Chapter 7
"Where the hell are these two?" a man with fair hair asked the man that had white hair and the same color uniform.
"Don't worry Commander, I think there's nothing to worry about." the man with white uniform turned to the man with fair hair turning his head to him, "Maybe they've just met some demons that delayed them a little."
"Maybe." the man narrowed his eye.
The man that was called Commander had fair combed aback hair, his left eye was closed with a black eye patch, and instead of his interlocutor his uniform was more standard the grey vest closed his chest and stomach completely, above it was black tight body suit, he had metal gloves and boots with defended plates, on his back was a massive two sided scythe, the eye that was possible to see was green.
"If Splash works with Hush, no one be able to defeat them." the man with white uniform tried to cool Commander down again.
"I'm warring not about this Avalanche." he answered again, "They didn't report about what took they so long, that's why I'm worried."
"However it's really interesting, even Hush doesn't send his comments." Avalanche understood what the man was talking about.
Both of them were standing in some back street, but still it was lit well, there was no one except these two, Avalanche tried not to talk with Commander without necessity, he knew that the man with fair hair liked punctuality, and hated when someone was late, however Avalanche knew too that these mentioned Splash and Hush would never delay, if the situation wasn't really important.
'Why we haven't someone else in our team?' Avalanche asked himself, 'It would be really good to talk with someone in this minute.' after some period of time they heard a pair of steps, and in the next moment they could see a metal person with the snipe riffle in his hands, and the man with doubled sword. He was slim instead of the Commander and Avalanche. He was wearing blue vest, but his one wasn't closing his stomach, his black trousers closed his legs completely, he had blue metal boots and gloves, but the boots were shabby the man had blue hair that were tied in a long ponytail. The most interesting thing in him was diving glasses.
"Finally." Commander said as they came closer, "What took you so long Splash?" he watched at the man and then at Hush. Commander was a bit taller than these two so his sight was pretty formidable, however neither Splash neither Hush felt something.
"I have some good news for you Commander." Splash said merely, his expression was cold and even emotionless he returned his sword on his back.
"So good that even Hush sent me absolutely nothing about them?" Commander didn't like the respond.
"Don't blame him; it was my order not to send you any message about it, as I wanted to tell you about it personally."
"And what was such good in this news, that even Hush was told to do so?" Commander asked him with the voice that demanded answers.
"I'll tell you everything when we get our shelter." Splash answered, Commander nodded and then all of them headed north.
Their way was lasting in absolute calmness, 'Man they even didn't say even a single word to each other.' Avalanche felt himself awkwardly in this company, so he decided to get closer to Hush, "Hush, how your ultrasound system is? Have Mechanic repeared it?" Hush shook with his head in negatively, "How is your drone working? I hope that it hasn't got any defections." Hush shook with his head again. Avalanche lowered his head, 'Well, it really looks like I'm talking with myself.' he turned his head to the two men that were ahead and, 'These two are really strange, I've never seen how they work together.'
They continued their way in silence, until they came to some old and severely battered building, it wasn't too big, but wasn't small too, the building reminded something that was a small hangar long ago. They entered it without problems. From inside it looked empty, they came to the farthest wall, and then Commander pressed the wall and then it was opened, they went by the ladder that led down and then they found themselves in a corridor that was lit perfectly.
"Oh Commander, Avalanche, Hush you've returned!" they heard a merry and ringing childish voice, they saw a boy about fifteen sixteen years old he was wearing a special uniform too, but he was without his weapon.
"Yes." Commander replied to the kid, but then he added, "By the way Kangaroo, where's Mechanic?"
"He is working on some scrap, as I remember." then his eyes noticed Splash, and he frown his eyes, "You're here too, huh?" his question was sluggish.
"Just talk, bad hat." Splash replied emotionlessly.
"And what will you do to me?" Kangaroo replied likewise he dared Splash.
"Want to know?" Splash turned his head to the boy; however the boy was afraid of his look.
