Chapter 52: Woodpecker's Revenge
Jase, Ganta and I were all trying to find ways of who's connected to EPSILON and how plus where are they going to attack next? Ganta then looked at the map of Dublin and he noticed the red dot where the bombing happened.
"That was an abandoned apartment builiding where I hid after escaping from that cursed prison amusement park. They blew it up for no apparent reason?" Ganta said as he noticed that his hideout was destroyed. "First, the take Shiro from me, and then they destroy the one place I called home? That's crossing so many lines, I won't forgive them for what they did." He also added in a fit of anger.
"Ganta, we understand you're angry, but we need to find out who's behind this." Jase said as he tried to calm down Ganta, and it mostly worked.
"The one's behind that attack was the Tagami's You and Manatsuki." Ganta then gave us names for who's behind the Dublin bombing.
"Any Idea where they might hit next?" I asked, Ganta then picked up a pin and stuck it into the map of Dublin. It was another building that was like the one Ganta used to live in. Our next destination was the abandoned building where Ganta placed the pin on.
As soon as Jase, Revy, Ganta and I made it over to the abandoned building. We then decided to split up into teams of two, Revy and Jase, plus me and Ganta. Ganta and I went ahead to find the Tagami duo, whereas Jase and Revy were going to search for any information on EPSILON along with his known afilliates. According to Ganta, Both You and Manatsuki were working for ESPILON as personal assassins. Manatsuki went by the name "Hummingbird." Whereas her brother was just You.
"We're coming for you, so you better prepare yourselves!" I said as I pulled out my Glocks.
Just then, a series of whip like branch of sin came out of nowhere and started hitting me. Until the branch of sin was aiming right at me planning on killing me, I didn't want to die until EPSILON has seen his last sunset.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A lowly mercenary serving that char broiled bitch Balalaika, and Woodpecker." Manatsuki said as she had her branch of sin wrapped around my neck, about to snap it like a twig. I needed Oyashrio's help, if I can't beat her...then Kapitan and all the others won't be safe.
"If you want your partner to die, do something stupid." You said to Ganta, but Ganta then punched You right square in the face and he pulls out a Benelli M4 automatic shotgun with the intent to kill.
"Is that stupid enough for you? I'm still not going to forgive what you and Manatsuki did to Shiro." Ganta said as he kept his gun trained on the older Tagami .
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" You snapped, Ganta knew that You playing dumb wasn't going to work with him. He took the buttstock of the shotgun and bashed it against his so called "Former friend's" Face.
"Don't fucking shit me You! I know for a fact that you and Manatsuki tortured and killed Shiro for the fun of it!" Ganta said as he knew that Shiro won't come back.
I then took the pistol in my right hand, pointed it at Hummingbird, and squeezed the trigger.
"That won't work on me." Hummingbird said as she used a branch of sin to wrap around my wrist, she was planning on tearing my arm from my socket.
"You might wanna look down." I said trying to fight the urge of death at all costs. Manatsuki looked down and noticed that I shot her right in the leg. She was losing some serious blood. Her grip on my neck loosened, and it was my time to strike.
"You bastard, what are you doing to my sister?!" You shouted, as I had her at gunpoint, Ganta then points his shotgun at You.
"Have you forgotten about me, You?" Ganta said, tears started to pour out of You's face.
"Ganta, Please? Spare us, we didn't mean to kill Shiro, just to scare her." You lied through his fake tears.
"Spare me your fucking crocodile tears and your bullshit lies, the two of you killed Shiro to gain his respect! And you sent me to Satan's Pillbox for a long time over a crime that I didn't commit!" Ganta clarified, he was getting more and more violent as was I.
Then I heard a girl's voice, "Otaku, close your eyes. Ganta you do the same too." She said as we both shut our eyes for a few seconds. A flashbang grenade went off rendering our enemies temporarily blind and deaf. The grip of my enemy was loosened, and i managed to break free.
I charged over to my captor, and emptied the clip of my Glock into her head, I screamed with anger as I pulled the trigger, and when You's sight and hearing came back...he saw the sight of his younger sister laying in a pool of blood dead.
"Manatsuki!" You shouted at his now deceased younger sister. Tears started pouring down the older Tagami's face.
"Now it's your turn You!" Ganta said as he bashed You with his shotgun, Ganta then took his foot and dropped You to the ground.
"Ganta, Please...Show me some mercy!" You pleaded to Ganta but he knew that You and Manatsuki didn't show Shiro any mercy when they killed her for EPSILON.
"Since you and Manatsuki weren't showing any mercy to Shiro when you killed her, I won't show you any mercy either." Ganta replied as he took his shotgun and blew a massive hole in You's chest. Now Hummingbird and her brother are officially dealt with, just then...we were reunited with Jase and Revy.
"Hey guys, you're not going to believe this but there are only fourteen other assassins working for EPSILON." Jase said as he handed me a file containing information on the fifteen now down to fourteen assassins of EPSILON.
The other fourteen contained the following, Crimson Mist, Deadly Peace, Blood Wolf, Major Carnage, Gallow Master, Lethal Panther, Red Poison, Night Hunter, Dead Shot, Blue Fire, The Second, Doom Reaper, Marked Shadow, Bladed Decoy, and last but not least Hummingbird. We couldn't find You on the list because he was more of the support for his younger sister. Thus...one down, fourteen to go.
We decided to show the Intel we found to Balalaika, she then studied it closely.
"Looks like we need some more allies for this, I hear that someone here in Ireland hates EPSILON and is deeply connected to me, he calls himself 'The Undertaker.' If you do meet him, give him this." Balalaika said as she handed me an envelope containing some kind of letter for our soon to be ally.
Now the hunt for The Undertaker begins...
(A/N: I'd like to state two things, first You is not pronounced you it's Yo. *like Yo dude* and the second, The Undertaker is not like the wrestler at all, if you get a chance to go on Youtube, check out "Backwater Gospel." I hope to have more violence in my next chapter if at utmost possible. Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter, and feel free to leave a review, your opinions are greatly needed but no flaming!)
