Sunday, December 11, 2022

Live A Hero Book 2 Chapter 1 Episode 11: Cover-Up Compensation (Abridged)

Evil Hideout or something
???: Chuo and Fukushima Wards terminated. Only the main group in Kita Ward is left.
Shin Ashihara Leader X: UGH, those stupid "good ol' day" types and their shenanigans. They caused all this shit and now this is the only way we can stop them from messing up the organization.
????: Our media agents have gotten their story together and are claiming this was all terrorism by some conveniently unknown conveniently alien villain group.
Leader X: Good. Get that out once we finish eliminating the group in Kita Ward. It'll suck to lose the target, but better them than us.
????: ...same. By the way, all those Observers we let lose in the Wards? We lost contact with them after they opened the Paths and brought Monsters over.
Leader X: Meh. Acceptable losses.
????: Our remaining Observers have news. When the other Observers disappeared or whatever, the Paths they made started vomiting Monsters out like hell and growing and merging together.
Leader X: wait what

Osaka
Monsters: REEEE
Evil Purple: AAAA--
Evil Yellow: NO PLEASE I--
Somewhere a vore fetishist is getting off on all these mobs getting eaten up.
Later

Big Monster: SHRIEK
Ryekie: Another one! (punch)
Ryekie: Get out of here, now! And take your friends with you!
Evil Blue: AAAAAA
Ryekie: What the hell is going on with all these Monsters popping up!?

Seiichirou: ...I have somehow figured out that Monsters are appearing in the center of Umeda. The police (again for some reason) and the hero agencies in the city are moving to contain them, but they won't be able to stop them since the Monsters are spawning infinitely.
Exio: This has to be deliberate, but it can't have been just one or two people. A whole bunch of Observers must have forced a Path open.
Huckle: But which group would do that? Would there be any group that'd try to cover up the Shin Ashihara's work? And why would they use Monsters? Sure it's easy to clean up threats doing that, but that causes even more damage to the city. Wouldn't it be better to use heroes...?
Akashi Alter: ...no, they have to be a Shin Ashihara ingroup.
MC: What? Friendly fire? But why...?

Akashi Alter: Like I said earlier, they aren't a monolith. That means there's cliques inside the organization that disapprove of the hardliners acting out here, and I'm pretty sure this is their doing. The run the group like a secret organization, so this situation is Bad for them.
Santetsu: ...oh, they're trying to erase the portions threatening the organization and silencing anyone who'd still remember and manipulate information to clean things up.
Danzo: Looks like they wanna erase us and MC too. Seems like they really wanna make it look like nothing ever happened.
Akashi: Like I'd just sit there and take it! Selfish assholes!
Akashi Alter: ...are they spiting me by sending Monsters near me? ...whatever, works for me. I still have a part of my dream left: crushing and destroying the Monsters, even just one more of them. Every single one I see dies.
MC: Um, Akashi? / Do you hate Monsters?
(B) Akashi Alter: ...yeah. Just thinking about how they're bumming around where They aren't makes me sick.

Evil Blue: H-HELLLP
Monster: EEEEE
Ryekie: Thunder Fist!
Monster: OOF (pop)
Ryekie: Investigate later! The bad guys are gonna get eaten up if things go on! Let's save them while keeping ourselves safe too!
Party reaction shot!

Akashi: WHAT? They literally were attacking us not even five minutes ago!
Ryekie: They're still being attacked by Monsters! If there's someone I can save someone in front of me, I'll do it regardless of how I feel about them! That's the justice I believe in!
Party scrolling shot! Huckle looks sad for a second.

MC: Ryekie...! / That's so like you.

Huckle: Sorry, he's not the type to listen after he's said his bit. But I agree with saving people, especially those under threat of being erased by evil.
Santetsu: ...it's a threat to us either way. We can handle it.
Roiker: Yeah. I'm not so tired as to throw in the towel yet.
Seiichirou: ...oh, no time to make sure we're all agreed.
Monsters incoming!

MC: Oh no! Attack!
Seiichirou: MC, Exio! Let's split up the operation! This is gonna go on for a while, but look sharp!
Exio: Right. I'll never hear the end of it if I don't make it back in one piece.
Everyone readies to fight, and the Monsters attack!

BATTLE START (more happens after)

Monsters: Lovely! (poof)
Akashi: Okay, done!
Ryekie: No we're not! Here come more!
Monsters: REEEE
MC: Goddammit!
Huckle: How many people did they have opening Paths?
Roiker: So they had a bunch of Observers on hand then, apparently. I didn't know anyone besides us had the ability to control Monsters via the Path.
Exio: ...I don't think they're being controlled. The ether in the atmosphere is in a mess, which means the nearby Paths must be expanding. The Observers who opened them probably didn't know how to control those. (looks up into the sky)

A giant black hole is growing in the sky!
MC: WHAT
Akashi: Hey we did this before!
Ryekie: Yeah it's smaller than what happened at Mt. Fuji, but still!
Santetsu: It feels like it's absorbing and growing something...
Seiichirou: With the people who opened the Path to control it gone, the Path is fusing and growing. Either they ran or got eaten by Monsters, but they still left a bunch of Paths open.
Akashi Alter: ...it's possible. The Shin Ashihara hate anything that wasn't in Japan's good old days. They still have to use heroes and Observers though, but they treat them horribly. You can see how it is. Observers have it bad enough as it is.
Exio: They weren't taught how to use their powers and forced to summon Monsters. It's just terrible. Why'd they think that would work without knowing how Paths are?
50 Shades of Danzo!

Danzo: ...do you guys see that?
MC: See what?
There are eyes peeking out from the black hole, just like what happened back at Mt. Fuji

MC: OH NO!
End of Episode

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