Mimics

by Fallen Crest

Trion soldiers with the ability to transform into deceased loved ones have made their way to Japan. Border will have to face their worse enemy yet...the ones who created Border: Mogami Soichi and Kuga Yugo. In the face of Mogami and Yugo, can Jin and Yuma find the strength to destroy the ones they already loss once before?

51. Chapter 51: Switch

A/N: I don't own World Trigger

Mimics

Chapter 51: Switch

"Bolt, Quadra!"

Tachikawa and Kazama retreated from approaching Yuma. As the bullets approached him, Tachikawa pulled out his second Kogetsu and used both of his swords to deflect the bullets coming his way while he ran out of the path of the bullets. On the other hand, Kazama deactivated both of his swords and used both of his Shields to form a focused Shield that surrounded him completely.

Tachikawa barely gave any attention to what Kazama was doing to defend from the attack as he twisted around the barrage of bullets, focusing solely on Yuma who still refused to shift from his spot in the middle of the arena.

As Tachikawa twisted around the last of the bullets, Yuma's face turned towards him, eyes focusing completely on him to prepare for Tachikawa's attack. Without breaking stride, Tachikawa swung his Kogetsu quickly, unleashing his Senku towards Yuma. The sword Yuma currently held had much better durability than his usual Scorpion so he was able to easily swipe one of his swords up to slam into the whirlwind slash to survive the attack that both he and Tachikawa knew was just a distraction as Tachikawa closed the last bit of distance between them.

Yuma flipped his sword over in his hand to put the blade against his forearm to block Tachikawa's first Kogetsu before he was swinging his second sword in an upwards arc to strike to force Tachikawa to block with his other Kogetsu. Before Tachikawa could pull his swords back to attack again, Yuma was already on the move and swinging his foot up. "Boost, Double." This time the seal got applied to his foot, but instead of going for any part of Tachikawa's body, Yuma's kick slammed into the bottom of the hilt of Tachikawa's Kogetsu. Yuma paid no attention to the sword when it was ripped out of Tachikawa's hand. Instead, he followed the momentum of his kick into a spin, dragging his sword along Tachikawa's Kogetsu until it was freed and he was deflecting Murakami's attack to his back with it.

Tachikawa who had seen where Yuma's kick was getting aimed released his hold on the sword at the very last second to avoid having his arm ripped off with the kick, but the power behind the kick sent his Kogetsu flying straight away from him and towards a surprised Kageura who ducked to dodge. The Kogetsu slammed into the walls of the combat room with such force, it tore through the virtual walls, only stopping when the hilt of the Kogetsu hit the wall so the blade was stuck in the wall.

Tachikawa didn't spare his lost sword a glance as he exchanged blows with Yuma who turned halfway away from Murakami so he could deflect each one of Tachikawa's attacks with only half of his attention. It wasn't that Yuma thought Tachikawa was any weaker with only one sword, but there were four other combatants in this room. His Bolt seal had pushed them back only temporarily which gave him the chance to focus on Tachikawa but they were going to be moving again. The moment they closed in on him was the moment when he was going to get outmatched.

Fighting multiple opponents, multiply highly skilled opponents, was hard enough.

Fighting them using a fighting style that wasn't his made it even more difficult.

Yuma did not understand how his father was constantly fighting the Border agents like this.

Tachikawa and Yuma slammed their swords against each other before Yuma was twisting around to dodge Murakami's attack. Just over Murakami's shoulder, he took note of the fact that Kazama was vanishing from sight by using his Chameleon.

Tachikawa and Murakami didn't relent on their attack as they both kept swinging attacks at Yuma, forcing him on the defense. With two top attackers bearing down on him, it became more difficult for Yuma to stay locked in place. Even as he started to be forced to back up, neither Tachikawa nor Murakami followed after him.

None of the agents in this battle had any long-range attacks. Tachikawa and Murakami had Senku and Kageura had his Mantis, but those were mid-range attacks at best. With his Bolt seal, Yuma had the advantage in range, but if the agents coordinated properly, they would be able to overpower him. If he wasn't moving around the field, he couldn't plant his seals all over the battlefield so using his normal Bolt seal, he could only attack in one direction. If anyone got behind his bullets, they could get to him. That was the reason for the blades. They provided the defense.

But by pressuring Yuma by being so close to him, it made it harder for Yuma to focus on creating his seals and keeping track of all the enemies in the field. Tachikawa didn't know how long it took Yuma to create a seal or plant one, but he wasn't going to give him the time.

Yuma blocked Murakami's attack then immediately turned to push Tachikawa's Kogetsu to the side to avoid getting impaled before he was jumping back a few steps to get some distance. His second blade swung behind him to force Shun who was jumping at his back to defend himself. Shun threw up a Shield to block the attack, but kept his Scorpion flashing forward to Yuma's neck. Yuma dropped down to his knees to avoid the attack and then flipped his sword in his grip and stabbed it upwards straight into Shun's neck.

Shun stared down at Yuma with wide eyes, black Trion drifting between them. Even with Yuma's sword in his throat, his momentum still carried him forward and he flipped over his friend. As he fell forward, his weight and momentum ripped the sword from Yuma's hand before he was slamming into the ground.

"Midorikawa down."

While Yuma was taking out Shun, Tachikawa and Murakami stopped chasing Yuma for a moment to activate their Senku slashes at the same time. Their idea was to use the moment that Shun fell in front of Yuma's eyes to unleash them as Shun's body would blind him from the other agents for just a moment, but Yuma seemed to have the same idea. As Shun's body hit the ground, Yuma's Bolt seal was revealed to the agents. "Bolt, Quinte!"

Yuma's bullets unleashed themselves to meet the Senku slashes coming his way to effectively destroy the whirlwinds. With the amount of bullets he chose to use, all the agents still alive were forced back. Kazama's Chameleon fell away to reveal him only a few feet away from Yuma. His Scorpions appeared in his hands so he could try to deflect some of the bullets coming for him. With the power and speed of Yuma's Bolt seal, Kazama wasn't able to cut down all the bullets but he did his best to dodge as well so only a few of them managed to gaze at him.

Getting the space he needed back, Yuma rose back up to his feet and ripped his sword from Shun's neck.

With the sword out of his neck, Shun's wounds healed, but he stayed down on the ground as he was already dead. "Yuma-senpai is so vicious." He mumbled, but his friend ignored him as he stepped over him.

