A Specific Request

[Takara Takeda]

Making her way throughout the halls of UE's main building the Mod Soul Takara got ever closer to the new office of Kazura. He used to have an office at the top of the building, but now based on further security she assumed he had moved to the middle of the building. She hadn't really seen the CEO of the company that she worked for in what felt like a few months, but when it came to communicating with him she still received texts and calls regarding things that he wanted her to handle.

Today she was here to discuss a subject with Kazura personally. For awhile now she had been holding on to a fairly large sum of ryo and after some thought she had decided what she wanted to spend most of her saved up money on. The only manner to acquire what she wanted was through Kazura so although she wasn't one to enjoy or welcome the idea she would have to ask him to make it for her. As she reached the office she opened the door and stepped inside. "Greetings Kazura."

[Kazura Uzaki]

Kazura awoke quickly as his door was opened. He had been having another random nightmare again in the middle of the day because he had crashed from working all night. There was just too much to do around UE that he had just stayed up and continued to work. New technologies were right at his grasp, especially with this new reiatsu core that he was working on with Asmoskon. There was just too much to do to protect the building with new defenses that blended into the scenery so the spiritually unaware personnel didn't get suspicious. That required Kazura to work long nights to install said equipment into the building.

The nightmare, again, had been of things he had never seen before. He wasn't aware of ever being to Australia, but somehow he had visions of the land down under... And horrible visions at that. Monsters arising from the ground and attacking random civilians. And if he didn't know better, he could've sworn he saw Marcus and Kitai in his nightmare. But why would he be dreaming of them? Couldn't be. Regardless, he had to quickly snap out of it as he had a visitor. He hadn't seen Takara in awhile, hadn't seen her since her trip to Russia with Vesta and Jak, and was glad to see her. Hopefully she had a report for him, as she hadn't yet reported on any of her activities since joining the company.

"What can I do for you?"

[Takara Takeda]

Staring at the man that had been come to be known as her boss brought distaste to Takara knowing that such a human although powerful and rare was nothing compared to a Mod Soul especially not her. However, he like all entities had something that he excelled at and it was something that Takara required for the moment. It was why she had come to Kazura. "I'm here to go over a piece of equipment that I'll pay you to create for me." Takara never one to submit herself to someone else of her own free will didn't bother asking if Kazura would make what she wanted nor did it sound like that was even a thought in her mind as her tone would give off a sensation that she was telling him to make her what she wanted.

[Kazura Uzaki]

Kazura's eyebrow raised as he could feel some sort of animosity coming from the mod soul. He was an expert at analyzing people, getting to the root of their feelings, and for some reason there was a sense of distaste from Takara towards him. Had he not been paying enough attention to her? Not been satisfying some needs of hers? Had he not given her access to whatever she needed in her quest to locate more Mod Souls? Well, no matter, she had a task for him. Laying out a sheet of graph paper, he drew a pencil from his pocket like a soldier would draw a sword from their sheathe. Pointing the lead device at the woman with a flair, his mouth opened slowly.

"I'm all ears."

[Takara Takeda]

Although it took him a moment to really get ready to listen to what Takara was here to ask for him to make it didn't take very long. She had seen the expression written across his face which told her he wasn't quite sure why she was talking to him in the way that she just had. Perhaps to him he had been giving her everything he had promised and in some ways he was yet whether or not the results were worth it was what mattered to Takara. When he got his pencil out along eight the sheet of paper Takara knew he was ready. "Simply put I'd like you to build me a dress. One that covers the majority of my build while giving me some sort of protection."

[Kazura Uzaki]

Twirling his pencil, Kazura began to sketch out a blank figure of a woman onto his paper as soon as he heard the request. It looked creepy, without hair, facial features, a chest, or any clothes. Just a blank figure with which to draw a dress on top of. "With it covering the majority of your build, I'm assuming you're looking for more of a ballgown than a sun dress, then?" Focused on his work, he listened for input from Takara while sketching his idea of a good dress. Not having colored pencils, and not really needing them for this project, the dress he sketched out was gray from top to bottom.

The top of the dress, above the waist, was made up of thick lace covering the whole chest with sheer lace covering the neckline. It also had sleeves down just past the elbows that also were made up of thick lace and sheer lace. The bottom of the dress was simple, but elegant and stretched to the floor. "The dress may look plain, but putting a little bit of my soul energy into it I can make it near bulletproof. The trick will be to make it also absorb the shock of any trauma... It won't be enough to make it durable if the dress itself will push into your flesh if someone dares attack it..."

He tapped the pencil on his forehead for a moment, then nodded and drew a circle to signify zooming in on a single layer of the dress. "We'll make it like corrugated cardboard. A layer of soul fiber material on the outside, a layer of cloth in the middle, then a layer of soul fiber material on the inside. While this may make the dress a bit warm in the summer months, I'm certain that it would provide a good deal of protection to you. Now as for the cost of this dress, it will require my personal attention and a bit of my soul to create. Factoring in the cost of similar outfits sold in the UE shop, to construct this I would need... 22,000 Ryo. Sound fair?"

[Takara Takeda]

Standing while she watched and listened to the movements of the pencil that Kazura was currently using in order to sketch the dress design that she wanted him to make for her was to Takara a boring period of time that she knew she simply had to put up with in order to make sure he had all the information he would need in order to make it the way that she needed. She wasn't to keen on needing to be places that she didn't want to be to many times had that turned out to be trouble. Her instincts gave her what she needed to know when to be somewhere and when not to be and although this was quite boring at the moment she knew that Kazura poised no threat to her. For a human though his speed of movement was quite swift.

She had been expecting to wait double the amount of time she actually had been waiting before Kazura began to speak once again. "A ballgown is fine just don't make the gown so large that movement is restricted." Takara didn't want to have to evade an attack only to have the gown of this dress to catch on something causing her to become trapped or struck in place and vulnerable to the enemy. Kazura had the right idea of what Takara wanted this dress to be able to accomplish and the method that he spoke of in order to manage crafting such a tool was quite impressive. When he finally got to what he expected in terms of cost for this dress the Mod Soul simply sighed. "Deal. Let me know when it's finished and I'll bring the ryo with me." Takara had spent enough time here already it was time for her to continue with her . . . experiments.

[Kazura Uzaki]

Kazura nodded at the acceptance of the cost of the dress and let Takara leave. She was bored, it was obvious, and she had something better to be doing apparently. He didn't need her around any more, so he let her leave and got to work on getting the material prepared for the dress. He looked at a few dozen dress patterns on a few different fashion websites, compared them with his own vision for the dress, then began to work. It didn't take long for him to sew the dress perfectly to Takara's height and build specifications with the three layered cloth that he had imbued with Soul Fiber science on the outside and inside. He hung the dress up after the few hours it had taken him and sent Takara a message that it was finished.

She'd be up in her own time, as usual.