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"To give the people in the slums a win. Even if you don't agree, you can understand why I did it. Right?"
It's hard to say how Clover is processing what you said at first. Mostly because he's not saying nothing.
He turns to face you. His eyes are a bit watery and you can tell they're starting to turn red. "...Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Even if it was a sick thing to do, I get that it was probably the best thing that could've been done."
"Just. Please, tell me first before you do somethin' like this again. I don't wanna feel like y'all wouldn't want to listen to me no more, ya know?"
You nod. It's only fair.
"Woo. Well, hopefully we won't have any moral quandary nonsense when we head to this estate." Kiara tries to break the tension with a teasing jab at Clover. "Casey said you have some fox-headed girlfriend or something. You have a taste in animal women or somethin'?"
In the blink of an eye, Clover plants the barrel of his revolver right against Kiara's temple. "Shame I can't blow your brains out, Ms. Robota. You're making it really hard to resist the urge to."
"And I can tell you couldn't anyways since it ain't loaded anyhow." Kiara perfectly mimics the southern drawl in Clover's voice.
"Pft. Damn you." "Damn you back."
"Ah, stop it." You lightly slug the two on the shoulders. "Save your energy once we have to fight a spook or somethin'. I got a lot of ammo but I don't need you wasting it on shooting my best friends-"
"Hark!" Casey interrupts the discussion by pointing at the building the two of you are approaching. Okay, wow, that's a lot bigger than you imagined it being just from the notes Clover wrote about it. You can't see it much from how far away your group is from it but you're in the right direction.
The scenery around you suddenly shifts as you begin to approach the edge of the estate's property.
Everything you've seen of D-Corp so far has been tightly patched together and completely flooded with people but the area you find yourself in is completely devoid of anyone. You don't see a speck of human life ANYWHERE. No thugs, no starving poor people, no desperate office workers. Nothing.
The buildings that were once so plentiful are spreading out further and further away from each other until you eventually pass by the last building: An old and long since abandoned gun store. The road takes a left turn around it before abruptly ending.
One moment it was concrete, the next it ends at a loose sandy road. Sand, that's odd, you haven't seen a speck of that in D-Corp before. The rest of the road to the estate is like that. Said road is also surrounded by an old wooden fence. You peek around the last building for what seems to be blocks and all you can see past it is what appears to be an old stretch of empty desert land.
Your group hesitantly travels down the old road. The only thing you see beyond endless stretches of dark haze shrouded desert is an old Torii gate that clearly once had a steel gate to block travelers.
