Ghostbusters: Japan Quest
ON THE LAST EPISODE: Harutora Daisuke examined his new workplace, and co-workers. Then he got called out to do some living room redecoration with a disgruntled maid. Negotiations ended badly when Okiku rejected the normally known method of exorcising her, and began to express her opinions physically. Daisuke, and his group, eventually reached an agreement with them receiving concussions, lacerations, and 1st degree burns, and Okiku was forcibly relocated to the containment unit.
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It's been a few days since your encounter with Okiku, and work's been light. Personally you view that as a good thing, you only just removed the stitches from getting speared in the Okiku fight. Some light work doing scans in clean houses, and birthday parties is more than enough for you.
You've learned a few things though:
1) The building, YOMI-1, and most of the startup fee for the franchise is thanks to Kawasagi Sakura AKA 'Star.' She got the most of her uncle's inheritance, and this is what she's used it on.
2) Marunishi Akira's got a horse named Musashi tied up in the back of the factory. Tell no one.
3) Fumihito Sato still has his classic American comic book collection, anything with Jack Kirby's name on it is his. If it wasn't for the fact that every single one of them was in 'Fair' condition, at best, they'd be an impressive haul.
4) Tamotsu Sana, your 'Operations Manager' is a struggling actress who lives with her hikikomori family. (Seriously, she's the only one who's gone outside in months.) She's been an extra in a few commercials, but she hasn't had much luck further than that.
5) Sachiko continues to shoot arrows into your sign and door, complete with condemnation letters. It turns out though, that apart from one meeting with her briefly when the other three opened shop, no one's talked to the trigger-happy miko. She's locked up in her temple and people come to see her, and she's never let the GBs in.
6) Your parents still aren't talking to you, and now they're also mad that you've joined the Ghostbusters.
7) Dr. Griffin is going to be leaving in a week, satisfied that all the GB tech is up and not going to explode and unleash Hell or Widespread Destruction.
You stay in your room and turn on the Chyme that you got from the haunted karaoke parlor. The screen turns on and a little tone plays as you see the Chyme logo come on the screen.
This thing is pretty sweet for a first-generation MP3 player. It's close to the size equivalent of an 80's cell phone, but still...free MP3 player.
Although it's hard to say that it's yours. Particularly when you can see the skirt of the dead girl (whom you named Yurei) slightly sticking out from the side. She's badly hiding from you.
It also looks like she queued up Rush's Moving Pictures to be played next.
You shrug, pop in your earbuds and let the 80's rock wash over you. This isn't as hard as it is, Star's been playing Rush tapes in YOMI-1 as well. (You have learned that even though Akira can cause Gravity to pause, the van is Star's so Star decides what everyone hears. She's implying that it's going to be an early 'They Might Be Giants' week next.
The song ends, and another one stars up. It's some pop song from the 90s, you think that this is the voice that one of the older vocaloids is based off of, but you don't remember her name.
Yurei comes out onto the screen and starts to sing along. She's good. Gets a nice harmony with the recording as well.
"Hello Yurei." You say. "I thought you had passed on."
She starts and gives you a sheepish grin. Then she makes a little 'oops' shrug.
"Don't you want to?" You ask.
She nods.
"Well, we found and gave your body burial rights, the mean girls were busted, and...what more do you want or need?" You ask.
She opens her mouth and then tries to speak, nothing comes out. She frowns and then starts drawing letters in the air.
NO WORDS DESCRIBE. SHOW EASIER.
She draws a circle and makes a small pie chart with a small slice blue.
She points to the beginning of the slice.
DIED HERE.
Then she moves her finger around the circle, passing the small slice and stopping at a little over half-way around.
AM HERE NOW.
She points to the small slice.
CROSS-OVER ONLY HERE. MUST WAIT. UNDERSTAND?
"You only get a limited amount of time to cross over after you die, and if you miss it you have to wait until your window comes up again?" You ask.
