That day was sunny and warm, to Anya it seemed like one of those other outings where she would go out and play with her dog, for Loid another day with what might be another mission that he would have to leave his family for just for a moment.
As they arrived at the park, Anya decided the spot where they would be best seated and have dinner at. Everyone started hepling, Anya and Loid sat the nap, Yor took the dishes out and started passing them at Anya, who placed them the same way Loid would do, the sandwiches in the middle, the fruits on the side and two bottle of water.
"Here finished", said Anya
"Good Job Anya, now all we need is to place the plates" Yor responded with a smile
"Right, I'll take care of it"
"Allow me to take care of that" Yor said "Why don't you go and wash your hands with Anya while I am finishing here"
"Alright let's do that" he responded with a smile, after walking a little further from the spot, a blond woman who seemed to be an acquaintance of Yor, approached her, then started talking smiling at each other.
"Papa, who is that woman over there, do you know her?"
"Not really but I think that she is an acquaintance of Yor"
That responses seemed somehow off to Anya and sounded wrong, she couldn't explain why, until they arrived at the park's faucets, she then rolled up her sleeves as the father was opening the tap. As she was washing and scrubbing her hands, she heard a small futile conversation between a father and his son.
"Let's hurry up your mother is waiting for us" he said
"Okay dad"
After they left, Anya asked Loid another question:
"Dad who is going to shower Bond tonight?"
"It is going Yor I guess, as usual. Why did you hear her complain about it? Maybe I should start doing it"
"No mom, never complained about anything you know?"
"Dad, could you call mom, just mom and not by her first name, just to make it feel real"
"But she is not my mom, and how does it make it more real?"
Anya sighed after hearing those words from Loid, asking herself if he was seriouse or just telling her in an indirect way that this family wasn't real to begin with.
"I can't understand her, it is going to be hard to help her get a stella if we can't seem to see eye to eye." he thought as he was washing his own hands
Those thoughts made her even more anxiouse and empty inside. She started making a long face, a face that she only does when she feels like she desappointed her father.
Meanwhile, Yor was engaged in a rather unconventional conversation akin to those commonly had among colleagues.
This is rather odd, usually I am to be summoned by the shopkeeper
"Here" the woman said as he handed her a small earphone, "He wishes to talk to you immediately without you leaving suspiciously"
She took the earphone, put it in her left ear, covered it with her hair and then heard a husky kind for seductive voice of a man that seemed in his forties.
"Hello Thorne princess, pardon my insistence into introducing you to this mission while you are spending time with your family, but the nature of the matter is quite urgent. You see, it seems like a new kind of enemy decided to join the party and is conspiring with some higher ups to start another war with the country of Westalise."
"The war" she thought thinking back at the horror that she and her brother had to go through
"To get rid of them, the garden organization will work with another one who is out of the government's sight, for the first time our two organizations will work hand in hand, to avoid any war between the two countries. But as a measure of precaution, none of you will reveal its identity.
"Right"
"You'll be filled in the details by a report that would be given to you later, but now all I can say is that this enemy is working with multiple scientists, to create super humans to use as soldiers during the war, but in order to control those super humans, someone that is named The key is needed. The key is supposed to be an old experiment that fled from the same scientists, apparently, he or she is still alive and can control an army of those super humans. Your role would be to find him or her with the help of that other organization and then get rid of it, before getting rid of the scientists of course."
"Yes, sir, the Job will be done without letting any trace like always" she said determined to find the identity of that key and avoid any kind of war. But this time her reason to do so were beyond the desire to protect the peace in his brother's life.
"Mother" a little girls voice suddenly echoed into Yor's head, so as a reflex she took the earphone, gave it to the woman, to whom she waved goodbye, as if she was an old acquaintance.
"You are done already?" she asked Anya with a smile
"Look all clean"
"I see, now seat and let me give you a sandwich, which one would you like?"
"The one we have made this morning"
"Alright, here it is" she said as she was handing it to her
"Yor you can go wash up, I'll stay here and watch out for the picnic"
"Thanks Loid" she said before Standing up
An hour later as everybody was enjoying the food and the clouds were taking turns to hide the sun from forger's spot, Anya decided to take a nap after stuffing herself with all the food that was presented during that picnic, as she laid her head on Yor's lap, Bond barked asking for Loid to take him for a walk, without the leach.
The master complained to his pet's demand and even thought to himself that it would be a good way to detect the trio with whom he would have to collaborate with for his next mission, at least that's what the cashier informed him of, when he was grocery shopping for the picnic with his family.
"Good thing Anya is so obsessed with nuts, without it Yor would have heard all our conversation" he thought to himself thinking about Anya exposing every single reason she loves nuts to Yor, "She's so genuine with her" he thought smirking as Yor's smile was filling his mind.
"I have always loved your smile", a young man said talking to his girlfriend
"Thank you, babe," she added before kissing him
"Yada, yada, yada, Snap out of it twilight, no emotion should be shown in the slightest way" he said while shaking his head
Meanwhile Bond was stroke by the dream of another future, the one with a dark blue dog in it and Loid thinking about training him.
"hhhhmmmm" bond sighed tired of inesessive trainings
"Are you bored or something? Do you want to train?" Loid asked curious of Bond's reaction
In shock Bond looked at him shaking his head from right to left, he then proceeded to look for some kind of escape that's when he saw something shining from afar, which triggered another premonition of Anya searching for her keychain, he squinted his eyes to identify the exact position of it, then literarily ran to get it, as he was running he noticed, an imposing silhouette of a dog got near the keychain, he then bend his head down and smelled it, which forced Bond to speed up to get there.
"Woof, Woof" Bond barked which got the other dog nervous and ready to attack, that reaction awoke some instincts that Anya's pet forgot about, the way he was barging into the dark blue dog was more violent than any type of assault Loid had ever witnessed. It was obvious that he wasn't himself anymore.