--Monday, August 10, 2172 (-14 hours time difference)

[We're moving Sage, and the binoculars are still there…]

While Nemuri and Shino passed the binoculars between each other to look at the gigantic ants, Kai communicated with his trusty assistant, somewhat shocked. The beautiful fairy brought a hand to her chin and replied while reflecting deeply.

[It's as we estimated, master. The stronger you become, the less you need the pacts to achieve the effects, so they begin to 'become more 'flexible.' The original pact stated that you couldn't move from the 'place' where Eagle Sight was conjured, so possibly now 'place' is something much broader. It could be that the 'place' is the branch, or the tree, or even the entire forest. We need to do tests to determine it, master.]

[These binoculars are incredible, Kai. I can see everything from any angle with perfect clarity, and I can even zoom in to look at details. Even with their limitations, these things would be incredibly useful for emergency rescues.] Shino commented with a tone tinged with a hint of longing through telepathy. Kai replied with a calm voice.

[I'm still working on allowing you to use my cards, but I haven't had any luck yet.]

[I was just saying it for the sake of saying it, don't take it so seriously. With Tomoko's Search and my telepathy we manage quite well. We're now several times more effective at rescues than before.] Shino quickly replied with a grateful and slightly guilty smile while he handed the binoculars to Nemuri.

For her part, Nemuri, seeing that the mood had dampened, quickly asked through the mental connection in a cheerful tone.

[What could those ants be carrying?]

[It seems to be a coca paste base, but I'm not sure…] Kai commented, while studying with his [En] the containers that the ants were nimbly carrying. Nemuri focused on the containers and could see inside them squares of a strange paste wrapped in aluminum foil and tape.

[Is that coca paste? I've never seen it before…]

[I want to see, I've only seen it in photos.] Shino commented with a smile while extending her hand to take the binoculars, internally feeling grateful to Nemuri for saving the atmosphere.

[These binoculars are really incredible; this is basically X-ray vision…] Upon seeing the strange paste, Shino couldn't help but comment in surprise. Nemuri soon added, feeling proud of how amazing her man was.

[I doubt very much that X-ray vision allows you to see colors and details so clearly.]

[Can you see beneath clothing…?]

Shino asked with a mischievous smile and quickly turned to look at Kai, but at that moment, a sword appeared in Kai's hand and the binoculars vanished. Seeing Shino's surprised expression, Kai couldn't help but comment in a playful tone.

[Have you seen me enough? What a pervert.]

[Pervert~]

Nemuri added salt to the wound in a playful tone while slipping one of her hands under Kai's shirt. Shino, recovering from the surprise, snorted in annoyance and quickly took Kai's hand to put it inside her bra, at which point she lifted her chin arrogantly and sent a telepathic message.

[The biggest pervert for my man, so what?!]

Kai squeezed Shino's slightly hardened nipple and commented amused while conjuring the Eagle Sight card again, although this time he conjured three, wanting to do a test.

[Let's get serious, you pair of perverts; we have to figure out what's going on with those ants.]

[By the way, are we going to do something about that 'coca paste'? We are professional heroes after all…]

Nemuri commented in a serious tone while at the same time, with all the naturalness in the world, she took her beloved's recently freed hand and put it in her own bra like a jealous girl. Seeing his perverted girlfriend without a single trace of the professional hero image, Kai squeezed the playful nipple and replied while rolling his eyes.

[You're professional heroes in Japan; this isn't your problem. Let the locals handle it. Our business is those ants.]

[That's true…]

Shino commented with a pout while looking at Nemuri's playful smile as she refused to release Kai's hand. Seeing that his beautiful girlfriends were about to start another 'fight,' Kai quickly announced in rapid succession to activate the cards in his free hand.

“[Eagle Sight] On!” “[Eagle Sight] On!” “[Eagle Sight] On!”

Quickly, the cards transformed into golden binoculars with lenses of light, and each one took one to observe the ants and the men who were leading them. At that moment, Nemuri commented, somewhat surprised.

[You really can see beneath clothes.]

[Stop looking at other men.] Kai spanked Nemuri and scolded her through a telepathic message. Nemuri stuck her tongue out playfully and commented through telepathy while clinging to Kai.

[Those ugly guys are millions of light years away from my sexy Kai. I just looked under their shirts out of curiosity~]

[Who can compare to our man~?] Shino quickly clung to Kai and asked playfully, to which Nemuri quickly replied, amused.

[Nobody!]

The pair of beauties laughed in unison, also making Kai laugh, who kissed them passionately for a few moments before focusing on the ants again.

Visibly satisfied, Shino and Nemuri let their heads drop onto their beloved while they lazily looked through the binoculars with beautiful, warm smiles on their faces.

…

“Mn?” After a few moments, Nemuri let out a sound of confusion, which led Kai to ask curiously.

[Is something wrong?] 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

[I'm not sure, but the eyebrows and reptile eyes of one of those men remind me of someone.] ⁣Nemuri commented, somewhat unsure, at which point Shino commented with realization.

[You're right, he looks a lot like the woman from the bathroom…]

[The woman from the bathroom?]

Kai asked curiously, since he didn't have strange fetishes that would make him pay attention to what happened in bathrooms. Shino and Nemuri soon explained what had happened, which led Kai to comment somewhat helplessly.

[So in your mouths I became a gigolo?]

[Not just a gigolo, but one delicious enough that these beauties pay to share him~] Nemuri commented in a flirty tone, and Shino soon added with a similar tone.

