Outside the tower

Toue appeared on the screen "At long last
There are only two more days until the anniversary, But before that great event gets started, I'd like to take this opportunity to show all of you my shining new source of pride and joy" he says as Sei walks towards him "Here, His name is Sei, He's just like a son to me"

however, Sei didn't look happy at all, he still continued to frown "I wouldn't be where I am without him, That's just how important he is to me, He's an eternal fountain of hope for me, And he should be a great source of happiness for everyone one of you, Please lend your blessings to him as we move forward"

The people below started clapping for the boy however he still wouldn't smile

Elsewhere

When aoba opened his eyes, back in the real world again, and saw Mink standing with Kyouka looking at him worried. "Hey, Mink...Kyouka?" He said.

" hey you okay?" She asked

"Y-yeah" he groaned a little

A few moments of silence fell between them. "You going to lie there all night, Seragaki?" Mink questioned. Kyouka helped Aoba sit up. "So, are you planning to die?" Aoba asked.

While Kyouka looked at him in shock

Mink stared at him. "I knew it from the first time I saw you. You and me, both have the same scent. It's the...scent of death."

She gasped, With that, Mink turned around and walked away.

Kyouka helped Aoba stand up. "Hey, Mink. Don't die. Just live. You're alive. Cherish it. besides you still have your daughter" Mink kept walking on.

Aoba sighed.

He then stopped and turned to aoba and kyouka. "You need to stay here with Kyouka." he said. A serious tone in his voice. 

That surprised both. "But why!?" Aoba argued. "I changed my mind. You just stay here and look after her." he said. 

"No way! We're coming, you need us in there!" He argued.

" I'm not leaving you!" Kyouka argued

"Do what you want." he said. And started walking again.

Elsewhere

Sei was taken back to his room, he struggled but ended up back in the chair, Mr. Tagahashi left with a bow. 

Sei lifted his head up from the ground, both eyes closed with a look that said he was in pain

With the group

Even after Mink told the two to stay behind, they still went with him, They took the stairs to avoid the police and boys. 

As they walked up, Ren had popping his head out of aoba's bag, and he noticed something was wrong with his eye. 

There were pixel's floating around the outside of his right eye.  "Ren. What's going on? There's something weird with your eye." He said.

He heard ren sigh and reached out to him but he turned his head away.  "Come on Ren, let me look." Aoba said,

Ren sighed again, but didn't turn his head. 

"Hey! Come on and turn your head around!" Aoba ordered

"You really need to concern yourself of more important things, Aoba." he said, which surprised aoba

"What the hell are you talking about?" Aoba asked. "How many times have I told you how much trouble I'd be in without you!?"  He asked. 

He still didn't turn his around  "Aoba. I'll do what I can to not hold you back." he said.  "I didn't say that at all!" Aoba argued.

"If I can't do what an Allmate does, I'm nothing better than garbage." he said. "I'll do my best not to hold-" "Hey! What in the hell are you talking about anyway, Ren?!" Aoba cut him off

  "I'm saying that if I break down here, then I'll end up being a burden to you." Ren said. "I didn't mean that! I'm trying to tell you that I'm worried about you little blue, smartass fuzzball!" Aoba exclaimed

Ren finally turned his head "It's fine, I really don't want to trouble you over this." he said.  Aoba glared at him. "That's a bunch of.." he stopped.

" aoba?" He stoped and looked to see Kyouka and Mink had stopped

  "What are you doing?" Mink asked. 

"Nothing!" He said. 

Mink didn't say anything but kept walking up the stairs. 

After a while They stopped at a door, Mink then cracked the code with his Coil and opened the door. 

They walked in the room and saw a desk with two chairs and two computers. 

Mink hacked the password into the computer, He successfully made it into the network. 

The first thing they saw when he entered the password was a video of someone in custody in the hospital. The people that have been Spirited Away.  "Wait, isn't this Toue's.." aoba asked.

