Noon of day - more than ever it's sunny rays befell Guards-Hold, the once busy streets now holds a banquet of loud angry demands - with mobs of displeased citizens singing an unorganized choir in out of sync tempo in their own pleasure - they urged the officials in the Mid-infirmary for repairs, their homes in shambles and the streets now filled with rubbles.
The Mid-infirmary too was unsightly - the walls unaligned and some add up to the rubbles in the streets, a hole on the roof where sunlight shone it's soft rays. Inside soldiers yet unharmed but their morale low, displeased with results and their Colonel still out cold.
"Sir I still feel like they should be dealt justice." said Khadami.
"Justice? Did your Colonel do the assassin justice?" replied Barrone.
"But sir, this destructions are out of hands, look at these soldiers, their hell bent to arrest those scums."
"Scums? Who's the scum here? It's that sleeping log right over there and he should be the one dealing with the people not me. He made this happen and just look at him, I have to clean up his ass again." bickered Barrone.
"Don't you see? those kids are dangerous, they should be reprimanded." Khadami voiced his mind.
"Those kids just end a war in the west, they even killed the metal general, Those kids hold their own against Ratan, those kids did nothing wrong, you guys just gave red meat to a hungry friendly behemoth and this happened."
"The King needs to know about this." Khadami with his last lines of defense.
"The King favours this kids, we just need to learn how to use them properly."
"LISTEN UP, YOU MISERABLE SHITS!.... those Fun inc.... treat them as your little brothers and sisters, don't threatened them or do any of the sorts you're thinking about doing right now, if your colonel treated them right, this wouldn't have happened, as for today all stones and wood rippers along with captain Ali, you're assigned on repair duty, now quit sulking and move out." an order by Barrone, so unusually commanding it looks as though he was possessed.
The house of Fun Inc. were of a different atmosphere, strangely Lucy didn't bicker or lessoned the child like beast like before, she sat motionless her feet drenched in the refreshing water of the lake , her face expressed as much as a blank canvas.
Her mind however continued it's habitual series of events, she questioned the people's minds on how easily they formed a mob and were eased away, how easily they forgave and turned a blind eye on Lu when she in a panic explained the situation, how Szlick and Sako seemingly didn't care for the Colonel's life, 'Do I have to be like them too? are they good or bad? should I go back to work in the Infirmary? But the King he gave me this huge job and seems like I need to turn Lu into somewhat of a compassionate being, this guys they need me right?' she thought, she turned to face her mates who were at glee.
Sako and Pay who just returned from the capital, swam -a fun- in the lake, without a worry or so they seemed, further questioning Lucy's morale.
She turned aback and saw a sight of what seemed nigh improbable,
Szlick and Lu sat with looks of deep thoughts, their words she didn't hear but their lips moved in -say- for big words, she saw their care-free attitudes now differs as they breathe and spoke in turn for deep reports.
"It ain't easy to explain,.... okay just tell me how Nux explains your powers Lu!?"
"He said something like, I'm not affected by anything, my wounds will heal in time.. something like that."
A reply which baffled Szlick as he leaned aback.
"Wounds? how old were you then?" Szlick's eyes were curious.
"Maybe four? I don't know it was a long long ago."
"Right!?.... Ripper's like us we get to use our full power when we grow older so that means we were weak when we're young even though we have little magic in us."
"Oookay... then what's up with people talking about.. training your magic and stuff, I've never trained you know." Lu looked like he yearned for more power, at least that's what his pitch black eyes depicts.
"We train our power to control it better... you know?? how to use it more masterfully... in terms of strength or power we simply become stronger when we grow... I'm curious how did you slam that one eyed down?"
"I don't know bro... everything was black I got so mad that I can't even tear him a new one, I sure did have fun though and then the next thing I know... bam.. I punched the old ass and he fell, then Sako hugged me then you guys came then I simply let him go, that's all I know."
"Have you ever felt those vacuums sometimes when you punch or kick at someone? you know.. like you're punching the air and that makes a vacuum sometimes?... did you do that? " Szlick asked with curiosity, since Lu does hand to hand combat too.
"Yeah Nah!.I don't know... Old Nux called it martial arts or something it's how you said but sometimes when I tried doing it I simply can't." answered Lu with a punch for show.
"Your power is weird.. c'mon.. stand up I need to prove something." Szlick urged Lu to stand.
"Okay in my cue attack me." he said.
"What's cue?" replied Lu, he was loss in the thought for the word - it's meaning.
"Nevermind...In my signal, attack me." said Szlick, he showed no reaction to Lu's question.
"Okay!"
