Roma was in the bathroom in her private quarters on her ship, she had just dried her hair and was beginning to tye it into a ponytail style that was left somewhat loose. She wore a blue shirt with two white lines going towards her stomach before descending downward with a white line in the dead center and the sleeves an even darker color with the ends also white, she wore black jeans with the same white lines descending downward all the way to her gray boots along with  black gloves with the outlines also white and a pale blue scarf wrapped around her neck, to finish off her outfit she wore a black jacket with a hood to protect her from the cold and a black belt.

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As Roma waited for Commodore Suzume to arrive she dived her left hand into her jean pocket pulling out a rolled up piece of document sealed tight in a cylinder container, the documentation was of grave importance for the day as it was the key to the operation of today's agenda. Roma out of the corner of her saw small black dots in the sky, she tilted her head looking upwards to see Commodore Suzume touching down onto her ship with a....guest.

Commodore Suzume immediately greeted her and announced the person she was with was Ensign Callista, her chief officer as well as her navigator and that she actually had wanted to meet her for quite some time apparently. Once Ensign Callista introduced herself Roma visibly smiled although her eyes were partly shrouded by the hood, "A pleasure to meet you Ensign Callista and good to see you in good spirits, Commodore Suzume. However, for today both of you can just call me Roma as I will be referring to you as Suzume and Callista, although this is a mission it's important to think of it as a personal day where you are not restricted by my authority."

Roma showed Callista and Suzume the document sealed in the cylinder container, "Today's objection is simple, requiring a base of operations within the city. This is important for two reasons, the first being that the city is a large utopia of sorts on the island and the culprits were hunting down are no doubt doing business there and it will do us no good being outside the city and away from the action, the second is that we need to establish a network base within the city to expand our eyes and ears more than just the people in our squad to not arouse suspicion before we find Craif and Captain Yua"

"Although this is not so much as a benefit to the mission and more so to us, the city on this island is quite advanced and being inside its limits with access to all its technology and knowledge will greatly benefit everyone's particular expertise. Any questions so far?"

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Total WC: 623

Fellow Commodore Suzume seemed to be contemplating other various situations but then she eventually spoke, she acknowledged that Karakuri benefits were that they were out of World Government jurisdiction and it allowed them to move about freely without worry of breaking the usual protocols. However, she seemed to be worried about the method of how she was securing such a building as she expressed her worry about obtaining the property.

Roma had long since realized the precarious situation before them on obtaining property on Karakuri, by posing as regular civilians it resolved the problem of being looked at as threats due to affiliation to the World Government, Roma even went as far as to not make her home anywhere near the base  on the outskirts of the city and her ship did not carry the usual logo of the Marines, by all means she kept herself unaffiliated with the only way to tell she was a Marine were the clothes of her men which she kept on the ship, but after their objective was done she would need to buy them all fresh clothes so they could go around the city freely.

Roma turned her attention back to Suzume as she realized her thoughts and gaze wandered off into the distance in her thoughts, "You have nothing to worry about Suzume." Roma dug into her right-side pocket pulling out a large stack of beli kept together by a rubber band, "This is ninety-five million beli that I have saved up since I been recruited into the marine's, this will be enough to completely buy out one of the old factories abandoned in the city that I was able to find through an anonymous source in the city. If everything goes the way its suppose to we will have a base of operation by the end of the day." Roma slipped the money deeply back into her right pocket, "If that is all let's go, for the sake of retaining normalcy until we establish connections with the people in the city we stop half a mile out of the city and walk the rest of the way. I assume you would want to keep a low profile due to you're natural heritage being quite rare?"

Once her question was answered Roma would lift herself into the air using her devil fruit ability on herself and begun to make her way towards the outside of the city. On the way, she got curious and felt the need to ask Suzume about her history, "So what made you join the marines? As you know the health care is terrible~" Roma said jokingly with a small slightly feminine giggle in between her words that even surprised herself causing her to immediately cover her mouth, "Sorry." she said through her mouth almost like a whisper out of old habit

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Roma let out a small breath of air at the realization that Suzume nor her commanding officer Callista didn't hear her small outburst of laughter, to most it was just a laugh and was easily overlooked but as a young girl she was taught that it was bad to show any of feminine side as it blew her cover as a male but even know it still seemed to be a habit that Roma had trouble letting go of.
Answering her question Commodore Suzume began to explain that her father was also a marine officer although retired, for some reason he had to re-enter in his olden age in which she enlisted to help him when she was of age, she didn't go into great detail but her father passed eventually and she stuck with the marine's to honor his memory as well as accomplish a few dreams of her own. Callista also chimed in saying she just followed Suzume in which she called her Onee-sama meaning they were rather close if not downright siblings.

She also referred to her earlier joke stating that their health care wasn't terrible but rather the job came with more perils then the average job, Roma face twisted a bit as she didn't want to admit it but Commodore Suzume was definitely right. After that there was a moment of silence between the three until Commodore Suzume broke the veil with a question of her own as she asked if her ability to fly was caused by her devil fruit ability, "To be more accurate my ability to fly is just one of the applications of my devil fruit, my ability as far as I know it is removing the gravity of non-living solids and liquids by touch that I can manipulate with hand movements. Another way to look at it is me adding a dome around a object that only I can manipulate which is how I'm flying right now."

