plan "we'll be getting off here".

This surprised Komakado, who looked stunned as everyone began to walk out the train, Komakado snapped out of it "what? wait! you can't act on your own! there's a plan for this-".

However, he was suddenly interrupted mid sentence when an announcement began to be heard from the intercom system "the Marunouchi line is currently not functioning due to a wiring accident between Ginza and Tokyo stations.

There is presently no set time for it to be back online" the announcement was repeated a few more times after that.

Soon after, we all stepped out of the subway into the streets, once up here, Rory let go of Serafall and stretched her body "the air is filthy, but its a million times better than underground~".

Meanwhile Komakado, Yōji and I huddle up to speak about the announcement, Yōji sighed and shook his head "they're shutting down the subway? what do you think our enemy's goal is?".

Komakado huffed "a demonstration, they want to warn us that they can hit us whenever they want, but they failed with both the bus and the subway... next, they'll do something more direct and obvious".

Komakado the turned his head towards Rory, in time to see someone running towards her from behind, this person however, made a big mistake in trying to grab Rory's Battle Axe and run off with it.

Komakado grinned "like that".

I shook my head in disappointment "what an idiot".

I knew exactly what was going to happen next, the guy didn't take more than two steps, before the weight of Rory's Battle Axe proved to be too much and he ended up being pulled to the ground.

The idiot ended up eating concrete, Komakado shook his head and sighed "what are you doing, moron?".

Komakado then bent down to grab Rory's Battle Axe, and I grinned knowing what was going to happen, Yōji jumped up in surprise "oh wait...".

But it was too late Komakado, tried to pick up the Battle Axe and a loud and sickening crunch coming from his spine echoed throughout the street, while Komakado squealed in pain.

Some time later and after calling an ambulance, we all stared as Komakado was lifted off the ground while groaning in pain and the put onto a stretcher.

Rory shook her head and huffed "what a wimp, it's not that heavy~ Rean can lift my Battle Axe with ease!".

To prove her point, Rory began to spin her axe with one hand, Lelei sighed and shook her head "no normal person could lift that...".

Komakado looked like he was in a lot of pain while being put inside the ambulance, though he still spoke to Yōji "for tonight, head to the Ichigaya Assembly Hall...".

The Ambulance took off as soon as Komakado was put inside, Kuribayashi, Kuwabara and Yōji bowed in respect towards the Ambulance as it left.

Meanwhile Lelei pulled my sleeve, I turned my head towards her a little surprised that she seemed curious about something "yes?".

Lelei tilted her head "why didn't you heal him?".

I smiled and gave Lelei a headpat "there's no need, he's going to be fine, plus this was is more funny".

Lelei nodded but she seemed a bit confused, while this was going, Kuwabara sighed and then said "shall we go there, then?".

Yōji however, seemed to have other plans "no wait a second".

Kuribayashi deadpanned at Yōji and said "we are not going to Akihabara"

Yōji sighed "that's not it...".

Everyone followed Yōji as he went to buy some food and some other things, he then took us to an apartment a bit far away, far enough that we had to take a taxi to get there.

Serafall and I could hear a person weakly laughing and saying something about the cell phone being shut off, the gas being shut off and not much longer for the water.

It seems that whoever was inside the apartment, was going through a rough time, the growling apparently coming from the person's belly, confirmed our thoughts in the matter.

But soon enough Yōji took us to the apartment and went inside while we all watched from outside the doorway , he immediately began to complain "jeez at least turn in the heater, this place is cold".

We all watched on as Yōji opened the door to a room and then we all heard someone yelled "f-food!".

Yōji sighed "right, right, I bought it for you".

The person cheered and we heard her move towards Yōji, Yōji bent down and let a woman grabbed the food, while he smiled at her.

The woman sighed as she hugged the food Yōji brought for her "so warm...".

Yōji then turned his head towards us and smiled "guys, you can come in for now".

Kuwabara, wanting to know what was going on spoke up "um... Lieutenant? who's that?".

Yōji chuckled and then turned his head towards the woman who was clearly glad to have something to eat, he smiled and then began to answer Kuwabara's question "oh, this is... my ex wife".

I grinned, while everyone around us began to speak in shock "ex.. wife?".

And then everyone yelled in disbelieve, the woman then looked up from her food and stared at everyone in confusion, she began to blush when she noticed all the people staring at her "huh?".

