The vans drove smoothly through the roads as they approached the fancier districts of Kyoto. Mikisugi knocked on the front wall causing the passenger sitting by the driver to open the panel, "Yo, park us a few ways off, don't want them getting suspicious."
Mikisugi's command was met by nodding from the two agents in the front as the passenger proceeded to close the panel, with Mikisugi stepped back into his seat.

"Hey why does a restaurant have an underground complex anyway?" Nui asked inquisitively.

A swift nonchalant answer came soon from Mikisugi, "Apparently the restaurant used to be the house of an influential politician who was planning a military coup by raising a private army in his underground base, efforts were squashed and now its a restaurant."

Nui seemed amused by this answer, "Huh what an unconventional history, you think it attracts a lot of customers?"

Before Mikisugi can answer the panel slides open once again, this time the driver yelling to the back, "We found a decent spot, we'll be parking in a moment."

Mikisugi then spoke up commanding the agents he sat with, "Alright boys and gals lets get this show on the road!"

The vans pulled up a block away from the restaurant, parking around the corner.
The doors to the vans swung open, Tsumugu getting out of one with Nui and Mikisugi getting out of the other, Mikisugi hand signalling for the agents to stay with the van causing them to close the doors.

"So..." Nui said expectantly.

Mikisugi quickly broke into a response, "One group will search on the exterior for a possible entrance to the underground base."

Nui immediately threw her hand up, "Dibs not me!"

Tsumugu sighed as he responded, "Fine I'll do it, but what about you?"

Mikisugi spoke proudly, "Me? I'm gonna do some restaurant infiltration."

Nui showed more interest in this part of the plan, "Ooo now that sounds more my style, I bet they have some super fancy food!"

Mikisugi looked awkwardly at Nui, "you know we're not actually gonna be eat anything right? But yes you're coming with, since we're gonna be jumping into the hornet's nest I would prefer to leave my body bullet hole free."

Nui cheered joyously with her usual casual demeanour, "yaaay! However... You can't go in the restaurant dressed like that."

Mikisugi looked down at his "outfit" with irritation, "Hm I guess this would rouse suspicion..."

Nui pepped up like a light bulb turning on in her head, "oh! I have an idea!"

Her sudden proclamation caused Mikisugi to stare at her with an intrigued, "Hm?"

Red threads surrounded true Nui for a moment signifying her quick transformation. Clone Nui appeared where true Nui stood seemingly taken by surprise by the sudden switch, waving awkwardly at Mikisugi and Tsumugu who stared at her in expectant confusion. The crimson threads now surrounded clone Nui showing her switching back into true Nui. She stood there holding what appeared to be a few layers of fabric and two thread spools, the fabric was separated into two colours being black and white, with the black coloured fabric being rough and lined while the white fabric is silky and thin with the thread spools being coloured matching to the fabric.

"This should just take a moment." True Nui said this before her hands suddenly disappearing into a whirlwind of movement, as she began to furiously sewed through into the layers of fabric. The fabric began shifting and forming shapes, meanwhile two of Nui's clones where standing with Mikisugi, pulling out his arms wrapping tape measures around his chest, waists, arms and legs. Nui continued sewing vigorously, pulling out a pair of scissors every now and then to cut into the pieces of fabric. She snipped off one last thread with her nail before presenting to Mikisugi and Tsumugu.

"Tadaaa~" She held out a pair of black trousers accompanied by a smart white shirt and blazer.

"Woah." Mikisugi was pleasantly surprised as he took the clothing out Nui's hands. "They fit perfectly!" He then put on the trousers and the shirt underneath the blazer.

"Of course they do!" Nui looked in return with smug satisfaction.

"Where did you get the materials from?" Mikisugi asked curiously.

Nui replied in her usual casual outset, "Oh I brought them on a little trip into city center, and kept them in my pocket dimension!"

Mikisugi responded with another question in surprise, "You can keep objects in there?" Nui nodded happily, causing Mikisugi to continue, "Can you take people or animals in there?"

Nui contemplated this for a moment before answering, "Hm I don't think so, since it manifests the objects in that reality using the energy of my life fibers and well living things are simply too complex to do that with, at least when you only got the life fibers I have that is."

