[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team head to headquarters to get their badges]
Itami: Once we get to headquarters we will get your badges and then we'll get your first mission ready.
Mitsu: what are we going to do with leo?.
[itami smiles]
Itami: you'll see.
Mitsu: ok.
[itami shoots leo]
[everyone looks at itami in shock]
Mitsu: how could you do something like that?.
Itami: he was no use for the team, plus he was annoying.
Hikimi: Now we have three international members.
Toby: Ok captain obvious, now what was that for?.
Itami: he would have been a compromise to the team, plus we wouldn't have been able to take him on any missions because of him being so loud and he has a risk of endangering us.
Mitsu: It's understandable, but why kill him?.
Itami: his government told me that if i didn't have any use for him to kill him because they were planning on executing him anyways.
Mitsu: oh ok.
[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team arrive at headquarters]
Itami: Now, anymore questions.
Toby: What do you want us to do with the body?.
[itami smiles]
Itami: I'll get someone to clean it up, first we need to get everyone their badges.
Toby: ok.
[itami,hikimi,mitsu and the international team walk down the hallway]
Itami: ok let's go to my office, mitsu and hikimi wait in the training room.
Mitsu: ok.
[mitsu and hikimi walk down the hallway to the training room]
Itami: [sigh] now we need to talk.
[itami hands the international team their badges]
Itami: hikimi isn't who she seems, she is actually a saviours strand that has a second consciousness.
Toby: So you want to kill her too?.
Itami: no, because she is the only one who can stop yadara.
Porthos: and how is that?.
Itami: yadara won't hurt his sister he will break down at the sight of her being alive and then we can take him down.
Alina: So you're using yadaras dead sister to capture him?.
Itami: pretty much.
Alina: I think you should let me build a bond with him and once the time is right to kill him.
Itami: That's a good idea but what yadara has done to this city he should suffer.
Toby: Well whatever the circumstances are we should take him down at all costs right?.
Itami: I suppose so.
Toby: Good, let me get the other two badges and I'll go to the training room to give them to hikimi and mitsu.
Itami: But we still need to discuss the mission.
[toby holds his hand out]
Toby: You told us Mitsu is our captain, and Mitsu told us at the meeting that she wanted me and hikimi to scout out some strand hotspots.
Itami: [sigh] you hold a good head on your shoulders, don't forget i'll kill you once you become useless to me.
[itami gives toby the badges and toby smiles]
Toby: I know you won't kill me, because once you kill me you don't have a direct shot to yadara.
[itami looks at toby surprised]
Itami: what?.
[toby walks down the hallway to the training room]
Toby: figure it out.
[itami walks to his office]
Itami: He's right, if I kill him we won't have anyone on our team to take yadara down.
Itami: I mean hikimi is pretty much a sacrifice to break yadara down. That's why I got a sniper on the team to kill both of them in one shot.
[toby arrives at the training room]
Toby: Well girls, I got your badges.
[mitsu looks at toby surprised]
Mitsu: how did you get these?.
Toby: oh, I had to tell the captain off.
Hikimi: why would you tell him off?.
Toby: because he's ruthless to people who are here to clean up for him.
Hikimi: what do you mean?.
[mitsu looks at toby surprised]
Mitsu: who is cleaning for him?.
Toby: You know exactly who I'm talking about.
Mitsu: who are you talking about?.
Toby: you know.
[toby points at hikimi]
Toby: She is.
[hikimi looks at toby surprised]
Hikimi: what do you mean?.
Mitsu: it's nothing, now you two will be going to these strand hotspots.
[toby looks at mitsu surprised after she hands him the paper]
Mitsu: Now I'm counting on you two to do good.
Hikimi: We will.
[toby and hikimi leave headquarters and walk down the street]
Toby: [sigh] I can't believe these people.
[hikimi looks at toby surprised]
Hikimi: what do you mean?.
Toby: It's nothing.
[toby looks at the map]
Toby: this map says that there is a strand hotspot at an abandoned office building not too far from here.
Hikimi: ok, we'll go there first.
[after sometime toby and hikimi arrive at the abandoned office building]
Hikimi: Well, let's go inside.
Toby: ok.
[toby turns on his flashlight]
Toby: This place feels so empty.
[hikimi sees someone in front of them]
Hikimi: wait here.
[toby looks at hikimi surprised]
Toby: what?.
[hikimi runs and cuts the strand user's head off]
Hikimi: That's one.
Toby: Now where are the others?.
Hikimi: they're most likely on top of us.
[hikimi uses her oppressors strand to blow the rest of the building to pieces]
Toby: I guess you were right.
[toby thinking to himself]
Toby: I've never heard of a saviours strand using their past strand, usually they have a new strand.
Toby: I guess she really isn't who she seems but it doesn't mean i can't get to know more about her.
[hikimi smiles]
Hikimi: that's 104 strand users.
[toby looks at hikimi surprised]
Toby: You're pretty strong huh?.
Hikimi: yes i train everyday so i dont fail on my missions.
Toby: You know training doesn't help you not fail, it's your mindset.
Hikimi: I know.
Hikimi: where is the next hotspot?.
Toby: um.
[toby looks at the map]
Toby: It's at a house not too far from here too.
Hikimi: ok.
[yadara gets the scent of narimo]
Yadara: narimo?.
Yadara: It can't be she's been dead for ten years.
[yadara looks out the window]
[yadara smiles]
Yadara: it has to be her, she's the only one i know that has an oppressors strand.
[yadara leaves the building with his mask on]
Yadara: [sigh] well it won't hurt to go see if it's actually her.
[yadara jumps building to building and stops once he sees hikimi and toby walking down the street]
Yadara: So this is who has the scent of narimo.
[yadara uses his branch of power to see that narimo is inside hikimi]
Yadara: so narimo is inside her.
Yadara: Well it confirms that she's being used as a saviours strand.
Yadara: I'll keep an eye on this girl for the time being.
[yadara jumps to another building]
Yadara: The thing i don't understand is that, that's narimos body as well.
[yadara laughs]
Yadara: So someone did a surgery to put a second consciousness into narimos body so she wouldn't remember herself.
[yadara looks at the sky]
Yadara: narimo, i will free you from the tourtures that they have you under.
Yadara: The time will come soon enough.
chapter 41 january 25th