Meanwhile I was trying not to laugh, while everyone was pretty shocked, even Serafall looked perplexed and that doesn't happen often.

Kuribayashi shooked her head and spoke in disbelieve "somebody's crazy enough to marry the Captain?".

The woman got angry and immediately responded "who are you calling crazy!?".

Kuribayashi, however, did not give any fucks and she yelled back "you, that's who!".

But then Kuribayashi, looked down and gasped "but this pairing I can totally see happening!".

I chuckled "well damn, Kuribayashi is handing out burns like candy this Christmas".

Yōji sighed in defeated, as the woman looked up in confusion towards him.

After that little surprise, Yōji and the woman led everyone inside her room, everyone in our group immediately began to look around in curiosity trying to discern what Yōji's ex wife was like, by the things she had around the room.

Though Rory was staring fearfully at some dolls, Yōji's ex wife had in her room, she shook a bit in fright "H-Hardy is here, too?".

I chuckled "those are just dolls, very well crafted at that, but they're harmless Rory".

Rory nodded but stilled warily eyed the dolls, Lelei was more interested in the books, around the room, while Bozes and Piña were already reading one, Lelei smiled "books everywhere".

Piña and Bozes stared at a boy's love book and awed at it "these are books, too?".

Bozes seemed surprised "I've never seen ones so thin!".

While all of this was happening, Yōji had been explaining the situation to his ex wife "so that's the situation".

The woman who was eating nodded and sighed " I understand what's going on, but why?".

Yōji flinched a bit "eh?".

His ex wife then turned to look at him "why would you drag me into something so dangerous?".

Kuwabara, who was looking out a window and keeping a lookout, suddenly spoke up in agreement "she's right, she may be your ex-wife, but she's still a civilian and should we really have dumped Komakado-san like that?".

Yōji sighed "well, after all that's happened, isn't Komakado-san himself suspicious?".

Kuwabara raised an eyebrow "you think he's leaking information?".

Yōji shooked his head "I wouldn't go so far, but maybe the people around him were".

I nodded and spoke up "Yōji is right, Komakado is clean, I had Gengar following him behind ever since we met him, so more than likely, it's someone else working with him that's feeding information to our persuers".

Kuwabara sighed "so we we're being tailed?".

Yōji rubbed his eyes and nodded "if something happens without him, then yeah, we were being tailed, if not, then he was the cause".

Serafall nodded "either way we'll know who we can trust later, for now, its best we move on our own".

Everyone nodded, until Yōji's ex wife suddenly raised her hand "um... I don't want anything to happen here~... tomorrow's my deadline! and did that guy just say Gengar! the Pokémon!?".

I smiled at Yōji's ex wife and summoned Diancie, my Fairy and Rock Type legendary Pokémon, cheerfully smiled at everyone in the room and bowed, Yōji smiled as he saw his ex wife's face gaping in shock as she stared at Diancie who floated over to me.

I immediately gave her a headpat, while she closed her eyes and seemed to be enjoy it quite a bit "it's not Gengar, he's a little busy right now, but I don't mind letting Diancie hang out for a bit while we stayed here".

Soon after everyone pretty much went back to sleep, while Serafall and I stayed up to keep watch, I grinned as I watched Lelei sleeping besides Yōji, meanwhile, Yōji's ex wife, who introduced herself as Risa, was working on her computer while Diancie watched her do so.

Serafall however, was curious about a few things "Risa-chan?".

Risa turned her head towards Serafall and raised an eyebrow "Risa-chan?".

Serafall just nodded and brightly smiled at Risa, meanwhile she sighed and nodded, it seems like she wasn't going to argue with Serafall, a good choice "what is it?".

Serafall grinned "we're you really married to Yōji? I know he's a good guy, but I didn't think he would've married".

Risa looked up at the ceiling for a few seconds before she began to speak "yeah, we were married, but we we're also friends before that, I guess".

Serafall tilted her head "and you stayed friends after getting divorced? that's rare".

Risa hummed "I don't know how it works for other, but..." she looked down and then sadly smiled "we didn't split up because we we're fighting, and we were a little different than your usual couple.

As a pair of weirdos, our current relationship actually suits us better".

Serafall nodded "I see, though is sounds there's more to this".

Risa smiled at Serafal but then said "so you won't deny that we're weirdos, huh?".

Serafall giggled "what's wrong with being weird? I'm a Magical Girl you know? being weird is pretty normal, what's important is to find those that want to be with you despite being weird~".

