"You are treading on very thin ice with us right now, Matasaka." Rize glared at her father lividly the moment the girls had left. "Rachael is my daughter, whether you like the fact or not. And she deserves to be respected as such."
"And you got what you came for... well, at least on the surface anyway." Tobias pointed out as he shoved a cigar between his teeth and flipped open his lighter before looking Matasaka in the eye. "So are you going to come clean about why you're really here, or am I going to find out through other means?"
"I wanted to meet my actual granddaughter, since I've heard about her popularity back in Japan. I see no reason for such hostilities for an abomination."
"Is that so?" Tobias lit his cigar before continuing with his next question. "You know what I do for a living, do you not?"
"BSAA. I've heard that much at least." Matasaka replied with a frown.
"And what about your granddaughters? Both of them, I should point out." Tobias glanced up with a frown of his own.
"Internet celebrities, and I would assume by the firearms under their arms that you've inducted them into your ranks as well?"
"Exactly. So be thankful that you got away with just a kick to the head. And I will be looking into your visit here, which I don't believe for a second that it was just to see Yuuki and Rachael." Tobias' tone took on a steely edge. "So if you value your life outside of any prisons, I highly suggest you come clean while you can still speak to me face to face, Matasaka Kamishiro."
"I came to see my granddaughter." Matasaka lifted his chin with a firm glare on his face. "Though I wish you good fortune on your investigation otherwise, my son."
"Hmph. My father was decapitated with a 12 gauge shotgun." Tobias took a drag from his cigar. "I am a father, I don't have one."
"So I've heard. If you were my child, you wouldn't be behaving in this manner for certain."
"You're from Tokyo. I'm from Moscow. Don't start preaching family values to me. I'm done here..." Tobias stopped speaking in Japanese, instead swapping to Russian to address Rize. "I'm sick of his attitude, gonna go fill Valentine in on what was said. I know he's listening through the vents with Sheva."
"Alright, I can handle him on my own from here." Rize replied in kind before turning her attention back to her father, who had showed no signs of comprehension of the short exchange. She switched to speaking in Japanese again after Tobias had left the room and descended to the basement, calling for Valentine's attention as he went.
"Be honest with me... Who released you from Cochlea?"
"The CCG released me, took me from my cell with armed guards, gave me clean clothes and escorted me off the premises to an employment agency, which gave me a job at a cafe called Anteiku. I met with a man there named Yoshimura, who gave me the job on the spot. It was fine until I found out about Yuuki from one of the customers, who also mentioned you by name. I grew more curious as I began seeing and hearing more of her, and saved my money, invested what I could from my wages, and eventually had the means and the financial stability to embark on this trip to meet with you and her."
"And how long was this whole process?"
"Three years."
"And what I just saw leads me to believe you're strongly against cloning in general, not just my daughter herself."
"If that is what you think."
"It's what I saw with my own eyes, father. You've disowned her without even a second thought."
"Who's to say I have?"
"I dunno, maybe the one you're doing it to?"
With an angry snarl, Rachael had somehow managed to return down the stairs without drawing either of their attention, and boldly grabbed Matasaka by the face with her claws at full length, easily sinking them into his flesh and dragged him along behind her towards the front door, utterly livid.
"I don't give a shit who you fucked to have Mom, I don't give a shit how long you were behind bars, and I don't give a fuck about your political perspective, but if you have the gall to sit there, knowing I can hear your every fucking word, and still continue to spout that Syndicate-fed bullshit, THEN YOU CAN FUCK OFF RIGHT BACK TO JAPAN AND ROT... IN... COCHLEA!"
The whole time she was speaking, she had been dragging him outside and around the side of the house, much to the concern of the rest of her family, who came following behind her, able to hear every word of her speech, only to watch her bodily throw Matasaka off the cliff at the end of the backyard with all of her T-Virus backed strength... and sprinted after him to dive off the cliff in hot pursuit.
"RACHAEL!" Yuuki tried to chase after her twin, but with a grunt was hauled backwards by Tobias' Telekinesis, forcing her to land flat on her back with a livid snarl before tilting her head upwards to stare at her upside-down father. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!"
"Your own safety, believe it or not." Tobias replied, crouching down to help her stand. "You seem to forget sometimes that she is still you, at the very core. And I know you too well. She is too far gone right now to even recognize friend or prey... and unfortunately, your grandfather is her current target. Let it play out, then we'll go from there."
"This is fucking bullshit!" Yuuki threw her hands up in frustration, then flashed them downwards against her thighs before glaring towards the cliff behind her. "I know her better than you ever would, you know this."
"Unfortunately, I'm looking at her as your clone right now. She is you. I know you. And, for your own safety, I won't let you interfere. I know this is painful, Yuuki, you're not the only one that's being hurt by this."
"I'm gonna wait for her at the inlet... It's the nearest way back onto the shore from the bottom of the cliff." Yuuki bit her lip, glancing one set of her eyes at each of her parents, while the third was still locked on the edge of the cliff where Rachael had jumped.
"That's a fair compromise. Go." Rize nodded slowly, then tilted her head to indicate that her eldest daughter leave.
Rachael knew long ago that there was a shark breeding area at the base of the cliffs near their home, and as soon as she and Matasaka hit the water, her mere presence sent an invisible pulse of utter menace through the water, causing the gathered schools of sharks to scatter like proverbial roaches, all of them scared off by the rage she was radiating.
She wasted no time in launching towards her grandfather, triggering her Kakuja and ensnared his arms and legs within her eight long blade-like legs, extending her claws in her hands as she slashed, stabbed and tore into him in a blinding burst of blood and air bubbles, the latter of which quickly disappeared and ceased as his lungs filled with water and his own blood, until he finally stopped resisting, despite her continued viceration of his form.
She had no idea how long she kept it up, but the next thing she knew, she felt a resounding slap to her face, bringing her back from her haze, finding Yuuki scowling at her, both of them at the small hidden inlet they used to return to land from their backyard cliff jumps.
"Welcome back, did you have fun?" Yuuki arched an eyebrow pointedly at her twin's still dripping Scale Mail visage.
"I uh..." Rachael was still confused, unsure of how she even got back to the inlet, which even for them was several minutes away of a swim. "What?"
Yuuki heaved a sigh, very familiar with the post-rage confusion she was suffering from. "C'mon, let's go... I'll notify the CCG to find his body between here and the house."
The CCG never did find the body... or the pieces.
