The moment he said those words, I felt my mind getting swarmed by all different kind of thoughts, if not for the existence of INFINITY, I might have clutched my head in frustration and of having a headache dealing with all of this, I cleared my mind up and calmed down myself and looked at the guy next to me and said with a bewildered tone :
" Did we really arrive ? .
The reason to my question was the fact that we were currently on top a mountain, I opened Spatial Eyes wanting to check what was going on, but I didn't even understand what I was checking for .
No, I seem to have found something, their was a big mansion close to us but how should I say it, it was a bit strange, the mansion had no point of entry, at least not a clear one, there was no welcome mattress on the door and in fact there wasn't even a door, I was able to see that the mountain we should be landing on soon, had something akin to a pipeline, it was working as some sort of an elevator, reaching all the way down the mountain and continuing underground and from there you will enter another pipeline leading to the inside of the house .
Which was quite far from the mountains, I couldn't help but look at the guy next to me wanting to ask him about what was going on, but after he said we arrived and began landing on the mountain, he seemed to fell back in thought, I really wonder if my words were really that difficult to comprehend or were they just enough to shock him like this, only he know the answer to this question .
As we landed and the plane landed safely in the designated place for it to land, he once again woke up from his trance, but this time he first nodded at me, I don't want to be self conceited, but he seemed to have realized something through the words I said, he then asked me to follow him, we stepped out of the plane and as we walked a bit far from it, he once again held his pistol and aimed at the plane and shoot at it .
The plane disintegrated into Psions then disappeared, I saw this and almost couldn't help but get excited at what I just witnessed, I might be able to do the same with Black Hole, but even so, seeing him demonstrating his Decomposition in front of me left me a bit in awe .
I also couldn't help but wonder why he did such a thing, but since he didn't say a word about it, then he pretty much didn't want to talk about it, I followed him and so that we were heading to the town on the top of this cold mountain, the snow was covering the scenery and we almost at sunset, so the scene was really beautiful, I couldn't help but stop to admire it a little .
Luckily, he seemed to be not in much hurry as he was before, he allowed me to get my fare share of marveling the scene in front of me, after a while, I forced myself to let go of continuing to watch the scene anymore, I nodded at the guy who seemed to have not left eyeing me for even a second, as if I might escape at any second, seeing me nodding he turned and continued to walk forward .
I was able to notice that the town wasn't much extravagant or anything, it was just a normal town, we reached where the pipelines were installed, it seemed that they were installed at a shop that was selling hunting gears, it acted as a good cover, but once again I was surprised at the level of secrecy that was being used here, still wondering whether was this all really necessary .
We entered the shop and the shop owner seeing us coming, didn't even say welcome, he just pushed a button and a room suddenly appeared inside the shop, a capsule like cart appeared before us and without looking at me he moved to another room, we entered the capsule, took our seat and then Tatsyua began to fiddle with the tablet installed in the capsule, once the order was given, the capsule began to descend through the layers of earth, I don't know how many layers had we descended, but it seemed that this mountain had other facilities in it .
I passed by not quite the few rooms as I descended, but they were all closed, we finally reached our destination, or at least reached the place where we will be taking another ride like this one to reach our destination, the Yotsuba Family Mansion, I presumed .
As we were in the tunnel leading to the entrance of the mansion, I couldn't contain my curiosity anymore and directly asked, saying :
" Was there really need for this much secrecy and arrangements, I don't believe that there were many people who might want to miss with the Yotsuba Family, was there ? .
He turned to look at me and said :
Believe it or not, you were the reason that the headquarters of the family was once again returned to be in the old family house, like this and it wasn't about whether their might be an attack from an enemy or not, no one know that the old family mansion was here, those who might get even suspicious about this place will either found nothing that was worthy of noting or will they be just dealt with by the guards .
" You mean they will be.... .
Yes, they will be dealt with after they get out of the area, whether by removing their memories or if they were to harbor ill intentions, they will be killed on the spot, the family head decided that the family members be as discreet as possible about their actions on the outside world, even some are retorting to have another identity to go with once they are on the outside .
" Like your identity as Shiba Tatsyua ? .
He fell silent for a while and weirdly shook his head at me and stayed silent, I couldn't help but wonder if there were something wrong here, but as long as he didn't want to talk about it, I will always be in the dark about it .
But I at least was able to understand what's with all the discreet and him disintegrating the plane from before, I can't still make much sense of why all this was needed, but I'm beginning to understand a little, it seemed the Yotsuba Family like to stay in the dark in terms with its interaction with the rest of the world, I asked him another question, I said :
" What the interior of the house looked like, care to tell me ? .
He at my question looked at me weirdly and said :
Can't you use your Spatial Eyes to check, I don't believe that even walls of this caliber can be able to affect the effectiveness of your superpower magic, can it ? .
His question didn't do anything but made me becoming more nervous, my heart was what was preventing me from using Spatial Eyes, I didn't think it was appropriate to do this, neither did I have the heart to do so, I lost count of how many times have I calmed myself down since I first entered the plane that drove us here, yet when I'm this far from seeing the woman who supposedly was my mother or the mother of the person I was cloned of, I was still unable to bring myself to use Spatial Eyes to see her .
