The Elite four stood at the centre of the road, surrounded on all sides by servant soldiers, while the fight between those within the barrier raged on.

Uzu tried to whisper carefully to Inumuta who was now standing along with the others, "Should we try to use a shield?"

Inumuta tried to look back at Uzu without moving his head, "They're too close, takes too long we would be shot if we tried, we'll have to use the other counter measure."

Uzu snapped back continuing to whisper, "Shit... thats-"

Uzu stopped mid sentence however as he noticed the tension increasing from the soldiers beginning to notice them attempting to communicate.

Gamagōri spoke out to the surrounding soldiers in a similar way to Satsuki, "Are you up for negotiation?"

One of the servant soldiers stepped forwards holding his rifle vertically with one hand, "Maybe, but you gonna have to drop your weapons and come back with us first."

Gamagōri replied, his gaze sharpening, "Sounds less like negotiation and more like interrogation."

The servant soldier responded with a smug tone, "Well we do have more cards on the table."

Gamagōri spoke back with a strangely stoic and matter of fact manner, "And not enough cards underneath the table it seems."

The servant threw out a confused "Hm?"

Inumuta however used this as his signal. He subtly tapped the side of his index finger with his thumb. Suddenly each of elite four's clothes burst apart into a large cloud of smoke which almost instantly covered the surrounding area.

The servants, taken by surprise and not knowing how to react began firing. However each of the servants would drop one by one as the elite four now in their nudist beach "uniforms" moved within the smoke taking down each of the soldiers, stripping them and knocking them out. The servants tried to react but failed to see their enemies movements through the smoke.

One of the servants attempted to aim carefully with their rifle through the smoke as the sounds of their comrades being defeated surrounded them. Suddenly a large shadowed appeared through the smoke, before the servant could react, the shadow burst forth from the smoke revealing Gamagōri in his nudist beach gear who wielded a pair of black square shaped knuckle dusters with three blades attached to the knuckle area on both hands. Gamagōri threw out a swipe punch, cutting the servant's clothing whilst also applying pleasure from his fists knocking the wind out of their chest allowing Gamagōri to give them a swift chop to the back of their head and knocking them out.

The smoke began to dissipate, revealing all the elite four standing above the unconscious nude bodies of the servant soldiers, each of them wearing their nudist beach gear along with Mako of course who shook with terror before falling on her knees. Uzu wielded a pair of life fiber blades akin to Ryūko's with a light green theming instead of red, Nonon wielded a pair of black combat knives similar to Rei's and Inumuta held a pair of black tape measurers that he would wield like whips, a design inspired by a weapon used by the original Nui Harime.

Gamagōri stepped forward to speak to the others, "Status report."

Nonon answered with an irritated tone, "Tch from my count looks like two of them ran away."

Uzu smiled with smug bemusement, "Damn we must be losing our edge."

Gamagōri cut through with his stoicism, "Never mind that, lets tie them up then try to secure the area for reinforcement's arrival."

As if on cue, Tsumugu suddenly arrived. He was wearing his combat gear and a pair of sun glasses and was driving in on his motor cycle. Following him was several black military vehicles baring the nudist beach insignia.

Tsumugu pulled up, the roar of his chopper's engine fading out. Tsumugu turned his torso while continuing to sit on the bike and pushed up his sunglasses to speak to the elite four, "Yo I see I'm late to the party."

The other trucks quickly stopped behind him. The doors to the trucks opened up leading a large amount of nudist beach agents to step out and move rapidly, setting up around the jammer, filling the the background with the sounds of their footsteps.

Tsumugu stepped off his bike to stand along side the group, "What's the situation? I'm assuming the Big ass red block is the doing of our friends the servants."

Nonon replied her irritation becoming frustration, "Yup, and Satsuki, Ryūko, Rei and Nui are all inside..."

Tsumugu sighed with a narrow eyed grimace, "Shit... have you guys tried the sewers?

Uzu responded with somewhat of an answer trying to reflect the urgency of the situation, "Not yet but, given the barrier appears to be dug into the ground so I think its safe to say that they got that covered."

Tsumugu nodded placing his fingers against his chin, "Yeah makes sense, Ill get some agents to check anyway."

Mako popped up immediately after he said this, "Naked in the sewers?!"

Tsumugu ignored this however to continue plotting their next move, "But then what's the plan? sit on our asses and hope they aren't getting killed in there?"

