Unfamiliar Place

Akane woke up to an unfamiliar ceiling, she was calm, disturbingly calm, she wasn't scared, unnerved, or out of her mind like a normal child should be, it was probably because she was blind and couldn't see where she was, so she couldn't know that she was in a different place than usual.

She sat up, feeling incredible pain, her entire body hurt, she was confused why, until she let a very high-pitched noise out of her mouth.

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Fumio stayed behind at the hospital for the night, she was too worried about the condition of the girl to leave.

At first the doctor came to ask her about the situation, but the moment he described Akanes' injuries she couldn't believe what the doctor said to her yesterday, it's kind of was just to outrageous to believe. The girl she saved yesterday was heavily injured, even more injured as she herself assumed at first.

But the thing she couldn't believe was that the girl survived through that, and don't make a mistake, she was happy that the girl survived, she couldn't see this situation as something else as a miracle, a miracle that she found the girl, a miracle that she brought her fast enough into the hospital, a miracle that the doctors and nurses could treat all of her injuries.

"Ms. Seigi, I know that it might be a bit late to ask that, but could I ask what the relationship between you and the girl is? Is she perhaps a relative of yours?"

Fumio looked up, seeing the doctor that informed her yesterday about Akanes' condition.

"No, nothing like that, I just found her yesterday like that in an alley."

He nodded, before he scribbled something on a note board.

"I don't fully understand the situation, but I can say that the girl was lucky that you acted the way you did, I am not sure if we could have saved her if you came even a minute, no, a second too late, so you can consider yourself that child's savior."

"Please doctor, I don't need words like that, I just want to know if she is alright now."

The doctor pushed his glasses back up his nose.

"She is out of danger now, if you want to, you can visit her in her room."

Fumia nodded at the offer of the doctor, she really wanted to know if the child was alright or not.

Seeing her response, the doctor nodded back, asking her to follow him, he led her to the patients' room and asked Fumio to be careful in the case the girl woke up.

After the briefing of the things she can and can't do she entered the room, it was a clean and sterile room, there wasn't much in it, besides a bed, various electronic devices and a little bedside table, it was a normal hospital room.

She took a stool and sat beside the bed of the girl.

Fumio looked closer at the girl, taking her appearance in, now that she looked at the little child, she couldn't help but notice how extremely cute the girl was, even with bandages she could tell that the girl in front of her was very cute.

Beside her cuteness she saw that the girl had should-length white hair, rosy lips and various other cute features, there was only one problem, she looked very thin and malnourished, even though she could still see that she had an incredible cute girl in front of her, her cuteness was extremely diminished by how sick the girl looked.

Fumio was enraged, not only at the perpetrator that injured a little child to this degree, but at the little child's parents too, for neglecting their daughter to such a degree.

She silently observed the girl for a while longer, until she suddenly sat up on her bed and looked around. The action of the girl confused Fumio for a moment, before the gaze of the girl rested on her for a moment, Fumio opened her mouth to talk to her, but the girl suddenly averted her gaze from her looking around the room again.

The girls action confused the woman very much, suddenly the girl opened her mouth for a moment, no words or other noises came out, she just opened her mouth.

And immediately went into a state of panic. The girl was terrified, Fumio didn't know why, but she knew she had to calm the panicking child in front of her down.

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Akane panicked after she grasped the structure of the room, she opened her mouth and used a form of echolocation to find out where she was, after understanding that she was in an unfamiliar environment her body went into a state of shock, she started to hyper-ventilate, flail around and every other possible existing sign of panic was portrayed by her.

But the thing that scared her the most was the person that apparently sat close to her resting place, unable to think properly the girl almost fell unconscious again, but then suddenly the person hugged her.

"It's okay, the person that hurt you isn't here, you are currently in the hospital, safe and sound, you have been treated and nobody here will hurt, so please calm down, you don't have to be scared anymore."

The person, which apparently was female, assuming the tone of her voice, tried her best to calm Akane down, and it worked for the most part, Akane calmed a considerable deal down and slowly relaxed inside the woman's arm, until she fell asleep again.

