We're not really Doctors. (Shirou x Harem) Arknights x Fate

Chapter 23 - 2

=== FUYUKI GROUP ===

The ride was awkward to say the least.

No, it was not cramped. It was rather spacious with everyone spread about. It was not the new environment either, nor was it the Rhodes Island operatives that Ch'en had never met. Rather, it was the situation she found herself in.

Ch'en lowered her head when Kal'tsit's narrowed eyes lasered her from across the bay. That was only one of her problems, the other was her current employers. Or rather...the previous targets she ordered the LGD to hunt down. Ch'en looked up at them uneasily, Rin was in a silent argument with Sakura, both of them flipping their sights between her and Misha...another one of the targets she and the LGD tried to capture.

Judging from the less-than-positive expressions on the two Fuyuki doctors, the conversation was not going well. Ch'en silently kept an ear out to hear what the argument was about, but she couldn't hear anything for the life of her.

Rin and Sakura were just two meters away from her and Misha, yet nothing could be heard.

Some form of sound arts maybe?

Ch'en shook her head. No matter. Whatever happened next, she would be grateful that the sisters even got her on the VTOL aircraft. She was closer to reaching Chernobog now than she was ever getting the chance to in Lungmen. Swire alerted her that the Lungmen council wanted all hands on deck. All hangar bays were under watch and no ships were allowed to disembark from Lungmen.

Rhodes Island was the only exception, mostly because Kal'tsit strong-armed Wei Yenwu into it. Their position as the leading Oripathy research organization had its perks.

"...fine." Rin sighed. Sakura smiled and whisked paper out of thin air.

"Would you please read this over and sign below? It's a basic contract before we make the official one. We gave the same to Misha." She passed the floating contract over to Ch'en. The girl's surprised expression quickly disappeared when she gave Misha a questioning glance.

"U-um...they did the same to me." Misha scratched her head.

Ch'en took the floating contract midair without asking where it cme from and settled down to read it over. It was short and simple, aside from the extremely heavy focus on the services being kept secret. Whatever the two doctors ordered would follow her to the grave.

Weird.

She wasn't one to complain, seeing that they were giving her the opportunity to enter Chernobog with them. The contract was fair too. If Ch'en found herself being forced to follow an outrageous order, she was free to decline and raise up alternatives so long as both sides came to an agreement.

All in all, it was a standard arrangement. Ch'en quickly signed it with a pen Sakura provided.

"We're getting close." Kal'tsit called out to them. "Please finish your preparations quickly or we leave without you." The message was clearly for Rin and Sakura, who stopped in the midst of their muted discussion to hear Kal'tsit out. Then proceeded to return to whatever they were in a rush about, talking without sound that Ch'en knew was the result of some form of muting arts.

Ch'en looked out the window and saw the Rhodes Island landship they were heading to. The huge rectangular vessel stood like a lone fortress in the middle of the wild craggy landscape of rock. It cut its own shape out of the horizon compared to its surroundings, making it easy for anyone to see and identify. Their VTOL aircraft circled around the top before landing through an opening and into the interior hangar bay of the organization's landship. Inside, numerous employees ran about, preparing two other VTOL aircraft and coming in with tools and gas to give theirs a quick check and refuel.