A ringing sound was heard throughout the house.
"Yeah, coming!"
Running to the door with a toothbrush in hand, and nearly tripping over boxes of sweets, Chisato found herself opening her own door to Takina.
"There has been a recent outbreak of assaulting of lone Lycoris. 4 have already died, and as such I will be joining alongside you within your apartment.
"Huh? Assault? You want to…live here!?"
"This is…a professional's room?"
"Oh, no. It's down here, follow me."
"What?"
Takina watched in dismay as Chisato opened a door, and disappeared as he climbed down.
"Make yourself at home. Iced tea? And what about your leg from battling with Silent Jin yesterday, is it fine?"
"Yeah. But since we're going to be living together, we should split chores. I have already organized a chart."
"Boring."
"Really? Hm…what about rock, paper, scissors?"
"Yes! Yeah, that is super!"
"I see. Then, we should begin right away to predetermine the settings."
"Rock comes first! Rock-paper-scissors, shoot!"
—-
Takina regretted greatly about agreeing with a professional Lycoris, who could dodge bullets at near point blank, to decide chores using games of rock-paper-scissors. Despite the incredible odds, Chisato won each one and the list ended up having Takina on everything.
—-
Meanwhile, Robota, the hacker rival of Walnut-aka Kurumi-was speaking with the man who caused it all, who was the reason those lone Lycoris died. Half his face was covered by a mask, although he seemed to still show emotion. Additionally, as he was shirtless, most of his chest was covered in wrappings which some being stained red.
Majima seemed incredibly uninterested in what was rambling out of Robota's mouth, even when he showed the next target to hit up: Chisato.
"She looks just like…never mind. I don't care about these…fodder pawns. Just to make sure, you do know what my objective is here, right hacker?"
"Uh…we're looking into reasoning on how every terrorist in Tokyo disappears as if it were magic."
"There, we're getting somewhere. This DA will be crumpled up into bits and tossed away. But, you said that these smartphones from those little girls would help you find DA and their headquarters, yeah? It's been a month, kid. 26 of my men have already died."
"Y-yeah, they were unforeseen casualties, but we are rolling and this top Lycoris is interesting, isn't she?"
"Nope," Majima growled as he had a crazed look in his eyes, and put a gun to the hacker's head, "this won't do enough. You got three more days to find DA. Get to it."
—-
"It's been two days already….I need to find some way to divert his interest to that Lycoris, somehow. These damn hackers! They can't do shit, now I can't find DA in time! Ah. An update? Oh, I found her and her partner! Great, this will let me find where they live quite easily…hold on. I'm just like that one hacker, I'm secretly filming these girls. Wait, why am I so concerned?! I'm a hacker, god damn it!"
Robota had a drone follow the girls, as he stationed it outside the nearly blocked off window when they entered the apartment.
"Great, hehe. Let's get this started."
Confirming where they resided, he called in two men-only to have seen them be chased by a young girl and fear for their own lives as she kicked them out the balcony.
"See, it's handy to have an alarm like this. Although I do have to get new windows again…"
"Is this why you have a safe house?" Takina asked, following behind Chisato.
"It makes it pretty neat to deal with intruders. Once I had LilyBell come by to me, though. That was tougher than what these night robbers were."
"What? LilyBell?"
"Well…I think just a boy version of Lycoris? I don't know what they do, though."
Sitting at his 12 monitors, Robota was shocked at how quickly and easily she dealt with the intruders-even not killing them.
"Jeez, how is she like this? Wait, will Majima be interested if I show him this video? This could-"
Robota was interrupted by his door being kicked down, and was sweating as he spotted Majima and his two big goons. They quickly made him kneel over, as Majima walked towards the robot head.
"It's been three days. Any last words?"
"W-wait! You need to see something, the Lycoris-"
"Hey. I thought I told you, this isn't about Lycoris," Majima coldly scoffed as he put a gun to Robota's helmet once again.
"Stop! Y-you need to see this clip!"
"I need to balance things!"
"I'm begging you, just see this video!"
Robota panickingly squirmed and yelled as Majima crouched and pressed the firearm even more firmly, but a quick activation of his Monitor saved himself. A video of Chisato chasing after the intruders as she shot bullets played over and over, spreaded on the monitors.
"Y-yeah! This is..the top Lycoris! Y-you can't ever dream of getting to DA if you don't manage to kill her beforehand!"
'This girl again. Was that a necklace? It's a little blurry. I can't seem to shake something about her. Maybe it's my instinct to fight the top so I can crush them all. Fine.'
"I'll kill her, Just…think of a plan, now."
—
The next morning, Chisato was by Kurumi's side trying to figure out information on the attacks.
