Verisimilitude (GI Various x Reader)

Chapter Thirty-Nine

        We walk up to the desk, the woman in the seat behind it looks up from whatever she was working on and narrows her eyes at us before greeting.

"Hello, please state your name, identity, and the purpose of your visit." She glances over and spots Thoma by my side.

"Oh, except you, Thoma." She commands. Paimon chuckles nervously. The woman begins to grow annoyed.

"Excuse me? Please provide the information requested, and also declare any goods you are carrying with you." She glances over our ragtag group of three. Her eyes fall onto the Vision at my hip.

"Miss with the Cryo Vision, under the order of the Raiden Shogun, any who wish to enter Inazuma must hand over their Visions. Please relinquish your Vision over to the Kanjou Commission soldiers situated nearby." I placed my hand over my Vision.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do that. Nor does your Vision Hunt Decree apply to me, as I'm a Knight of Favonius and do not belong to Inazuma." I refuted back at her.

"We are here to find my brother." Lumine quickly explains, cutting in and hoping to take the heat off of me and my Vision. The woman shakes her head at her, already annoyed by my refusal to hand over my Vision.

"Oh? Well, I'm sorry. We cannot approve entry for purely personal reasons. So, unless you have a valid reason for visiting in accordance with the rules..." Paimon begins to panic.

"Um... uh... w-we- uh..." The woman before us holds her head in annoyance.

"My apologies, but I'll have to ask you to-" I spoke up, cutting her off after having enough of this nonsense.

"I'm the Oracle Knight of the Knights of Favonius and this is the Honorary Knight and her companion. They are here to accompany me to see the Yashiro Commissioner after he invited me out to Inazuma for private reasons that I can not share with you. You can ask Thoma here if I'm telling the truth, but the fact that he's even with us right now should be all the proof you need." I summoned the papers that the Yashiro Commissioner had provided in the original letter. I handed them over to Thoma, who inspected them with a nod, before handing them over to the woman at the desk.

"Here are their entry papers, for your kind perusal." He grins. The woman narrows her eyes at me before glancing over the documents meticulously, as if trying to spot even a single detail out of place. Paimon's eyes flit between Thoma and I.

"What!? Ugh, take your time! No rush or anything!" Thoma and I share a glance before we both began to laugh.

"Haha, I just wanted to see what you'd say... sorry about that." He apologizes.

"And I was getting tired of being treated so poorly. I already dealt with it once before, I really didn't feel like dealing with it again in the present." I cryptically stated. Besides, there's absolutely no reason for her to turn us away. Not with the Yashiro's Commissioner's own signature on those documents. There's no refusing a guest of one of the Commissioners, much less the Yashiro Commissioner. From what I've seen and heard from various intel and dreams, he runs the Shuumatsuban, a secret organization of the Yashiro Commission. Of which members of this organization have already been keeping an eye out on us. They hide themselves well within the rest of the folk in Ritou. I'm certain that if something were to happen here, the Yashiro Commissioner would have it all settled in a heartbeat.

Nothing gets past Kamisato Ayato, after all.

The woman hums with a frown.

"...I see, okay. Your papers are all in order. Welcome to Ritou." We gave her a thankful smile. But as we walked further away, I couldn't help but shake my head out of annoyance.