Szlick hold out his arm - capturing and mimicking the motion of waves from his fingertips all the way to his shoulder "Now!" he yelled, in a beat of a drum, Lu charged - his fist as a lance and Szlick with the same.
The two met in the middle - a slight shockwave witch sent Lucy the audience to a scare - she hopped in her extreme comedic reaction and fell in the water. Her clothes a short shorts and Sako's drop-tops drenched, 'lucky' she thought as her glasses were absent- however, they were not on her for a long time.
The two met in the middle, both unharmed and even in power, Szlick's gave out an expression that would if it could yell out 'Eureka'. Lu however was confused on Szlick's sudden jousting proposal.
"Why'd you make a face like that creep!" said Lu.
"Who's a creep?! ass!" Szlick bickered back.
"Right.. right, happy now?"
"That's step one. Step two comes now.. stand still." Szlick readied in a slight yet excessive movement, his feet tapped the green ground and with a snap and a sound of a wheezing gust he vanished - and appeared again a thrust of a kick at Lu's chest, "Hmm! so it's true, Lu you're magic only happens when you are attacked."
"Andddd? and get your feet off me creep."
"Who's a creep, you ass, this is a test."
Lucy still glanced, her gaze like glue stuck it's undivided attention on the two, her thoughts on Szlick's experiment and their childish bickering was 'are those two fighting?'.
"Sa-sako they're at it again... Sako!?!?!" she panicked.
Sako swam towards her and suddenly Lucy felt two sensations tightly grasping her plump chests, "Little Lucy worried about her crush?" a same seductive whisper from Sako.
With a blush, Lucy replied, "Stop it, psycho! look at them, aren't they fighting?"
"Shh!! boys will be boys, they're way hotter when they're like animals you know." Sako continued being a temptress which led Lucy to blush, with a signature "hmph! slut." shaking Sako off.
Back at Lu and Szlick, the two sat with their previous -deep in thoughts- demeanor.
"Exactly Lu! we need to properly learn those martial arts vacuum thingie."
"Exactly Szlick! we need to." Lu sarcastic, breaking their demeanor off.
"You're a child, ass!!."
"Pfft! can't handle sharkchasm?"
"It's sarcasm you nitwit."
"Haah!?...." exclaimed Lu with a look of distaste, his mouth agape - wide open.
"Haah? that's all you got?"
"Yeah! Bwahahaaha." laughed Lu, then he continued, "Let's ask Ratan that regrowing dude, tomorrow."
"Oh yeah! we haven't even got the loot for the thing we did yet."
"Hey hey, let's get those siblings something great, they kinda did something amazing for us." Lu unexpectedly showed a side.
"Whatever man, I only need booze and meat.... heck! you don't even need anything, we'll be rich ass fuckkk~~~Wooooo~~"
"I haven't heard you're wooo for sometime."
"You'll be hearing a lot more, I'll give you a special woo when we get the loot tomorrow."
"Deal, what do we say to the King then?"
The duo looked at each other with happy, greedy eye for a moment, then followed by a nod cueing a countdown to three and they yelled, "GIMME THE LOOT!!" in perfect harmony.
The Capital a name in itself and is also the capital - of Arienne. It's a small town, bustling with students and trainees for various jobs and expertise, citizens don't dwell here much since almost all the lots -lands- are used for governmental purposes. It's a place where Elone corporation stood in all it's magnificent glory.
Elone and his proteges now made their way, from Guards-hold all the way to the Merchant Guild and now there.
"Tomorrow the first line of peropero will be set Sir." reported Huncho, his face was bright with enthusiasm.
"I wonder how the rest of the lines are going, those dumb slacks better dig right." ranted Elone, him and the twins sat in a shed, overseeing the continued ground digging and line -peropero's wire- installment.
"Sir, how about the lines for every household, will it be a taboo?"
"I don't know, it might not but since taboo are very complex and weird in all, we can never be too sure."
"It's a shame that my nagagun was among the taboo." sulked Huncho.
"That thing huh? it's a pretty deadly stuff." replied Elone.
"I saw it many times in my dream, with that even normal people can defend themselves."
"It's pretty dangerous, to an extant, you squeeze your finger and you can take a life, I'm not surprised it's in the taboo." Elone gave a piece of his mind.
"The taboo, can anyone break it?" a curious question from Huncho.
"Nope, long ago the All-eye sect tried breaking all sorts of things, they said it's a pathway to the truth, look where that got them, extinct without even a history."
The taboo holds peace and stability in the world of KanSho, where anything included in it is made technologically impossible, even if the blueprint for an intention is golden - without a flaw - the taboo would crumble the piece. An unknown rule yet felt by many, the taboo of life - the people of KanSho termed it.