Chapter 9: Knave

~Two months later~

As people are walking through the streets of Shizume Town, what looks like a thirteen-year-old boy looks down humming a song but stops as he takes out his phone. After pressing a few buttons, he then shifts around using the camera app and found two people he was looking for and smirks.

"High Score Kill… Found ya!" He says and raises his phone upwards and a hologram of a green parrot mascot appears from it. "By authority of J-Rank. Launching Mission 2086." The boy then laughs.

"Voiceprint verified. Mission 2086 authorized by J-Rank… Activate!" The parrot spreads its wings as its eyes flash green and green lights spread out and shortly disappears.

On the sidewalk, a young man wearing sunglasses bikes through the people and gets a green parrot plush toy from a man. He then touches the sunglasses with his thumb when green light covers his head with a helmet and the visor flashes green.

"Hey, Kurosuke. What are we eating?" Neko asks Kuroh when the young man bikes pass the two as he tosses the plush toy at them and Neko catches it. "Wow! What is this? A bird?" She and Kuroh inspect it before Neko bites into it and stops. "Can't eat it…"

"Hey!" Kuroh calls out but it's too late as the young man is already too far away.

"Target acquired. You've earned 100 JUNGLE points."

Seeing the young man gone, the two looks back at the plush toy when it suddenly bloats up as the eyes flash green and explode on the spot.


~A Few Days Later~
At the flower shop

Mizuki looks up hearing the multiple of explosion going off.

"What's going on?" She questions.

"Mizuki." The blunette turns to see Ren walk up to her holding a potted flower. "Is there something wrong?"

"Yes. Lately, there's a lot of explosions happening."

"You're right." Ren nods.

"It's probably the Green clan's doing." Takeshi speaks up as he holds two bags of dirt over his shoulder and under his arm. "Ever since two months ago, the Green clan are being more active, no, even more active ever since then."

"But why?" Ren asks.

"One is to find the First Silver King, Shiro-kun," Mizuki answers and looks down. "As for the second one…"

"Probably, the Third Blue King, Munakata Reisi." Takeshi finishes. "Since he's supervising the Dresden State."

"Also Munakata-san has a burden of killing a King causing his powers as a King in a critical state."

"Hey, Mizuki." The said girl looks back into the store to see Cou has his head peeking out of the back doorway. "You have some guests came."

With that, Mizuki goes back into the shop to the back door to see Kuroh and Neko standing at it.

"Kuroh-kun. Neko-chan." She calls. "But why are you two here?" Mizuki asks and notices some scratch marks on their bodies. "Where did you get those injuries?"

"it's the Green clan's doing." Kuroh answers as he and Neko enter the building. "Someone gave us a toy that is shaped of a bird and it exploded."

"Then we need to treat those wounds."

"The pain is already gone. There's nothing to be worried about~" Neko states.

"More importantly, there's something we need to talk about." Kuroh says.


~Later~

All the members of HOMRA and Scepter 4 are gathered at a hotel where their last fight with the late Mikoto was still alive.

"My, my… You all seem quite upset, HOMRA?" Reisi asks as he pushes his glasses up.

"Damn right! Mikoto-san and Totsuka-san were slandered! We'll make 'em pay!" Yata exclaims.

"Kusanagi Izumo, we want you to back down. We will deal with the Green Clan." Seri requests.

"Sorry, Lieutenant Awashima… But Yata's right. Those idiots have to find out the hard way that messing with any of us means getting burned. And I mean literally…" Izumo replies and lights his lighter in his hand. "That's the only way we HOMRA will be satisfied."

"If you put it that way, we've been taken for fools too." Reisi states and looks around. "This choice of place is no coincidence, don't you think?"

Then Anna senses something and looks up. "They're here!"

"Don't watch from behind the lines and show yourself."

The Green Clansmen comes out of hiding as one of them places his foot on the railings.

"The bait was so obvious and you took it!" He says as he holds his phone at the two Clans. The Green Clansmen begins to scan the members of both Clans and gets excited for how many points they will get. "So anyway, we have nothing against you guys…" The Green Clansmen takes out the bird toy. "So die of us, will ya?"