"It truly is impressive how versatile your Black Trigger is." Tachikawa complimented. "Fujin is very rigid as it is only used for offense and thus has no defensive capabilities and Amo's relies solely on its destructive nature. It can't be understated how much the balance of your Black Trigger gives you an edge."

Yuma stared back at Tachikawa with an impassive look.

"Besides Asteroid and Lead Bullet, how many more of our Triggers have you stolen in the past few months?" Tachikawa asked.

"I have no need for the rest of your Triggers." Yuma replied. "So, I didn't copy any of them. I don't go around stealing Triggers for no reason. I only took Miwa's Triggers to force him to back off."

"I don't see any weaknesses in Kuga. He has all his angles covered and a wide array of offensive abilities make it hard to kill him." Murakami said. "If this is what he is like, his father has to be a lot stronger."

"There has to be a weakness in there somewhere." Kageura snapped. "No way he can perfectly defend every attack. All it takes is one attack to break through the defense and that will be enough to cause him to falter."

Kazama twisted around Tachikawa and swiped at Yugo multiple times who blocked each of the attacks while ducking under Tachikawa's Kogetsu coming for his neck. If this was anything like when fighting Yuma, then Yugo was going to come up with an attack from below. In preparation for that attack, Tachikawa swung his second sword down to meet Yugo's sword that was slashing upwards.

Yugo broke free of the two Attackers and jumped backwards. Tachikawa chased after him, but before he could get near Yugo, his foot hit the ground and a blue seal revealed itself. Tachikawa was given no time to react as he was flung fast and violently into the air. He barely had time to acknowledge how similar it was to a move that Yuma used against Murakami in their rank war last month before he was slamming into the wall on the other side of the room.

Kazama quickly backstepped before he could step into any other traps that Yugo had set when he backed away from them. He then took a running leap and landed on the transparent blue walls of the training rooms and ran along them to get over the ground that Yugo likely littered with hidden seals. After a few steps along the wall, Kazama propelled himself off the wall towards where Yugo was disappearing around the corner of the other training room.

Tachikawa and Kazama had managed to push Yugo to the back of the room so they could focus on fighting him without having to worry about the army of Trion Soldiers in the room. The training rooms worked as a great barrier to keep the room divided though it was possible for the Trion Soldiers to still get to them but Kazama trusted his allies on the other side of the room to keep them from getting in his way.

As Kazama came down from the wall and twisted around the corner to follow Yugo, he activated his two Scorpions. Yugo backed up one more step before stopping completely as his eyes were turned up towards Kazama. Their blades clashed against each other as Kazama reached him. Before Kazama's feet could hit the ground, Yugo brought his leg up into a kick. Before it could connect with Kazama, the attacker twisted in the air and crossed his arms over his chest so they would take the force of the kick as he was propelled backwards.

Instead of letting himself slam into the bleachers, Kazama slammed his Scorpion down into the bleachers and twisted himself in the air to right himself to land in a crouch.

Tachikawa pulled himself free from the wall he had crashed through and walked down the bleachers, brushing the dust from the rubble off of his shoulders. "Chibi either knows how his father fights very well or he remembers the old ways he was trained in before he got his Black Trigger."

"His fighting style changed over the years to match the Triggers he was using, but the creativity and those little tricks he uses will never leave him." Kazama replied, eyeing the other attacker out of the corner of his eyes as he didn't want to turn completely away from Yugo. No one would be foolish enough to turn their back on Yugo. "You should have been more wary of that Bound seal. We already saw that Kuga likes to use it to throw his enemies around so he doesn't get surrounded."

"With that Black Trigger on his side, he has too many options available to him. With so many different combinations at his disposal, it makes it hard to predict every single one of the moves. Jin would be better suited to this fight." Tachikawa retorted. Now that Jin had started to see the futures of Yugo and Mogami, he would have a better chance of avoiding any traps Yugo laid down.

"But then you wouldn't be able to get your revenge for the other day."

"I never said I wouldn't be involved in the fight, just that having Jin here would be more helpful."

While Jin's side effect would be an advantage that they could highly benefit from, the fact that Yugo was opening Gates again meant that whatever Jin had been concerned with had come into existence. He was likely very busy wherever he was because it was likely Mogami that Jin was after since it was highly unlikely that Yugo had stormed the base for a second time by himself. It had worked the other night when all the agents had been in the Restricted Zone and he only had the directors stepping into his path. Today, the place was crawling with agents so he would need Mogami's help this time around.

*Mimics*

Kitora lowered her hand from her ear. "Jin-san has met up with Mikumo-kun and Hyuse-kun. They apparently lost track of Mogami-san."

"That didn't take long." Yuma glanced down the hall behind them. Not that Yuma could condemn his teammates for losing track of him. Jin and Yuma lost sight of Mogami and Yugo so fast the other day when they were in the city. When they wanted to be, those two could be as slippery as eels. The real concern here was going to be where and when Mogami was going to pop up near them.

"Ayatsuji-san also got a message from your operator from Jin-san. He said to not go to the roof." Kitora added.

"The roof?" Yuma repeated. If that was what Jin was saying, it would likely lead to a bad future if they went up there, but at the same time, Yuma saw an open space like that as a better battleground to fight Mogami in. It would give him less chances to sneak away at the very least.

"If it's what Jin-san is asking of us, we should avoid it." Tokieda said. "We're only two floors away from the war room. We should keep moving."

"Mm-hmm." Yuma hummed in agreement. "Is Ayatsuji-san able to track Mogami so we can at least know where he is at?"

Tokieda shook his head. "It seems he put his bagworm back on when he escaped your team. According to Jin-san, he went to the floor below us though."

"Which means he's very likely tracking us as we move and is going to break the floor apart around us at some point." Kitora added as they reached the elevator and she pushed the call button.

"Isn't it concerning how easily these walls and floors break?" Yuma asked, looking down each hall around them. "I thought this place was reinforced with Trion to prevent this kind of damage."

"The outer walls' armor has been equipped with extra Trion after Agent Amatori destroyed it, but we don't have infinite Trion to do that with all the walls and floors. Protecting the exterior of the base to prevent the base from being destroyed was the priority. The interior walls and floors have armor but it is more easily broken than the exterior." Kido explained.

Tokieda looked down the hall they just came from. This area of the base looked pristine, but just a few hallways over was a complete mess from the destruction that was caused. "Something Kinuta-san will be looking into fixing most likely. He would likely want to find a way to prevent this again for safety and to give himself less work with having to fix the interior of the base constantly."