Roma slightly glanced towards Callista, "By the way I noticed how you looked at me earlier when I pulled out the money. Let me assure you I'm not rich and in a matter of fact I come from a family of maid's and butlers, I'm just real good at saving money and my profession happens to earn me a lot of money. In fact I joined the marine's after my mother and father and I lost our jobs working for a wealthy family that went bankrupt.


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Total WC: 1,511

As she observed the facial expressions of Officer Callista and Commodore Suzume after relaying the workings of her ability she didn't need to read mind's to know that they were wondering why she confided so much of her special ability to them, long term if they decided to betray the marine's and they became on opposite side's of the playing field they could use the information against her but marine's hardly lived long and those who did often stayed on the side of the World Government. At least for now, knowing how her ability could only strengthen their teamwork efficiency.

No longer dwelling on the information of her abilities Callista was the first to speak stating that she hoped that her personal investment into the mission would pay off for her, she mentioned that she herself would not go so far for the sake of a mission and if Roma had to admit she wouldn't usually either. But as she formed Cerulean Enforcer's it gave her the feeling of wanting to put her all into making it the best squad formation the marine force's had to offer and for that goal she was willing to go the distance, even if it meant losing a couple hundred beli along the way.

Eventually their travel to Future City fell silent as each of their own thoughts began rushing through their mind, Roma had let her mind drift to mental training. In the deep recesses of her mind she was reliving the night where she faced Captain Yua, she recreated the image of throwing dirt around the area to reveal Captain's Yua movements to properly defend herself against him. Now that she thought about it how did he disappear, one moment she was dead on his trail the next nothing and then in a split second she was sent flying with his punch, so far the only thing she knew was that he was after a logia fruit which ended up to be misinformation so the real question was did the fruit he eat allow him to become invisible or was it a byproduct similar to her ability to fly.

She was suddenly broke out of her thoughts when Commodore Suzume uttered that they were close to the city and they should begin their descent, "Agreed." Roma began lowing her altitude whilst tilting her body back so her feet were pointing towards the ground for a smooth landing. Roma looked onward towards Future City, she had been close to it this entire time but this was the first time she would be taking a step in and she couldn't help look at it in amazement as compared to Lulusia and her home kingdom it truly looked like they had just went a decade if not a century into the future.

Noticing how she was aimlessly staring she quickly shook her head back and forth breaking herself out of it, "Right, let's go. Me and Commodore Suzume will head to city hall to register, Callista If you be so kind I like you to scope the area out and get a feeling for the people and how they respond to you're presence." If Roma had to say Callista job was more important then their own task as it was vital to the operation to know how the people of the city reacted for them to act accordingly to avoid trouble.


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Total WC: 2,095

Suzume visibly looked worried as she handed Callista her den den mushi so they could stay in contact with each other, Roma continued too look onwards as Suzume expressed some amount of worry out loud that part of her internal struggle was that they were in unfamiliar territory without world government backing, Roma didn't say anything but she also shared that concern as one of the few superior officers on the island and the other unknown reasons he didn't speak about was that the place to register their meeting involved talking to one of the executives of the Chinjao family who was in charge of businesses, they didn't intend to cause trouble but if things got dicey Callista information could prove as another resource for them to tap into.

"She will be fine, you trained a very capable soldier." Was all Roma said outloud, Suzume might have heard her as she asked what exactly were the documents were to be registered for and if she could do anything to help, "Not likely, the way to operate business is to have documents approved by a citizen of Future City, this documents were signed by a Ensign from the island who volunteered to put his name out for us to help. Only thing to do is show the proof of documentation and hope for the best, I have faith it will go well and if it doesn't I have other ways I rather not tap into."

Roma continued walking heading down the road heading for Future Cities main administration building, at first what was just ice and old looking buildings was quickly overcame by newer buildings with a clean and polished look as they passed the main entrance and was in the city, although it had already been clear from the outside there was no doubt in Roma's mind that the city had technology far surpassing the one's that marine HQ was accustomed to using. She knew her main objective in the city was to capture Captain Yua and the revolutionary but if she could perhaps take some of the technological advancements with her it could prove a valuable asset to the World Government.


"With all this technological advancement one has to wonder what type of food they sell here, I know were on business but the cold has made me quite famished. How about we take retreat in their restaurants and grab a bite, perhaps it could give you some inspiration on new dishes."


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Total WC: 2,511

Suzume showed no objection to the idea as long as time would allow it, Roma had actually planned the meeting to be nearly two hours from now giving them some time to explore in which she herself was going to explore the area as she instructed Callista to do, but with more hands and her task already given to a possible more capable officer Roma sought it out as a chance to heighten her fellow commodore's own particular expertise, she herself was interested in the medical advancements of Future City compared to the rest of the world but for now her own needs could wait since the opportunity to explore the food advancements was looming over them.

"Now that we agree I wonder what would be good to eat around here." Roma began looking around at all the restaurant shop names trying to find a particular cuisine that spoke out to her among the rest as they kept walking, at first none of them spoke to her until they approached the seventh shop that read, "Molecular Ramen". Roma stopped and hummed at the prospect of what the sign meant for the taste of the food, "Hey Suzume what about this restaurant, it looks rather interesting, don't you think? How about we go inside, my treat."


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Total WC: 2,734