Seeing the girl calm down again Fumio slumped back down in her seat again, visible less tense as before the moment she tried to calm the girl down.

Fumio felt sad at the sight of the girl, no child should be so terrified upon waking up in an unfamiliar place.

She swore that she is going to confront the people that scarred her so deep.

"Ms. Seigi, I must inform you that visiting hours are over."

A nurse peeking through the doors said to her.

"I understand, can I visit her tomorrow?"

The nurse nodded.

"Of course, you can, the child is orphan, so I think that she would be more than glad to know that someone is worries about her."

Hearing this new bit of information surprised Fumio for a moment, before she smiled and nodded at the nurse, thanking her for the hospitality.

She left the hospital, entered her car and drove back to her home. The moment she reached her home she fell face first on her coach, it was an exhausting week for her and she just wanted to rest for the rest of the remaining day.

Then suddenly her phone started ringing, she picked it up.

"Welcome to Justice Agencies, here is Seigi Fumio talking. I must sadly inform you that we currently won't take new cases in, so please search for another agency.

"Haha, Fumio didn't you look at the number that was dialing? It's me the youngest sister of us triplets."

Fumio body jerked up upon hearing the voice of her little sister.

"Etsuko! Why are you suddenly calling me? And why are you still talking so weird?"

"Fumio, I must inform you that there is nothing wrong with the way I talk, and can't a young sibling call their older one, to ask how they are doing?"

Fumio sweat dropped at the way her little sister talked, she suddenly started talking that way in middle school and just didn't stop talking like that.

"I am fine Etsuko. A bit tired, but mostly fine."

For a moment there was silence.

"May I get to know why you are tired?"

Fumio laughed, before telling her sister about the situation that occurred to her yesterday, starting with the end of her trial and ending with how she got home today.

"How, awful. And what do you intend to do, middle sister?"

"I thought about it for a while since today, but would it be okay for me to adopt her?"

"Why are you asking me? Wouldn't it be better for you to inform our parents? You are a grown woman, so you should be more than capable of making your own decisions."

"You are right, you know what? I am going to visit her tomorrow and get to know her better after that I am going to decide whether I should adopt her or not."

"Wise choice sister, btw I wanted to ask if you still have some Häagen Dazs ice cream."

Fumio looked at her phone with a blank look.

"Is that why you called me? To ask me if I still have Häagen Dazs?"

"No?"

"So, you wanted to break into my house again and eat my ice cream?"

"Please, big sister Fumio I'll do anything for you!"

Fumios' eyes turned blank for a moment at the personality change of her sister.

"No Häagen Dazs for you."

"NO, WAIT SIS..."

Fumio just turned her phone of and yeeted it across her house, she really didn't want anything to interrupt her nap.

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Somewhere in a city in Japan:

A beautiful elegant woman in a white kimono, which was held up by a blue obi, decorated with flowers, looked at her phone with a blank stare.

"Etsuko, are you ok?"

The female hero looked with her blue eyes at her temporary work partner with a blank stare.

The newbie sweat dropped a bit seeing her like this.

"The heroes are distracted! Now attack her!"

Etsuko just unsheathed her katana and in the next moment appeared behind the villains. All of them fell unconscious.

After dispatching the villains, her partner ran up to her.

"As expected of the beautiful flower at the apex of heaven! Your blade work is incredible! You defeated them all in the blink of an eye!"

The heroine just fell on her knees and clutched her head.

"Etsuko?! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Should I call an ambulance?"

"NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY SISTER? WHY CAN'T I HAVE ICE CREAM?!!!"

The heroines' partner looked at her with a blank face, not understanding the situation.

"If the ice cream is so important for you than I can buy it for you."

Etsuko turned around and grabbed the shoulders of the newbie hero very firm.

"Ye-Yes, I'll buy you any ice cream you want."

"Strawberry Häagen Dazs?"

"Yeah."

On that day the hero payed 5000 yen on strawberry Häagen Dazs.