"...Sooooo, you"re saying that not only did you fail to recruit him..."...You even let them know our base"s location?"
"...Kinda...?"
Inside a office inside a base somewhere where, even I, the fourth wall breaking author doesn"t know the exact location is, was the old trio.
Crux, was on his knees and was talking to a pair of voices, which seemed to be a bit young belonging to a male and female behind a black curtain.
The voices seemed quite mad but at the same time utterly amazed at Crux"s stupidity.
It was as if they don"t remember him being that stupid.
"Sigh... Sigh..."
"Gemi, you"re just saying the word again."
"I can"t help it Nii! And that was yesterday! They only let us know of it today!"
"I know the feeling. Let"s give him a pay cut."
"Let"s."
"Waaaaiiiiit!!!"
When Crux heard the two voices discussing about a possible pay cut for him, he immediately groveled on the floor, and bowed until his head was touching the floor.
"I am sorry for my incompetent performance, and I deservethe cruelest from of punishment, but lease not a pay cut!! Anything but that!!!!!!!!"
Leo and Altair who were watching the spectacle of Crux while comfortably sitted on a sofa in the room, felt pity at their respectable (nope) leader.
"Umm... Gemi, why don"t you lessen the punishment, even a little bit?"
"Altair"s right... Gemi, Mini, cut him some slack."
The voices behind the curtain fell silent at Leo and Altair"s persuasion.
"... I have a soft spot for gentle tough guys."
"... And I treasure family."
The voices behind the curtain said with their tones softening a bit. But, a soccer ball then caused the curtain to fall down somehow, the cruel answer came from their mouths.
""But no.""
And then what appeared after the curtains fell was a pair of twins both situated on top of swivel chairs. A boy and a girl who seemed to be a bout 12 years old or so.
They shared the same color as Altair and had mint green eyes. Their faces looked the exact same and they had black metal frames around their face ,but what they were wearing screamed anything but h.o.m.ogeneous.
The boy was wearing a pair of black cargo pants and long sleeved formal military uniform. He was also wearing black combat boots that he didn"t mind wearing all the time.
The girl, however, was wearing a long, white labcoat, a black turtle neck underneath and a pair of denim shorts with black thigh high socks and a pair of rubber shoes.
The boy sat with one of his legs crossed against the other one while the girl was sitting cross-legged on the chair.
Both of their headphone wires were let out, as if they didn"t care what happened to it despite it being a part of their body.
"ACK!"
Crux exclaimed after the soccer ball ended up hitting his head, causing him to stumble and fall on his back.
"Sis, you really sure about making this dude you"re fiancé?"
"He has his good points but he doesn"t seem that reliable anymore."
Altair sheepishly smiled at the two who were siblings.
"Gemi, you"re a nice girl and I thank you for your concern, but Mini, don"t badmouth him please."
Mini gave Altair a weird stare with his eyebrow raised while Gemi got off her chair and then put one of her headphone jacks to Crux"s wrist and pressed on an icon that appeared within her vision.
A few screens appeared within her green eyes, with information regarding a person"s health such as their pulse, heart beat and other medical stuff that doctors have to deal with.
She then swiped them away after reading the details and stood up again.
"Well, if you still want to marry him, make sure he stops doing stupid things."
"Gemi, please don"t call your future brother-in-law stupid. That"s rude."
"It"s a miracle on how neither me or Gemi have sweared at the guy yet."
While the siblings were having this conversation, Leo was silently poking Crux"s face, as if to check he was still alive despite getting Gemi"s okay.
He then lifted up his face and opened his mouth to speak.
"B-But I feel bad for failing this mission... S-since it was commissioned by Her Majesty, Lucille, after all..."
When Leo said this, Crux was starting to wake up and it was as if a lightning bolt had struck the twins.
"...Lucille..."
"...Investors..."
"...What... happened...?"
Their eyes then glowed bright red and started to stomp on the Crux that had just woken up.
"ACK!! WH- OUCH!! DID I-- AAAH!! DO WRONG?!"
Crux constantly screamed out in pain with it being mixed with his question.
"YOU SILLY LITTLE F*CK UP!!"
"YOU INCOMPETENT PIECE OF LIVING Sc.r.a.p METAL!!"
"OOOOOOWWWWW!!!"
Altair hid behind Leo"s large frame and didn"t help Crux, despite them being engaged because she knew that he deserved it.
The people who pa.s.sed by the office door could feel shivers go down their spine but were long, used to such things coming from the Gemini office.
*PING*
"Huh?"
"Eh?"
"What?"
"?"
"...Has it stopped yet...?"
Gemi and Mini pressed a b.u.t.ton on the wall together, causing the back wall of the office, which happened to be a giant screen, light up.
There was a bell notification at the top corner, with a red icon on it.
Mini maneuvered his hand to control the hand tracking cursor to click on it.
What appeared was an alert on how an『Unregistered ID 』had appeared at the front entrance of the base.
Gemi pulled up the video feed of the numerous surveillance cameras around the premise and they all showed the same thing.
A silver haired Mechanica.