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Chapter 286 – Rude Welcome

  A calm sea was the most wele thing to ask for on their return to Japan. Everything in Atntis had been far too chaotid stressful for all involved. So just a simple boat ride back felt like almost a vacation.

  Even when Yuki became King and all of the outward threats died down. He remained busy on his trywide tour to boost civilian morale. The stant threat of the cil hung over them, even though Yuki insisted that they wouldn’t do anythi. But the ‘yet’ in his phrasing still made them worry.

  Meditating in the ter of their yacht, Yuki kept their transport alive. He picked something a little more subdued for their return trip. Some wondered if maybe he had matured a little and some of his childishness disappeared from the heavy dose of reality he received while in Atntis.

  Saki poked in, notig Yumi watg Yuki from a distanbsp; She smiled and stepped lightly forward. Yuki still needed his focus si was a long trip and they didn’t have Eudokia as they did for the trip before. Pg a hand on Yumi’s shoulder, she got her attention. “Worried about him?”

  A quick turn revealed all of the plex emotions carved through Yumi’s fabsp; She looked away almost immediately when she realized hoarent her face was. “Sorry, Saki. I know I shouldn’t stare and he’d just say he’s fine. He looks fine, but I heard what happeo the st King, his father. We don’t know how long it’ll be before Yuki ends up like that. I ’t—“

  “Yumi, he’s tough. And it’s not like he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It’s just until he handles everything here. When we left it was still pretty chaoti Japan. Yuki feels responsible as the ohat unleashed Pandora’s Box upon Japan.”

  “I know it’s selfish of me. But I just wish he didn’t have to carry all of this weight. It’s more than one person should have to bear.”

  Saki stepped forward a little. “This is just my opinion, so I don’t know if I’m right. This might sound cruel, but I think this is good for him. The st year he might have looked happy, but I sort of got a feeling he was bored or direless. He didn’t know what he wao do. After his mother died, he just lost everything. It might be more than he should need, but for the first time since losing his parents he’s got a goal.”

  The thought made Yumi pause for a moment. She had only known him for a short time. Saki had always beeo him. She knew what he was like before everything ged his life. So maybe she was right. “That’s still very sad. But if you’re right, maybe it is a good thing.”

  Chapter 286 – Rude Wele

  Out on the bow of the yacht, Fumiko, Yori and Seiji parked themselves. The ess of the south seas finally left for the warm open sunlit skies of the tropibsp; While they only had some spare clothes that Yuki made up for them, as they lost all of theirs during the fighting, it was enough to enjoy the weather.

  Seiji rubbed his right arm a little absentmindedly. He had been staring at Fumiko’s stump of an arm. The lohat he stared the more that he rubbed his own arm. Eventually, it became more than he could take. “Hey, you know Yuki could fix you up right?” Seiji pointed out.

  Keeping silent, Yori just watched to see things py out. ‘Seiji…’ It was a touchy subjebsp; While he never asked either, Yori uood that he didn’t o ask or should ask. It was just something that remained uood.

  Staring through narrow eyes at Seiji, Fumiko’s expression quickly turwice as severe. “And what about those scars on your arm? I’m surprised you didn’t allow the girl to fix them up along with the rest of you.”

  “Eh?” He missed the subtext that Fumiko stabbed at him. Seiji raised his arm to look at it. The two near full-length scars on his arm stayed, the pce where as’ swords cut him during their first enter. “This and that aren’t the same sort of thing! I mean you don’t even have one of your arms! Miill funs.” After his st fight with as, the talismans previously ed around his arm never returned. It seemed the healing process ended.

  “You sure it’s not for a reason?”

  The question targeted him almost too close. “So what if I do?! What about you?” He shed back at her rather than addressing himself. His hand clutched his wrist as though proteg it.

  “I have my own reason.” She gred at him harshly. The look in her eyes told everyoo drop the subject immediately. Once she decred her position oopic, Fumiko turned and walked away.

  “Should have kept your mouth shut, Seiji,” added Yori before walking away.

  “Hey! I don’t uand why you wouldn’t want to get your arm babsp; You wo of them!” her were listening and quickly disappeared into the depth of the yacht. He threw up his fist into the air in annoyanbsp; At least he knew well enough not to punch the boat.

  Ihe , Yori followed Fumiko and like Seiji he was about to butt into something that he didn’t belong. However, he saw how much strain she had been in ever since her capture. Oside everything seemed fine, but he didn’t need his mind reading powers to figure out something was wrong. “You should get some rest.”

  Fumiko tilted her head back quickly over her shoulder. Most of the gre still held on from Seiji’s blunder. “Putting your o pces it shouldn’t be. I thought you knew better.”

  ‘This isn’t the same girl I remembered ing out to Atntis with. It’s pletely ged her and not something as simple as maturity like with some of the others. There’s something darker at work, it’s not even just her a Yumi.’ He only had an idea of what was going on with her. The experiences in Atntis were something that had a harsher impa her than anyone else. He could only uand a part of what she was going through. “I know you haven’t been sleeping well. Ba Atntis, I saw you up te at night pag or balled up in a er.”

  He touched on something more personal than she expected. It immediately brought out her fangs. “Stay away from me, Mizuno.” A fme popped up in her hand almost instantly without the need for a cast. “Before I force you.”

  Yround his teeth behind pursed lips. She pletely rebuffed him. Pressing his groundless position further would only be dangerous. ‘I’m going to have to take this more carefully than I expected…’

  Aside from the occasional nosiness from Seiji, the boat ride ran smoothly. It impressed everyohat Yuki mao keep the boat up for the erip back to Japan. He ran them faster tha time, since he was w against his own ability to stay awake as well. It only took about thirty hours to reach the waters near Japan.

