Midnight Couple: War Between Two Worlds

The Tatsumoto's problems

Melech invites Toshio, Kyoko, Sho, Suzu to enter the meeting room. Hide and Izumi went with them. Inside they were all directly seated at a round table.

“Ok, can now tell me what happened here ?” Ask Toshio.

Melech looked at Hide, then Hide stood up and bowed to Toshio and the others. Seeing Hide looking down, Izumi immediately stood up and lowered her head together with Hide.

“I'm sorry, actually I want to ask you guys for help, but I have to be sure first with your strength. Now I believe what Melech san said. Again I beg you to forgive me.”

“It's been, now tell me everything, we don't understand what's really going on here. Why can't we go to the demon world ? and why is there such a sophisticated city and only inhabited by robots ?” Ask Toshio.

“I tell you everything.” Hide explained everything that had happened.

Hide and Izumi have been two months away from the Tatsumoto group, as Hide's father is working on a very ambitious project, creating artificial intelligence to control the entire world and control everything, such as the stock market, television broadcasts and even to regulate traffic, Hide opposes the project because it is very dangerous, he said, high risk and deplete all family-owned resources. Tatsumoto Group is engaged in technology and system development. Since the war ended, they had no rivals and their product became number one in Japan. In addition, they also make robots and androids to replace the daily human tasks that have been recognized by the world.

Two months ago, a man came to meet Hide's father, who proposed the project to Hide's father, Tatsumoto Genai. The reason the man was all for the welfare and future of humans with demons. The man will also give great rewards and power to govern the system in the world, like a god who rules everything. Because of having high ambitions, Genai was eaten by persuading the man. He immediately agreed to do so and since then he has become closed off from the world because of the focus on working on the new project. The man also brought in an artificial intelligence system, developed by the company before asking the Genai company to handle him.

The man asks Genai to use his ai and develop his. Of course Genai approves of her and proudly shows her to Hide. When he saw the two AIs brought by Genai home, Hide's hair immediately stood up and his body trembled, because he saw the two AIs were alive and had a mind of their own. They plan to make humans and demons into androids that can live eternally and do not need to have offspring. The trick is to move the human brain or demon to the body of an artificial machine. Hide tries to persuade his father to stop the project, but his father gets angry and expels him.

Since then she has been away from home and living in one of her homes in Sapporo. In the Tatsumoto family, Hide is quite influential, so many people are willing to come with him, one of which is Izumi who is also his childhood friend. Then he found the door on this mountain and set up the facility using all his money. Afterwards he goes to Kyushu and meets Kureha, his father's former son who broke away and joined the Yokomaru group. Hide's problem at that time was his lack of workers willing to work for him. Kureha helps him by introducing Hide to Melech who eventually wants to work together.

Toshio, Kyoko, Sho and Suzu could already guess who the man who offered and persuaded his father was. They become convinced when Hide gives a profile photo of the man who gave the project.

“I guessed it, the bald guy again....” Mumbled Toshio when he saw the photo.

“Uhhhh him again.when did the bald guy die.” Kyoko immediately clenched her hands in anger.

“Toshi, it seems like this is not playing, this bald guy has no ability to develop ai, there must be someone else behind him. Maybe not just people, but organizations.” Said Sho.

“True Sho san, I was curious about the ai he brought it...” Added Suzu.

“Then, Toshio san and others know this man ?” Ask Hide.

“Name Goro, one of the originators of the war at that time and made a mess of the world..” Answer Sho.

Hide was silent, he had expected something was wrong with the man before him, but he had only heard from the mouths of Toshio and the others involved in the war, that man was the originator of that terrible war.

“Then, why can't we enter the demon world ?” Ask Kyoko.

“I myself do not understand, when I found that door 2 months ago, I can still go inside and see nothing inside, there is only an arid land. After this simple facility was made in the following month, I was no longer able to enter there. Then I made sense to be able to look there and make a window next to it. I was very surprised to see there when the window was ready, there was already a big city that was very sophisticated as you saw just now.”

