L: Stone Face
A portal opened itself in front of a military base of Griffin and a man in his late 20's with a light brown hair known as L by his fellow watchers and the characters from the universes he had visited either by himself or with them stepped out of it. The portal closed itself behind him shortly after, having no further reason to remain open and the said man looked at the military base in front of him with an emotionless look on his face. Not wasting any time, he started to make his way towards the base.
As he continued to make his way towards the front entrance of the base, he saw a familiar T-Doll in the form of MDR walk out of the base. The troublemaking T-Doll with differently colored eyes didn't seem to notice him or didn't pay attention to him as she walked past him without even bothering to look at him. Judging from the pout on her face, L could tell she just received scolding from someone, possibly from the Commander, for one of her antics.
He pushed himself away his thoughts about her shortly after, knowing he shouldn't really think about it as he knew it only worked in his benefit because MDR didn't bother him like she usually does whenever she sees him in an attempt to get any emotion out of him. She walked into the Griffin base right after, beginning to make his way through the hallways of the military base in order to reach the Commander's office.
Proceeding to make his way towards his destination, he passed by a few T-Dolls on his way there and all of them offered him either a smile or a wave or both. He passed a corner a few moments later, setting his eyes on the door to the Commander's office. Just as he started to make his way down the hallway towards it, the door was opened and two familiar T-Dolls in the form of M4A1 and M4 SOPMOD II. It didn't took them long to notice them.
"Haha! It's L! L is here again!" SOP-II shouted happily at the view of the watcher as she launched herself towards him and wrapped her arms around him. She gave him a tight hug, nuzzling his chest like she was a dog and looked up at him, "You came to visit me again! You know I did my bestest during the last mission!? Commander Nikolai said so! Praise me!"
"Okay." L nodded, looking down at the T-Doll hugging him as he headpatted her. SOP-II smiled and giggled in delight, acting like an excited puppy. He shifted his attention to M4A1 shortly after, "Hello, M4."
M4A1 smiled at him, "Hello, L."
SOP-II looked up at him curiously, excitement radiating off of her, "You came here to do what I told you, right? Can we go to my dorm and do it now?"
"Not now." L replied.
"Aww. Alright." SOP-II pouted cutely in disappointment, "Will you visit my dorm later for it, though?"
"Yes." L nodded, "I promised to you that I will help you out in whatever you are planning. Right?"
SOP-II pulled away from him and jumped excitedly, "Wahoo! This will be so cool! I need to go get RO, STAR and M16 and get everything ready for it!"
"Wait? They will be there as well...?" L never got a chance to get the answer from the childish T-Doll as she sprinted down the hallway in an excited manner.
M4A1 smiled slightly at the scene as SOP-II vanished from her and L's view, "At least she's back to her normal self."
"Normal self?" L asked her.
"She was acting differently today." M4A1 began her explanation, "She was acting all serious and not like her usual self back when Commander Nikolai was briefing us on our next mission."
L blinked her at, "SOP was acting seriously today?"
"Yes." M4A1 nodded in confirmation, "When we asked her why was she acting like this today a few moments ago, she told us she was a jealous of how Commander Nikolai seems to rely on me and thought she will get praised by him if she will act like me."
"I see." L nodded in understanding, "Still having a hard time imagining her acting seriously out of all people."
M4A1 giggled sheepishly, "Me and the rest of the AR team had a hard believing it ourselves and we saw her act like this. M16-nee thought she drank too much Jack Daniels."
L once again nodded in understanding, "I see."
"I should follow her and make sure she won't get into any trouble." M4A1 said as she pushed herself into walk, walking in the direction SOP-II had just ran off to.
"Alright. I'll see you later, M4." L bid his farewell to the leader of the AR Team and turned away from her, going back to what he was doing before his encounter with her and SOP-II.
As he proceeded to make his way towards the entrance to the Commander Nikolai's office, he couldn't help but wonder about what SOP-II wanted to do with him. At first, he expected it to be working on some parts she stole from the enemy T-Dolls during a mission, like she usually does but the rest of the AR Team never joined them for those for all the obvious reasons. If the rest of the AR Team was joining them for this, then it must have meant it was something else. What it was? Knowing SOP-II, it could have been anything.
He pushed himself out of the thoughts regarding this topic upon reaching the entrance to Commander Nikolai's office as he knew he shouldn't think about it so much because he will get the answer to this question later today. He knocked on the door a few times and pushed it up before walking into it. It was when a red clothed man who he was more than familiar with appeared in his view.
Nikolai smiled as soon as he laid his eyes on him, "L! Good to see you again!
"The feeling is mutual, Nikolai." L nodded at him as he stepped closer to Nikolai's desk. Nikolai held his hand out for a handshake and L grabbed his hand into his, giving it a firm shake.
Nikolai pulled away from their handshake and gestured to one of the two chairs in front of his desk, "Why are you standing. Come on. Take a seat."
L nodded at him, taking his seat on the chair on the right, "Thanks."
"So." Nikolai began, sitting down on his own seat as he looked at L in an interested manner, "Has anything interesting happened regarding you and your fellow watchers?"
"Not much. The same as usual." L gave him an honest answer, having gotten used to this question as Nikolai asked him about it everytime he went back to his world after leaving to the watchers HQ for one reason or another, "What about you? Did anything interesting happening in your world after I went back to the HQ for a couple of days?"
"Can't tell I have much to tell you. Everything here was pretty much the same as well." Nikolai replied as L nodded in understanding. The red clothed man let out a sigh afterwards, "With the exception of maybe one thing."
"Let me guess. It has something to do with MDR?" L guessed.
Nikolai raised his brow, "How do you know?"
"I saw her walking out of the base with her pouty look on her face shortly after I walked out of the portal. She didn't even pay attention to bother me like she usually does." L explained.
"Ah, I see.." Nikolai chuckled lightly. This expression didn't remain on his face for long, though as it was quickly replaced with mixture of irritation and disturbance, "I'm assuming you want to know what did she do this time?"
L nodded, "Does this answer your question?"
"Yeah. It does. Alright. Let's get this over with." Nikolai sighed, "She somehow broke into my room and stole all of my undergarments. Afterwards, she sold them through Griffin's anonymous forums."
L stared at him blankly, feeling like he had seen this somewhere before, "She stole your underwear and sold it?"
"Yeah. I'm having hard time believing it myself and I'm friends with a deity." Nikolai nodded in understanding, pinching the bridge of his nose as he didn't know if knowing who was the buyer was something he wanted to know or not, "God. Who knows who the buyer actually was..."
"I see." L voiced his understanding of it, unsure whether how else to respond to this as he debated with himself whether he should tell Nikolai to go talk with Negev about it or not.
Nikolai looked at him questioningly, rubbing the back of his head, "I'm sorry to ask you this but could you use some of your watcher abilities to learn who it was. Or maybe you already know who it is."
"No. I don't know who it is and I don't have anyone in mind when it comes to the possible buyer." L lied, deciding it would be for the best if the buyer remained a mystery for Nikolai. The thought of dealing with an angry Negev would just be annoying and he didn't want to deal with this, "To be honest. Do you even want to know who bought them? If it happened me, I would want to forget it ever happened to me."
