Extra chapter: Setting up the chessboard

Tags: No sex, no lewds, no nothing, just lore

Location: Some bar in the backstreets at Musutafu

"Well now this is a surprise" Said Adam fairly surprise at the person who had arrived at the bar, the plan wasn't suppose to happen so fast yet "But a good surprise I guess, such a hot lady as yourself always brings a smile to this man? Unless you are here to kill me, in which case not a good type of surprise"

"I am... one of the people you hired to protect you? How is this so bad for you?" She asks upset

"Well not reallyyy... But yeah yeah, I never asked you to come here and suddenly find me in this bar I was thinking that maybe you would come another day, like the day I am supposed to bring the others as well?"

"Well I am here now aren't I? I don't suppose its illegal for me to come early to work"

"Well I see... Question why were you one of the people that accepted my proposal?"

"Your work proposal? Good payment"

"Yeah but you don't need money, you graduated 5 years ago from Nemo Hero academy, first place too, Dianna also known by her hero name 'Quantum Acceleration' You do realise quantum accelerators are for computers right? Nothing about being fast as a person?"

"That's my hero name? Huh I guess I was really really young back then."

"Well what would you like me to call you?"

"Dianna."

"Hahahaha alright then!"

"Understood, so its really just the payment? You do realise we will be doing some shady stuff right? I didn't even send the invitation to you, I am not that careless, I send it to one of your peers, talking about it, Where is the person I actually tried to hire right now?"

"He went and robbed a few places before you hired him so I put him on jail, saw the work offer in his personal mail and took it"

"And I am supposed to trust you as a hero?"

"Oh that's where you misunderstood, I ain't no hero. A few years ago I realise being a hero sucks, you risk your life for people that don't appretiate it whilst villains get free over and over and over again just because you are not supposed to cause great harm to them, or god else knows what the press will do to your image, then you also have to act, dance and behave like a monkey on this morning talk shows, these interviews, these trivia questions about your favourite colour and why you should look pretty as a lady whilst being a hero, heroism is just dumb nowadays, I prefer doing hero hustling"

"As in saving people for money?"

"Not quite, I save people outside hero business because if I become a vigilante I can hurt the villains as much as I want"

"That sounds like some sadistic shit, so you go around beating the fuck out of villains till they look blue and black? Poor motherfuckers"

"Do not swear so much, and pretty much, sometimes that is necessary but I been eager to come to Japan for a while, cause I hate these little people that live in this little island"

"Oooooh so is this like a racist thing? Is that why you are on board?"

"Even though japanese is both a racial and an ethnic category in Japan, the correct term its xenophobia for these kind of cases and well not quite, I just... Dislike a lot of the things done here, I believe that your project can help them, that's why I am on board"

"Likewise my friend, well let's drink to that then!"

Meanwhile

Location: Todai-Ji temple (Still Japan)

A man was pouring some fishes at the lake their food as always on time whilst Lucius approached from behind to speak with him. "You are harder to find than I expected, when someone says a monastery you would expect a small temple near the city not an actual tourist location"

"What can I say? Since I reformed I like to go to new places, talk with people, you are looking good by the way, younger than Adam at least-"

"-Reformed? There was nothing wrong with you"

"Oop ignoring my previous comment? Alright. I like to think the opposite, all this aggressiveness, this **** you taught back at the Nemo island was so harmful, not to mention the ideas of absolute competition and wrecking down others, I heard a few of us turned villains and were stopped by heroes from Nemo, I believe this is not a good look to our academy"

"Yeah, we thought we were being effective, brutal, strong but the place is going down to hell and Adam is making something that I fear might bring the whole island's purpose down"

"You mean the new purpose, cause so far the old purpose is on play from what I can see, isn't it better to just be nice and calm"

"Regardless would you help me stop him? Without trying to you know... Kill him?"

"Yes of course, Japan is my new home, I would hate it became corrupt besides I want to see Jack again, see how my old apprentice is doing, just sent me the location where Jack lives I will drop by and say hi"

"Thanks for the help Maverick"

"Oh please I do not go by Maverick no more, such a dumb idea to change my name to that, so I did it again, name's Yoshi now"

"...Like the dinosaur from Mario?"

"... I uh- I didn't think about that, it was meant to mean something b-but... I guess I will change it again if people remember me as a dinosaur"