Inumuta spoke up from bellow, as had sat back down on the ground facing the barrier tapping keys at even faster speeds than before, "Won't be our preferred option but its possible, from the data I'm receiving the energy is dissipating from the jammer at a decently rapid rate. We can Surround the barrier with nudist beach agents and trap them in."

Tsumugu replied with an annoyed defeated tone, "That would be a nice idea if those bastards weren't capable of teleporting."

An air of shock filled the air from the members of the elite four, Mako as well shouting out a "Whaaaaaat?!"

Tsumugu elaborated in an effort to clarify, "They invaded the new base over in America before supposedly teleporting out, then they levelled the place with a bomb."

Inumuta turned his head back from looking up at Tsumugu to looking back at his laptop screen, his brows furrowed with frustrated concentration, "Well that... complicates things, and means their strategy makes a lot more sense..."

Uzu spoke up, he too showing frustration now, "So what the hell do we do?!"

Gamagōri responded, his face twisted in anguish, "There's nothing we can do for now... We'll have to move in as soon as the jammer loses power."

During this conversation, a servant agent stood watching from a window in a building overlooking where the elite four stood in front of the jammer.

The Servant spoke into a radio, speaking systematically, "Nudist beach reinforcements have arrived, all agents on this side of the barrier exfiltrate ASAP."

Back on the other side of the barrier, true Nui and Rei hid behind a wall formed by collapsed piece of rubble. Rei attempted to peer around the wall, seeing the Reaper fighting with the several doppelgangers, cutting them apart with seemingly effortless strikes.

Nui convulsed the ground, groaning with a hand on her stomach, "Ugh... it's been a while since I felt like this..."

Rei spoke with a matter of fact tone, "You alright Nui?"

Nui sighed, meeting Rei's cold exterior with attempts of uncaringness, "Oh just got life fibers eating away at me from the inside. Shouldn't be too long before before they are assimilated by the others."

Rei checked her clothing quickly before looking back round the edge of the wall, "How long exactly till they are assimilated?"

True Nui's face twisted with struggle as she tried to answer, "Uh..."

Suddenly a blood version of clone Nui appeared, the blood seeping out from True Nui's wound, "There its done! I repaired all the broken threads, maaaan that was a hassle it was like trying to wrangle angry snakes! Well however that feels... But it was troublesome!" The blood then returned into the wound causing the blood Nui to disappear

True Nui stuck a hand inside her wound, pulling out a few life fibers, "Oh yeah it is repairing! Not bad, not bad at all." She let go of the threads causing them to seep back into her wound, "Ok that should be about... two to three minutes."

Rei nodded comprehensively before replying, "Alright... once you have regenerated could you pull out the Reaper's banshi?"

Nui scoffed with irritation, "What you really think I wouldn't of thought of that already? I can't find his banshi..."

Rei seemed taken aback with shocked confusion, "What?"

Nui reiterated, her patience thinning, "You got wax in your ears? I said I can't find his banshi, it seems like the suit is designed to hide it from someone with my abilities... Damn it I kinda want to meet the brains behind these poop heads..."

Rei pondered on this for a short moment, before making a decision, "Alright, how many more Doppelgangers can you create?"

Nui appeared frustrated as she answered, "Ugh in this weakened state only two..."

Rei however responded confidently, "That will be enough, give their puppets to me."

Nui's eye widened as she realised the possible implications behind Rei's command, "Wait what are you trying to do?!"

Rei however answered cool and controlled, "Buy some more time."

The rage brimmed on Nui's face, "You humans never cease to piss me off, why won't you listen to me and go find Ryūko?!"

Rei replied in kind, "I told you why! I'm not gonna leave you here, and besides I don't care if you want a nice little excuse to die the other you wants to live."

Nui grit her teeth trying to contain her anger, "Damn it... Fine! But I swear if you die I'm gonna find you in the afterlife and Annoy you for the rest of time!" Nui then stretched a hand out to give Rei the doppelganger spawning puppets.

Rei took the puppets from Nui, speaking back with the more cold restrained exterior she would usually exude, "I'm not sure where this concern has come from as it is much unlike you miss grand couturier to care about my well being, but it is duly noted nonetheless."

Nui replied by scoffing dismissively, "Hmph don't mistake my concern for kindness little Hōōmaru, I would merely be incredibly bored if you were to die by anyone else's hands but mine."

The Reaper finished decapitating one last Nui doppelganger, causing it to fall and disappear into a puff of smoke, "So annoying... Was that the last one?"

Rei came in attacking at the Reapers back. The Reaper blocked the strikes by curling the blade of his scythe around behind him.