"Place where he monitors all his mind control gadgets? Yeah, definitely." Mink said. 

Aoba stared blankly at the screen while Kyouka felt uneasy and looked away. "You wanna keep his little 'party' from happening? This is the best place to do it." He said.

"We sabotage it all from here, the entire operation." he said.  Aoba gave him a look of concern. "And then I take care of the boss, and by that I mean I kill him." he said, a stern tone lingering in his voice, which aoba could tell, he wanted to avenge everyone he lost

After leaving the room, Mink navigated us through the hallways with his Coil. "Look like the stairs to the you floor are right ahead of us."

"They're the are! Get them!" They heard and saw the guards.  "Go!" Mink shouted, pushing the two away and ran the other way " don't shoot the blue haired kid or the girl!" The two continued to run down the hall. 

They turned a corner and tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. 

" find them damn it!"

" damn..."

Kyouka gasped when they were getting close and backed up against the door, they heard something open then pulled them both in

They heard footsteps pass by the door. Security, which were the guards passing by

"Damn, that hurt!" Aoba groaned

" o-ow" Kyouka stood up rubbing her head

They looked around only to see darkness. 

Both turned to look in front, the only thing in front was darkness and the stilloute of a person. 

The light shined over them like a spotlight, revealing them to be Sei "Aoba. Kyouka. Its good to see you." He said, looking happy

Both look at him confused

"I've been waiting an awfully long time to meet you." He said again.  "Okay, and you are...?" Aoba said, wanting to know his name or what he wants.  "How do you know who we are?" Kyouka asked hiding behind him

He only reached out their arm and opened his Coil

Showing... The demos that aoba had
been receiving.  "Now wait, you did all this?" Aoba asked.

He closed his Coil.  "I see, you set every one of us up by sending out those little invitations of yours! You're the reason all of our friends got attacked once we all got inside the park!" Aoba said.  "That's not true..." Sei said, avoiding his gaze. 

"Why'd you do it?!" Aoba ordered.  "Because I...wanted you to come see me." Sei said. 

What he said really confusing the two.  "There's no easy way to say this but I need you.....I need the power in your voice to shatter me." He said

Kyouka looked at him confused ' shatter?..'

"What are you talking about?" Aoba asked.  "What I mean is my power, I've reached the limit of what I can do." they said, Sei turned their head to look at them, with a sad/begging face.

"Hurry..time is short..." he said as his body getting staticy and glitchy.  Then reached his hand out to them. "Please, Aoba.." they then turned staticy and faded away.  It was a hologram. "Wait up!" Aoba called, only to receive silence.

"What the hells going on here?" Aoba said in confusion "That's crazy"

" I don't know, but-" Kyouka cut herself off gasping when she saw the person sneaking up behind aoba " aoba behind you!" Before he could reach, the person hit him in the back of the head and knocked out

She screamed and tried to run but someone caught her and covered her mouth with a cloth, and of course was covered in chloroform, which knocked her out

Kyouka was carried over someone's back out of the room, Straight to mr toue, who smiled as the unconscious girl was brought in and placed down " excellent, at long last, the bride arrives"  he brushed a hand against her cheek " and she inherited her mothers looks"

" please have her dressed, the anniversary and a wedding all in one, but before she wakes make sure she hears the due music first, don't want her running off now do we?" he says as someone carried the unconscious girl away, to where the dress her mother would have worn if she hadn't escaped, but Kyouka...her fate....had been sealed

Time skip

Aoba started regaining his consciousness and saw two familiar blinds

"Look who's awake now, its Aoba!" Virus said.  "Good morning, Aoba." Trip said. 

"Trip what's up, Virus?" Aoba asked, confused, He was about to get up, but was held back by the restraints on his wrists and legs.  "You've got to be wondering what me and the Tripster are doing here. It's written all over your face." Virus said. "You might not even believe it but, in case you didn't realize it."  He then bent down to where he was face to face with Aoba.  "We are Morphine." he said. "Shocking, isn't it?" 