"Enough you too!" Commander ordered them stop their word skirmish, "Kangaroo, take Hush and go to Mechanic he still have something to repair."
"Got it." Kangaroo replied and then lead Hush somewhere left, leaving Avalanche Commander and Splash alone.
"Energetic as always." Avalanche was glad to see the boy that did one mission with him in Sapporo.
"Is he going with us?" Splash asked the man with the eye patch, Avalanche understood that the man with blue uniform was talking about him.
Commander nodded and then they went farther by the corridor. When they finally arrived to the needed place Commander took his place on the chair that was in the middle of the room. Avalanche preferred to take purchase on the wall, while Splash sat onto the desk that was by the opposite wall to Avalanche.
"Now, tell me what is this piece of news that made you so mysterious." Commander asked the slim one.
Splash took off his glasses and put them onto the desk and then started, "First of all, I'm sorry that I didn't warn you about not contacting you." Splash tried to apologies.
"Stop this pageant. It doesn't suit you at all." Commander stopped his histrionic voice, "I know that if there's happens something really important you can be late. So what happened to you?"
"It seems that I have met his daughter." Splash stated.
"Whose?" Commander narrowed his eye, Avalanche was wondered too.
"Don't say that you don't know who I'm talking about." Splash said watching straight in the eyes of Commander, "Have you already forgotten how he drummed about his cute daughter and wife into all our ears."
"You're talking about Mizuki Yasuhiro's daughter Yukikaze." Commander responded.
"Bingo." Splash replied, his voice was a bit hoarse, "And at the same time I saw Mizuki Shiranui." second part was said frowner.
"Wait a minute didn't she disappear several years ago." Avalanche entered their dialogue, Splash looked at him formidable, the white haired man understood this stare, but then looked at the man with the eye patch.
"Yes, she did." he responded, "But the problem was that no one knew where directly, so what about them?"
"It seems that I finally understood what has happened with her." the blue man was glad that he could continue, "She was brainwashed." he announced after a brief pause.
"Are you sure in this?" Commander asked him.
"Absolutely, as I know she would never betray Taimanin especially raise her arm at her own daughter."
"Are you that it was Yasuhiro's daughter? Maybe you just your eyes were tricked?" Commander still couldn't belive to Splash.
"If I'm wearing glass that doesn't make me blind, I saw her face, and even her guns too, they are done absolutely the same as his ones."
"And what do you want to do?" Commander asked him again, "What's your idea?"
"We must help his daughter to return her mother back, that's what we must to do." Splash declared, Avalanche wanted to say something, but couldn't as Commander was the first one.
"Must? Do you understand what that means? You're telling that we must hurl all our efforts into saving one woman, while we have another important mission?"
"I'm not telling that we must quit it." Splash raised his voice, "I just want you to free me and send me on looking for her mother."
"Do you really think that you'll be able to defeat her alone?" Commander raised his voice too, "Even if you find her I don't think that you will be able to do this."
"Then send someone else with me!" Splash shouted, "You know that if not Yasuhiro we would have much more problems working in Japan, we would be attacked by Taimanin more often than this moment, we also must be grateful to him that he showed us the places for locating our bases in here too! And to help Yukikaze is the least what we can do!"
"Don't raise you voice Splash!" Commander shouted at the man with the blue uniform, "I know this all but right now, all members of 'Red Division' are important and absence of even one soldier will bring us lots of disadvantages!"
"So what do you offer to sit and wait how she will fight her own daughter?! How she will bring her someone who will make another slave out of her that is what you offer?!"
"I didn't tell you this! She is a Taimanin not a member of 'Red Division' so the ones who must save her are they!"
"But what if Yasuhiro was alive and came to you to ask for a help to save her what did you?!" Splash decided to change his method, Commander replied nothing so the man decided to continue, "Or what if you could save Svetlana, would you ask his help if you could do this?!"
"Don't even call her name!" Commander bawled out.
