Chapter 20

"So, this is the place, where you fought her last time?" the woman with long fair hair, Doppel asked Splash who was wandering around the roof top.

"Yes, we fought her here; I think we must start to look for the clues here." Splash said likewise he was looking for something.

"Several days have passed as you told; do you really think that we will be able to find something here?"

"I don't know, but it's not bad to check this place too." Splash responded, "Hey, did you find something?" Splash turned to Hush, who was standing opposite to Doppel.

Hush raised his hand and with another one pressed several buttons the console. The drone that was fixed on his chest flew, and started to fly around above them making circles, then the cyborg pressed several buttons again, and the drone started to make bigger circles.

"By the way, if I remember right you had some practice battles with Yasuhiro. Who is stronger he or his wife?" Doppel asked Splash.

"Found to compare." he spitted, "I had practice with him several years ago, of course his wife became stronger from those times, but still I think his wife is stronger."

"As, I remember it right he told that his wife is a close fighter." Splash nodded, "So, if we try to compare not their stiles, but common characteristics, who is stronger?"

"I said that his wife is stronger!" Splash raised his voice, "He always was wind headed. The hell you're sitting here, how about to lift your ass and help us?"

"Hush is standing too." Doppel quickly found what to answer.

"Yeah, but at least he is work with his damn drone, so your answer doesn't count." he responded her.

Doppel raised from the edge of the building and went to the middle of it, she got on all fours and started to tremble, he body started to change, her limbs that were quite thin for a woman, started to became bigger and accrete with fur, her head started to remind dog's one, and a horn appear out of her forehead, she also had a tail. In the end she became a demon beast completely. She started to wander around the roof top trying to sniff out something. Hush's drone returned onto his chest.

"Any results?" Splash asked him, but Hush only shook with his head, "Shit, he spitted again."

Both members of 'Red Division' started to watch at their partner who was a dog, right now, and was trying to find at least some clues in order to start their way on saving the wife of their so called friend. Doppel tried to find something for about five minutes, Splash wanted to say something to Doppel as he tired of sitting and doing nothing, how suddenly her head rose, and she howled.

"Did you find her trail?" Splash asked Doppel with gleaming eyes, Doppel only howled again, and then jumped onto the nearby building, Splash and Hush looked at each other and with nods followed her as fast as they only could.

Ayame was sitting in front of the counter of bar and was holding a glass of beer in her hand, she was watching at it with sad eyes, "Miss, maybe it's enough?" the barman asked her, "It fifth glass already, if you continue, to drink so much, you can have some troubles."

"Just shut up and bring me another one." she commanded.

"Maybe it would be better to speak out?" the barman asked, "Sometimes it's much better than just filling your body with alcohol."

"Just pour it." Ayame said again, the man sighed and poured another glass of yellow liquid into the glass, the man put onto the counter and asked her again.

"Have something bad happened?"

"What do you understand?" Ayame sighed heavily, "Everything was because of my mistake." she did a sip and then continued, "If not me my partner wouldn't disappear, and the worst thing is that I don't know where she is right now."

"Well, maybe everything will be fine, I mean, there're plenty of Taimanin who supposed to be disappeared, but after some period of time, they returned." the barman said her.

"I don't know, will she return or not, she was surrounded by enemies, and I who supposed to help her was distracted by other problem, and when I came to the place where she was fighting, I found nothing, nor enemies, nor her."

"Perhaps someone could save her and bring to some other safe place." the barman suggested.

"I don't know." Ayame did a sip and hicked after it, "I thought about it, but I'm not sure in it, we weren't able to find her track, like she just disappeared."

"But still it's true." Ayame heard a female soft voice behind her.

Ayame turned her head and saw a woman with fair hair and pointed ears, "Ku… Kurenai?" Ayame was shocked of what she had just seen; she rubbed her eyes, in order to be sure that it's not a mirage or drunken hallucinations, "Is that really you?"

"It's me," Kurenai smiled, "Coming to the woman, and sitting next to her onto the free place.

"But how is it possible, we investigated the whole place, where have you been?" Ayame still couldn't belive that it was really Kurenai.

"It's quite the long story." Kurenai ordered a drink too, when the barman nodded, she started her story, "It's true that I disappeared, but as still I was save by the one whom difficult to imagine as a saver."

"What do you mean?" Ayame asked Kurenai, doing another sip from her glass, "Anyone who helps you can easily be my friend."

"I know this." Kurenai said still holding the same gentle smile, when the barman brought her order and then went to wipe the glasses, "But still even you won't belive for the first time." she did a sip, and then said, "It was a vampire."

"What?!" Ayame exclaimed, "Are you sure?"

"Of course, I am. Grey skin, red eyes, pointed ears." She counted on her fingers, "All this features belong to vampire."

"But why have some vampire saved you?" she hicked again.

"I don't know." Kurenai did another sip of her drink, and then said again, "But still I think I'll meet him again in the future."

"Did you like him?" Ayame leaned onto the shoulder of her friend.

"No, but hew we can help each other with our aims."

"In killing Black?" Ayame whispered into her ear, Kurenai only nodded.

"And I'll help him with his target."

"And who is his one?" Ayame hicked again.