"He hasn't even fixed the hall where Boss and Shinoda-san fought Dad last night." Yuma commented as the elevator arrived and they all stepped in it.

"How badly can the Tamakoma Branch wreck HQ in the few days they stay here?" Tokieda wondered as he selected the floor they wanted to go to.

"It's not all our fault." Yuma protested. All the current damage done to HQ was because of the Mimics and the Tamakoma agents. However, since his father was currently hosting an attack on the other side of the base against the Border agents, it was very likely there was going to be more destruction happening tonight.

"It would be best if–"

Yuma stopped listening to Kitora as his head snapped upwards towards the ceiling of the elevator. He tilted his head slightly to the side to angle his ear towards the roof as he strained to hear. "Did you hear that?"

The conversation came to a halt as everyone looked towards the ceiling. It wasn't even a second later when a green slash blinded them as it tore through the roof.

*Mimics*

Both Tachikawa and Kazama's attack got deflected before Kazama was jumping away, staring coldly at Yugo while Tachikawa refused to let up on his attack.

Yugo slammed their blades together, smirking as confidentially as ever at Tachikawa. "At least you're actually trying this time."

Tachikawa broke their blades apart. "The last time we met was an ambush. I'm not going to fall for that trick again. I know every ability you have this time."

"So, you came into this fight for revenge." Yugo concluded and this time it was him who attacked, slamming his sword into Tachikawa's so hard that he was forced back a few steps to steady himself under the strength of that blow. "Of everyone I've fought this week, you two have the most killing intent besides my students." For as much as his students respected him, that had been a surprise. They hadn't held anything back when they fought him last night. Yugo would never let himself lose a fight on purpose, but there was that wish in him that his students had managed to defeat him. It was a relief when they showed no hesitation in that fight and were giving it their all to kill him. Yugo had already died years ago. He did not want to see his son die just so Yugo could have a second chance at life. To see his students easily make the choice to protect Yuma over the chance of having their mentor back had been a huge comfort to him. If, by some miracle, Border managed to stop him and Mogami, Yugo could die with a smile, knowing that his son had such wonderful friends and his own students would do anything to protect his son. His son being safe after he died was all he ever wanted.

"We're not going to kill you." Kazama said before Tachikawa could reply. The no. 1 Attacker shot him a look that Kazama met with his own glare. "Have you forgotten already? Kuga's life is barely hanging on. If we kill his father, we'll likely kill him to."

Yugo's eyes narrowed slightly at that. Since when was that an issue? Yugo being here was draining the Black Trigger and the more he used the powers of the Black Trigger, the more Trion he stole from Yuma that was keeping his body intact. It was going to kill Yuma at some point once his body reached its limit from the lack of Trion. That was the connection they shared, but what was this about him dying killing Yuma as well? Their lives were never meant to be intertwined like that. Though, they weren't even properly intertwined. If Yugo got killed, Yuma would die with him. If Yuma died, Yugo would be perfectly fine. The Black Trigger he created to protect Yuma's life was now doing more damage than anything.

"It seems that you guys are handicapped in this fight whereas I have nothing to stall my blade." Yugo found himself saying. Someone with a handicapped would find themselves having to hold back in battle which gave him the advantage.

Kazama smirked at Yugo's pupils turned black. "It truly is a double-edged sword."

Yugo's eyes flickered to him.

"Kuga's life is tied to the Black Trigger. Something you have known this whole time and something we learned just recently. I haven't had much time to think about it and with everything in this situation being unprecedented, I can only come up with theories, but with Kuga using the Black Trigger to sustain his life and you draining it to use its power and sustain your existence, the Black Trigger's power is being split. That tells me two things. One, as powerful as your attacks have been with the seals, they are only at half strength since Kuga has the other portion of that power." Kazama said.

Call him intrigued, but Yugo, who chastised the agents for their quips in battle, was taking steps away from Tachikawa and Kazama, not because he was running, but because he wanted this conversation to continue. He was simply here to distract and if that distraction became a conversation instead, it worked just as well. "Perhaps that was true at the beginning of the week, but I have gotten more power from the Black Trigger as the days have passed so it's more like seventy percent goes to me."

"Which is why Chibi's body is breaking and progressively getting worse at a much quicker rate than a few days ago." Tachikawa concluded. "The burden on Chibi is too much."

Yugo raised a brow at the name. From context it was easy to figure out that Chibi was meant to be Yuma. It was just strange to have the agents nicknaming him that. As strange as it was, warmth flooded through Yugo to see his child accepted enough by his organization to get those nicknames. Yuma never had any friends close enough to him get the experience of teasing each other and giving nicknames growing up. The most he got was Izukacha when those two got comfortable enough around each other to tease one another. Perhaps Yuma's childhood wasn't the most conventional, but maybe being in Border could give him the friends he needed.

"And two, you are handicapped just as much as we are." Kazama added, drawing Yugo and Tachikawa's surprised faces back to him. "You may be a Mimic programmed with the orders of capturing your Black Trigger to sustain your existence, but Kuga Yugo hasn't been completely forced back. It may not seem like it to us, but you are fighting against your programming. You've come into contact with your son multiple times this week and maybe in the beginning, each of those interactions ended with your retreat because of our comrades getting in your way, but there was no one in your path last night when it was just you and Kuga. There wasn't any one in the vicinity to stop you, and yet, Kuga is still alive."

"Of course he is. All I need from my son is the Black Trigger." Yugo replied.

"And taking that will kill Kuga and you know that." Kazama retorted. "And you also know you are sharing the power of the Black Trigger with your son which is making it take longer for you to complete your mission and become complete. Your best bet to complete the order of becoming complete is to take the ring and kill Kuga. Had you just done that last night, you would have won, but instead, you chose to leave him alive and gave him the information about who sent you here."

"So that's it." Tachikawa scoffed as he caught on. "We keep failing in stopping you so you keep giving us all the chances possible to save your son. The smallest form of resistance you can give is to leave Chibi alive and put all your hope on us killing you."

"But you didn't foresee your life getting twisted with Kuga's like this. The more we hurt you, the more we hurt our comrade." Kazama added. "For all you've done to protect Kuga by refusing to strike him down with your own sword, are you really going to continue to fight us with the Black Trigger seals when they will only speed up his death?"

Yugo stared impassively back at the two agents in front of him. It was true he could have ended this a long time ago. Before Mogami even appeared if he just let himself kill Yuma on the bridge at his base the other day. He had his sword at Yuma's throat. He could have taken Yuma that day when his son couldn't bring himself to fight his father. Taken Yuma somewhere they could be alone so he could kill him without interference from Border and be done with this.