"Because you would do absolutely the same what I want to do!" Splash continued with the same voice.
"Even if I allow you to do this what are you going to do?! Where you're going to look for her? You have no clues where to find her; you have no idea how to fight her too!"
"I have already fought her today."
"With Hush's help!" Commander added.
"How do you think what Svetlana would do, if you were in grave danger?!" Splash could bear this dialogue.
"Get out." he said through clenched teeth, "Or I'm not responsible for myself." Commander put his hand onto the scythe that was near with him.
Splash referred nothing, but only left the room slamming the door of the room where they were with strongly. Silence covered the room, Avalanche was shocked to see this spectacle, he had already seen something like this before, but not so intense, "Commander." Avalanche tried to seem unworried, "This man, Yasuhiro, you were talking about, is he that one Taimanin who worked with our organization?" Commander nodded, "Did you know him well?"
"Kinda."
"But why Splash…" he stumbled for a second.
"Acted like that?" Commander finished his question, the man with white hair nodded, "Well in some ways Yasuhiro was the only friend of Splash, and the last one who saw Yasuhiro's last minutes was him too." he sighed rubbing his nasal bridge.
"Then if what he told is really true, then we must really help this girl to return her mother." Avalanche's voice became more confident, Commander gave him a sign to leave not wanting to continue this talk. Avalanche nodded and then left the room.
"You know, your subordinate is right that you must help this woman." Commander heard a hissed voice behind him.
"How long were you planning to hide there, Professor?" he asked the voice not even turning his head, but in the next moment he could see a strange creature in front of him, the creature was green and had a pretty strange body he had several processes on his shoulders and had that reminded horns, he had two long tentacles that grew out of his back straight of his bladder bones, which also had some bone processes on the end. The eyes of the creature were burning with golden light; it was possible to see that the green covering was a scale. The head of the creature reminded lizard's or triton's one, he also had some patterns on his body.
"I was going to wait until the talk is finished." Professor responded.
"Are you going to tell that I should send him for this mission too?"
"Well, let's just say that I'm sharing the same side as your heir announced, but what to do is the thing you should decide."
"I always hated your rhetorical answers." Commander looked at him, with his eye.
"I knew this man too." Professor sat onto another chair that was opposite to the man with the eye patch and continued, "He was quite a peculiar instance." he put his indicative finger onto his chin and opened his mouth a bit; it was possible to see that he had no teeth at all, like a real lizard.
"So what do you want you want to go and help him personally?" he turned to the creature, "You're being here without permission of Russian government what they will do to you if they find out that you're hanging out in Japan?"
"Don't worry about me, Vereshagin's family have special arrangement about myself, while Dokboq must act from inning of the government, but we're talking not about it, you understand that if not that man you would have real troubles in deploying in Japan."
"Yes, but if someone would help us we hadn't got such troubles." Commander stated.
"And at the same time he was the first Taimanin who wanted to cooperate with Russia." Professor decided to miss the last utterance, "As I remember, he is the only Taimanin you admire don't you?" Commander responded nothing, the creature got up and left the room too, but still added before doing this, "Think about it carefully, thus you can regret about it in the future."
When Splash left the room banging the door after him, he headed by the corridors of their base. He was glad that he met no one; the least he wanted was to speak with someone else.
'Well if this principled asshole won't help, I'll do it myself. I can understand what this girl felt when she saw her own mother who attacked her all of a sudden. Maybe if he got over with this too he would think in absolutely another way.' Splash stopped, 'How he can't understand that we must thank Yasuhiro in all our work in Japan, to help this girl is the least what we can do.' he squeezed his fists, 'If only we took someone else for this that mission, maybe I could save him.' the man continued his away until he came to some sort of a storage, he came to a pretty big locker and opened it, when the door of it was opened, he took out two guns out of it, 'Just like hers.' he smiled looking at them, 'Even the colour is the same, however…' he stopped for a second, 'The patterns are a bit different.' he passed his hand cross the gun, 'I'll help your daughter and wife, old friend. I promise.'