She nods.
THINK SO. NICER GHOST TOLD ME.
"Who?"
A shrug. VISITED SONGBIRD. TALKED. LEFT. WEIRD. GHOST BUT ALIVE AT SAME TIME.
"Huh?"
She shrugs again.
MAY I STAY HERE PLEASE?
"Sure,"
She looks elated.
"BUT. We're going to ask the others first. No arguing." You say. "Don't want any accidents."
She looks down and nods.
You call a meeting and explain the situation to the others. Akira's a little suspicious, but Sato and Starr are okay with it. Sana doesn't care.
"This is not the first time that there has been a ghost in the place where we all work and live with ghosts." Dr. Griffin says in her 'best' Japanese. "If Yurei wishes no bad wishes upon us and wishes to stay here then we should enjoy her wishes and welcome help as wished."
"As the ancients say, 'Refusing Hospitality To A Maiden Waiting For A Horse Is Asking To Get Run Over Later'...or something like that." Sato says.
"I just said wishes multiple times, did I not? UGH! Why did it have to be me that arrives here?" Dr. Griffin then lapses into English with a very heavy Bronx accent and lots of slang. You have NO idea what it means.
"So, no one has a problem with Yurei being here?" You ask.
"If she sticks to her iPod th-"
"Chyme." Star says.
"Whatever. She stays inside it, we're good. She starts floating around and doing stuff...we have a problem. That a fair deal?" Akira asks Yurei.
She nods.
"Okay. Then yeah, it's cool." Akira shrugs.
THUNK.
Sachiko just delivered another arrow into your door. Is it noon already?
"One of these days," Akira mutters. "We're gonna open our door at the wrong time and get skewered. I say we go pre-emptive!"
"Bad idea, we could get sued." Sato says.
THUNK
Akira's eye twitches. "So we have to wait until AFTER we get shot by an arrow, before we can burn her temple to the ground."
"Right, otherwise it's a hate crime. That's not covered by the lawyers."
"But revenge is?"
"Yup."
Akira sighs. "I'm going to see to Musashi." He walks off.
"Oh. My. God." Star says scooping up the Chyme. "You and me have so TOTALLY have to chat!" She walks off with Yurei.
"HEY! Catch." Sana throws a script at the pair of you, and Sato grabs it. "Way to go, you get to run lines with me. Come. Now."
"Umm, actually Sana. I need Sato."
"You do?"
"You do?"
"Yeah, he and I were going to try and talk to Sachiko." You say. "If you like, you and I can run lines later...maybe when it's quiet?"
She blushes a little and nods. "Fine, go, try not to get an arrow in your head."
You and your old friend exit the factory, and start the walk up the long flight of stone stairs to get to Sachiko's temple.
"Dude, what is it with you and the ladies?" Sato says with a chuckle. "I mean, you got ALL the cute girls when we were kids."
"We were six! You still thought they were an evil invading alien army...and I agreed with you!" You say.
"You still got 'em." Sato says. "Now you got Sana and Starr batting eyelashes at you, a private ghost girlfriend, Nurse Reika of the massive...bandages...was also flirting with you." He pauses. "If Sachiko does the same, then we must be living in one of those harem cartoon shows. If that's the care, I'm sorry. I WILL kill you and bust you."
You laugh. You have NO plans for women, you HAD a kinda-girlfriend back in college...but seeing as how your actions got the cheating bitch expelled as well and she broke up with you via death threat...you think it's over.
You both halt at the large wooden gate and door to the miko's shrine.
"So...you wanna try knocking, or...what?"
"We're grown men, Sato, and not in the company of anyone who should care about use using euphemisms. Besides, if this is a harem show then my ex is stalking me right now; and not cause she likes me or anything, yandere without the dere at this point. So, assassin at our back, archer ahead. Let's just knock" You say.
"You take a lot of words to say a few things." Sato says as he knocks.