Mikisugi nodded satisfied by this answer, "Hm I see." He continued as he took out a weapon. It was a needle gun, however this one took the form of a black pistol shaped sewing machine. He tucked the weapon into the back of his trousers, "Alright lets get going shall we?"
The prepared to move out before Mikisugi turned to Nui, "Oh and Nui?" Mikisugi paused before continuing as Nui turned to face him, "We'll be discussing this little trip of yours later."

True Nui stuck her tongue out in an attempt to look cute in a deceivingly clumsy fashion while Clone Nui floated besides her, looking at her in disdain.

Nui and Mikisugi walked side by side into the entrance of the restaurant, Nui smiling pridefully as they approached the counter to receive their table, Mikisugi throwing nervous glances towards Nui.

"Hello and welcome to heaven's lily how can I help you tonight?" the Maitre' De spoke up in response to their approach.

Mikisugi spoke with a professional kindness, "I would like a table for two please."

The Maitre' De nodded flicking through a booklet situated at the counter, "Hm I see and can I assume you don't have a reservation?"
Mikisugi responded with his own nod causing the Maitre' De to reply once again, "Ah I see, well you're in luck as it is a rather quiet night so we'll have a table ready for you soon."

And it was soon with only a few minutes passing till a waiter arrived leading the two towards one of the tables setting down a menu in front of each of them before walking away. The restaurant was rather barren with only two groups of three sitting at separate ends of the room.

"Hm not a popular place after all huh?" Nui mused as she flicked happily through the menu.

Mikisugi was subtly looking around the room, looking for possible members of the high Akuma and possible armed individuals, The only possible ones visible being a sharp dapper looking woman stood behind a bar drying a glass, a waiter walking by, setting plates holding food down at one of the people filled table and the movement of chefs visible from the counter that lead to the kitchen. "As the man said, quiet night, good for us though, means we can mostly avoid getting civilians involved."

Nui continued to flick through the menu, "Should I have the escargot? or the Ratatouille?"

Mikisugi turned his head to Nui looking at her with the slight essence of frustration, "Nui as I said before, we ain't here to eat, and what part of the menu are you reading? I'm fairly sure they don't sell either of that stuff here."

Nui put down the menu with a sigh, "Yeah I know, I'm just imagining we were at a fancier restaurant than this dump."

This reply provoked a slight chuckle from Mikisugi when he suddenly felt the presence of their waiter approaching their table.

"Hello I'll be your waiter today what can I get you?" The waiter was smartly dressed with a silky crimson waist coat over a embroidered white shirt and a black bow tie. He had smart short combed blond hair and sharp green eyes. A perfectly ordinary waiter at first glance, however he appeared to hold his sleeve tightly against his wrist.

Mikisugi moved his arm as he spoke, "yes well-" his arm subtly shifted a knife in front of him causing it to fall off the table. "Ah my apologies..."

The waiter panicked for a moment dropping to the floor to pick up the knife, "Oh! No worries allow me..."

Mikisugi observed the man as he picked up the knife, the sleeve shifting back revealing a tattoo of a red Oni wielding a large sword, Mikisugi recognised it as the symbol of the High Akuma.
"Oh by the way..." Mikisugi spoke up grabbing the waiter's attention, Mikisugi continued with a sly smile, "What can you tell me... About the High Akuma?"

The waiter tried to hide his shock at the question beneath a façade of confusion, "pardon me?"

Mikisugi continued with his own guise of casual conversation, "Well you see me and my daughter here don't come to this part of Kyoto very often and well we heard quite a bit of rumours about this well renowned crime syndicate who have a fair bit of activity in this area." Mikisugi gestured subtly towards the man's hand, "And well I was hoping you could tell me a bit about them."

The waiter gulped, the slight essence of panic traceable in his expression, "I-I think I'm needed back in the kitchen..." He started to turn away from the table, ready to quickly walk away.

However Nui grabbed his arm on her side before he could leave, "That's rather rude of a waiter
you know..." The man's fear began to surface as he sense the malice in Nui's eye while she smiled as happily as ever while she continued, "...How about you answer papa's questions why don't you?"

Mikisugi waved his hand casually motioning a cease to Nui, "Now now, lets not trouble the poor man." He turned to the waiter, "Please forgive my unruly daughter."

The waiter wordlessly moved away from the table sparking up Nui's curiosity which she directed towards Mikisugi, "Oh you're letting him go just like that? He's gonna tell his buddies you know?"

Mikisugi sat back in his seat, "That's idea, get ready for some... violence."

Nui put her head on her hand propping it up with her elbow, "I do enjoy violence, although that wasn't really on the menu."