The night was rainy, the rain was pitchforks and even brave people decided not to leave their homes in order not to be gotten wet. There was even pretty strong fog that blunted vision; the wind was pretty strong too.
"How can you see through all this rain?!" a female snapped head off at the man that was in front of her.
"Haze, did you forget that water is my ability?" the man with blue uniform turned to the female that was behind him.
"I hope you know where you running, or if we got lost…" Haze didn't finish her statement letting the man think what will happen to him. They were running by the streets pretty fast they were wearing long tunics with hoods that protected them from the rain, but still they were absolutely useless as their coverings were wet thorough, "It the last place where I want to get lost!" she said after a little while.
"Don't worry, if Cyclops was right our target must be somewhere here." the man tried to cool down the temper of his companion, but he felt that it was useless as the rain only increased it, "However, I must admit that I hate to work in Tokyo kingdom too."
They continued their way until they found some shelter from the rain. When they were under it Haze started wring the water from her cloak, the water was pouring out of it, and even this was useless as the water still didn't stop to come out of it.
"It was the last time I went with you on a mission, Splash." Haze said staring at him with angry eyes.
"Stop keening." he didn't like his comrade's laments, "As I remember you could take another mission if I remember it right."
"If I went with Hush or at least Joker, they would never get lost so stupidly." she continued with the same irritated voice.
"However, Cyclops was on my place your attitude was much softer than what I must see." Splash was irritated too he put his hand into the cloak and took out a box of cigarettes he took one of them and put it into his mouth he took out a lighter then and tried to spark it up; "Got wet." he returned it in its place and then took out the same box he took out a match and then scratched with it by the same box, it sparked and then got it close to the cigarette that was in his mouth.
"We will be late!" Haze raised her voice.
"Don't worry, we still have same time, want one?" he stretched the box to Haze, she took a other one and did absolutely the same, she draw in on the cigarette, and then breath out a smoke, but the smoke that she created wasn't ordinary it reminded a wolf, "The same games?" he asked her.
"I didn't ask you to comment." Haze retorted, "You could keep them."
"Forget it." the man answered her too, "Our target must be in the next street, there will be a night club where he supposed to come for a meeting." Splash said after a short whiff, "However, why this old man didn't send Cyclops or at least someone else for this mission."
"You're bad in neutralizing?" Haze decided to taunt her companion.
"Yeah, like you're in seducing." Splash retorted quite easily.
They continued to smoke in calmness, suddenly Splash pushed Haze to the wall. He even threw the part of his cigarette the same happened to Haze's one. After a little he relieved her.
"The hell you've done, idiot?" Haze was surprised of such strange act.
"I saw someone there." the man with blue hair nodded at the roof of the nearest building.
"What was there?" she asked him taking his hands under her cloak.
"I don't know but they have left." he commented, "Two minutes and going." he added after a brief pause, the female merely nodded and continued to wring out her cloak. After two minutes they jumped onto the building where the man saw shadows, he glanced over the space around him, and when he found that there was no one he exhaled with relief, "Let's go." then they headed by the same way where those shadows went.
After several minutes of jumping by roofs they finally stopped. They jumped off from another one and stopped in some dark and bad lit back street, "Told you that we haven't lost." Splash responded to Haze.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry." she said with lazy voice, "So what we should do? Rush into, find the target and illuminate it?"
"Well, in some ways yes." he responded, "But look what is there." the man nodded at the side of the building they were watching. Haze raised her head she saw a signboard of the night club they were looking for and then started to count.
"About twenty persons outside, and at the same time they're all demons, and as I understand there's quite a lot guards inside." she announced her thoughts.
"Yes, that's why that old bastard sent us here." Splash said, "Our target is really a large fish after all."
"So, what is our plan?" Haze asked him not distracting her eyes from the building.
"Well, first of all we will deal with the ones outside, then we will sneak into the building and eliminate our target." he offered.