"Not only have you broken into our base, but you're the one who has been causing my Yuma so much suffering lately. That is something I cannot overlook." Konami snapped angrily.

"I will never understand your logic, but I won't let you kill Yuma-senpai!" Shun snapped.

"But no matter how much stronger he has gotten in the past four years, he doesn't have to deal with this alone. I will end this nightmare for him. This is my job as his brother." Jin declared.

"I always thought you were a great man, but maybe I'm not a good judge of character because I was sure the mentor I held in such high regard would be a great father. The mentor I remember wouldn't be causing this kind of chaos and destruction to hunt down his injured son." Shinoda snapped.

"When I first heard the story of how you sacrificed your life to save Yuma, I thought, that is just like Kuga-san. He would never stand by when anyone he loved needed help. Seeing you reduced to this, a shadow of your real self, it's disappointing that you would let yourself become a slave to the programming of a Trion Soldier. It seems you aren't as strong as we remembered." Rindo said.

"Kuga may have a hard time in facing you, and I held back for his sake, and that was my mistake. I should have talked to him sooner about his struggles in facing you. If I had, maybe things wouldn't have gotten as bad as they did." Osamu admitted, voice full of regret for not acting sooner.

"Playing it too cautious will yield you no results. Sometimes, there are circumstances which demand recklessness. As a father, I'm sure you know this." Suwa shot back at Yugo.

How many agents was Yugo going to meet that just wanted to help his son? Who were going to call him out on his actions and behavior towards Yuma? He knew he didn't want to be doing this to Yuma, but it wasn't his choice. Yugo didn't take reckless actions often because he knew the dangers of them, but Suwa was right in his claim that Yugo had been reckless. He could call them calculated risks all he liked, but everything he did when Yuma was in danger didn't have a guarantee that it would work and his son would be saved.

When he created the Black Trigger.

And each time he managed to pull back from actively striking Yuma down this week.

Yugo was postponing Yuma's death and that resulted in more suffering on Yuma's part, but this was all Yugo could do. The moment Yuma died, Yugo will have won and lost at the same time. Border was getting all the chances to stop him and they just kept failing. It was looking more like Yuma was going to die and all this resistance would have just been a waste of time and effort from Yugo.

"What are you going to do, Kuga?" Tachikawa challenged. "Are you going to keep using those seals and hurting your son? Or," Tachikawa charged at Yugo and forced him back as he defended himself from the vicious swings of Tachikawa's Kogetsu. "Are you going to give up?"

Arafune's shot hit the Marmod in the eye, tearing through the Trion Soldier and leaving him dead on the ground. With one less Trion Soldier in the battle, Arafune took his attention off the hoard below to look towards the opposite side of the room where Tachikawa and Kazama were exchanging strikes with Yugo. Having watching Yuma fight multiple people with that Black Trigger, Arafune knew that Yugo could easily keep the attackers at bay if he really wanted to. With no long-range attacks at their disposal and the power of the Bolt seal Yugo had, it could be next to impossible to approach him.

"We fought Jin-san a couple months ago," Kodera said when he saw Arafune distracted. He held back on taking another shot at one of the Trion Soldiers since his comrades were engaged in close combat. "There was no chance of us hitting him because of his side effect, but we were trying to distract him by splitting his focus."

"It would be harder on Kuga-san to deal with the distraction of a sniper since he can't predict the future." Satori added. "Should one of us go assist them? We aren't all needed over here."

"Kodera should stay here since he's the only with an Ibis." Arafune said. "I'll go since if Kuga targets me, I can switch to close combat." Honestly, this strategy would work better with at the very least two snipers, but with only three snipers being here right now, they didn't have many options. Kodera and Satori helping to guard the doors was just as important as killing Yugo.

"There's another option available to you." A voice came over their comms.

*Mimics*

Jin flipped the Kogetsu over to hold the hilt of it out towards Hyuse. Hyuse snatched his sword from Jin without a word to him, leaving Jin smirking in amusement as he was too used to Hyuse's dislike of him. The smirk didn't last long as he walked pass Osamu and Hyuse to start down the hall. He heard the two younger agents' feet slapping along the ground behind him as they raced down the halls.

"Sorry we weren't able to keep Mogami-san in the hall." Osamu said.

"Mogami-san was never a fan of confrontation that wasn't necessary. He is going to be solely focused on his goal." Jin replied. "He only has eyes for Yuma right now."

"I wouldn't take someone who was your mentor to be a coward who refused to fight." Hyuse replied, getting a sharp glare from Osamu, but nothing from Jin who refused to stop just to confront Hyuse about this. What else was Hyuse supposed to think? This was the second time he got into it with Mogami today and the second time that Mogami had retreated from the fight.

"There is nothing cowardly about avoiding fights that you would gain nothing from. Mogami-san always advocated for peace and cooperation, among Border and our allies in the Neighborhood. With that said, when it was necessary, he held nothing back in combat." Jin replied. "Right now, we're just like ants to Mogami-san. Insignificant, little specks that aren't even worth his time to stomp out."

"I am not an ant." Hyuse snapped.

"It's just a saying." Osamu said. "We're just not important to him."

"Only the Golden baby bird is important." Hyuse mused.

Osamu gave Hyuse a strange look. "That's what your comrades kept referring to Chika as during the invasion."

"It's just the person with a huge amount of Trion that can be used as a god and thus was the priority for us to focus on for the mission." Hyuse said, though he felt the explanation wasn't necessary. Hyuse may not know what the Tamakoma agents were up to since they didn't give him all the information about what was going on with their actions, but he was positive they had gotten a good amount of information about what Aftokrator's goal was from other sources. There was also the fact that Hyuse has used this term with Osamu before, but he was always talking about Chika when he said it. "I'm using the term towards Yuma this time. Mogami and Kuga's reasons for going after him are different than what we had been doing, but he's essentially the golden baby bird in this scenario. Though, he isn't one of your c-rank trainees so I suppose it should just be golden bird at this point."

"I suppose that is a better way to refer to him than as a damsel in distress." Osamu replied.

Jin twisted around the corner and stared down the hall. It looked like a normal empty hallway on a peaceful day until his eyes moved down to the elevator. The elevator shaft at least. The doors were missing from it.