"I see." Nikolai nodded in understanding, "You're not the first person to give me this advice."
"I'm not?" L asked.
"Yes." Nikolai confirmed it to him and provided him an explanation, "I asked Commanders Gentiane, Kawasaki, Kamalov and Franklin if the same thing ever happened to them with their dolls and everyone told me to just ignore it and hope to forget it ever happened."
"I see." L nodded in understanding, "What about Commander Shi Jun?"
Nikolai sighed, giving him the answer, "He told me to find the doll and try to make something out of this situation."
L once again nodded in understanding, "I see. Sounds like the kind of advice he would give you in this situation."
"Yeah." Nikolai agreed with him, "I think you can imagine how all of us reacted to his suggestion."
"Yes. I can imagine it." L nodded at him, "I have to deal with R almost on a daily basis and Z whenever she comes drunk to the HQ, after all."
Nikolai chuckled, having been told of the quirkiness of R and Z by L a few times, "Yeah. I called him crazy for suggesting this. While I do care about T-Dolls under my command, I don't see myself dating any of them as I always viewed them more as comrades and friends than a romantic partner."
"...Plus, Kalina wouldn't appreciate if you got together with any of them." L muttered under his breath.
"What was that?" Nikolai raised his brow at this. Just as Nikolai asked him this question, the door to the his office was opened again and he and Nikolai paused in their conversation for a second and turned around to see who it was. A familiar face of a certain logistics officer appeared in their view.
L nodded his head at her as a way of greeting her, "Kalin."
"Hey there, Stone Face!" Kalina smiled at him, using the nickname she came up for L as she stepped closer to him and Nikolai and sat down on the seat next to L, "I stumbled upon SOP-II and M4A1 on the hallway and they told me about L paying us a visit and going to the Commander at first. I figured out I could come here and say hello. SOP-II seemed more excited than usual about something. You wouldn't have happen to have something to do with it?"
"All I know if that there's something she and her team want to do with me later. Don't know the details." L explained.
"Hmm. I see." Kalina hummed in an interested manner, "I would think she wantst to experiment with you one the body parts she stole from the Sangvis bodies, but I don't think RO and STAR would be up for this."
L nodded in agreement, "Yeah. Was thinking the same thing."
"Maybe they got a gift for you or something." Nikolai suggested, "LIke the one time when SOP-II tried to give me a weapon for my birthday gift and she ended up blowing up a hole in the wall when she was presenting it's power to me."
L shrugged, "Maybe."
"Or maybe SOP-II made a junior version of L, like she did with herself." Kalina suggested, elbowing L with a suggestive smirk on her face.
L shifted his gaze to her. Kalina could tell the watcher would be deadpanning at her right now if he was showing any emotion, "No."
"Why not?" Her smirk grew wider, "Can you imagine how adorable it would be? Little L running around our base or the watchers HQ and him acting like a mini version of our L."
"Kalin. I'm not laughing." L told her, growing more unamused by this conversation.
"It's not a big change. You never laugh." Kalina pointed out to him as L stared at her blankly. She didn't know why but she felt a chill race down her spine after she looked directly into his green eyes, "Alright. Alright. I'll stop. I was just making a suggestion. Jeez."
"Whatever this is." Nikolai said, causing both Kalina and L to look at him, "It's not like we will have to wait long to find out what this is."
L nodded in agreement, "Exactly."
Kalina shifted her gaze between them with a smirk on her face, "If this will be L Junior, though, then I'm expecting you two to give me some money for winning the bet."
"What bet?" L asked her.
Kalina winked at him, "The bet we made right now."
Nikolai chuckled at this, shaking his head, "Kalin. Kalin. Kalin. You never pass up an opportunity to gain some money, huh?"
"Nope." Kalina admitted it with a proud look on her face. She set her eyes on L afterwards, "What about you L? Ain't you gonna ask me how I was doing for the past few days? I have to say. I'm almost hurt by it."
L rolled his eyes at her, "How were you doing for the past few days, Kalin?"
"Glad you asked." Kalina smiled at him as Nikolai raised his brow at her, feeling like Kalina had some intention for asking L about this all of a sudden, "I was doing rather well for the past few days. Only Miss. Helian seemed a bit grouchy when I and Nikolai talked with her yesterday."
"Let me guess. Her mixers didn't work out again?" L guessed, finding it to be quite obvious as Nikolai nodded to himself, now understanding why Kalina asked L to ask her about how she was for the last few days.
Kalina nodded in confirmation, "Yup."
"I see." L voiced his understanding of it before shaking his head, "Just hearing about all the relationship problems she has makes me glad I'm not interested in this type of stuff."
"This brings us to the matter me and Nikolai would like to discuss with you." Kalina began as L stared at her silently, wanting for her to fill him in on whatever she had planned, "Me and Nikolai recently figured out how we need to help out poor Miss. Helian in her love life. We, of course, didn't tell her about it as I'm certain how she would react to this. Especially since she thinks all of us are trying to make a fool out of her behind her back when it comes to this."
"Can you blame her?" Nikolai asked with a raised brow, "Considering the amount of times you teased her about it, it's no suprise she thinks everyone is making fun of her love life behind her back."
"Alright. I might have my part in it." Kalina admitted as she shifted her gaze to Nikolai for a second before shifting it back to L, "This is why I am bringing this up to you to right now. We want you to help us with this."
"I see." L nodded in understanding, "Alright. I'm not an expert on love and I had never been interested in stuff like this, but I suppose I can help you in some way in this plan of yours."
Kalina clasped her hands in a satisfied manner, "Perfect."
"Glad to have you on board, L." Nikolai smiled at him.
L shifted his gaze between them, "So. How do you plan to help her?"
"Me and Nikolai had a few conversations with the other people who are on board in this operation like Persica, Angelia and Mr. Kryuger and Persica's idea..." Kalina began to answer. She didn't got a chance to finish her reply, though as L cut her off.
L blinked, cutting Kalina off, "You asked Persica out of all people for help in this?"
Kalina raised her hands in a defensive manner, "Hey! At least I didn't ask her about advice on self care."
"Alright. Point taken." L nodded. If there was one thing everyone could agree when it comes to Persica, it was the fact that she was notoriously bad at self care. Even L never wanted to try out her special coffee for safety reasons, "What did she tell you?"
"How about we'll try to hook her up with one of your fellow watchers?" Kalina suggested, voicing the idea Persica gave her to L."
"Really?" L wanted to know if she was serious or not.
"Yup. I'm totally serious." Kalina nodded in confirmation, "Come on. What's the worst the worst that can happened out of? You said it yourself to us once that your watcher friends have no problem with dating people from the universes they visited."
L crossed his arms, "Fine. What watcher do you have in mind, then?"
Kalina rubbed the back of her head, trying to recall which of L's fellow watchers were male, "I don't know. Y maybe?"
L shook his head, "No. This won't work. Y is gay."
"Umm. How about S, then?" Kalina voiced her second suggestion.
L once again shook his head, "He unlike Y is bisexual, but I don't think this will work either. Personally I think he has feelings for Y."