"The one who will deal with these demons are you?" Haze asked him again, the irritation in her voice disappeared, but this time it was puzzled.
"I'll do this, because of the rain, I'll give you the need sign to get into the building." Haze nodded, and then Splash took out his two swords that were hiding under his cloak and joined both of them creating one doubled sword. Then he ran out of from the back street where they were, he ran by the opposite road to the night club, he found a road that led to the back of the needed place; he saw that there were three demons. He put on his glasses and then turned himself into the water, and in the next moment he appeared behind them and killed them silently, they all were surprised and didn't know how to react, so they were easy targets, he looked around and then continued his way. This time his target was the roof, the night club was near with some other building so it wasn't difficult for him to jump onto it, 'Good that there's rain they won't here me.' he thought and when he was on the roof he turned himself into liquid again. He exposed his head and start to investigate the roof, there were quite a lot demons and first he didn't know how to be, but then his arm appeared too, using his indicative finger and a thumb he formed a gun and then something quick was released out of it twice, 'Got you.' He thought as two demons fell down, then her quickly turned into liquid as the demons were coming to him.
"What the hell was that?!" one of them roared.
"I dunno, but two of us are dead!" another one shouted.
"Don't tell me dat there're Taimanin!" the previous one roared, "Ya two check dat position and ya'll stay here with me!"
Splash heard how the massive steps started to became more and more far, he exposed his head again and then saw that all demons were taking the same positions but more closer to him he decided to act more carefully this time, he could get closer to the one massive demon and with one swing he cut his neck.
"Intruder!" he heard a voice behind him, he saw two demons and then another bunch came on the voice too.
'Seven, huh?' he counted his enemies. He took a deep breath and then released a stream of water out of his mouth; it was strong enough to penetrate some demon's chest.
"Bastard!" the demons shouted and then attacked Splash. The blue haired man didn't feel too many troubles fighting them, as they were just ordinary demons, when there were only two of them he created a circle with his fingers and placed it to his mouth he started to form a bubble, little by little it started to grow, the bubble grew fast as it was absorbing the falling drops too, then he released the bubble and it flew to his enemies pretty slowly.
"Seriously?!" one of them said laughing, "Bubbles are we kids?" they decided to run it over from the sides, but he stretched his arm like he was going to shoot with a gun and then a water bullet was let go out of his finger, the bubble exploded taking the life of two demons as both of them fell down from the building.
"Sometimes bubbles can be dangerous too." he chuckled, then he could see the same backstreet, where Haze should hide, he took a deep breath and released another stream of water, but this one was weaker as he didn't aim at anyone, but only warned, "I hope she will understand." he decided to wait and after some brief period of time the woman in the cloak and the hood appeared in front of them.
"You're not as useless as I thought before." she said looking at the mess that he created.
"Now, we will see what a professional you are." he said grinning, however they weren't quarreling for long as they immideately entered the building through the passageway that was on the roof. Splash was the first, and Haze was second. While they were running Haze was making a show that she was chewing something.
"There are they!" they heard someone's voice; they turned their head and saw several people with demons.
"Are you ready?" Splash asked his partner.
"Almost she mumbled." he nodded and then they ran to the crowd, Haze took out her weapons too; she had some sort of daggers that reminded needles more than daggers. They started to kill one person after another they protected each other perfectly, like they saw what each of them wanted to do, and didn't think about their protection too much, when Splash was in danger Haze protected him, and when Haze was in the same situation, Splash helped her, even all their quarrels were forgotten, they did everything quietly not speaking to each other, like the ones who worked with each other for quite a long time. After some time something started to come out from the mouth of Haze, and in the next moment she breath out a smoke out of it, the smoke covered the hall corridor, hiding both of them perfectly.
"What is this?" one demon didn't understand what was happening and then something pierced into his throat.
"Go! I'll deal here!" Haze ordered to Splash.
