Evolve

Ten

Finding Osaka wasn't too difficult, especially once I got my vision working properly again. I walked down the hallways for less than a minute and I saw where I assumed Osaka was. I was in a relatively empty hallway and saw a room with guards posted around it. The way I knew these were Osaka's forces were because they tried so hard not to be seen. Two were having a conversation by the water fountain in front of the room, another three by the vending machines not too far off. I casually went over as if I was checking the hospital directory on the wall, but I already noticed all five of the guards had glanced at me several times. I sighed and stuck my hands in my pockets. I did not have time for another fight. It was getting later in the day and Delilah had ordered me back come nightfall for a mission report. I decided to try and casually walk towards the room Osaka was in. What was the worse that could happen?

However, before I could carry out my well planned strategy, gunshots were heard coming from the stairway. It sounded as if shots were being fired and somebody was returning the favor. This confused everyone in the hallway, including myself, and the 5 guards ran quickly towards the stairs with their hands on their weapons. I blinked and was going to follow them, but quickly decided my time was better off accepting this gift and going directly to Osaka. I did a quick scan of the stairway using my X-ray vision, but even that did not help cure my confusion. It appeared as if several people were firing at... Nothing. Then Osaka's guard fired at those people and also at the nothing. I blinked and shifted my vision to normal and decided to worry about that after a few moments.

I forced opened the locked door to her room and went inside. I was quite surprised at what I saw. There was an elderly man laying on the hospital bed, hooked up to several machines. He was unconscious and my internal readings of the man made me believe that he was in a coma. I quickly scanned the man to see the extent of his injuries.

Internal bleeding, severe lacerations, concussion

I raised an eyebrow. The man was not here due to his old age, he was attacked. I stepped in closer to meet Osaka face to face. I saw her standing off to the side, talking with a doctor before glaring over at me. She was dressed in a semi professional manner and wore several pieces of expensive jade jewelry and dark sunglasses. Her trench coat was the color of her dark hair and she had a serious, but calm, facial expression.

"What in the world is going on out there?" The doctor asked astounded at the earlier sound of gunshots echoing down the hall.

"I don't know who you are, but you can't be in here without permission. I need to call security." The doctor said with a false sense of authority and went to leave. Osaka stopped him from moving and waved off his complaints with her hand.

"It is fine, doctor. Eve Primera, I warned you what would happen if you kept following me, did I not?" She said calmly while looking at the man in the bed.
"If you had given me enough time, I would have found and destroyed you anyway. You have saved me time. However, I do not wish to have our fight here, not in front of my father." She said and gestured at the man in the hospital bed.

"I don't know many people who wish to fight me at any time, whether or not they are visiting the sick in a hospital." I replied.
"As long as you give me the information I need, then I don't see any need for us to fight at all."

"I will not tell you where Yokozuna is, I am sworn to secrecy, as it were." She replied, keeping her gaze on her father.

"I have been ordered to retrieve this information. Luckily for you, I wish to avoid further combat at the moment, so I would greatly appreciate it if you'd break your oath just this once." Diplomacy was beginning to bore me. I did not wish to fight, but at this rate I would learn to adapt.