Many bird toys are toss towards the two Clans and explode when contacting the floor causing smoke to cover the ground floor. The Green Clansmen all laughs when the smoke swirls around and disperses causing them to stop to see both Clan members are fine in a barrier that is made by Reisi's aura and surprised at this.

"What's going on?"

"Why aren't they dead?!"

"Such a vile and disgusting sedition. Our lock-up is not what you call comfortable. I hope you're prepared." Reisi states.

"You said HOMRA is dead? Don't you know? We have a new King." Izumo says and Anna steps out from behind him. "A strong king who rivals Mikoto."

"You laughed… at the lives that Mikoto and Tatara lived." Anna says furiously and red aura spills out from her feet as both red and blue The Sword of Damocles appears above the hotel. "I won't forgive you."

"Shall we begin then? For our cause is pure!" Reisi signals.

"Men! Draw your swords!" Seri orders.

"Yes, sir!"

The men of Scepter 4 draw their swords out one by one and the safety lock on Reisi swords is off.

"Munakata, ready!" He says and draws out his swords and places in front of him when blue aura spills out.

"Time for us too." Izumo says.

"Don't let those Blues get all the credit!" Yata exclaims.

"No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!" The members of HOMRA except Izumo and Anna shout.

"Do not let the Red Clan outshine us!" Seri orders and the Blue Clansmen charge at the Green Clansmen.

"Leave this to me!" Yata tells Anna and Izumo and takes them out by himself.

As for Reisi, he faces against machine guns and unscathed thanks to his aura protecting him, which frightens the Green Clansmen.

Outside, a Green Clansman that blew up Kuroh and Neko manages to escape the building.

"What the hell what that? Are they like, monsters?" He dubs and looks up to see Kuroh and Neko standing there. "You two?!"

"We'd like to have a word with you." Kuroh states.

Neko then lifts her arms and wiggles her fingers. "You won't get past us."

The Green Clansman steps back when he hears steps behind him and sees Takeshi and Cou standing behind him with Mizuki and Ren in their weapon form.

"Your stop is here." Takeshi says.

"Don't underestimate me! I'm an N-Rank in JUNGLE! It's not just explosives. I have powers too!"

Quickly, Kuroh charges the Clansman which startles him and is taken out in a second's matter.

"Okay now, I'm going to ask in order." Kuroh states. "Was it your king who ordered this assault? Or… was it from one of your top Clansmen, like Mishakuji Yukari? What are your king's intentions? Do you know anything about a guy named Isana Yashiro?"

"Damn it! Eat this!" The Clansman exclaims pointing his phone at Kuroh but does nothing and a hologram parrot appears above his phone.

"Mission failed. Mission failed. " Then a hologram scream that shows the points he has goes down. "You have lost all JUNGLE points." The parrot drops on the phone. "You will be stripped of all powers."

Simultaneously, the parrot, screen, and the helmet the Clansman wore disappear.

"No way! After I worked so hard to earn those points?! Damn it… I'm an N-Rank. An N-Rank that was close to talking with the king himself! So how could this happen?!"

"Let's go, Cou, Kuroh." Takeshi says and walks passes the Clansman with Cou behind him as Kuroh turns and walks away.

"You're done with him, Kurosuke?" Neko asks.

"He's just another expendable pawn. He probably knows nothing." Kuroh says.

"You're right." Takeshi agrees as Mizuki and Ren turn back to their human form.

"So no one knows Shiro's whereabouts?"

Then the group walks out of the alley as Kuroh speaks, "Are you worried?"

"Nope." Neko shakes her head. "He's our Shiro. I know we'll see him again! We just have to search harder and harder, that's all!"


A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. This all I can do since is this much is shown on episode 1 of K-Return of Kings for Kuroh and Neko as for the rest is all me. As for the scene with the Red and Blue Clans, I put it there to connect with the ending.
Anyways, thank you for reading this story and please review for this and the previous chapters.