Darling in the Franx: Alternate Core

Chapter 10: Relaxing, re-tinkering, and renegotiating...

Chapter 10! We officially hit the two digit threshold! Even so, this one will be focused on the aftermath of the last operation and it will mark the start of new seeds of friendship between unlikely folks.

On with the show!

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1 Day after the rescue, before Titus and Pari awakened...

Ichigo had questions, lots of them since a long time and she was going to get some answers this time.

After the battle against Wolfblade, she and Goro passed out due to exhaustion and their injuries sustained, which fortunately weren't lethal. Both of them woke up the next morning and were soon discharged from the infirmary. The first thing they were going to do however was talk with Raven and, if possible, Orion about what just happened.

Wolfblade: - Your people come here, towards the territory we call home, for the sake of exterminating us! Why shouldn't we fight back?!-

Wolfblade: - Do you really trust that blindly to your masters you don't question what happened between them and us? -

Wolfblade: - Your people accuse us of mindless beasts! Yet that's all I see in your people too! -

What did that mean?! Throughout their whole lives, Ichigo was told that klaxosaurs were mindless savage beasts that wouldn't stop until humanity was wiped out, and she believed that with her heart. But this 'Wolfblade' made her seriously doubt it for the first time... after all, everyone alongside her had seen this deadly sentient leader of klaxosaurs act jolly and friendly with their sensei, something that shouldn't have been possible in the first place! And not only that, they had been told that klaxosaur packs hunt to kill no matter what, but for the whole duration of their duel not even one of the klaxosaurs of Wolfblade's pack tried to do so, not even after their leader lost to her. This just did NOT make sense! Why did those phrases made her question everything that she believed was fact already?!

Ichigo: - Dammit... I'm gonna gain a headache at this rate...

Zero Two: - Oh... like my darling does sometimes? -

Ichigo: -Kyah! Zero Two! Don't scare me like that! -

Zero Two: - Why not? Is funny when it happens! -

Ichigo: - Humpf! -

She pouted and was about to leave her when she spoke: - Also, wait... I... want to talk to you about something important... -

Now that piqued her interest: - I'm listening... -

Zero Two: - I was actually impressed with how you fought yesterday against that klaxosaur... what was his name again? -

Ichigo: - Wolfblade, I think... and thank you? -

Zero Two: - I'm being serious... I had been within many plantations before and saw many Parasites fall against foes with similar power to his... and your fight was wilder and in more disadvantage than theirs. The fact you won AND survived means something... -

Ichigo: - I'll... take that as a compliment actually... -

Both stayed silent for a little while before Ichigo decided to finally do something about their partnership: - You know, ever since sensei beat you to the ground, we haven't interacted like this. -

Zero Two: - And what about last session just 2 days earlier? -

Ichigo: - I mean you and I alone, that was with the whole squad... although let's be honest, that one was funny... -