Bent Fate (An Arknights Fanfiction)

Chapter 20

Shortly after his assistant's departure, (Y/N) finds himself standing in front of the window, the black smoke coming from a certain part of the distant mobile city fuels his own imagination of what could be possibly happening.

Turning around and looking down at his table. He stares at the two separated stacked papers, the smaller one are those he just finished, there's still too many stacked up on the other side of the table, but his hand is just tired at the moment and he needs to take a small break.

To be fair, the portion of the paperwork he has already done looking into is like 1/4 of the entire pile.

Looking at it, he doesn't know whether he should smile and compliment himself.

Slipping both hands into the pockets of his jacket.

"These papers just don't stop coming..."

"Time for a short break."

He raises his arms forward and stretches his hands and fingers before leaving his office.

At the command center, he finds Ch'en along with a crew running the facility.

"Acknowledged." She radios back to whoever she's communicating with while staring at one large monitor in front of her.

(Y/N) quietly observes the blue things displayed on the monitor: a three-dimensional map of a city and several bright markers placed on various points.

Feeling awkward and uneasy by standing there and doing nothing than stare, he walks closer.

"Is that Franka?" He asks Ch'en who didn't get surprised at all by the sudden interruption.

"Yes. She said they have the situation under control."

"Oh, that's qui—"

"Until a leader of Reunion showed up."

(Y/N) fell silent, trying to reconstruct his words.

".... that was to be expected."

"It is."

"Which one was it?"

"That someone going by the name of Crownslayer."

(Y/N)'s eyebrows rise. "You should've sent in some of our specialists then."

"They wouldn't be of much help out there."

"..... right."

Both of them got quiet and only heard the whirring sound made by the machines around them.

Ch'en slowly lowers her gaze from the monitor above as she slowly realizes something she just said. She turns to face (Y/N).

"That was wrong for me to say.."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Luckily for the two of them who suddenly started feeling uncomfortable, an incoming transmission interrupts them.

Ch'en immediately orders the transmission to be put through.

"Report."

"T-this is Jessica."

"Jessica? What happened to—"

"What happened?" Ch'en cuts the Doctor off.

"Crownslayer, she's slipping away. B-but Franka is chasing her."

"You're moving away from your post?"

"N-no! It's just her and Liskarm. She said capturing her might throw the Reunion forces in our area into disarray."