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10.

Subject: Compatibility Test for Kaiju No. 4 Suit

Dear Shinomiya [Name],

You are asked for the compatibility test of the Kaiju No. 4 suit. Please report to the Testing Facility at 0900 hours tomorrow. Your participation is crucial.

Best regards,

Shinomiya Isao,
Chief of the Defense Force.

Closing your laptop after you checked your email, clicking your tongue as you remembered the words in his letter. The short and concise email suits him. You wanted to laugh at the email he just sent, he keeps telling you that you're a disappointment and now, he wanted you to have a compatibility test with the Kaiju no. 4 suit that your mother used to wear during her days in the Defense Force.

The suit she wore where she had killed lots of Kaiju during her time.

The email was sent last night, and it was currently 8 in the morning. 0900 hours converted to the regular time, it would be 9 a.m. You have an hour to get ready to go to the Ariake Maritime Base once again, because he had asked for your presence.

Best regards, he said, you couldn't help but to laugh at that.

You don't want to come, your day would be ruined if you see him and have a conversation with your so called father. Just thinking what he would say when you told him you don't want to wear the suit, you're sure he would repeat the words that he had been saying to you after your mother's death.

"You're such a disappointment in this family. A disgrace."

But, he wanted you to wear her suit. He wants to trust you to wear that. That is something so laughable, if Hoshina would find out, he would laugh with you. He was well aware your bad relationship with your father.

Sighing as you stared at the clock that keeps ticking, biting your lips seeing that it was already 8:20 a.m., you've been thinking for the past twenty minutes if you should come or not. Slamming your hands on the table, grunting at what you're about to do as you grab your laptop on the table and put it in your bag.

"A daughter should visit her father, right?"

. . .

"You're late." That was the first thing that he said when you opened the door of his office. You looked at the clock of his office and saw that it was 9:30 a.m., it took you an hour to travel by car from Tachikawa base which is located in Nishitokyo to Ariake Maritime Base in Koto Ward.

"Nice to see you too," all you said and approached him. Standing in front of his table, feeling his gaze at you, his brows were knitted together as usual and a frown was visible on his face. A sigh had left his lips, tearing his gaze away from you and stare at the file on top of his desk.

"You'll be testing for compatibility with the no. 4 suit." He opened the folder in front of him, and the first thing that greeted him was the picture of your mother wearing the suit. "They already adjusted it to your size, all it need is for you to we—"

"I didn't agree." Your brows furrowed as he keep talking. His gaze snap off the picture and back to you, and there you see it once again, the disappointment in his eyes. "I don't want to wear it." Your hands formed on a fist as you stared at him in his eyes, your jade green eyes staring at his emerald ones that seems to pierce through you.

"Then why did you come here?" If his brows could furrowed further it would, his scarred face had the same scowl and frown that he had on everyday. "Just to say it in front of you." Shrugging your shoulders and brushing off his intense glare at you.