205. Black Bullet : War Against Scorpion and Tokyo Area Government. (6)

After defeating Scorpion in outer space, an hour later, Saitama and Kaito return to Earth with an unconscious little girl with long black hair in their hands (wearing a white robe created by Kaito). While on it, everyone in the chat group also fixed the environment using chat group points-- even the radiation caused by the nuclear bomb was also gone. Kaito also promised to reimburse everyone who did it, because he feels responsible since the Scorpion matter wouldn't have happened if Est's soul had never shattered in the first place.

"Everyone, we are back."

...!!!

When Kaito and Saitama show up in the middle, everyone, every chat group member, and a few servants quickly surround him, curious about what happened on the orbit. The only exception was Rentaro (protagonist) and Kagetane (antagonist), who seemed to be bonding together right now while Kaito wasn't looking at them.

"This girl... Don't tell me..." Erina guessed with curious eyes, "Is she Scorpion in human form?!"

"She is indeed the Scorpion," Kaito answered, which made everyone surprised. After all, from a half-kilometer monster turning into a cute little girl is something anyone would ever expect.

"Wow!" (Misaka)

"Such a little girl, yet she suffers a lot." (Itachi)

"Poor girl, but now she's safe with us." (Uta)

"Even I was surprised back then on the orbit. I am glad I didn't kill her." (Saitama)

...

"I didn't expect such a dangerous monster to have formerly been a little girl." Aika expressed her opinion, "Now, the matter with the legacy of the seven-star being a broken tricycle does make a little bit of sense."

"That toy was probably her favorite toy when she was still alive as a human, hence she got attracted to it." Manaka also guessed, "Now, since she's already become human, could we fix that tricycle?" 

"Sure." Kaito agreed, "The world consciousness also asked us to treat her better and bring her to the other world like all other cursed children in the world."

"The world consciousness did agree with our action? Even though we are kidnapping its residents?"Aika expressed her doubt.

"I'm also surprised." Kaito nodded again and explained, "In her opinion, the world consciousness also wishes for cursed children to have a better fate, and she's 100% supports our action."

"Why?"

"Well... let me explain what happened..."

...

After receiving Saitama's task reward, Kaito told everyone his conversation with this world consciousness explained how much 'she' cared about the condition of the cursed children in her world, but she was powerless to do anything. The most obvious fact is that somehow every cursed child in this world is blessed with strength after being born, while adults getting infected by the Gastrea creature simply turn into monsters.

She was also afraid to take action directly because she was afraid that taking the wrong step would make humans in her world extinct. After all, more than 90% of humans in this world had been killed by Gastrea, which was a mistake made by humans themselves. Indirectly, the world consciousness also answered the question in Kaito's mind about where the Gastrea came from: it was an artificial virus created by humans, perhaps expected to be a biological weapon, but its creator did not expect the virus to be completely uncontrollable.

The world consciousness then requested the chat group to save and take all the cursed children from her world, to save them from being discriminated against further. She also begged not to kill humans anymore in this world, as she was concerned about the human population in this world.

Hearing her request, Kaito quickly promised to take all the cursed girls soon when the portal was ready to open and wouldn't harm any humans in this world from now on. He also promised not to take any humans from this world (Kaito doesn't even have the intention to do so). In addition, Kaito also made a promise to the world consciousness to clean up the Gastrea creatures that exist throughout the world when they finish saving the cursed children.

After hearing his promise, the world consciousness is very grateful and promises that it will issue a group task in the chat group system when it finally saves all cursed children as a favor.

...

"So, you accidentally made money for us. Good job, Kaito." Saitama praised, "Now we have a way to locate all cursed children in this world whenever we ask from the chat group; it would be easy for us to find and bring all cursed children away from this world."

"I will summon more servants to help," Manaka suggested.

"And I will clone myself more." Kaito also followed, "I can 

"Indeed, the moment the portal opens tomorrow, we can start collecting all cursed children in this world." Aika nodded in agreement and then commented, "On top of that, from Kaito's information, it was confirmed that most of the group tasks were requested by world consciousness, which is not satisfied with their own 'fate' and asked the chat group system to change it."

"So the chat group has a way to contact the world consciousness of each world. That's interesting information to learn." (Itachi)

"That... makes sense. Every group task we have done so far has always been about changing the world for the better," (Misaka)

"In a way, that's how 'Root' in my world issued a task for Kaito-kun." (Manaka)

"SAO plot ended way better with our intrusion... with less death and faster record." (Erina)

"The same with Sekirei. I am glad the old woman like me and Akitsu could meet Kaito and be winged by him." (Miya)

"Ah... You're welcome..."

Hearing Miya praise, Kaito blushes hard in embarrassment, and then realizes he still has 'Scorpion' needing treatment on his hand... not the time to talk. 

"A-Anyway! Let's go back to the base, as Scorpion's condition is currently very weak and needs medical treatment. We also need to give this girl psychological treatment to this girl."

