Chapter 185: The Takae Family House.
"Then..." The president swallowed and wiped his forehead. "What should I do?"
"As we speak, earth is undergoing an important change, there will be an adjustment period, but it's going to solve a lot of problems specifically where crimes are concerned, the other world leaders, including the ones I've let libe are already aware of this, I left you for last because I heavily contemplated killing you the most." Sol answered.
"Lending military support to other countries is escalating their wars, giving military aide to other countries has caused mass murder and genocide at every turn, you're going to stop..."
"Are you taking notes?" Dina asked keeping her eyes on the woman while she typed away.
"Y-yes ma'am." She adjusted her glasses streaming tears and sweating buckets while she recorded everything she heard.
"Good... I'm going to enforce every rule and order he gives and if you break a single one I'm coming back with hell's fury, I haven't and won't ever forgive any of you."
"...Understood."
"What about the countries already engaged in war?" The president asked and Sol scoffed.
"Currently their leaders are discussing peace under the eye of the system, every warring state, province, country and continent with conflict is currently being led through negotiations, you leaders only get this one chance, if you try to screw me over you're all going to die and be promptly replaced by more capable individuals, in fact there's no telling, I might just kill you all and set the slate clean anyway, but I'm giving you a chance to prevent anarchy." Sol relaxed in his seat on the far side of the large table when System appeared at his side staring down at the president with an almost scornful eye.
"Mr president, you have done quite a number of damnable acts and ordered some terrible things throughout your life and carreer." She commented, and the man shuddered at her presence and how her voice reached inside of his head and spoke directly into his consciousness.
"I am the System, henseforth you will be dealing with me." She informed him while Sol looked across at Dina and gestured for her to come to him.
"Yes." Dina stopped at Sol's side with her head slightly lowered and her posture rigid, but as soon as he pushed out his seat and opened his arms she sat across his lap, buried her face against his neck and began silently crying.
[Issuing administrative command: System has been named Alpha, searching database, Alpha is an acceptable name, thank you, master Vestic.]
Alpha looked around at him stoically when her name was given discreetly and then smiled when he disappeared with Dina before she turned to the president again and snapped her fingers causing the deceased in the room to get transported elsewhere. "Shall we continue Mr President?"
"May I ask, where you all came from?"
"That is classified, only those who are direct allies and family of master are privy to that information." Alpha adjusted her clothes and looked at him seriously. "Now about these crimes you have committed President Tullok..."
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"Dina!" Arla hastily approached as soon as Sol appeared with her in his grasp, walking toward the door of a house apparently owned by Usami. "I am so sorry..." She stopped before them waiting for Sol to let Dina down before she seized her in a warm cuddle and stole her from him ushering her inside where Sara and Ikaris comforted her in the living room while he wandered in, looking around.
"Sol." Usami walked up to him and stood staring at him with her mouth upturned and her lips pressed tightly together. "Sol Vestic..." She balled her fists as tears began flowing down her cheeks.
"Really, honestly, thank you so much for coming back!" She exclaimed and gave him a proper bow and with her doing so her brother who had already been awake at that point came from the kitchen and did the same, and the little girl seeing her mother and uncle being polite joined them both and inclined herself as well.
"I'm sorry, Usami, I'm sorry all of this happened to you, I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to do anything about it, I swear I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you-"
"Uriyu, don't be absurd." Usami raised her head and looked at her brother, raising him to stand before her and patting his shoulders and smiling while she sniffled. "You grew into a beautiful and capable man, I couldn't have asked for anything else, it happened suddenly but you best believe Atlas is gone for good, with my friends here there's nothing to ever be worried about again."
"I'm not capable, sis, I fucked up, I fucked up a lot, I let all of those things happen to you... I-"
"You're no longer alone." Usami held her taller brother and pulled him into a hug keeping his head against hers as he bent and hugged her. "It's okay, I don't hate you, Uriyu." She smiled when he shook. "Let's move on from all of this." She held him tightly and then released him with her hand patting his chest over his heart. "We can talk more in the morning, go rest."
"Yeah." Uriyu rested his hand on her head and smiled sadly at her. "Sir, thank you for everything you've done today," He looked to Sol who was standing next to them and then left after a nod from his benefactor.
"Sol." Usami turned to him and sighed raising her daughter on her side as the girl played with her hair. "Thank you, really, I don't think I've accepted that I'm actually free yet because of how sudden this all happened, I can only say thank you for now." She stared at him devoid of even a smile.
"Nothing else is necessary." Sol smiled at her and then her daughter.
"They didn't want to name her, but I had gone ahead and named her Gia anyway." She smiled at her daughter, making signs with her one hand while the little girl nodded and did the same.
"That's Dina's middle name." Sol spoke up while the others had stopped and stared at them. "She's adorable."
"I hate how she came to be, hate it, but I love her so much that it kills me, I had to pretend that I didn't care so they wouldn't use her as more leverage to get me to do worse things..." Usami made more signs with her fingers, smiling when the girl read her lips and hugged her. "If she would have died in those labs...
I'd have probably killed myself..." She admitted just before Dina came and hugged her from behind resting her forehead against her neck.
"Don't say such things."
"She was born with mana, but I sealed it off before anyone even realised, it made her weak and fragile, but if they had tried turning my baby into a weapon...
I don't know if the me before you would be the same person you know, I'd have become a devil, I thought about it so many times "what if I could just shut off my feelings and kill indiscriminately," but every time I thought of Gia and Uriyu I swallowed it down and stayed my hand." She looked at the girl that had fallen asleep in her embrace.
"I'm so happy that I didn't, I'm also disappointed in myself that I couldn't."
"It took greater courage to hold on, you didn't choose wrong, that sigil on your hand means something, you're not a monster, Usami, you are the spear hero." Ikaris carefully took the little girl from her grasp, and Sol saw the goddess melt as she was hugged and snuggled against, her smile and her eyes softened into puddles and her whole posture became flexible and exuded a motherly aura.
"She glows." Ikaris smiled. "I will put her to bed."
"There's a small room at the end of the hall to the right, it was originally Uriyu's but he long outgrew it." Usami kissed Gia's forehead and then let Ikaris take her away.
"This is your family home?" Sol asked, and she pointed to the wall behind him where he found a bunch of old photos of her, her brother and even their parents.
"One of the few requests that they agreed to was having this house remain mine, whenever I could I would stop here and clean, while it was otherwise maintained by them." She answered and then turned to everyone. "Did you stop by Arkadia first?"bshebasked looking at Sara. "And Eris still didn't come?"
"Lady Eris... has a baby boy, and she did not want to raise him here on earth." Arla answered. "But that was not her real reason for not coming with us." She added.
"She couldn't even look me in the eye when I was sent back."
"Guilt." Sol answered before anyone else could. "She's been regretting not coming with you, she's been beating herself up over how she treated you, she didn't want to come back because she was afraid of facing you, she didn't feel worthy of any form of forgiveness after what she did and I don't disagree with her, she did treat you poorly." Sol rested his hand on her shoulder and smiled at her.
"She asked me to apologise on her behalf and I want to apologise as well, what happened to you..."
"Thanks, Sol." Usami smiled and hugged him squeezing his torso so tightly he felt the air leaving his lungs. "Now then." Usami turned and pinched Dina's neck and stared at Arla's. "These two have been calling you master since you all got here and they have Ikaris's tattoos now too."
"What kind of degeneracy have the four of you been up to in my absence?"
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