He gripped the door frame and leaned into the elevator shaft carefully so he didn't fall in. Seeing as he didn't see the doors anywhere, it would be his guess that Mogami sliced them off and sent them down the elevator shaft.

Mogami was wasting no time in getting away from them.

Border had been on a losing streak the past couple of days. They were barely surviving this attack. Every conflict they have been getting into wasn't resulting in any wins. Border was accomplishing goals, but Mogami and Yugo were still so many steps ahead of them. Border needed a win, even if it didn't result in the final win against the Mimics. It would be a start. If they kept losing in these confrontations, it would lead to a break in everyone's spirits.

They needed to catch up to Mogami fast.

Hyuse leaned on the other side of the wall and looked up the elevator shaft. He could just barely see the elevator moving up. "Got another way up there?"

Jin looked up as well but instead of answering he was wrapping an arm around Hyuse's bicep and yanking him backwards just as a green slash ripped down the elevator shaft which was followed by a loud, metal screeching sound accompanied with the sound of shattering glass.

Osamu stepped forward cautiously but most of the shattered glass and metal pieces from the attack had already fallen away. Whatever Mogami did up there didn't break the elevator enough to send it plunging towards the ground but how long would that be for? Any damage to an elevator would only increase as time went on, especially when they were people in it and they were moving around because they were being attacked.

Hyuse ripped his arm away from Jin. "Can we stop wasting time?"

"There is an emergency ladder on the side." Jin approached the doors again and leaned inside consciously, glancing briefly up at the elevator a few floors above them that looked to be swaying quite dangerously. It wouldn't be completely safe to climb the ladder, but it was the fastest option. "With you guys only having one arm, it might be a bit hard for you to climb up. You can go find another elevator or go to the stairs and meet us up there."

"But that would take too much time." Osamu said.

Jin reached into the elevator shaft to grab the ladder and swung himself in and grabbed the ladder. "Be careful to not fall then."

*Mimics*

Yuri's eyes shifted over the screen, reading the alarms flashing in warning. In their own headquarters, the operators all had access to the blueprints of the building as well as the alarms and cameras when an attack was happening. They weren't codes that were used often since it was rare for their headquarters to be attacked. Or, used to be rare. It really had been happening too much this year. "Kyosuke-kun, they're in the elevators on the north side a floor above you, but it's been damaged."

Karasuma switched directions as Yuri uploaded the map to his eyes with the flashing icon to show where his target was. "How did the elevator get damaged?"

"I believe it was Mogami-san. He got away from Osamu-kun and Hyuse-kun to continue going after Yuma-kun." Yuri explained.

"Is Yuma in the elevator?" Karasuma asked sharply.

"Along with Kido-san and some members of Arashiyama squad." Yuri replied.

"Commander Kido?" Karasuma repeated. Rindo had gone to Kido's office to find him, but it seemed that was a useless endeavor. Perhaps it would have been a better idea if he and Rindo had stayed together, but they had no idea that Kido wouldn't be in his office and would somehow meet up with Yuma and the others. "Alert Rindo-san. He went looking for Kido-san earlier."

"Or course." Yuri replied. "With the elevator damaged, you won't be able to use it to move up the floors. Currently, Jin-kun is with the other members of Tamakoma-2 and moving up with the ladder in the elevator shaft."

From where he was and calculating how long it would take for a confrontation in the confined space of the elevator, Karasuma didn't feel like he was going to make it in time to offer any help. There was one option available to him, however...

"Kyosuke, Reiji-san, try to avoid using Geist and Full Arms. We don't need you bailing out this early." Jin ordered.

Jin had already asked him to not use his Geist, but his Geist was the only way he could get enough speed to make it to the elevator fast enough to offer his help. Even then, it would still take time to get there and by the time he did get there, he would be short on time and Trion and likely wouldn't be able to contribute much anyway.

He could trust in Jin and the others to handle the situation while he took the time to get there.

Jin would do everything in his power to keep Yuma safe.

*Mimics*

Kitora slammed back against the wall of the elevator, planting a hand behind her on the wall to brace herself against the swaying elevator as she looked towards the ceiling that was split apart from the slash a moment ago. It felt like the elevator was getting ready to fall but hanging on by just a thread. Any violent movement could cause it to fall but seeing as they were just attacked and the doors to the elevator weren't opening, the agents weren't going to have a choice but to fight.

They were in Trion bodies so they would be fine.

Except for Yuma.

His body couldn't take any more damage so getting involved in a falling elevator accident was something he really didn't need.

"I'm impressed. Even here, your stoicism doesn't break."

It was the pained groan in Yuma's voice as he spoke that drew Kitora's attention to him. Her eyes widened in surprise to see their commander dangling outside of the elevator with only Yuma, who was lying on his stomach, holding onto his wrist to keep him from falling to the ground that was so far away. Being that Kido had his defense Trigger activated, he could survive the fall but it was likely Yuma acted on instinct to catch him. Besides, with HQ under attack, this wasn't the time for the commander to be falling to the ground and having to make his way back through a headquarters that was currently under attack.

Yuma's hand that was already cracked and broken was holding onto the broken window's frame. Pieces of broken glass that were still on the window frame dug into his hand, but Yuma paid no attention to that pressure pushing into his skin. He was more distracted by the cracks snapping along his back and spreading along to his arm that had managed to survive any damage from before right now. If he kept holding onto Kido's weight, it felt like his body was going to snap apart.

Kido stared up at Yuma's face which was turned down to him, a twisted expression of agony on his face. It was only because Yuma was in a Trion body that he had the strength to even hold Kido like this. "Try not to stand up." Kido ordered, feeling as composed as ever even as he watched the cracks spreading down Yuma's arm. "If you off balance the elevator, it will likely fall that much faster. You want to keep the weight evenly distributed."

"Tell that to Mogami-san." Tokieda rolled onto his back, ignoring the glass crunching under him. He activated his assault rifle and pointed it at the ceiling above him. Attacking through the ceiling in an elevator hanging precariously right now wasn't what he wanted to do, but he could still hear Mogami's footsteps on the roof of the elevator. He could easily cut through the cable and send them crashing into the ground. They either had to make a move of their own or sit here waiting for Mogami to kill them.

*Mimics*

The groaning metal caused Jin to come to a stop on the ladder as he stared up at the swaying elevator. If that elevator fell, it wouldn't only send their friends to the ground, but it would also drag Jin, Osamu, and Hyuse down to when it hit them. This was the reason he said this was dangerous.