"Hm one more then." The Reaper pushed off with a spinning slice, jumping backwards from the pressure, "I know you're just buying time for Nui to finish regenerating, but screw it I'll bite, I'll kill you and still have time to spare."

A puff of smoke appeared behind the Reaper, signifying a Nui doppelganger's approached placed there by Rei during hers and the Reaper's exchange.

The Reaper said a causally surprised "Woah." As he dodged backwards with back steps to avoid the Doppelganger's advancing swipes of it's claws, the doppelganger laughing as it attacked.

Rei used this as her opportunity to conduct her own assault, rushing in two blades in hand.

The Reaper looked back for less than a second while blocking another one of the doppelganger's attacks to see Rei rushing towards him. He retaliated by upper-cutting the Nui doppelganger with the bottom of his scythe before grabbing it by one of it's enormous pigtails before flinging it at Rei.

Rei countered, catching the doppelganger by her hands then spun around and launching it back at the Reaper, the doppelganger laughing with blissful playfulness as it flew through the air. The Reaper grabbed his scythe with both hands and held it out in front of him. The doppelganger flew directly into the blade of the scythe, the momentum carrying it to the point that the Nui doppelganger was cut in half and the two halves continued flying off behind the Reaper before disappearing in puffs of white smoke.

The Reaper spoke with a smug satisfied voice, "Well, what next?"

Rei answered him wordlessly as she threw the other Nui puppet to the side before sprinting towards the Reaper. The Nui puppet spawning another doppelganger with a puff of white smoke, the doppelganger then joined Rei's side as they both dashed towards the Reaper. The Reaper readied himself expectantly, throwing his scythe from one hand to the other with a confident swagger. However as Rei and the doppelganger began to get close to the Reaper, Rei suddenly used one of her combat knives to cut the doppelganger's throat, surprising the Reaper. The Doppelganger quickly disappeared into a cloud of white smoke, and Rei used this cloud to obscure the Reaper's vision of her. She dashed to the side quicker than the Reaper could react and went for a horizontal slice across his chest.

The Reaper attempted to dodge back once he realised what was happening, however Rei's knives managed to marginally hit their mark leaving a decently sized cut on the chest portion of the Reaper's suit. Rei realised the cut wasn't going to go all the way through and so she opted to back flip backwards to gain distance between her and the Reaper, her feet scrapping across the ground as she made a landing.

The Reaper Shone a foreboding smile from the abyss within his hood, "Hah! Not bad..." He began to point at Rei with his Scythe maliciously, "...But I'm afraid the game is over."

The realisation hit Rei as a deep pain shot through her arm. She quickly looked down to see a small cut on her arm, no doubt caused by the Reaper during their last exchange going unnoticed by Rei in her adrenaline fuelled state. Worse of all Rei saw a few purple threads partially inside the wound and were attempting to squeeze themselves fully inside Rei's flesh through the small cut.

Returning to Ryūko, a few moments had passed from the stand off as she was now running against a concrete wall within a collapsed building as multiple shots trailed behind her, no doubt originating from the Operator's pistols. Ryūko continued running as threads attached themselves to the bullets after they ricocheted off the wall before the threads began chasing after Ryūko like tendrils. Ryūko cut each of the threads as they approached her.

Ryūko continued running through the remnants of the building as it began to become an incline. As Ryūko reached the edge of the building, to what was akin to a window, she leapt out leaving a large impact as she landed on the ground. She surveyed the area hurriedly trying to see where the next attack will come from. She got her answer as several green threads had appeared to pull pieces of rubble from the ground carrying them like tentacles. The threads fired the pieces of rubble at Ryūko like missiles. She cut through each one, the remnants of the rubble flying past her as she dodged during her attacks on the projectiles.

As Ryūko cut through the last one, the Rubble split apart and revealed the Operator trailing behind it, seemingly having latched onto the piece of rubble as it flew. Ryūko had little time to react as the Operator shot twice. She managed to cut one of the bullets out of the air, however the other bullet hit her shoulder, lodging itself inside. Ryūko's eyes widened as she clenched her teeth from the sudden pain.

The Operator quickly landed before attaching a thread to the bullet inside Ryūko's shoulder which wrapped around the bullet wound circling around her back. Ryūko struggled against the threads pull, causing the Operator eye's to sharpened as he put his full strength into pulling the threads, pulling Ryūko into the air before slamming her into a diagonal slanted large piece of a building.

