Stray Cat Strut 5 by RavensDagger

Author:RavensDagger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

A GENIUS IDEA

There are several curated, quick, and even inexpensive services willing to teach a budding or even experienced samurai how to handle public-facing tasks.

We strongly encourage any samurai that wants to have any amount of time in the spotlight to take one or more of these classes. The lessons might seem like common sense for the most part, but they are nonetheless invaluable.

You don’t want to have the public turn on you because of mismanaged PR.

—Family Head of PR John J. J. Johnson, 2051

I could have very easily spent the rest of the afternoon trailing after Lucy and scaring people into doing what she said. In fact, I’d done that before and it was always very enjoyable.

I don’t know what it said about me as a person, but something about seeing Lucy go full girlboss on people, unleashing her barbed tongue then snapping around to being the sweetest, most angelic person in the world faster than anyone could blink really did it for me.

Unfortunately, all good things had to come to a crashing explosion of an end.

Lucy waved the people she was talking to off, and they took the hint, leaving before Lucy had to really ask. She turned toward me, and her head tilted to the side a little. “You okay?”

“Yeah, need to run though,” I said. “Gomorrah needs me, and as much as I’d love to just sit here … well, I can’t.”

“Oh, that’s alright,” she said. “I think I’ve got things handled here. The extra suits and gear will come in handy. I’ll try to stay on top of things, so if you can keep the aliens off our asses, then we’ll probably be fine.”

I nodded, then slid my helmet off, wrapped an arm around Lucy’s waist, and pulled her in close.

Myalis brought up a handy countdown showing me that I had under five minutes left to get to Gomorrah while keeping my word, so I reluctantly broke the kiss. “Okay,” I said once I caught my breath. “We’ll continue that later?”

“Oh, you can bet on it,” Lucy purred.

I grinned, then pecked her on the cheek before backing up and tugging my helmet back on. “Stay safe, alright?”

“I’m supposed to say that to you,” she said. “Go on, go save the day. I’ll be back here making sure there’s people to appreciate the saving once you’re done.” She winked at me, and I ran off with a bit of pep in my step.

Surprisingly, the militia technical was still waiting for me by the front of the mall. It seemed as if the driver had decided that chauffeur duties were either more fun or safer than whatever his actual job was meant to be. “Hey, get me to … uh …” I checked our map, spotted Gomorrah’s tag, then rattled off the name of the nearest intersection before leaping up onto the back of the pickup.

The world outside of our walls was on fire.

The technical slowed to a stop, mostly because a row of firefighting trucks

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