...
...Yes. Yes! And that is also the reason my skin has caught on fire!! But, it is nothing to fear. It will go away. I think.
...Sorry again... It's probably rude of me to ask, since I literally crashed here uninvited.... but what... are you?
Out like a light, huh?
As soon as I was staying near her. She was deathly afraid of being alone at night...
Hey, Y.V.?
Mm?
Might be leaping ahead a bit, but...once we get these dumb Seekers out of our hair, how d'you think we can get the kid home?
Like, maybe she remembers the address, maybe we gotta rely on landmarks or something, and that's before getting into the whole ghost thing...
...what?
...
...as I was getting Terumi to sleep, I mentioned finding her parents without really thinking about it.
She didn't say anything, and she wasn't like it for too long, but there was this look on her face...
...Mack, I don't know if she can go back to her home.
I don't know if that's why or how she...well, turned to this, but if I had to guess, it just added to whatever made her so nervous by the time we found her...
Clearly she's needed to find someone she can trust for a while, and...well, she's found us.
...is it bad if I say this is all weird to me?
Like, ever since I was forged for the Smithy Gang, main thing I've known is fighting. I was given a pointer or two about others giving a hand doing the fighting but...
...well, being meant to create a world of weapons didn't give me a lot of pointers in stuff like life.
Maybe that's part of what got me to this point. Landing heaven knows where to find some sort of quest to accomplish...
...and figuring out what I actually want out of it besides beating people up.
...
...I mean, I don't know any more than you what you'll be ready to pick...
...but I heard some of when you were trying to keep Terumi safe right before Rottentest.
I'm not saying it's a good thing Terumi's become what she is, but...maybe you're figuring things out without even realizing.
("Diamond Hydra"... it's finally beginning to make sense now. I'm completely certain...)
(....I have never heard of her until now.)
Nice to meet you! I'm Walter. Walter Oliver. Not famous, but I'm still really happy with the friends and family I have, heehee...
Uh... I'm also what some people call a 'Reaper'. Hard to explain... but basically, I'm not really a normal person. Not to sound arrogant.
Stupid fire-guy ditched me. If I had another two minutes, he woulda been down for the count.
Mhm.
He woulda!
Why not?
Forget the damages. I'll... have everything repaired.
...repair...
What is this? You tryna pull a fast one on me? Make me owe you a favor? Blackmail?
Nope. I only wish to make amends. But of course, if you prefer having law troubles again...
F-fine! Do what you want, I don't care! It's not my problem anyway!
That's her way of saying 'thank you'. She must really apricate what you did for her!
Appreciate. And... she's certainly an interesting specimen. It'd be a shame if that interest would be forced to end so abruptly.
Guess we're not going in our own home for a while...
How exactly was going home going to help us with finding this "Star Sceptor", anyways?
We were mostly just coming here for supplies and to discuss. I didn't want to bother Jazz for any supplies, and... Let's face it, we've spent too much time there doing nothing, and now that they're having their little "Agony crisis", it's probably best we stay out of their way for now.
We could go to my place in Legacy's universe* instead, but chances are it's not safe their, either.
What makes you say that?
Think about it: If someone's after us, then they'd have to know about us... Which means they'd have to know we're from other universes. And if they know us well enough to know where we live... Chances are they'd know about my old retirement home, too. Good thing I gave Synth** that vacation after doing so very little with him during the Diablo arc. I should probably call him to meet with us instead of returning to the vacation home.
That reminds me. Shouldn't we be concerned about some kind of assassin or something hunting us down?
Only if we run into them along the way. Trio is our main concern at the moment. And besides...
...I can't shake this nagging feeling that whoever was after us... WE are not their primary target.
That being said... Where do we go from here? How are we meant to find the Star Scepter?
...Hmm...
...What about Crossroads City?
Crossroads City...? Hang on a second...
...But we're already going on enough of a whim to think that the Star Scepter still exists in Chaos Zone. What makes you think that Crossroads City will still be here in the same vein?
Let's be honest here: The Chaos Zone is incredibly- as it is aptly called- CHAOTIC. I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple different places with such dimensional distortions.
The main problem lies on how we're going to find it... How does one go on to intentionally find a realm with such dimensional anomalies?
...Assuming I'm not overshooting their capabilities... I think I might know someone who can help.
It doesn't seem like anything's actually happening here.
I have to say for what it is this is nice architecture... it feels more, medieval than it should be.
