After Yuri had dinner with the Board of directors, he and Sebastian went back to the Domain Building. He sent everyone in the building home, from security guards to maintenance workers, and everyone from top to bottom.
The 50-story building went empty, dark, and silent. He had instructed the building engineer to turn off all the electricity in the building; from the ventilators, elevators, and even the lights. It had become a ghost building.
Yuri and Sebastian sat on the edge of the building on the 50th floor.
The night had a full moon, and the city of Tokyo was still awake. The lights were all shining like diamonds on the beach. The wind had blown hard on their faces, moving their hair back and their suits waving like flags. Yuri looked down from above and saw how high the fall was. But he had lost his fear of heights.
"I've grown too dependent on you, Sebastian. All my childhood I had thought that the whole world had turned its back on me. I loved my parents but they were taken away from me. I look at the rest of the world, and I felt jealous. Why me? Why my parents, God? Did they deserve to die? What possible reason could God have had that justified them dying to a fucking truck driver that died of a heart attack in the middle of the road?"
Sebastian sat silently. He had learned a lot of things from humans. He learned that sometimes, the best response isn't looking up quotes from the wisest philosophers, or solving the most difficult mathematical equations. He learned that sometimes, the best response was to stay silent and listen.
"The orphanage had been good to me. Gaia had been good to me. Uncle Akira, Botan, and the others were good to me. But I still felt jealous, so I thought that maybe I could start my own family. I could go to college, get a good job, marry the girl of my dreams, have children, and die happily in my bed. But everything that had happened to me, made me realize that God was going to fuck my life up one way or another, and he did."
Gaia's funeral had happened five days after Yuri gained the Magitek System. Everyone from the orphanage went there, the headmaster went there, and even Akira went there. But Yuri didn't go to the funeral.
"I didn't go to her funeral, Sebastian."
Tears started to fall from his eyes.
"I didn't go… I couldn't… I didn't have the guts to see her off. Because I was ashamed. Even though Botan and Uncle Akira wanted me to go, they didn't force me to. Because it was my fault. I killed her, Sebastian. Because I was weak. Because I was useless. Because I spent my life believing that the world would be good to me this time. That the world fucking owed me for taking my parents."
Yuri stood up and his feet were exactly on the edges of the tower.
"If you fall, Master, I will catch you. But please don't force me to transform. I like this suit. It's the first one that had been tailored for me," Sebastian said.
Yuri could feel the push of the wind forcing him forward and backward. The rush of adrenaline made him feel powerful and decisive.
"If I command you not to catch me, Sebastian. Will you obey my command?"
Sebastian looked down and saw that the fall would kill Yuri if he didn't do anything. Then he paused to think.
"I wouldn't catch you, Master. I would let you die."
Yuri smiled. "You would?"
"Yup," Sebastian abruptly answered.
"But that would mean that Akira would be vulnerable to his enemies, Botan would succumb to the Yakuza's betrayal, the Mazoku would slowly be killed or arrested by the government, your new tech company would fall to the ground, and princess Yuna would be devastated as the father of her child had been a selfish coward and left this world too early."
Yuri laughed hard and sat back down again.
"You almost got me on the first half," Yuri jokingly replied. "But the father part. Now that's funny."
"It's not."
Yuri laughed again.
"What the fuck do you mean it's not? Your sense of humor needs some fixing, AI?"
"My name is Sebastian, Master, and I'm never joking."
"What?"
"Princess Yuna. She texted earlier."
Yuri's eyes grew bigger as he watched the blonde boy's lips move to sound the next words in from his mouth.
"She says she is pregnant."
Yuri almost fainted, and he accidentally leaned too much to the edge, and his center of gravity had already moved past the point of no return, and he fell.
"WAAAAAHH!!! SEBASSS!! SAVE ME!!!! CATCH ME!!! I'M GOING TO BE A FATHER!!!" Yuri laughed in joy and pure fear of dying as he realized that he had more reasons to live his life and be happy.
Sebastian was relaxed and fully confident in his abilities to save his falling master. "As you wish, Master."