The repeated blows was beginning to take it's toll on Ryūko as she failed to keep a hold on her blades and was sluggishly raising her head after the impact. The Operator of course took this as his opportunity, firing a bullet into each of Ryūko's legs, sending droplets of blood flying up from the points of impact.

Ryūko yelled out in pain, while the Operator attached more threads to the bullets in Ryūko's legs, the threads wrapping around her legs in a loop.

"No more running." The Operator spoke coldly, his gaze filled with malevolence, "You're all mine."

The Operator threw his hand to the side gracefully, like a conductor commanding his orchestra, and just like that, the green threads pulled away, taking Ryūko's legs with them.

Ryūko's eyes widened from the shock trying to process what was happening as seemingly gallons of blood flooded down from the severed points on her legs. Ryūko's legs wiggled in the grasp of the Operator's life fibers mid air, before the threads closed around the legs, causing them to break apart into crimson fibers which disappeared into the air, signifying their severance.

The Operator wasted no time as he shot another bullet towards Ryūko's head. Ryūko managed to dodge the bullet by less than inch, moving her head just in time. The Operator chuckled slightly before attaching another thread to the fired bullet, the thread shifting to wrap around Ryūko's neck.

The Operator gave some final words as he began to pull on the thread, "This is the end!"

Suddenly, the thread broke as bakuzan gako had flown through it before being lodged firmly in the ground. Satsuki running in from the side the blade was thrown before taking the blade out of the ground and assuming her combat stance, her face filled with a righteous fury. She stood in front of her broken sister like a sentinel, her weapons shaking with anticipation as she held back her desire to lunge towards the Operator, unwilling to allow Ryūko to be hurt any further.

The Operator uttered malevolently, "Well I suppose it was only a matter of time... I hope you know that this was nothing personal... Satsuki."

Returning to Rei's predicament, the Reaper appeared to be twirling his scythe, confidently waiting for what he believed was Rei's inevitable demise. "You know I Don't really take pleasure in doing this, I just enjoy the fighting part, but mans gotta do what a mans gotta do-"

His titrate was interrupted however as he began to notice Rei keeling over seeming grabbing her arm, grunting with frustration

The Reaper began to hold his scythe by his side to his side, dropping his casual posture, "Wait what are you-"

He was interrupted once again, as Rei yelled out loudly as she seemed to pull at her injured arm, the arm shaking struggling to stay in place as she strained against the tension of her pull. She finished yelling with a mighty snapping sound as she ripped out the purple threads from the injured arm, the threads wriggling like worms trying to slither out of her grasp. The life fibers took pieces of Rei's flesh with them when they were ripped out, blood was sent flying as Rei's arm flung back, Rei's body having contorted in the direction the arm went.

Rei regained her posture, her damaged arm limp by her side, while she breathed heavily taking out one of her combat knives and glared at the Reaper.

The Reaper stood dumb founded at what he had witnessed, his head filled with consideration, "Ok admittedly I probably shoulda killed her during that, but damn that was actually kinda hot..." His thoughts transitioned into speaking out loud as he threatened Rei, "But one arm out for the count and on your own means you're screwed."

"Guess agaiiiiiiin." Suddenly a voice echoed out from Rei's direction before revealing Nui skipping playfully towards both Rei and the Reaper, "Someone took too long~"

After Nui said this, an army of Doppelgangers appeared walking behind her, each baring ominous smiles as Nui called out proudly, "Mon-Mignon Prêt-à-Porter!"

The Reaper scoffed angrily, "Tch make all the doppelgangers you want, I'll still kill you all."

Nui Replied in casual agreement, "Oh I'm sure you will! But its sure gonna take you a lot longer~"

The Reaper responded by attempting to feign ignorance, "And what difference will that make?"

Nui began to bare her teeth in a sinister smile, "Shall I call your bluff?"

The realisation set in as the Reaper uttered beneath his breath, "You bitch..."

Suddenly however the tension was cut open by a ring tone emanating from the Reaper's pocket, the Operator as well receiving a ring tone from a device belonging to him.

"Damn it already?" Muttered the Reaper.

Soon after he said this the Large crimson barrier surrounding them in the distance began to fade away and after less than a second fully disappeared.

The Reaper spoke into a mic presumably stowed away into his hood, "You seeing this Ops?"

The Operator Replied through his own mic built into his gas mask, "Kind of hard to miss."

The Reaper responded continuing to stare down Nui while the countless doppelgangers began to inch closer on all sides, "That's earlier than we planned right?"

