She's Fine Too, Thanks

[way_of_vengeance]

[As Willis walks up and about, resuming his usual behavior, the other person who made a miraculous recovery is quietly sipping tea.
...Oh, she had a bit of squirming metal stabbed straight through her ankle, and somehow teleported twice during the battle. Nothing, really.]

Well Mistress, I would say that went well. No-one seems to have noticed your...indiscretion.



Y-yes, indeed...nobody at all...



...You can't seriously be upset...


But I tried so hard! I even let some of my many secrets slip, and dropped hints about my dark and mysterious past!
*sniff*
...I'm never going to be cool...

[She continues sobbing quietly into the tea.]

Comments

[abugslife]

Might you be talking about the part where you used a strange and dark-looking ability that, to my knowledge, no other Earthling possesses?

[way_of_vengeance]

...Maybe?

[abugslife]

[Deep, focused stare. Just for a moment.]

...In any case, there is no point in getting concerned with being "cool". Be good at what you do and impressing others, if it really is what you care about, will happen naturally, without any conscious effort put into it.

Do you happen to have more tea?

[way_of_vengeance]

I guess so...I just want to be a cool antihero too, you know?

Oh, Sayo, could you-

[The maid dutifully pours another glass of tea for the ambassador.]

[abugslife]

Cool? Antihero? Neither of these words fits me. Nor does "hero".

[Hetepheres sips her tea, but not before adding a blasphemous amount of sugar to it.]

I am simply a soldier, trying to act in the best interest of both of our species. Which includes stopping fools from both from wrecking everything.

[way_of_vengeance]

Well...I guess that's pretty cool too, in its own way.

[Sayo gives a sigh of relief.]

But it's still not very romantic.

[abugslife]

Romance is overrated. If you are not careful, it will lead you to foolish decisions you shall regret later, when your head is not full of blissful vapors anymore.

[caressthedarkness]

Well...you do have the ability to see with your eyes closed...

I suppose that is...'cool'...if I am using the term correctly...

1/2

[way_of_vengeance]

I guess so...

2/2

[way_of_vengeance]

...Oh...I didn't scare you too much with that dodge, did I?

[caressthedarkness]

Ah...well...

I was not thinking properly at all...so it was not too terrible...

[way_of_vengeance]

Well, that's good to hear. I was really worried, you know.

[caressthedarkness]

I...appreciate that...

[Well, while they're on this subject anyway...]

If you do not mind...there is something I would like to ask...

[way_of_vengeance]

Oh? Go ahead.

[caressthedarkness]

Um...I have only realized this recently, but...

Why do you keep your eyes closed...?

[way_of_vengeance]

Oh, that's easy. They scare people. And they're very unladylike, as well.

[caressthedarkness]

They scare people...?

[Half afraid, half curious now.]

The ability to see with your eyes closed is already shocking...

[empress_without_a_throne]

Is this connected with the Sayo saying you were "the enemy of all mankind"?

[Oh hey, guess who remembers something that was said many a moon ago!]

[way_of_vengeance]

...She really said such a rude thing...?

[empress_without_a_throne]

When Sara introduced me as the Abyss Empress, yes. Or rather, talked about the possibility of that being the case.

Though for an enemy of humanity, you seem to be doing a good job protecting it from external threats.

[way_of_vengeance]

Well, what can I say? I like all the other people on this planet.

[empress_without_a_throne]

And I'm in the same boat there with you. At least on that one issue. Is that why you're with the Unity Group though in spite of the GHQ's reputation?

[way_of_vengeance]

Uhhhhhhh....

[Flashback time! Kanae stands in a GHQ office, near her superiors.]
"Hmmm...We should loan someone to the Unity Group, it'll make us look better."
"What about that crazy mass-murdering jap bitch? It'll keep her out of our hair."
"Sirs..."
"Hey, good idea! That way if she flips out again it won't be on us."
"Sir, I'm right here."
"Good! Then I don't have to tell you again. Lt. Ootori, pack your bags and get going."

[FLASHBACK OVER.]

...Yes. It's definitely that.

[ugyuuya]

I had a talk with Willis after that mess, it's like pulling TEETH to get an answer from that man. We all know that there's some kind of craziness with you Kanae but in all honesty it'll come out when it comes out and you don't seem to like putting yourself in the way of getting ripped apart and eaten or crushed by extra-dimensional monsters. If it ever comes to the point you want to do that and you know you'll be okay THEN I'll worry about the how/why but until that point I just want to know who will die when their killed and who's going to make everyone freak out that their dead and then pop up 15 minutes later smelling like fresh flowers.

[way_of_vengeance]

GAH! No!

Get frustrated! Beg me for answers! Don't just accept it and move on!

[ugyuuya]

Well do you want to tell me straight out or not you insufferably backwards woman? I've been jerked around enough by people from your country and with what's been happening in missions I don't really have the patience to put up with it now either. So either say what you want to say or I'm going to continue on my business.

[way_of_vengeance]

I just want to be a sexy-and-cool antihero, but no matter how hard I try, nobody seems to care...


Oh? I didn't know you knew anyone else from Yamato, Lt. Bridges.

[ugyuuya]

You wanted to be a sexy and cool antihero? That's a surprising goal to have and it isn't really something you can do intentionally. You're not going to be Batman simply because you want to be it takes a set of circumstances pretty outside the norm to get there. We all appreciate you being here and what you do but that whole vigilante dark hero angle doesn't work so much in real life.

As for the whole Yamato thing then that was my mistake. Kanae seems enough like the Japanese that I just assumed that was her homeland. Most people from Yamato don't really get out as I recall.

[dolorous_sensei]

Miss Kanae, did you see that? Willis got stabbed and crushed and all that, but he survived! And all those crystal monsters! I wonder what dark and mysterious past he had.

[way_of_vengeance]

[Kanae just breaks down sobbing.]

[genericbiggerbrother]

Yancy's gentle heart breaks at this young lady's plight, and he decides to cut her some slack.

"Who...no, what are you?" He exclaims dramatically, pointing a finger at Kanae. "No normal human could do what you did during that battle!"

[way_of_vengeance]

It's-a-secreeeeeeet!

[Oh, that's cheered her right up]