Everyone was almost done with their food, so Lynn decided to show off the true desserts of the night.
Mocha Ice Cream Pudding.
However, the conversations were still ongoing between the entire group. Jin told them about the situation he was facing and how he needed to go to the Mecha World to get the Mechanical Brain of the Living Titan from the United Federation before defeating the Farm Rats for good.
“Neither one of them can be classified as good.” Yun who had asked Lynn to place her dessert at the side as she finished the last bit of chicken on her plate. “Both factions committed treacherous crimes on each other, and this isn’t the first time they got into a war.”
“So, unlike the Demon Rats or the Orcs, there are no clear lines for this?” Jin asked, and Yun nodded her head.
“Hurting either one of the two factions will help shift the balance in favour of the other faction. For example, if you take the Living Titan’s brain away, it will cost them a superweapon which could be used to deter the Xeon Union.” Yun continued.
“Then let’s be the bad guys this time around.” Zeru, who usually refrained from giving too many opinions, had decided to speak up for this.
“What do you mean?” Jin asked, and Kraft giggled as he held onto this glass cup of mocha ice cream pudding.
“I see where you are coming from Zeru. But still, for you to suggest that? Oh man, that’s gold! Comedy gold! My stomach hurts from all the giggling.” Kraft broke out in laughter as he bit on a biscuit that was placed on top of the mocha pudding. Meanwhile, Jin was all confused from that side conversation.
“Oh, you don’t know the full story?” Kraft looked at Zeru for once, and he reluctantly nodded his head, as if permitting the fox to tell the story out. “You know how everyone praises Zeru for his swordsmanship and for that movie about his chivalry to protect his master?” Kraft asked, and all three System Users nodded their head.
“It’s a coverup leaving out all the bad stuff. Like the really illegal kind of bad stuff. That is why all the underworld gang came after him. Even the police couldn’t handle the scum of his ‘master’.” Kraft revealed, reinforcing what Yun had said about Tou Ma. Suddenly Zeru let out his killing intent aimed at Kraft.
“Oh oops, my bad, unlike me, some of us actually have sentimental value for our mentor.” Kraft apologised to Zeru before continuing. “The gang wars were extremely rampant during Zeru’s time, and when his mentor became part of the cabinet members, he made Zeru do despicable things,” Kraft mentioned the assassination of known cabinet members and Zeru’s hand in disguising them to look like it was the work of various gangs.
“Oh, but in his defence, those cabinet members were the worst kind of scum imaginable. Each one tainted black in the cesspool of corruption, so you do not have to feel bad for them.” Kraft explained that triggered the police to do a shakedown on the gang wars that were in the shadows.
“Usually, the police do not interfere with the gang stuff, but this was too big of a news story that the police commissioner had his hands forced.”
According to Kraft, Zeru participated with the capturing of key gang members, to kind of cover up his tracks but his master was not done yet. What he did next shocked all of them. To change the game completely, he was tasked to kidnap the children of the Triad leaders.
Nobody except Zeru was skilled enough to perform such a feat.
“In return, his mentor demanded millions of money which he later used to improve the infrastructure of the country. Naturally, it took decades to see the genius of his groundwork, so at that point of time, people did not know his objective and the gang leaders united together to go against the police and the public.”
“Seeing how Zeru’s master was a proponent of anti gang war, he was targeted regularly but little did they know that he was the mastermind of the whole fiasco in the country. Well, what followed afterwards isn’t too far from what that movie showed you guys. The infamous fight of protecting his master. Up to this day, only his mentor and Zeru knew about this.” Kraft concluded his storytelling and paused to scoop another portion of his pudding.
“And me, of course. Hehehe! Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to share this story with you! Everything else is covered in lies and propaganda.” Kraft added, and Zeru shook his head.
“You were after all the one who advised him to do these despicable things” Zeru pointed out the fox’s involvement and Jin furrowed his eyebrows for a while…until he connected all the dots.
“Your mentor was a System User??” Jin asked, and Zeru nodded his head.
“Sub System User. To be exact.” Kraft shook his chair back and forth until Yun threw her spoon at Kraft, to remind him to show some table manners.
“So, you are suggesting that we should be the common enemy to unite that world’s two factions together?” Lynn tried to return back to topic and Zeru nodded his head solemnly.
“We might not be gods, but we can play the act of gods.” Yun chimed in with her opinion and Jin guessed it was a decent idea… provided they had the necessary power.
“Even if we want to be their enemies. We do not have any advanced capabilities against the Mecha World!”
“We can always steal.” Milk said out loudly, which nearly made everyone spit their pudding out of their mouth. “What? Just because I am a priestess, I can’t say bad stuff?” Milk pouted and stole a spoonful from Peppers.
“Hey! Why did you-” Suddenly another spoon flew towards Peppers and the mother of the group told them not to quarrel at the dining table.
“Okay, even if we were to …borrow their items, what are we talking? Their robots? Mechataur and the Robot Crawlers were alive in the Dungeon World, but I cannot really kill non living thing and make them obey me. I need to physically bring those things back to the System place.” Jin said with more dilemma when he first started.
“Did you not bring back those Steam Tech as well?” Qiu Yue questioned and Jin said that it was because they were equipped on the Demon Rats.
“Then if we kill the humans piloting the Mechas, do you think you can obtain them?” Qiu Yue replied with yet another question which made Jin equally curious as well.
“If that were possible, Jin would already have gotten the Floating Lost Tech Carrier Ship when his minions killed the captain.” Peppers reaffirmed that it was not feasible.
“And if I may interrupt. As much as I am a fan of the five finger discount (shoplifting), why bother when you have a library full of blueprints right in front of you?” Kraft pointed his spoon at the body bag that was still left in the backyard.
“Believe it or not, he truly is from the Mecha World. Haven’t figured out how he arrived here yet, but this ‘Roland’ was a pretty talented engineer.”
