God Eater: Infinity Paradise

22. A Flower's True Colors

"Before a person could love someone else, he first must learn to love himself."

She sighed and smiled, adjusting her fingers slightly on the wheel. The wind breezed through as the jeep moved forward in the bare, silent ground. "There is still quite a lot to do... but not enough time." She then pressed hard on the gas pedal, forcing the vehicle to go in greater speed. "Why are you such a pain in the ass, Soma?"

Another gentle whisper of wind greeted Yuka as she hopped off from the vehicle, and afterwards, checked the map. She was right on the spot of her secret mission, as stated in the map Hibari provided. "Hibari, I-- God!" She hissed, ripping the small piece of technology off her ear. The painful static disappeared the moment she did so, and Yuka was left with no option but just slip it in the pocket of her shorts. "The link is busted." Well, at least everything else works. If something bad happens to her, considering this is a classified mission, she would be in a bigger pinch without any contact to the Far East. There's to hoping Soma would find her wherever she winds up dead.

She slung her own God Arc over her shoulder. "Now that I'm by myself, I could stop the blundering and actually get to work. The whole thing is making me sick." Though speaking at particularly nothing, as she truly was alone, she did wait for a few moments before resuming speech, a helpless smile drawn across her face. "Pretty quiet here."

Once more, the wind whispered. Yuka's expression morphed to a serious one, eyes narrowing for anything out of the ordinary. After Lindow's accident, it is not very difficult to grow suspicious of almost everything. The area was clear from anything weird, but then again, so was the City of Mercy back then. "Either he's really trying to get rid of me or that thing... really is here." Honestly, none of the two were better in her opinion. If the Singularity had been located at this very spot, to subdue it, she would have to engage with it head-on. And there's no telling what kind of Aragami is it, or what abilities it possesses. "Fuck. He's smart," she scowled. "Because either way, I'd be dead." Taking chance of the temporary serenity she was given, Yuka took out her phone.

E-mail sent!

At that, she pushed herself back to her feet. The area was still as silent as when she had arrived, without a single sign of Aragami within sight, or even ear shot. It was really getting fishy. She should spot even only a few Ogretails, isn't that right?

Yuka frowned. "Oh..." She mumbled, dragging her two feet over to a destination she wasn't even certain of. "That's... odd." A strange sensation slowly began to pool at the pit of her stomach, and she blindly followed where her body led her in a few more steps. It was the unusual tick inside her once again -- the one she barely has a clue about. How unpleasant. "This is–"

She found it. The towering Borg Camlann that continues to shake the area with agitated shrieks. It was deafening, to be honest, but Yuka found no time to complain in regards to that, upon noticing a lone girl in tattered clothes right before the Aragami's wake. Without any further thinking, the blonde God Eater leaped in between them, striking the brandished shield with her Buster Blade. "What are you doing?!" She yelled at the other, sending a salvo of bullets at the enemy as fast as her gun could go. "Why are you–?"

The moment she turned, it was simply her and the now angered Aragami. She would have pondered where the other went and how fast did she managed to, but there was currently a bigger problem at hand. Yuka picked up her pace, not letting the Borg Camlann catch up to her trail with its continuous needle shots. The moment the barrage stopped, her shoes brushed hard against the solid ground in an attempt to put a stop to her momentum, as powerful blazed shots flew from the barrel of her gun to the Aragami. Not wanting to give it a chance to counter, she jumped forward, hitting the front legs without a single hint of hesitation.