Zero is standing on the edge of a rooftop staring up at the stars. Scanning each star until stopping on one, watching it flicker out and back into existence. The dome worked well for people who hardly looked up or paid any amount of attention to their surroundings. For Zero though the first half of life consisted of nothing but nature's splendors, endless gut-wrenching survival training is vastly different than Neon City's endless night. 323Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7PoeKNPhL
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Even the birds above are procedurally generated, being surrounded by all of the artificial set in a feeling of unease in Zero. Dropping attention to the street below, filled with people from a festival going on, joy and excitement flowed through the streets. Women dressed in traditional kimonos complimented by beautifully crafted prostheses fluttered the streets like cherry blossoms.
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This city had a staggering three to one-woman-to-men population. So that meant that women made up the majority of the workforce and political participation. One man caught Zero's eye, the catfish on the back of his kimono made him resemble a fish swimming upstream even more as he pushed passers-by aside. He protected two ice cream cones as he pushed harder through the crowd, predicting his path, Zero noticed the goal that kept this man so determined.
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a woman standing in the center of three others that stood on the left side of the road was being cleanly skirted around by other passersby. The woman in the center had flawless features that were augmented by porcelain metallic enhancements and finely stenciled with beautiful patterns. Her hair, a bun being held by two metallic sticks, is a cherry blossom pink accented by white highlights.
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Zero looked over the three women surrounding her and assumed they were her triplets until further observation. Their features were young and all cosmetic prosthetics were done the same, twins tend to volunteer for cosmetic prosthesis if another has to get one for medical reasons, and more often than not it's matching, but with such heavy prosthesis and differentiating enhancements or replacements means their similarities are due to being custom protection droids.
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The man closed the distance to his goal.
"I hope you didn't wait long, the line was enormous." The man approached the woman in the center arm outstretched with cone in hand. At a closer look, the woman loomed over him, she was tall, but her slender frame gave the illusion she would be smaller. Even the triplets who were shorter than her loomed over him. She politely shook her head no.
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"It wasn't long at all." She smiles as she takes the cone from him, taking a lick of her ice cream she purrs in enjoyment.
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"It's just vanilla, is it really that good?" He chuckles to himself watching her forget her surrounding and blissfully enjoying the cone.
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"It's simple, and out of all the endless complicated luxuries of today, vanilla is still vanilla, plain and sweet." His eyes widen at the innocents of the answer, the purity he found in her, which he loved and cherished.
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"And that is what makes you special, and me love you." The blush almost beamed through the porcelain metallic of her cheeks.
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"I love you too Toshi." A pleasant smile lingers on her face from Toshis reply.
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