Through some hacking of the government Albert created two new identities. They did go and set up a hideout at an abandoned factory and began to set it up via more stolen stuff such as generators for electricity, Mélusine was the one who did this while Albert was working on other matters.
After two days they were ready to begin their roles as criminals.
Standing out in front of a bank were Albert and Mélusine on a motorcycle that Albert stole as well. They both had on special biker helmets that Albert made so they can wear them even with their horns.
"You ready? Akaruko Kiyonuma?" Albert said Mélusine's fake name.
"Shouldn't you be saying my villain name?" Mélusine said. "And it's Akaruko Kanrō, your, hehe!" She made a wide smile. "Your wife, Ryujiro Kanrō!" She hugged Albert all the more tightly and lovely.
Mélusine was adamant on them being husband and wife as a sort of Bonnie & Clyde sort of love. It was a rather good idea as it would further help why they are doing crime, for the thrill.
"Just playing around. So shall we start? Red?" Albert gets off his bike and stretched.
Since Mélusine can't change her appearance as much as Albert could she went down other roads. She first cut her hair down to be shoulder length and dyed it black. She could, however, change her eyes. Albert also put on some scars on her face as an excuse for her helmet to stay on. Her clothing of course is primarily red and easy to move around in.
"Let's start!" Mélusine gets off as well. "This is the start of Red & Blue."
To complement Mélusine, Albert wore blue clothing, as for his appearance he had long white hair kept in a low-ponytail with bangs, he had a fairly handsome face with a scar on his right cheek. His eyes were also blue as the sky. He was also in his 20s to match Mélusine. He also kept the charm Asui made in his hideout for safe keeping.
They both wore their special helmets that Albert made.
As the two walk towards the bank their red and blue slender tails entwin with one another like a couple would holding hands. An act that made sure everyone who saw them think they were intimate with one another. Mélusine reached into her duffle bag, Albert had two as well as Mélusine for maximum profits, and drew a shotgun.
They untwined their tails and with Albert taking the lead he rushed towards the entrance and with his claws shredded the entrance. Glass broke and the people both inside and out screamed. Albert paid them no heed and rushed to the bank vault.
Mélusine, however, came in and shot once into the ceiling.
"Shut the fuck up!!" She exclaimed, happy as she gets into her role. She then pressed the side of her helmet to make an opening and then spewed out a bright red flame.
Fwoosh!
"This is a robbery! Anyone move and I'll turn you to ash!" She turned to the back where Albert went. "Blue! How is it going!"
CLANG!!!
The thick metal door of the vault falls over.
"I'm in!" Albert replied as he slices the safes and stuffs the money in. He also made sure to cut every camera.
He moves quickly to fill his duffel bags to the brim before calling Mélusine over to switch.
"Red! Your next!" Albert shouted as he ran back up to the front jumping next to Mélusine.
Mélusine jumped off handing him the gun and ran towards the bank vault and began to fill her bags. While she was doing this Albert kept a close watch on everyone in the bank. His eyes landed on one of the bank tellers.
"You." He points with his sharp claw. "You pressed the emergency button didn't you?
"H—hiiiii!!" She screamed out in fear.
"Stop villain!!"
Albert looked to the sliced entrance to see a group of heroes.
"Oh look police with less consequences." Albert mocked them. "Fuck off or else—"
One of the heroes threw a sharp piece of bamboo at Albert. Albert easily sliced it.
"So violence it is—"
"Honey I got the stuff!" Mélusine came back out with her bags full.
"Lucky fucks!" Albert crouched and with absurd speed blitz past the group of heroes before they all were cut into ribbons, The heroes were still alive, but they will be in the hospital long enough that they wish they had just died. "AHHHHH!!!" Albert roared out in glee, his acting was masterful. "FUCK I AM HARD!!" He turned to Mélusine. "Come on! Let's got out of here!"
"Coming~♥!" Mélusine said in a girly manner as she skipped over the bloody bodies.
The two hurriedly got back on the motorcycle and sped off.
Wee-woo! Wee-Woo!
The police of course began to give chase. With Albert's skills and Mélusine on the back the police stood no chance in stopping them.
"Red, melt the street." Albert asked.
"Okay!" Mélusine smiled as she wrapped her tail around Albert's waist to turn around more easily. She pressed the side of her helmet opening it. She looked up to the sky.
The police in the cars watched as a red glow built up in her chest before slowly climbing up her body to her throat. She leaned forward and opened her mouth.
FWOOOSH!!
The flame cooked the asphalt to melting point, the police tried to stop or get out of the way, but they were too late, their wheels were stuck and then melted off their axels.
"Hahahahaha!!!" Albert and Mélusine cackled as they got away.
Their first robbery went off without a hitch.
By the time the sun had set Albert and Mélusine arrived back at their base. The abandoned factory was situated somewhere in the mountains of the Gifu Prefecture.
"So what are we gonna do with all of this money?" Mélusine asked with her feet kicked up on the table while watching tv on the couch.
