Ryujin signs the contract and leaves the office about to go to the commissioner's office. During the 3 months Tachibana was gone, Killuhua Kaminari was unnounced missing and after searching they declared him dead.
Ryujin during that time was working hard to secure majority of Kaminari's businesses as his own buying out the companies he saw he could exploit and made a name for himself, especially with Kaminari's tech company that is about to flourish under his name.
"Sir, the car is ready for you." He gets in the car and the doors automatically lock.
The car leaving the drive way transporting him to the airport to attend a conference at his main company building in Tokyo.
Tachibana walks into the building after rushing over by plane. Ryujin made it sound like it was an emergency and instead it's more senseless crap throwing his packed schedule out of proportion.
He left when Yuno was yelling at Ackerman for telling Tachibana they broke into his house only to find out Tachibana was lying and tricked her into confessing that they did.
The fight between Yuno and Ackerman was getting pretty interesting and it made the morning drive much smoother considering they were taking Tori back to Kim, and he is not sure that Tori and his pet wolf are a good combination it's just too freaky.
"Ken Tachibana, are you working with Ryujin on his colour band project?" Ken gets startled by a reporter suddenly shoving a mic into his face.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
Ryujin's grand daughter spots Tachibana and walks towards him, "Hello, please come with me." Tachibana follows her and finds Ryujin in his office with his wife looking upset.
"Why am I here? I thought it was something serious."
"It is, you're going to be the first one to take the blood test and receive a colour band."
"About that, what is a colour band and why me?"
Ryujin rolls his eyes and spells out Yuno on a piece of paper. Tachibana is still confused, but his blood boils assuming Ryujin is threatening Yuno.
"I haven't had time to test out the machines so I know if anything happens to you Yuno will clean up the mess, and I'll have ample time to try and try again. I would've asked Yuno to take the test first, but it's too risky."
Tachibana takes a deep breath to stay level headed. Ryujin might be an old bag of bones, but he always has a plan B Yuno could be on the way as they speak, "Alright, I'll do it."
Ryujin adjusts his tie and walks past Tachibana going to make the big announcement, "I did not doubt that."
He stands before the crowd and makes a few jokes warming the people up for the big news, "Ladies and Gentlemen, as we all know the rise of Supers has come with many trials and uncertainty.
"The Ryujin Corp has taken a path that will embrace this big change in our society introducing the colour band system made possible through extensive research on Supers, now able to identify a Super and their power with just a drop of blood."
The machine looks more like an ATM on wheels with a tall man in black pushing it to the centre stage, calling Tachibana who gets his finger pricked by a nurse occasionally stealing a glance.
He presses his hand on the hand panel that immediately attaches certain veins that take more blood from Tachibana, the process lasts 30 seconds and the veins release his hand automatically pressing thin pads that stop the bleeding.
The machine processes the information up to 5 minutes and hands over a red wrist band, "If you push the button there it will project the stats of what your ability is and what the colour red means."
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Tachibana Palace
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