“Then, Goro went there after Hide san found this cave.” Suzu Mumbled.

“Means 1 month he was there, and developed the city. 100 years enough time if there is already the technology.” Added Sho.

“The point is we must be ready, at this time we do not know what is planned and who is behind this all.” Kyoko.

“Hide kun, regarding the AI you said earlier, I still do not understand why you shudder so see it ?” Ask Toshio.

Hide was silent for a moment, then Izumi held Hide's hand placed on the table. Izumi turned to Toshio.

“Yoshioka san, the AI that we met at that time is really not a technology today, they can discuss themselves and plan in front of us. They really are like humans who can laugh, cry, angry and others.”

“They ? how many are there ?” Ask Toshio again.

“There are 2 units, one male and one female. Me and Hideaki both saw them live.” Izumi replied with a trembling voice.

Toshio and the others fell silent, they could not imagine what Hide and Izumi were really telling them. They look scared and shaky as soon as they tell me about the AI. Right now, they only know that Goro is planning something that will harm the world.

“Toshio same, Kyoko the same, Sho the same, Suzu the same, we are here monitoring their movements. If they move and do something that we think is unnatural, we will immediately report them to offices in Tokyo and Kyushu.” Melech confirmed to Toshio and the others.

“Alright, at this time we can not do anything. But we will find a way to open the gate and re-enter the demon world.”

Then Toshio, Kyoko, Sho, Suzu turned to Hide and Izumi. Their faces were all serious.

“Hide kun, Izumi chan, you know where this guy is now ?” Toshio asked while holding up a photo of Goro.

“Sorry, we don't know, but I have a request for you guys, please help my papa because he keeps confining himself in his office. His men won't let me into his office.” Hide.

“Not that Hide kun...what are you hiding from us ?” Ask Sho.

Hide immediately fell silent and lowered his head. Then Izumi immediately stood up and turned to Hide with an anxious and angry face. Hide also saw Izumi's face. Then Izumi immediately lowered her head and stuck her head on the table to Toshio and the others.

“Please save Hideaki the same before it's too late. Not please Genai san, I don't care about the old man, please bring the same Hideaki to the central Tatsumoto office, he must enter the office.please, there is no more time.” Izumi pleaded while crying.

Hearing that, Toshio and the others stood up. They see each other. Then Toshio and the others approached Hide and Izumi. Sho immediately grabbed Hide's shirt. She brought her face closer to Hide's.

Hide looks at Sho's face close to his, then he sees Toshio, Kyoko and Suzu putting on angry faces behind Sho. Hide immediately sighed.

“Alright...I show you.....” Hide directly stand.

He immediately opened his blazer, opened his sweater, and opened his shirt to reveal his chest. Everyone who saw him was shocked. Hide had no heart, in his chest embedded a triangular-shaped instrument that lit and beat. It connects with all the organs in his body and regulates his blood circulation replacing the heart. Around the tool looks a lot of urate out and bulging.

Then he also rolled up his shirt and showed a long and small monitor on the bottom of his arm. Inside the monitor is a digital number like a stopwatch that counts down. The monitor now shows the number 10.

Izumi turned her head and immediately cried to see Hide's condition. He also saw Hide's face looking down. Hide looked at her and his hand immediately stroked Izumi's head with a smile. Then he faced Toshio and the others.

“As you can see, I'm not fully human, I'm half robot. I was born with a weak heart and was convicted by a doctor, unable to live beyond the age of 15. Papa then turned me into this.”

“But why do you have to go to your papa's office ?” Ask Kyoko.

Hide raised his hand and looked at the monitor which showed the number 10.

“This is the residual energy indicator for this device on my chest. To be able to survive, I have to go to papa's office once a month to increase energy and fill the energy of this tool.”

