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Warnings: Yaoi, mentions of self harming

Svantje Köhler looked through the scope of her Egret with her rose colored eyes as she watched their opponents talking to Arashiyama squad. Her shoulder long blond hair were tied up in a pony tail so they wouldn't get in the way of her sight. Thanks to her outfit in her Trion body it was easier for her to move her arms quickly in case she had to switch targets.

It was the same as her surrogate older brother Minoru. A black tank top with beige cargo pants and some boots, in addition the young girl was wearing the finger-less gloves like him. The only differences from her and Minoru were that she didn't had a jacket tied around her hips and Bagworm equipped on her, but the most important difference was that Svantje didn't have his emblem on her, because she wasn't A-Rank yet, just like she wasn't in Hatohara squad. She was still a solo B-Rank agent.

Anyway now it's time to focus.

Svantje saw that Izumi Kouhei got into a full attack mode and aimed at his head, but she noticed his body language. Before she could warn the others about the bluff someone, with a high possibility Satori Ken, took a shot and like she guessed, it didn't hit since a shield protected Izumi.

"Uwah~ Natürlich wäre er nicht so unaufmerktsam... [Uwah~ Of course he wouldn't be so careless...]" The blonde girl mumbled as she continue to watch them in her position, since Izumi could still be on guard the girl chose not to shoot, but as she saw Yoneya, just like Kitora take off Svantje switched to the former and took a shot.

She only manage to hit his arm, but thought it should be enough, before she took the chance to run. Then she noticed that someone Bailed Out, but she didn't worry much about it, she had faith in Minoru and Jin. She was just glad that no one was following her now.

Svantje,who continued to run, couldn't quite see what was happening with the others, but her attention got caught on something else again as she saw another person Bail Out.

The sniper girl just hummed at that, suddenly she heard a loud crash. Turning to the noise, the young girl saw both Kitora and Yoneya fall off the building they were in. The latter had a Scorpion pierced trough his chest. Seeing Izumi launched out both his Asteroids prepared the blonde girl prepared to snipe his head, but in the corner of her eye she recognized someone and switched her target again.

Unfortunately she was too late and Touma Isami already gave a shot, hitting Tokieda's head directly, but the girl still gave her own shot, not caring that she didn't hit him. Svantje just wanted Touma to not give another shot towards them and her plan was a success. Instead of shooting Kitora, he shot towards her. The sniper girl wasn't fast enough and Touma managed to take off her arm.

She can already image how much her cousin was fuming at the moment, but first she needs to get away from there.

"Ken, Nikko. Are you still there?"

"Yes, yes. I'm being quiet and staying alive."

"I'm here Jun. Isami manage to snipe my arm away, but I can still snipe."

"What are you doing Satori-sempai. Please take your work more seriously. Köhler-san, thank you for your assisting just now."

Svantje giggled while Satori complained about something.

"No problem, but I told you drop the -san and call me by my first name Ai!"

"Ken, increase the radar accuracy for ten seconds. I want to precisely know of Miwa's movements."

"Copy that!"

"They're heading towards to Jin and Mino."

"Shuuji and Kouhei are. Isami is still wearing Bagworm."

"It's a trap. It's to lure us out."

"We still can't ignore them. Jin left them to us. Ayatsuji."

After Arashiyama got the information he wanted to discuss their next move. Svantje giggled again, before run to the point where the older wants to have her. Once she arrived there she looked through her scope.

In that moment Arashiyama came into her view, but not only him. The young girl also saw both Izumi and Miwa heading towards the older, attacking him without any hesitation, but Svantje didn't do anything, she just waited for the right moment.

As Arashiyama used Teleport, Svantje placed her finger on the trigger. It didn't took long before a Bail Out happen. Getting over the shock Miwa was about to attack again, but both Svantje and Satori sniped at their arms. Izumi just lost his right arm, while Miwa lost both of his arms.

Not even a minute later two more people Bailed Out from the other side.

Smiling satisfied, Svantje made her way down to join the others.

"Nikko-chan~ Did you see my Twin-Snipe?!" Satori exclaimed as soon he saw his fellow sniper.

"I did~ I did~ Did you see that I only sniped with one arm?" Lifting her arm she showed the older boy that she only could use one arm, afterwards she let the weapon in her hand disappear, only to grab his hand bouncing happily on the spot.

"Wah~ An amazing feat on your side!" Satori grinned at her as he watched her bouncing up and down, before he turned towards Izumi, asking him the same question, but only got shut down by the Shooter.

"But I'm still surprise to see you Sunshine, judging that I can't see Minoru-sempai's emblem means you still didn't join his squad and I thought once we're back you would do that."

"Sorry~ But I still didn't manage to reach my two goals." giggling Svantje's gaze fell on Miwa who spoke to Arashiyama.

"...You people whose friends or families haven't been killed don't understand the true dread about Neighbor. Jin, isn't taking the Neighbor seriously. Someday he will understand what pain is, but by then, it will be too late." Hearing that gave the sniper girl a sad smile at this, one of the rarest thing that you could see on her face.

She did understand Miwa's pain, despite the situation being different from hers, but the girl also thought that the boy turned his grudge in a wrong way.

"It's not that he's taking them lightly, did you know that Jin's mother got killed by a Neighbor?" Miwa got a shocked expression as he heard that and Svantje decided to join in hope that both he and Minoru could come to peace.

"Just like with Nii-chan. Both his parents got killed by a Neighbor, even his little brother got kidnapped by them. Nii-chan and Yuichi understand the pain of losing someone dear to them and I'm sure the latter has a plan."

Svantje watched how Miwa gritted his teeth and let out a frustrated scream, again she hoped that the latter would understand Minoru better.