Risa lightly laughed and nodded to Serafall in agreement, meanwhile, Bozes and Piña were busy in a corner, a reading boy's love book, Diancie turned her head towards them and tilted her head in confusion.

I smiled at my Pokemon and patted her head "just ignore them Diancie, otherwise you might get infected with their nonsense".

Diancie looked up at me and nodded with a smile on her face, Risa saw that and smiled, it was a shame she had to finish her deadline, otherwise she would be gushing all over the fact that she had a real breathing Pokemon in her room.

Meanwhile, Yōji stirred from his sleep and noticed Lelei sleeping besides her, he sighed and looked up at the cealing "what should I do...".

I just chuckled and shook my head, while I continued to give Diancie some attention, she seemed particularly happy to be getting it right now, and I was more than happy to do so.

A few hours later, morning finally arrived and everyone was slowly waking up, Rory did her morning prayers, while the rest of us cleaned up and got ready for the day.

About an hour or so later, everyone gathered in Risa's room, once there, Yōji excitedly began to make an announcement "alright! we're going to have fun today!".

Kuribayashi scoffed "huh? we've got bigger problems to deal with right now".

I smiled "yeah, but worrying about it all the time isn't going to help".

Yōji nodded "listen, my motto is eat, sleep and play! life's the little things you do in between, anyway, if the enemy knows where we are, anywhere is dangerous.

We'd be much safer around a lot of people right?" everyone stared at Yōji while they thought about his words.

Serafall nodded "he does make a good point, I doubt whoever is coming after us, would act in the open with a lot of people, being out and about would also make it harder for them to pinpoint our location".

Risa excitedly clapped and raised her hand "yeah! yeah! let's go shopping! Shibuya! Harajuku!".

With Risa finishing in time for her deadline, resulted in her getting payed, so she was feeling rather good right now, Yōji however raised an eyebrow at her "why are you...".

Risa smiled at the girls and excitedly began to speak "you'll need a lot of things, right?".

Tuka, Lelei and Rory blinked at her while Kuribayashi sighed "well, we are in Tokyo...".

I smiled and patted Risa on her back "I'll take care of the bill, you can all splurge on me so you don't have to use the money you just got, though it's very nice of you to offer, thank you Risa".

Risa blushed a bit but smiled, she then turned her head towards Yōji "hey! how come you aren't this smooth! now I'm jealous of Serafall!".

Serafall giggled and puffed up her chest in pride while Yōji looked like he had been bitch slapped "hey! I can be smooth!".

Meanwhile Bozes walked up to Kuwabara "um... actually...".

I heard what she was whispering about, but I knew Kuwabara wouldn't get it, so I decided to help "Kuwabara, they're looking for Doujinshi, Boy's love to be exact, you should take them to a few stores where they can buy that".

While I was giving some money to a very embarrassed and reluctant Kuwabara, Yōji was now recovered and excitedly began to speak his plans "in any case! I'm going to Akihabara!".

Kuribayashi groaned, so Yōji huffed at her "shut up!".

He then turned his head towards Kuwabara "what about you Tomita?".

Kuwabara sighed and blushed a bit "Bozes-san wants to go get some... unique literature from this world...".

Yōji raised an eyebrow and hummed "so the girls are going shopping, and your going to go get books, huh?".

Both Piña and Bozes were flushing but refused to look at everyone, they knew what they wanted was weird, Yōji suddenly nodded to himself and smiled "okay! we'll split up for the morning! we'll meet at Shinjuku station at fourteen hours and go to the Hot Springs".

Risa loudly cheered while we all smiled at her, though Rory didn't seem interested, I smiled and walked up to her "you don't want go shopping, Rory?".

Rory sighed "I'm fine".

I smiled and kneel down in front of her "you must be bored, but trust me, I'm sure you'll find something that will interest you".

Rory looked up to me, she stared into my eyes for a while, until she sighed and nodded "alright, I'll trust your words Rean".

I smiled at Rory, while Risa turned her head towards Tuka "your coming too, right Tuka-chan?".

Serafall smiled and turned her head towards Tuka and translated for Risa "Risa wants to know if you're coming, too?".

Tuka smiled and nodded "yes!".

Rory stood up, and brushed her clothes "this is my formal wear as a Priestess, I'm not interested in other clothes...".