Kalina nodded and thought for a second before giving the next suggestion, "What about W?"
L proceeded to shake his head at each suggestion from her, "He is in a relationship with N."
Kalina bit her lip at how bad it was working out so far, "What about B?"
"He is seeing a spider-woman from a Hell dimension named Molly." L told her, dismissing another option she gave him.
"M?" Kalina suggested, getting desperate.
L shook his head, "He's the guy with a harem."
Kalina sighed in defeat, "Alright. This is hopeless..."
"Don't give up so quickly, Kal." Nikolai told her, "If the male watchers won't work out, then maybe we can figure out something else."
Kalina looked at him questioningly, "Who do you have in mind, Commander?"
"Hmm." Nikolai hummed, giving it a moment of thought, "What the three friends that L told us about once?" He looked at L questioningly, "What were their names again?"
L raised his brow at him, "You mean Ed, Double D and Eddy?"
Nikolai nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. Them."
"No. Neither of these three will work. They're still underage." L pointed out to him, once again shaking his head.
Nikolai nodded in understanding, letting out a sigh as another option for Helian not working out, "Alright. That immediately scratches them off the list of the possible options."
Kalina put her hand on her chin with a thoughtful expression, trying to come up with some other options. She snapped her fingers a few seconds later, having just gotten a new idea, "How about the personas of this watcher from the broadcast we saw of him yesterday."
"You saw it too?" L wanted to know.
Nikolai nodded in confirmation, "Yes. M200 ran out of her room when the broadcast began and showed it to everyone in this base or at least as many of us as she could."
"I see. makes sense." L nodded as Kalina and Nikolai exchanged glances with each other and smiled after seeing a little change in L's usually blank eyes at the mention of M200. These two had become quite close with each other after L started visiting their base to say the least and everyone from their company could see how M200 looked up to him.
Kalina looked at him thoughtfully, "If we will try to set Miss. Helian up with one of them, then we must at first know more about them and decide who will be the best pick for her. Can you tell us more about them?"
"I don't think I will help you in any way with this. I don't know much about his personas myself. They couldn't even speak the last time I saw them in person. When I saw them in the broadcast, I was really suprised to see them talk in it." L explained as he pulled out his phone out of his pocket and unlocked it, having gotten an idea on how they could decide the best pick for Helian out of D's personas.
He browsed through it for a few seconds, eventually finding a picture of D and his personas which was sent to him and the watchers by D during his visit to the world of Arknights. He set his phone on Nikolai's desk, gesturing to the to come closer and take a look at this. Nikolai and Kalima complied, taking a look at the picture as they would try to find the best persona for Helian from this picture. They knew it wasn't really right to choose someone just from looking at the picture of them, but it was still a still, right?
"...Hmm. How about this one?" Kalina suggested a few seconds later as she pointed at the Grimm creature of the group.
"Really?" Kalina could tell L was unimpressed by her suggestion, even though his expression and tone were as blank as ever and Nikolai deadpanned at her in an unamused manner.
"Relax. I was just joking." She giggled as L and Nikolai exchanged glances with each other, neither of them sure whether she was telling them the truth or not. She pointed at the persona with a headgear afterwards, "What about him? He looks like the kind of a guy Miss. Helian would go after."
Nikolai put his hand on his chin with a thoughtful look on his face, "Hmm. This looks like it could work. I'm certain Miss. Helian would be interested in seeing someone who is in some way related to the military."
"Maybe." L nodded as Nikolai and Kalina glanced at him, both of them looking interest by L actually agreeing with them on an option they had brought up to him, "This person was inspired by a Call of Duty character..."
Kalina raised her brow at this, "How do you know this? I thought you said you don't know much about them."
"I don't know much about them as people they are. If D gave them any personalities since the last time I saw them in person." L explained as Kalina listened to him in interest, "I know what they were inspired by, though. I can tell this one was inspired by a Call of Duty character as I played more than enough of this game when I was younger back in my homeworld."
Kalina nodded in understanding, "Alright."
"Do you remember his name?" Nikolai asked, "If he has one."
L shook his head, "Can't recall it right now. I would have to ask D about it. Unless I will remember. When I will learn this, then I will tell you about it."
"Alright." Nikolai nodded at him.
Kalina clasped her hands together with an excited smile on her face, "Gentlemen. I can tell this is the start of something big. Our operation of "Getting Miss. Helian a boyfriend" has officialy begun."
"Don't you think it's a bit too early to call it something big?" L asked her as Kalina raised her brow at him, silently asking to explain himself, "We still don't know how D's persona look like and don't know if this guy became more like a person. Even if he became more like a person, then we don't know how his first meeting with Helian will go."
Kalina crossed her arms, "You sometimes really are no fun, L."
"Yeah. I know." L admitted, "I lost the count of how many times someone told me this. Mostly it was T and R."
"He's right, Kalin." Nikolai voiced his agreement with L.
Kalina looked at him with a betrayed look on her face, "Even you, Commander?"
Nikolai raised his hands in a defensive manner, explaining himself to her, "I'm merely saying we should wait a bit to learn more about this persona before we will really put this plan into action. Starting this operation know where we know nothing about it will just make it harder and will make the possibility of this operation ending a failure bigger."
"Fine. I suppose you two are right. At least it's still a start, though." Kalina reluctantly agreed with them, pouting slightly as she got up from her seat, "Alright. I better get going and tell Persica about her idea working out in some way as we found a potential candidate for Miss. Helian's partner."
"I should get going as well." L said, following Kalina's example and getting up from his seat, "I promised M200 that I will listen to the new song she had learned and afterwards I'll go to see what SOP-II wants to do with me with the rest of the AR Team."
"Alright. I'll talk with you two later." Nikolai nodded, shifting his gaze between them as Kalina and L nodded at him and turned away from him, beginning to make their way towards the exit from the office.
"Oh, L." Kalina called out for L upon reaching the door with him as L looked at her, letting out a hum, "If you want to find M200 without looking for her much, you can check out the cafeteria."
"The cafeteria? Why?" L wanted to know why she suggested this place.
"I walked past her when I was making my way here and saw her entering the cafeteria." Kalina explained, pushing the door open as L nodded in understanding and opened the door. He kept the door open for Kalina as she shot him a grateful smile and walked out of the office. He followed her out of the office, closing the door behind him after doing so.
"Alright. Thanks." L nodded, showing his gratitude with this nod and Kalina nodded at him. Both of them parted ways shortly after. L went in the direction of the cafeteria and Kalina went in the direction of the room where she would contact Persica.
L continued to make his way throughout the Griffin base towards the cafeteria for the next few moments, reaching his destination after the said amount of time. Upon entering the cafeteria, he stopped in the entrance of it and looked around it in an attempt spot M200. His eyes caught the sight of her shortly after. He saw her sitting by Springfield's place, talking with Springfield about something as a camera was set next to them and was pointed straight at them.
G36 walked past them, holding a tray with dranks and offered a quick thumbs towards the camera and went off to perform her duties. Not wasting any time, he pushed himself into walk towards them and walked past a few T-Dolls who were either in the middle of the conversations with each other or were eating something. SPAS-12 was one of them. The food loving T-Doll smiled at L, giving him a friendly wave with her free hand as she held a slice of pizza in her other hand.