Mikisugi gestured with his eyes towards the other tables, "Look."

Nui followed his gaze to see gruff individuals subtly ushering the groups of three sitting at the tables out of the restaurant.

"Our next service should be arriving real soon Huh?" Mikisugi looked back at Nui to see a gun's barrel held up to Nui's head.

"Eh?" Nui uttered as a loud bang rang out through out the room as Nui fell sideways from her seat and the blood flying out from where she was shot.

The man who held the gun sat down in her seat, now pointing the weapon in Mikisugi's direction. The man had one large scar across his face and had wavy red hair, He wore a crimson suit, his eyes were sharp and precise in his malice and he openly showed the Oni tattoo on his wrist for all to see.

Mikisugi sat with slight surprise, as he expected their arrival however he didn't expect the immediate execution of Nui, "Oh already? That was quicker than I expected and already shooting too?"

The man spoke in his response with a gruff accusatory voice, "Waiter said she's the rowdy type, I prefer to get them out of the way while I'm questioning, besides you know more than she did right?"

Mikisugi scratched his chin smugly, "Hm I don't know about that, all I know right now is that I'm rather lucky that you shot her and not me."

The man responded, cold and deliberate, "you'll be joining her soon if you don't speak up." However his threats was met with a confident smirk on Mikisugi's face, "Actually... Its her that's gonna be joining us."

The man could only throw out a confused "what?" As he began to realise a presence appeared at the side where Nui fell as a fist came rushing from that side connecting with the man's face sending him flying out of the seat.

Nui recoiled from the punch before unveiling a life fiber claw and digging into the part of her head that had received the bullet. She pulled the bullet out and flicked it onto the ground towards the feet of a group of men who stood before the table watching in shock as she had risen from the ground and smacked the scarred man out of the seat.

"Wew its been a while since got shot in the head, that tickled!" Nui began looking at the group of men that stood pointing their pistols at her in silent fear, Nui's mouth widening into a crazed smile, "Can I assume you have that violence I ordered?"

Mikisugi kicked over the table as the men began firing. Nui dashed from side to side unveiling her life fiber claws as she avoided the men's bullets. Mikisugi thinned the herd firing his needle gun over the edge of the table while Nui grabbed one of the men by the head and swinging them into the others, one of the men who remained standing aimed another shot at Nui, however she confused the man with a playful handstand before grabbing the man's head with her legs before flipping him over and slamming him onto the floor. The other men who were collapsed on the ground struggled out of the pile up only to get pulled up by crimson threads used by Nui who committed to a round house kick that sent the group flying across the room. One of the men remained conscious and aimed his gun this time at Mikisugi, however Nui dashed close to him grabbing the gun in his hand before squeezing. The gun crumpled into pieces, but his hand was caught in the crossfire, breaking with a loud crack as the man yelled out in pain.

"Oops! Forgot to hold back there." True Nui acted with a casual clumsiness.

Mikisugi got up from behind the flipped over table brushing himself off, "Oh I wouldn't say that, he still has his hand after all."

Clone Nui appeared floating by True Nui's side, looking worriedly at the unconscious men, "Was this really necessary...?"

True Nui sighed with disappointment, "Jeez you really are naïve... These are criminals, they're treated like scum by even other humans, to them its kill or be killed."

Clone Nui groaned with worry, as Mikisugi made his way across the room, "Lets get to work shall we? The staff members are probably already notifying the other gang members."

Mikisugi grabbed a bottle of gin from behind the bar before making his way back to the scar faced man and pouring the alcohol on the man's face.

The man woke up cough from the alcohol, "ugh... what the..."

Mikisugi was quick to the punch with questions as soon as the man woke up, "Well now its time for you to answer our questions..."

The man paused for a moment with a look of anguish before replying, "Fine..."

Mikisugi mused smugly in response, "Hm that was easier than I expected."

The man uttered with a defeatist tone, "I'm no fool, I know a monster when I see one..."

He gestured towards Nui with his eyes causing Mikisugi to bare another sly smile, "Excellent choice..."

Tsumugu's radio vibrated as he crouched low at the back of the restaurant along side his fellow agents. The stood in front of an opened sliding panel built into the wall that lead to a matching large stair case. The agents crouched along side two well dressed men baring High Akuma tattoos lying knocked out on the ground along side sub machine guns.