I smiled and nodded "just give it a try, I'm sure you'll find something good or cool to at least try".

And so we split up, Serafall and I went with the girls, to both pay for everything and to keep an eye on them, as I said, Rory did find something to be interested in, Risa knew exactly where to go to buy Gothic Lolita outfits and Rory fell in love with all the designs and styles "what a wonderful dress!".

I chuckle and began my day of paying a ridiculous amount of money on the girls, all of them, though I don't mind paying, at least they're having fun and thats what matters right now.

Though Tuka, was being used a like a doll for the girls to dress up, not that she minded since she seemed to be having a lot of fun, and she does look very good in everything the girls dress her in.

Eventually Lelei, Rory and Serafall joined in the fun and tried all kinds of outfits, mostly casual ones but still, they tried all kinda of styles, Risa was very excited "you four look super cute!".

The girls looked rather happy from the compliment, and smiled, Rory looked at her outfit, a White Gothic Lolita outfits with a winter motif and blushed "do we really?".

Serafall twirled in her deep blue one piece dress, she was also wearing black knee high leg warmers and had her hair in a ponytail "what do you think Rean?~".

I smiled at the girls "you all look beautiful".

Lelei smiled and nodded, while both Tuka and Rory blushed while smiling, Serafall hugged me and smiled at me "hehe, it makes me happy that you think so Rean~".

Meanwhile Yōji bought a few Manga and then went for a walk, eventually someone stopped by his side while he was waiting for the walk sign to light up by a traffic light, the man who stopped right besides him began to speak to Yōji "it's been, what? twenty years since we met here?".

Yōji smiled and nodded "yes".

Yōji and the man, then went to a park so they could talk in peace, both stood by a fence as they had a comfortable and mellow conversation with each other, the man chuckled and then said "I'd just lost election and was out of work".

Yōji chuckled as well and nodded "and I was a middle school kid, wait, should you really be walking around without any bodyguards?".

The man grinned and then lightly laugh "what are you talking about? I've got the strongest bodyguard in the world right next to me".

Yōji smiled at the man, this person was actually the Defense Minister, Kanou Tarou and a long time acquaintance of Yōji, Yōji awkwardly laughed and shook his head "don't count in me too much".

The Defense Minister chuckled and reached a hand towards Yōji "you seem to be doing well".

Yōji smiled and then clasp in a handshake Tarou's hand "you too, Kanou-san".

After their greeting, both Yōji and the Defense Minister went for a walk through the park, Tarou suddenly smiled "it's weird to see that little kid all grown up".

Yōji laughed a bit and said "and it's weird to see that old guy a Defense Minister".

Tarou smiled and nodded "Minister, huh? still doesn't feel real".

Yōji just fondly smiled "that day, we met, you asked me if the Manga I had was any good, and the next thing you know we're meeting here".

The Defense Minister, closed his eyes but had a soft smile on his face "life's full of surprises, huh? I read all the Manga you told me about since then".

Yōji grinned at his old friend "and I loved all the old Manga you lent me, the ghost town showdown between the black gunman and the young Asian boy was really great!".

The Defense Prime Minister widely smiled and nodded "right? it was the best".

Yōji nodded but then remember about the Mangas he just bought, he then grabbed the bag he was carrying "oh right, here".

He then handed it over to Tarou who took it with a smile on his face "thanks, I can't even visit a bookstore these days and you know...".

Tarou then sighed while Yōji blinked at him in confusion, Tarou began to speak "there are to many people who demand a piece of the pie even though it isn't ready.

And there are a lot of hangers-on who want to join the party, and to top it all off, the guests of honor are missing".

Tarou grinned at Yōji, while he nervously laughed, Tarou then nodded and said " are our guest doing well?".

Yoji nodded "yes, right now Rean is with them and taking them shopping, I'm sure they're having fun burning through all his money".

Tarou chuckled "glad to hear it, though I doubt the girls will be able to put a dent on that young man's wallet, he's tremendously rich, he's paying for all of this, you know?".

Yōji nodded "yes, he told me and my squad about it, just who is Rean?".

Tarou shrugged "no one knows, all we're aware off, is that he's tremendously powerful, rich and knows a lot more than he lets on, honestly? I'm just happy he's on our side".

Yōji nodded, he had come to trust and somewhat understand Rean, he's just a very mellow and friendly guy, plus he was also very kind, though there was something about him, that just makes you wary of him.

