The next day rolled by, Mukuro now in front of Makoto and Junko was trying not to make eye contact, after Makoto convinced her that she has to ask for help, she was quite ashamed for pushing herself too much.
"Mukuro I got contact from your commander, it seems like they found out who the culprits are." Mukuro's head shot up, its only been a day how did Makoto already manage to contact them?
"Who are they?" the soldier asked.
"They're soldiers from a different squad, but it seems like they went missing a couple of months ago now here they are targeting Fenrir members." Mukuro felt anger swell up inside her, "Is there any reason as to why they were doing it?" she asked mad.
"Unfortunately we don't know, but the good news is we know who their next target might be." both girls looked at the boy confused.
"There's only one other Fenrir member in the city, its most likely they'll go after them." the luckster explained, "So does that mean?" Makoto smiled a bit and nodded causing relief in Mukuro's chest.
"Um, so why am I here?" the two then turned to Junko, she was silent for all of the conversation.
"I dragged you here so that you and your sister can patch up or clear any unanswered questions, after all you two didn't have much sister time right?" Makoto stood up and left the two girls alone.
The two stayed in silence before Mukuro broke the silence, "What do you want to know?" Mukuro asked quietly.
"Well how about why you're so hell bent on trying to find who the killer is?" Mukuro looked down at the floor.
"Well I never thought I'll be able to tell these stories but here goes..."
...
I suppose it was because everyone in Fenrir showed me great kindness. As you know around 8 years ago I ran away to join Fenrir, without telling you or mother and father.
A ten year old Mukuro was doing push-ups as ordered for her training, due to her only being in the start of her training it was quite difficult to do.
"Come on Ikusaba! 20 more!" the major commands, Mukuro grits her teeth and continues to do push ups, causing the major to smile.
All year around we were worked to the bone, but all of it paid off whenever we stepped foot on the battle field.
Bullets kept on raining as Mukuro and the rest of her team took cover, she prepared her rifle.
"Alright on my signal we charge them!" the major shouts, all of the soldiers nodded. When the man gave the order, everyone jumped and charged with their guns blazing, Mukuro shot everyone single person she aimed at while no bullets hit her.
We won that battle, we had barely any casualties. Of course that wasn't always the case and when we did lose someone the major made sure they had a proper send off.
But Fenrir really treated everyone as one of their own, like in Christmas for example.
Mukuro sat away from the rest of the soldiers who was partying hard, she was too young to drink so she just sat and watched as the rest of her comrades got wasted.
"Ikusaba." Mukuro took her attention away from her fellow soldiers and looked at the voice, who was her commander he was holding a mug of beer and a glass of juice.
"Here." he handed her the juice, which she gladly took, "You're too young to drink, but if you weren't I would have a drink off with you. Who do you think will win?" he asked the young soldier, but she didn't know how to answer.
"You wouldn't win commander." another soldier said as all of them walked up to the two.
"Yeah you're a lightweight, Ikusaba can easily beat you right?" all of the soldiers took Mukuro's side, which made the commander beg for someone to support him.
"Come on I can beat her!" but everyone was still on the girl's side. That made her smile a tiny bit, though no one saw it since they were teasing their commander.
Fenrir, its like a second family to me...
...
"So anyone who hurts my family I will not forgive them and kill them." Mukuro finished her story.
Junko listened to her sister intently, not knowing much about her sister's time in the army Junko never knew how important Fenrir was to Mukuro.
"Mukuro-nee-san... I know what I'm gonna do now." Junko whispered. "Huh?" Junko looked at her sister with determination, "I'll become the best sister in the whole world." she took Mukuro's hands and clutched them tightly, "I may not have done this in the past, but now its different, so please give me a chance Mukuro-nee-san." Mukuro looked at her sister and smiled, "Ok."
Outside Makoto was still listening to the sisters' conversation and after hearing Mukuro's story it was enough for him to go and help her out and that's exactly what he was going to do.
...
The night descended upon the city as the Phantom and Fenrir (now that Mukuro agreed to having help.) were waiting on top of a roof, tonight was their night to catch the two killers, but there was an exchange.