"I understand medical... but psychological?" Aika raised her eyebrow in confusion, "Her mind is affected by the time she becomes a monster?"

"No, her mind is back to human thinking, but she's currently suffering from PTSD."

"PTSD from the time she became a monster?"

"No, she developed a phobia of Saitama." Kaito wryly smiled and looked in Saitama's direction, "Saitama-sensei did way too much damage and she's traumatized by it."

...!!!

Hearing what Kaito said, everyone was shocked, while Saitama scratched his head, feeling embarrassed. "...I guess I did punch her too hard?"

"Saitama-sensei... Her soul almost dissipated from your serious attack, if not because the world consciousness and chat group system were working together." Kaito corrected him.

"Ah. Thank you for stopping me from becoming a murderer." Saitama bows his head, offering gratitude for Kaito, albeit also feeling embarrassed by his words.

"You're welcome." Kaito answered casually, "Well, it was partially my fault, too, since I asked you to do that."

To be fair, Kaito was genuinely scared of Saitama's attack earlier than Scorpion's. Not only because that's the most powerful attack he has ever witnessed directly, but it also can erase a soul forcefully, which is the worst thing that could happen!

Fortunately, before it happened, Kaito had already asked the system to assist him and guard the soul in Scorpion's body; otherwise, it would have ended in disaster.

Saitama would fail his optional task, and the worst possibility is that even Est's soul fragment would get destroyed under his attack, resulting in the resurrection of Est becoming impossible.

...

After that, Kaito and the other chat group members and all summoned servants went back to the base since the day had become dark. Scorpion also needed a treatment right away alongside other survivors from the Iwaki area. On top of that, everyone also has a marvelous dinner together as a celebration of collecting all the Est soul fragments in this world-- cooked by Erina and EMIYA together.

>>>>>

After taking care of Scorpion, there is still one more thing that needs to be done, which is to repay what the Tokyo official government did to them when they fought against the Gastrea creature army. Using coordinates provided by Kayaba, Kaito quickly teleported to the location of the Tokyo Area central government building with Aika and Sakuya following him.

With Aika and Sakuya in the middle of the room, Kaito looked around the futuristic room that was supposed to be full of official government staff, leaving only 2 left behind... which happened to be the "leader" of the Tokyo Area.

"Seitenshi-sama and Tendo Kikunojo-sama, it's our first time to meet directly." Kaito casually greeted them, but there was a hint of coldness in his tone.

Hearing his greeting, Seitenshi, albeit looking haggard and afraid, quickly responded with an apologetic tone, "Yellow hair swordman Kaito... on behalf of the Tokyo Area government, we apologize for what we did."

"Apologize? For wanted to kill all of my family members. There's no way." Kaito shook his head in anger. 

"Funny, Seitenshi-san. You don't think we can simply forgive you and everyone in here just by apologizing, right?" Aika sarcastically called her out, "If not because of our way to escape, most of us would have ended up dying on Iwaki!"

"Calm down, Aika..." Kaito quickly calmed her down, didn't expect her to be like that, "Getting angry at her would not solve anything."

"Master is correct, Aika-san." Sakuya followed, supporting Kaito to stop Aika from getting angry. 

Although she is also very angry, Sakuya remembers that Kaito promised that they wouldn't harm any humans in this world anymore; hence, their purpose here is only to ask for an explanation why they did that.

...

"Kaito, you are not planning to forgive her mistake because she's a white-haired girl, right?" Aika jabbed at him, remembering her leader had a particular fondness toward girls with blonde and white hair.

???

Hearing her accusation, Kaito quickly became speechless, "No, what are you talking about?! I mean, with her character, I do think she tried to stop the nuclear attack from happening."

"You know she's not that evil.... she is just incompetent as a leader."

Although Kaito is pretty mad about what happened on the Iwaki, he knows that Seitenshi is one of the few genuinely good humans in this city-- as the one who tried to propose a cursed children protection law. It's very unlikely that Seitenshi would approve the method of launching a nuclear bomb at them, and the real culprit must be the commander of the Tokyo Area, Tendo Kikunojo.

Besides, Kaito thinks Seitenshi could be kidnapped to help and lead the cursed children in the base world to atone for her sin on behalf of the Tokyo Area official government.

...

"I am sorry... for being useless... I am sorry..." 

Hearing Kaito and Aika's mockery, Seitenshi could only look down, acknowledging what they said. If she were a competent leader, Seitenshi should be able to control her subordinate... prevent the event from ever happening in the first place.

"Tch. Your incompetence disgusts me." Aika shook her head and then turned to Tendo Kikunojo, "Anyway, we are here to ask the reason why you guys decided to launch a nuclear bomb at us."

"Yeah, we want an explanation." Kaito folded his hand, "Depending on your answer, we might let you guys go."

"We are quite civil here, so start speaking up."

