Systematic Hunter - Chapter 5.2 (Patreon)

In a way, it was kind of novel for Emerald. Watching as the boy went about dragging a massive turkey…or chicken? From his fridge, cut off a bunch of pieces, put it on a plate…microwaved it in a microwave that was literally installed within his wall.

And then made two massive sandwiches on chicken for them both. Before pulling out a blender from a cupboard and she watched as he mixed some pretty high quality milk into it with some form of powder he called 'protein powder'.

And blended it into a pair of vanilla milk shakes for them. That was what the 'poison' question was apparently what flavour she'd prefer. She just went with vanilla because he was.

And then he sat them down in front of her, pulled up a stool and sat opposite of her and began digging into his own sandwich.

Hesitantly, she reached for her own, taking an almost nervous bite out of it. It was good. that was her immediate thought.

The chicken meat was juicy and tender, the bread was soft and easily bit up between her teeth.

She swallowed, taking in the small bite she'd taken out of it, before looking over at Daiki to find half of his already gone, he was practically shoving it inside his mouth with each massive bite.

…Was it weird she thought even his eating was stupidly confident?

"So…" Emerald decided to broach the one subject he'd mainly alluded to for her, but hadn't expanded on, "What exactly…are your plans? And how could I help you with them?"

She would have to prove her worth.

Daiki paused mid-bite, cheeks bulging with the amount in his mouth, before chewing a bit and swallowing. Before downing half of his protein shake in one big gulp, "Ah, that was great," he burped, before smirking at her, "Wanting to get straight down to business huh? Emerald, babe, you need to relax a bit. Chill out a little, get comfortable before diving right into it all."

"I'd love to, but the whole thing about me being here is me being part of your plans," Emerald shrugged, relaxing a tiny little bit, his demeanor eased the tension from her shoulders, "I need to make sure I can do what you want before I'm sure of my position anywhere."

Daiki blinked, before rolling his eyes and smiling, "Well I can get that at least," he replied, "Though I'm pretty sure you can already do everything I need, but even if you couldn't, I'm not gonna toss you aside even if you suddenly lost your semblance or something."

"Because you want to dress me up as a maid and bed me?" Emerald raised an eyebrow at him, almost challengingly.

He hadn't tried to hide the fact he was attracted to her at all.

'Like a precious gem.'

His voice from earlier echoed in her head and Emerald did her best to ignore the fluttery butterflies it brought to her stomach.

"Well yeah, you're beautiful," Daiki shrugged unrepentantly, "But also, because I'm greedy as fuck and refuse to give anything I want to anyone else."

Despite herself, Emerald found her cheeks heating up at the blunt statement.

"Besides, you can do it all anyway," he continued with a grin, "Well, most of it at least. Does your semblance work on grimm?"

She nodded, "Yeah, it does," Emerald replied, "It's not quite as effective on them because they can sense our emotions and all that, but it still works on them."

"Then you're absolutely perf-" he began to say, before pausing, "Well I would call you perfect, but I honestly hate the idea of perfection, so I'll just settle for saying you're absolutely amazing and the best fit I could ask for."

Her cheeks felt like they were blazing as she took in his words. She didn't really get his dislike of perfection, but she didn't really mind either way right now.

"But anyway I've got only a few real goals right now, though they're pretty big," he continued on, leaning his head forward and resting it atop his palm, staring directly into he eyes, "I'm going to become super rich in the future, probably second only to the Schnee. The specifics for that aren't really important and explaining how is kind of complicated. But since you'll basically be my maid and assistant, it needs to be you."

"Me? Why?" Emerald found herself leaning forward, a smile involuntarily tugging at her lips.

"Well, eye candy for one," Daiki winked at her, and she found herself swallowing, he really was quite good looking, "But with your speed, aura already unlocked, semblance and with how sly you are, and the life you've lived, you've got everything you need to keep an eye out for the wrong sort."

Emerald found herself nodding, "Right…yeah," she said in return, "I can do that."

"Secondly, there's someone I want to kill," Daiki's gaze and voice turned absolutely serious almost instantly, and Emerald actually found her eyes widening in shock at the sudden turn, he wasn't so naive after all like she thought not long ago, huh? "In a straight up fight, it'll be a little while before I can beat him head on, the guy is stronger than most fully trained huntsman. But with you and your semblance, I can kill him right now if I want."

There was a lot of questions Emerald wanted to ask, but she settled for two, "Who? And why?" she asked.

…Even though she actually didn't care. She'd killed people before, and hadn't regretted it. If Daiki needed someone dead…then she would happily help him.

What did she care about some random person? When they'd obviously done something to piss of Daiki, the only one who saw anything in her. Who had a place for her by his side.

