"Wow! Natsu, look! Buy me that Teddy bear, please."
"Huh... okay anything for you."
"Thank you!"
Within the busy daylight market, Akagi's old classmate and friend Natsume Yuichi and his girlfriend Ishimine Rena wander off the streets of Sector III,
Completely unaware that Brittonian Secret Police, the Spotter hunting down Athenaeum in same Sector III town.
"So how is it?"
Natsume asked Rena about the gift he just purchased for her.
Rena happily squeeze the soft blue teddy and said,
"I love it, I was always looking for Blue-colour Teddy, luckily I spot it right after we passed the store."
"Little childish for your age, Rena?"
"What can I say? I like teddy bear."
19 years old young woman Ishimine Rena has long, orangey-brown hair with bangs hanging over her face with two strands sticking out above the rest of her hair along with a small, single ponytail on the back of her head which leaves the rest of her hair long and reddish-brown eyes. She also has a slender figure and ample breasts. Natsume who used to be a pervert in his high school and college, consider himself lucky for finding such a beautiful girl and have a relation with her and he loves her more than anything.
While walk towards the his house, Rena's phone rang,
"It's Misaki. Hello. Uh-huh? Hmm... Alright I be there."
"What did she say?"
Natsume asked Rena about Misaki's call.
"Well she wanted me to receive some package nearby riverside. I will be back soon...."
"Alright I will head out."
"Yeah I will meet you at your apartment."
Rena walked back, leaving Natsume to head to his apartment alone.
Despite Ishimine Rena and Natsume is a member in the criminal organisation Athenaeum, She started as a regular high-school student, Misaki Mayumi's junior, Rena met Misaki shortly after getting out of an abusive relationship requested her to the Athenaeum group, however Misaki knew Rena and didn't not find anything beneficial nevertheless Misaki took advantage of Rena while she was still vulnerable and manipulated her until she eventually became a brainwashed follower.
Under Misaki's orders, Rena made contact with and began a relationship with Natsume Yuichi, a Head Pathologist of Imperium Brittonia's research facility who was aided Brittonia secret police, the Spotter with the intention of using him as another pawn, in that time Spotter were in a process bringing down another Mutant operating gang, who were quickly taking over their region with their underhanded tactics.
Without a doubt after the Friendo's Bar crash and the death of Misaki's best friend Rika, she went under an extreme psychological change, went into depression for many months. Afterwards she casted her childish recklessness aside to make herself adaptable to cruel, violent environment that she was placed in, after the transformation she wasn't an hot-headed teenage girl, instead became a dangerous individual, strong, cold and ruthless with an amoral point of view, and knows more about the current situation than anyone else and is easily able to persuade and manipulate anyone into doing what she sees best, without using any of her feminine charms, rather prefer ferocious violence and threats to achieve her goals.
After her plans went into motion Rena persuaded Natsume to ask Misaki's group Athenaeum for strategic advice, giving Natsume aided Spotter the upper hand and causing Natsume to increasingly rely on Misaki's intel to advance his Department to capture the rival gang which was also Misaki's Refraline business opponent, and stealing her customers.
However, Misaki also started, aiding that Rival Gang covertly to the point where her two enemies almost wiped each other out. With the Rival gang weaken, she ordered a direct assault on them destroying everything, and killed their boss and his family.
For her help with finishing up the gang. Natsume joined Athenaeum and provides Brittonia-related information, giving Misaki an upper hand over the Empire, by this point, Rena's feelings for Natsume had slowly become genuine love this they both joined Athenaeum as a couple, forgiven the fact that Misaki had used them.
While they started as good couple, working under Misaki Mayumi's organisation however Misaki unknowingly went above Brittonia radar and the Spotter is on to the members in the Sector III.
And former Lex Unit soldier, Ken Kawazoe is assigned to bring down Athenaeum crime syndicate, at least one portion of it, in the same Sector.
For working day and night Ken finally tracked Athenaeum's associate, Natsume Yuichi and Ishimine Rena in the Sector III. Ken was on fine working on his own until he submitted his reports, The Overlord demands working with that monster Shirayaki Shōji and two military police officers while operating in Sector III city. The Sector III is crime-ridden ghetto city run by the Brittonian Military Police and criminal underworld, most of the walking humans are murderers and cutthroats, including Ken and the men he is forced to work with. The Aristocracy here is corrupt as well as Evil, the regular Police likes to blow people up for amusement, the poor citizens are oppressed and the high-class city-folk are slimy bastards. The Sector III is infamous for narcotics smuggling operations, conducted by the Underworld and policemen helping the criminals out.
Despite only few Sectors like Sector III is operating by humans who are not part of the fascist empire, all other sectors in the Imperium States are heavily guarded by the Imperial military, any suspicious activity could result any civilians loss their citizenship and go the Brittonia's concentration camps for 'sterilisation' or Firing Squad for traitors.
Every Imperian citizen, from the poorest of dirty scrums to the highest and wealthiest of nobles, has heard the tales of death and destruction, of the all-seeing eye that condemns or absolves with impunity.
