6 - Introducing Voltage
“Really? The sa trick twice?” Hayk asked, surprised and slightly disappointed.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t contact you. I had to be off the grid completely for a while." Oskar said. "Things were complicated here.”
“And you couldn’t tell sothing?” Sakuto asked, upset. “I thought sothing happened to you...God fucking damn it...talk about a small world.”
“Look man, I had my reasons, alright?”
“Yeah, abandoning your friend can surely be justified.” Sakuto said. “You went from talking to every other day to dead silence in just one day.”
“He’s an agent.” Hayk intervened, attempting to calm the argunt that was flourishing in front of everyone. “He had to be off the grid.”
“The day he awakened a soulful, he was instantly picked up by the GSC. They might even consider hiring him as the newest mber of the elental group.” Kouta explained. “At the sa ti, he was convinced to stick with us instead of those dickheads. So Hayk made him a spy.”
“I’m sure you two have a lot to talk about, but so do we.” Hayk said. “Sakuto, I’ll introduce you to the family now.”
“Sure.” Sakuto said, still keeping his eyes glued on Oskar who had a little guilt on his face.
“I’ve known Oskar for years, we’ve only t each other in person a few tis, but...”
“Most of my laughs were shared with this guy. He’s the closest thing I have to a friend. No, he is a friend. He’s my only actual genuine friend.”
“We used to do the craziest shit back in the day...”
“Right...”
“A friend...”
“Hey, calm down.” Hayk said. “Control your damn presence, will ya? Learn so proper soulful etiquette. No dick asuring contests with your soul presence. Anyways...”
“You already know the three...no, four of us. So I’ll introduce the rest.” Hayk said. He pointed at the girl sitting on the mats, curiously observing the encounters. “This is Ausra. She’s quite the handful, she’s been in this for a while and she has so seriously strong destructive capabilities. She’s also a great cook.”
The girl’s brown hair was styled in bangs with a pair of slightly blonde pigtails on each side. She had profoundly dark eyes, complinting her white skin. She quietly greeted Sakuto, who couldn’t give much of a response since he was still trying to process Oskar’s return. He snapped out of it and greeted her back, a little embarrassed.
“This here is Dima.” Hayk said, pointing at a guy with slightly curly brown hair with blondish hues and light blue eyes. He was leaning against the wall, his fra was slender but he was tall. One of his hands was wrapped in bandages. “He’s uhh...yeah, dunno what to say about him. He’s here. Been here for a while too.” Dima and Sakuto nodded at one another.
“The lady here is Rin. She’s the person you go to if you break your arm or lose half of your blood.” Hayk said. She referred to the woman who was busy handling various dicines at the cabinets in the corner of the gym. She had shoulder length straight black hair and wore a pair of rectangular glasses with a thin black outline on the bottom side. She didn’t care much about the introduction.
“And finally...the right hand of the operation.” Hayk said, pointing at the man who approached him.
“I’ll take the honors.” He sighed. He had dark hair and a few scars on his face. “I’m Tsunehiro. We’d like to extend our warst welcos to you.”
“I’m not sure that’s how the expression works.” Hayk said. “Anyhow, welco to the family. You’re a part of it now, whether you like it or not.”
“I’m sure he likes it.” Kouta comnted. “Out of everyone, I should’ve expected him to be a soulful the most.”
“He was the most nonstandard, even back then...”
...
“So much has happened in this place.”
“I’d go as far as to say I can’t recall anything else that had happened before I ca here.”
“Cherished mories, fuel for nightmares, there was absolutely everything. Had it not been for the incident, I’d still co here every day. I wouldn’t have any powers, any soulful acquaintances...”
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“Co to think of it, I’d just be as empty as ever.”
“But back then, I had a different type of life path planned. I had a clear direction in life I was willing to take, although a bit wavering at tis, I knew my role and I wanted to be the best at sothing. I wanted to learn, get a job, date a beautiful girl and eventually marry her...I wanted to be rich too. Filthy rich, in fact. So rich that God would smite once for my pride and a hundred tis for my greed.”
“Every day at this school was monotonous, but in that world, it would be filled with laughter, mories, all that stuff. That type of fulfillnt is sothing I can’t imagine myself feeling now. It’s like they say...in a river, you can’t shit in the sa water twice...or sothing like that. They probably don’t even say that for these types of situations. I wonder what happened to the Sakuto that was like that. I wonder if I changed enough to kill him off completely.”