"Oh, coming from the keeper of 'The Wisdom of the Ancients.' That's rich." You say.
"As the Ancients say, 'Never Be Afraid To Smash Your Old Friend's Nose With Your Fist In Friendship.' Or something like that." He says.
You roll your eyes. The two of you just stand there for a few moments...
Then a few moments more...
About three minutes of waiting.
"Something's not right." Sato says. "She's always responded or shot something at us by now."
"Maybe she's just ignoring us?" You say.
"She spends her free time shooting arrows at our sign and door." Sato says. "I doubt she's suddenly turned a corner and is being passive-aggressively mature about this.
"No, something's wrong. She could be in trouble!"
Oh boy, 'Sato the Hero' has come out again. Hopefully, he won't break something other than himself this time.
"Cup your hands." You say. "Give me a boost."
"Why shouldn't I go?"
"You're too important to the others." You say. "If this is a trick and you get an arrow to the head, they'll be devastated. They don't know me that well."
"You WANT to be martyred?"
"Not ideally, but I didn't want to say I weigh less than you."
"Jackass. Okay." He cups his hands, and you step into them, and he boost you up and over the gate's door and you land on the other side.
You are not instantly filled with arrows.
That's a good thing.
Sachiko's shrine is like the rest of the Reject Zone. Kinda second hand and junky. It's obvious that there's a lot of care and work put into this place. But...eh...the materials are second-rate at best, and you can see the seams. Still it's got a small shrine/house a little courtyard, a VERY small koi pond that's empty of all life, save duckweed, and a self-made archery range.
You see something by the archery range. It's a lump of red and white. You realize that it's not a lump, it's a person. It's twitching slightly and making muted grunting noises.
You run over, and this must be the famed Sachiko. You can tell that, even from this position, that she's decidedly tall, and keeps in great shape. Her hair's in a single long braid, and she has very nice hazel eyes. Average chest and her nose is a bit upturned, not to mention the fact that she hates you.
Also, there's the fact that she's on the ground, her eyes are wide open, and her entire body seems to be twitching involuntarily. She's biting down on an arrow, lengthwise, in her mouth, and flecks of spit are flying everywhere. Her thrashing's violent enough against the ground that she has torn skin and you see little specks of blood on the dirt.
This is NOT a possession. This is a, massively violent, epileptic fit.
Her eyes lock on you and one hand briefly gestures into her house/shrine.
"SATO!" You yell. "GO CALL AN AMBULANCE!"
"What?"
"SACHIKO'S HAVING A SEIZURE!"
"WHAT?!"
"GO!"
"Right! Right!" You hear sounds of Sato taking off and (hopefully) getting cell phone reception in this place.
You run inside, shrine, nothing...kitchen...nothing...toilet...nothing...bathroom...AH! Cabinet...and pill bottles...
A small horde of different pills, epi-pens, and other medicine looks back at you. Fuck, how sick is she?
Okay okay...your emergency response training (That you know have to thank mother for forcing you to take) tells you to not move the girl but you have NO idea what she needs to stop this.
Fuck it. You grab em all and run outside. Her twitching is still pretty bad.
"Come on!" You say. "I have no idea what I'm doing! I need a hint!"
She makes a grab at the epi-pen. But can't reach it.
Thankfully, these things have instructions, and she has a bare shoulder. You take out the epi-pen, ready it, and jab her shoulder. She makes a sound of pain. Heh. Maybe you did that a BIT too hard.
Either way, the medicine has a reaction already and you see her twitching slow. You also see a bee stuck in her shoulder, the stinger still embedded in her flesh, and the insect is still alive, but stuck and wriggling.
She spits out the arrow.
"Thank you." She says. "Mention this...kill you..." She keeps her eyes open and focuses on keeping her breathing steady. "Fuck." She says through gritted teeth. "Knew it...just...knew it. Bad hope brings...bad luck."
She grabs your hand with hers, just for something she can squeeze. "You idiots...hurting area."