"Some vampire too, we encountered it along with Asagi and some other man, we could defeat him together but he escaped from us."

"Please, don't leave like this anymore." Ayame fell onto the counter, "I don't know what will happen with me if you disappear like this again."

"I think it's enough for you, or you'll sleep here." Kurenai took Ayame's glass, and continued to listen woman's mumbling.

Hush, Splash and Doppel were moving fast and after half an hour they came to some pretty big building which was in the middle of some street. Doppel stood up and started to change her form again, her body started to return normal, and in several seconds she returned in her human form.

"The smell stops here." she pointed at the building.

"Are you sure?" Splash asked her, "It's just an ordinary public house."

"If I wasn't right, I wouldn't bring you here." she responded him looking at the building, "It's the only place I could find; at least we have something after all."

"Hush." Splash only said, and in next moment the drone took flight, the metal person, raised his arm and started to press buttons again and watch at his console, Hush and Doppel came close to him too, and started to watch at it too.

"Like a video game." Doppel stated with a smile.

"Yeah, with perfect quality." Splash also said, but the silent one responded nothing.

They continued to watch until; Doppel pointed with her finger at the screen of his console, "Wait, can you return here!" the drone flew back, and stopped, "Yes, that's the place." in the screen they could see a window of the building, and in side of was a room in red color, and there also a man who was sitting in the chair and was writing something, "This place is quite rich and fashionable, maybe it's a local director?"

"Not bad eye, if he is a director, he must know something about Shiranui." Splash suggested, "And at the same time, if her trail ends here, then it seems that this scum really must know something."

"So are we going to pay him a visit?" Doppel asked Splash.

"The hell, yeah."

And the trio started to go to the back side of the building, their pace was fast, this time the one who led was Hush, when they were in front of the needed window, the drone flew to him and landed onto his chest.

"Ready?" the man with blue uniform asked his comrades, Doppel nodded, and Hush exposed his whip and blade out of his hands, the man also prepared his two sided sword. And they jumped to the building.

After several jumps they broke through into the building threw the window that they were exploring through Hush's drone. Their appearance was loud and unexpected that the man who was sitting at the table fell down from his chair.

"What is the meaning of this?!" he shouted as he turned around, he was surprised seeing a man trio, the two of which were wearing a hunters' uniform, and the metal person frightened him too, "Who the hell are you?! Taimanin?!" he continued to shout.

"Not even close." Splash spitted.

The man wanted to run, but Hush could quickly enwind his whip around man's leg, he quickly pulled his arm back, like he cought a fish. The man fell down, not even being able to reach the door.

"Idiotic idea." Splash said spitting onto the floor.

"What do you need?" the voice of the man was trembling, "Money? Everyone wants them; I can give you as much as you want just don't kill me."

"We need information." Splash came and placed the blade of his sword onto the shoulder of the man, but still pretty close to his neck, so he could feel the cold steel.

"What information do you need?" the man understood that it was his only way to survive, "I can give you any information, and in exchange you won't kill me."

"You're not the one who is dictating terms." Splash said irritated.

"Splash, let me." Doppel put her hand onto his shoulder, "Or you'll kill him faster than he will tell you anything." she came to the man and sat onto her knee in front of him, "Listen, first I want apologies for my comrade, he has a really bad behavior, he is also excitable. He also had a really difficult mission recently, so being on your place I wouldn't' make him angry." Doppel smiled, the man only gulped, "So it would be much better for you if you tell us something we really need, and in exchange we won't kill you."

"What information do you need?" the man asked the woman.

"See, it's not difficult to work with us." Doppel smiled fixing the collar of his jacket, "We would like to know about Mizuki Shiranui, do you know where she can be?" man's eyes became wide, he wanted to answer something, but Doppel interrupted him, "And don't lie, her smell ends here, and I'm quite good in sniffing the trails out."

"What do you want from her?" the man asked her.

"None of your business." Splash squeezed the hilt of his sword.

"Please, don't ask extra questions, just answer ours and everything will be fine." Doppel interfered into.

"I don't know where's she." he replied, "She had just came and offered me to join my forces with the Incubus King."

"Incubus King?!" Splash and Doppel exclaimed.

"Yes, I agreed and then she left after giving me some orders." the man added.

"What orders did she give you?" the woman asked him again.

"Looking for the hideouts of Taimanin, her master wants to do something with them."

"Did you give her this data?" Splash asked him.

"No, I still have to give her this information." the man heard.

"Then you'll give it to us." Splash ordered, the man wanted to protest, but then felt the cold blade near with his neck again, "Should I repeat it?"

"It's in the flash driver in my desk." the man pointed.

"Hush." Splash said to the metal person. Hush nodded and came to the desk, he opened its door and started to look for the needed subject, Hush found what was said, and showed it to the man. The man nodded and then Hush inserted it at his console, after several seconds he nodded affirmatively that it was the needed thing.

"And now about Shiranui." Splash said again, "Were you suppose to give this data to her personally or what?"

"She should come here, and then I supposed to give it to her."

"When she must come?" this time Splash asked his questions.

"Tomorrow, I don't know in what time." the man answered.

"Is it true?" Doppel asked him, the man gulped and nodded.