But I couldn't tell him that, so instead I shook my head and remained silent while closing my eyes, I was trying to find my inner peace, but my tries were failing miserably, in the end I lost hope of being able to do so, we arriving to our destination prevented me from continuing trying to do so anymore .
Seeing that we were currently undoing a security check by passing through a lot of different kinds of devices under the eyes of numerous security guards, even though the metal detecting machine buzzed when Tatsyua passed by it, no one came to say anything about, so I too just passed by them casually without much caring, for some reason some of those guys were throwing scornful gazes at Tatsyua as we were passing .
He too seemed to have noticed it, but he didn't even spare a glance at those resenting eyes, he went into an elevator that suddenly opened after he fiddled with a device in front of him, he entered and asked me to join him, I till this point was still having a second thoughts .
Suddenly I felt as if there were a pair of invisible hands suddenly pushed me forward towards the elevator, once I was inside, my heart was beginning to tighten and I almost lost control of my Psionic Nuclear Reactor(PNR) and began releasing radiation, but luckily Black Hole take responsibility in preventing the radiation from breaking loose .
He suddenly looked at me and I was able to see that drops of sweat were formed on forehead and he seemed to have made a distance between me and him at some point, he then asked :
What were you just trying to do ? .
I bowed down and apologized to him and told him that what just happened was just an incident of the radiation threatening to break loose and might have swarmed this layer, if I hadn't control it in time .
He seemed to have understood what I was saying, but after he finished listening to my explanation, he still asked, saying :
Does this happen very often, should we be worried ? .
I hurriedly shook my head and said :
" It was just a small problem, don't worry it won't happen again, probably .
He seeing my uncertain expression, just sighed and accepted things as they were, he entered a code that allowed him to activate the elevator and he pushed the first button, then the elevator began to move up, passing by 4 layers, after a 30 seconds or so, we arrived to our destination and the elevator door was opened .
The moment the door opened, I heard the sound of someone footsteps coming down on a stairs in front of me, after the elevator doors were opened, the scene that I saw in front of me wasn't much compared to the expectations I had in mind .
The hall that came into my sight was a plain one, there were no much furniture other than two couches sitting in the middle of the room opposite to one another, together with exactly three chairs, the walls had different kind of staring faces kind of paintings to give the place more solemnity I presumed .
The place looked quite elegant, but it wasn't what I expected it to be, I expected something a bit more grand like, suddenly my eyes went to the stairs as I finally saw the person that was running down on them just now, the first thing that came to my view was a rabbit style pink slippers that were moving to fast that I was beginning to think that there were two rabbits jumping .
Welcome back, onii-sama .
I was wondering whose soft voice was this, when I saw a girl descending from the stairs and for some reason the girl had tears beginning to form in her eyes as she said this, I was a bit taken aback at the girl in front of me, her apperance was one of the reasons to why she caught my attention, the girl currently had a messy hair and was wearing a pink robe that matched with the slippers and she was a pajama that had rabbits decorating as well .
The girl was a beautiful gir that had long, dark hair with teal highlights, that was currently messy, she had bright blue eyes, she had a slender body and her arms and legs were slim, that could be noticed through her speeding down on the stairs just now, the girl apperance was one that can't be forgotten .
I hadn't met that many women in my first day after leaving the facility, so it was obvious that I can't judge whether was she the prettiest girl I had seen or not, but if I were to make a list, of who could I choose to run for that title from all the people whom I had met, I believe she will be the winner .
But that wasn't the only interesting thing about her, the girl was gleaming was Psions, she had a close connection to the Psions surrounding her and most likely had a huge amount of it as well .
As I was wondering about this, the girl seem to have completely discarded of my existence and just jumped directly to her older brother's embrace, I so that for the first time the stern Tatsyua seemed to be showing an affectionate expression on his face as he took his little sister in his embrace .
I didn't to guess her identity, from her shout just now, I already understood that this was the responsibility that Tatsyua had on him, to keep this little sister of his, the guy joined the army and was probably tasked with something quite dangerous by the family, all for the sake of the girl who coincidentally happened to have the same birthday as I .
After she threw herself into the embrace of her brother, she seemed to have really missed him to the point that we stood there for over a minute, with her still clinging into him, they seemed pretty close, not to mention that she was the only person that was able to make the stern Tatsyua show this much of emotions .
After they hugged for enough time, I heard him whispering something in her ears, I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I was still able to hear him telling her to mind her manners, he wasn't berating her, his tone made me certain of that, he was just reminding her that someone else was here with them, or so I thought, but it seemed that I still underestimate how well mannered the girl in front of me was .
She seemed to have finally returned to reality after her brother reminder, she took a hurried step away from her brother's embrace, she was a bit unwilling to do so at first, but I saw that Tatsyua pushed it to do so, by breaking the hug first .
She took a few step backwards, she then looked at me and the very first thing that came to her eyes was my face, she wasn't surprised but more confused at seeing the face looking at her, but she soon calmed down and said her introduction while bowing her head forward by a little bit, she said :
Nice to meet you, I'm Shiba Miyuki .