"There's nothing to talk about, criminals."

...!!!

However, instead of apologizing like Seitenshi, Tendo Kikunojo did the opposite. He looked at them with an arrogant look, really thinking what he did was not wrong.

"Tendo-san, did my ear completely wrong, or are you just calling us... criminals?" (Aika)

"Yes. You guys are a threat to the Tokyo Area, alongside all those Gastrea creature armies." Tendo Kikunojo answered firmly, with no fear in his eyes at all, "We simply made the best decision for the Tokyo Area at that time to respond to the situation."

"I understand about targeting the Gastrea creature... but us?" Kaito asked coldly, trying his best not to beat the old man in front of them, "What have we done to deserve that?"

"The abnormality of Scorpion... it must be your group's fault, right?" 

...?!?!

Tendo Kikunojo guessed confidently, "The Scorpions we know of were never become that large or strong, and it must be related to the existence of your group of superhumans."

"Also, you guys are the ones who opened the Seven Stars legacy, inviting Scorpion to this land. If anything, you guys are trying to endanger the whole country just because your group wanted to clean up your mess."

"Isn't that right, criminals?"

...!!??!!

"Sly fox. I forgot politicians are really smart at making excuses." 

Aika cursed, admitted Tendo Kikunojo was somewhat right, and they are currently losing ground, "But aren't you the one who initially had the plan to invite Scorpion to Tokyo, to halt the cursed children protection law progression?"

"Yes. I do have that plan."

"Tendo-san?!"

"I am sorry, Seitenshi-sama, I really can't withstand such a stupid law existing, and I will do anything to prevent it." Tendo Kikunojo easily admitted, which made Seitenshi open her eyes wide in shock.

"Tendo-san... why?!"

Tendo Kikunojo wasn't surprised Kaito group knew that, considering Hiruko Kagetane was now working with them. Tendo Kikunojo never really hides his hatred toward cursed children, and he never thinks he needs to.

"But in the end, it didn't matter. Your group is the one who opened the suitcase... and everyone in the Tokyo Area knows that thanks to your stupid broadcast!"

"You guys are the criminals, and in the public's eyes, we did nothing wrong, Yellow Hair swordman and his friend."

...!!!

Hearing Tendo Kikunojo, Kaito, Aika, and Sakuya admit that this old fox is truly capable of shifting the blame, and logically, he was right. Even Aika couldn't help but admire Tendo Kikunojo's argument, but too bad, they are direct enemies and they cannot reconcile.

"You are trying to shift the blame," Kaito yelled, "You are the one who did the plan in the first place!"

"Those are correlated, but still do not justify your decision to send multiple nuclear bombs at us!" Aika followed,

*BAMM*

"We did nothing wrong!" Tendo Kikunojo yelled in arrogance, smashing his table and then pointing his finger at Kaito and others, "Your group is dangerous, and your group should have died with all of those Gastrea creatures coming with Scorpion!"

"Okay, that's it! I have had enough of your bullshit!" 

*BLINK*

...!!!!

The moment Kaito heard Tendo Kikunojo say they should die, anger quickly took over him. Kaito, who has become furious, immediately teleported in front of that old man, then lifted his whole body while strangling his neck.

*Choke*

...!!!

"Swordman! Please, release Tendo-san!" (Seitenshi)

"Arrgh! Y-You want to kill me?! Go for it! But your group wouldn't ever change your status as a criminal!" Tendo Kikunojo threatened, seeming to believe Kaito won't dare to kill him.

"As if I would care about that! I hate this world, and I truly said that from the depths of my heart!"

"You have no idea how painful it was for me to see a lot of orphaned, cursed children getting treated in this world! Fucking retarded world!"

...!!!

Kaito does not doubt that the chat group probably did something to help him ease the experience of thousands of different cases of misery that he has witnessed against cursed children, because any normal human being would break down mentally by now. Even so, it's still not enough to make Kaito hate this world less, because as a good person who lives without parents, Kaito can't withstand witnessing such discrimination toward children everywhere!

...

"Arrgh! W-What do you want to do? Release me! Release me!"

Tendo Kikunojo suddenly has a very ominous feeling, telling him to get away from Kaito as soon as possible, but the problem is that Kaito is way too strong for the old man to handle.

"No, I am going to punish you, and I will make sure you will regret ever meeting me at this moment, old man!"

Hearing Kaito's outrageous statement, both Sakuya and Aika also suddenly have a very bad feeling about what Kaito wanted to do, but unfortunately, emotion has completely taken over Kaito.

Kaito has gone completely mad, and Tendo Kikunojo will bear the price of his arrogant words.

Instead of straight-up killing Tendo Kikunojo and offending the black bullet world consciousness, at this moment, Kaito already has something even better to punish this arrogant old man. Thanks to his exploration with his soul manipulation attack variation, although it's never been tested, Kaito had confidence that the experience would be way worse than death for this old man.