  Unfortunately, that was when their challenge preseself. They had been gone for a month. In that time the world tio move without them. And things were no lohe same for Japan. None of them expected what they saw on the horizon. Saki pulled Yuki up under protest to the deck.

  “Why won’t you tell me what’s going on Saki? You know I o focus. I’m getting really sleepy right now and my head is hurting like someoaking an ice piy skull.”

  Saki shoved Yuki out in front. “That’s not important. You o see this.” She pointed out to what should have been Japan.

  Blurry eyed, Yuki stumbled around his friends, all gathered on deck as well, to look at Japan. Or the ck of the isnds. “Huh? That’s not an isnd, that’s a boat, Saki. Why’d y me up to see a boat?”

  “Damn it, Yuki! Open your eyes!”

  “Eh?” He stared back at her. His ability to focus on anything that wasn’t his power retty much shot. However, her gre certainly did woo motivate him. “…right…” Yuki stared across the horizon once more trying to take it all in. “There’s more than one boat. Did we arrive during a festival?”

  Tired of Yuki not getting it, Yori spoke up to fill him. “It’s the ey of the US Pacific Fleet, or at least a signifit portion of it from what we’ve been able to see just from here.”

  That seemed to perk up Yuki immediately as though he was some sort of military otaku. He leaned fainst the railings to stare harder. A pair of binocurs popped up in his hands to let him examine one of the ships. “You’re right?! Plus isn’t that a British fg?” Everywhere he looked he saw warships. They all sailed in a tight formation.

  “We’ve picked up at least five different try’s naval vessels. Something like that only meahing.”

  “It’s a UN anized mobilization. But what’s the UN doing in Japan?”

  “We still don’t know, but that massive of a fleet isn’t parked out here for no reason.” Yori looked back at their boat and how close they were getting to the fleet. “We aren’t a registered ship. It’s going to be hard getting in even as something as small as us.”

  Yuki turned away from the ships and focused ba his friends. He knew what Yori implied. “Well, we don’t know what’s going on out here. I gave no profile on radar, so they haven’t seen us yet, probably. But visual identification is still a risk. I’ll make us invisible, so everyo inside.”

  As they all shuffled inside, Yuki looked back over his shoulder at the fleet. ‘I’m not liking the feeling I’m getting from this. It’s not quite the homeing I was expeg for us…’ Ohey ehe main for the yacht, Yuki altered the boat’s appearao cloak it pletely. He built it into the w just in case something came up that they o sneak it.

  “Yori, you still got those transtion earrings I made for you?” He saw him nod and pointed him to the radio. “We might learn something from him if they are broadcasting. With any luck it’ll be across all frequencies.”

  Yori’s sister stepped up in front of Yuki, as he stared out in front of the ship. “Anything we do?”

  “Yeah actually, you’ve got far better eyes than I do. Watch out ahead and to the side. They aren’t going to know we’re here. So we o steer around.” Everyoook up positions around the windows calling out to Yuki any dahey saw.

  Slipping into the fleet was no problem. But trying to get around a bunch of warships with no clue of their presence made things challenging. Yuki kept over steering in his unfamiliarity with boats. Even if it was newbie friendly, he still never drove one. ‘Dammit!’ he snapped as he nearly spun them around avoiding a destroyer.

  Just as they broke free from the wall of ships, a voice broke through from all sides. They thought they were spotted for a moment, but realized that it wasn’t poi them. Someone from the fleet spoke over the broadcast equipment.

  They spoke in something that wasn’t Japanese, leaving it up to Yori to be their transtor. “This is the UN Blockade Fleet! Stand down immediately! If you tio take aggressive as direct force will be taken to subdue all individuals. I repeat this is…”

  “Blockade?” Yori’s sister questioned in surprise. It expihe reason for the fleet, but not for why it was happening. All of them looked around at each other trying to uand what had happeo Japan sihey were gone.

  Saki shouted out, pointing to something she saw in the distanbsp; “There’s something ing towards the fleet!” In another sed, it was almost too te for her to scream. “Get down!”

  Just off their starboard side, a massive bst of purple rocked the boat around in the disrupted sea. The target was one of the UN warships. It scored a direct hit to the upper deck, but didn’t cause any severe damage that would cause it to sink. However, another bst came in quickly, likely trying to finish the job off.

  They could only watch, uo do anything as the boat jumped almost into the air from the attabsp; A bright light from behind blinded everyone. An explosion came out of the light a moment ter breaking out ide waves spinning their boat around in circles.

  “Yuki!”

  “Damn it!”

  “What the hell is going on?!”

  The voice said something else, but Yori was too busy holding on to dear life that he couldn’t be bothered to transte. However, they didn’t have to guess for long as something flew by their boat along with several others.

  It was all too fast for Yuki to see. They were merely blurs. “What’s going on?!”

  Chiharu was the only ohat seemed ued by the whole thing. She carefully watched everything unfold. “It looks like the U in a peacekeeping forbsp; They don’t look familiar, but judging from the fact that they were using powers like us, I’m guessing the UN somehow has empowered people w with them.”

  The boat finally started to ease up, though the fighting that broke out in the distance left the sea angry. It did give them enough to stand back up, though Yuki had the hardest time of it. The others seemed to have already adapted and were barely affected. “The UN is fighting someone? That bst before was from that group wasn’t it?”

  “Most likely. When we left people were still disc their powers. In a month’s time they’ve already started to use them.” Chiharu looked closely at the fighting happening in the distanbsp; It gathered everyone’s attention quickly. “Given this information, it’s safe to assume that the UN’s purpose here is a peacekeeping a against Japan. They’ve likely blockaded the entire try viewing all of us as threats to the world.”