The Operator replied taking a torch sized needle out one of the many pockets on his combat vest continuing to square off against Satsuki, "It is, but nevertheless Nudist beach will on us at any moment, we're leaving."

The Reaper sighed with disappointment, taking out his own needle from his pocket before throwing it down for it to embed into the ground, "Damn and I was so close too..."

The Operator threw out a quick chuckle, "Hm I know the feeling."

As soon as the Reaper threw his needle into the ground, the Nui doppelgangers broke into a sprint, closing in on the Reaper's position. However crimson threads opened up into a portal before the Reaper, who stepped inside causing the threads to close and disappear just before the doppelgangers reached him. The Nui doppelgangers piled up on top of each other with playful laughs.

Nui herself however remained where she was standing pondering at the Reaper's disappearance, "Huh so that's what that does."

Rei turned to Nui, trying to speak coldly but the pain pierced through her voice, "You didn't pursue him yourself."

Nui explained in return while she casually dusted off her clothing and checking it for damage, "Well I didn't know what enlarged needle of his was for so..."

Rei replied, her tone suggesting her words was that of a jab at Nui's demeanour, "So it seems you've started to care about your own well being I see." Nui Shot a cold glare at Rei however, Rei interrupted any further discussion by changing the subject, "Never mind, lets go find Satsuki and Ryūko."

Back with the other confrontation, the Operator too stood before his own portal made of threads pointing a pistol at Satsuki, "I hope you also know not to chase, or your sister dies."

He then stepped back into his portal, the threads closing and disappearing.

As soon as the Operator made his exit, Satsuki ran back and dropped to her knees by Ryūko's side, who appeared to be un the verge of losing consciousness.

Satsuki desperately called out to her sister, Her face filled with pained concern, "Please Ryūko stay with me! Help will be with us soon!"

Rei and Nui managed to close in on Satsuki's yells, Rei breaking into a run in the yell's direction, while Nui did a casual skip to keep up with Rei but not pass her.

They made it over an upward slope caused by a pile of rubble with Satsuki and Ryūko now in their line of sight, Nui being the first to comment on them, "Woah that looks like it hurts."

"Ryūko!" Rei shouted as she broke into a sprint towards them, her face a cocktail of shock and worry.

Satsuki turned her head as Rei joined her side, "Rei! What happened to your arm?"

Rei spoke in return with agency directed purely at Ryūko, "Never mind, that, what happened?"

Satsuki broke into an explanation, her voice strained with panic, "After I defeated the remaining Servant soldiers, I went to look for Ryūko, it was difficult to find her amongst this battlefield with the destroyed buildings. I managed to get to her while the Operator had a thread around Ryūko's neck so I would say I got to her just in time but... She was like this."

Rei grit her teeth the pain of frustration sprayed on her face, "I'm so sorry lady Satsuki... I should of been with Ryūko, then maybe this wouldn't of happened..."

Satsuki replied shaking her head, "Enough of that Rei, its not your fault, judging on your wounds, I can see that your own foe was no push over, and the fact you chose to fight with Nui instead of leaving her to fight on her own is further proof that she must of needed your help."
Satsuki looked down at Ryūko a shameful look was on her face, "No... the fault lies with me..."

Suddenly Ryūko shouted in angry annoyance as her face twisted in agony, "It's not either of your faults you dumbasses!"

Satsuki reacted with quiet bewilderment, "Ryūko..."

Rei however turned her head to the side towards where Nui was standing, "Nui, is there anything you can do?"

Nui pondered, casually perplexed, "Eh... it seems like the life fibers in her legs have been entirely severed... I could try to build her new legs but its gonna require strong life fibers to self replicate..." Her eye suddenly shone with a realisation, "Oh! Wait a second."

Nui suddenly pierced the side of her chest with one of her claws, reaching inside like she was rummaging through a draw, a stain of blood stemming from the wound.

Rei looked at Nui in confusion, "Nui what are you-"

Rei's question was interrupted as true Nui pulled out a few life fibers, constraining them within her claw and cutting two of the ends with one of her nails, the threads gleamed with shining crimson stars signifying their power. she then held the threads out proudly as they wiggled in her hand. Her wound closed, it having been healed by clone Nui.

Nui smiled, continuing to exude her pride as her claw reverted back to her flesh covered hand, "Tada~ a new life fiber shipment curtesy of the Reaper!"

Rei's eyes were filled with newfound hope, "Will those be enough?"

Nui Nodded, "Mhm! It may not look like much but these little guys got a whole lotta energy stored in them! I don't know what they're being fed but I want in!"

