Chapter 23
"Croats?" Toru looked at Shizuru, he didn't know what to do, and was waiting for her ideas.
'It seems these guys are enemies.' Shizuru pondered, 'But what should we do? I didn't plan to stick between two forces…'
"One move and you're dead!" the man, who was aiming at Owl shouted in pure English as if he understood they were some kind of mercenaries.
'Dammit, how the hell they could sneak that far?' the man with the hood and mask mumbled.
'And how the hell we must be in such situation?' Owl frowned, "If there was something what could distract them we would be able to escape.' he glanced at the man with the guns, who was on a distance from him, 'And he is here too, it'll be difficult to fight and save his ass.'
"Low your weapons!" the ma commanded, "Slowly!"
The masked man started to do what was told as Toru started to do the same. Shizuru was doing the same, while owl could hide his wire under the sleeves of his cloak.
'Does it mean, they're not with them?' Owl glanced at Shizuru and Toru, who obeyed the order.
"Good, now to the trees!" the man ordered again.
The Taimanin didn't hurry to go as if they were waiting for something, the same was done by the mercenaries.
"I won't repeat it twice!" the man shouted not liking what he sees.
Suddenly there was a big explosion not far from him, the squad of soldiers was distracted by it. Even the leader of the platoon distracted for a second.
"Now!" Owl suddenly shouted
The man with the mask and Toru quickly grabbed their guns and did their shots at their targets. Toru did two big puffs in order to make the enemies lose their balance and fall onto the ground, while the second one did two fata shots at the enemies.
"Toru, Kikyo! Retreat!" Shizuru touched the ground and many roots tied the Croats.
"You two! The same!" Owl shouted to his companions.
Everyone rushed to one side, avoiding the bullets, Toru helped with his wind shots, while Shizuru tried to do the same. On their way they heard some shouts of the leader of the platoon, but Shizuru could understand what he is talking about.
"What the hell is he yelling about?" Toru asked a question, he didn't think to get an answer however heard it from his range distant foe.
"He is informing about us to the second squad."
"Damn, and where will they come from…" Owl spitted.
"I can try to predict, however I don't know, will it be correct or not." Toru replied to the man with the beret.
"Try it." the man mumbled watching at the Taimanin.
"Too many noises and those cannons too." Toru grunted, "I can't hear well."
"It seems I know where they will come from." Kikyo suddenly stopped, and made a jump avoiding the trap, which was a wire,
They saw another fifteen people next moment.
"It seems we have to fight now." Shizuru squeezed her whip and quickly hit one man with it.
Owl did the same with his wires. KIkyo and the young lady quickly hit two men. Kikyo heard a crack of bones after her strike, while the other woman's leg was covered with acid, and she could finish her enemy. Toru and the man in the mask started to protect their companions.
They could finish the small squad without big troubles. However they heard another noise not far from them.
"Since you're not with Croats, if you see people with silver ribbons, they're Serbs, don't' attack them." Owl told to the Taimanin, forgetting to ask about themselves.
Next moment another team surrounded them along with the man, who was giving orders to his men.
'What now?' Shizuru tried to think the situation over, however nothing came to her mind.
"It seems we have 'Red Division' here." the Croat commander chuckled.
'Red Division?!' all Taimanin were surprised of what they had just heard, 'The guys, who are helping us?' Shizuru pondered then.
"And you don't leave the chance to strike don't you? Damn Ustash." Owl chuckled watching at the soldier, "It seems your country likes when we kick its ass, is it?"
"Big talker." the man smirked, "This time we will kick your ass."
Next moment there appeared a big robot out of the trees, which steps were heard well. It was twice larger than ordinary human, and it had cannon on its shoulder.
"What will you say about our last invention?" the commander chuckled, "With that, we'll deal with you all fast."
"If I wouldn't tie your neck with my wire." Owl didn't like the situation which was in front of them.
Next moment everything repeated. The Taimanin and the 'Red Division' started a new fight. This time they changed the strategy. The man with the mask and Kikyo tried to distract the big machine, while Toru and the youngest one tried their hard in fighting soldiers. Owl was focusing on helping with the cyborg too, while Shizuru tried to deal with the militaries. The men were taught well and could oppose the demon fighters, however sometimes they did mistakes and they were taken down.
"Last such thing I fought with was really strong." Shizuru shouted, as she tied one solider with her ivies.
"Try to kick it at legs!" the man with guns shouted to the woman, who was fighting with her legs.
Kikyo didn't like that the unknown man was ordering her, however she decided to do so, as she had no idea how to fight such a thing. Kikyo tried her hard to make the cyborg fall onto the ground, however every strike was fruitless. The man's shots also didn't make any effect on the machine.
"His covering is really good, my acid does nothing against it." He mumbled.
Suddenly there were other explosions not far from them that made the Taimanin and 'Red Division' tense a lot.
"Do they hit closer and closer?" Owl shouted to himself.
