Prologue A Certain Peaceful Day III

*IN A CERTAIN KINGDOM OF A CERTAIN EMPIRE*

09:00AM

[40 HOURS UNTIL METEOR'S IMPACT]

In a certain great hall of a certain kingdom. . .

13 Kings stands in two symmetrical lines, facing one another.

Each of the Kings wears black military clothes, and an outer white trench coat.

Their trench coats are numbered with roman numerals on the back, I to XIV.

It is the proof of their attainment of the highest level of super soldiers; the S-Class rank.

King II, rather Queen II, is not present.

An ominous Empress sits on the throne.

She constantly wears a lazy smile.

Her name is Aftokráteira.

"Queen X, Ying Yan, you requested the King's Conference.

Let's hear your report.

What exactly did those pair of jade eyes see?"

Aftokráteira asks in a gentle yet menacing voice.

Ying Yan steps out and kneels on one knee before Aftokráteira.

"Yes, Your Majesty.

Far above the heavens, in the dark and cold boundless empty space, a giant crystal heads for this world at great speed.

However, this rock is not made with anything that I have ever seen.

It has an unprecedented hardness that triumphs that of diamonds.

My Empress, a crystal of that hardness, size, mass and speed, I am afraid it will decimate all lives in this world upon touching its very soil.

This is unmistakably an SSS-Class calamity"

Despite Ying Yan's eloquent report, she instinctively shivers as she answers Aftokráteira.

Ying Yan's eyes are the Empire's eyes.

She sees far and beyond what anyone could see.

With the exceptions of King I, Queen II and the Empress, Ying Yan is the closest to attaining a SS-Class rank of all the Kings.

"HeHeHeHe"

Aftokráteira chuckles.

"Your Majesty?"

"HAHAHAHAHA!

SSS-CLASS THREAT!

THIS IS F*CKING GOOD!"

Aftokráteira dark personality comes out without any warnings.

Her sinister aura flows out overwhelmingly.

Some of the Kings could not withstand the heavy atmosphere and are forced to their knees.

"Onee-sama! (Big sister)

Are you hurt?!"

A little girl holds onto Queen XIV; Queen Astrapi.

"Onee-sama!

Mama!

Please calm yourself!

Your aura is suffocating Onee-sama!"

Another little girl holds onto the Aftokráteira.

The little girls are Aftokráteira's twin daughters; Kuroneko (Black Cat) and Kurousagi (Black Rabbit).

Due to a certain situation, they have been assigned to Astrapi's Division XIV, Lightning Division.

"HAHAHAHA!

My bad! My bad!

Kuroneko! Kurousagi!

I haven't been this excited in a long time!"

Aftokráteira suppresses her aura.

She then turns to Astrapi.

"Having said that, shame on you to need your sisters to fend for you, Astrapi.

You truly are not qualified to be a King"

"PANT! PANT! PANT!"

Like the other Kings, Astrapi continues to kneel in exhaustion.

She could not muster her strength to stand after being overwhelmed by Aftokráteira's aura.

"I apologise for interrupting, Your Majesty.

What should we do about the SSS-Class Threat?"

Ying Yan, who manages to hold her nerves, asks Aftokráteira.

"Heh!

I order all Kings to prepare for battle!

Han Jae!

You will lead the ground troops!

Hijikata!

Fortify the security within the Kingdom!

Ying Yan!

Go back to the tower!

When the crystal comes within your range, inflict as much damage as you can!"

"Yes, Your Majesty"

Han Jae, Hijikata and Ying Yan answer in synchronity.

King I, the Hero of Calamity, Han Jae; and

King III, a legendary swordsman and the leader of Shinsengumi, Hijikata.

[!]

"Hmm?"

Aftokráteira notices something.

*RUMBLE*

The air becomes almost as heavy and suffocating as when Aftokráteira lost control earlier.

All the Kings feel three extremely powerful presences approaching from beyond the doors of the palace.

They take their respective stances.

"This pressure!"

Ying Yan points the barrel of her sniper rifle at the doors as she sweats in fear.

[This suffocating air feels almost like the Empress' aura!]

Hijikata grits his teeth and assumes a peculiar stance as he holds the hilt of his katana.

"SSS-Classes, huh?"

Han Jae calmly draws his God-slaying Holy sword.

"Kuroneko!

Kurousagi!

Stay behind me!"

Astrapi assumes an orthodox boxing stance.

She wraps her fists in black clothes.

"Here they come!"

Aftokráteira smiles in excitement.

*BOOM!*

The palace doors are destroyed.

Three figures appear.

They are Alan, Bizen and Law from the Garden of Eden.

"Oi oi!

On top of coming unannounced, you even went as far as destroying my doors.

You better fix them before you leave . . .

Alan!"

Aftokráteira addresses Alan in her usual gentle and menacing voice while putting on a lazy smile.

"Tch!

Who cares about that?

I don't even want to be here in the first place!"

Alan scratches his head violently as he answers grumpily.

"I see you even brought Bizen and Law with you.

How are you both?

I assume Alan is treating you well"

Aftokráteira makes a love hand gesture at Bizen.

"Aftokráteira.