"I know without you!" he snarled, and then jumped out of the smoke and ran ahead by the corridor killing all who was going to attack him from time to time.
He was running for quite a lot time, but then he found some place which was a VIP room for special guests there was a small dancing floor with the pole for dancing privet dances there were two chairs and a small counter where was a barmen. Two men were sitting in them and were watching at the female dancer that was doing lots of erotic and elegant movement in order to impress the men, the barmen was only standing and wiping some glasses waiting for the order.
When the door banged, they both turned their heads and saw a person who was wearing a wet cloak with the same wet hood, the person was holding a double sword in his hand, however it was also possible to see that he was wearing blue metal gloves with boots. Splash glanced over the room; he noticed that there was no one except these four, the dancer was frightened and didn't know what to do, the man were afraid as she was, but still they were tensed, however the only one who was calm was the barmen.
'Hm, nothing difficult.' Splash thought, but still his eyes were laid at the barmen; he came closer to the man that was on his right and said, "Mister Miyake, I'm sorry to tell you, but it is your last day."
"What does it mean?" so called Miyake turned to the other man from the chair, "You told that Taimanin will never find me!" the man responded nothing he was only watching at Splash, like wise he was waiting for something.
"Don't make a move!" he heard a voice behind him, Splash turned his head and saw a man who was aiming at him with his gun. Then the second man quickly turned into a demon that reminded Minotaur and tried to attack the blue haired man.
"A trap, huh?" Splash chuckled, and then created another water bullet and killed the man with the gun, the demon tried to save the Miyake, but he was pretty slow for the fighter and was killed pretty quickly, "So, where we were." Splash made a show that he had forgot something, "Oh, yes." he turned his head to the man and came closer to him.
"What do you want?!" Miyake shouted, "Are you working for Taimanin? Wait don't kill me, if you work for me you'll get more than they can give you!" Miyake started to bargain with him, "I can give you money, influence everything you want, you'll be even able to get lots of other Taimanin under your control."
"Sorry nothing personal." Splash prepared his blade for attack, how something was pressed against his back of the head.
"I'm sorry, but he is my target." he heard a male voice behind him, Splash looked at the bar counter and saw that there was no one.
"I was right when I thought that you're not an ordinary barman." the blue haired chuckled, slightly turning his head.
"I just want to ask you one question." the barman asked him, "Who are you? I'm well aware that you're not one of us, because I would be informed about sending some help."
"The only thing that is important for you is that I'm not one of Taimanin, and if you're one of them, I'm not your enemy during this mission." Splash explained briefly.
"Maybe, I'm not a Taimanin." the barman suggested.
"Then you would try to help to that fucking corpse while he was still alive." Splash responded.
"Enemy or friend, but I can't let you kill this man, because he will go with me. My authority ordered to bring him to justice."
"I see." the man sighed as he heard how the barman released the trigger of the gun, "Haze!" he shouted not turning his back, "Get him."
"Shit!" the barman quickly turned around preparing for an attack from behind, but he saw no one and in the next moment he was attacked by Splash, the blade almost got the neck of the troublesome barman, but his reaction was good and he could dodge the lunge, then he hit Splash at his hand trying to strike a weapon from his hand, but Splash could protect himself with the hilt of his swords.
Miyake ran to the corner of the room and started to watch at the battle of two men, however the dancer have already left the privet room. Splash tried to attack the barman again, this time with water bullet. But the man aimed at him and jerked the release triggers of his guns and then two lightning bolts were let go out of them.
"Lighting!" Splash was surprised, this time it was his turn to dodge, 'What a pain in the ass.' he thought.
They started their fight, the barman didn't allow to Splash to get closer to him, while the man with the cloak was glad to this too as they could exchange their ranged attacks, however the one who had problems was Splash as his water was much weaker than the lighting of his opponent, fighting each other they had even forgotten that their target was about to escape their battle field, "Damn! Stop!" the barman ordered and was stopped by another water stream that was aimed at him.
