Mako wearing her school uniform crossed the road right before a bunch of cars rushed by, almost hitting the clueless girl. However she continued to bear a casual smile as she stepped down the street with a playful pep in her steps. A few moments of walking and Mako turned to see the hotel, her expression freezing up with apprehension, however she stowed away her fear as she marched courageously towards the hotel entrance.

Upon entering the hotel lobby, Mako quietly approached the central desk, "Hello?"

The clerk behind the desk, who was of course nudist agent posing as a clerk answered with troubled confusion, "M-Mako? What are you doing here?"

Mako replied earnestly, "I'm here to see Ryūko and Nui!"

The clerk wiped his eyebrows wryly, "Mako... Two of our highest profile assets are staying here, we're on high alert..."

Mako answered back obliviously, "So?"

Drops of sweat began to roll down the clerk's forehead, "S-so you... You can't-"

Suddenly the clerk was cut off by a man with neat blonde hair and was wearing a pair of black sunglasses and a grey suit bearing a tag reading "Manager" the man stood with relaxed confidence, but shone a sly smile and had an air of analytical cynicism, "Its fine let her through."

The clerk suddenly turned in shock, "But Capt- I mean Manager!"

The "Manager" replied with playful bemusement, "Trust me Corporal, trying to argue with her is like trying to stop a hurricane with your bare hands, besides if something were to happen now, I can't think of anyone who can protect her better than Ryūko."

"Even with her around?" A drop of sweat edged its way down the clerk's forehead.

The manager however remained stalwart, "Yes even with her around."

The clerk Sighed before gesturing to their right, "Alright... miss Mako, please step to the side here."

Mako threw her arms up in celebration, "Yay! Thank you manager er..."

The manager spoke up as he removed his sunglasses revealing bright emerald eyes, "Call me Shimazaki, and you're very welcome Mako."

A moment passed where the clerk conducted the various security scans on Mako before she was allowed to step through into the hotel hallways and taking an elevator to arrive at the floor holding Ryūko and Nui's room.

As Mako approached the room, voices rang out from the door down the corridor.

One voice, sounding like Ryūko's, cried out in soft aggravation, "Damn it's so tight!"

Mako's pace towards the room slowed to a crawl as her face shone a ruby red like steam was building up in her head towards an explosion, "T-tight...?"

As Mako got ever closer to the hotel door another voice replied to Ryūko's, this one of course being Nui's "Come on its not that tight... Now push!"

Ryūko snapped back, the struggle audible in her voice, "I'm tryin'! its just really hard..."

Mako meanwhile, welled up her courage to approach the hotel door, shaking her head to shoo away her panic as she noticed a thin slit cut into the door, Mako attempting to persuade herself to peek through.

After hearing a few more... questionable sounds from the hotel room, Mako pressed her eye against the slit in the door.

What she saw, appeared to be Ryūko in her underwear, hanging in the air like a bug in a spider's web. She seemed to hang from crimson threads attached from wall to wall of the hotel room.

Nui stood close by with her hand on her hip, looking at Ryūko expectantly. Ryūko's face was twisted in turmoil as she breathed heavily, letting out struggled moans.

Mako's eyes grew wide, her face becoming even more red as if it was hot enough to melt steel, "Ryūko?!" She couldn't stop her voice from crying out.

Ryūko quickly turned her attention to the hotel door in her shock, "Mako?!"

Nui reacted with an irritated grumble, "Ugh why is the bobble head here?"

Mako shouted back in confusion, "What the heck is going on?!"

Nui projected a sly smile as she snuggled close to Ryūko, placing a hand on Ryūko's tummy, much to her infuriation, "Oh just having some fun~ wanna join in?"

Mako panicked of course, "M-me?! I... I'm not sure I'm ready..."

Ryūko cut in angrily, "Dammit! Stop trying to confuse her Nui! Look Mako this is not what it looks like!"

Mako answered back, almost down trodden, "Man I can't believe it... did I play too hard to get?"

Nui gave an annoyed sigh as she marched towards the hotel door, "Ugh just get inside already." She swiped her room key over the electronic lock, causing the door to click open.