Not at all.

He is a real slave-driver.

If you are short on swordsmen, I don't mind switching sides"

Bizen answers Aftokráteira with a straight face while returning her gesture with a hand wave.

*SMACK!*

Alan who apparently brought his Harisen smacks Bizen on the head again.

"WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU DOING, BLATANTLY GIVING AWAY HIGHLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?!"

Alan is clearly angrier at the fact that Bizen is talking smack about him rather than her declaration that she would switch sides.

[So, saying that he's a slave-driver is classified.

Hmm. Noted]

Bizen remains emotionless and unperturbed.

"Jokes aside.

Let's get down to business.

Alan, are you losing your nerves over the SSS-Class Threat coming from the heavens?"

Aftokráteira asks provocatively.

[!]

"You knew?!

Your Empire shouldn't have the technology to detect the meteor"

"'Meteor'?

Is that what the giant crystal is called?

Heh!"

Aftokráteira smirks triumphantly.

*IN A CERTAIN WORKSHOP*

13:00PM

[36 HOURS UNTIL METEOR'S IMPACT]

In a certain workshop of the Garden of Eden underground city . . .

"Ms Ram!

Reduce your beta waves by 0.5Hz.

Can you turn on the Gamma and X visions at 0.02 x 10^20Hz and 7.3 x 10^18Hz?"

Nava is concentrating really hard on making a silver bow.

Ram crawls on top of Nava's head.

She is helping Nava with various fine adjustments by manipulating Nava's vision.

"IT'S FINISHED!"

Nava jumps up joyfully as she completes the weapon that Alan has requested.

It's a High-Power Silver Bow.

"KUMAAAAAAA!"

Ram makes a random baby noise unemotionally.

"Kuma!"

Nava happily copies Ram for some reason.

She holds Ram up high.

"It's a very heavy bow and has high tensile strength.

In anybody else's hands, this bow will not serve any purposes at all.

But with the President's superhuman strength and his Qigong (Chinese natural energy martial arts), he will be able to unleash unimaginable power when he fires the arrows using this bow"

"KUMAAAAAAA"

"We have less than 36 hours until the meteor strikes.

It shouldn't take me long to check my weaponry.

Pandora!

Paradox!"

Two giant briefcases, one jet-black and the other silver-white, fly from the wall mounts of the workshop into Nava's hands.

*HISSS*

Each cases hisses as they release white gases.

"Mmm!

It looks like we are ready to go!"

Ram stares at Nava blankly.

"Ms Ram.

Make sure you bring the bow to the President.

I leave him to you.

He can be quite reckless.

Make sure he doesn't overexert himself"

Nava pats Ram with a sad smile.

As she is now a baby that cannot say anything other than "KUMA", Ram simply tilts her head as she agrees in silence.

"Good girl!"

Nava understood Ram.

"Now, it's time for me to carry out the President's unreasonable orders"

Nava leaves Ram behind and makes her way to the surface from the underground city.

. . .

When she reaches the surface, a high-class maid awaits her arrival by a gigantic tree; the Tree of Genesis.

It's the Head Maid of the Garden of Eden, Mercy Vermillion.

"Ms Mercy!

Why are you here?!"

"Are you about to take off, Nava?"

"Yes . . .

An order is an order afterall"

Nava smiles nervously.

"Even from my perspective, the President is strict as always.

As his lover, you must be frustrated"

"Eh?!

No, no, no, no!!!!

The President and I aren't lovers or anything!

I am just indebted to him!

!#$&#&$*$*×*÷£×*×*3£3*÷*×**!"

Nava starts speaking gibberish as she tries to hide her embarrassment.

"Don't worry!

I am the only one that knows.

Then again, no one else but you can execute those orders.

Do you have a way to even reach the meteor?!"

"Ah, yes!

My Paradox should be able to get me there.

But the force of the flight will probably cause me an arm.

To be honest, I am not sure how much damage I can do on the meteor.

But I will do what I can!"

"Sigh! I give up!

You truly are an unusual human.

No, an unusual 'cyborg'.

Well then, good luck!

Don't you die on me!"

Mercy walks away and disappears into a hidden passage in the giant bark of the Tree of Genesis.

"As I thought, Ms Mercy is a nice person"

Nava holds out the silver-white briefcase in her left hand.

There are letters carved on the briefcase; PARADOX

"Program Paradox, activate!"

The briefcase reacts to Nava's voice and begins rearranging its blocks into a shield as tall as Nava herself.

Nava holds up Paradox, pointing into the sky.

"Initiate Anti-Gravity System!"

The thrusters at the four vertices of Paradox discharges large bursts of flames aggressively as Nava tries to hold it back.

*BOOM!*

All of a sudden, Paradox releases an ultra-strong boost that pushes Nava off the ground, pulling Nava into the sky and extremely high-speed.

Paradox's thrusters are so powerful that Nava reaches the atmosphere in a short amount of time.

Her entire body burns at a high temperature the moment she hits the atmosphere due to air compression.

The temperature of the atmospheric forces is so high that Nava glows in bright red colour.

"ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Nava grits her teeth as she hangs on to her shield.

TO BE CONTINUED . . .