What's my relation to them....Intresting question.
He leaned back on the comfy seat and looked Aeon in eye,
"I don't know." He answered earnestly.
Aeon's scrutinizing expression faltered at that response.
"You... don't know?"
"Hm" Sky hummed in response.
"That can't be right, I know they put a bounty on you. They are the main cause, comparable to Principalities in that regard! What game are you playing." Aeon didn't back down on his scrutiny. He got dangerously close to him.
Seeing his personal space being invaded, his eyes narrowed. He jumped up from his seat at once, to which Aeon quickly backed away.
He fell to his seat with sky locking him in place with his right hand against wall, blocking his escape.
It may look like a romantic move a man uses to stop a weak girl but it's surprisingly effective to lock someone non hostile in place.
Especially effective with Sky's Golden eyes with its small clockwork gears. They looked breathtaking up close in this dimly lit compartment.
Aeon's hollow ocean looked into Sky's lively sea of golden clockwork.
Silence returned to the compartment, only the subtle rumbling of carriage could be heard. As clouds Swift past outside and starlight danced inside.
Unexpectedly.... romantic..Ah shit...No stop thinking about it like that...
"How does it feel having your personal space Invaded? Not good right?"
"And what about you? How do you know so much about them? I am a High Profile outside so me knowing about them is normal but you...." He didn't finish but the meaning went through as Aeon kept his silence.
Most Nobles don't even know Golden Order existed and as been controlling them for generations. So how could a commoner without affiliation know? Aeon unexpectedly revealed himself in rage.
I have legitimacy, do you?
He retracted his hand and sat back down, crossing his legs.
"I can see that you have a personal vendetta against the Order. I won't stop you but...."
He flashed a gun against Aeon, to which he froze unable to Dodge at this range.
"...bang!" He simulated a gunshot noice.
"This is how fast I can kill you. Them? you won't even know when you died. Maybe you can kill few low ranking ones but anything higher than 1 circle. A dream at current rate."
Aeon stayed silent, his fist clinched hard.
"They have ties in every circle, their eyes and ears are everywhere. Move openly and you will be found out immediately and hunted like me. I have people protecting me, information at hand. You? Nothing."
Blood started dripping from the hand.
"Let's forget about their numbers or connection. If an Overseer even as little as momentarily gazed at you, boom! You died, across sectors and dimensions. No rebuttal, no struggle, no awareness when you died."
I am hiding precisely to avoid the gazes of Overseers. Half my precautions and actions till now where to hide immediately upon completing first Trial.
Once you are ensnared in their gaze, their is no going back.
"I am not your enemy here, they are. Though I don't have anything against them particularly. Same couldn't be said to them. So any loses they suffer from me is their fault. So choose"
"..."
Sky said his lines, getting no response he lazily gazed outside the window, admiring the view of Sector 07 from above. Though his full attention was still on aeon's descision.
"....You truly don't know why they are after you?" He asked quietly, almost like a whisper.
Still acting like he is admirring outside view, he answered in same earnest tone as before.
"Yes, I Wonder why myself sometimes."
This was not fabrication, he really doesn't know why. Though what he didn't tell was he knew when it may have started.
Afterall, If you had a entire year missing from your memories and immediately get confined afterwards, you know something huge happened.
It wasn't usual memory loss but totally expunged memories like his overclocking symptoms. Meaning something forced him to stay over clocked till he completely forgot an entire year.
It was also the year from which his glorious Title - The Blasphemer came from.
Either it involves Principalities or the Golden Order, maybe both. That's why he has to infiltrate Order, because they definitely know something he doesn't.
Plus their ties will help his personal goal of surviving and conquering every obstacle in way. A win win condition.
["Attention Passengers, Attention passengers."]
A monotonous voice from intercom broke the silence of the room.
"Hehe, before making any judgement. Perhaps seeing the scale shall help."
Saying that he wipped the blood that fell on him with an handkerchief and donned the mask.
Alert, Aeon followed.
["Requesting Hyperloop outside of Stable Inverse Realm. Request Granted. Hyperloop in 10.."]
The carriage trembled from unknown turbulence.
["9...8...7.."]
The clouds outside went still, the train was slowing down.
["6..5...4..3..2"]
As it counted down monotonously, the trembling of carriage intensified.
["0"]
The space outside wrapped, like paper getting crumbled. The Express tore through threshold of reality, entering some tunnel hidden beanth.
Colours exploded outside, as bright incredent light filled the perviously dark compartment.
It kept getting brighter as if someone was maxing out the saturation. Then it subdued, Fadding away like moonlight at dawn break.
Though gravity stayed same, the sense of gravity flipped.
["Hyperloop Complete."]
The express appeared in an bright ocean blue void. The source of light was unknown, it appeared to come from all directions.
Other expresses also floated in some distance.
'Above' the void, was an still ocean. Beanth it's surface or perhaps above it were cities submerged deep within....inversed....defying gravity. It should have fallen down but it did not.
Are they upside down or the city?
In the distance beanth the ocean in sky, was a enormous Golden scale with nothing weighing down on each side.
It stayed in one place like an anchor in space.
Under it was an magnificent palace, smaller in presense but still dominant.
Light glimbed off its white marbles, as statues decorated it's side.
["Final Destination: Inverse Palace"]
The train zoomed towards the palace, reaching it in few seconds. Covering the huge distance in just few Blinks.
It train docked at one of the stations inside the palace.
["All passengers! Please step out one by one in an orderly manner."]
Sky or rather "343" got up from his seat and approached the door.
"..s-" Aeon tired to speak but was quickly shut down by 343 as he put his index finger upto his mouth.
In an degnified and serious tone he spoke,
"The Overseer is watching, act accordingly."