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“As we are in the Z corp’s palace, they have personally sent us an invite for this occasion as the celebration for their new heir.” the guide mutters looking at the papers that the company has in his hands. “And there is no way out of this since this is also our mission to get the golden boughs so..” he eyes at me then towards the rest then mutters. “Manager, you know what to do..” I nodded after he said that.
Most of the sinners knew our literal objective since we did it so many times so I chose not to say it as more conversations started to erupt amongst the sinners as the bus started to move once more, stopping at some points when we needed something or needed to defeat some abnormalities in our way.
The abnormalities were different here, they had a muscular texture as its form with huge fangs in its mouth. Their heads are opened slightly and they still wear their outfits assuming before they got turned into abnormalities.
My thoughts were immediately interrupted when I heard a loud commotion coming from the right of the bus. I looked a little back to see what was going on.
“THIS IS Z CORPS PALACE???” Rodion says gasping when she sees the palace from a distance, a continuing voice from rodion also continues, “This palace has such beauty! Surely this is where my companion Homaa lives. right?”
The yellow girl says, looking at Homaa as the dark green owl takes a drag of her cigarette.
“Key word. Lived in.” she says before getting up going to the back as she then mutters. “Im coming back soon so don't think I'm running away.” saying that before she headed off. Usually she would get irritated or somewhat vulnerable when some mentioned z corp. As I saw from our time being together. Homaa would usually skip the topic just like she did now to try to not explain her story.
“This lass sure does not like talkin’ about her story.” the scratched up cat says, holding the edge of his baseball bat tightly.
“Makes me wanna hit-”
“Faust wants to remind everyone that violence is not recommended inside the bus-”
Hearing this, Heathcliff looks off to the side rolling his eyes as he mutters, “I was only joking..”
“Can we talk about how happy the people look…” the orange sailor mentions looking outside her mind filled with thoughts, “out of all the corps I saw. I don't think I saw the people here so happy…do they even know about the stuff happening around here?”
“Thats enough talk.” the guide says, looking back into his papers. Before looking back to us, into which everyone turned quiet by now.
“This is how far we can go. The bus cannot go any further..” the guide looks at us, eyes turning more redder by the second. “Off the bus.”
Most sinners groaned as they started to get up. Started to head down the bus when all of a sudden they hear another voice coming from the back.
“Im back.”
Homaa’s voice comes towards us. I turned my head to see Homaa in this white dress, however she still had her sinner coat on , she had a golden waist jewelry and some golden jewelry all over her body. She had soft makeup on with a cigarette in her mouth. Her long dark green hair escalated down her back leaving it open for the first time since I have ever met her.
“This is a grand event for..one of my brothers…i had to get ready..” the dark green owl says, smirking as she places her hands on her hips. “What? I didn't want to go in there with my uniform..seriously?”
“You have brothers?” the bug guy says, looking at her as Homaa replies. “I thought I mentioned that maybe not…oh well~!” she said while looking around to everyone else, before the guide cleared his throat.
< are you sure your going to be able to fight in that dress Homaa? >
I say moving closer to her as she then replied.
“Its a sari not a white dress.”
“As much as i want to refuse and choke your throat with my own hands…if it's for the mission..i guess i would let this pass however,” the guide says rubbing his nose with his fingers before eyeing at her. “Dont repeat this again.”
Homaa nods her head as she drags her claymore with her in which she mentions, “of course of course my lonely guide~!” she says sarcastically.
“Y.L.G.O.” the samurai girl says, taking her drag of the cigarette while eyeing at her outfit.
“She says, ‘you look good, owl!’” the yellow chick says holding onto his weapon, into which Homaa nods slowly, before remembering what she called her, she then balls her fist, mouth opening to say something before deciding to shut up about it. Instead, she nods slowly, walking towards the front of the bus to get out.
All of us got out of the bus sooner or later as we walked more and more outside to the front of the palace. When i looked at Homaa i saw an expression i have never saw her make, she walked more slower and was behind the rest, her face was grim and she looked like as if something hurted her, but when she took a peak at me, she immediately hid her expression with a smile as she walked more faster….weird…does Homaa know something? And what might she be hiding?
I shook off my thoughts when I heard commotion from the group.
“Weird, I didn't see any abnormalities anywhere…nor any factions we needed to fight ... .is this usually peaceful around here Homaa?” the orange cat replied to which the dark green owl replied much much later,
“Oh please! We don't need to fight anyone we see when we just landed! And plus this corp is protected by a deity or well maybe used to.. But all you guys need to know is that this city is protected by the person with the deity's power, and they can only have that with the choices they make.” Homaa says as she eyes towards one of the sellers, the sellers look at Homaa for one second looking away before realizing who it was.
“Is that…HOMAR??” the sellers mentioned running towards the dark green haired owl and holding her hands ever so warmly,
“It’s Homaa auntie..” Homaa mentions rolling her eyes,
“And here I thought you were going to miss the Savanerus festival!”
“the…Savanerus festival ... .but I thought that event…” she mutters, holding her chin with her finger before looking down, her face in a somewhat solemn expression before she nods slowly and gives her mischievous smile.
“The Savanerus’s festival..i believe it is happening around the prince’s raj tilak right?”
“It is! That's what's making everyone happy with joy! And with you here it's going to make everything special!”
“Special huh?”
The dark green haired owl muttered, looking down before another voice appeared, “um hello? Can anyone fill us in on what's going on?” the orange cat says, before another voice brings up, “yeah we are quite confused here…” the black crow muttered.
The dark green owl smiled brightly as she wrapped her arms around the elder lady, bringing her closer, “this woman here was one of my servants from the palace. The queen however, threw her away due to something unfortunate happening. But later, she was brought in later by one of my elder brothers.”
“That was very kind of them to give me a second chance. I thought I was a goner!” the elder lady says laughing. Homaa on the other hand looked like she was still thinking about something, however she covered that up with a smile, “tsk tsk tsk, auntie! You could have had at least a little trust in the family won’t you?”
To which the elder lady laughs more, “well, aren't you sweet! It's much calmer here now than ever before! It's like we are living in heaven!” she says before getting a call from someone to tend back to her store, “oh i may have to go! I'll see you at the palace my beta!” she says, giving her a small kiss on the cheek before walking back, I see Homaa stand there and turned around to wipe the kiss off her cheek before turning back to us, folding her arms around her back and smiled,
“Well! Palace we go! Shall we?”
While we walk to the palace close to us, i think to myself in a small note
Note to self: talk with Homaa and STAT
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