Tsumugu answered the radio "Yo Mikisugi?"

Mikisugi answered through the radio's static, "Say over whenever you finished talking, over."

Tsumugu replied with irritation, "If you try to make me do that I'm gonna kick your ass."

Mikisugi replied un-phased, "Duly noted, anyway, we got confirmation, the weapons are here, the raid is a go. I'm assuming you already found a way inside on your end? Over."

Tsumugu responded in his usual cold cynical demeanour, "yeah we got a way in, also we've been hearing a real commotion over their communications about ya."

Mikisugi's voice emanated in his reply, "Excellent, and yeah, we've been making some... noise, we'll continue so you can use that as a distraction to secure the area. I've already sent word to the police to start raiding the other High Akuma bases, over."

Tsumugu threw out an "understood."

Before putting back his radio and hand signalling the agents to follow him into the High Akuma base. The base was made up of sharp turning corridors leading to a series of rooms men rushed through each the rooms baring assault rifles and sub machine guns towards the sign of disturbance. Tsumugu and the agents made their way through the corridors. Whenever they come across a guard in their way, they sneaked up on them shoving a needle into their neck causing them to fall unconscious. They made it to a large double steel door seemingly locked by an advanced security system via a panel situated on the right side of the door. One of the agents immediately plugged into the panel via a laptop. They tapped a few of the keys before nodding to Tsumugu.

Tsumugu grabbed his radio, pushing the button with his finger, "Hey, we located what we think is their vault for the weapons, how are things looking on your end?"

Mikisugi answered with the sounds of chaos occurring in the background, "Things are... interesting!"

Mikisugi was taking cover as Nui was dashing throughout the corridors hunting down each of the Yakuza members and knocking them out with a punch or a kick, ripping their weapons apart with a single motion of her life fiber claws. Back with Tsumugu the steel doors finally slid open only for them to stare down an active DTR.

Tsumugu growled with frustration, "Get down!"

He chucked a thread spool grenade at the DTR and dodging out of the way as the DTR began firing a chain gun strapped onto the machine as it recoiled from the explosion. The DTR was in a massive hall containing a large multitude of shipping containers.

It was piloted by a crazed man with a green Mohawk, "Come get it shit heads! got this special rebuild ready just for you!"

Tsumugu ran through the room pointing one of his needle sub machine guns firing wildly at the DTR who responded by swinging their armaments through the air knocking the needles out of the air. The Mohawk man laughed manically as he fired back at Tsumugu who was forced to take cover behind one of the shipping container.

The agents formed a line and began firing at the DTR however this only served to grab the Mohawk man's attention "Don't fuck with me!" He pointed the DTR's weapons at the agents and was about to fire however he was interrupted by the sound of the wall being cut open by Nui's life fiber claws.

The shard of the wall was thrown over knocking into the DTR. Nui dashed over to the DTR picking it up, throwing it into the air and just as it was about to land, Nui in a few quick notions cut the DTR into pieces with a maniacal smile. Nui punched the Mohawk man in the stomach who let out a whining noise as he fell unconscious.

Nui saluted with the same crazed smile before uttering cheerfully while the agents looked on in shock, "Base secured!"

Mikisugi followed behind from the hole made by Nui, "Excellent work everyone, got some transport on the way to take away the contraband, along with police to take away our Yakuza pals. Which means our work here... is done!"

The agents erupted into cheering as Tsumugu looked on stalwartly.

Nui sighed with relief, "Phew I thought we would have to stick around for the boring part."

Mikisugi smiled as he turned to Nui, "There is something else we gotta do however."

Nui's face turned to dissatisfaction at the mention of more possible work, "Ugh... fine what do we have to do?"

Mikisugi shook his head softly, "Don't worry, this ones easy." His reply sparking up Nui's curiosity once again.

The police arrived on the scene, rounding up the criminals and shoving them into police vans in cuffs. Mikisugi and the police captain conversed before shaking hands as several Nudist Beach trucks made their own arrival, receiving the anti life fiber gear and hauling them off the site. Nui followed Mikisugi expectantly as they walked over to the black vans and proceeded to be driven away from the area as the rest of the job was handled by the police and other Nudist beach agents. Tsumugu travelled in the same van this time as Nui started to become frustrated by Mikisugi's silence.