"Now listen very attentively, I won't repeat it twice." the man in blue attire said, "We will make here an ambush, and you'll act like nothing have happened, if you tell something to her, I'll chop your fucking head with this blade, did you understand?" the man nodded, "Fine, Doppel Hush we're leaving." the man said, "And one more thing, if I know that you gathering the data about Taimanin again, I promise that this sword will penetrate your ass immideately." and then the trio left the office.

The man rubbed his neck and continued to watch at the broken window, like awaiting something else out of it.

"Do you really think that it's a good plan? Will we be able to defeat her?" Doppel asked Splash as they jumped onto the roof top they were several minutes ago.

"Hm." Splash pondered, "As he told she is really a formidable opponent, her power can be compared with Igawa Asagi's one, but still we are three devoted members, so we will be able to capture her, I think." he suggested.

"So, what are we going to do now?" the woman asked him again, we have the whole night, will we stay here or something?"

"Well, Hush can leave his drone here and it will patrol the area, and we will have a nap somewhere or we can do it here."

"Well I think here will be good; the night is pretty warm so I don't think we will cold." Doppel suggested, "If only we had something to eat." she pondered about something.

Splash sighed deeply, "I'll bring us something to eat." the only one who seemed not interested in their talk was Hush; he only was sitting and was checking his riffle gun, in order to find some defects. Splash jumped from the building and Doppel started to sing some song, watching into the night sky.

"Well we are on the place cap." a tall boy said to the girl with a smile, who had brown curly hair, and was holding her spear, in her arms, "What your orders?"

"Please, Iwao don't call me cap, it's just for one mission, so you don't have to do this." Masami answered him.

"Don't be so shy." a girl with green hair said to Masami, "After all it's your day today."

"Yeah, not each student is allowed to be a captain in the number of other students." the other girl added, she had red hair and was holding two small daggers, "Even Ikenami isn't allowed to do the same."

"Yes, just order and we will do everything." a medium boy came to Masami, and put his hand onto her bare shoulder, "With your commands we will be able to do each mission successfully."

"Please! Stop saying such embarrassing things!" Masami pleaded, her face was red, "It's just my first time of being a captain, I don't want you to think that I became somehow special, just call me like usually."

"Okay, dear." the boy said kissing her cheek.

"As you say captain!" the girls saluted her.

"So, this is our place?" the tall boy Iwao asked Masami turning his head to a pretty large building.

"Yes, we are to clean this building, as the Igawa-sensei informed there about fifty demons, according with the data she received there are not strong."

"Less their stronger, less problems we have." the boy said looking at Masami, "Am, I right?"

"Yes, but still we must be careful; she still didn't say what demons are there." Masami responded him.

"What strategy we'll use?" the girl with green hair asked Masami, preparing her whip, "Like always?"

"Yes, I don't think they are ready to withstand it." the girl with red hair said spinning her daggers.

"Well, I think our ordinary strategy must work." Masami nodded agreeing, "After all, there're only mere demons, but still be ready for everything." everyone nodded.

The team jumped onto another building, and after it they reached the needed one, the two girls quickly dealt with the demons that were on their way, not even giving them an opportunity to call for a help. The other two orks were killed by the boys, Iwao killed the massive one with his katana, and the other one did it with a two sided spear. When the roof was cleaned the girl with red hair said.

"Well, I like the beginning, it wasn't too difficult."

"Yeah, these monsters weren't ready for something like this." the girl with green hair said, gathering her whip.

"What will you say about separating?" the boy with the spear turned to Masami, "Shall we do it?"

"No, it's much better to fight in the group as we can protect each other's back." Masami quickly referred, "We're still students and can't do something risky like this."

"Then let's do it this way, cap." the medium boy responded her.

They entered the building and started to sneak by it, they killed all demons that were on their way. The girl with whip used lighting, while the girl with daggers was quickly killing her enemies. Iwao was killing his opponents with perfect cutting attacks, along with another boy. Masami was helping a lot too, she focused on protecting the hides of her teammates, her moves were fast and unpredictable for mere demons. Their work was perfect and well-coordinated, but more they fought more demons appeared on their way.

"It seems that there're a bit more demons than were in the report." the girl with green hair admitted, killing another demon with her whip.

"Don't worry." the medium height boy said with a chuckle, "After this mission you don't want to kill demons for entire month."

"Dream on! I will never get tired of killing demons." she answered to him.

"Guys stop distracting of yourself!" Masami ordered focus on demons. Suddenly, Masami saw a strange gleaming in front of her, and in the next second, she protected herself with her spear.

"You're doing a great work young hunters." the new comer said licking her lips, Masami's eyes became wide.

"Oboro?!" she exclaimed holding back her metal claws.

Oboro was wearing a red tight uniform which exposed the inner part of her body, which consisted of a small part of her stomach and also the inner part of her breast along with her neck; her hips were closed with a reticulate cloth. She had metal gloves and it was possible to three claws on each one, the woman had purple hair and eyes. It was also possible to see red rogue on her lips. Her face had a sadistic expression, what showed that she wanted to do with the young Taimanin.

"What?!" the boy with the spear shouted, after parrying a lunge of some demon.

"It said nothing about Oboro being here!" the girl with red hair shouted too.