Mako apprehensively stepped inside the hotel room, "Wait so you aren't doing... That stuff?"

Ryūko replied as Nui slammed the door close, "Come on Mako you really think I would do that with Nui?"

Nui butted into the interaction, with what appeared to be genuine disappointment, "Awww why not?"

Ryūko retorted with teeth clenched in irritation, "You know the fact you are even asking that just pisses me off."

Mako cut through the tension obliviously, "Ok... But if you guys aren't doing... that stuff, then what ARE you doing?"

Nui answered casually, "I'm teaching Ryūko to manipulate the life fibers inside her body, specifically to draw them to the surface of her flesh for the moment. Which is why she's in her underwear, for me to see the life fibers come out of her skin. Also because its really sexy~"

Mako continued to questioned curiously, "Oh... Can she control where the fibers come out of her from?"

Nui raised her eyebrow at the inquiry, not expecting it from Mako, "Well yes once she has some practice, but at the moment we're trying to just get the threads to surface from her body."

Mako's curiosity became an energetic sparkle in her eyes, "But doesn't that mean it could come out of her butt!?"

Ryūko spouted out in shock, "M-Mako?" Clone Nui as well joining Ryūko in silent terror at the proposition.

True Nui however seemed calmly taken aback by the question, when suddenly she began to hold her chin as she actually started to ponder the possibility, "Hm I never thought about that..." She then turned to Ryūko with an excited smile, "Alright Ryūko, new experiment!"

Ryūko simply shouted back with a stern "NO!"

Mako cut in once more to again shift the topic of the conversation, "But what are you guys gonna do with your life fibers?"

Nui appeared coldly distant for a brief moment before sharply inhaling, "We... Are going to attempt something called forced life fiber re-adaptation."

Mako looked at Nui with a blank stare signifying her confusion.

Ryūko replied in Mako's stead, "You MIGHT wanna break it down for her."

Nui grumbled irritably, "Ugh fine..." Nui stepped forward and turned to face Mako as she leaned casually on Ryūko, much to Ryūko's irritation, "So when life fibers form a collective, they are imbued with a specific purpose, these can be multiple things, such as when an outfit is made with life fibers, the form they take can reflect the purpose imbued into them, you make a bra to hold up a pair of boobs after all, same goes when making an outfit with life fibers! However when it comes to life fiber entities-"

Mako interrupted, "A lot of tits in this explanation."

Nui snapped back in annoyed confusion, "What?"

Mako continued, oblivious to Nui's irritation, "Holding up boobs, en-"Titties."

Nui, unamused, shut down Mako's prodding, "Stop talking." Mako quickly shutting up, allowing Nui to continue, "So... As I was saying, when it comes to life fiber entities, them being life fiber collectives controlled by a dominant mind, like me and Ryūko, their life fibers are determined by their dominant minds. However when the life fibers of a dominant mind has moulded to fit a required purpose, it can be practically impossible for those life fibers to change, unless they are specifically created to never truly set within a single formation like a god robe. But what we are doing here... we are going to forcibly weaken our threads so they can be cut and be allowed to reform in a new state with a new purpose!"

Mako was quiet for a moment before responding, "I... don't think I understand all of that... but basically you're gonna use that to get super strong?"

Nui answered simply, "Well to unlock the potential of mine and Ryūko's life fibers yes."

A shine of amazement sparked in Mako's eyes, "Woah... You guys can get even stronger? That's amazing! Why is it you didn't do this before?"

Nui suddenly clapped both hands on each side of Mako's head with an intense look on her face, "Because its HERESY!"

Ryūko's eyes widened as a bead of sweat rolled down her forehead, "Nui..."

Nui drew back from Mako, her demeanour quickly simmering down, "Ahem... Lady Ragyō said it was extremely taboo to do that to my life fibers, knocked out a few of my baby teeth out for even attempting something like this, said it "Ruins the purity of my life fibers." But desperate times call for desperate measures, so... here we are."

Mako was stunned, hesitant to speak, "R-right..."