"Well...we're not extorting them!" You say. Not sure where that came from, but it was there.
"Wasn't...Bribes for...police and... others. You think...Rejects...protected?" She rolls her eyes. "Pricks. Seed...bad hope...ruin others...hospice care needed...not...chance and destruction."
She doesn't say anything more. Thankfully the EMTs arrive swiftly and get her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.
The six of you watch as it drives off.
"Huh." Sana says. "Now I feel bad about hoping that she'd drop dead."
"Sana!"
"Well it's not like we have to still be NICE to her!"
"Umm, she said a few things to me. Before the ambulance came." You say. "Said that the money she took from people around here wasn't extortion, it was police bribes."
"What?" Star says. "That's crazy."
"I dunno." Sato says. "I saw her place. It's not that fancy, unless she's the type to hide money in a bank account I don't see what she's spending it on. She doesn't even own a bike. She's always here."
"Hmph. She could have TOLD us." Star says.
"Yeah, well she also said stuff about 'Bad hope' and 'hospice care?' Any of that make sense?" You ask.
Akira groans. "Yeah, THAT she yelled at us when we opened shop. She says that we're inspiring 'bad hope' in people. The kind of hope that makes people fall for scams or reach beyond their grasp. She's just bitter."
"Sachiko said that when she first came here, she was 'like us' and tried to inspire the neighborhood. She got a hikikomori to leave his apartment, and helped him get a job, and he made friends and he THOUGHT he had a girlfriend." Star says.
"Girl was a nasty ko-gal. Bled him dry and tossed him away." Akira says. "Sachiko said that he couldn't take having his life and his heart broken. So, there was a... train delay." He sighs, looking at Star. "And Sachiko says it was her fault for pushing him. She'd rather have everyone here slowly die peacefully than go out and fail."
"It's bullshit." Star says. "She gave the fuck up, and now she can't stand to watch and see US make it!"
"Star." Akira says. "You know it's not that simple."
"Poor Sachiko." Sato says.
"Still a bitch."
"She shouldn't have just given up." You say. "But it's tough, and no one deserves that because of a bee. I was just worried that some giant THING might burst out of her sh-"
Dr. Griffin has put a hand over your mouth.
"You are attempting to bring upon us many bad things and marshmallows?"
Funny, that last part did not sound like her mixing up a word.
Still, you all go back inside and sit down. Drinks are taken out, but not drank. You idly consider a few bad ideas on how to find out if Sachiko is okay or not. Then reject them all, as you are not a character in Star's collection John Hughes movies.
The sound of a car stopping in front of the Dumpling Factory causes everyone to get up. You all look expectantly at the door, which opens and two people walk in.
The man is American, he has red hair, and a full beard, and a look as if something has died in his nose. Dr. Griffin's face goes into sheer revulsion and loathing at the mere sight of him.
The woman is...to understand this, you have to understand some context.
Sana has good hair and nice eyes, Starr has a nice face, Yurei has a sweet smile and youth, Sachiko had a body, and Nurse Reika has her large...bandages.
This woman has everything mentioned above, but it's all wrong. If it's not obviously artificial, then it's been nipped/tucked/botoxed to the point of no return. Also, out of all of it there's this sense of...ugly...coming off her. You can hide and cheat nature all you want, but if all that's in your mind are petty, ugly, thoughts...then they'll seep out.
The American man says something to the woman quietly.
"I am Lady Kobiara Una." The woman says. "This is my colleague, Walter Peck. We are of the Paranormal Control Oversight Coalition, and we are here to..."
She sneers at the old dusty dumpling-making machinery.
"Certify this place." She says. "Although, I am very eager to know WHY there was an AMBULANCE driving away from here not moments ago? If there's a health risk to anyone...I'm HAPPY to offer to give you an inspection."
The pair look at each other, very smugly.
Dr. Griffin and Akira look about ready to grab a proton wand/knife and let come what may.
