A Field Of Clovers

Everyone thinks things sometimes and then wonders “Where’d that come from?”

"Ms. Kurashiki… Never told me much about the Nonary Game 45 years ago. I’m afraid I don’t know what happened to your brother."

Luna smiled weakly. She was created for the express purpose of facilitating the completion of the Ambidex Edition of the Nonary Game, and so the previous Nonary Game was never meant to be of much concern to her. But seeing Clover so choked up, worried about her brother…

"But that doesn’t mean I can’t find out what happened to him. It might take a while, but I promise you, I… I’ll find out."

"Thanks, Luna. It.. It really means a lot to me."

Clover had a feeling she knew the answer Luna was going to find, but... she just had to be sure. Since the 3rd nonary game had started, she had been trying to send messages to her brother. None of them went though. A chill went down her spine just thinking about what could have happened to him.

"I’m being attacked!"

"You didn’t file your paperwork last night."

"Think romantical thoughts."

"I shouldn’t have trusted you."

"Just leave her alone!"

"Get out of here. You’re ruining everything!"

"How can I do this? How could I be so stupid?"

"Hey, where are you going?"

         He intently listened, azure hues gazing down at the shorter girl, no emotion passing on his features. However, despite the façade he wished to keep, his lips slightly pursed upon hearing mention of Light, of the time he had stood by his side in hopes to save his sister nine years back. There was much he owed the blind man, too much for one who had lived solely for himself and his sister from the youngest age, much more than he would have wished to ever owe anyone during whatever little time may have remained of his life. If it had been a possibility, he would have wished to spare Light and his sister of this fate. However, he had had but a sole goal: making certain his sister survived, the thought and feelings toward innocents may have died (and had died in several timelines) being irrelevant to his duty. 

Thank you? Of all the words Clover had expected to hear from him "thank you" was at the bottom of the list. She had only known him when his language was a bit... brisk, and thus was very surprised to hear him thank her. What he was saying made perfect sense, without her and Light, his sister would still be dead. 

"You're... welcome?" The words came out of her mouth slowly at no more than a squeak. She knew he wasn't lying, she had known exactly what he was going to say when she asked those questions. They were questions she had thought over many, many times in her own head and had come up with answers for. The reasoning that she had come up with was a similar but simpler answer. He just wanted to save his sister. But there had to be something more to this...

"Good," Alice answered with a smile. "And as for extra information… The company we’re going to be infiltrating is an engineering firm. They make communications devices. We’ll be working in a pretty non-technical area, though, so don’t worry about that. Just getting coffee for people. It’ll give us a better run of the place if we’re not doing any real work."

She shrugged. It wouldn’t be too hard for Alice to blend in, but Clover didn’t have nearly as much training in technology, as far as she knew. And the technology wasn’t what was suspicious to the higher-ups. It was the workers.

Clover stood up from where she had been sitting and pulled her car keys from her pocket. 

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