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'Fourth building down, rooftop, one person.'
'Possibly a scout maybe?'
Activating his usual stealth runes he makes his way over to possible scout appearing on the other side of the roof.
"I've been trying to find out who the hell this Thorald guy is all day since this morning. There's no data on him prior to yesterday. No parents, No place of birth, No residence, until today, No prior records or data of any kind, yet today he has a full background, parents, though deceased, and is a 3rd year student at Senba from today." The would be bodyguard? Agent? was unaware that the very person he was investigating was standing right behind him.
"Sleep"
*Thud*
Rolling over the now unconscious individual and looking through their pockets he pulls out an ID.
"FIRE MOTH, huh, why are they here?"
"And from this morning no less" Thiking about it Thorald comes to the conclusion that they were assigned to watch over someone or something else and he just happened to appear.
Seeing the still unlocked tablet next to the fallen MOTH agent, he picks it up and begins looking through what he can.
'That kid did a terrible job creating my identity seamlessly if that was the goal, or maybe they were lazy.'
"Interrogating this guy might be the better idea or I could just search his memories?"
"Memories is easier and quicker" placing his hand on the agent's forehead he mutters "Rune hive: MindTap" (Searches memories, filters and can edit recent memories)
'That's them waking up... bathing... heading to the school...'
Finally find the memories he wants. 'Here it is. Oh there's a camera in that class? Why couldn't I find it? It's just the normal camera not a secret one that's why I overlooked it as I already knew of it. So they tapped into the feed, why?'
Skimming through more memories he finds- 'Raiden Mei, the girl Kevin gushed over earlier, what do they want with her? No matter I'll find out after this when I go through the tablet again.' Moving it along further he finds where he appears, the agent's confusion where he pulls up his records, goes to find his old records, but can't find them leading to them following him through his card purchases, going to make his way to the alley to follow him but Thorald being gone by the time he gets there only to find the payment for this apartment leading to the current situation.
'Alright now just to change a few things about these memories, the inconsistency, changing it so he finds everything to be normal and just that he heads home after making sure Raiden Mei makes it home, and that he passed out on the couch.'
Pulling his hand back he goes back to the tablet, finding information on Raiden Mei, 'Quantum Mechanics, that explains the physics book, a presentation a few weeks ago? Is that where she begun to show up on their radar.' Putting the tablet in the agent's bag he puts it over his should picks up the agent and takes him to his home.
(A/N: "Rune Hive" is a rune series Thorald created being a combination of multiple complex and dangerous Runes. MindTap works as long as he has either a much stronger will or overwhelming power, the same with what would be most others in and out of the "Rune Hive" series like "Sleep" or a future Rune based on Death "Perish".
P.S: Couldn't find if DR MEI had a second name as all I could find was either Raiden Mei or Dr Mei along with people just matching here birthday with CE Mei on April 13th So I'll stick with that.)
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Flopping back down onto the bed he stares at the celling. 'FIRE MOTH, Honkai, Herrschers, Kevin, Su, Raiden Mei, Honkai Energy... So many differences yet quite a few similarities between my world and this one.' Thinking back to abilities of the Herrschers he smiles to himself. 'So much potential, so much power, maybe just maybe I could reach it, the fifth Dimension.'
With that he checks the area around his apartment one last time before finally drifting off to sleep, ignoring his lit up phone.
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POV change -
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Su sitting in the break room at the hospital as he finished his just just a few minutes ago decided to give Thorald a call like he said earlier.
"Not picking up? Does he not know how to answer a phone? Surely not right?"
Hearing the voice mail tone again he ends the call and looks at the clock on his phone to see that its well past midnight. 'Must be asleep already then.'
Scrolling down he decides to call Kevin.
*vvzzzz-vvzzzz*
*vvzzzz-* "What's up Su?"
"Just finished my shift so I was goin- Is that Eden's music I hear?"
In a joyful tone Kevin replies "Yep, its a new song released today I've been listening to it on repeat since I got back, she really is 'The Voice of Heaven'. Don't you agree?"
"Of course I do," Su scoffed, continuing- "You've seen my playlist, her songs are all that I listen to."
"What I was just saying, no need to be so defensive about it."
Su realising that he got distracted "Back to what I was saying. that new guy Thorald."
Kevin, hearing Thoralds name perked up, "He's great right. I knew you'd get along with him when I was talking to him on the way to class this morning."
"Don't you think he was y'know a little weird, especially the phone part, I mean how could you not have a phone?"
"Su, its just a phone I barley use mine outside of calling people and that's it, why would that seem weird to you.
"hmm, sure, lets go with that as they might be just like you. What's next their a athlete good at sports."
"That would be awesome... listen I gotta go I've got pratice early tomorrow before class and its late as is."
Following they both said their byes and ended the call going about the rest of their night.
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Its a new day and Thorald walking to school is thinking about what he found out last night about FIRE MOTH and Raiden Mei, contemplating whether or not to approach her or not. 'hmm Kevin was talking about here yesterday right? maybe I could encourage him to just talk to her.'
'Lets not think about it until I see them later' Following that thought Thorald makes his way past the gates.
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A/N:
Shortest chapter so far, but that's more so that I am not a fan of doing this whole 3rd person narration as I find myself repeating or dragging out scenes for no reason and will switch to 1st person as it flows better and is easier for me to write, besides I can switch to 3rd person for other characters or scenes where the MC is not involved if need be.
Honestly I'm close to maybe trying the whole -
Thorald: "..."
Kevin: "..."
- Sort of style for interactions so I and you don't get lost in their conversations.
Ciao