Ryūko spoke up worriedly, "I'm sorry about that Mako, she reacted that way when I asked too..."

Nui appeared to turn around towards the hotel room window, Ryūko assuming out of anger.

Mako seemed to relax as she turned to Ryūko, "Yeah sounds like a touchy subject."

Nui appeared to place a hand on the window as she drew close to the glass, detecting a faint sound akin to a rush of wind. Suddenly She stepped away from the window and approached Mako who was continuing to talk with Ryūko. Nui then grabbed Mako by the collar of her school uniform, lifting her off the ground. And before Ryūko and Mako had a chance to react, Nui suddenly threw Mako across the hotel room into the bathroom.

Almost on instinct, Ryūko shouted out in shock, "WHAT THE FU-?!"

BOOM. Suddenly an explosion erupted from the Hotel room window, knocking Ryūko down from the threads holding her up and enveloping the room in smoke and dust.

Clone Nui watched in her non-corporeal form, as the dust dissipated, unveiling the husk of what used to be the hotel room. The walls partially collapsing as celling panels littered the floor.

Clone Nui upon seeing the wreckage of her room could only utter a single thing, "My kotatsu table..."

True Nui stood by, seemingly unscathed, as she flicked a speck of dirt off her shoulder, "Relax, the nudists will get you a new one."

Ryūko, who appeared just as undamaged, coughed as she picked herself off the floor, "Christ... Mako you ok?!"

Mako stood up disorientated in the bathroom, looking about to get her bearings before shouting back to Ryūko, "I'm okay! Kind of..."

Ryūko sighed with relief before turning to Nui, "Damn it Nui, a little more warning next time."

Nui seemed to unflinchingly stare out of the gaping hole that used to be the window and outermost walls of the hotel room, "A little more warning and your bobble headed friend over there would be a red stain on the floor, oh what a shame that would be..."

Ryūko exclaimed irritably, "Ugh whatever, lets just focus on whatever the hell that was."

Nui uttered casually, "Sounded like a rocket."

Ryūko repeated in confusion, "A rocket?!"

Nui nodded as she went to walk towards the edge of the hotel room's wreckage, "Mhm, sounded like it came from a downward angle too, which would mean it came from riiiiight below-"

A gun shot rang out. Ryūko rushed to kick Nui to the side, as a crimson headed bullet brushed across Nui's cheek leaving a single mark and drawing a few drips of blood. Nui collapsed flat on the ground behind a piece of rubble without resistance like a plank of wood.

A man in black combat overalls lied belly down in the high floor of a sky scraper a few blocks across from the hotel before a shattered window. He was peering down the scope of a large sniper rifle. Behind the man a squad of other similarly dressed rugged looking men preparing assault rifles and pistols.

Less than a second after he fired his shot at Nui, the sniper's eye peering down the scope widened as they suddenly exclaimed in disbelief, "Shit!"

One of the squad from behind him quickly prodded urgently, "What happened?"

The sniper answered with frustrated furrowed brows, "I-I missed, no somehow they were able to dodge my shot."

Another one of the squad cut in worriedly, "But wasn't the rocket launcher shot supposed to slow them down?! Did we get fed bad info...?"

One more of the squad stepped forward this one having a strong commanding presence appearing to be the leader. He spoke as he was resting his assault rifle on his shoulder, "What ever the case, if they find our position in this building, we'll be getting a full assault. I'll call in back up just in case."

Back in the Hotel room, Ryūko quickly scrounged to get to her own cover behind the rubble of a collapsed wall on the other side of the room from Nui, "Stay down! Sniper!"

Nui raised her head, to answer while her body remained rigid on the floor, "Mhm! seems to be a two stage operation... By the way great reaction time! You must of built up quite the resistance to that anti life fiber material."

Ryūko replied with a simple confused, "Huh?"

Nui answered with curious surprise, "You haven't noticed? That rocket I told you about seemed to be an anti life fiber explosive, much like those thread spool grenades used by the dumb mohawk guy! Meaning the explosive contained a particulate form of the anti life fiber mineral used in life fiber severing blades and other equipment. They must of thought the explosive would slow us down enough for the sniper to finish us off with life fiber bullets."