“What does the number 10 mean ?” Ask Suzu.

“That means I can live up to 10 more days, for the last two months I have never set foot in papa's office again. Actually I made this facility, in addition to researching and supervising the demon world, I also looked for a solution to my problem.”

Toshio and the others fell silent, they could not say what they saw Hide's condition. Izumi continued to lower her head while crying out. Hide hugged her. Melech lowered his head and said nothing. Toshio took his phone out of his pants pocket. Then he called Haga.

“Haga san, I want to ask, to make a copy of the body takes how long ?” Toshio turned on his speakers so that everyone could hear their conversation.

“For bodies like Mio and Ryuji, it takes 2 to 3 years, why Toshio san ?”

“Hmm time is not enough. Is there still a spare body in the fuji mountain facility ?”

“I'm sorry Toshio san, everything's ruined. What is Toshio san ?”

Then Toshio told Hide's condition to Haga on the phone. Sho helps by sending a photo of the device on Hide's chest and a monitor with a number counting down under his arm to Haga. After Haga saw the photo Sho sent and explained by Toshio, she immediately understood his condition.

“Hmm I understand, but unfortunately if making a new body takes 2 to 3 years, give me 2 days, I will try to find the solution.”

“Good Haga san, please notify us immediately..”.

“Good Toshio san, I say goodbye first....”.

The phone is also closed. Then Toshio immediately approached Hide.

“We wait 2 days, if in 2 days there is no solution, we will break through Tatsumoto headquarters, sorry we do not dare to act rashly.”

“Thank you Toshio san, I understand, broke through our family code of conduct. I have the help of Toshio san, Sho san, Kyoko san, Suzu san.” Hide looked down to thank you.

“Hei hey..if you die, who dong can be a hero in our class, if we are criminals hehe..” Knock Kyoko while smiling and winking her eyes.

“Aduh Kyoko, you are still angry about it, it is past...” Tegur Toshio.

“I'll get sucked up, than we strain on, right ga Suzu chan ?”

“That's right, but unfortunately the time and the topic is less fitting Kyoko chan....hehehe.”.

“What is not right, you just laugh Suzu chan.

Everyone finally laughed. The crying Izumi also became relieved and finally smiled. Toshio, Kyoko, Sho and Suzu intend to help Hide and Izumi, as they feel that Hide and Izumi will play an important role in their efforts to capture and stop Goro.

When they finished, they immediately exited the facility. They came straight out of the woods. Toshio directly hugs Kyoko and Sho directly hugs Suzu. They also went straight home to their homes.

The next day, before sports lessons, Kyoko gets a short message from Izumi on her phone saying that Hide and Izumi did not go to school because of a sudden affair. Kyoko tells Toshio, Sho and Suzu. Then Kyoko and Suzu dropped out of the classroom to change into clothes in the locker. Toshio and Sho immediately undressed them. The classmates were amazed to see Toshio and Sho's burly body with a dragon tattoo on his back. Both of them immediately put on their sports shirts and changed their pants. After that they immediately gathered at the sports field.

The girls begin to leave, including Kyoko and Suzu, who approach Toshio and Sho. Moments later, while they were exercising, there was a huge explosion in front of the gate. Toshio, Kyoko, Sho and Suzu immediately ran towards the gate.

At the gate were 2 large and sturdy men, bald-headed and grim-faced with no expression, dressed as thugs, entering the school grounds. Some guards stopped them. One guard came forward attacking with his staff and hit the face of one of the bald men. Her facial skin peels. Her real face looks behind peeling skin, a face made of iron and has eyes like a mini camera lens shining red. The man turned his head and looked at the guard who hit him, he flicked his hand and the guard bounced away. Toshio, Kyoko, Sho, Suzu saw her clearly.

“Robot....budget...” Toshio clenched his hand.

“Si bald moving apparently Kyoko clenched her hands.

The four of them instantly prepared to go up against the two people who came.