"You're fighting me, don't even think to leave."
"Sorry, but I'm must get him first." the barman said with a smile he pressed his guns to each other and then quickly separated them creating a strong discharge of lighting, which could push Splash back. The barman left the room running after Miyake.
"Man that was strong!" he rubbed his head and quickly remembered what was happening, "Haze!" he put his hand onto this ear, "The man in the barman's uniform is chasing our target, he is a Taimanin with lighting abilities, beware of him he is skillful and pretty smart." the after a brief pause he added, "He has brownish hair and purple eyes, I'll come to you soon."
"Come on drag your ass to my place!" she ordered him, "it seems that I found the target and that barman!"
"Got it." he got up took his sword and ran to the place where he separated with Haze.
It didn't take long for him to return to that place. He saw how the woman was fighting that barman Taimanin, still not giving her to drag their target.
"You know you start to annoy." Splash said him, he said creating bubbles this tie he preferred to create about ten of them; however their opponent destroyed them all.
"Listen, what about if you give him to me, you're here to kill him don't you?" the barman asked the two, "What's if he is brought to judgment? It's absolutely the same."
"Sorry, orders are orders." Splash responded, "Nothing personal, Haze?" Haze nodded and then breathed out a smoke out of her mouth again.
'Man it is so thick!' the barman thought, then he saw that the blade was flying at him, 'Fast.' he bended and then saw how Splash appeared behind him holding capturing the sword and preparing for the next attack. And then he saw the woman that he had already fought, who was about to pierce him with her daggers.
'He is so fucking quick! What an annoyance.' she thought, "Splash, go and get that idiot, I'll fight Taimanin."
"As you wish." he responded, and turned into water, he appeared behind the man he wanted to kill and was about to do so, but he saw how lighting was aimed at him, Splash dodged it and then pierced the chest of the man, with his sword, "Finally!" he said triumphal.
"Damn." the barman kicked Haze at the stomach and then ran to Splash.
The smoke started to dispel a little by little, "You know, you gave me a lot of troubles killing this criminal scum, he knew lots of valuable information that he could tell us."
"What kind of information?" Splash decided to take some time to restore his power.
"Somewhat about connection of some company with demons." he said.
'Wait a minute, the old man have told something about this.' he thought and then heard a voice behind him.
"There are they! Get them all!" the bunch of demons rushed to the trio.
The bar man ripped of his clothes and not it was possible to see his Taimanin uniform, the color of it was yellow likewise it told about his powers, the uniform closed his trunk and legs completely, however his arms were opened too, and he had some special sleeve protectors them, his legs were also protected with metal plates.
"Well, brief piece and then, I'll talk with you!" the Taimanin responded, Haze and Splash agreed.
This time they all decided to fight demons instead of each other, their team work was fearsome the monsters could do absolutely nothing against him, the Taimanin protected the back of his allies of moment, while two comrades were fighting the main crowed after some period of time they dealt with the demons and they could continue to dust-up again, "So, guys who the hell are you? And what can you offer me in exchange of that man?" the false barman turned to them.
"Here." Haze threw him some subject; the false barman removed his gun and captured the thing.
"What is this?" he asked Haze.
"Something that will allow you to prove connection of his organization with demons." she answered him. They heard another steps.
"Let's leave this place first." the man offered and shot at the wall that led straight outside, Haze and Hush put on their hoods and jumped into the whole after their new so called ally.
"What was that friendly sign for?" Splash asked Haze when they were on the roof of the nearby building.
"Have the smoke of your cigarettes wore into your fucking brain?" she answered him, "The leader told that if we find some Taimanin we also have to give this flash driver to them too."
"Ah, I see." he answered, "That's what he mean if you meet your colleague give them some help."