Ryūko gritted her teeth with frustration as she flattened her back against the rubble she too cover behind, "Shit, you think its the servants again?"

Nui held her chin as she pondered, "Hm... The gear checks out, but the plan is certainly too flimsy for the servant's usual more confrontational approach."

Ryūko nodded in agreement, "You got a point, those assholes were definitely more upfront than this."

Nui replied back as she rose to crouch behind her cover, taking out a flat textile puppet resembling herself from an unseen point in her dress, "Lets not worry about that for now, at the moment lets focus on figuring out where our little sniper is..."

Returning to the sniper who continued to watch intently through his scope, waiting for even an inch from either of his two targets.

Meanwhile another from the sniper squad crouched next to him peering down a pair of binoculars, "You sure they won't just crash through the floor?"

The sniper replied with irritation, "At this angle I should be able to see them even if they do, now can you shut up? I need to focus-"

The sniper suddenly cut himself off as he caught movement in the hotel room. Nui came out of her cover to run across the room. The sniper, reacting quickly, popped a single shot into Nui's head, only for the body of Nui to disappear into a puff of smoke mid fall to the floor, the sniper's eye looking through the scope once again widening in shock.

As the sniper was focused on sniping the clone, the real Nui peered over her cover, in the general direction of where she believed the sniper must of been firing from. And with her life fiber enhanced vision, she caught the glimpse of light reflecting off a scope and the spark of muzzle fire from a building in the distance.

Nui smiled fiendishly, "Found you~"

Returning to the sniper, one of his comrades approached from behind immediately after he fired a shot, "Did ya get one?"

The sniper answered continuing to stare down his scope as bead of sweat crawled down his face, "I got a hit on target one, but a puff of smoke surrounded her mid fall, and now she seems to have disappeared..."

His comrade gasped, "Wait... could it have been..."

The sniper answered back, "You mean she really can create clones?! Like full on clones?! I Thought they meant that was some sort of trick! Do you know how many of those she can make?"

As his comrade struggled to form an answer, back in the hotel room, Nui pulled out eight of her clone spawning puppets, "Alright Ryūko dear, I'm gonna go take care of our little sniper friend, you should probably use this as an opportunity to make your own escape."

Ryūko snapped back, "Wait you're going on your own?!"

Nui replied like she was spelling out the obvious, "Well yes, you need to look after your bobble head friend don't you? And besides I think you're gonna be quite busy here."

Before Ryūko had a chance to ponder what Nui meant by this, Nui threw out her clones, filling the room with a crowd of doppelganger Nuis with the real Nui joining the group. The sniper hurried to fire at the nine Nuis in a panic however he could only hit four before the other five began to fall out of the hotel room window.

Ryūko using this as her opportunity barged into the bathroom while the sniper focused on Nui.

"Ryūko! Are you alright?!" Mako exclaimed in surprise.

Ryūko answered as she gestured Mako to move back from the backmost bathroom wall, "Yeah I'm fine, but I need you to get back from the wall real quick."

Mako going along with Ryūko's command stepped away from the wall. This was followed by a strong shout from Ryūko as she dove her fist into the bathroom wall and with a loud crash, opening a large hole in the wall leading to the hotel corridors.

Ryūko stepped through first, apprehensively checking both directions of the corridor like a S.W.A.T member clearing a room.

After a second of checking, she nodded to Mako, causing her to follow close behind, "Where's Nui?" Mako uttered.

Ryūko replied with a befuddled sigh, "Said she was going after the sniper."

Mako suddenly raised her voice with peculiar enthusiasm, "A sniper?! Like from the movies?!"

Ryūko was hit with momentary confusion, "Er... Yeah I guess?" However her focus returned quickly, "Anyway she mentioned I'm gonna be "busy" here but I... Oh shit the lobby!"

Mako looked bewildered, "The lobby?"