"You guys are it?" Aoba asked "That's a lie!" he said in disbelief.  "Here's the proof of the truth you're looking for." Trip said.  A bunch of guys in black hoodies came out and surrounded Trip and Virus.

" it's too bad Kyouka couldn't join us, but this is enough" virus says " bet she looks good in that dress"

" that i agree" trip says

" what are you talking about?" Aoba glared " where's Kyouka?!"

" she's at her wedding of course" virus said, while aoba gasped" are you out of your mind?!" Aoba exclaimed " he'll use her to kill people!"

" not without this she won't" virus said holding up something in his hand, which was the cellphone Kyouka used to call demon snow " without this, she can't call it" he said then tossed it aside

"Now of course, we're not like our minions here who do our work for us. Being the boss has it's advantages." Virus said.  "So you were lying" aoba said. 

Virus laughed. "Not about being your biggest devo tease and followers, we didn't. And kyouka's as well." Trip said. 

Aoba growled and glared at them.  "Oh yeah, that's the face I'm looking for." Trip smiled. "That's just like when you were the undisputed king if the Rhyme, buddy boy."

"Absolutly!" Virus said. "We didn't know anything about your voice powers, either. I tell you what though, it was thing of beauty when you smoke someone with Scrap. Instant brain smash, buddy." Virus explained. 

  "We knew you were gonna be the greatest RhymeHead they're ever was!" Virus said.  "Hold on just a second, did I hurt someone?" Aoba asked.

"Damn. I keep forgetting your forgetfullness, I guess." Trip said.  "For what it's worth, Aoba. You didn't know you could do anything like that either." Virus said. "Do you know how hard thing's had be if word of your power just got out on the streets like that, we'd make sure you forgot about your little "unfortunate incident" and played with the publicity a little." Virus explained while aoba was shocked with a hint of disbelief

  "Instead of an accident in Rhyme, we said it was...a street fight and your badassery that made him a vegetable." he said.  "And wouldn't you know it, the boys at Toue Concern were already mind control experts, and your grandma worked for them! We needed you to keep this secret, especially from Toue, otherwise you'd be in a different kinda hospital. Lucky for us, even if she didn't know all of us wanted to keep your power a secret. Nothing like possible deniability if you ask me." he said.  "But on top of that, someone remembered you bad enough to force you to play again. Toue finds out your secret and suddenly your in demand again. Be thankful, we're trying to keep him from snagging you!" Virus said.

Aoba couldn't believe what he was hearing

"Besides, if you decide to come with us, you'll finally get to meet Sei." Virus said.  "Sei?" Aoba asked.  "That's right, you didn't know, you've gotta twin brother. And he wants to meet you." Trip said. 

Aoba eyes widened

Elsewhere

Mink was hiding behind a wall as a guard walked by, he then checked his coil " we're ready to go boss, whenever you want" one of his guards informed

However he felt something was wrong, especially with kyouka

Back in the room

"Sei?" Aoba asked.  "That's right, you didn't know, you've gotta twin brother. And he wants to meet you." Trip said. 

While aoba's eyes widned

  "I suppose you guys weren't really introduced to each other, now that I think about it. Aoba and Sei were the Toue Concerns attempted to making babies to order about twenty or so years ago, its a simple idea, really. Manipulate DNA from an egg and sperm and if you do it right, kids with powers. By the way, the best of the gene splicers was someone we all know and love, but you call, "Grandma"." he said.  "It was her research." He said. 

"To be fair the guys at Toue really didn't tell her that her research was going to be used to make superkids from scratch. Misimformation is in our form, y'know. Toue had been researching all the senses and methods of winning the hearts and minds without the messy business of actually being a politician with a conscience. So will a little splicing, you and Sei devopled the power to do it with your voice and your eyes. However, your hair is the actual conduit, your technically conjoined twins, at the hair anyway." Virus explained

"Here's the strange part, both you and Sei were still born, and the docs couldn't get you breathing. So there you were, and they pretty much didn't care." Virus said. 