Nui stepped over to face Ryūko's leg stumps, scrunching the threads between her hands as she did. She then crouched down on one knee and with a calm smile she began to trace her open palms from the top of the stumps ends and over where her legs used to be. As she did so the life fibers shot from her finger tips, the threads forming pitch black legs with rainbow colours flowing through lines along them similar to Nui's life fiber arms. Ryūko squirmed and twitched with discomfort as Nui did this, the sensation seemingly a painful experience for Ryūko. Eventually Nui completed her work, dusting her hands off with a few claps and leaving Ryūko with a fully formed pair of life fiber legs. Perhaps surprisingly the legs shifted colour and texture, becoming the colour of skin matching with the rest of Ryūko's body.

True Nui commentated on this with casual intrigue, "Ooooo that's interesting, I wonder why that happened for you not me, Perhaps because of the difference in our biology."

Clone Nui appeared by her side in her ghostly form with her own comment, although she was in a far less chipper mood, "Maybe its because of the effect her mind has on her life fibers."

The two Nui's exchange was cut off however as Satsuki turned to true Nui, "And these will work will they?"

True Nui nodded once more with a casual vigour, "Yup! How about she give 'em a try?"

These words prompted Ryūko to attempt to stand with her newly formed legs, however she almost immediately fell.

Nui rushed down to meet her, acting with a clumsiness of someone who made a spelling mistake at school, "Oops! Sorry about that, rush job." She then took out a life fiber claw, plunging the tips into the thigh area of her legs around the area where her leg was cut off sending up droplets of blood.

Ryūko once again contorted with pain, while Nui drew out a crimson thread and cut it with her claw, causing the thread to retract back into Ryūko's leg and the wound to seal. After this Ryūko was able to stand up without trouble, but despite this her eyes were overcast and a solemn frown on her face, her demeanour failing to hide her inner turmoil.

"Lady Satsuki! Ryūko!" Before this could be questioned a collective voices rang out from across the battlefield.

The group looked out towards the origin of the voice to see Mako and the Elite four running towards them.

Nonon immediately hugged Satsuki upon reaching them, "I'm so sorry lady Satsuki... I never should of left your side."

Satsuki returned the hug with a consoling smile, "Its alright, we're safe now..."

Gamagōri kneeled before Satsuki, a vision of shame displayed on his face, "No its not alright lady Satsuki... We were powerless to protect you while your life was in danger. Such conduct is pathetic of the elite four..."

This sentiment carried onto the faces of Uzu, Inumuta and still Nonon who stood by somberly.

Satsuki stepped forward to speak to all of the elite four, "Do not let this attack stain your pride, that is what these servants of the thread desire from us. And so we must stand indestructible to these fools that think they can break us."

Each of the elite four replied with stalwart nods, rebuilding their determination in the face of their unbreakable leader.

While the elite four had their own Reunion, Mako hugged Ryūko with a vigorous energy, her affection oozing out as she cried a river of tears, "Thank goodness thank goodness thank goodness... I was so scared Ryūko... I thought I lost you..." Mako looked up at Ryūko who remained silent, "Ryūko?"

As Mako looked up at Ryūko, she could see Ryūko's eyes which were welling up with her own tears, Ryūko only uttering a few pained words, "I'm sorry Mako..." She then left Mako's embrace, walking back in the direction where the elite four came from.

As Ryūko walked away, true Nui watched with a judgemental gleam in her singular eye. Clone Nui also watched Ryūko walk away, her look however was filled with a mix of shame and guilt.

Walking by Ryūko from the same direction was Tsumugu, who gave Ryūko a quick look before looking back to the rest of the group. Nudist beach agents began running by Tsumugu and formed a perimeter surrounding the group, holding needle rifles as they surveyed the battlefield. Tsumugu also motioned with a nod to two of the agents causing them to jog towards Ryūko to accompany her.

Tsumugu spoke to the rest of the group with a clear commanding tone, "Alright lets go, we're heading to HQ."

Rei replied informatorily, "We believe they took the people within the square at the point of the high velocity life fiber jammer's activation hostage."

Tsumugu nodded, "Yeah we thought so too, but that's not something you need to worry about, especially in that state." He gestured again with a nod of his head to another agent causing them to move towards Rei to tend to her wounds, "Besides there's a lot that both of us need to catch up on, so lets go."

With that they all began walking back to exit the battlefield, catching up with Ryūko and being picked up by a nudist beach truck while Tsumugu mounted his motor bike and they all left to return to Nudist beach HQ.