This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
The innkeeper stood up from his desk and stepped around the room with a glass of water in his hand. He stumbled over to the corner of the room where several sacks of fruit surrounded a large icebox. He sifted around the sacks for a few seconds until he had an aterpomus in one hand and an albapomus in the other. After the innkeeper passed the fruit to Hatasuko, he glanced around and then devoured both fruit in under half a minute. The innkeeper sighed, then laughed, then reached for the same two fruit. Hatasuko chuckled as he accepted the fruit, though he kept the pulpy seeds of the previous two in his hands.
"She's the cutest girl in the world; it's no stretch to say I don't deserve her. But, um, before we step back out there, can I ask you something? That day when you got poisoned, what happened with Harvey? Did you end up going to the police?" Hatasuko asked.
"Yes, of course. I wanted to wait for Vaida to leave so she wouldn't have to deal with any trouble that might come up, but I never got the end I was searching for. Several policemen and I went over to his home, but it was empty when we got there. He and his roommate were both gone. One of the policemen said he would keep checking on the place, but after a week or so, he gave up. He said that the place was abandoned, and Harvey hadn't shown up for work in a long time. When I told the detective everything that happened, he said that Harvey probably went and killed himself. But it doesn't explain why the roommate's missing, too. That place is empty to this day. I'm not really sure what to think. If he is indeed dead, I can't say that the end is unbefitting," the innkeeper confessed.
"Yeah. I just hope that we never come across him again. I'm saying that for his sake. I don't think that I'm as noble as I used to be," Hatasuko admitted.
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Hatasuko walked back into the lobby with a different-colored fruit in each hand. Vaida still worked beneath the sail-rana on her back, but the look of determination had faded from her eyes. Instead, she stared with a gaze of prideful accomplishment as she reassembled the base of the vehicle. After a few seconds, every component clicked together, and then she dragged herself out from underneath the sail-rana. She sat beside her vehicle and took a deep breath as the blood rushed back into her arms. But as soon as she noticed Hatasuko standing there, she excitedly jumped to her feet. Vaida ran across the room and wrapped her arms around his waist with a mighty squeeze.
"Umm, Vaida, you're a little too strong to squeeze that tightly," Hatasuko said, though his voice was strained from the pressure.
Vaida giggled quietly and pulled her arms off him, but she only did this so that she could take both fruit at the same time. She held the albapomus in her left hand and the aterpomus in her scarred hand, but she seemed deeply conflicted as her eyes glanced back and forth. Hatasuko laughed and playfully reached out to take the aterpomus, but Vaida acted fast; she jumped away and took a swift bite of the black fruit.
"Hey, do you have anything we need to do here? Is there any sort of plan?" she asked.
"Not that I know of. I had to withdraw the rest of Lazaro's money from a banker, but I've already taken care of that. We don't have any business left in this city. The tempest is still churning, but no one said anything about another Interfectus. Where do you want to go? Have anywhere in mind?" Hatasuko asked.