They continued their way silently, until they found a shelter that could protect them from the rain, Splash took out the box out of his cloak and took two cigarettes he stretched one to Haze and then looked at their new partner, "I don't smoke." he replied quickly, Splash nodded and then took out the matches too he sparkled the cigarettes and after one whiff the false barman finally decided to ask, "Who are you guys? You're definitely not from NOMAD or from some other big criminal organization that working against us, aren't you?" Splash looked at Haze; Haze did a whiff and sends her stream of smoke at Splash.
"Well, how should I say it better?" Splash tried to dispel the smell of the smoke, "We are working for someone who wants to pay to this bastard that I killed and the information this flat chested gave you is for the humiliation of those who will take his place."
"So, you're some sort of mercenaries?" the man offered.
"Yeah, we really are." Splash responded.
"And as I can understand Haze and Splash are your nicknames."
"You got it right." the woman responded. The man didn't know how continue his talk with those two, but still he felt himself awkwardly in their presence, suddenly he decided to ask them another question, "And if it's not a secret, what organization you're working for?"
"'Red Division'" Splash replied quickly, "By the way, as I saw you're quite skillful hunter, don't want to join us? We always need such strong men as you're." Splash offered their interlocutor, removing extra ash from his cigarette.
"'Red Division." the man pondered, for a little, "Sorry, but I don't think that I'll join you." the man raised his head, "I don't see myself as a mercenary, and at the same time how I'll leave my wife and daughter alone?"
"You know, I have already fought some Taimanin, but I've never seen someone like you." Splash said suddenly.
"Well, because there're not that much hunters as myself." he said with a smile on his face, "Well I must go, if you're interested too, you can join the lines of Taimanin."
"Wait a second pal." Splash turned to him, "What is your name at least?"
"Oh, yes sorry." the man apologized, "Mizuki Yasuhiro." he introduced himself and then prepared himself to leave, "Well hope we meet again, you guys are really funny."
"Yeah, till next time." Haze merely replied him.
"See ya." Splash said too, and then their new acquaintance left them alone, 'Mizuki Yasuhiro.' Splash pondered.
"Hey, Splash do you hear me?" Splash flinched and turned his head, he saw the man that he didn't want to see right now, the one with who he argued a while ago.
"What do you want? I thought that we have already discussed everything." Splash wasn't intended to have dialogue with Commander right now, and the second understood this.
"Haven't you changed your mind?" he asked him.
"You know my answer." Splash closed the door of the locker, "I've already told you everything."
"I see." the fair haired man sighed deeply, "Then I have can send you alone."
"What?" Splash was surprised to hear these words.
"If you're going to save Mizuki Shiranui you won't do this alone. Let me remember who is free right now. Hush is not ready, Haze is in Tokyo, and those two are on a mission too…"
"Why did you decide to help me? I thought that our mission is primal for you."
"I did lots of difficult decisions in my life and about some of them I really regret, but our debt in front of Mizuki is really great and the only way we could repay him, is to repay it wife and daughter that was how you told this?"
"I just told that we must help them nothing more." Splash took out a battered box out of his pocket and took out a cigarette he took out a lighter and sparked it.
"You were right, maybe I would even joined forces with Taimanin if I could save Svetlana."
"Listen, I didn't want…" Splash mumbled, but then turned his face to the Commander's.
"Don't worry about this, we know each other since joining 'Red Division' so do you really think that I will get mad long for one of my friends?"
"Huh! Do these words belong to the old man? As I remember, you always preferred to play lone wolf out of you."
"Shut up." Commander was about to leave the storage, "I will send Doppel with you, last time I saw Mizuki in Yomihara, but it was many years ago, and if she appeared in Tokyo-kingdom, that must mean that she is looking for something or someone, that's why Doppel will help you a lot in demons' ambience."
"And I thought that you decided to send her because she bored me to take her with myself for a mission." Commander preferred not to hear this question, but when he was in front of the door he added.
"By the way, don't forget to return that girl her father's guns, as I remember they can hold really strong discharges."
"Don't worry I remember." Splash answered, 'Don't worry Yukikaze; soon you'll meet your mother again, I promise you.'