Oboro pushed Masami away and wanted to attack her again, but the girl quickly protected herself again, "Not bad girl not all young Taimanin can react that fast." Oboro licked her lips again, "You're the one with some potential, don't want to join us?"

"In your dreams." Masami gritted thorough her teeth and then pushed her away.

Masami started to attack Oboro, but the woman was fast for the girl, and Masami understood that she want be able to fight her alone, although she could withstand to some her attacks.

"Come on!" Oboro exclaimed, "I know you can do better are you tired or what?"

'Shit!' the boy with the spear thought, he killed another demon and then shouted, "Guys! I'll help to Masami try to fight them alone!"

"Got it!" the rest responded.

The boy jumped and was about to get Oboro, who clashed her claws with Masami's spear, but the woman decided to dodge it. She hit Masami at her stomach, and then could easily parry the attack of the boy. She hit the boy at his back and then saw Masami who was on her way to Oboro. The woman jumped and Masami could see a flying a demon that was flying at her.

"Damn it!" she jumped and cut his back with her spear; the demon took a wing again, and flew back, 'Is his skin firm?!' she thought jumping again.

The boy, who was fighting Oboro, was trying his best, but he was no match for a woman too, 'Shit! I won't be able to defeat her alone, if only Masami wasn't busy with this demon!' Oboro was fighting him with the same smile; she saw that the boy was well-built and pretty muscled.

'What a cutie.' she thought, 'It'll be interesting to see how he will become broken and will plead me for mercy and this girl too.'

Another group started to feel problematic too, they were surrounded by demons, Iwao tried to protect the girls, but still he couldn't do it perfectly as and the girls now focused on protecting his back too. The girl with a whip decided to help to Masami, but did a grave mistake, the demon was flying fighting at Masami noticed her, and did a strange turn he grabbed her whip and quickly pulled it, she wasn't able to use her lightning as the demon quickly released her, and she bumped against the other girl with daggers. She tried to get up, but the demon quickly cut her neck with his sharpens claws.

"Momo!" Masami shouted seeing how the green haired girl fell down onto the floor breathlessly.

When the green haired girl got up she saw a corpse of her friend, she squeezed her blades tighter and shouted, "I'll kill you, bastard!" but the demon responded nothing, the girl rant to the demon and wanted to pierce him with her blades, but her attack was useless as her blades were only broken, "What?" she didn't understood what have just happened, how the demon grabbed her head and quickly smashed against the wall.

"Meiko!" Masami shouted again, her hands started to trembled, but somehow she tightened them and rushed to the demon. Her moves became chaotic as Masami stopped controlling herself, her moves were based only on her instincts.

"It seems that the number of your friends is being reduced." Oboro grinned sarcastically, "Won't you help you friend?" she asked the boy.

"Damn bitch! I'll kill you for this." the boy shouted and pushed Oboro away. He tried to get the woman's legs, but all attempts were fruitless.

Iwao tried his best, but being out numbers he wasn't able to stand long against the crowd of demons. Masami wasn't able to help him too as she was fighting the flying demon, suddenly she felt how her back pressed against something.

"What we should do Masami?" the boy asked her, "We won't be able to take them down. If not these two, maybe…" he gulped looking at the purple hair woman.

"I don't know." Masami's hands were trembling, and tears started to form in her eyes, "I... I didn't know that we will be in such position."

"The best thing is not to give up and try to take as much of them as we only can, for Iwao, Meiko and Momo."

"Yes." she nodded and both of them rushed into the battle.

The battle wasn't long; Oboro defeated the boy pretty fast, while Masami showed some resistance, but with one attack Oboro could stop these attempts.

"Now, be ready for the best part." Oboro narrowed her eyes and licked her lips.

"No… Isamu…" Masami looked how the creature with wings was taking her partner.

"No!" Masami exclaimed quickly awakening.

She was lying in the white bath tub; the tub was full of warm water, what gave some relaxation to Masami, she gathered some water into her hands and washed her face.

"Again this nightmare." she thought, tears started to form in her eyes, but she started to wash her face with water, trying to stop this bad and sad feeling, "I just can stop thinking about this nightmare, it would be much better if I would die along with them." she said and then she dived into the water, but then quickly came up to the surface, "And that damn Pavel… always trying to help, what a proof and annoying." she stopped for a second, she turned her head to the side table, and looked at the book, which was lying on it, "Maybe it was too harsh to hit him like this?" she asked herself, "Maybe there was another way? And… the words of sensei, about how someone betrayed him, and the one who blames himself in this betraying, what did he mean?" only questions were spinning in Masami's head, "Could it be that Pavel and sensei could really help me? Perhaps it's really a good thing to ask someone for a help, maybe… it's a good idea to let those two give me some help or at least some advice?" she took the book from the side table and carefully opened it, she took the found the photo, that was in it, "You always were around to help, and only you could answer this question. What a leader I'm after it, I couldn't even protect the ones I really loved. I… I even wasn't able to say goodbye to them." her voice was trembling, and tears started to form in her eyes again, but the quickly started to drop onto the photo." she closed the book, and took it away, "No, I must talk to Pavel with sensei! Maybe they could help; if Tereshkov-sensei had almost the same fate then he could know what to do. And… I must ask forgiveness to Pavel too, that's what they would do on my place." she looked at the book.

