GC Tea House

[Ironwatsas]

"Oh... the crate? Alright, I'll destroy it. Anything to please the ladies... hehehe... eh" Steve replied as he served up tea to Naomi and Miharu. Immedietly afterwards, he left the Teahouse and made his way in the direction of the armory.

Naomi sipped her tea and changed the holovision channel, apparently showing some kind of obituary to the certian Political Satirist that met an unfortunate end at the hands of Lady Kurisho and Watsas. She overheard Miharu and Keiko noting that Naomi may know more about the incedent with the poor farmer on the Holovision.

"No, I don't know anything about it, Miharu. But if someone in Kusari is paranoid about war machines falling from the sky crushing their livelyhoods, it's Watsas' fault. That's a given." She shrugged.

Naomi then noticed Kurisho, apparently not feeling well. Probably, Kurisho had the same bug that Naomi had cought days prior. "Lady Kurisho, how are you feeling? That bug still going around?"

***

Meanwhile...

Steve made his way to one of the storage rooms in the residential sector to dispose of the moldy old crate which had raised Miharu and Shikyo's concerns. However, 'Dispose' for Steve usually meant with napalm or explosives, and if there was one thing he loved next to women, it was blowing things up. He had armed himself accordingly, with a Consortium πrifle and high-pressure flamethrower, and tapped in the access code to the storage room, and walked inside.

The box was sitting by itself, in the center of the room, directly under a cieling lamp, in an overly dramatic 'creepy' fasion. Steve looked around the room with his helmet sensors and detected nothing about to leap out at him, so he walked over to the box and looked it over. The box itself was a simple wooden crate, covered with mold and presumably emmitting a miasma of stench which Steve could not detect through his mask.

"Good... god!" Steve muttered as he stared at the box. However, as he stood there, a sense of morbid curiousity took over.

"What the hell is in here!?"

Steve, throwing caution to the wind, walked up to the box and proceeded to pry it open with a crowbar...

***

His screams, followed by a hailstorm of gunshots, explosions, and thumping and banging could be heard clear back in the tea house. Apparently causing Naomi to shrug in discontent.

"He can't even get rid of a BOX properly..." Naomi sighed, listening to the racket proceed. "If we go and help him, he won't learn a lesson from all of this."

She turned the volume of the holovision up, attempting to drown out Steve. However, after a few minuites, the screaming and shooting suddenly and abruptly stopped.

"Kurisho... what was in that box exactly?" Naomi asked, now concerned that something was awry...

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All that begins must end.