L nodded at her, showing her he ackowledged her greeting as SPAS-12 went back to devouring her slice of pizza. He reached his destination several seconds later, overhearing some of the conversation M200 and Springfield were having with each other right. He stopped behind M200 shortly after, looking at Springfield from behind her and saw a photo album laying between them. Spiringfield quickly took notice of him, sending him a smile and pausing the conversation she was having with M200 right now.
"...Is everything alright Miss. Springfield?" M200 asked, confused by Springfield suddenly pausing in their conversation.
"Hey, Potato." L's voice sounded behind her right after as M200's eyes immediately lit up at the sound of this.
M200 smiled at the sound of the familiar voice as she turned around to look him to face him. She got hopped off the chair and embraced him. L hugged her back, showing her he was glad to see her again as well, despite his face being as emotionless as ever. Springfield smiled at the sweet scene in front of her, reaching out for the camera on the counter and making sure it document the hug between the watcher and the young T-Doll.
M200 pulled away from him shortly after with a smile on her face, "I had no idea you were visiting today!"
"I got your message about you now being certain about the song you were recently learning with your guitar and got curious to see the effects of your work." L explained, looking down at the short T-Doll. Despite his tone being as blank as ever, M200 and Springfield could tell he was curious to see the former play this song on her guitar.
"A-Ah! Yes!" M200 smiled shyly at this, letting out a nervous giggle, "I had no idea you'd visit me to hear this so quickly, though."
"You know I only come back to the HQ for a few days unless something important in my job comes up. I would visit you, no matter what." L told her, causing M200's smile to grew wider. He shifted his gaze to Springfield right after, offering her a nod of his head to greet her, "Springfield."
Springfield nodded at him, "Good day to you too, L. Would you like some of your usual coffee?"
"Sure." L nodded back at her, accepting her offer. He knew he had some coffee shortly before he left the HQ, but he didn't care about it. He would never decline an offer of a good coffee. Unless it was Persica's special coffee. Then, he would stay away from it for the sake of his own health.
"Coming right up." Springfield replied, turning away from him to prepare his favourite coffee and looked over her shoulder at M200, "Oh, M200. How about you introduce L to the little documentary you are recording?"
"A documentary?" L asked, once again getting the feeling like he had seen it somewhere before as he shifted his gaze to M200.
"Yeah." M200 blushed slightly in embarassment at this as she sat back down on her seat by the counter and L followed her example and sat down next to her, "I kinda figured out I should make one to show my life as a T-Doll and show all my friends in it to make sure they will be remembered by whoever will watch this in the future just in case the worst happens."
"I see." L nodded in understanding as he reached his hand out to M200, offering her a quick headpat to praise her for the idea. M200 looked up at him, feeling his hand on her head, "Smart idea, Potato. I'm certain whoever is present or will be present on this tape will appreciate it."
"T-Thank you." M200 blushed slightly at the praise, growing flustered by it like she always does whenever someone praises her, no matter if it's L or Nikolai or someone else from the base. Her eyes widened slightly shortly after and she quickly pointed her camera at L, "R-Right. This over here is L that I talked about in the first minutes of the tapes when I told you about the person who bought me my guitar. I didn't talk about him much back then as I wanted to wait with the details until he'll be around for the recording."
"Hello." L offered a quick greeting to the camera, his blank eyes set on it.
"L is not really a talkive person when it comes to stuff like this unless he has to explain something and doesn't really show any emotion." M200 said to the camera, keeping it pointed at L as she provided a quick explanation about L to whoever will view this video recording in the future, "He may appear like a normal looking human to you, like Commander Nikolai or Miss. Kalina, but the truth is he is a being known as the watcher of the multiverse. He isn't even the only being with such a title. There's over twenty six of them!"
"I can see show them my super weapon to prove this to them." L suggested.
M200 immediately nodded at the idea, agreeing with this, "Oh! That would be a great idea!"
L nodded back at her and AR-15 appeared in his grasp shortly after. He showed it off to the camera right after, "My super weapon allows me to the switch between weapons of the modern NATO-esque arsenal. I can see switch between six weapons. AR-15, as the one you can see right now, is my main weapon and my choice for a semi automatic weapon. UMP45 is my choice for a sub machine, M200 for my sniper rifle, Negev for a machine gun, Python for the pistol and Remington Model 870 for a shotgun. The bullets in all of those six guns are stronger than the ones you'd see in regular guns as well"
"...Here you go." Springfield's voice rang through L and M200's ears as soon as L finished his explanation on his super weapon. Both of them shifted their gaze to her and saw her placing a mug of coffee in front of L.
"Thanks." L expressed his gratitude to Springfield for making him some coffee as his AR-15 vanished from his grasp. He grabbed the mug and lifted it up to his mouth right after, taking a sip from it, "It's good."
Springfield beamed at this, "I strive to please!"
"Yeah. So. That was L's super weapon." M200 continued to document L as L took one more sip of his coffee, both him and Springfield looking towards the camera pointed at them, "I don't know if you take my word for granted, but L's was not joking about those bullets not being like regular bullets! They are really powerful! Maybe one day I'll manage to record them in action and add them to this documentary!"
Springfield chuckled, "Here's hoping it will happen, then! Whoever will watch this tape, will surely be in awe of L's weapons in action!"
"As if L not being a normal human and being a deity instead wouldn't be amazing enough for them." G36 stated, walking past them with an empty tray as she went off to carry out the rest of her duties.
L set his mug down on the counter and looked at the album laying on it, "What's up with this album?"
"Oh, this?" Springfield followed his example and glanced down at the album, "I was just explaining some of the stories of our base to M200's little documentary and the stories of the T-Dolls who reside in this base or used to reside in it."
L nodded in understanding, "I see."
"This brings me the question." Springfield shifted her gaze to M200, "M200. You turned off the recording when I was telling you about Negev, right?"
M200 giggled nervously, "Ehh. I think I actually recorded all of that. I never turned off the camera..."
"Negev?" L asked, the said doll once again finding herself on his thoughts as Springfield shifted her gaze back to him, "What's up with her?"
"Negev paid the cafeteria a little visit a few minutes before you came here and was being her usual self. After she left, I explained some stuff about her to M200 to make her understand Negev a bit more." Springfield explained to him.
L nodded in understanding, "I see."
"What am I supposed to now with this recording about Miss. Negev?" M200 wanted to know.
Springfield looked at her nervously, "Well, dear. For both of our sake or maybe even L's sake since he is here now, I suggest you bury the footage in the field outside. There's always option of throwing it in the lake too."
"A-And here I was starting to think you only looked at her like a child Miss. Springfield." M200 stuttered out nervously.
"We can always edit out the footage about Negev as well." L suggested.
Springfield nodded in agreement, "Yes. That would work as well. I suggest you do this quickly, M200."
M200 nodded nervously, "O-Of course, Miss. Springfield."