"Man." Doppel moaned, "I wish I could be you." she said watching at the mechanical person, "No need to suffer from cold, no need to eat, drink and to do other stuff." Hush responded nothing, "Man, why do you always being dumb? At least talk with me with your recorded phrases." the metal person took his riffle gun and started to check it on some defects, "Man, I never understand you; I know that each of us had some reason to join 'Red Division', Cyclopes for hating the government, Splash join almost because of the same reason, I joined to save my life, Haze because she wanted to earn lots of money, but what was your aim?" she asked him, but Hush responded nothing again, "Man, like talking with a pet, but that one would give some sound, barking or mewing." she did a pause, she got up from her place, and came to him, "Both of us were quite long in this organization and faced some of its leaders, but as I remember you joined it before me, so what made you to do this?" Hush stopped for a second, but then continued his work over his gun, "Then can you ask another question, if you don't want to answer this one, what do you feel about Yasuhiro's death? After all you and Hush were there with him. Hush stopped again, and returned his gun onto his back.

"Sorrow." Doppel heard a recorded voice of Kangaroo.

"Was he your friend too?" Doppel interested, but he only slowly shook with his head, "Though, why do I ask you it? I think you have never head friends." Doppel said, chuckling, "Who will be friends with such calm person?" but she was surprised to see how Hush shook with his head, "Wait do you mean that you had friends?"

"One." she heard the voice of Avalanche this time.

"Cooing?" the heard Splash's voice, the man had two packets in his hands and his sword was on his back.

"Finally you're here!" Doppel exclaimed, "It's was so bothersome to talk with him!"

"You tell me." Splash smirked and came to them, he put the packets and took out a small container out of one of them, "Here." he stretched it to Doppel, "It was the closest food."

Doppel opened it and saw cooked noodles, with some vegetables; he took out a fork and gave it to her too.

"Looks delicious." Doppel said, and had a bite of it, "Mmm… it's really delicious."

"Nice to hear or it would be you, who would go to look for food." he responded, and took out the same container and started to eat too.

"Listen, we haven't discussed the plan how we'll work if we encounter Shiranui, what are your idea?" she asked him.

"Well, I'll fight her straight, you'll cover my back, and he…" he pointed at Hush with his fork, "Will protect us with his gun."

"Like always." Doppel exhaled, "Can you and Haze be a bit kinder?"

"Why should I?" Splash, asked her tasting his food.

Doppel wanted to say something, but decided not to do this, "You're unamendable." she smiled to him.

The plane was about to land onto the landing field. It was a large plane, which belonged to Russian government. Some three people were merely standing while the rest were running and preparing for meeting people that were about to go come out of it.

The three people were Sakura Igawa in black official suit, the second one was Hirata Chikeko in her gray official suit, and the other one was a man who was standing between them. It was an old man who was about sixty or so years old, his hair was grizzled just as his beard was. The man was wearing a black official suit too, along with yellow tie. The man had strict features of face, but at the same time his face wasn't strict at all.

"Finally they are here, I can't wait to see Eugene Fedorov." the man said to his companions, "Interesting what is he?"

"Well, I think he is like you, Boss." Sakura replied him with her brand smile, watching at the plane too, "Strict and serious."

"Sakura!" Chikeko, exclaimed, "It's not polite to talk like this with Nobushige-san!"

"Seriously? Do you think that I'm like this?" Nobushige said with a smile, "Perhaps you right." he responded, "By the way how is that Russian teacher to you? Is he trustful?"

"Yes." Chikeko quickly replied, "I think he is really a good person, he even helped me several times, and his way of fight it's really magnificent."

"Wait, when did you see him fighting?" Sakura was surprised of such information.

"Before the mission the two of us had a practice, and also with Ren, Pavel, Aki and Maki." Chikeko said with a smile, "Maki and Aki were fighting him."

'He is still hadn't a combat with me.' Sakura thought, 'Damn, if not sis's idea…'

"I see, and what about that organization, you've already encountered several times, have they some contacts with NOMAD?"

"No, we still know almost nothing about this organization." Sakura shook with her head, "The only thing we know is that their base is somewhere in Latin America, maybe this Minister will answer for these questions?"

"I hope he will; after all he also can have the orders and will speak delicately." the old man said. The plane started to land and the ramp was quickly brought to the landing field, 'Maybe he will also be able to answer what 'Red Division' is doing in Japan?' Nobushige thought narrowing his eyes.

The plane stopped and the ramp was brought to it doorway, it was opened and two men went out of it, one was pretty old, but younger then the Nobushige, the other one was young, but still not young much then Sakura was. Both of them were wearing official suits, the boy had a case in his right hand, along with a man who was elder. They started to go down the ramp and the three came to them in order to greet properly.

"Nice to meet you, Mister Nobushige." Eugene stretched his arm and the old man accepted the handshaking.

"Mutually, Fedorov-san." Nobushige smiled to him.

"No need to be official, Eugene is good for me." Eugene smiled too, "After all our visit is not official but secret."

"Then name me Yamamoto." the old man decided to be simple too.