"Can't you inform your men not to strike at us?" Shizuru shouted back to him.
"I'd like to warn them, the problem I don't have anything to contact those ones!" Owl replied her fast avoiding the shots of the soldiers.
"Damn, these guys know how to fight us!" Toru mumbled, he could help Shizuru a lot and decided to help Kikyo and the other man.
"This guys were trained to oppose those, who has special powers!" the young lady shouted, "Be careful with them!"
The squad of the enemies started to become less, however then they heard another noise of running. And in no time there appeared thirty other people.
'Dan, it seems they planned to break through the broad well.' Owl mumbled, 'How the hell we could miss it?'
Taimanin and the members of the division started to become tired, when suddenly there was a strange mist, which covered the whole area of the fight.
"What now?!" Kikyo shouted not liking what was about to happen.
"Just some help." Owl chuckled, "Follow me quickly!" the man shouted.
Next moment everyone headed after the man with the beret, who was leaded the other five people. The place was covered with the smoke well, so they started to hear how the steps behind them started to become less strong.
'I have déjà vu." Shizuru seemed remembered something.
After some time of hurrying they heard a voice behind them.
"What a meeting." they turned around and saw a black haired woman with two swords, which looked like needles, "I was right when I thought you're our little trouble maker."
"Long time no see." Shizuru chuckled seeing familiar woman, who she had already seen in the past.
"Haze, what the hell is she talking about?" Owl looked at the woman with serious eyes, even Kikyo and Toru tensed.
"They're from Taimanin." Haze came closer to them, "When Mladich told there was a blonde woman with glasses, I had doubts, but somehow I was sure, it's you." Haze looked at the Taimanin in red suit, who was taller than her.
"Dammit, we spent two days chasing Taimanin!" the youngest one hit her forehead, "And we thought their some spies from the enemy!"
"How we could mess up like that?!" Owl hit himself too.
"Sorry for bothering you" Shizuru said making a questing of it.
"That's all what you can say?!" Owl shouted at her.
"Guys!" the man in the mask decided to stop the quarrel, "Everything will wait, first we need to stop Croats with their toy."
"Yes, you're right." the young mercenary looked at the man, "But ow should we fight this thing."
"When we met last time, what did we do against such thing?" Shizuru looked at the woman with smoke powers.
"Kangaroo's clay." Haze quickly replied, "But since he is not here, we need to think everything from the beginning."
"Did you use clay to mess his gears?" Owl looked at Haze, who only nodded.
"If we don't have the clay you're talking about." Kikyo join the conversation, "We can try to corrode it." she looked at the two persons with acid power.
"That's an idea." Toru nodded, "But how can we stop it? Shizuru won't hold it alone."
"I will help." Owl told with irritation, "I can't use magnetism on that thing because of its covering, but I can try to tis it." the man added, "I don't know how long will it be working, however at least something."
"Bad you didn't take that massive guy with you for holding." Shizuru sighed, but then became lively as the plan sounded well.
She wanted to move, but she was stopped by the man's hand.
"When we finish here, I hope you won't escape." the man looked at her seriously.
"Since you're the guys we're working with, we won't run away." Shizuru smiled to him, "Because I think you don't wont to continued our hide and seek and tag game."
"Bitch." Owl spitted, however could hold himself, "By the way can you contact with Vulovich?" Owl looked at Haze.
"No, but we need to use that." Haze showed a signal gun, which she took out of her belt, "It will help us not to be blown up."
"Red color is for striking, green for not. Did you check it?" Owl asked Haze.
"No, didn't have much time." she handed the gun to the man, who quickly checked it.
"It's red, genius." Owl, told her with raised voice, "Well, we'll deal with it later, our position is pretty far probably we'll be able to finish here as fast as possible." he concluded and then heard another noise, "Prepare yourselves!"
Next moment, another bunch of soldiers encountered them.
"Them again." Kikyo grunted.
"Well, you run well." the commander of the platoon smirked, "But this time, we'll be more serious with you."
He took out his machine gun and started to shoot with his comrades, while Taimanin were merely dodging the bullets and tried their best to fight back.
This time everything was different with Haze's help the fight seemed more equal as her smoke helped too. Sometimes they heard cannon fire which was closer and closer, but it wasn't too often.
'We have about ten minutes.' Owl was counting time, "If we delay, they will strike here and I will not be able to repel all missiles.' he quickly finished the soldier with his wire.
The cyborg was fighting too. This time the man with the mask was running around it, along with Kikyo and Haze. In order to find needed places for attack.
"Now!" Haze suddenly shouted.
Next moment Shizuru tried to bind it with roots, while Owl did the same with the hand which he tried to pull back. While this was done, Kikyo nd Haze changed their activity on holding the militaries. Toru and the girl tried their best in assisting too.
"There!" the man with guns found the moment, and did a shot straight at the part which connected leg with the trunk, however with the free hand the robot captured the man, "Darn!" he shouted as it squeezed his collar bone and few ribs.
