Belle fell back after expending the absurd amount of energy in her metallic arm. The long range beam weapon transformed back into a hand as she caught her breath and looked up at the half-hollow moon.
"That was cool as hell.. I have a laser beam now." Belle punched the air triumphantly.
[Master, your number one assistant Fairy has intercepted Pubsec reports and can confirm that multiple squad cars are on their way here. Likely due to the attention brought on during your joint fight with Jane Doe against the rogue Hunters. Estimated time of arrival is 2:00 minutes]
"Crap. Better employ the secret Joestar techniques then." Belle pushed off the ground and leapt up to her feet with practiced grace.
Then she looked toward the half-sunk ship and noticed Jane pulling several rogue Hunters out of the water with a small grunt of exertion. Belle jogged over and helped her lift two of the unconscious grown men out and dumped them next to the unconscious Adam.
"Thank you~." Jane said with a little smirk before her ears twitched.
Both her and Belle heard the sounds of distant sirens and looked at each other.
"Come on. I know a good route to avoid Pubsec. It'd be very inconvenient to be caught." Jane said as she ran ahead, toward an apartment complex.
Belle nodded and ran after her, seeing Jane jump up and catch onto an iron ladder. She looked down and gave Belle a wink.
"Come on up, it's sturdy."
Belle bent down and leapt up, easily climbing onto the ladder. When she looked up, her jaw dropped at the magnificent sight she saw. Jane was steadily climbing the ladder, her tail swishing behind her as she peeked over the roof's ledge. But from Belle's view, her heart-shaped ass, see-through stocking hugging her thigh and her tight black and now wet top revealed her sizable breasts with stiff peaks poking against the inside of her jacket.
'This shit so magnificent..' Belle felt like crying tears of joy.
'Fairy, take a hundred pictures of this so I can fall asleep to it every night..' Belle ordered.
[...Done. One hundred pictures of Master's strange rat-themed interest has been taken]
'Just for that I'm alotting you more electricity this month.' Belle stated, applauding Fairy in her mind.
"Miss Vigilante?" Belle snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Jane's face, which was sporting a knowing smirk.
"Whatever could be distracting you? I said we were clear to go~." Jane stated, in a fake pouty kind of way.
"I was thinking we should get you into a warm place. You'll catch a cold if you stay out so long." Belle calmly replied in her vigilante persona as she climbed onto the roof and gave Jane a smouldering look laced with concern.
Jane blinked and opened her mouth before closing it and humming. Inwardly, she felt touched because there was actual concern in Belle's voice too. But she definitely knew she was being checked out too. All she wanted was to fluster the woman but instead she was the one about to be flustered.
'No.. Nobody's going to fluster me.' Jane denied before she felt something warm drape over her shoulders.
It was a jacket, a black leather jacket with a fur collar. She had no idea when or where Belle pulled it from either.
"Here, wear this for now. You can give it back next time we meet up. We can both make our exits from here, Miss Investigator. Have a good night and get home safely." Belle stated as she walked over to the edge of the roof and looked down at the city. Not for any particular reason than to aura farm.
Then, she leapt to another roof and continued on her way.
Jane stood there, suddenly a lot warmer from the jacket Belle provided. Her cheeks lightly dusted with a blush she did her damnest to fight. She silently clicked her tongue.
"Damn.. that was actually really sweet..." Jane sighed, clutching the jacket a bit closer to herself as she moved across the rooftops.
She brought the jacket up to her nose and caught a whiff. One that she would associate with Belle from now on.
"Hmm.. lavender."
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-☆Belle's notes! Part 6: Thirenization/Mahoragazation?☆-
I've noticed as I unlock more of the template, I gain some physical characteristics unique to big M. Firstly, my wheel/halo. This is the physical representation of my adaptation and is pretty natural, I guess? Secondly, my tail. It's a white, dexterous and somewhat thick tail coming out of my lower back. It looks pretty much exactly the same as Mahoraga's and is pretty handy as an extra limb I can control. It's also pretty strong and tough enough to block regular blades.
Lastly, I haven't gotten this far yet but I have a feeling his little wings will appear soon and that I can control what area they'll appear at. I can't exactly see the benefit of them blocking my eyes, since I'm not a pretty boy who gets cut in half after being jumped by a binding vow merchant.
I honestly dunno how I'll explain this to anyone. But hey, Oni exist so why not Angel Thiren right? I just hope Wise doesn't pop a blood vessel worrying.
-☆Conclusion of part 6☆-
Belle sighed as she put away her notebook, sat back on the couch and slurped up some instant noodles. The excursion from last night was still in her head. Her and Jane both took the entire Rogue Hunters down fairly easily but she wasn't satisfied with her performance. She knew Jane was holding back during that fight and the whole battle was probably just Jane testing her character and combat skills and assessing her as a Pubsec consultant.
Belle didn't consider herself to be bloodthirsty or anything and killing those men would be way more trouble than it was worth it. One, it would put her at odds with Jane, Zhu Yuan, Seth and Qingyi along with the entirety of Pubsec and possibly further beyond.
Two, while she wasn't exactly Punisher material, she would kill when necessary. It's just that in this case, it would bring her a major headache if she decided to do full murder-hobo. Lastly, restraint helped develop her fighting skill. Hitting someone hard enough to kill them was easy if you had the strength. Hitting hard enough to knock out? That took practice.
'Well by the fifth guy I stopped breaking bones I think..' Belle snickered to herself before feeling a familiar hand rest on her head.
"Belle, anything interesting in the news? You seem a bit distracted." Wise stated as he took a seat next to her, with his own instant ramen cup.
Belle hummed and turned her attention back to the news, where they were talking about the renovating the old capital's metro. Then, Perlman appeared on screen. The fat, short man was explaining the benefits of urban development while Sara stood next to him, quietly holding a few images of the old capital's metro tunnels and their fake plans.
Hearing about the train, Dead End Hollow and how they planned to use the ether explosives, Belle immediately knew they'd be getting a visit from a cat Thiren very soon.
Looking back at the Perlman interview, Belle nearly started laughing as the camera man got an amazing shot of Sara's sideboob. Wise had the decency to cough to himself and look away but Belle hadn't a care in the world as she checked the villainess out.
'She's evil but you can't say she doesn't have an amazing body. Thank you, Hoyo. I've been eating well these past few days!' Belle thought as she clasped her hands together in praise.
"Er.. the construction site is near the Hollow. And they had to relocate all those people.. Weird, I didn't see anything about that on Interknot." Wise stated after shaking off the embarrassment.
Belle shrugged, "Yeah I guess the companies who wanna enter TOPS give those people NDAs and stuff."
Though she said that, Belle already knew. There was no evacuation. Should Perlman's plan succeed, quite a few people will die.
'Guess it's time for chapter one~.'