"His name is Adam Taurus, he's the new leader of the White Fang here in Vale," Daiki's face for the first time screwed up into something frightening, a deep scowl, with a murderous rage in his eyes, "That damn barn animal jumped me with his little Vale pack not long ago and overwhelmed me. Just because I'm human. He was raging about some cat girl faunus leaving him, and blamed humans and saw me as a target. Bastard slit my god damn throat and it's only luck I'm alive." he bit out with a snarl, and lifted his chin, and it was only because of his words and her immediately focusing on his neck that she saw it.

A thin, pale scar almost too pale to notice spreading from one side of his throat to the other. Her eyes widened, 'He survived that!?' she gaped.

"Killing him isn't enough though," Daiki bared his teeth almost ferally, "He humiliated me that night in front of all his little barn animal friends before he got to finishing me off." he all but snarled, lifting his head from his palm and clenching his hands into fists so tight she saw his aura spark over them to stop him from damaging himself.

"So I won't be satisfied until I humiliate him in return," the boy bit out, "I'm going to take everything he has pride in from him, I'm going to dismantle the White Fang, and I'm going to find that girl he's so obsessed over and I'm going to fuck the absolute shit out of her until she shouts from the roof top about how superior we humans are, and only when he's at rock bottom and the girl he's so in love with stolen from him and everyone of his little barn yard pack knows about it, will I kill him."

Wow…

Okay. That was…a lot. He was incredibly angry over this Adam Taurus guy. Not that she could really blame him. It didn't even seem that he was that angry about him almost being killed-

But rather, the humiliation.

…What the hell had this faunus guy done to Daiki to ignite such a rage in the boy who casually laughed off her trying to steal from him and then attacking him?

It must have been something incredibly demeaning.

She kind of didn't like that look on his face though, she liked the laughing casual, flirty Daiki from before.

"So…I'm not enough alone for you, huh?" Emerald gave him a hopefully teasing smile, trying to change the subject, "You gonna dress this cat girl faunus up as a maid too?"

"Doubtful," he scoffed, before shaking his head, "I've got a general profile for her, she's another white fang activist pain in the ass. Usually such a little annoying twit wouldn't come anywhere near a guy like me that will dismantle her little operation, hell I'd arrested her if it weren't for that piece of trash Adam."

A smirk finally returned to his face, "That's where phase one of my plan comes in though, you know the whole getting rich as the Schnee more or less?" he replied, "I don't want to brag, well actually I do because bragging and impressing a pretty girl like you would make me feel awesome."

A giggle bubbled from her lips, "Well impress away, I don't mind," Emerald replied, feeling a warm feeling course through her. He wanted to impress her huh? He was already really impressive though, "Do you want me to flutter my eyelashes? Gasp a little bit?" a bit of her sarcastic side bubbled out involuntarily due to the new atmosphere.

"If you could, that'd be great," Daiki laughed, apparently not at all minding, "But basically, thanks to studying my semblance, I've found a way to generate electricity, like from lightning dust without any dust. In the future, it'll become a second energy source for all of Remnant, discovered by me, and unlike dust it's totally renewable so it'll be cheaper and easier for homes across the world to use to power instead of dust."

A gasp actually did leave Emerald's mouth at his words and her eyes went wide as he spread his arms wide and grandly, "Nobody likes Managerie, they're whiny fucks, and because of that they get shit deals for everything, including dust imports," he snorted, "But see, they're people too at the end of the day, most of them at least. Not including those White Fang barn animal trash. And say I give them good deals? It'll make living so much better for a lot of them. I'll become the god damn hero of the faunus, and have Adam Taurus' little girlfriend buy into all the hype that will come about and crawl into my bed all of her own choice," he finished, his grin becoming completely smug.

"You're…going to become the hero of the Faunus, an entire species of people with hundreds of thousands, millions even of members, all just to get back at this Adam guy?" Emerald gaped.

"Well it'll help me out a lot later as well, since everyone will be getting it," he shrugged, "But yeah, honestly I'm mostly going to see about helping the faunus out with a few little freebies and help, just to get back at Adam."

That was…wow. Was it petty? She didn't know, all she knew was this guy literally slit his throat and humiliated him in a way that seemed to drive Daiki into a rage. Petty was simply too small a word to describe this.

…She couldn't say she didn't like his style though. Completely fuck this guy who done him dirty, over and make his life a living hell, take everything from him.

Normal girls probably would be put off about a guy they were interested in wanting to fuck another girl. But…while she'd much prefer his attention on her, she didn't give a fuck about other girls as long as he continued to have a place at his side for her and-

"But yeah anyway," Daiki sighed and his smug smirk turned into a genuine smile that he levied at her as he stood up and walked around the counter to stand in front of her, "If you become mine Emerald, you don't need to worry about ever going hungry or anything like that again. I'm going to take everything this world has to offer from the women, to the money, to the fame. And you're going to be beside me every step of the way." he said, reaching out to her and gentle cupping her chin.

A shudder ran down her spine, "Okay…" Emerald's lips curved up into a massive grin, "I'm all yours, Daiki." she breathed out.

"Brilliant." his brilliant blue eyes glittered, before he leaned down and his lips captured her own.