It was a bit unnerving but not something that would prevent you fromm seeing the kind of person he is, Tarou smiled and then began to speak "now it's time to discipline a naughty little boy".

Yōji snapped out of his thoughts, but smiled and nodded as Tarou turned to face him "Lieutenant Itami! Return to the original plan and go to the inn guarded by the SFG, as Defense Minister and Minister of the Special Region Response Group, I'm giving you a direct order!".

Yōji put his serious face on and responded right away "Roger!".

Yōji then bowed to his old friend and Defense Minister, Tarou, in respect.

At two in the afternoon, everyone began to gather at Shinjuku Station as planned, the girls were all carrying a lot of bags but were all smiling happily, Risa nervously laughed when she saw Yōji deadpanning at them "I bought too much!".

Tuka widely smiled and excitedly said "the bows here are amazing!".

Lelei blinked "books are essential".

Rory smiled "its hard to get stuff like this in our world, even if you special order it".

Yōji sighed and turned his head towards me "really Rean? did you just bought everything they wanted?"

I shrugged "might as well, you never know when they'll get another chance to come here, so I made sure to get what they wanted".

Yōji sweatdropped "dude, I don't envy your wallet right now...".

I just grinned at Yoji, letting him know this was nothing, he just shook his head and decided to ignore my grinn "how are we going to carry all of this back with us?".

I raised an eyebrow at him while Serafall giggled "Yōji, did you forget that Rean can Teleport?".

Yōji awkwardly laughed a bit "err for a second a I did...".

I laughed at Yōji a bit, while I waved my hand at the girl's bags and Teleported them to where they can easily get them, for Tuka, Rory and Lelei that meant their room in the Refugees camp back at JSDF headquarters.

Risa's bags were sent to her apartment, the girls smiled while Risa clapped in excitement, meanwhile Piña and Bozes where giggling while Kuwabara looked miserable, he even had a haunted look on his face.

Yōji was about to ask him what was wrong, but I grabbed shoulders and shook my head "dont ask, your better off not knowing".

Yōji raised an eyebrow at me, but decided to listen to me and let Kuwabara recover from the horrors he probably saw.

Yōji then sighed but then cheerfully fist pumped "alright! let's go to the Hot Springs!".

Everyone immediately responded with a very loud "yeah!".

Meanwhile, the Tarou had returned to the Ministry of Defense to get back to work, he was immediately greeted by the people already inside "hello Defense Minister".

Tarou smiled and nodded "oh, hey there".

One of the people in the room introduced himself to Tarou as soon as he took a seat "Colonel Ryuuzaki, director of the General staff HQ's special planning room, nice to meet you".

Tarou smiled and put the bag full of Manga Yoji had given him early in the day, in the table, and then turned his head towards Colonel Ryuuzaki "yeah, nice to meet you".

Here in this room known as the Joint Staff Office Central Operation Room Underground Ministry of Defense, everyone got ready to keep an eye and defend the visitors of the Special Region, from anyone who would dare come after them.

After introductions, everyone was now watching, through satellite surveillance the area around the Hot Springs known as Hakone Forest, this is where Yōji, Rean and the rest of the group's are going and were already being watched over.

The woman controling the Satellite's view, then spoke up though a communication " Archer, three heat sources 150 meters to the NNE, from 19 o clock to 12 o'clock, designating them targets Alpha 1,2,3".

Inside Hakone Forest, a Japanese soldier responded to what he just heard "this is Archer, visual on target Alpha".

The woman, immediately responded "countermeasure 03, understood?".

Another woman suddenly spoke up "Lancer moving to point Tango, clear!".

Tarou was listening and watching all of this go on with his full attention, Colonel Ryuuzaki was standing behind him, while the woman suddenly spoke up again "Archer, eliminate targets Alpha 1,2 and 3".

Tarou tilted his head a bit "to be honest, this isn't how I envisioned war".

Colonel Ryuuzaki nodded "Modern War is either fourth generation warfare, a blend of police tactic and guerrilla warfare, or operations where plans are laid out beforehand and the target is destroyed in a single strike".

Tarou hummed but didn't say anything, Ryuuzaki then said "this is the former, put it in the monitor".

One of the one woman in the rooms nodded "roger".

While this was going, now one noticed the pair of glowing eyes, watching everything from the shadows of the room, nor did they hear the quiet giggles coming from whatever was watching over the room.