Ryūko began to pull Mako by the hand as she hurriedly walked down the corridor, "Whoever's attacking is probably fighting the nudists in the lobby, most likely the group that fired the rocket at the hotel room." She stopped mid walk to turn back to Mako, placing a hand on her shoulder, "Alright Mako I need you to hide in one of these hotel rooms, and DON'T come out until you hear me calling for you alright?"

Mako uttered a quiet "Oh alright..." Still struggling to grasp the urgency of the situation.

Ryūko gave a quick "Don't worry I'll be okay." Before dashing down the corridor to join the fight.

Meanwhile the sniper surveyed the hotel room through his scope one last time before picking up his rifle and raising to a crouch, "Shit... both targets have seemed to have escaped."

His comrades muttered between each other, prepping their weapons, before the leader stepped forward, "Well it seems the mission is a bust then. Lets exfiltrate."

Another one of the squad cut in worriedly, "Wait what about our boys in the lobby?!"

The leader replied solemnly, "Not much we can do for them, sending any reinforcements would just be sending more guys to get captured."

"Good point!" A voice cut in followed by surprised horrified gasps from the squad members, as they turned to see Nui now standing at the shattered window, her skirt fluttering in the wind, "However... I wonder how they'll react when they hear that face to face with you~" A fiendish smile crawled across her mouth.

Returning to the hotel, Ryūko's suspicions was confirmed as she began to hear echoing gunshots, the closer to the hotel lobby she got.

Down in the hotel lobby, there were six Nudist agents armed with needle rifles, three wearing formal attire while the other three dressed in typical crimson hotel bell boy outfits. The nudist agents took cover behind black metal panels propelled from openings in the floor by machinery, while needle firing turrets attached to the ceiling laid down covering fire. The turrets fired at five men in black combat overalls wielding more conventional seeming assault rifles and hid behind chairs stacked on flipped over tables from the lobby.

One of the men attacking the lobby shouted out to his comrades over the gunfire, "Damn it! Their defences are better than expected, any word from B team?!"

Another one of the men replied, "No not yet! We need to get the hell out of here before their reinforcements arrive!"

A third individual in the squad attempted to peek out from behind their cover, only for a barrage of needles to fire into their arm. They attempted to remove the needles, however their body began to become stiff like a statue causing them to fall over.

One of his comrades, crept over to the frozen body before attempting to pull the needles out of the man's arm.

Suddenly another from the squad shouted at the one attempting to pull the needles, "Don't pull 'em out! If you don't pull in the right way it'll send him into shock!"

The Nudists crouched behind their own cover, one speaking up with strong, confident composure, "Defences are working well."

Another spoke, appearing to be the clerk behind the main desk before, the uttered with a frantic panicked tone, "Did you see the red tips of their bullets?! It looks like they're using life fibers!"

Then another cut in with cautious curiosity, "You think it's the servants?"

One more spoke up with gruff irritation, "Hmph I doubt it, these guys aren't nearly as good, or well informed."

Then to finish off Shimazaki responded with a strong commanding tone, "Doesn't matter, we'll find out who these assholes are once we take 'em down."

The gun fight continued till suddenly Ryūko kicked down the stair way door at the top right of the lobby.

Shimazaki noticing Ryūko didn't have her blades, pulled out his own tailor's dagger, "Ryūko!" He threw his dagger to which Ryūko grabbed out of the air as she began running towards the attackers.

The attackers taken aback with shock barely had a chance to respond as Ryūko leapt over their cover and attacked the right most member of the squad first, cutting apart his his rifle and kicking him in the stomach hard enough to send him flying at another of his squad. The others turned to train their rifles on Ryūko raining upon her with a barrage of gunfire while she responded by cutting their bullets out of the air.

Realising the attackers were cornered, Shimazaki leapt over his cover and began charging towards the enemy's. Ryūko advanced forward slowly as she continuously parried the bullets, until members of the enemy squad needed to reload, to which she advanced quicker as she parried the lesser barrage of bullets. She knocked out the first member of the squad she reached with a single punch to the face before hitting the next with a round house kick to the side of their head.