Osamu wasn't expecting Jin, who had been in a rush this whole time, to come to a stop and knocked his head against Jin's feet. "Jin-san?" He questioned, pulling a bit away from the ladder to look up at Jin. A barrage of bullets going off met their ears a second later causing all of their eyes to snap to the elevator.

The windows of the future began to pop up all around Jin on the walls. Multiple outcomes that could happen within the next minute. He only had a few seconds to decide on what to do and it wasn't a hard choice this time. His hand reached out to touch the wall, a blue glow forming under his hand that extended upwards to form an Escudo above them between the floors.

"Hyuse, use your viper and blow apart the doors where the Escudo is at." Jin ordered.

Hyuse tsked in annoyance at getting orders from Jin, but didn't waste time arguing about it. All of this was about getting to Yuma and Mogami before his teammate could get killed. He was going to focus on the mission on hand and not his aggravation at the existence of Jin. Keeping hold of the ladder with his left arm, Hyuse raised what was left of his right arm and formed his Viper above it and split it into the bullets he needed.

"Kyosuke!" Jin shouted over the comms. He knew Karasuma was nearing the elevator. He chose his Escudo's placement at the floor he did so he could use Karasuma. "It's time to use your Geist."

*Mimics*

While Tokieda went to unleash his Asteroid on the ceiling in the hopes of hitting Mogami, Kitora whipped her gun out. Multiple things happened all at once. Tokieda shot through the ceiling. Kitora fired her wire off towards Kido. And the elevator plummeted.

Kitora's wire wrapped around Kido's arm that Yuma didn't have a hold of and yanked her forward, but Tokieda took one of his hands off his gun to grab her ankle before she could go flying out of the elevator.

Just as fast as the elevator falling started, it came to an abrupt and violent halt. They hadn't picked up that much speed since they didn't fall that far, but it was enough to leave the agents groaning when they hit whatever caused them to stop. The abrupt stop caused them to get flung in the air and slam back into the ground, but despite that, Yuma didn't release his hold on Kido's arm and Kitora's wire held strong.

A pained groan came from Kido when he slammed into the windowpanes. He had dealt with a lot over the years when he was an active agent in the past, but this was the first time he had gotten thrown out of a building and then thrown violently by a dropping elevator. Truly, an experience he didn't ever need to have again.

Kido planted the bottom of his feet on the windowpanes to better leverage himself before twisting his hand so he could grip Yuma's wrist in return in case Yuma's grip weakened.

"I would pull you up, but I feel like my arm is about to snap off." Yuma said. While the elevator falling wasn't as bad as it could have been since they only fell about a floor, it was still enough to snap his body. This whole event with the elevator was just leading him to his death faster. He couldn't take the risk of his arm snapping off right now when it felt like he was close to reaching his limit.

Kido looked pass Yuma to look at the ceiling of the elevator. Mogami had made one attack so far, but that was it. He attacked and left them to deal with the outcome. He wasn't going to stall for much longer. He had them all in an enclosed space and Yuma and Kido were distracted at the window. This was the perfect time for Mogami to act.

And there it was.

Kido could just barely make out Mogami's silhouette in the crack he caused in the ceiling which gave him the line of sight he needed as he held up the glowing green blade that was Fujin. Just as Mogami swung, unleashing his wind blades, an explosion went off below where the elevator had stopped followed by the sound of metal slamming into something.

Even without turning around, Yuma knew what was coming by the expression on Kido's face. It wasn't a surprise when Tokieda and Kitora were bailing out of the elevator around him. Even if they had managed to throw up their Shields, if Mogami was using Fujin, his wind blades didn't have to go for a direct attack. He could easily attack from a different angle to get around their defenses.

The wire that Kitora had used to secure Kido's arm went whipping in the air since there was no one else around to hold onto that end. Yuma watched it flapping in the wind which drew his attention to the Restricted Zone below him. With how high they were, the buildings looked small. At this point, perhaps it would be best to let Kido go, but even if he would survive the fall as he was in a Trion body, it didn't quite sit right with Yuma to throw someone from so high up. This was a fall that he faced many times and even with a Trion body, it wasn't fun to crash into the ground.

Yuma glanced over his shoulder at the sound of feet hitting the ground which caused the elevator to shake even more.

Mogami met Yuma's glare head on. The grit of his teeth, the challenging look in his eyes as he refused to give in, the strength to persevere through his body trying to give up while he tried to help an ally. That was who Yugo was supposed to be. Not the person who had been going around attacking Border and almost killing his son just to save his own life.

It was who Mogami was supposed to be.

"Sorry, no time to chat." Mogami said as he raised his Kogetsu. "Don't think ill of me, Kido."

Yuma's eyes widened as he realized what Mogami was planning to do. "Shield, double!"

It hurt?

It hurt.

It hurt!

The Black Trigger on Yuma's finger frizzled with Trion at Yuma's command. The Shield came up like Yuma wanted, but he could already tell before Mogami's Senku was slicing through it like butter. He didn't have the Trion available to him to form a proper defense. What was worse was the pain coursing through Yuma's arm at the forced use of Trion he didn't have available.

It wasn't supposed to hurt to use Trion.

The fact that his body was rejecting his forced usage of a shield, did that mean he didn't have anything left?

Yuma's head dropped down to the floor, despair filling him as Mogami's Senku ripped through Kido's arm, leaving Yuma just holding a dismembered arm. It was a defense Trigger that all the directors and support staff of Border had. Bail out wasn't available to the support staff because of the cost to make those Triggers, but surely the directors would have it? Right?

If Mogami attacked the falling Kido again...

The elevators doors behind them slammed inward, slamming into Mogami and knocking him into a wall. Karasuma didn't even hesitate as he jumped over the destroyed floor of the elevator and dived out of the window after the falling commander.

Normally falling after someone else would mean they couldn't be caught up to since they had more distance and people falling at the same speed couldn't close it. But that wasn't the case with Karasuma. He already had his Geist activated before he came into the elevator and with that extra speed, he had thrown himself headfirst out of the window with his arms outstretched to Kido.

It was going to be just short though.

Yuma stretched his hand with his Black Trigger out towards Karasuma. "Bound." He commanded before Karasuma could get too far away from him and his seal wouldn't reach. The pain was immediate as he forced any little amount of Trion he had left in his body out and his vision turned white.

That was all he could spare.

Yuma's arm dropped, hanging limply out the broken window as he left the rest to Karasuma.