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After finishing his coffe and leaving the cafeteria with M200, both L and M200 made their way to M200's dorm where M200 would show L the new song that she had recently learned on her guitar. Upon making their way into the dorm, L grabbed a chair from the corner and set it down in front of M200's bed as M200 grabbed her guitar and sat down on her bed, beginning her performance in front of the stoic watcher shortly after.
The music she was playing to him right now was beautiful to say the least. Like it always was. The way how M200's singing voice mixed up with the tune of her guitar was just beautiful and L loved every second of it, despite his face being as blank as ever and him being nowhere near a music critic. The stoic man remained in his seat, allowing himself to enjoy the song in his own way as he could tell M200 was enjoying herself right now from the look she had on her face right now, even if she had her eyes closed, and that's what mattered to him.
"Thought to myself "I'm okay, I don't feel a thing"
But, in the end, there's a drag weighing down on me
Running on ahead again, you seemed to escape
Every step, never touching down
Couldn't do a thing but stare without a sound
Guided away, you walk to a train while I'm standing left behind
Dashing off instead, I reach out ahead but can't make it through the room in time
Eyes getting wet, don't be upset, but my heart really wants to cry
"Don't go away yet"
You're moving onto far and beyond, while I'm standing left behind
Night running low and leaves me alonе, dissolving you from my mind
Eyes getting wet, don't bе upset, but my heart really wants to cry
"Don't go away yet"
Festival abating now I'm waiting for reality
Yes, in the end, every night is the same old thing
Breaking through it all, you were bright, standing tall
How could I only see this now?
Couldn't do a thing but stare without a sound
You're moving onto far and beyond, while I'm standing left behind
Night blurring out without any doubt, again it'll fill my mind
Eyes getting wet, don't be upset, but my heart really wants to cry
"Don't go away yet"
Eyes getting wet, don't be upset, but my heart really wants to cry
"Don't go away yet"
M200 pulled her hand away from her guitar right after uttering the last words of her song and opened her eyes. She smiled to herself slightly, having enjoyed playing this song. She was really glad to have gotten this guitar and was really grateful that L bought it for her as a suprise when she told him she was saving money for it. As much as playing on her old guitar was fun, playing on this one made the experience even more fun and better for her.
She allowed herself to look at L shortly after, feeling her smile grow upon laying her eyes on him. She could tell the watcher enjoyed her song, even though his face was as blank as ever as she had spent enough time with him to know whether he liked something or not. The fact that L started clapping shortly after only reassured her that he had enjoyed her peformance and that made her feel happy on the inside.
"You did good." L praised her, giving her his usual whenever praise whenever he enjoyed her performance as M200 blushed at the praise and looked flabbergasted, like she always does. It was still a massive improvement to how, "I can tell you put a lot of work in practicing it."
"I-It's nothing. I just practiced it like I do any other song." M200 explained, still slightly flabbergasted by the praise as L got up from his seat and walked over to her. She looked up at him as L headpatted her.
"It doesn't matter. You put hard work into learning it and that's what matters." L told her, headpatting her as M200 smiled slightly at this, "Who knows. Perharps there'll be a day when you will perform in front of a large."
"A-A large crowd?" M200 stuttered out, "Ain't you going a bit too ahead of me, L? Sure I can perform in front of you or Commander Nikolai or the the other dolls at our base, but performing in front of a large crowd would make me too nervous to actually do it."
"If you say so. It won't change the fact I will always be there in the front crowd for you if you will ever decide to perform in front of a large crowd. I'm certain some of the T-Dolls from the base will be there to support you as well." L told her, pulling his hand away from her head.
M200 looked up at him, feeling a smile growing on her face at the encouraging words he had just offered her, "T-Thanks L."
"Aww. Isn't that just a beautiful display. It really warms my heart." L and M200 looked over to the source of the voice and M16 standing in the entrance to M200's dorm, leaning against the doorway with a smile on her face and her arms crossed, "Almost reminds me of how me and my sis act around each other."
M200 looked suprised to see standing in the doorway to her dorm, "M-Miss. M16?"
"What are you doing here?" L wanted to know.
"Came here to find you. Kinda figured out you'd be there." M16 replied, "I thought about making myself known to you sooner, but I heard M200 playing her guitar and didn't want to interrupt it." She set her eye on M200, "Good job at playing it, by the way."
"T-Thank you Miss. M16!" M200 replied, having not been expecting the praise from the one eyed T-Doll.
"I see." L nodded in understanding, "Let me guess. SOP-II told you to find me ."
M16 nodded in confirmation, "Yup. She told me to come and get you after gathering everyone in her dorm. You should have seen how excited she is right now."
"Yeah. I can imagine." L nodded and stepped closer to M16, "Alright. Let's get going, then."
"Can I come with you?" M200 asked, raising her hand like like was a student in class.
L looked over his shoulder at her, "Sure you can."
M16 nodded in agreement, shooting M200 a smile, "Yeah. SOP and the rest of our team won't mind it."
"Okay." M200 nodded, placing her guitar aside as she got up from her bed and walked over to L and M16. After making sure all of them were ready to head out, the group of three started to make their way towards SOP-2's dorm, M200 making sure to close the door to her dorm in the process.
"...Good to see you visiting us again after those last few days. I take it nothing unusual happened with your fellow watchers if you came back after your usual time at your HQ?" M16 asked L shortly after the three of them began to head towards SOP-2's dorm.
"Aside from M200 showed you, I can't tell anything unusual happened at the HQ. Aside from my fellow watchers being their usual self." L replied.
"Alright." M16 nodded in understanding, "I got my hands on some Jack Daniels recently. Would you mind having a drink or two later or tommorow?"
"Jack Daniels? It better not be from Nikolai's stash. You know he will make you pay for it with your salary." L pointed out, recalling a certain situation with M16 in the past where she 'borrowed' Jack Daniels from Nikolai's stash and he had to pay for it after she pleaded him to do so.
M16 shrugged with an innocent look on her face, playing innocent, "Come on! You should know Commander Nikolai is more into Bourbon."
"Fine." L decided not to argue about it, "Just don't think asking me to pay for it. I already did it once and I told you it would be first and the only time."
"Fineeee~." M16 gave him a dragged out answer, "So. I'm guessing you're not up for a drink later?"
"Who said I'm not?" L told her, "As long as you will not try to get me drunk like you tried to do with a few other dolls the last time, I can see drink a drink or two."
M16 chuckled, "Even if I would get you drunk someday, I don't think I would be sober enough to witness it or remember it."
"If you say so." L replied, recalling a certain time when he and a few T-Dolls from this base went out for a night of drinking in the cafeteria and he ended up being the only sober person in the end, despite him drinking as much as the dolls did.
Everyone at this Griffin Base were definitely having a hard time falling asleep tonight because of what was happening in the cafeteria right now. L, M16, AK47, Mosin-Nagant, A-91 and Kar98k were gathered around on table in the cafeteria, empty bottles of various alcohol drinks surrounding them and much more opened bottles which still had some liqor in them were on the table, waiting to be consumed by all of them.