"Your grandma decided to take a little pity on you, Aoba. Anyway, it's seems like she felt a little guilty about you dying, so she took you away. All the way back to the island." he said. 

"But when she cut you loose, your heart and lungs starting working." Virus said. 

"Sei got lucky too, but he wound up being raised in the grounds of the Toue Concern lap where the doctors have spent the last 20 years figuring out how to leverage his Scrap power."  Aoba raised his head a little.  "His power actually works a lot like yours does, but instead of using his voice, Sei uses his eyes to send subliminal visuals. Most people aren't even aware of what they're seeing." Virus said.  "His eyes do that?" Aoba asked. 

Then the speech that Toue gave when we first entered Platinum Jail started to flood back. The holographic eyes on the screen, those were Sei's.

"However, Sei is completely worn out. And that's the reason he had her kidnapped a while ago. To see if she could find a way to make his power work again. But Toue isn't the kind of guy who just sits around on his lorals, his scientists found a way to do artificially with Sei's eyes were doing natuarlly, and that's it." Virus said. 

"Backup plans are good if people break, y'know? The "event", if we can really call it that, is probably gonna be Sei's curtain call as Toue's mind manipulator."

"What do you mean?" Aoba asked.  "I just told you, the poor boy is already at his limit." Virus said.

" I need the power in your voice...to shatter me.."

" so that's what he meant..."

"Imagine what kind of bind we might've been in otherwise without him. But it's all good, now that we have you." Virus said. 

Aoba growl. "You've lost your mind." he said.   "Don't you realize what that psychopaths planning!?" Aoba shouted. 

"Naturally, of course we do." Virus said. "We always did." Trip replied.  "Then tell me, what in the hell are you working with Toue for!?" Aoba asked. "Do I need to spell it out, I guess it all comes down to one thing."  I just stayed still and listened.  "The thing is, we'd like to stay, stimulated. Anything that's interesting, amazing and easy."

"Absolutely." Trip said.  "You're not gonna get us interested in the "Toue's plot against humanity" angle, we're here because Sei is amazing, and if your in the Yakuza, siding up with Toue is easier than easy. And that's all there is to it."

"Most defiantly." Trip said. 

"You don't even realize what's going on here, maybe you're being mind controlled and don't even known about it!" Aoba said.  "Okay, let me fill you in on why that's not gonna happen to us. Modified hearing and eyesight, got it? So, you can huff and puff with your little voice powers and not knock our brains down." Virus said.  "So, what do you think we should do?" Virus asked.

"I say. Game on, Virus." Trip replied.  "Okay Aoba..." Virus then slammed his hand next to Aoba's head, and leaned in close to his face.  "Why don't you indulge us in a little game time?" he said huskily.

"Yeah..." Trip replied.

Then we heard yelling and grunts, people falling to the ground. 

They looked back to see a man is a familiar red kimono.  "Aoba!" Koujaku called. 

Mink was behind him and knocked out some of the guys in the head with his gun. "Those guys are Morphine?" he asked. 

One of them tried to get on t to heir Coil but a little bunny appeared on the screen and soneone punched him hard in the back of the head. "What a pain." Noiz said

Then a heard a yell and a crash. "I came as soon as I heard you, eh Aoba?" Clear said smiling

  "This is awesome!" Aoba said.  "Damn it all." Trip said. "We'll pick it up another time!" Virus yelled, They made a run for it.

"I don't think so." Noiz said. But he almost was punched in the face. He punched the guy, and managed to close the door, But they made it out, which peeved him off. 

Koujaku cut the binding on Aoba's waist with his sword.  "Koujaku!" Aoba said. "So you took off on your own because you didn't want us involved. How's that working out for you!?" he asked, But he knew he was joking.

