*Kala POV*
Kala and her cellmate finally got through the prison bars after a couple days of her biting through them every night. Which she wasn't sure why she did it every night considering that this city never slept.
Kala jumped out and as soon as she did alarms started blaring. Luckily for her and her cellmate, this was the perfect day for Kala to have escaped, as it was raining.
As she and her roommate ran through the streets of this lavished city Kala prepared something as she dragged a huge orb of water alongside them.
After a couple of minutes of them having to dodge police cars and gunshots, the gunshots mostly being stopped by the water Kala was building up she finally said an incantation, 'The Radiant Seas Protector, the 2nd Mothers Colossal Pet, Loved and Lavished Throughout, Bless Thine Place with a Neverending Holy Rain.'
As she finished the incantation the huge, now nearly city blocked size orb of rainwater spiraled upwards into the air, then swirled behind Kala and her cellmate and pushed them up into the sky. This swirling vortex then blew up into an ethereal sight to behold. As if it couldn't get more out of this world than that, the water droplets suddenly spiraled again and took the form of a huge humpback whale with 4 fins instead of 2, and it was the same for its flukes. The giant whale swam through the airs, as the dark thundering rain slowly turned into a bright beautiful sunshine that shined through the whale into majestical trails of light, dozens of raindrops and rainbows now visible in the sky. The sight was so exotic that everyone stopped their gambling and watched as the whale flew upwards and away.
Kala and her cellmate landed in the whale's fake blowhole, which instead served as a seat. Kala yawned and slowly curled up like a baby in the whale's blowhole and fell asleep as her cellmate looked all around them in awe.
*Hirune POV*
Mr. Comedian quickly grabbed Hirune by the waist as she looked at him with wide eyes, then drew her over his shoulder potato sack style. Right after doing this, he looked around at a nearby rooftop and snapped as a bunch of shadowy hands wrapped around them and crushed them into a small back then took them on top of said rooftop and returned them back to normal.
He then put her down and took some quick little steps while looking at her. Hirune shook her head, trying to ignore how startled she got and started running with him.
They ran from rooftop to rooftop, Hirune often yanking Mr. Comedian alongside her into Devour Distance because his traversal ability took too long.
She couldn't help but wonder why the police was after both of them. Sure, for her it made sense since she was going to fake her identity, but why Mr. Comedian? She took a deep breath as she yanked Mr. Comedian into Devour Distance again. Eventually hiding in a manhole as rain started to fall.
Unluckily for them, Hirune had too much momentum and they landed in the dirty sewer water. Hirune wanted to throw up from how much it reeked down there and from how much she messed it up. Mr. Comedian seemed unfazed though as he looked around and studied their surroundings. Hirune took a look at him and started to study their surroundings too, trying to ignore the pungent reeking smell.
"So, Mr. Comedian..." Hirune took a pause trying to figure out how to word what she was about to say in a kind manner then with a tut said, "Why are you also a wanted criminal?"
Mr. Comedian laughed and in a slow tone said, "Well, it's not like I'm the leader of the most notorious organization here." He said as he made a poppy come out of his wrist and gently put it in Hirune's hair. "Our cause is a good one thought, as were trying to figure out how to stop the Odds Core."
He then took a deep breath and said while sitting down on a chair made of shadow hands that suddenly showed up out of the sewer water, then he made another show up that scooted into Hirune's knees, making her sit.
"You see, this place isn't any normal place. This place is actually a Territorial Core. Which yes, Cores are usually what hold people's powers in that when broken allow them to use them. Before you ask too, yes you can only break your core if you've consumed an artifact, so normal people can't break them.
"Territorial Cores are cores that either naturally appeared and became one with the place around it, or that appeared once an artifact was broken and became one with the place around it. Either way, the Cores are bound to either ruin or temporarily better, then ruin a place. This is why people aware of them try to destroy them in order to make the place return to how it used to be. After all, that's the only way to make the place grow as a whole. The whole reason for my organization's existence is to destroy these Territorial Cores and return the places destroyed or hurt by them back to normal for the betterment of society. That's why no sect of the Verachian Syndicate has had to deal with Territorial Cores, so you can thank me and my organization for lending you all a hand."
Hirune stared at him for a moment and nodded, understanding what he meant. These Territorial Cores did seem like a huge problem, after all that could interfere with her goals at some point. So, it'd be better to work along out of her own goals instead of just Mr. Comedians goal. Which sure she was willingly helping as soon as she thought he was a good guy, but now she for certain he was good due to all of this info he just willingly told her.
She sat there for a moment thinking, she could tell Ellen once she went back, but if Ellen knew she'd ask to meet Mr. Comedian, which considering how awfully sketchy he seems at a first glance would probably end like Sangra.
'Well, actually, she had previous beef with Sangra so maybe not. But I still doubt she'd trust him.' Hirune shook her head and sighed. She looked at Mr. Comedian and asked, "So, you have an organization here, right?" She asked longingly, if he did then maybe she wouldn't have to wait for long to do something she's been meaning to do.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Mr. Comedian said standing up from his handy makeshift seat, offering a hand to Hirune for her to stand up too.
"Do you have any members here in Rico?" She asked, a slight spark of hope in her eyes as she took his hand and stood up.
"I have 3 here right now I'm pretty sure. I must ask again though, why do you ask?" Mr. Comedian said as he dismissed his seats.
"I was wondering if you could have any of them search for my friend. Her name is Kala, she has ocean blue hair, tangerine orange eyes, and a shark tail." She said while looking at him as they walked down the mucky sewer.
"It's your friend? Then I'll gladly have one of them search for her. After all your helping me with something way bigger than that. Something that saves many lives in a way. It'd only be fair if I compensated you with any delights, or assistance you require." Mr. Comedian said with a friendly smile.
He made a shadow hand appear in front of him, then a mirror rose out of the shadow hand. With a simple coin flip into the mirror a rainbow appeared over it and showed someone on the other side of the glass. "Look for a girl with ocean blue hair, tangerine orange eyes and a shark tail, will you?" He said to the light blonde girl on the other side with lime green eyes in a more serious and commanding tone.
'That's hot...' Hirune thought as she trailed off.
The girl glanced to her left, then looked back at the glass and said, "Sure thing boss. Just give it some time."