Misaki Kirihara ran as fast as she could around the corner. I can do this, she thought. She jumped around the side of the building and duck behind a trash can. She peeked out just as the masked figured approached. She pulled her gun from her bag. This is it, she thought. Now I've finally got BK201. She took a quick, silent breath and jumped out at him, gun held tight in her hands in front of her. She pulled the trigger, but he was ready. Cable shot out from his sleeve and the gun was ripped from her hand. Just at that moment the cloud passed, revealing the full moon, haunting the night. He stepped closer, and out of the shadows, I could see beyond his shattered mask. Half, blown away, it revealed a pale complexion, and deep midnight eyes. A gasp escaped her mouth.
"Li!" He backed away covering his face. "Wait!" she said. He turned to face the wall of the alley, but did not run. "Why?" Misaki asked. "How could you be him?" she said, this time more to herself. He was silent for a long moment then,
"You know now that I can't let you remember this." He said his calm a thin coat of paint over panic.
"You were so nice...and...normal." she said her eyes looking betrayed, even though she had only know him, well the him she thought she knew, for over a week. "You are then. You're BK201." She said with a broken finality. "But no matter who you are, I am Misaki Kirihara, part of the task force; I can't let you get away with this." She said. She stepped out of the shadows toward him, but his next words stopped her.
"With what? What have I actually done? We both work for the same thing right? So what have I actually done? Or is it because I am a contractor." How he stated what he was so calmly, sent shivers through her when she thought of the young man named Li, whom she had just recently seen smiling, so innocent. "Tell me what I have done, one thing." She pondered this, and all she could come up with when she thought about all the contractors and people he had killed, suspected to have killed even. The more she thought, the more the answer was simply,
"You are a contractor, and because of that you are a danger." To that he just chuckled.
"And you don't think that there are any under covering working alongside you? How am I any different?" She was at a loss for words. She had always held a firm bias against contractors, but not once, until now, had she questioned it. She had never told Li, but he was a person whom she felt close to, even though she had not known him long. It was one of those things that weren't supposed to make sense, it just was, and now everything was more complicated.