" where's kyouka?" Mink asked, While aoba looked down saddened " toue has her..." which pissed of the older man

" those two knocked us out and handed her over to toue, but she doesn't have the phone..." aoba added as mink noticed it on the ground and picked it up

"Where's Ren?" he asked, He looked around and saw his bag across the room with ren popped out

"Ren!" he said. Ren then powered on and opened his eyes, Aoba sighed in relief and ran over to him.  "Hey, Ren." he said, the pixel still surrounding his eye. 

"He's gotta a worm inside of him, careful." Noiz said. 

"We need to bug out."mink says turning to go after them

"Wait, Mink!" Aoba called, but then looked like he remebered something, Sei begged

"Because I need you to break me with your vocal power"

"Aoba." Koujaku said.  "Look, I'm sorry okay? There's something I'm going to have to do while I'm still here." Aoba said. 

"Just tell me Toue isn't playing with your head!" Koujaku said.  "No!" Aoba said.  They heard some footsteps along with shouting coming from the guards

" they're in here!"

" keypad isn't working sir!"

The guards seemed to be having some trouble with getting inside..  Noiz was hacking the door and keeping it shut. 

" tear it up damn it!"

"I can hold them back a little." Noiz said.  "You guys need to find a way out of here!" Aoba said.

Koujaku stepped in front of him with the sword.  "Aoba, just make sure you come back, alright? Go handle your business, and bring Kyouka back." Koujaku said. 

"We've got this! You go ahead and take care of what you need to, Aoba!" Clear said.  "Yeah, we'll take care of the light work." Noiz said fixing his metal gloves. 

"Thanks you guys."  Aoba said

Then the guards kicked the door open. "GO!!" Koujaku shouted.  Aoba grabbed his bag and Ren and ran out the back entrance after mink

The guards ran in as aoba exited and started shooting, noiz ducked and hid behind one of the servers however clear and Kojaku ran in full speed " dumbasses running into a hailstorm of bullets" he mumbled

Kojaku ducked when one of the guards attacked him, and swung his shielded sword and hit him, then another who tried to be sneaky

" bring it! Is that all you've got!? Your not gonna stop aoba damn it!"

Clear dodged every attack another tried to make before punching him and sending him flying

One guard shoots at him, but he dodged and punched him

Noiz was hacking until one guard popped out to attack,but Noiz was quicker and punch the guard to the ground, next to one of the bots that was lying on its side

Which gave him an idea

"These losers just keep on coming at us" Kojaku complained

"hey!" Noiz called out gaining they're attention and saw he'd hacked into one of the bots, it's eyes glowing greeen and popped out its mini guns and shooting at the guards who ducked out of the way

" he's hacked into a dog!"

" just shoot it!"

They started shooting at the hacked boy but it avoided they're shots, then rammed into them

Mink was running through the halls towards the stairs, and aoba eventually caught up with Mink.  "Hey Mink!!" Aoba shouted. "It's this way!" Mink said. 

The two then ran up some stairs and made it to a certain floor through the open doors

And a certain someone stood in, Toue....
along with the person they were searching for, but this time she was in a wedding dress

He had his back to the two, Mink was then beside us, Once his eyes were on the man in front of us, he glared. 

"I've been waiting for you, Aoba. It was nice of you to say goodbye to your friend before her wedding" he glared at the old man

" Kyouka!" He noticed kyouka's eyes, she was brainwashed, just like mizuki and like Noiz was ' he's brainwashed her....' he felt the anger grow

Toue then noticed the tall man next to him "And who the hell are you?" he asked, looking at mink and adjusting his monocle

Mink reached his hand in his coat and pulled out a crystal of some kind, and a ring, a woman's wedding ring

  He showed Toue the crystal. Toue chuckled. "I'm kidding of course. How could I not remember you? Your the girls father" he said. "All your people ever had to do was coroporate with me and teach my scientists about your secret ceremonies. The whole thing was such an incredible waste, you know? A little cooperation could've saved a lot of lives, and marrying that woman was the biggest mistake." Toue said

"Funny you should mention that." Mink said. Aoba looked over at him. 