"I was thinking of probably making a bed out of it." Albert answered also watching the tv.
"You know that sounds like what a dragon would do. Hording a bunch of wealth and sleeping on it."
"Well I lost 4% of my humanity so maybe my biology is starting to influence some of my aspects." He then opened a bag of chips and stuffed his mouth with them.
"Pass the chips."
"Here."
Albert passes her the bag.
"Hehe! These taste good with some soy sauce!" Mélusine filled her mouth with some soy sauce and ate it with a handful of chip.
Albert turned away from this sight. The tastebud Mélusine had were unfathomable to him.
'Maybe it's just a species thing? Yeah, I'll just chalk it up to that.'
"You wanna try it?" Mélusine offered the bottle of soy sauce to him.
Albert looked at the bottle, a drop shimmers tantalizingly on the side of the top of the bottle. He was curious if now with a less than human body would he like the saltiness of soy sauce?
'Eh. Might as well try something new.'
"I'll give it a try." He holds out his hand.
"Here." Mélusine hands him the bottle.
Albert swishes the bottle around slowly raises it to his lips and takes a sip.
"!" Albert's eyes widen.
Delicious, tasty, delectable, rich, savory, finger-licking good!
"Ahhh~" He understood Mélusine's words.
It has only been a while since he last tasted soy sauce when he and Mélusine went for sushi after the Provisional Hero License Exam, a simple 4% loss of humanity changed his taste so much.
"Hehe!" Mélusine knew Albert finally knew the greatness of soy sauce. "Delicious isn't it?"
"Like the nectar of gods." Albert took a swig of it. "Ahh! This taste way better that it has any right to be."
Ring-Ring! Ring-Ring!
Albert looked across the room at the satellite phone. He gets up and answers the phone.
"Azure. I assume you found Holy Shepard?"
"Yup-yup!" She answered. "When can you get here? I am across from Marina Bay Sands. Currently one of my guys is keeping an eye on him while he gives one of his sermon. Honestly so fucking tacky picking that place, I am much more prefer the—"
"I will be there, you can get a move on." Albert then ends the call.
On Azure's side she made a wide smile as she drank the rest of her drink.
"Ah!" She got up, raised her hand and made a circle in the air. "Let's go boys!!" She shouted.
"Yes!!"
Everyone around her shouted as they got up and followed Azure. They followed her all the way down as she got to the lobby and into a black SUV heading towards Holy Shepherd.
At the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore at the top level Holy Shepherd was giving a sermon.
"And that is why!!" He rose his hand with a bible. "The lord said to forgo your love of wealth and embrace the love of life!"
Holy Shepherd, true name Saint Rex, a African-American born with the Quirk Zealous Follower. With his own good looks, natural charism and silver tongue he fairly early in his life turned to crime after finding that just preaching the lords teachings was… rather boring. He had aspirations, he had dreams! He wanted to start his own and spread it through the whole world, but to do this he needed to know what people liked and disliked, how far could he go with his Quirk?
Sure enough his first congregation at his church he gave his sermons when he was just a boy where the first to be his cultists. Their trust in him made it all the more easier. They unexpectedly gave him an inch, and he took a mile. But he was smart about going about things. He never caused trouble enough to warrant sending Albert or any serious law enforcement.
Any troubles he did get into were swept under the rug with some money in the right places, some political support and backing during election season, and… well the thing Scientology does—used to do. In the current era they were destroyed by some very angry people they had burned in the past.
"Can I get an amen!" His purple eyes shine with as much brilliance as his charming smile.
"AMEN!! CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH!!!"
"That's right!!" Holy Shepherd was taken by surprise, but he kept the show going. He turned around to see Azure. Within his purple eyes was a twinkle of anger. "Hallelujah!"
"Hallelujah!"
The people shouted now under the two Quirk users power. If these two could put away their animosity towards one another they would have surely been a threat worth sending Albert and the best heroes of the world to deal with.
"Why don't you all take a break and we be back in a while!" Azure said coming up to him and waving at the crowd.
"We shall take a 15 minute break!" Holy Shepherd said not leaving his sight off Azure.
Everyone went on to do what like while the sermon was on break.
"Shitty place." Azure came up to him, her guys all began to move and spread around leaving the two alone. "Why can't you pick nicer places to set up your sham of a religion?"
"Azure! It's been a minute since I have seen you around, I thought you were being used as a toilet at Cocytus?" He said still with a charming smile. "You would be an excellent toilet to be pissed, shitted, and cummed in by all the prisoners and guards."
"Aww~" She made a sarcastically disappointed face. "Such a shame they separated boys and girls because we can't have or feel anything human. I really wanted to rub one out thinking on how your face would be if you were skull fucked by your daddy with a splash of cum on your face with some pubes scattered around the eye socket and mouth."
Had the people around them not be mentally controlled or influenced they would note how many sparks were coming off between them. They hated one another so, so very much. Most of it is because they felt that one another was just a cheap copy, inferior copy of one another. Many are thankful for this as the unrealized potential of these two will never be tapped.