Mukuro had contacted the last Fenrir soldier in Towa so that she can get his whereabouts, the plan was simple, but hard to execute, after all it meant that there was a risk of the soldier dying during the execution of this plan.
"Are you sure that you're ready?" the Phantom asked.
"Yes I want to end this tonight." Fenrir responded, "Alright you take care of things here, I'll work on the inside." the Phantom grappled to the other building and made his way inside to wait for the guy, while Fenrir hid herself so that she can wait for the assassin.
After an hour or so, the assassin came and positioned herself to take aim at her target.
Over at the Phantom's side, the assassin that was going to kill the soldier was walking up the stairs, the Phantom who was hiding himself using the shadows waited for the man to appear when he appeared, the Phantom was caught off guard at his size, he was twice the Phantom's size!
"This is gonna be a slightly difficult." the Phantom took out one of his knives and crept behind the man, when he was near enough he rushed at the man and jumped on his back.
"What the?!" the man grabbed the Phantom and tossed him away, the Phantom managed to land fine and charged again, he leaped in front of the man attempting to stab him, but the man dodged to the side, with a quick turn the Phantom was going to strike again but he was met with a fist instead.
The Phantom stumbled backwards, the man slowly approached him and grabbed the assassin by the neck, "Uh." the Phantom struggled to loosen the man's grip, but it was to no avail.
The Phantom took his knife and stabbed the man in the arm causing him to drop the assassin, the Phantom didn't take a second before taking his other knife out and lunging at the man finally striking him in the neck.
The man walks backwards before finally collapsing on his back as a pool of blood forms on the floor.
"Mukuro its up to you now."
...
Over at the roof, the woman was getting confused as to why her target still hasn't move, her partner was suppose to do his bit.
"What is that fool doing?" she says to herself, Mukuro took this as a chance to attack her.
Fenrir jumped out of her hiding and charged at the woman with knife in her hand, the woman heard her coming and immediately blocked her with her sniper. "Who in the world?!"
Fenrir gets pushed back as the woman aims at her ready to shoot, Fenrir quickly rolls out of the way of the bullets, Fenrir pulls her gun out and fires back. Bullets rain on both women as they try to hit each other, some of Fenrir's bullet hit the woman, but Fenrir didn't take any damage at all.
The woman finally ran out of bullets and decided to go and fight Fenrir up close, taking her knife out the woman charged at Fenrir and ended up locking blades with her. "You're pretty good girl." both jumped backwards readying themselves again.
The two charge at each other again trying to cut each other, Mukuro being a top tier soldier didn't have any problems at drawing her back, "Who put you up to this?" Fenrir asked, "My boss did." the woman answered.
"Who's your boss?!" Fenrir demanded, "Why should I tell you?" Fenrir was annoyed she quickly tripped the woman up and subdued her by pinning her against the ground and pressing a knife on her neck.
"Tell me." the woman wouldn't say a word so Fenrir pushed the blade deeper, "Ok ok." Fenrir lightened her press, "All I know is his name is-" before she can say the name, someone had shot her. Fenrir immediately searched for the origins of the bullet, she saw a figure across the building, the figure was just a shadow so it was hard to make out.
The shadow quickly ran away leaving Fenrir and the corpse alone.
After a few minutes the Phantom went back on the roof where Fenrir was sitting on the floor and saw the corpse beside her, "Did you get anything?" Fenrir shook her head, "She was about to say a name, but she was shot."
"By who?" Fenrir shrugged, she couldn't see the figure clearly enough to make them out. "I couldn't see them fully, I have no idea who it was." she hanged her head, but soon felt something atop it, she looked up only to see the Phantom's hand one her head.
"Its alright, let's head back for tonight you must be tired." Fenrir nodded and stood up with the help of the Phantom, they then made their way back to Hopes Peak, "Who do you think it was?" Fenrir asked, "The red trident doesn't want anyone to know their whereabouts or who their grunts work for, we may not know who the boss is, but..." the Phantom stopped.
"But?"
"I may have an idea, I just hope its wrong."
And we're done next chapter I'll wrap this arc up with a fairly short ending, and afterwards we are jumping into a big one so stay tuned.
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