He dived in like a soaring eagle to catch his prey and had Jet engines forming from his feet and caught Yuri, crying in tears and laughing like he had won a thousand lotteries.
"I got to go see her! Sebastian! I need to!"
"Or you can just contact her through the Party Contact ability, Master."
"Right! Bring us back up to the top floor, Sebastian."
Yuri had overcome his sadness, and hearing that he had brought life into the world gave him a bigger reason to keep going and reach his goals.
They came back to the top of the building and Yuri quickly contacted Yuna.
[Contacting Party Member: Princess Yuna]
"Yuna? Are you there?"
"Wait, just a minute," a whispering voice replied.
Yuna was at the dinner table with the Emperor and the Empress.
"Mother? Father? May I be excused?"
The Emperor nodded and wiped his mouth while chewing and looking at his daughter.
"Do you notice anything strange with Yuna?" the Empress said.
The Emperor shook his head slightly to gesture that he didn't.
As Yuna walked out of the room, Anna who was waiting for her, followed her.
In the restroom, Yuna replied to an excited Yuri.
"Did you receive my text message?" she whispered, while Anna had been guarding the door so no one would hear her talk.
"Yes!!! Isn't this great!!!" Yuri shouted from the top of his lungs.
"Noooo! It's not great!" Yuna replied angrily. "I am a princess, with royal duties. I am not going to survive nine months without my parents or paparazzi noticing that I AM PREGNANT!"
Yuri scratched his head in embarrassment. "Well, then let's get married."
Yuna was shocked by Yuri's answer.
"Get married?"
"Yeah. It's obvious isn't it."
"No! It's not obvious? What about the government, what about the media, my parents!"
"Then let's speed up the schedule and take over the government. When you're Empress and wife to the Overlord, no one would be able to say a word without regretting it. Not even your parents. Plus, I'm sure they would be proud of their daughter."
Yuna blushed. And said, "You and me against the world?"
Yuri smiled and confidently said, "You, me, and our child against the whole universe, princess."
"Alright!" Yuna shouted.
"SHHH!" Anna warned her.
"Then we have to speed things up a bit."
"Not a problem."
"Princess. Your father is coming!" Anna rushed to close the door.
"I need to go! My father is here. By-"
Yuna left the Party Contact.
[Party Contact Ended]
"YESSSSS!!!!!"
Yuri jumped again in celebration. He jumped so much, that he almost fell again, but Sebastian caught him this time.
"Master! We need to start thinking of a new plan if you want to take over Japan before anyone notices that the princess is pregnant."
He calmed down after being dragged down by the little boy Sebastian. To show his gratitude to his AI, he hugged him and kissed him on the forehead.
"Thank you so much, Sebastian! For everything! For being there for me always."
"I am here to serve you, Master. As you are the AI-Mage. And I will serve you with my every being."
Yuri sat down on the cement floor of the rooftop. And started thinking about what their new plan would be.
"Master, you haven't tried one of your abilities yet."
"Oh! You mean the External Magitek Fusion Reactor?"
"Yes, Master-"
While Yuri and Sebastian were talking, an explosion occurred in a building in a street near them.
"What was that?"
Sebastian took a look closer and saw a giant flying beast that looked like a Pterodactyl but it had feathers and wings that glowed like burning coal.
They could hear screams from where the beast was.
"Sebastian! Merge - Exosuit!"
[Merging Commenced]
Yuri commanded Sebastian to use the Mana Points he had collected in his system, instead of using his HP.
[Merging Complete]
Yuri had worn the Exosuit again for the second time in his life, and he felt powerful.
"Status!"
[User: Yuri Hayashi]
[HP: 10/10]
[MP: 87,520]
[Level: 5]
[Dexterity: E]
[Brawn: E]
[Endurance: E]
[Finesse: E]
"It's good that we finally upgraded the Endurance of the Exosuit to E," Yuri said.
"Yes, Master. I had also reverse-engineered several of modern human technology, and are saved in the Magitek System Data."
"That's good to hear! Let's go kick some glowing dragon ass!"