"And these beautiful ladies are?" Eugene turned his head from one woman to another one.

"Sakura Igawa." Sakura smiled widely to the man, and gave a handshake to the man, "And you?" she turned to the young man.

"Dmitry Sablin." the young man smiled to her too, 'So this is the most famous young sister of Igawa Asagi?' he thought then.

"Hirata Chikeko." the musician teacher introduced herself, "I hope we'll work out." she bowed to the men.

"I hope for this too." Eugene referred, "If younger Igawa is here, so that must mean that it's our escort, isn't it?"

"Yes, but still we have some people behind." Yamamoto replied, "So there's no need to worry about, those people, from your organization."

"The problem is that we aren't afraid of them." Eugene replied, "The problem is how they will surprise us."

"What do you mean?" Chikeko asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Let me explain." Dmitry said her with a smile, "We think that they will attack us at any cost, but we don't know how and where."

"Don't worry." Sakura chuckled, "We have already met them, so they have nothing that could impress us a lot."

"Bad thought." Eugene sighed, "They can even impress us, though we know them quite well."

"I hope you'll tell us something about them, so we will start to understand them well too."

"Don't worry we will." Eugene nodded.

"Then follow us." Yamamoto turned and stretched his hand, and then the crowd went to the main building of the airport.

While they were walking they talked about lots of different things, Sakura and Chikeko decided to talk with Dmitry, while Eugene was talking with Yamamoto, about official things, and some governmental stuff.

The come out onto the main platform in front of the airport and then they could see a black limousine that was waiting for them, they quickly sat into and then the car went further.

"So is this the Minister of your country?" Ren asked both Russian hunters who were standing onto the roof of the airport.

"Yes." Oleg nodded, "He is."

"Man, it was pretty long since we saw him last time." Pavel replied looking at him, "And even Dmitry is here, I can't even remember when I've seen him last time."

"Is he your friend?" Ren asked him with interest, likewise she wanted to know a bit more about Pavel.

"Well, he is not my friend, but he is a good acquaintance." Pavel continued to look at the young man.

"In Russia, Pavel always was looking for an opportunity to have a practice battle with that young man, and he always got scorcher from him."

"Hey! It's because he was from elite!" Pavel protested, "And at the same time he is older than I am, so there are wonders why I always lost to him."

"Is he really strong?" Ren asked Oleg Semenovich

"Quite, I don't think that even the two of you will be able to defeat him." He merely responded.

"And what about you?" a man with sunglasses asked Oleg.

"There's no need for me to answer this question." Oleg replied, "After all I'm a teacher."

"How do you think who will can encounter this time?" Oleg was asked by Kuro again.

"Difficult to answer." Oleg replied, "But there's no doubt that we will meet Mystic and Archon."

"That man with wind abilities." Kuro pondered too remembering his fight with the strange man with the cloak and the hood, and Oleg only nodded.

"And what about that Polish doctor?" Ren asked her mentor.

"Maybe we will meet him too." Oleg nodded, "But he won't fight in first line, and that will give us some troubles."

"I see, so we have to neutralize him first, haven't we?" Ren asked again and Oleg only nodded.

They saw how they entered the building and the crowd then went to the other part of the roof, after some minutes, they saw how the Ministers with the rest sat into the limousine and in the end how it's went somewhere else pretty slowly.

"Ready?" Oleg asked his comrades, they only nodded and then they followed the car jumping by the roofs of nearby buildings.

The car was going about an hour and half, and then it stopped in front of another tall building, the people quickly got off the car and went to the building, they weren't in hurry and walked slowly. After the ride on the lift and walking by the corridors, they finally reached a big and cosy office which had several sofas it had a big and long table in the middle of it and at the same time there were many chairs that were around the table. Yamamoto took the place in the middle, while Eugene took the one next to him, along with Dmitry, Sakura and Chikeko sat opposite to the men.

"So we finally can start our meeting." the man with the beard said, "Now tell us, what you wanted to tell, why did you decide to do everything so secretly?"

"Well, we could come here with a bit more officially, but we couldn't as we were afraid to put you in danger , we know that there're a lot of different criminal organizations in Japan, so we didn't want to give them an opportunity to strike you, we it's enough for us to know that 'The Third Law' is chasing us."

"I wanted to ask you." Sakura interfered into their talk, "Why did they call themselves like this? Why third and not first or second, but the third one?"

"Well, we don't know this too." Eugene replied, "We tried to make some theories, but nothing constructional came into our kind."

"In the report you gave us, is telling that their base is somewhere in Latin America, how did you find out it?"

"We think that it's somewhere in Brasilia." Eugene started, "I think you also noticed that its government started to resist to the USA."

"Yes." Nobushige nodded, "We noticed it, so it means that they help to it quite a lot."

"We also think that they have someone really strong in their ranks if they could live not knowing troubles for a long time."

Sakura was puzzled after these words, 'Wait a minute, maybe that man sis was talking about is really a strong man?'

"I have another question, why did you send scouts to our country, you could contact with us instead of playing such strange games, and then together we could think of something." Nobushige asked another question.