Toue tapped his walking stick on the ground. "Wait right there. You're expecting to kill me, and then die afterwards, yes?" Toue asked. 

"Listen, I'm telling you you can't do that." Toue said. "Why don't you just stay there?" 

Mink's eyes were wide and his breathing was weird. 

"Too bad for you, I'm afraid. Aoba and I actually have the same vocal-mind control power. Of course, I needed a little technological booster in my case." Toue said.

Aoba looked at Mink.  Mink was struggling and then he fell to his hands and knees. Aoba went down and tried to help him.  "I'm afraid I've already won this game, gentlemen." Toue said. 

Aoba was trying to help Mink get his consciousness back. "I don't think so, you can't even kill yourself. Of course killing me is out of the question." Toue said. 

"Your alive, yet dead." Toue said. "Come on!" Aoba said.

Mink was still struggling  "You just have to keep aside yourself right now, your impotence is delicious!" Toue said, chuckling.  "Mink!" Aoba called. Mink groaned in pain and still kept his head down

Then all of a side they heard something unusual. 

Laughing. 

Mink laughing? 

Mink rose his head, chuckling. "That's a pretty neat trick." he said.  "Mink?" Aoba asked, Confused

  "I don't understand this, it was supposed to work." Toue said. Disbelief was written all over his face. 

"Oh it worked, all right. You said the right thing, and I did what you said. Everything got dark, and I felt the despair anyone would when their body doesn't work. I really hope you get to feel it." Mink said, getting up on his feet. Aoba stood up as well

"Jackass! Since we're talking about impotence, someone already sticked a claim in my brain." Mink said. 

"What did you tell him?" Toue asked Aoba.  Aoba was surprised.  "I'm guessing my little friend here don't even remember what he said. I should let you figure it out yourself. They're things that a selfish bastard like you would never say and of course it just helps that his power is a hell of a lot stronger than yours!" Mink said. 

Toue huffed. "Alright then."

"You wanna know what this little friend of mine told me, Cyclops?" Mink said. "He told me to survive...and for my daughter." he said

"Hey, Mink. Don't die. Just live. You're alive. Cherish it. besides you still have your daughter...."

"His words had purity, elequence, and they sure meant a lot more to me than yours. He's not like you." Mink said. " his power...." he paused.  "Are genuine..." he said. 

"And by the way..." Mink said. He the reached for his gun. "It's time to DIE!!" Mink shouted, and aimed his gun at Toue " give me back my daughter!"

"Hold it, Mink!!" Aoba shouted.

Mink began shooting at Toue, but they just went through him, He along with Kyouka turned into static and faded away. 

It was a hologram

....Mink stopped shooting.  "I know this is probably bad form and all but I wasn't ready to die just yet, alright? You're gonna have to try a little harder big man!" Toue said over an intercom. 

Mink took a step away from Aoba. "It's time for you two to go." Mink said.  "Now wait!" Aoba was cut off. "Dammit, just leave!!....get my daughter back!" Mink shouted. 

The first time he's ever raised his voice at Aoba.  "I'm sorry, Aoba. I shouldn't have involved you or Kyouka in this." Mink said, then handed him her phone

"Really." Aoba said he then ran away

"Stop, Mink!" Aoba shouted. 

Mink didn't listen. He just continued running and the door closed.

Just then his bag moved

"Ren!" he said. Oh yeah, might as well check up on him and his condition.  He unzipped his bag, expecting to see his little ball of fluff in his bag. 

But... 

The only thing that could see was a furious, growling animal. 

Aoba then reached out to him, but Ren ended up biting his finger. 

"Dammit. What did you do to me? I'm seeing things. What are they?"  He then looked down at Ren " ren come on."