Post by Mr. Moon on Jul 6, 2021 6:45:05 GMT -5
Gabriel #11
“Mr. Komaeda, are you alright?”
He picked tone of voice usually reserved for his students whenever they looked worried or trouble by something. Receiving very similar answer. Shaking head with dismissive
“Nah, sorry I just spaced out for a moment.”
He laughed, taking another sip from his glass. That calmed the Professor down a bit, although he still felt a bit lost. That feeling however gradually disappeared as their debate continued.
The two men talked for hour or so, about everything and nothing at the same time, before they parted ways. Their debate was especially interesting for Gabriel, who finally got a chance to know Komaeda not as a “the guy who he need to beat to progress to next round”, but as a person. Bouncer working for mafia, that was practicing ancient form of karate to keep himself in shape and employed. To the professor´s great amusement, it turned out, his school actually had techniques similar to his Indestructible, the problem was, Inoue wasn´t applying them correctly.
“Anyway...”
Gabriel added, as he was getting up from the table.
“If you really want to learn the trick behind my Indestructible, you can always visit me in my home in West Blue. I was traveling a lot lately, but once this thing will be over I should have some spare time.”
The Deva King laughed.
“That would be great, however I don´t thin my employer will allow me to disappear for months to nail a single technique.”
The Professor shrugged.
“That´s up to you, however with your strength and skills I wouldn´t say months, more like week or two...Beast, let´s go!”
As he called the large malamute lady, that managed to fall asleep after transforming the whole pork knuckle into nothing more than few bone shards, quickly jumped on her feet, taking the table together with her.
“Woof?!”
Confused and scared, she quickly turned around, forcing Komaeda to get up and jump backward, if he didn´t want to be hit by her.
“Beast, wait, you have table...”
Her owner tried to calm her down, but it didn´t work.
“WOOOOOF!”
Scared, she start running towards the door, sweeping and breaking all the tables in her way, leaving behind trail of destruction and chaos. Finally, when she reached doors, the table got stuck in the frame, falling from her backs, that however didn´t stopped her.
“Uhhhh.”
Gabriel sighed, hiding his face in a palm of his head.
“I...”
He wanted to apology, for her behavior, but to his surprise, the fighters in the room, started laughing and their employers and helpers joined soon afterwards. Only few of them were stabbing him with their angry looks. These underworld people truly were different.
“will pay for it after I´ll find her.”
He added, springing of the room behind Beast to stop her destructive rampage before she´ll destroy anything else.
“Excellent, than we have a deal!”
Smiled Mr. Katsumasa when both Myra and Mustang agreed to his deal. It seemed that the meeting is over, however, as the third of them were on their way out, the banker stopped them.
“Ah, one more thing, Mr. Mustang, I was informed, that you are Devil Fruit user, is that correct?”
It was more rhetorical question than anything else, as he didn´t even wait for his answer before continuing.
“It would be for the best if you managed to complete your job without using it. It would be...suspicious if you broke the rules fighting him.”
His smiled changed into wolfish grin.
“Of course if he proves to be too strong for you, do whatever it takes to kill him just...make sure it will be quick, because I won´t be protecting you against disqualification or Python´s intervention. Still...”
He raised a packed envelope that was on his table the whole time.
“I think that in any case your compensation for this troubles will greatly out-weight anything you would earn in the next two or three rounds. So...have a nice day gentlemen...my lady.”
He slightly bowed to Myra, letting them finally go outside. Just a moment after the doors closed, Isaac smirked and whispered to his sister.
“Tell me sis, why did your heart skipped a beat, when he mentioned CP agent?”
He asked teasingly.