"Well, as we know, you have got some troublesome elements in your government, like we have ours and we couldn't risk that much, we sent three squad to Japan, one was sent with all arrangements to Gosha Village, while the other two were investigation Tokyo in order to find some clews which could bring us to these lunatics."

"And one of them is in Gosha Village now." Nobushige said to him.

"Yes, we were informed too." Eugene nodded, "The problem is in the third squad, as we were informed it was captured by these scums."

"It's the woman with pink hair, who uses magnetism?" Sakura asked him, remembering Oleg's words after their first mission.

"Yes, Liza Prokofieva." Dmitry responded for the Minister, "And as we also informed that her captain was killed, by some demon, which looks like a dinosaur." Chikeko and Sakura looked at each other like they knew what the young one was talking about, "Have you encountered it?" he asked the beautiful ladies.

"Yes." Sakura nodded, "During our first mission with your hunters, we faced him."

"And during the last one." Chikeko nodded too, "I was in the pair with Pavel and the other hunter of ours."

"Did you fight along with Pavel?" Dmitry asked the ladies, both of them nodded, "Can you tell something about him?" Dmitry was encourage like he knew Pavel for a long time, Chikeko wanted to say something, but suddenly heard Yamamoto's voice.

"Ladies, you can be free for now, I don't think that they will dare to attack us here, so go and have something to eat."

"You can do this too, Dmitry." Eugene said to the young man, and then the three of them left the office.

"Well now we can start the real talk, can't we?" the man with the beard said, "I think you felt yourself quite uncomfortable in their presence." he smiled.

"Yes, a little." Eugene smiled too.

"Some coffee or tea?" the Japanese Minister asked the Russian one.

"Coffee." he merely replied, and then saw how the Japanese, put his finger onto the console called a secretary to bring a two cups of coffee and something to snack.

"Well, I'm still wondered, why the Minister of Foreign Affairs is in charge of the hunting facility? I thought it should be done by Home Secretary."

"Well, it's a long story." Eugene answered, "In the beginning it was like this, but a little bit later, this function was given to our department as we started to provide our services to other countries."

"That's what I wanted to know, why do you send your hunters to other countries? Not protecting them with identities of bounty hunters?"

"Well, it's a bit difficult." Eugene said, "We send our hunters only to those countries, which are loyal to our countries, we don't send then countries of Chinese Union or and the UFS.

"Can you give a short list of these countries? If it's not a secret of course." Nobushige crossed his arms onto his chest.

"Of course." he smiled, "Serbia, India, Scandinavia and some others, these countries have some arrangements with us in killing demons."

"I see." Eugene's interlocutor responded.

He wanted to add something, but the secretary opened the door and entered the office, she put the cups of coffee next to Eugene and Yamamoto, she also brought some sweets and cookies, and then with a bow left them along together.

"Well I have two other themes to discuss with you." Eugene did a sip from the cup and continued, "He got the case and then put it onto the table next to his cup of coffee, he opened it and then took out some papers out of it, "I think there's no need to tell you about those kidnapping that were in Sapporo."

"What do you know about it?" Nobushige became frown, he did a sip of his coffee too, and then stared at the Russian minister.

"Well, we could get some information about where they were supposed to be brought." he stretched the papers to the Japanese one, "If we are right the part of them were supposed to be given to Etienne Richar for experiments."

"Are you sure with it?"

"Yes, we have no doubt in it, Richar always need new instances for his projects as most of them don't survive them."

"And what project he is doing now?" Yamamoto asked him again.

"We don't know, we only know that he always tried to create some mutants, what are combined of demonic and human's DNA."

"Who provided this information to you?" Nobushige narrowed his eyes, wishing to hear the answer.

"And here's my first question." Eugene said seriously too, "This information was provided by a member of Vereshagin's family."

"Vereshagins, Vereshagins…" the Japanese man started thinking, "The ones those have business all over the world, from education till military?"

"You've remembered right." Oleg nodded.

"If I remember it right we imposed sanctions on them, because of spying and funding criminal organization, so why did they provide it, and how did they get it?"

"Well, this question should be asked to Vereshagin Andrew, as he is a representative of his family now, and how he gets the information doesn't interest me. In their protection I want to say that these things were fabricated, we don't know, how but they would never do such a thing."

"Have you got any evidence of their innocence? I would like to see them." Yamamoto stated.

"Here's the problem neither we, neither they have them? Eugene confessed, "Then maybe this will make you to think about it." he took another pile of papers, and stretched it to the man with the beard, "Here is an approximate task of 'The Third Law'."

Nobushige widened his eyes and took the papers, there were about five sheets, and Nobushige started quickly to read them.

"What seal they want to find?" the Japanese asked with a serious voice, I can't understand?"

"Well, how should I explain this better?" Eugene pondered, "We don't know much about them too, we only know that they protect something, and also we know that two of them were destroy and the other for are still weakened."

"And you didn't tell us this?!" Nobushige raised his voice, "Maybe if tell us earlier we could at least save them, if they're that important."

"The problem is that we couldn't do it." Eugene emphasized the word 'we', he saw a puzzled expression on the face of his interlocutor, "The first seal was broken during the first mission, of our hunters, when the second squad helped them. And the second one, was destroyed during the last sortie."

"How did you know this."

"We have our own sources." Eugene said doing another sip of his coffee.

