"R-Remember what you told me last night before fighting that man's bodyguards?", she held the square object tightly.
"Uh, yeah?", I stared at the object. Clearly, she had stolen it as there were many warnings on it including 'Top secret'. Most of these items were incredibly difficult to obtain.
"Well.", she removed her hood and fixed her hair, still leaving only her hazel eye, "I realized why I was still weak."
The sudden determination in her eyes took me back by surprise.
"And now I know that I can be of help.", a mechanical limb sprouted out from behind her, delivering a white tablet into her hand.
"Oh? It's been a while since I last saw those.", I placed my hands on my chin, "That's the last modern tablet huh."
"Uh, yeah. Since I cannot use tech automatically through syncronisation-"
"You're going to try it manually.", I completed.
"Yes.", she nodded.
"But what's with that box? Where'd you get it from?"
She kept silent for a while and then turned to look the other way, "The Lord's office."
"You stole it?", I sterned my voice, "Look, I know you want to be of use but there are-"
"I wouldn't have taken it if I never heard what he was saying!", she closed her eyes and then slowly opened them mid-way, "This box has something that he wants to use to corrupt this planet's governmental system."
Shock grabbed me, "what?"
"I still don't know much but this.", she lifted her tablet, "This can help me unlock it and I have extra hands." Five more limbs surfaced from behind her.
"You're wearing mechanical gear. How come you never found out that you could do all this?"
"The town's library. I thought I might find a reason why I couldn't syncronize with the tech. That's when I found out unread data on coding evolution.", she explained.
"Hmm. Coding in this era is almost impossible since there are billions of codes.", I held my waist.
"That's why I have these.", her extra limbs moved about.
"I see. So then you're going to sabotage this evil scheme of his? What if he notices that his data cube is missing?"
"I doubt that. He was delivering it to someone and it seemed to be extremely important since he gave it to only one person to deliver.", she smiled.
"So you stole it from that delivery person?"
"Yes I did and I replaced it with an identical cube."
"Why are you telling me all this?", there was silence after I had asked.
She turned towards the glass window and walks towards it, looking out at the bright neon colours in the town. "Do you know why this place is called blindseye?"
I walked towards the great view as well while thinking, "Why's she talking about this town instead?"
"Maybe you realized already but didn't seem strange to you when you suddenly woke up in your room?"
The realization hit me in my thoughts, "S-She's right. I can't remember the events that took place before I entered."
"This entire town is shielded by a reflective field. When you're outside, all you see is an abandoned old civilisation town but in here it looks just like the advanced towns of this era."
"Is it the field's doing?", I inquired.
"Yes. The security arm of this town created it to drive unwanted guests away. Most of the time it's hidden by the frequent sandstorms that occur around the area."
"So, I got here through these sandstorms?"
She nodded, "The storm must have pushed you all the way here."
"How do you gather resources if you're trying to hide yourselves in here?"
"Those who own the high technology send their devices on tasks that earn them rewards but then, those who have none have to beg the higher ups for resources. That's why there's this big gap between them."
"I see but, how does all this link to the reason why you told me?", I still asked since I didn't get what she was trying to say.
"You're an outsider. Most of them don't dare to act against the orders of those in high ranks since they fear their threats.", she looked down, "But you..."
"Heh.", I smirked and then closed my eyes, "I just did exactly what someone close to me would do." Lykana's voice sounded in my head, "I don't give a fuck who you are as long as I can beat the senseless shit out of you and then show you how wrong you are!!"
"That's something none of us has had the courage to do.", she raised her head, "And I trust you because of that. That's the reason why I told you all this."
"Trust?", Lykana's betrayal replayed in my mind. Washing me with feelings of sadness and anger. "She must have a good reason.", I thought.
"Y-Yes.", she began to fidget, "A-And also, I think I-"
"-ALERT! ALERT!! ALERT!!!-"
The alarms suddenly blasted throughout the entire town.
"What's going on!?", red lights flashed the entire area.
"Let's go!!", Fraisia held my hand, "We're under attack!!"
"What-", just then, a screeching sound pierced my ears. Fraisia couldn't seem to hear it but I did, loud and clear. "This... sounds like.", the hairs on my neck stood on end the moment I noticed. "FRAISIA GET BACK!!"
*BOOM!!* *CRASH!!!*
A incredibly powerful soundwave smashed its way through the field surrounding the area and landed with great impact, sending a powerful shock wave that shattered every single glass and caused cracks in the buildings.
Luckily, I managed to shield Fraisia with my back right before the glass shards were sent flying.
"Are you okay!?"
"Y-Yes.", she began to shake violently.
"Good.", I smiled and then looked out the shattered window, "Tch."
"A wave pod?", Fraisia stared down at the pod that had crashed into the ground.
Steam emerged from the object as its doors opened, allowing two males in fully armed mecha suits come out.
They both wore the same suits but with different weapons. Their suits seemed to be the recent standard type and had a very familiar symbol on them.
"Zephain co?", Fraisia held on to me.
"You mean, those are the people sent to kill the town lord?", I muttered under my breath.
"HEY ASSHOLES!!!", one of the men who had blue hair and cocky black eyes pointed a red neon saber at a tall tower, "WHERE'S YOUR DAMNED LEADER!?"
"You have been surrounded!! Stand down and surrender!!", several security ships surrounded the two men.
"Hah?!", the man gave laughed, "Look, bring us your leader!! it's not like we're gonna expose his stash of lewd girls!!!!"
There was shocking silence, "Uhh. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK!!"
"You're still not gonna tell us huh?", he placed his saber on his shoulder, "We'll search for him ourselves then.", he smiked.
"KILL THEM BEFORE THEY MOVE!!"
Immediately, every single ship began to fire several lasers at the two men but they didn't even get close since they were protected with a powerful force field that repelled them.
"Tch! RELEASE MISSILE!!"
The ship in front of the two men fired an energy-packed missile that flew towards them, leaving a yellow streak as it charged.
"HEHEHEEE! Bring it!!", the man readied his saber but-
*BOOM!!*
A neon green band of light sliced both the missile and the ship into two perfect halves, taking a few seconds before there was an explosion.
The band began to reduce in length, returning into the hands of the man that came with the blue-haired one. The green light took the form of a spear.
"Useless.", the man spoke in a cold tone as he revealed his sharp nordic eyes and black long hair.