Sana and Star are looking ready to dive for cover.
Sato looks like he's about to launch into a rant.
Dr. Griffin holds up a hand and talks to Peck in English for a bit.
Peck narrows his eyes, and then sighs and says a few words to Lady Une. (Who the fuck goes around demanding that people call her 'Lady' that DON'T live in England? Also, is there any place other than England where that doesn't instantly make you look like a jackass?)
Lady Une deflates and Dr Griffin and Peck leave to talk and, judging by the pen that Dr. Griffin is carrying, sign forms. Or Dr. Griffin is going to stab him in the neck, either way, problem solved.
Lady Une looks at you, and then narrows her eyes.
"I know you from somewhere." She says.
"Uhh, you must have seen me on the TV with the thing at the karaoke parlor." You say. "That got a lot of attention."
"I see..." She says, drumming her perfectly manicured and perfectly artificial looking nails on the table. "I'm sure I've seen you elsewhere though. I doubt I'd forget a... face...like yours." She winks at you and sits down in Dr. Griffin's seat, next to you. The others all shy away. "What's your name?"
Oh God, you've seen attractive 40-50 year olds. Christmas cakes that had the whole campus salivating after them. But no one who is 40-50 looks good when they're trying to be 20-30. Her perfume is also really noticeable and probably over priced and too heavily applied.
And her she is trying to be 'seductive' to you. You really really PRAY that she's just putting on an act.
You take a deep breath. You look at Sato.
"Still think I'm lucky?" You say. Then you turn back to Lady Une. "I'm Harutora Daisuke." You say.
There's a pause. Lady Une nods. Then she stands up and readjusts her suit that she's wearing.
"You cost my daughters their education." She says calmly. "One was so traumatized by the event, she even thinks..." She shakes her head. "Never mind. Know this, Harutora Daisuke...you destroyed my family's dreams. So, I will destroy yours."
"You'll have to get in line behind them." You say. "They're madder at me than you are."
"Smart people." She looks at the other Ghostbusters. "So...you stand with him? This monster who crushes the dreams of children? You do know that he's responsible for multiple families losing their jobs, children being expelled, and even a few...train delays." She gives you an icy glare. "Young girls too."
You stare right back at her. Those deaths aren't on you. You may have been a causative factor, but you're not responsible for shit like that. No matter what Her Ladyship thinks.
"He's a Ghostbuster, and my friend." Sato says. "I'd stand with him on the boat to Hell."
"Same." "Totally." Akira and Star say.
"Very well." Lady Una says. "We will see." She turns on her heel.
"Hey, Una." You say. This is a stab in the dark, but you think it's a good one. "Did your girls KNOW that you were paying for them, or did they just think they were smart?"
She pauses, you see her visibly swallow. "You. Will. Suffer." She hisses and then leaves.
A long pause.
"So..." Sato says. "You think she's going to fuck you BEFORE she kills you...or is she the kind of gal who prefers to do it after?"
"Daisuke...were you the one who talked about that sca-"
"Okay!" Dr. Griffin says coming back inside. "We got the forms and Peck is going home tonight and never coming back here.
"Though you must be having the presence of the other woman that he was with who was also his partner in the organization he has." She says.
"So... that was our Dickless headache from P-COC." Akira says. "Shoot me now."
"You did see that she's a woman. Right?" Sato says.
"She still has no dick!" Star says.
"Hey!" You say, to stop the conversation about That Woman to go much longer. Also, you notice that your beer is now mysteriously empty. "Who's for going out to eat?"
"Sounds great." Sato says. "Where?"
"Miyagi's sounds really good." You say.
"Agreed." Everyone else says and you all walk the four blocks.
Miyagi's is run by this nice married couple. Well...you're not sure if it's a legal document here, but it's a legal document in America, and fuck it. This is the Reject Zone, it isn't like anyone's going to make a huge fuss about it...as long as they STAY in the Reject Zone.