"I'm sure you two are going to get along with them amazingly, right Yuichi?" Svantje was skipping happily in front of Minoru, Lukas and Jin as they made their way towards the Tamakoma Branch, the puppy Taka in her arms again.

After they successfully manage to prevent the others to take Yuma's Black Trigger Jin went to the higher-ups to make them a deal, the others were waiting for him, because Svantje wanted to introduce her new friends to her 'older brother' and cousin, while Minoru wanted to ask Yuma something. All of them already knew about what.

They finally arrived at the Branch and as they entered the living room Usami Shiori turned around to greet Jin, but was surprised to see the other males there.

"Mino-kun! Lukas! Welcome back! I didn't know you two already came back from the expedition!" Svantje saw that both Osamu and Yuma were surprised to hear that and had to giggle as the girl saw how Osamu stiffened when Minoru met his gaze.

"I'm Hatohara Minoru, nice to meet you two." Minoru smiled at them, before he pointed at the dog in Svantje's arms. "And this is my dog Taka-chan."

"Woof!"

"Lukas Wagner. Nice to meet you." with a small bow he joined Shiori on the couch and watched the both of them closely.

"I'm Yuma. Kuga Yuma."

"A-Ah! I'm Mikumo Osamu. It's nice to meet you."

The sniper giggled once again and also joined the others on the couch, Taka just rested on her lap.

"Yuma, Nii-chan wants to ask you something."

"Hm? Really?" Minoru nodded at that.

"Yeah, I know you're a Neighbor, don't worry I don't mind, besides you're Nikko-chan's friend. I would like to ask you about the Neighborhood a little, specific about a particular country, if you don't mind."

"I'm not sure if I can help but I will do my best."

"Thank you. Let's go on the roof. You two wait here." On cue the Samoyed jumped down and followed his owner just like the white haired boy on to the roof. Jin also went off, wanting to get some sleep.

The young girl watched Osamu and saw how tense he was while looking after Minoru and Yuma. But it wasn't a look of worry, it was more like of curiosity. Giggling softly to herself she slid besides him and wrapped her arm around her classmate.

"Just ask Osamu!" the shorter male jumped on the sudden contact, before he looked at Svantje, unsure what to say. The girl just grinned, before she opened her mouth.

"Hatohara Minoru, All-Rounder captain of the A-Rank Hatohara squad and part of the expedition force. His squad is only made of him and my cousin, Lukas Wagner, as his Operator, who transferred from the Border in Germany."

Her classmate blinked at that and looked at Lukas for a moment, who was talking to Shiori, before he turned his gaze back to the girl.

"Border has a base in Germany?"

"Yup! Just like a couple of other places like New York for example. Lukas was part of them before he requested a transfer to here. I followed because I didn't wanted him to be alone."

"Why coming here when Germany had their own Border? And I have been wondering... You're quite close to Hatohara-sempai, since you always talk about him, so why don't you join his squad?"

Svantje had to laugh as Osamu asked these two questions. It was pretty much what everyone has been asking them. While she could answer his question without any problems, it would become problematic when it comes to Lukas. His image would totally be destroyed.

"Well, the reason I didn't join is because I like to reach two goals of mine first. One of them is that I would like to reach 10000 points in one of my sniper triggers and the second one is that I want to raise my Trion capacity more. Once I reached these two I'm going to join his squad. For my cousin..." The blonde girl gave a sheepish smile as she looked over to her cousin, who was just starting at them.

Ah... He heard that...

"The reason I transferred here is none of you business Osamu-kun." Said person jumped at the glare directed him, while the sniper just giggled at the 'glare'. It may look like a glare to others, but Svantje knew better, but for Lukas's sake she didn't say anything.

After talking a bit more all of them could hear some steps coming towards them, when they looked up they saw Minoru and Yuma coming back from their talk and Svantje's smile dropped when she saw the older. Minoru was smiling as usually, but... it was fake.

"Well, it's time for us to go. Thanks for your help Ochibi." ruffling Yuma's hair, the oldest looked at Lukas and Svantje, waiting for them to stand up. The sniper gave Osamu and Shiori a quick hug, before standing up and walking towards the older secretly taking his hand, more like she gently took his wrist. She knew that nobody besides herself noticed it, she also knew that Minoru knew that he couldn't fool her.

Once they left the Branch building Svantje jumped on Minoru's back who held her legs so she wouldn't fall down and burying her head in his shoulder as she grabbed his shirt. Minoru glanced at her, before his gaze turned to Lukas, who was carrying Taka in his arms this time. The younger boy didn't pay too much attention to them, probably not reading much into it.

"It's pretty late. You two should sleep over at my place." Minoru suggested since he lived fairly close the Tamakoma Branch, it wouldn't take long to reach it unlike reaching one of the entrances of Border.

The only girl of them just nodded while the younger male shrugged his shoulder and with that they headed towards Minoru's apartment.

"Bitte mach sowas nicht... [Please, don't do that...]" Svantje whispered loud enough for only Minoru to hear. "Versteck dich nicht hinter einen falschen lächeln. Ich bin für dich da... [Don't hide behind a fake smile. I'm here for you...]"

It hurt her to see him like this. She knew that her surrogate older brother originally bright and happy side turned more and more fake these days. The blonde girl missed the days where his fake smile were one of the rarest things you would see on his face and smiled just like laughed like he really meant it.

In the night Svantje didn't leave his side and once they fell asleep she hoped that the older didn't have any nightmares that time.

Name: Svantje Köhler

Position: Sniper

Age: 15

Birthday: 3rd August

Height: 172,2 cm

Blood type: B

Zodiac: Aptenodytes

Occupation: Middle School Student

Likes: making friends, hot chocolate, her family