“Maybe if I held onto that direction, dad would be proud...if he was even alive. God damn it, why’d he have to die? I’d be a different person if he was still here. Maybe a much happier person.”
“...”
“That type of life...”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize...”
“I don’t want it at all.”
Sakuto stood in front of the ruined parts of his school, watching repair crews slowly nibble at the trendous damage. Despite so ti passing, a lot of work needed to be done. He observed the sight, keeping his hands in his pockets.
“What are you up to? Ca to sightsee?” Sakuto asked, keeping his eyes locked onto the building, zoned out.
“You can sense soul presences too, impressive.” Oskar said, approaching and standing next to him. “Just ca to see ya.”
“I only like foreplay when it’s a cute chick doing it, so don’t bother with the build-up. Just get to the point.”
“You’ve never had that experience.” Oskar laughed. “Anyways, look man, I’m sorry, alright? I was just in a...pretty weird circumstance.”
“It’s fine, I understand.” Sakuto said.
“Really?”
“Yeah. I an, I’m more surprised as to why you’re trying to approach again.” Sakuto continued. “You were probably much happier without anyways. Must’ve been nice without so moody pants complaining in your ears all the ti.”
“What?” Oskar asked, surprised. “That’s not how it works.”
“When two humans are close, they do sothing for each other, right?” Sakuto asked back. “You’re justified to forget about if I’m just a parasite.”
“Dude, there doesn’t have to be so reason or mutual benefit in the fact that we're friends.” Oskar said. “You’re my friend, you don’t gotta buy dinner or wipe my ass for to accept you as your friend, alright? And no, I didn’t forget about you. And I definitely didn’t feel good about myself when I had to lay low.”
“Huh...” Sakuto said. His eyes were pleasantly surprised, his inner aggregation of thoughts was silenced for a few monts. “Maybe you’re right.”
“I’m here for you, man.” Oskar said. “Just like in the old tis.”
“Yeah, just like the old tis...” Sakuto said. Suddenly, his phone rang. He got it out, and was instantly disappointed by the na that was calling him. He didn’t decline the call, he simply waited for it to end.
“Rember when we joked about how our lives would change if we got powers?” Sakuto asked.
“Yeah...”
“What’d you get by the way? The geezer told that I need to awaken more or whatever that ans.”
“Control over electromagnetism.” Oskar replied with excitent. “Check this out!”
He tossed a coin out of his pocket and made it levitate in the air, before charging it up with electricity and throwing it at one of the construction workers. The worker didn’t know what hit him, he assud it was his coworker, and a fight broke out between them.
“That’s strong...” Sakuto said. “Electromagnetism? That’s...ridiculously strong. I only have a sword to my na right now.”
“Still gotta practice my kit though.” Oskar said. “I know if it was in the hands of soone like you, you’d find a way to abuse it to its maximum capacity.”
“And with a power like that, you chose to side with the geezer?”
“Yeah. I’d rather not get involved with the elental group.” Oskar sighed. “No matter how good their pay is...”
“Oskar.” Sakuto said, interrupting him. “You know what? I’m glad we’re back. And Kouta’s here too...this feels like a fever dream.”
“Kouta’s mood is much better now that you’re here by the way.” Oskar said.
“I’m glad I’m of so use then...”
“Yeah, it’s the Oskar I’ve known for so long.”
“How the hell did all these paths manage to converge? Especially right now...when just last week I thought I’d take the easy way out and never see the light again.”
“That option just seed too convenient...but I’d miss out on all of this.”
He took a deep breath, watching the school building. A part of him felt fulfilled watching the destruction.
“We should probably get back.” Oskar said. “We need to train, we need to think of what to do next.”
“Train...?” Sakuto asked.
“Yeah.” Oskar said. “You killed an elental yesterday, didn’t you? They were hunting down Ichika, and now, you gave them a reason to hunt you down too. You joined in at the worst possible ti, you know? We’re gonna be in deep shit soon.”
"You an we're going to war?"
"Sothing like that." Oskar sighed. "Just gotta make sure we set up a war we can win."
“Especially considering just who exactly we have to go up against...”
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