It's night in the Belt Empire.
21:56
The moon shines and underneath it's light...the people, the animals thrive likewise suffer.
Parties. Orgies. Sex as well as rape. Sales. Theft. Murder. Abduction.
Slavery! At it's peak.
Meanwhile, inside a humongous store, Baki (left) and Emelia (right) run by the sides of a fast paced Cart in the middle of a large passage way.
By their left: 10 Shelves of Pea Wonder (Peanut Butter)
By their right: Refrigerators of Soft Drinks.
(Inside Baki's left ear, holds the right wire of an earpiece connected to an iPod in his left hand. Through it: music plays)
Of course, stray individuals around watch in awe.
"Isn't that?" - Woman.
"Yes, it is." - Woman II.
Baki runs two feet and jumps. Then spins to his right and lands with his ass into the Cart, facing forward.
Emelia comes behind at the same time and holds the handle.
Then blows forth.
Baki goes...
"Whoooaaaaaa!" And Emelia laughs.
They stay for a little bit and Baki looks back from his upper left at Emelia.
She looks down and smiles.
His eyes open and he sees something that melts his heart. Something so dazzling, it gets him on his knees.
He grins, faces forward and yells...
"Emelia, slow down!!!"
She looks up and forward with a...
"Mmm?"
Her eyes open on sight and they both scream.
Before them: a bakery section.
They close in.
The workers notice and scream.
All scream.
They reach, clash into and render useless.
LOL!
Before two men of authority, they stay kneeled with their heads and hands to the floor.
The men hold with a slight bend and hands a little forth, while Baki pleads...
"Please whatever the cost may be, I will pay! Just let her go!"
She brings her head up and looks to him by her left with awe then smiles.
"No sir, it is an honor!" The one before him declares.
"No it is not!" Baki declares and Emelia laughs.
On a major road, split in two, they drive. Together with other vehicles (to and fro)
By the sides: a dense forest, guarded with rails.
"Be careful next time, Emelia." Baki says while looking to her slightly by his left.
"Alright, alright, my Lord." She says while rolling her eyes and facing up.
She centers her gaze.
"Hey, don't you roll 'em on me." He demands and punches her right arm with his left knuckle.
Her shoulder joint snaps, her hand goes down and her bone shoots out.
Baki screams.
She notices and screams.
The car goes out of control.
They continue to scream while looking at each other.
The light of a trailer comes in. It honks.
They look forward and see it fast approaching.
They scream out.
It closes in.
Baki grabs the wheel with his right hand and together, they swerve to the right.
They barely evade the truck and without control once again, move towards the forest.
Another car comes in.
They look and see it's male driver with a shocked face. The driver too grows a face of shock.
They pass, cut through the rail and plunge into the forest (collapse a tree) whereas the driver, drives off like nothing happened.
Later on, a burger plate is placed with the right hand of a waiter on a table before someone and he retrieves it.
The person: Baki brings his hands toward it while the waiter humbly says with his hands held down...
"If anything else, I'll be right by ya."
Baki grabs a bite and nods. Then he goes to his left.
As he eats, Emelia watches him with a keen smile. While stirring with her left hand using a straw: juice, in a glass cup by her left.
Whereas her right cheek and chin stays above her knuckle with it's elbow up the table.
In her eyes, she sees a glorious man. A man that makes her heartbeat accelerate.
Baki comes close to its end and drops the remaining piece upon the plate.
Then sucks his thumbs (right and left) while Emelia says...
"You coulda just finished it!"
"Oh I will." He says and picks up with his right hand: the juice glass cup by his right and goes for the drinking.
He drinks halfway in a jiffy and releases air from his mouth, then says while placing it back from where he picked it...
"Not after I address your fuckery first."
"My fuckery?! Gosh, weren't you the one who broke my arm!" She asks and he looks at her.
Then replies as he brings his hands forward...
"And who is the cause?"
"So all that for just an eye roll!" - Emelia.
"You call it 'just'?!" He says while retrieving his clenched hands, close to his chest.
"You make it look like I'm the bad guy!" He adds and she replies...
"Aren't you not?"
He coughs with a chuckle while placing his hands on his thighs and Emelia laughs.
He laughs too.
"No, seriously. I had to go through a lot cosa that!" Baki says and makes a flashback to him bowing his head continuously with his knees and hands on the ground before two male Operators who also stay in the same posture.
By his right side, she stands tall with the wrecked behind.
"Go through what!" She asks and the flashback cuts.
"It's you always giving a fuck when the people worship. For once, enjoy it!" She demands and he calls...
"Emelia!"
"What!" - Emelia.
"Don't be like that." He says in a soft tone.
"I'm just saying." - Emelia.
"Don't say again." He demands.
She becomes shocked.
Then after, lets out a grin and glows up her eyes.
Instantly, Baki becomes overwhelmed a pressure.
"This reiatsu. (spiritual pressure.) Take it easy!" He request and gets pinned closest to his unfinished meal.
"Still wanna utter?"
"Lol. Let's waste our time." He says before and after struggle sounds.
She stares at him with a straight face and smiles.
She releases him and he goes back with a sound of relief.
"Serves you right." She says with a grin and chuckles.
"Lmao. I'ma get you." He replies with a grin while bringing his face down in her direction.
"Till then." She says and he chuckles.
They drive across a wide road, split in two towards a tunnel.
By the left: a guard rail which protects against the Ocean.
As they go, some waves splash by the wall.
"Hmm, never seen here before." Baki says while holding a hook by his upper right.
"Lol. Have you been all over the Empire before to know that?" She asks while looking at him and faces forward.
"Yes." He replies and she looks to him with a shocked face.
"Been a lot, I drew a map." Baki declares and puts his left hand by his right while letting go of the hook.
Emelia blinks.
"Watch the road." He says and she comes to and faces forward with a...
"Oh."
He pulls out a rolled map and unfolds it.
On it: The Empire.
"Whoa!" - Emelia.
"I've been here for a long time and yet I haven't known everywhere." - Emelia.
A LONG TIME, SHE MEANS HER WHOLE LIFE: 25 YEARS
"Just the places the wind takes you?" Baki asks and looks at her with a smile.
"Just the places the wind takes me." Emelia declares, comes to her senses and says while looking at him and back at the front...
"Wait, are you mocking me!"
They enter the tunnel.
While going, Baki puts his map back where he pulled it.
Emelia blows.
On the way, they pass multiple lights.
"Strange, isn't it?" - Emelia.
"I know." - Baki.
"No car in sight." - Emelia.
They ride for a little longer and find themselves in a dense forest which they don't notice at first.
"Ahem, is Baki gonna die?" - Mecca.
"Dumbass." - Clifford.
"Thank Baki, I didn't answer." - Ferdinand.
They notice and the car stops.
"When did we leave the tunnel?" Emelia asks while they both look around.
"I don't know. But something is definitely wrong." He declares.
"I know." She concurs.
"Where is this place?" - Mecca.
"Apparently one of those places you get to when the World or the Ones above wanna play." - Ferdinand.
"Lol." - Askila.
They open the doors and get out of the car.
The wind blows and they look up.
They see the leaves shake and Emelia utters...
"This is strange."
"Yeah." - Baki.
TO BE CONTINUED.