"Do you know the location of the rest ones?"

"No, but we know that there must be some sort of anomaly, and in the seal should be somewhere in the middle of this anomaly."

"How can we now that the seals are destroyed?" Yamamoto asked again.

"The will be another anomaly, but a short one, something like an earthquake or just a strong wind, of lighting, something like this."

"I see." Nobushige said.

They continued their talk the talked about lots of things, about the seals, 'The Third Law', about future relations of their countries and other stuff.

When Sakura, Chikeko and Dmitry left the office the headed to the buffet, Dmitry quickly noticed how Sakura changed, she tried to be more official there, but when the left the place where they were to be formal, she quickly started to act more indelicacy and more and in some ways childish. On other side was Chikeko, who tried to preserve her calmness and formality. However even she couldn't do this in several places, the buffet was almost empty as everyone was on their working places right now. Sakura and Chikeko ordered their meal. Sakura chose some burgers awhile Chikeko decided to eat some rice with karri.

"What will you eat Dmitry-san?" Chikeko asked the young man, who was elder then she was.

"Don't be shy and order whatever you want." Sakura said to him, "You'll like local food."

"Well, I'll take some karri and green tea too, then." Dmitry responded. The order was brought quickly and then the group went to the nearest table.

When they finally sat, Sakura decided to ask, "Do you know Pavel?"

"Yes, as you can see I'm elder then him, and sometimes I give training in our hunting academy, he always was eager to have some training with me."

"And how is he to you?" Chikeko asked Dmitry, as she took a fork.

"Well, he is quite skillful boy, and can surprise sometimes, no wonders why he was sent here." he answered, "As you told you fought with Pavel too, I hope he wasn't lectured?"

"No." Chikeko quickly replied, "As you said he is really a skillful boy, he also tries to help other people in our academy."

"Nice to hear." Dmitry did a sip of his tea, "I was afraid that he will have some troubles in being accustomed in a new place, but it seems that my worries were pointless."

"I have a question too." Sakura said, "I think you know Oleg."

"Of course, I do." Dmitry nodded, "After all he was my teacher too."

"I heard Pavel told that he was teaching boring in Russia, was it truth?" Chikeko asked him.

"Yes, that's true." Dmitry smiled, "In Russia most of his students were sleeping on his lessons, he always like to give lots of theory and commanded to learn it perfectly, but honestly, I think only some special students can like his lessons."

"And how Pavel like his ones?" Sakura asked him.

"During special lessons, to be frank, I had them sometimes too, we called it remembering through hell."

"Why so dramatic?" Sakura was surprised.

"Well, he explained his subject during combat, and we had to think and answer at the same time, protecting ourselves from his attacks, and some of them were really painful." Sakura and Chikeko laughed as he started to rub his back.

"I wanted to ask you, well maybe you know this or not." Chikeko's cheeks became red, and she rather mumbled rather then said, "Does he have someone?" Sakura quickly turned to the teacher of music, with widened eyes.

"Frankly speaking, I don't know, after all it's personal information so you should ask him instead of me."

"I see." she replied mumbling.

"I wanted to ask too." Sakura said seriously, Dmitry understood that it was a serious question, "Do you know what binds Oleg, with Archon and that Maria?"

Dmitry became frown; he put his fork onto the table. Sakura felt how something hit her at her hip, it was Chikeko's elbow.

"Sakura!" she whispered, "Do you understand what you're asking? There's big difference between mine and yours question." Sakura wasn't able to answer as Dmitry took the word faster.

"Have you already asked him about this?" Dmitry asked her.

"Well yeas, it's was when he wanted to interfere in some our problem my sis wanted to know did he really wanted to help to some person or just to do something, and then we had an arguing, because I've started to talk about it, and I've never saw him like this."

"Because it's impolite to ask such personal things Sakura." Chikeko squeezed her cheek.

"Yes, it's really personal things." Dmitry nodded, "I don't know the whole story myself because I just was a child then, and know everything from documents." he did a pause, "But the connection between those three was really great."

"What happened between them?" Sakura asked him.

"I'm sorry, but I can tell you this, I admire Oleg Semenovich a lot, so if he wants, he will tell you everything, in the future if he doesn't then he will keep this secret further."

"I see." Sakura said quietly, her voice was really sad, 'It seems that something really significant happened between them."

They decided to change the theme of their talk, they were talking a lot, about their countries, criminal organizations, and other stuff like studying, they decided not to touch policy, they discussed Pavel, and other students who fought with 'The Third Law', until they saw Eugene and Yamamoto, who came in the buffet too.

"Hey, Dmitry your dream is going to become true." Eugene said sitting next to him.

"What do you mean?"

"We're going to visit Gosha Village tomorrow." Eugene smiled.

"Really?" Dmitry was surprised and astonished of hearing such information.

"Yes." Yamamoto smiled, "We decided to go in the day time, as we think that they won't dare us during it."

"Well, I think too that there're less risks of their attack during the day time, after all there will lots of people." Dmitry suggested too.

"We're going there by train; it'll be much easier for us to protect it." Yamamoto added.

After this they decided to go for a walk in official crowded places, as they knew that their hides were protected by strong hunters and huntresses.