"You wanna tell me what we are doing yet?" She prodded Mikisugi,

However his lips were sealed till the vans pulled to a halt. "We got a tradition, for our agents after their first missions." The van door slid open to reveal them having pulled up to a Ramen shop. "We find the best Ramen place in town and eat our fill."

Nui looked interested but also partially confused, "what about the other agents?"

Mikisugi shrugged awkwardly, "Said they didn't want to come, I even had to force Tsumugu to come with."

Nui looked at Tsumugu with a smug smile, "Oh did you now..."

Tsumugu merely started walking, "Lets just get this over with." his voice portraying a hint of frustration.

They entered the shop sitting at the counter within the cluttered space.

The chef at the counter greeted them as they sat, "welcome! what can I get you today?"

Mikisugi simply uttering, "your best..."

Not too long later the three was met by three bowls of ramen. They began slurping up the ramen out of the bowls in silence as they gripped the noodles with their chop sticks.

Tsumugu got out of his seat turning towards the door, "I'm going for a smoke." He said walking out of the shop.

Nui continued eating her ramen as Mikisugi began to speak up, "You did well on that mission Nui, surprisingly well."

Nui merely continued eating while she acknowledged his remarks with her words alone, "you weren't too bad yourself, for a human that is... That Tsumugu though... I've been wondering what his problem is..."

Mikisugi swished around his ramen with his chop sticks as he responded, "You mean why he hates life fibers with such a passion right? That's a long story... Hey you mind switching over to clone Nui?" As if summoned by the mere mention, Clone Nui appeared by true Nui inquisitively looking at Mikisugi as he continued, "She's gotta be pretty hungry, having been stuck in that room all day, I figured she would want some as well."

True Nui sighed as she picked up her bowl from the counter, "Tch fine, but I'm taking this bowl with me."

Mikisugi smiled softly, "Sounds good."

Crimson fibers surrounded true Nui as she switched over to clone Nui.

Mikisugi raised a hand signalling to the chef, "Yo boss! Another bowl over here."

Clone Nui split apart a pair of chop sticks as she peered into the ramen, her eyes glowing with anticipation, "thanks for the meal..." She said quietly

Mikisugi watched with a bemused expression on his face, "How are you doing Nui? Things at school OK?"

Clone Nui blushed slightly as she turned her head towards Mikisugi, "Er yeah... its a bit stressful but I did anticipate that..."

Mikisugi slurped some noodles as clone Nui talked before he carried out his own reply, "Its gotta be more stressful right? with Ryūko around I mean, must feel like you're treading on egg shells around her."

Nui swished around her Noodles in worried contemplation, "Its not like I can blame her... given everything that happened."

Mikisugi looked down as he responded, "yeah I understand that... But you know, I don't think its too much to ask for a fresh start."

Clone Nui sighed after eating a piece of meat from the bowl while Mikisugi spoke. Her face lost in turmoil she replied, "I wish I could... But with people like Tsumugu I don't think I can, I wish I could understand their pain and well... make it up to them..."

Mikisugi paused for a moment after Nui said this. He took the weight of this under consideration before he began to explain, "Tsumugu... had a sister..." Clone Nui's attention was now locked on Mikisugi as he continued, "A brilliant woman, she was one of the leading minds in our life fiber research back in the day. She believed that life fibers if worked with could be beneficial to mankind as a whole... However..." Mikisugi paused again as he watched the ripples surround his chop sticks as he held them in the bowl of ramen, "Things went wrong... terribly wrong, in an experiment, she ended up losing her life to life fibers and well... Tsumugu held it against the life fibers ever since..." Mikisugi looked up to see no one else sitting at the counter, "Nui?"

In the cold outside, Clone Nui had ran out to find Tsumugu standing puffing on his cigarette. "Hm?" He uttered in the smallest amount of confusion.

Clone Nui struggled to get out her words as she found herself lost in emotion, "Can... Can I..." Tsumugu looked at her with more confusion as Nui tried to utter through a choked voice, "Can I hug you?!" Nui blurted out raising the awkwardness of the scene.

Tsumugu now having his confusion mix with that awkwardness, before his emotions go to anger, "Why the hell you wanna hug me of all people?"

Clone Nui was stalwart in her approach however, "I... I want to make you happy..."

Tsumugu turned away before flicking his cigarette onto the ground and stamping it out. "I'm the last guy you should want to make happy."

Tsumugu walked away causing true Nui to appear by clone Nui's side shooting her way a demeaning look, "you are such a fool..." And thus concluding their first mission.