Legacies of light

After the man finishes his speech, I sit everyone down and say, “Ok, everyone, let's get a few things straight. First, we are looking for members of the Chronicle Nimbus or CN. They are supposed to be hiding somewhere on Elpída. To do this we will split up, and search for them. I will go with Suzuka, Atalanta with Cyrus.”

Putting her hand up Atalanta says, “I have a question.”

“What would that be.”

“If we have no way of locating them, how will we find said, person.”

“That is why we're splitting up. We will have Cyrus take off his tail covering, and walk around freely doing this will attract attention due to him being a dragon, during that time I am sure that if a member of CN will come to see if a dragon really has appeared.

Me and Suzuka, will also go around, and use her mind-reading powers to see if we can find out anything about CN from other people.”

“But wouldn’t it make more sense for Cyrus to go with Suzuka? If the member of CN comes near him, Suzuka could hear who it is.”

“I would, but could you imagine if Suzuka passed out due to an overload of thoughts, there is no way Cyrus would be able to keep his cool, and would freak out. So, it is better if we just split them up.”

“I see.”

“S-S-Sorry.”

“No need to apologize Cyrus, and I need you to have more confidence, you saved both me and Suzuka’s lives back in Seirei, be proud.”

Cyrus nods his head in response to my words. Looking over at Suzuka she looks pumped, so I ask her, “What got you all hot and bothered?”

“I just got to try as hard as possible to pay Cyrus back.”

“Don’t push yourself too hard, that goes for all of you. Now, the final thing we have left to talk about would is; communication.”

“Should we meet up at an agreed time?” Atalanta asks.

“No, I thought about that but it would be problematic since if someone doesn’t show up, we really don’t have the mechanisms to chase after them at all. So instead, we will use these,” I say handing them objects.

“Aren’t these kaidenwa’s,” Atlanta says.

“You would be correct. The ones we stole from Basileia.”

“But they can’t be used long distance.”

“That isn’t true, they take spirit energy proportional to the distance, so after a certain range it would be impossible to reach each other, but with Suzuka here that won’t be an issue. We will be able to get a connection regardless of the distance with her.”

“I see.”

Walking over to the map close by I say, “Now let us take off. We are currently on the fourth platform, so, me and Suzuka, will explore the fourth, fifth, and sixth platforms, while you and Cyrus, explore the first, second, and third. Platforms four and one are for mainly commerce, five and two are for research and development, three is for leisure of all shorts and the sixth is run down.”

“Oh, I can't wait to visit number three,” Atalanta says.

“Well, we're not done here,” walking up to Cyrus, I take a good chunk of lupas from him, and say, “You can say no to anything Atalanta asks you to do, remember that.”

As Cyrus nods his head in compliance, I hear Atalanta say, “I am not going to do anything weird.”

“I hope so, don’t spend money on useless things as well, but don’t be hesitant about spending to get out of tricky situations, and more important than anything else, I want you two to stay safe.”

“Could it be your worried about me Orb.”

“No, I am not it is just if anything happens to you Cyrus is probably going down with you.”

“Your lime hair is a sign that your lying, your true feelings are clear to me,” Atalanta says hugging me.

“Let me go, you crazy woman!” After getting her off of me, all of us part ways, with Suzuka and I saying, “Goodbye, be safe.”

“Bye, you two keep in touch.”

Walking away with Suzuka, I see she is rather fidgety so I ask, “Is everything ok.”

“Oh yes, it is just that I have never been able to walk around without a worry in the world like this, usually someone is snaring at me or making fun of me, so it is fucking amazing to be free like this.”

“You know you have a rather crude mouth.”

Getting shy Suzuka says, “Sorry about that, would you like me to change that.”

I thonk her on the head at full force, “No need for that I was just making an observation, and to be honest I don’t really understand the issue with crude words, Capti used to tell me I shouldn’t use such language, but he would use it all the time as well.”

“I understand what you mean the others would as well.”

“Others?”

“To help expand my vocabulary, I used to say the things travellers say in my city out loud.”

Ahh, I see that’s why she has such a potty mouth most of her vocabulary came from strangers, “But wouldn’t your parents of corrected you.”

Sadden she says, “I started doing this after I was taken.”

Dammit, Orb, I didn’t think that thought to a conclusion, and now I have made her sad for no reason, think before you speak idiot. I need to do something to make her feel better but what; I see something that gives me an idea.

Grabbing her hand, I drag her to where my sight is locked on to and say, “Let’s have a little fun.” We run over to a shop that rents the vehicles everyone is using on the gravity roads. After renting one I say, “This should allow us to have a fun time exploring the city.”