Karasuma had already been moving fast, but the sudden boost to his already fast state had been a surprise. There was no way he could gain any speed while falling through the sky since he had nothing to push off to gain more speed so it had to have been Yuma. He remembered talking to Osamu weeks ago about Yuma having a seal that gave him extra speed. The sudden boost to his speed would have been whiplash to anyone else, but having trained with his Geist speed shift extensively, Karasuma was able to handle it well enough that it didn't deter him from the job Jin asked of him.

Mogami slammed the doors off of him and swung Fujin in two quick successions out of the window. He had no need to kill the two down there, but he would prefer to get rid of these nuisances. His goal had been to get to Yuma, get what he needed, and leave with minimal fighting, but these agents just kept popping up out of nowhere. He knew the agents were enclosing on the elevator so he was trying to act as fast as possible.

Karasuma hand closed over the wire flying through the air and twisted his own wrist around it to use as leverage to pull himself close to Kido. He only had a few seconds before impact, but with the speed of his Geist and the speed Yuma gave him, Karasuma could make it work. He twisted in the air to face the incoming wind blades. Targeting opponents falling in the air, there were no walls to hide the wind blades in so they were clear as day to Karasuma.

"Blade shift." Karasuma ordered, switching all his speed and strength to his sword. With astounding speed, Karasuma deflected all the wind blades Mogami had unleashed onto them before he was twisting in the air and switching his hold to Kido's arm so he could yank Kido around so Karasuma was the one falling first. As they neared the building they were sent flying towards thanks to Yuma's seal, Karasuma slammed his Kogetsu into the side of the building. It didn't do enough to stop them but it did slow their descent as the Kogetsu dragged down through the building.

Karasuma planted his foot on the side of the building as they slowed down and looked down at Kido in his hand.

Kido was looking back up at him with his usual glare that he reserved for the Tamakoma agents.

"Sorry." Karasuma said with an apologetic grimace. He went out of his way to help Kido so he couldn't be too upset about the rough treatment. "Rindo-san was looking for you by the way."

Kido really should have just stayed in his office for another two hours instead of deciding to head home early for once. At least in his office he wasn't getting thrown out of windows and flung around like a rag doll by allies and enemies alike. He was getting too old for these kind of things which was why he wasn't a field agent.

"I'm using my Trion body. You would have been better suited to helping Agent Kuga." Kido said instead of complaining out loud about anything.

Never let it be said that their commander couldn't focus on the important things even when he was directly involved in the chaos.

"Jin-san said to save you." Karasuma replied. "He was nearing the elevator with Osamu and Hyuse. They can handle it." He looked up towards the sky as he checked for any Gates that might be opening, but saw nothing. "I have a few minutes until I bail out. Let's get back into HQ and to your office."

*Mimics*

Arafune kneeled down by the training room and aimed his Egret around the corner of it. From this angle, he could aim for Yugo without Tachikawa or Kazama getting in his way. His finger didn't hesitate as he pulled the trigger. As he expected, Yugo sensed his presence already and had a sword prepared to block his snipe, but that didn't bother him.

"Did you get the plan?" Arafune asked.

"Clear as day. Time for him to get a taste of his own medicine." Tachikawa replied.

"Are we ready?" Kazama asked.

The answer came in the form of Arafune taking another shot at Yugo before he was twisting around the wall of the combat room and disappearing.

Yugo looked quickly where the sniper had just been at before he was quickly shifting his attention back to Tachikawa and Kazama. He deflected Tachikawa's Kogetsu and then ducked under Kazama's attack so he could twist around the two attackers.

Tachikawa caught sight of the red seal forming on the back of Yugo's hand. "Be careful." He taunted. "Chibi already lost one eye because of you. Maybe if you keep using your seals, he'll lose his other eye. Or maybe a limb this time around."

There was no lie in Tachikawa's words, but Yugo didn't even need his side effect to know that. He had seen his son's injuries reveal themselves when he stepped out of the training room earlier. He had known those cracks were on Yuma's body from last night, but he still had his eye yesterday. How did his situation get so bad so fast that he was losing body parts?

"Everyone has a weakness." Kazama said as the seal that Yugo had been activating dissipated. "Even a Mimic."

"Aren't we in the same boat? If you injure me, you hurt Yuma which isn't what you want either." Yugo retorted, fighting the urge in him that demanded he used a seal. The urge wasn't as strong this time though. Perhaps it was because his life wasn't in danger here. He was compelled to make his survival his top priority which was why he fought with everything he had, but if the agents wanted to avoid killing him because it hurt Yuma, there was no danger to his life here. He could fight the urge to fight at his strongest which would hurt Yuma.

Kazama replied by activating his Chameleon. Even with Kazama invisible, Yugo continued staring at the spot where he was just standing. Chameleon did not work on Yugo since he could track them by their Trion, but that was the point this time.

Tachikawa distracted Yugo by closing in on him again. Yugo jumped backwards to soften the blow as he blocked Tachikawa's attack while keeping half of his attention on where Kazama was.

Yugo's sword locked up with Tachikawa's and he leaned his weight on it, trying to get a read on what the agents were trying to pull. Tachikawa showed nothing on his face as he knocked Yugo back and then immediately ducked down to allow Arafune's snipe to safely pass him by. Yugo sliced the bullet down before it could hit him between the eyes. As his sword traveled downwards, Tachikawa slammed his Kogetsu into it to send it flying back up before Yugo could prepare for it which sent him stumbling back a step.

Yugo glanced towards where the sniper's shot came from in confusion when he disappeared again. Even as he blocked Tachikawa's next attack, Yugo was finding himself distracted with the sudden surge of Trion behind him.

Multiple Trion signatures behind him.

"I guess you're not the only one who has traps at their disposal." Tachikawa said, not bothering trying to hide it as he saw the realization forming in Yugo's eyes.

Yugo slammed his sword into Tachikawa's as his attack got blocked but that didn't stop him as he spun around and spotted Arafune there taking aim at him again. This was the agent that just shot at him from behind Tachikawa and now he was behind Yugo. So, it was some type of ability to change locations. It gave these agents the chance to switch their locations and try to attack him from different positions, but the traps had only just gotten laid and though hidden from sight, Yugo could still sense where they were. Even if the agents warped, Yugo wouldn't fall for it.

The surprise came when Tachikawa didn't continue his relentless attack and instead warped away from Yugo. The agents who had been trying to so hard to beat him were now avoiding him. He doubted it was a trap they were trying to drag him into. This was more because they were in a worse spot than Yugo was. Yugo couldn't use the Black Trigger abilities without hurting Yuma, but he could still fight with his swords and kill the agents. The agents, however, couldn't hurt him without hurting Yuma. They were pulling back on their attacks and each attack against Yugo was one they expected Yugo to survive.