L and AK47 were sitting across from each each other, both of them taking one shot of vodka after another as all of them were in a fierce drinking battle and were not intending to stop until either of them would end up completely wasted from all this drinking. M16, Mosin-Nagant, A-91 and Kar98k were standing on their sides, both of them cheering them on in their drinking battle. The said four T-Dolls mostly cheered for AK-47 to win in this duel as they hoped to see L completely wasted as maybe this way they would get him to show some emotions or maybe even get a smile out of ihm
"....A-And I'm done..." AK-47 hiccuped, unable to put more alcohol in her system as she put her head on the table, immediately losing her consciousness from all the alcohol she had just consumed. M16, Mosin-Nagant, A-91 and Kar98k all made noises of disappointment at this turn of events and shifted their attention to L. Unlike AK-47 or any of them, the watcher appeared not to be touched by the alcohol in the slighest.
"I think I'm starting to feel something." He told them in a blank emotionless tone, not caring about the fact that AK-47 had just passed out, because of how drunk she was.
All of the T-Dolls stared at him like he wasn't human, "This guy isn't human..."
"What? Did you forgot I'm from Serbia?" L asked them, looking between the drunk T-Dolls as all of them continued to stare at him like he wasn't human.
L shook his head at the memory, "Nikolai and Kalina were so angry with us the next day..."
"Really? Personally I think Miss. Kalin was more disappointed that we didn't invite her in for our night of drinking." M16 voiced her thoughts about it, remembering the tone Kalina used when she and Nikolai gave them their lecture and how she seemed more disappointed with the fact that they didn't invite her to drink with them, "Though, I have to agree with you about Commander Nikolai. He wasn't so disappointed with me during this one time when I borrowed his Jack Daniels and never returned. The fact that I had to go through a lecture from RO too didn't help my hangover."
"G36 wasn't happy with us as well as she had to clean up the mess we made in the cafeteria." L added.
"Yup." M16 agreed, letting out a small sigh, "Good thing you offered to help her clean up the mess as you weren't dealing with a hangover like me and the rest. It stopped her from staying upset with us."
M200 raised her brow in a curious manner at the conversation these two were having righ tnow, "Was it really so bad, Miss. M16"
"Trust me, kid. You'll know what a hangover is once you'll start drinking." M16 told her, cringing slightly at the memory of how much her head was hurting the next day. The lectures from Nikolai and RO just made everything worse for her poor head.
"Oh, okay!" M200 nodded in understanding
"Just try to stay way from it for now." L told her. The sight of a drunk M200 was not something he could imagine and he didn't really want to witness it with his own eyes anytime soon, "Stick to water or milk like MP5."
M200 once again nodded in understanding, "Okay."
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The rest of the journey to SOP-II's room didn't last long as L, M200 and M16 reached it after a few moments of walking and talking with each other about various things. The group of two T-Dolls and one watcher stopped in front of the door and M16 knocked on it a few times, before grabbing the door handle and pushing the door open. She walked into the room right after and was followed by L and M200.
"I brought L~!" M16 announced upon walking into the room as L closed the door to SOP-II and stopped in his tracks between M16 and M200.
The man with a light brown haired looked around himself, wanting to get a better understanding of the room he had just entered and saw the rest of the AR Team inside it. M4A1, SOP-II, AR-15 and RO were looking at him right now. The state of the room wasn't nothing new as well as it was it had various parts of the Sangvis dolls which were used for whatever ideas she had in her head regarding them. What was going on SOP-II's mind was something L never asked himself and he doubted he ever will.
"L!" A large smile spread over SOP-II face as she sprinted over to him, "You're finally here! I could barely keep myself in place out of excitement!"
"Yeah. I know." L nodded.
"If you knew, then couldn't you get here sooner?" SOP-II asked him, "The excitement was killing me!"
"You can't expect L to postpone his business for later everytime when you want to do something with him, SOP. I'm certain L had some important business to attend to before coming here." RO told SOP-II, coming to L's aid in this conversation as she set her eyes on M200, "Greetings, M200."
M200 nodded at her, "Hello, Ms. RO."
SOP-II pouted, "Fineee. I suppose you're right, RO."
"I can give you a headpat if this will make you less mad about it." L suggested.
SOP-II's expression immediately lit up at this, "Yes!"
"Alright." L replied, reaching out to SOP-II and headpatting her. SOP-II let giggled it delight, loving every second of the attention. He pulled his hand away from her head a few seconds later, "There. Better?"
"Better!" SOP-II nodded as she turned away from him and sprinted off further into her room, "I'll go get everything ready! This will be so cool!"
With the matter of SOP-II out of the way, L shifted his gaze between AR-15 and RO, "Hello, you two."
"Good day, L. How was your watcher business in the HQ?" AR-15 greeted him in the manner she was known for.
"The same as usual." L gave her the same answer as he gave to everyone who asked him this question since his arrival at the Griffin Base.
"Any trouble makers gave you trouble?" RO asked, referring to the more outgoing and troublemaking watchers like T and R. She and her team had been told a few stories about the watchers and their antics at the HQ from L and they knew how troublesome these two could be.
"One of the last things I saw before leaving the HQ was T playing a prank on K and she kicking him for it." L explained, earning chuckles from everyone in the room.
M16 gave him a playful smirk at this, "What's wrong, L? Is someone getting annoyed by these youngsters?"
L was unimpressed by her comment, "Stop. They're only a few years younger than me. I was only 29 when I brought in to become a watcher. It still makes me the third oldest member of our generation, though."
"Really? You old man." M16 teased him further.
L remained unimpressed by her comments as he felt something nudging his leg. He looked down at and saw SOP-II Junior nudging his leg with her small hands, "Yeah. Yeah. Good to see you too, Junior."
"Nia!" SOP-II Junior made a happy noise at this, happy he had ackowledged her greeting.
SOP-II quickly went back to L and the rest, "Alright. Everything is ready. Now we can start!"
"Fine. What did you want to do with me?" L wanted to finally learn the answer to this question.
"I want to dye your hair!" SOP-II revealed her intentions to him, showing him a green hair dye.
L stared silently at her for a few seconds, "...What?"
"I want to dye your hair!" SOP-II repeated herself, her excitement as evident as ever.
"Hold on a second." L told her, "What makes you think I want to have my hair painted?"
"Duh! Because you agreed for it." SOP-II pointed out to him.
"I did?" L asked, unsure whether he promised it to her or not.
SOP-II nodded in confirmation, "Yes! You did."
"I can confirm it, L." M16 smirked as L remained unsure if he should believe her or not, considering it was M16 and she could have easily been saying this to mess with him for her amusement, "You agreed for this."
RO nodded in agreement, "I can confirm this as well, L."
"Really? When...?" L asked, now knowing he really had to make sure to recall this conversation as he knew RO wouldn't lie about it.
L sat by the table with a coffee mug in his right hand a book in his left hand, enjoying some coffee to the novel he had recently started reading. He wasn't alone in the room, though as the AR Team were in the room with him, all of them occupied with their own thing. Everyone aside from SOP-II who was asking for his attention like a puppy, asking him various questions as she did so.
L replied to each of her questions with the same answer of "Yes.", not really knowing what her questions were all about as he was too focuse do his book right now. SOP-II seemed to notice this fact after receiving the same answer to the several questions she had asked him earlier. The childish T-Dolls let out a thoughtful hum, having just gotten an interesting idea.