There three types of police in the Imperium, Regular Police Force, The Military Police and the Spotter, acts as the secret police force of the Imperium, hunting down any and all of the myriad threats to the stability of the Empire, from the radical ideas caused by the Equalists, treasonous individuals who followed another political ideology, Mutants and Anti-Imperium rebels, to assaults from vicious international threats like Indian Liberation Front or the Chinese Confederacy.
Walking obliviously Natsume bumped into someone he doesn't know,
"Oh, sorry about that."
"No harms done, ya okay?"
"Yeah thanks...."
Natsume immediately apologised and the man did the same, little does Natsume know the man he met recently was Ken Kawazoe himself, who was tailing him from the start.
Ken pretty sure Natsume is an Athenaeum member all he needs to do is extract the location about their leader Antheia/Misaki Mayumi's main base.
"I got them, stand back for the further order."
"Copy that."
Ken continues to tail Natsume in the busy market, wanting to know his house.
Once Ken knows the location, him and his team begins to charge in.
"Good evening Natsume Yuichi."
Ken introduced, stand at behind Natsume in his apartment,
Natsume turned and utterly baffled to the man he was just bumped into, now he's invading his home.
"Y... You. Hey!? what are you!?..."
Ken didn't waste any time to barge into Natsume's room with three of his officials.
"Strap him down in the chair."
"H... hey what, what?!? What's going on, what are you people?"
Natsume struggle to fight against the Brittonia officials, nevertheless three of them to tightly tied to a chair with his mouth conceal with a duct tape.
"Mmmmm!!!!!"
Natsume growl through the tape, shaking his head in a tremendous speed, knowing he is done with.
"Don't move and don't talk, just listen."
Walking steadily inside the room, Ken firmly reminds Natsume, holding a small ampoule before he calmly sits down in a similar chair across, and tells a story before he starts questioning.
"This is not my first interrogation I'm conducting, the tough ones will never walk again, the weak ones traumatised. The Overlord wants only results, they don't care about results, not one's lives or their bodies so I ask ya nicely since you're so young. We know Athenaeum associate where is your Antheia, your boss, she must have known about the Sceptre, where is she?"
Natsume went silent, not spoken a word, just shaking tremendous and gazing Ken with his weepy eyes,
"Ahhh.... Ya know it can't be help, if you don't talk to me."
Ken deeply exhales tried to reason to a man who wasn't aware what he getting into, however Ken temporary partner Shirayaki Shōji sadistically suggested from behind,
"Why you wasting your time? Just grouch his eyes and poured acid into his fucking eye hole! Ha-ha... that will make him to talk."
"Just shut up!"
Ken firmly shut Shoji up from his sick ideas, not only Ken hates working with him, he doesn't want him to interfere his mission.
"Listen little brother, I am asking you nicely because I don't wanna to this to a young man like you, this kind of special treatment I don't usually offer to my subject. Whatever success I've had aside between you and me THIS right here,"
Ken pulled out liquidise chemical using the syringe from the ampoule,
"I've been doing it since I was 18, this is the difference between paycheck... and medication and bedcheck. And don't get me wrong I want to hear your pain, for gods' sakes, just put it in joke form, that's all. So please don't make "the bad guy" out of me."
"I, I, I don't know anything."
"Of course, you don't that's why I am giving you this, to help you remember better."
Ken administered the chemical into Natsume's body, soon his pupil expanding, body began to dysfunctionaing.
"What have you given me?"
Poor Natsume throaty demanded while feeling very uncomfortable.
"Ya don't have to worry, soon all pain will be gone."
Ken explained thoroughly about the chemical he just administered, though he was very disappointed with what turned out nevertheless Ken hides his true feelings under his closed eyes, and his broad smile.
"AHHH, I don't feel good! Fuck!"
Tied up Natsume begun to shake restlessly, jerking the chair. His eyes widened, heart began to beats faster, sweating nonstop couldn't breath properly.
"Drug I injected called XE-rox 1, the drug hyperactive the bodies nervous system, specifically your Nociceptor. Received the pain capacity 100 times greater "
"Let me show you."
Ken slightly pinch Natsume's leg.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
And he screamed like an uncontrollable mad dog, a small pinch felt like bone-shattering, like small chunk of his meat had tore off.
"Now small pinch would hurt so much, imagine if a knife shoved into your thighs, or I skin ya legs properly, maybe cut your toes."
"...!!!"
Natsume gulped, become paranoid to imagine Ken's Cold-Blooded Torture techniques, he gritted his teeth so hard as if it broken his mind goes crazy and yet he doesn't tell him anything. Although he genuinely does not know where Misaki currently is.
"So, ya don't tell me where she is!"
Natsume yelled, begged loudly, as eyes begun to tear up,
"I really don't know where she is, Antheia used several locations, I don't know whe—"
Ken roughly concealed Natsume's mouth, prevent him from yelling any further, and threatening him while opening intimidating his sky-blue eyes, being viciously serious.
"Now ya listen to me you piece of shit! I want to help you but you are too blind to see, these guys behind me, they will tear your apart and they will take great pleasure torturing you. So, I ask one time, where is Antheia, you are her associate, give the accurate location."
Before Natsume answer anything, his apartment front door unlocked.
Both Natsume and the Brittonian officers know it is Rena, returning from home after completing a small errand by Misaki.