...What in sweet Macbeth is going on in there?
I can't really get close while he has that thing out...
OH what a great chaos of yours! If I wasn't busy with my grim duties, I'd get your contact so we could play another-
OH WHAT FUN WHAT FUN! But this may be a bit overwhelming even for my tastes! I think I'll have to even the playing field!
ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND WE GO!
WHO MADE THE FOURTH WALL? NOBODY KNOWS!
REAPERS CAN BE THE ONES OF GRIM,
OR THE ONES WHO MAKE OUR WORLD DIM!
RADIATED WRAITH! STEP RIGHT UP!
...?
.
... Everyone stay back!
...uh...
SORRY, sorry, sorry...
I...I apologize, but...well, the thing is...
Sir, I-I really am sorry, I tried my hardest to-

...

Okay...
Is this in french?
Goodness. An extreme amount of collateral damage-- and only after a mere skirmish, no less.
A robot and a genetically-empowered human, with a trivial grudge to settle... something that seems so simple, so miniscule...
...and yet... for the very same trivial cause, hundreds of lives were to be endangered for.
The President's intention was to crack down on such cases in an attempt to establish peace and a sense of safety. Perhaps he could have pulled it off... if not for the tragic freak accident which ended him.
Even if not for his own sake... I will not let his attempts go to waste. One step at a time... the globe will know peace.
...But not before I finish this cappuccino.
Honestly. She never listens. There are times I wonder why I waste my time trying to warn Soul instead of washing my hands of her.
....I understand vio-- fighting others is her passion... and I respect that. Unconditionally. But I cannot condone her destructive nature, along with her tendency to escalate situations.
Ah! Coming!
...Scale...?
Augh!
HOW DARE YOU TWO IMMATURE IMPS SHOW UP INFRONT OF MY DOORSTEP AND BE SO INDEC--
huuh?
...
...
Opera!
Now there is my splendid little man. You have been behaving yourself, I hope?
Mmmhmm!! I've been good all this time! Right, Soul?
Yes. Do you not agree with Delta here, sister?
...
Uhhh... y-yeah. The little brat's been as sweet as ever.
Wonderful! I believe we would all be upset if an unfortunate accident were to happen.
Very good! I am thoroughly impressed. You are always a good boy whenever we meet. Unlike Scale. I must reward you.
That makes me happy~! With what?
Come in and find out... and I suppose those two can enter if they want.
so that's mechagodzilla, huh. looks like this is gonna be fun to watch.
Think there's something messing with him?
...?
Like, I haven't even watched the Godzilla movies, so I have no idea why he's going after the city, but at the same time, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't go attacking random places unless he had a motive of some sort.
now that you mention it, it's definitely weird how mechagodzilla only seems interested in that one building and not the others.
Well, since I recently got bored fighting that guy with the digging sawblades, I think I'm gonna launch me an investigation.
and what exactly makes you think you won't get your
handed to you?
Eh, no real reason. 'sides, not like anyone's gonna notice.
(So THAT'S what's going on.)
(This purple guy is trying to gather a crapton of this "Agony" stuff, and he's also sent a bunch of people, one of whom may have the exact same gimmick as me, after Kirby so the purple guy can try to pull a Russian Reversal on that pink troglodyte.)
(I REALLY oughta jump in and stop all of this.)
But I think I'll choose not to.
Alright, lesse what's here at wherever this road is...
...hey, uh, Rev, y'know anything about...that place?
I know some dumb old guy built a bunch of those places. I guess this one didn't break before he left it.
I dun' care about that stuff, there's gotta be something cool...
Wait...is that someone up there?
OkaynevermindIwannagoupthere
Rev please I don't wanna fly a trillion miles per hour agaAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIII
You wanna know something? I was fully prepared to let this entire incident slide.
Even if Kirby IS this "Omni-King" of yours, not only would he easily beat up the guys you sent after him...
Trust me, he beat ME up and then proceeded to go after my clone on Planet Hotbeat just for funsies...
But as it turns out, I ain't a fan of the guy either. Besides, even if your plan didn't involve Kirbo, you're still committing one of the most classic blunders a villain can make; gloating ad nauseam about your "endless" power, or at least the power you plan on getting. It would only be a matter of time before someone came along and trounced you, and I could walk away thinking I was being a massive troll by not nipping this in the bud when I had the chance.
But NO! You just HAD to be an
hole! And for that, I've decided you don't get this one for free anymore!
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