“But wouldn’t this be a waste of money?”

“The longer we have to stay in this city the more money it will cost us so getting everything done as fast as possible is without a doubt the best option in this situation. And more importantly every now and again we should have some fun.”

Grabbing Suzuka I use my legacy and create ice underneath us, which brings us high enough for the antigravity to kick in, and then we get on the board I say, “Suzuka hold on tight.”

“I will,” she says wrapping her tails around me. As I collapse the snow we start to float on out. We are on a large isosceles triangle-like board, that is very sticky. By leaning the board starts to move in the direction we want, and in no time, we are off flying through the sky like everyone else.

Due to how far up Elpída it is constantly night, which really shows us how well-lit this country is, even in the dark night everything is very visible and also very beautiful. As we move through the fourth platform, we go wherever we want they’re no limits on where we can go.

As we get completely lost in travel, I want to tell Suzuka that we should start looking around, but the smile on her face stops me from saying anything.

“Orb everything here is so pretty, mom and dad used to say the Capital has lots of pretty lights like this,” She says as she starts crying.

“Are you ok Suzuka!” I say as I begin to panic.

“Of course I am, these are tears of joy. Ever since we left Seirei I didn’t know if all of this was just some dream, but seeing this city which I couldn’t of ever dreamt up made me realize, I really am here. So, I am just so happy.”

“Take this all in Suzuka, I promised you I will show you lots more of these sights, so remember it only goes up from here.”

Both of us continue to fly around the city.

-Break-

Names of all the cities

1st platform city: Helios

2nd platform city: Selene

3rd platform city: Eos

4th platform: Pergamon

5th platform: Aeia

6th platform: Ichnaea

-Break-

Φ Hitting me on my head my boss tells me, “You dumb ass idiot, you have missed your quota every month for the last year, you have been working here for years and the newbies are already making double the sales, when we hired you made the most sales out of anyone, but now with not only your lower sales but all your mess ups lately, we have no reason to keep you here, so right now your fired. Get out of my sight this instant.”

As I walk out of my office all the snares from before around me cause my broken heart to shatter into even smaller pieces. Even when I tried to be good.

I was a sales representative that went around tricking travellers and other idiots into buying the crap my company makes, and I was really good at tricking idiots, I made the most out of anyone at our company. I was a horrible person, but it allowed me to get by in Elpída.

But one day I found out the garbage caused an explosion in which many families were caught up in. Logically speaking, I can’t take the full blame for the accident, there were countless other people involved in this, so saying it was just my fault would be stupid, but still, I wanted to stop being a piece of shit and try to return to being a decent human.

But that didn’t really work out, I lost my job, I lost my friends, I lost my girlfriend and now I am going to have to live poor in this expensive ass city. Completely hopeless and broken I say to myself, “The next person I see, I am going to swindle them for all they are worth.”

After saying this someone tapes me on my back and says, “Hey, would I be able to ask you for some directions.”

I see a beautiful red-haired girl, and a tall beautiful boy with a large backpack, he also strangely has horns. Taking a second to look at them, I see they are wearing visitor armbands, so this must mean that some foreigners are in front of me, the perfect cash cows.

“To where,” I say with my most trustworthy smile.

“Oh well, we're looking for the entrance to the next platform.”

“I know you guys are foreigners, so let me tell you this you have to pay a toll to enter the next platform and it is expensive especially for you guys since they increase the prices for foreigners.”

“Really that bad for us.”

Using all my years of honing my body language, I put on my best performance yet. “I know it must be, they’re really trying to rip off everyone who steps foot in this country, OUR GOVERNMENT FUCKING SUCK! But at the very least, us citizens are here to look out for each other, I have another way you can move between the platforms.”

“That sounds wonderful. What is it?” The woman says as she starts using her body to flirt with me.

I see what she is playing at, looks like I don’t have to feel bad about what I am going to do. “Well, if you pay me some money I can make it, so that you won’t have to pay for any toll while you’re in Elpída. Just give me a -Censor- amount.”

“But that’s quite a lot, are you sure you can't give me any discount.”

“I am giving you as big a discount as possible, and you should remember that what I am asking for is a lot less than you would actually have to pay, and there are other benefits.” As I start rambling on about the reason why they should take my offer, I come to a certain realisation and crouch down.

Am I really such a scummy piece of shit this whole self-righteous, me against the world mentality, led to the deaths of over a thousand people, most murders haven’t even killed that many. I can’t keep doing this.