"Ki... Kirika?"
The girl stares at both Mireille and Chloe. She is holding the black cat.
Kirika stows her gun back into her pocket. Mireille rushes past her to look into the office. Their target lies dead on the floor. Mireille can barely trust her eyes.
"How did you... uh... what happened?"
"I didn't know that you ran in front of us," says Chloe in surprise.
"Idiot, she definitely did not run in front of us!" exclaims Mireille impatiently.
"I took the lift," Kirika explains.
Mireille's jaw drops.
"It's not my fault. I called after the both of you but no one listened to me. So I went alone." Kirika shrugs her shoulders.
Chloe sighs. She comes inside the office and looks at the dead man.
"He was my target," she says.
"No, he was ours," insists Mireille.
Chloe sighs again. At least he is killed by a noir, she says to herself as she peers at Kirika. The latter looks rather confused.
"We are now even, then. I once killed your target, now you killed my target."
"No, we are not yet even! This one was also our target!"
But Chloe isn't listening to her anymore. She turns to Kirika, who is still holding the black cat in her arms.
"Are you going to take it home?" she asks.
Kirika shakes her head.
"Can I have the cat?"
Kirika hands the cat over to Chloe without much objection. Chloe rewards her with a smile.
"Thank you."
"Hey, we are not yet done with this!" yells Mireille angrily.
Chloe is.
Noir failed to do the first task, but they receive the reward. The man in the graveyard, Lyle Demers, had seen Kirika with her gun before he got into the taxi. He, therefore, forced the driver to drive as fast as he could to escape from Kirika, who actually didn't even make any effort to catch him up.. His taxi got involved in a car accident twenty minutes afterwards.
Mireille rubs her aching head with her bandaged hand.
"Shall I make you some more coffee?" Kirika offers, slightly worried.
Mireille didn't talk to her since yesterday. She even avoided to look Kirika in the eyes.
Mireille glances at Kirika and sees her worried face.
"It's okay. I am okay, I mean. Don't worry."
Kirika beams.
Mireille notices Kirika's bandaged knee.
"Did you fall down when you went after Demers?" she asks.
Kirika Looks down at her knee.
"Yes, but it is okay now."
Mireille sighs.
"This was the worst day in history of Noir." she complains. "And we are, again, not able to get more information out of Chloe."
She throws a side look at her gun.
"I hate the black cat." she murmurs unclearly. "And Friday the 13th too." she grunts.
"Pardon?" asks Kirika.
"Nothing." says Mireille quickly.
She puts down two printed articles in front of her.
The first one tells about the car accident involving Lyle Demers.
The second one tells about a mysterious incident in a parking place where some unknown guys were found dead. Since some cocaine packets were found next to the corpses, the police department suspects a fight which somehow occurs between the two groups while doing illegal transactions over the drugs. It seems that all people involved were killed.
"Such things are common," comments a guy from the police department. In the same building a man is found dead in his office. Cause of death—a shot through the chest. Committer : unknown, still in investigation.
"These coincidences..." Mireille mutters quietly.
Kirika pops up from the kitchen, holding a tray of coffee pot and some cups.
"Did you say something just now?"
Mireille takes a cup from the tray.
"No, I am just thinking about this strange day. But.. at least you did the second one. Great job."
Kirika smiles at Mireille. "Thank you."
"And would you be so nice to look at the calendar and see if there are some more Friday the 13ths this year?"
Kirika smiles. "Certainly."
"Not that I believe in such things now, of course!" Mireille adds with every emphasis.
"Sure."
"I am totally exhausted. I want to have some sleep. Don' t wake me up till morning." pleads Mireille.
"Uh, Mireille, we haven't repaired the windows yet..."
"Arrrgggghhhh!"
In the manor...
"I brought a cat home."
Chloe shows Altena the black cat.
"Meowwww," it mews contentedly.
"It is another treasure I got from Kirika," Chloe says proudly.
Altena raises an eyebrow, sweatdrops, and smiles.