"...Can I dye your hair?" She suddenly asked him, hoping to the get the answer she wanted from him.
"Yeah." L replied, having no idea what he had just agreed for.
"...Right. I did agree for this." L said, having just recalled this.
"Exactly." SOP-II nodded as she turned around and pointed at the chair behind her, "Come on. Sit down there and we'll get to work right away!"
L stayed silent and didn't move from where he stood, unsure if he wanted to go along with it or not.
SOP-II looked at him with a confused look on her face, "What's wrong? Why aren't you moving?"
"Don't tell us you changed your mind?" M16 asked.
SOP-II looked very saddened by this fact, "What? You've changed your mind, L? But I already prepared everything!"
L once again remained silent, seeing how SOP-II's lip began trembling as she looked really sad at the thought of her excitement of dyeing L's hair being shot down like this.
"What's wrong, L? You ain't going to go back on your word? Aren't you?" M16 asked, leaning a bit closer to her with fire almost being noticeable in her good eye, "You know it will make SOP-II sad and you know how I don't like whenever someones makes my sisters sad."
AR-15 smirked slightly at this, "Yeah. You won't chicken out at the last minute? Right?"
"...Fine." L reluctantly gave in as he stepped closer to the chair, "Let's get this done!"
"Yippie!" SOP-II's happy expression went back to her face in an instant as L sat down on the chair.
"What kind of color will you use?" L wanted to know hair color his hair will be soon. As he uttered this question, he shook his head to himself, "My parents would be so angry if they saw me right now..."
SOP-II walked over to L, stopping behind him, "Green! You'll be just like M4!"
M4A1 blushed slightly at this, "He won't be just like me."
"Green? Why?" L asked her another question.
"Because it will fit your green eyes." SOP-II explained, "This is what STAR said when I asked everyone about what color I should use for this and I liked it so much that I agreed with her."
L looked over his shoulder at AR-15, "She did?"
AR-15 glanced away from him, giving him her explanation, "I wanted her to stop asking me about it every few seconds I told her the first thing which came to my mind."
"I see." L nodded in understanding.
"Alright! Let's get to it! You will look so cool with this color!" SOP-II asked, more than ready to start.
"Hopefully." L muttered under his breath otherwise he knew he will a lot of time trying to get the hair dye off. Which was something which will most likely happen as he doubted he will look good with his hair dyed and doubted he will like it even if he will somehow look good. When he looked over his shoulder, he saw SOP-II's team finding their places and sitting down somewhere in the room. As it happened, M200 was remained where he stood with an awkward look on her face.
Just as he was about to say something to her, M4A1 did his job for him, "Why are you standing, M200? Come on. Sit down with us."
RO nodded in agreement, smilling slightly at the shorter T-Doll, "Yeah. It wouldn't be really nice to leave you standing while we sit. Go ahead and sit with us."
"Okay!" M200 nodded as she walked over to the rest of the AR Team and sat down between RO and AR-15.
"You should have seen how well she was playing her guitar back when I went to see if she and L were in their dorm." M16 said, pulling out a Jack Daniels from behind her and opened it. He did her best not to pay attention to the stink eye RO had given her when she pulled it out.
RO raised her brow in a curious manner, "Really?"
M16 nodded in confirmation, smilling at the younger doll, "Yeah. Really."
"Pretty good. She was great if you ask me." L said, once again voicing his support to M200's interest in playing her guitar and her talent with it as SOP-II wasted no time and began working on his hair.
"How about you bring your guitar here and play some songs for us?" M4A1 asked M200 with a gentle smile on her face.
M200 looked suprised by the offer, "What?"
"Not a bad idea, M4. I wouldn't mind it." RO agreed with M4A1's idea, smilling herself at the shorter T-Doll. Her interest in this didn't really suprise anyone, considering one of her hobbies included listening to the music.
M16 nodded in agreement, "I wouldn't mind it either."
"I suppose it would be a nice way to kill some time while SOP will be dyeing L's hair." AR-15 voiced her agreement with the rest of her team as M200 glanced between everyone in the room for a few seconds befor
"Alright. I'll go get my guitar, then." She nodded at the older T-Dolls as she got herself into a standing position and walked over to the door. She pushed it open and walked out of SOP-II dorm, intending to get her guitar from her dorm.
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L, M200 and the AR Team spent the next three hours in SOP-II's dorm and SOP-II's operation of dyeing L's hair was getting closer to getting completed with large steps after those three hours passed. As all this time passed, everyone in the room made sure to kill their time by either listening to M200 playing various songs she knew how to play on her guitar for them or having conversations with each others about various topics as all of them awaited the effects of SOP-II's little operation of dyeing L's hair.
"...You should have seen how STAR looked like when she failed to drop the teddy tear from the shooting gallery!" M16 laughed, telling M200 the story of how she prepared a special training for her team one day as M200 listened to her story with an interested look on her face, "SOP couldn't stop herself from laughing when she saw how the teddy bear didn't even move an inch after all the lecture about the importance of not shooting blindly she had given her!"
AR-15 pinched the bridge of her nose, "Do you really need to bring this up out of all things?"
"Come on, STAR~." M16 chuckled, "Even you have to admit that it was funny."
"Really?" AR-15 crossed her arms, "How about we'll tell her what happened after we were done with this shooting gallery crap you came up with?"
"What happened?" M200 asked as she shifted her gaze between them curiously. Her guitar was laying on her side as she wasn't playing it right now. She even brought her camera with the recording of her documentary to SOP-II's dorm. Even if she hadn't turned it on for a second ever since she came here. For now at least.
"In the end, it turned out that woman over here glued everything to the shelves and there was no way we could shot them down unless we used dummies." AR-15 explained as M200's eyes widened a bit, "She was literally using that training session as a way of getting money from us for beer."
M200 looked at M16 with a suprised look on her face, "Did you really do that, Miss. M16?"
M16 chuckled sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head, "Let's just say I may have gone overboard with this. I apologized, though!"
AR-15 rolled her eyes, "Yeah. After we cuffed you and realized you'd be used as a target practice."
"It's still counts!" M16 pointed out, pointing at her.
RO shook her head, "Sometimes I really find it hard to believe you're the oldest member of our squad."
"You're telling me, RO." L agreed with her, "It's just like with Z. Sometimes I have a hard time believing she was 37 when we were brought in to become watchers. I think X sometimes thinks the same and these two are best friends."
"Good to know we're agreeing on this, L." RO smiled at L, getting an eye roll and a chuckle from M16. Her chuckle was followed by a notification sound sounding across the room.
M4A1 looked around the room with a questioning look on her face, "What was that?"
"It must have been from my phone." L replied, reaching into pocket and pulling out his phone, "Can someone check it? I don't really have how right now."
"Of course." M4A1 nodded at him as she got up from the bed and walked over to him and SOP-II. She took the phone from him and checked what it was, "It's a message from Q. She sent something to one of your watchers groups."
"What did she sent?" L wanted to know.
M4A1 checked what Q just sent for the group chat and her eyes immediately widened in suprise, "...Oh!"
"M4?" L asked.