How long would they be able to do this though? Attacks with no real killing intent behind them were completely useless.

An explosion on the other side of the training room drew his attention. These agents were quite adept at dealing with his Trion Soldiers. Everything about this attack had been just a distraction to keep as many of the agents busy while Mogami went for Yuma. Gates required a lot of Trion as did calling Trion Soldiers to his side to fight for him. If Yuma was being pushed to the limit from this, Yugo couldn't open any more Gates. The seals and Yugo draining Trion from the Black Trigger at the same time was too much of a strain on his son, but if he stayed here too long, the agents would defeat his Trion Soldiers and once they did, they would be closing in on Yugo from all sides. Yugo was good, but without the Black Trigger to back him up, even him against this many agents would result in his loss. Even if they couldn't hurt him since they wanted to keep Yuma safe, Yugo had no doubt that Border had tricks up their sleeves to find a workaround this.

Yugo snapped his sword above him suddenly as Kazama suddenly fell from the sky, activating his Scorpion at the last possible second, but he was still blocked. A familiar blue pad shined down on Yugo before disappearing to indicate where Kazama had come from. Yugo swung his sword to the side to throw Kazama at the new signature behind him.

Already being small, it was easy for Shun to duck under Kazama and slash upwards towards Yugo who leaned back to avoid getting cut. Kazama flipped himself in the air and landed neatly and planted his hand on the ground to just disappear a second later.

"No seals this time?" Shun asked.

The Trion signatures around Yugo started to get stronger as the agents began to warp in. This truly was an impressive Trigger Border had. He didn't know who was controlling it, but the fact that they were able to apply these traps in here from a distance was incredible.

There were still Trion Soldiers on the other side of the room, but the fact that the agents were warping over here to surround him meant that they had gotten enough Trion Soldiers defeated that they felt they could split their forces more evenly.

It didn't matter how strong someone was. Even weaker fighters could win if they overpowered someone with numbers. In this case, he could say some of these agents were weaker than him, but there were multiple agents in the mix that were amazingly strong. With this kind of mix of agents, it left Yugo with a choice to make.

Try to fight them off.

Escape.

Or...

Yugo stabbed his swords into the ground in front of him and raised his hands up to his chest. "I know when I'm beat."

No point in wasting time with a fight that didn't have a favorable outcome.

It was better to fight when the situation was more ideal.

Have patience and observe. He could find the path he needed later. There was no fear of getting killed by these agents by surrendering here when they needed him alive to keep Yuma safe.

"Is this a trap?" Shun asked in disbelief, stepping away from Yugo with a wary look. To be fair to him, Yugo had killed him multiple times the past few days so he didn't want to get near him when he was acting strange. It was asking him to get killed again. He would not bail out this time.

"Highly unlikely." Tachikawa said, appearing by Shun's shoulder with his sword resting on his shoulder. "Kuga won't risk Chibi's life by using the seals."

"He has been doing that all week." Shun protested angrily, shooting a glare at Yugo. Even if he had his hands raised to show that he was making no move, Shun wasn't going to trust it. He couldn't forget that threat that Yugo gave them against Yuma's life. From the get-go, he had been promoting Yuma's death to him and now he didn't want to risk hurting Yuma by using his seals? It was complete nonsense.

Kazama stepped forward without a trace of fear and grabbed Yugo's swords and yanked them out of the ground. He met Yugo's stare, but Yugo just smiled calmly at him. This was a Kuga Yugo move to protect Yuma, but there wasn't a doubt in Kazama's mind that it wasn't a genuine move. Yugo was still a Mimic underneath that smile. Even as he gave up his swords here, he was likely planning his next steps in his mind.

"So what? We don't get to fight?" Yoneya whined.

Izumi whacked Yoneya in the back of the head. "You just got to kill seven Trion Soldiers. Wasn't that enough for you?"

"Black Triggers are more fun to fight." Yoneya said, but if it kept Yuma safe for the time being, he supposed they would have to accept the surrender.

*Mimics*

Mogami glanced at the downed Yuma. He wasn't unconscious, but it seemed there was no strength left in him to resist. His sword pointed down at Yuma's chest. It would be so easy to do as he gave the last bit of his power to help his allies. A truly foolish move to worry about someone else when he was the one in such a dangerous situation, but it was an attitude that reminded him a lot of Yugo.

Lowering his sword so he could instead kneel down, Mogami grabbed Yuma's hand that was dangling outside the window and pulled it towards him to take a look at his ring. This was all he came here for. This was what he had promised he would get for Yugo. He wouldn't kill his son directly to get it as that would surely come with time but looking at the state of the kid that was full of cracks and looking like he was ready to fall to pieces, it seemed that time would be soon. Taking the ring from him now would very likely kill him instantly.

"Yuma is the source of conflict. When you're around him, you're a mess of love and hatred for him." Mogami said. "I, on the other hand, have no such feelings for him, so how about I kill him for you and take the ring so we can get on with getting out of here?"

Mogami slammed through the wall, all air escaping his lungs as he slammed into the ground with rubble raining down all around him. Instead of feeling any pain, he just found himself laughing as he rubbed his cheek as he sat up and stared through the hole where Yugo was still standing in the hallway. "That's a much better reaction than that bullshit talk about your son needing to die."

Yugo narrowed his eyes, glaring down at his friend in annoyance. "Was that supposed to be a test?"

Yuma dying wasn't what Yugo wanted, but it would be the end result once the Mimics got what they wanted. Mogami glanced down at Fujin in his other hand.

Their job was to gather their Black Triggers.

There was nothing more important than their mission.

But...

That look of agony on his friend's face.

The fact that Yugo couldn't do what he wanted and was constantly attacking his son.

Mogami had no such hard feelings towards this child. He was supposed to be supporting his fellow Mimic which was why he came here, but he didn't feel the same burning desire to steal the Black Trigger from Yuma like he did when he was after Fujin.

Seeing a child in such a desperate state and knowing it would kill him immediately, Mogami's hand stalled in removing the ring from him.

Still, after all this effort, Mogami wasn't leaving empty handed.

Scooping the child up, Mogami tossed Yuma over his shoulder, getting a pained groan from him that he didn't acknowledge for the time being as he stared out the broken window of the elevator.