[Aren't you interested in living off this pair of beauties? We're very rich, and we like to share~]

[Now we're imitating the light woman?] Kai rolled his eyes and looked at Shino, who laughed playfully and then commented, changing the subject.

[That man might be her son; he's quite young, and that woman was already up there in years.]

[I'll keep it in mind.] Kai commented casually, then focused on the ants.

…

After some time, the ant men met with the ones from the restaurant, and after talking for a few moments, they exchanged suitcases full of dollars for the cargo on the ants, which placed them on the ground. Soon, the restaurant men lifted the containers, revealing super-strength quirks, then sped away. Meanwhile, the other two climbed onto the ants to return.

[It seems they don't trust each other…]

Watching how the two groups took random turns through the forest to confuse any pursuers, Shino commented while caressing Kai's leg, since they were all sitting on the branch. Kai nodded before commenting as the binoculars on everyone disappeared because the time had run out.

[Let's follow them; they're finally heading to the tree where they appeared from.]

[Are we going to use another card?] Nemuri asked excitedly, which led Kai to comment casually.

[Well, it doesn't hurt to make sure. Hold onto me; we have to be close for the card to work properly.]

Nemuri's and Shino's eyes lit up, and they soon clung tightly to their beloved, as if they wanted to fuse with him. For his part, Kai conjured a card with the image of a black cloak in the center and announced loudly in the middle of the forest.

“[Shadow Cloak] on!”

With the announcement, the card became a stream of light that wrapped around them and soon transformed into a completely black cloak that made them disappear. While Shino and Nemuri looked curiously through the cloak, which was transparent from the inside, Kai took advantage of the mental connection created by Shino to explain seriously while jumping to land on another tree.

[This cloak makes us completely invisible and imperceptible to anyone as long as they don't suspect there's someone invisible. If we happen to arouse any suspicion about our presence, the cloak will be deactivated by force, so avoid making sounds or doing anything that could reveal us.]

[So as long as we stay quiet, nobody is going to be able to see us?] Nemuri, clinging to her beloved, couldn't help but ask seriously. Kai nodded calmly while moving between trees without making a single sound.

[Exactly.]

[I see...]

Nemuri commented in a serious tone and then looked at Shino on the other side, who looked back at her with a playful and complicit gleam in her eyes. Shino and Nemuri nodded to each other in tacit understanding and then hugged Kai tightly in a comfortable position so he could carry them, not wanting to bother him during something important.

…

After a few moments, Kai landed right in the middle of the ants without making a single sound, just about 20 meters from the tree where they had first appeared. At that moment, Shino and Nemuri couldn't help but look with disgust at the enormous ants, and Shino soon sent a telepathic message with visible distaste.

[They're uglier in person, although the spiders were worse…]

[Just looking at them makes my skin itch…] Nemuri added, equally disgusted, at which point Kai commented seriously.

[We're going to follow them to the tree, and anything could happen. If we lose the cloak, I'll attack everything around, so stay alert.]

[[Understood!]]

Nemuri and Shino replied in unison, serious and focused, exposing their sharpness as professional heroes with more than a decade of experience. After circling it several times, the ants arrived in front of the enormous tree, definitely one of the thickest in the world, measuring at least 15 meters in diameter.

At that moment, the men got off the ants, and after looking around for a few minutes, approached a space left by two roots protruding from the colossal tree. Soon, the ants and Kai followed the men, entering into the dark space. After walking for several minutes in the darkness, where Kai only guided himself with his Haki, 'voices' began to appear in the distance, and not much later, rays of light could be seen at the end.

Finally, Kai and the girls came out of the tree to find themselves in the middle of a reinforced concrete facility with dozens of armed men standing guard. Seeing that the cloak was still active, Kai moved away a bit to look at the tree behind him, seeing an 'entrance' exactly the same as the one outside.

[All of this couldn't possibly fit inside the tree no matter how big it is… Are we in a place like the spiders' island?] Shino couldn't help but ask in a serious tone while looking at the enormous facility beneath the cloak of shadows. Kai replied seriously while following the men who passed through several checkpoints after handing over suitcases full of dollars.

[Most certainly…]

[So that strange place wasn't unique…] Nemuri—who had only seen the spider island through videos—couldn't help but comment solemnly while looking at the heavily armed people at the place.

After passing through several security checkpoints and being inspected by several people who seemed to have clairvoyance-type quirks, the pair of men finally arrived at a long hallway. Slipping through without attracting attention, Kai finally reached the end of the hallway and crossed through a pair of enormous metal doors. At that instant, Shino commented in a tone full of incredulity.

[The statues definitely weren't a coincidence…]

[So it seems…] Kai commented while looking, full of incredulity, at the scene before them.

On the other side of the door was what appeared to be an ancient city full of destroyed stepped pyramids of various sizes alongside modern concrete structures. Throughout the place, enormous ants could be seen carrying containers from one side to another while people ran around everywhere. In the place, under a warm summer sun, large fields of a strange plant with bluish and reddish leaves could be seen, which were being uprooted by people and loaded onto ants.

Just like on the spider island, Kai could identify the central pyramid with the strange sphere in the center, which was heavily guarded by people armed with firearms and quirks. Although this pyramid was smaller and in worse condition. Additionally, the sphere also seemed quite a bit simpler and was much smaller.

Curious, Kai jumped to land on the roof of the structure he had been in, managing to see it completely. It was a reinforced concrete structure built around a colossal tree, an exact copy of the one he saw when he entered.

[This world is full of strange things…] Nemuri couldn't help but comment, full of incredulity, at which point Kai added with a predatory smile.

[Indeed, the world is full of marvelous treasures…]

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