The last man, having been unable to get a shot before and realising his rifle was ineffective by this point, pulled a black bladed knife. Ryūko pointed her tailors dagger at the man readying to square off, however before the two could fight, Shimazaki leapt over the attacker's cover as he one hand fired several needles into the last attacker's chest.

"Yo." Shimazaki said simply to Ryūko as he reloaded his needle rifle, standing over the now paralysed attacker's body.

"Do all you guys say that?" Ryūko tossed the tailors dagger back to Shimazaki, who caught it casually with one hand.

Shimazaki by this point was too focused for small talk however, "Where's Nui?"

"I'm hereeee~!" With impeccable timing as usual Nui burst through the hotel front door with arms spread wide like a showman at at a circus.

Ryūko was unamused yet unfazed by Nui's casual demeanour, "You get the sniper?"

Nui answered with her usual jovial tone, "Mhm! And then some!" She proceeded to lead both Shimazaki and Ryūko outside the hotel, where a pile of fifth-teen men in black combat overalls stacked on top of each other laid at the entrance to the hotel, "They called in back up in case we found their location, but its no problem for me and my adorable doppelgangers!"

Ryūko scoffed as she shrugged and shook her head, "tsk ever the show off..."

Shimazaki rubbed his chin with a befuddled frown, "These guys probably went through a horror movie scenario... Maybe we should get a trauma councillor in for the interrogations..."

Nui waltzed up to the pile of men before grabbing one of their arms, "Aaaaand I also know who's attacked us!" She lowered the sleeve of the man, revealing the tattoo of a red Oni wielding a large sword. "Tadaa~"

"That's..." Shimazaki uttered however he let the word trail off as he got lost in thoughts.

Nui in turn finished the trail for him, "Yup! Looks like our friends the high akuma paid us a visit."

Ryūko replied confused, "The High Akuma? I thought nudist beach and the police took them down."

Shimazaki answered, his face lost in thought, "The police raided a number of their hideouts, but criminal syndicates like these are akin to cockroaches, can be practically impossible to weed them out completely, and now with the gear they got... Seems like they're in league with the servants."

A moment of quiet arrived as the revelation settled upon them. Suddenly Tsumugu on his bike accompanied by two black trucks bearing the nudist beach insignia rolled up to the entrance of the hotel.

Tsumugu pushed down the kickstand on his bike with his foot before stepping off, "Yo. Any casualties?"

Shimizaki answered with cool professionalism, "Yo. No, no casualties, the new defences worked like a charm."

Ryūko grumbled under her breath with irritation, "Getting real tired of hearing that word…" She then suddenly raised her voice angrily, "Where the hell were you while this shit was going on huh?!"

Tsumugu replied as he pulled out a cigarette packet from his pocket, taking out a cig, placing it in his mouth and lighting up, "Its not my permanent job to babysit you, I was chasing up reports of possible life fiber entity sightings as well as servant activities." He then pointed with his thumb to the vehicles behind him, "Now lets go, Boss wants you reporting in at HQ."

Shimazaki responded as his team came out from the hotel entrance, "I'll stick around, give our new guests our finest hospitality."

Tsumugu nodded "Understood, but keep your schedule open, with the hotel in the state it is now we're gonna need you working other positions while we get this place up to scratch."

Shimazaki gave a salute as his team began to move the High Akuma members inside, "Roger that."

Tsumugu stepped back onto his bike while Ryūko followed by Nui each entered the black trucks. Nui gave a playful wave towards the hotel entrance as the vehicles pulled away from the hotel and made their way to the nudist beach HQ.

Suddenly however one of the trucks pulled to a halt as, Ryūko opened her car door and walked quickly back into the hotel, "Sorry, need to get Mako."

Author's note:

Hello thank you for reading! I apologise about how long its been, life has been rather troublesome, with finishing a job and trying to find a new one as well as just general writer's block so I apologise again if this chapter isn't up to the quality of my previous ones. There's a long road ahead for this story, but as long as it may take I am determined to finish it, so I hope you continue to read and enjoy Life La Life.