Either way Toshi welcomes you all when you come in, and Maoto waves from his place back in the kitchen.
The couple do a pretty brisk business. Mostly because the stuff they cook isn't much more complicated than a grill, a fryer, and a pan. The meat is the industrial stuff you get in tubes, one step away from Pink Slime. But a hand-made burger is still a hand-made burger, and Maoto likes to experiment with spices and sauces and make everything just right for each customer.
The dinner is pleasant, canned milk and juice, the burgers smell lovely from the back, greasy thick fries, and Toshi's even brought out a full sake set when you said you wanted a drink.
It's been a long time since you drank out of a sake box. Even better now with friends.
Most of the dinner conversation is you embarrassing Sato about his childhood misadventures, and the other three proclaiming at how dull and boring it was working out in the sticks on a cow farm or chicken ranch.
You think you're more than a little drunk on sake, beer, atmosphere, and greasy food...but you're pretty sure that the sake bottle is about to fall off the table. The way it's tipping and wobbling.
You grab for it, and then the face on the bottle bites your hand.
THAT sobers you up a LOT. You jump away from the table, just the same as the others do. You all watch as Black Slime starts to spurt and ooze from the bottle.
"What the hell?"
"We were DRINKING that?"
"Spontaneous slime eruption? That's...oh SHIT!"
The black slime has oozed over the plates and the silverware and that stuff starts to rattle and shake too. You're getting ready to duck again, when the whole mess of flatware and silverware drags itself together in a mass, and starts to build itself up.
Plates become chest-plate armor, cups turn into shoulder pauldrons, soup spoons turn into legs and the sake box you were drinking out of turns into a battle dress.
The bottle is the head. In it's small 'hands' it holds a steak knife.
The face glares at you, showing little teeth. It's painted eyes glow red for a moment. The knife is pointed at everyone, swept across the room like a sword, and a chittering voice in old archaic Edo-Period Japanese is heard.
A Seto Taisho has just declared war upon you all.
"Everyone get Toshi and Maoto out now!" You shout as you grab the largest things closest to you to serve as weapons. "Then go get the packs and come back here. I'll hold it off."
"Daisuke, are you sure?" Star asks.
"Yeah. I am. I've had a fuck of a day and I want to hit something, repeatedly!" You say.
The others take off towards the kitchen leaving you to face the fearsome Seto Taisho with only a sturdy metal serving platter and a large steak-flipping fork!
Thing can't attack if it's smashed to bits! You strike with your Fork!
You swing out and you smash that little bastard but good. It flies against the wall and shatters into a pile of black slime and broken pottery.
Of course, you were aware that the Seto Taisho is notorious for regenerating itself. No big deal, you just keep smashing it as soon as it gets up...or even before! That's an even better idea. You head towards the mass, ready to smash it again.
You expected to see the slime mass reforming.
What you DIDN"T expect to see was a clear membrane wall in the middle of the slime mass.
It takes you a minute to figure out what's going on, and then it hits you where you've seen this before.
Cellular Mitosis
There's a west burst as now you're looking at TWO Seto Taisho!
They cry out their ancient helium-esque sounding war-cries and enter the fray!
Okay, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...get run through! You just make little jabs with your fork. Just enough to force them back.
In the back you can hear the sound of a moped starting up, one of the guys must own one and it's being used...well that should speed things up.
You hunker down and keep backing away from the little monsters.
The come at you slashing and screaming.
One of the Seto Taisho starts to shake and quiver suddenly and... oh no...it's not...
SQU-POP!
It did. Now there's THREE of the bastards!
Ohh, this is not good. Your mind goes to bad Grey Goo scenarios. Of the cities of Japan over-run by an ocean tiny teacup monsters.
Okay...okay...things we could do...AH!
The freezer's a long floor length deal. You think to yourself as you duck into the kitchen, the S-Ts following you. So that's not great...