"I missed your foul, dirty mind you blue-haired bitch." He glanced around to find her sister wasn't with her. "Ah, where is your sister? I liked her better than you."
"That's right you love people who are a little slow huh? Makes it easier to sell them your garbage."
"Why are you here?" His eyes narrow and his smile was replaced with a frown. "I thought we had a unspoken rule to never meet again after our last meeting."
"Uhhh…" Azure looked up at the sky, a sly smile. She looked down at Holy Shepherd in his eyes as her boss arrived. "No reason."
Tap-Tap!
Holy Shepherd looked up to his side and saw Albert in Morning Star, he was back to how he looked like to Azure when he broke her free. His appearance struck a fear within Holy Shepherd. He tensed up and glared at Azure.
"Did you fucking take a deal or something!" he shouted, his eyes twitching in anger.
"Not really, I am not the one who is gonna be selling you stuff." She then shouted. "Hey everyone! Go have a drink and ignore what is happening between us three!" She points to herself, Holy Shepherd and Albert.
"She speaks the truth!" Holy Shepherd shouted, he was on edge of this situation but considering he can still talk he would trust them as much as he could trust Azure, not very. "Please enjoy your break!"
Everyone smiled and nodded as they went to get drinks.
"It is me." Albert jumped down and landed before Holy Shepherd. "I ask you, do you wanna join me?"
Holy Shepherd looked at him up and down.
"Who are you?"
"He is my boss." Azure came up beside him and leaned on Albert's shoulders. "Sprung me from Cocytus for one hell of a job."
He looked at Azure to see she was glad and smug. She had this feelings while working under someone? He knew Azure as much as he knew himself, both of them were cut of the same cloth.
"If it got you to work for someone then I am intrigued. But I still want to know who you are." He looked at Albert intensely.
"Cain."
"Like the Cain who works for the U.S. Government Cain." Azure added.
'Seriously, how the hell do these criminals know of my codename? I can only assume it was from leak or rumors. Given the variety of Quirks… that is very possible.'
Thinking on it some more he is amazed his own existence has remained hidden for as long as it did, the rumors and back alley talks are the best possible way his name could be known, the alternative would be world famed war criminal.
Holy Shepherd's blood turned cold, sweat dripped down his back as he took a step back. He has heard some rumors and conversation of it, but it was never something Holy Shepherd needed to concern himself with as much as Azure did.
He only knew of him due to hearing what happened with Azure. So he dug as deep as he could on the person who took out his rival.
"You… you are the Gurdian of the Oil Fields, the Carrion Piler. The monster who dyed the Ghawar Field red with blood and the air reek with death, so much so it even overpowered the smell of oil in the air."
"That was actually just the military given freedom to kill all the guys BRICS hired to destroy to oil fields to just slow down America's rise in hegemonic power. I was actually busy killing the Saudi royal family at the time."
Holy Shepherd made a strained expression.
"What is this… job you have that requires…" He looked at Azure. "Me and her?" He looked back at Albert.
"I want to topple my homeland, America."
Holy Shepherd lips unintentionally curled into a strange smile. He was scared yet excited at this monumental prospect.
"Y—you wanna overthrow America?"
"Yes. If you join us it will go so much easier."
"And who is us in this situation?"
"Currently only Azure is my only general at the moment until I get the others. One being her sister and the other being John Lovekiss, if he is still alive."
"Don't know who that last guy is but Cerulean?"
"Say what you will she is an excellent person to be in the one to lead the vanguard."
"I see…" His composure has calmed down, and he began to think of the offer. But thinking about it he only had one option. "I'll join you." He smiled and nodded, not wanting to know what Albert will do if he said no.
"Wonderful." Albert nodded. "But I want you to know," Albert revealed his head as it began to grow branch-like horns, his eyes sharper than anything in the world with a deep callousness in them, he even gave off the aura of a beast to truly intimidate Holy Shepherd. "There is no going back. You throw your back into it, and you do not regret."
Holy Shepherd felt a terror in his heart that soon turned into something indescribable to him. Awe like he was shown the fear of god and he acknowledged it as true divinity in front of his eyes.
"Ooh!" He fell to his knees in reverence, like he was finally met by a god—his god. "True messiah!" He exclaimed.
"…" Albert looked to Azure, a bit… regretful. "Sorry I accidently made him a zealot."
"N—no problem!" She said with a strain smile.
She herself could not blame Holy Shepherd for just became so zealous of Albert. Albert had a presence like a divine being, she felt inferior when looking at him, so she got it.
"Holy Shepherd." Albert said with a sterner tone, he stopped putting out his Beast aura.
"Yes almighty!" He said looking up at Albert as if he was the second coming of Jesus.
"Work with Azure to find her sister and anything on John Lovekiss. Please be discreet."
He gets off his knees and bows.
"As you say, almighty."
"Just call me boss and please do not get on your knees again. Come on."
"Understood, boss!"
With this Albert gained his second general.