"How do they tell Lycoris? And these are the people who hacked DA a little while back?"
"Ah…" Kurumi seemed to stutter a bit after hearing Chisato talk about the DA hack, "I don't know about the hack, but maybe they've already caught onto the uniform you guys wear?"
"Uniform…ah! So it's this! I have an idea!"
Meanwhile, Takina was slumping and feeling down as Mika and Mizuki watched.
"What is it, Takina?" Mizuki asked first.
"I just…I can't win against her. We were doing rock-paper-scissors, and I lost all 21 time."
Looking at each other, Mika and Mizuki seemed to know something Takina did not.
"You're using the 'rock comes first' rule with her, aren't you?" Mizuki asked.
"You will never win against her using that," Mika added on, "she uses the clothing and muscle movement to predict your next move."
"Yea. She'll read what you'll do next if you do the rock first rule. Since you start with rock, if you don't change she'll obviously use paper. If you start to change, she'll throw scissors and that way she can't lose, right?" Mizuki explained, seemingly having suffered the same fate in the past.
"Your chances of winning are zero, and she has a 33% chance of tying with you," Mika calculated.
"Even more, you have to not only toss that rule out the window, but you also must win on the first go because you'll never win if it's a tie," Mizuki over exaggerated, likely having experienced too much.
"Hey, people! I'm going to be out for a delivery to the boss!"
Upon entrance, Chisato found the room to be quite silent.
'Huh? Did I do something?'
"What happened?"
"Just go and make that delivery," Mizuki demanded.
"I'll come with in a short moment," Takina added as not to leave her alone due to the recent events.
"No, no. It's just that they probably recognize the uniform now. But I had a genius idea! They'll never figure me out in this!" Chisato sang as if she had invented something extraordinary.
"I'll dress like that too, then," Takina stated.
"It's fine! I'm just gonna be looking forward to dinner again!"
'Besides…I think it's best you aren't with me at every moment. Don't be like Yarim.'
The door closed as Chisato left in the morning sunshine.
—-
At night, Kurumi investigated and found something of great importance. Yelling, she opened the side door to her little cubicle and bounced her way over to the three hanging about.
"Look at this! This is from the Arms Deal, and these four were the ones killed in the assaults! They must've gotten ahold of this somehow, then targeting them!"
"It must be the hacker grabbing this," Mika remembered.
"DA still hasn't found them, somehow," Takina added.
"Isn't it one of your little friends? You haven't found them yet?" Mizuki questioned.
"Well…I was the one who hacked Radiata…" Kurumi explained, knowing full well how they would take this information.
"I was just given a request..I also couldn't approach the client either."
"So you have all those weapons to the terrorists?!"
"No! I was the one who only attacked DA at the set time!"
"Yeah, unfortunately a mountain of guns were given and Takina was fired as a result."
"Mizuki," Mika started, but she had already stopped.
"Where is Chisato?" Kurumi asked, panickingly looking around the cafe.
"She left for delivery some time ago this morning-" Takina started, before Kurumi quickly showed the other footage. Chisato was on it, and the three instantly knew who the next target of the assaulting would be, whether they could recognize the uniform or not.
Mika quickly moved to the telephone that was usually meant to pick up orders for the cafe, and dialed in the Lycoris' number.
"Hello, hello? Chisato he-"
"Chisato, look out. The enemy is targeting you."
"Woah, woah, hey, hey, hey!"
The line cut out as a screeching car noise and the impact sound were heard. Stressing, Mizuki and Mika didn't like the sound of what happened, as Takina quickly ran out in uniform.
"Kurumi, find her!"
—-
A large number of vans pulled up after the car, as a green haired man with a half mask, trench coat, and small tophat exited the car. His gang followed straight behind.
"Stand back, I need to check something."
Turning Chisato over using his foot, Majima saw the sparkle of a symbol he remembered. The Alan Institute. However, as he was going down memory lane for a few seconds, Chisato found the opportunity to throw off her poncho as a makeshift flash bang and disable some of the men with a few non-lethal shots.
However, Robota had been tracking the girl as he pinned her location for the men to catch up. Even being the top Lycoris, Chisato could not outrun a vehicle as Majima chased after her.
"I'll send you flying again!"
"What a pain!"
Chisato turned around and begun to aim, but Majima fired first and found himself shocked as the girl effortlessly moved away from the bullet and instantly fired back, with no fear of the passing bullet whatsoever. Shooting the driver and Majima himself, the van toppled over as Chisato found herself in a tight position.
Meanwhile, Takina found the poncho as Kurumi begun to look into nearby cameras, as Kurumi drove at least 20 over the speed limit and skillfully passed by honking cars with Mika in the backseat. If not for the special Lycoris symbol on the back of the car, the several reports would have created a police chase after the woman.