M16 nodded in agreement, getting up and walking over to M4A1, "What's wrong, sis?"
"Yeah. What's wrong?" RO was curious about this as well as she got up and walked over to M4A1. SOP-II, AR-15 and M200 silently nodded in agreement and followed RO and M16's example. It wasn't long until everyone in the room aside from L was gathered around his phone.
M16 whistled, "Well. I'll be dammed."
SOP-II gasped excitedly, "Oh my gosh! They're so cute!"
"This is what I was expecting to see." AR-15 stated as RO silently nodded in agreement. M200 just silently stared at L's phone with a suprised look on her face. There was a hint of interest hidden within her eyes, though as her eyes were not leaving Mimi and Mini, knowing these two were young machines just like she was.
"What is it?" L wanted to know what got such reaction out of them.
"Here." M4A1 replied as she turned L's phone around, making it face it's owner. L instantly took a look at what it was showing and saw a picture of Q with Mimi and Mini. The stoic man stared at the picture for a few seconds, not giving any reaction out of him as M200 and the AR Team looked at him curiously, wondering if this picture will get any emotion out of him.
"...Oh." He hummed after a few seconds later, his face remaining as blank and emotionless as ever. There wasn't even any visible emotion in his voice and eyes, "This isn't what I was expecting to see. Good for her, though."
"What do you mean?" AR-15 asked.
L quickly gave her an explanation, "Q always wanted to have a family. With us being made unable to have children when we became the watcher, I think you can understand how making it a reality wouldn't really be possible for her."
AR-15 nodded in understanding, "I see."
"I'm glad that wasn't the case here, though and I'm happy for her. She'll make a good mom." L said. Even though, there was not a hint of emotion on his face or in his eyes, everyone in the room could tell he was being genuine and really meant those words, "I can imagine the reaction it will get out of everyone at the HQ. I can already imagine the watchers like X, R, T, U or M will be excited to met these two."
"This actually brings me the question." RO said, causing everyone to look at her, "Q won't be the first watcher with a child under their care, right? You talked about it before and now that this topic came up again, I want to be sure if I remember correctly."
"Yeah. She won't be. M is a father figure to Kunou, daughter to one of his girlfriends and X is a mother figure to D, even if he won't admit it out loud." L explained, getting a nod of understanding from RO, "I don't know if I should count U for this as well but I think she would fit it with this as well, considering how she treats the peashooter she received in her favourite universe."
"Father, huh...?" M200 muttered under her breath, looking at L. It was something everyone in the room failed to notice.
L shifted his gaze to SOP-II, "What are you doing, SOP? Ain't you gonna come back to work on my hair?"
"Actually I was about to declare I was done until M4 showed us those two cuties!" SOP-II replied, pointing towards L's phone as M4A1 turned it off, seeing no further need to keep it unlocked and pulled it away from L's face. The childish T-Doll stepped closer to L, leaning closer to him, "What do you say, L? Want to see your new hair?"
"I suppose. Let's get this over with." L responded, still certain he won't be a fan of his new hair color.
"Come on! Don't be stick in the mud! You are going to love this!" SOP-II told him, turning away from him and walking off to get a mirror.
"She isn't lying, though. You look with this color, L." M16 said, having stopped herself from voicing her thoughts on L's new hair color until now as she wanted to see the effect of SOP-II's little operation.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but it does fit you, L." RO voiced her agreement with M16.
M4A1 nodded in agreement, "Yeah."
"Looks like my suggestion wasn't so bad, after all." AR-15 stated, looking slightly suprised by how well the green color fit L as his hair color.
"Yeah. It's really good." M200 agreed with everyone else, "I think it's actually fits you more than your natural color."
"Really?" L asked, feeling slightly taken aback by their reaction to his new hair color even if he didn't show it to them.
SOP-II walked back to him a few seconds later and stopped in front of him. She held the mirror in front of him, looking at him with an expecting look on her face, "So? What do you think?"
L didn't gave her the asnwer he was waiting for right away as he allowed himself to eye his appearance with his new color. As much as he had a hard time believing it, he did look good with green hair color. He had to agree with M200 here. It fit him more than his natural light brown did. It fit his green eyes as well. The view of himself with his new hair color made him give up on the thoughts off washing off this color after this thing would be done as he began to considering staying with this hair color instead.
"...It looks good. I like it." He voiced his thoughts on his new hair color to everyone after several seconds of silence from him, "I actually can't believe how well it fits me."
SOP-II smiled widely at this, "See? I told you you'd like this! What will you do with it now? Will you keep it as your new hair color or will you wash this off?"
"...You know. I think I will stay with this because of how well it fits me. For now at least. My mind can always change." L gave her an honest answer.
SOP-II threw her arms up with an excited look on her face, "Awesome! This is cool! L will stay with the chair dye I used on him."
"Don't forget whose idea it was to dye it green." AR-15 pointed out, reminding SOP-II it was her idea to use the green hair dye on L.
SOP-II pouted, "Fine. It was partially your merit as well."
"I wonder how Commander Nikolai and Miss. Kalin will react to L's new hair." M16 said, letting out a chuckle at the thought of this, "It's not everyday you see someone as stone faced and serious as L with their hair dyed. The same goes for the rest of the watchers from his job."
"They will probably be suprised by it." RO stated.
AR-15 nodded in agreement, "Yeah."
SOP-II giggled, "Yeah! I can already tell their reactions will be quite something, hehe!"
"...O-Oh! I have an idea!" M200 said, causing everyone to look at her, "How about I'll turn off my camera and put this in the documentary that I told you about?" She looked between everyone as she awaited their answer. When no one voiced their objection, she turned away from them. "Alright. I'll go grab my camera and turn it on."
After M200 walked off to get her camera, the AR Team walked closer to L and posed with him for the recording they will participate in in a few seconds. SOP-II got herself down to L's level and wrapped her arms around him, nuzzling his cheek like an excited puppy as RO and AR-15 stopped on L's right, both of them waiting for M200 to approaching them with her camera. M4A1 and M16 stopped on L's left, the latter wrapping her arm around the former.
M200 made her way back to them with a working camera a few seconds, "S-So. It's me again and I'm recording L with the AR Team right now. I know this sitaution may seem to come out of nowhere as I wasn't really planning to record. L just got his hair dyed by..."
As M200 continued to speak to the camera, everyone reacted to the fact that they were being recorded right now in their own ways. SOP-II waved excitedly at the camera, her arm still wrapped around L as RO and AR-15 smiled slightly at the camera, trying to make themselves look professional in front of it. M4A1 smiled towards the camera, looking quite shy to be in front of it and be recorded as M16 directed a toothy smile towards it, keeping her arm wrapped around her sister.
L shifted his gaze between everyone in the room, doing his best not to make it too visibly on the camera pointed at him as M200 continued to explain something to her little documentary. The now green haired man recalled how often he was asked by his fellow watchers why he was sticking to just this one universe and wasn't visiting more of them, like they did. They often asked him if he regretted missing out all the fun they have while visiting various universes in their free time.
With a small nod to himself, he knew the answer to this question as situations like this always helped him figure out the answer to it.
No. He did not regret it. Not one bit.
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