But they have a deep fat fryer and an oven.
It wouldn't be too hard to sweep the 'legs' out from one of them and chuck it into the fryer...or trick one into the oven and trap it in there.
You went back here because there was less room for these bastards to flank you. A plan that is working, despite the heavy presence of other hostile looking implements.
Anyway, no fancy stuff, just keep the little shits occupied until the moped of salvation arrives.
Fuck are all of them riding on it? Well the gear is pretty heavy so...eh never mind. Just keep doing what you've been doing.
You aren't risking a damn thing.
OW! Damnit! One of the little bastards got your ankle as you were blocking the third. And when you went down you got stabbed in the upper thigh! OW!
The cuts aren't deep thankfully, spoon arms can only thrust so much, and the blood isn't black gushing arterial blood, but it still hurts like a fucker.
Oh no... please no...
SQ-POP!
SQ-POP!
FIVE of the fuckers.
You're surrounded now.
You can't just play it safe.
You have to either attack one of the bastards or try the Oven or the Fryer. With that you could get two or maybe three if you're lucky.
Otherwise you're going to end up as hamburger meat.
Okay...you back up against the oven. You have to make this quick, you slowly open it...and bait the little bastards to charge.
Wait for it...wait for it...NOW!
SLAM! HA!
Two of the little bastards are trapped as you slide your fork in to jam it tight. Suck on THAT!
You grab a big tenderizer mallet and get ready to push back the onslaught of the others.
AH! Damn...damn...damn...that was another one, you are Certainly Bleeding now...and things are getting woozy...not sure how much.
"DIE YOU LITTLE FUCKERS!" Akira yells as he bangs open the back door.
Oh thank GOD!
"SLIME! HOSE EM ALL!" You shout. "Two in the oven too! Before they multiply!"
"You okay with getting slimed too?" Sato says.
"Look, I can be killed by a long-haired ghost girl. I can be killed by an eldritch horror from beyond the stars, I can be killed by a bus, but I am NOT getting killed by a SAKE BOTTLE that has angry eyes PAINTED on it!" You say.
"To be fair you'd be killed by the fork it's wielding." Star says from the front entrance of the kitchen.
"Shut up and SHOOT!"
Star's hits at the thing melts into a pile of sizzling ashes and a coffee cup.
Sato's overheats, but he manages to clear it, and the last two just miss.
But best of all, the slime feel very nice on your knife wounds, and there's no twitchy/gonna replicate signs in the things thanks to just generic contact and presence of the Pro-Mood Slime.
BANG-Sssssss!
The thing dissolves.
The last one looks at the four of you and then looks at the banging oven door. It pauses.
The oven banging stops, and you see slime drip out from the door edges and hear the clattering of plates within.
The last Seto Taisho starts to chitter and vibrate again.
Oh crap.
SQ-POP!
Heh...you don't know what was supposed to happen...but you're thinking that just having one more clone pop up was NOT the desired result.
It IS a LITTLE bigger though now, but...
"Nail em!"
There's really no chance at this point.
The Seto Taishos are busted but good.
You all look around Miyagi's it's...seen better days. And sadly, this is one client you don't want to just let Insurance handle. This is the Reject Zone...you're not sure if the pair even have anywhere near sufficient insurance at all.
"Umm...where's the mop?" You say.
"Ugh, I sense another battle with an endlessly replicating foe." Star mutters as she looks at the mess.
- - Elsewhere... - -
"Flatware assassin?"
"It was short notice!"
"Fucking...and it failed didn't it?"
"Maybe...you want me to hit the miko, or the P-COC people?"
"No...not yet. It'll tip our hand. We have other things, and other targets with higher priorities. After all...they're just Ghostbusters."
"So, this isn't a personal thing because he got you kicked out of sc-"
"Shut up or I'll put you in the box with HER again!"
"Shutting up!"
"Ohh, but don't get complacent Daisuke...I'm not done with you yet!"