The Realities Squad

Chapter 29: The Dividing

Sakura watched Benkei pace around the entrance between the living room and kitchen.

His behavior was getting out of hand...

"Benkei," She hesitantly reached out to stop him. "Please stop pacing."

"I can't believe I let her out there!"

"Benkei," Sakura sighed and rubbed his arm unconsciously. "Your daughter is perfectly capable of anything. Believe in her."

"I know but..."

"It's fine. Please sit down here."

Sakura guided him to the couch, where Lucina sat also.

"Not to guilt trip you or anything," Lucina hung her head as she hesitantly spoke. "But why did you let Jenny off when you didn't even want her to go?"

Benkei wiped his tired face with regrets in his eyes.

"She wanted to go. And since Ichigo isn't here, she felt as if she was a fit candidate." Benkei explained with sigh. Sakura saw Lucina shake her head.

"You also know that anyone could've volunteered," Lucina explained the obvious. "Like, I don't know, you?"

"Well if I went, then you guys would worry about me! And I'm your only father!"

"Yeah, that's true..."

Sakura placed her hand onto Benkei's broad shoulders.

"For the last time Benkei! It's okay." Sakura said with a assured voice.

But if she was being honest with herself, she was afraid for the cyborg girl as well. Jenny may be strong, but she was pretty frail in other places of her body. And who knows how much of Reality may restrict her from using her powers and abilities...

Sakura threw away that thought.

But even with that, Jenny was a very determined person. Plus, she has reinforcements with her. So she should be okay...

Benkei groaned quietly.

"Okay, fine." he finally said before looking ahead.

Sakura and Lucina pat him on each of his back, encouraging him to feel better.

"Benkei. Sakura." Sakura turned to see Kazemasa. "Ran finally found all the other targets."

"Already?!"

"Yes."

Sakura nodded, almost forgetting the hacking skills of Ran, and stood up.

"You coming?" she asked Benkei, tilting her head towards the kitchen table, where all the adults stayed at the moment.

Benkei nodded slowly before following Sakura to the kitchen.

***

Despite it being their problems specifically, the Realities who stayed behind couldn't find ways to start tackling the problem. Nobody knew where to start and nobody knew the location.

Heck, nobody knew the locations of Artopia that well.

And even if they did know how things were, they wouldn't know what the other next step would be.

Kat's only solution was to leave it up to the professionals. Which were the API agents.

After Kat and the other Realities and Artopians left, the others had started to get ready. Turns out, (mainly) Midori and a couple of adults had been working on battle gear or new clothes for the Realities Squad.

Colby didn't get much. Though, his outfit was rather bright with the color of lavender and teal, he liked the long short-sleeved coat, the shoulder armor guard and the protective gloves.