"DA still hasn't even found the culprit of all this!?" Mizuki yelled over the call as she nearly scraped the side door of another.
"Not yet, their 'Lycoris Bait' plans seemed to have backfired," Kurumi responded.
'Using Lycoris as bait, huh? Wouldn't be the first time…last time, I had to argue with that old lady in attempts to change things. That time, Chisato's old partner stepped in, but now? Looks like this ol' man will have to call her once again.'
Kurumi's drone spotted the Lycoris, and started to send the location to Takina and Mizuki.
Chisato had her gun aimed at the man, who's mask was partially cracked from the impact. His hat was nowhere to be found, and blood covered his left eye and slightly stained his clothing.
"So you're the one doing the assaulting?"
"What a way to put it," Majima said as he took hold of her hand and spat some of his blood to blind the girl. Then, he delivered a tough blow as she faltered and fell backwards. Things were looking terrible as Majima kept brawling with her, and his men surrounded the fight on all sides as they cheered for their boss.
"This is what you get for not using live ammo, softie!"
Falling once again onto the ground, Chisato found Majima pointing his revolver towards her.
"An Alan Lycoris. What is your mission? I bet-"
Not able to finish his monologue, a silent bullet hit his revolver, knocking it further from the two. Majima seemed to realize something, and quickly weaved through cars.
"Tch. I was too quick to act. I should've gone for that head.l
Then, men fell to the ground one by one as no loud noise was made. Chisato processed the situation, and realized backup had arrived. Grabbing her gun, she fired at Majima and his men in attempts to leave them disabled. Then, a red car with a Lycoris symbol nearly ran over men as it sped towards Chisato. Chisato jumped into the car as the door opened, with Takina following behind as the backseat quickly became cramped with the man and two girls on their sides.
"Mizuki! Floor it!"
"With pleasure!"
The tens of men left fired at the car from a distance, but to no avail as it was specially made for undercover Lycoris operations-disguising as a normal car which was bulletproof for cover.
An unmanned van begun speeding to intercept the fleeing car, as Robota hacked into the systems as he once did with Walnut's car. However, Mizuki had already practiced avoiding as she had just sped around civilian vehicles, and the hacker car slammed into a fountain near the vast river that held Walnut's car.
"Hacker! I'm gonna use that car!"
"Hey, Chisato! A guy is aiming something big at you!" Kurumi yelled as one of the gang members aimed an RPG towards the car.
"I ran out of ammo!" Takina panicked as Chisato missed shots on he man. However, Kurumi saved them as she crashed one of her drones into the man-which still fired the rocket, however it whizzed pass by the car and hit the hacker car. Majima, noticing the projectile, turned as he realized, but it was too late as it made impact, and he landed in the river.
—-
"Basically, she's the cause of it all."
The staff of the cafe were finally all at base, as Mika helped patch up some of Chisato's wounds and Kurumi was kneeling on the floor in front of Takina.
"I'm incredibly sorry, Takina!"
"Whatcha want to do, Takina? Beat her up-ow!"
Mika accidentally pressed on a wound while wrapping a bandage around it.
"It wasn't your fault…but, you'll need to stick with us to find this guy until the end."
"Yes! And I found this guy's name as a start!"
A video of the crew cheering 'Mr. Majima' played on loop.
—-
The door was kicked open violently.
"My door will break soon!" Robota yelled.
A wet Majima stepped into the room, with his goons following him as usual. His mask was still cracked from before, with his tophat also found as it had been blown into the river, and all of his clothing dripped water onto the hacker's carpet.
"Hacker."
"Y-yeah?!"
"I'm very impressed. You found such an interesting person. The only one who can strike balance with me! You've got a big job now. You're gonna need to tell me a lot more about this girl!"
—-
"There, all good now, Chisato. Although it is rare for you to be injured…" the doctor said in the morning, as Takina and Chisato visited for a quick check-up.
"Her eyes are her weakness," Takina explained.
"Isn't that for everyone..?" Chisato replied.
"Heh, you two make a surprisingly good pair."
"Takina, I feel a lot more at ease when you're with me, so you need to live with me more!"
"Fine, if you can win a best of 3 games in rock-paper-scissors."
"Ooh..sounds good!" Chisato snickered as she prepared her ace trick.
"Rock comes fir-"
"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!"
Chisato was left faltering as she was not expecting Takina's new strategy. She sent paper, as Takina had scissors. Screaming in her confidence being shattered, Chisato watched as Takina did a happy dance while celebrating.
Afterwards, Chisato won regardless as luck was on her side and she won twice in a row. Takina was left to live with the Lycoris even longer, along with regret of not setting it to just one game.