"Andrew!" the woman wanted to help him.
"Olga, wait!" Haze wanted to stop here, but that confusion was enough for Croats to regroup.
The soldiers used that opportunity and could Shizuru and Kikyo, who now were fighting together. The machine wanted to squeeze the grip, but it's suddenly flinched and bowed onto one knee.
'I did it.' Andrew thought with a smirk.
Next moment a strong puff of wind hit the cyborg from right side. Making it fall. Andrew found an opportunity to break free.
"Fine?" Toru asked him with a smirk.
"Had better days." Andrew hissed of feeling pain.
"Come on, I'll take you." he tried to help him, while Shizuru covered them with the big roots, which were aimed at people then.
When two men wanted to retreat, the cannon of the cyborg launched.
"Toru, look out!" Kikyo shouted pushing both of them away.
"What?" the man was surprised of such a thing.
The launch didn't hit the men, but it got Kikyo's leg. The woman quickly fell onto the ground. However she didn't cry or feel pain.
"Kikyo!" Toru shouted.
"Damn cyborg…" Owl mumbled as he killed to other men, who were wishing to deal with the Taimanin, "At leas the cyborg will not run anymore."
Next moment they heard another set of explosions, which was closer to them than the last one.
"Two minutes!" Haze shouted to Owl.
"I know!" the man yelled, "Someone needs to shoot the signal rocket."
Olga, who finished, with the last opponent of hers, turned around and ran to the woman, with to swords, which looked like needles.
"What do you want?!" Haze saw the woman with acid powers.
Olga replied nothing, but only grabbed the gun, but when she ran head she shouted.
"I will make a shot!"
"Wait, you idiot!" both Haze and Owl yelled, but she didn't listen to them, so they had nothing, but only deal with the remnants of the platoon.
Shizuru could tie the cyborg with the roots, and thanks to the damage Andrew did the machine couldn't get up. Toru also join the fight. Even Andrew did the same, however he could only run because of his damage. The man was hissing, but still was fighting.
"Please, be careful.' Andrew thought about the lady, who decided to save them.
In one minute they saw how something flew into the sky and then exploded there and in a minute there were three explosions.
'Could do it in time.' Owl thought about the woman.
"Dammit…" the leader of the Croats grunted, "We needed to retreat!"
"Won't escape!" Toru did a shot making the man stuck the tree.
The rest of his team was done too after some time. Shizuru, who now was free focused on holding the cyborg, Kikyo was sitting under the tree with her legs being severely damaged, and was protected by Andrew and Haze, while Owl quickly tied the commander of the squad. The wounded man came to the cyborg which tried to break free, he found several places which were made for ventilation so he shot his acid at them and the robot's movements stopped.
"Well, it seems for now we're done," Owl squatted in order to restore his powers, the man was exhausted like everyone else, however he tried not to show that, "Olga!" he suddenly exclaimed and was about to run where she ran, when she suddenly heard a voice.
"I'm fine, barely could escape the place of striking."
"Thank goodness." Andrew whispered seeing his comrade alive.
"Ow, did you worry about me?" the young lady came to the man, "Come on, tell me." She put her hand onto his shoulder, but then the man hissed because of pain, "Sorry, sorry!" the young woman quickly apologized, she wanted to say something else, but got a strong cuff on the head, she exclaimed, "What that was for, Haze?!"
"For your idiotism." Haze merely replied, "That was supposed to be done by me or by Owl."
"You two were busy, and he is injured, I think I did everything right." Olga defended herself.
"But I'm surprised you're did something reckless like that." Owl smirked, "You don't look like those, who ready to do such things."
"I can do a lot." Olga answered him.
The Taimanin were surprised that the 'Red Division' was talking like that, however they didn't distract them. Shizuru decided to check Kikyo's legs, which were prosthesis. One leg was damaged, when the second was completely destroyed.
"In such condition you won't go far." Shizuru sighed.
"Too bad, I thought I will be able to crawl fast." Kikyo slightly smiled to Shizuru.
"Kidding, that's a good sign." Toru liked that the woman started to feel a little easier.
"By the way, where and how will we go?" Toru turned to the group of their allies.
"Since the rocket was used, we need to wait our forces." Owl answered the Taimanin and came to them, "We'll take the vehicle to the Belgrade."
"Back there…" Shizuru sighed.
Soddenly they heard some rustle, and then noise. Everyone tensed and prepared for worst as they had no powers to resist. Next moment they were surrounded by twenty men. Who were aiming their guns at them, but then they suddenly lowered them.
"Vulovich, did you decided to come here too?" Owl suddenly said to the man, who was on his right and without a helmet.
"Decided to see, who is giving signals." the black haired man replied with a smile to the man with the beret.
"Is it our friends?" Shizuru carefully looked the man over and noticed a silver ribbon on his hand.
"Yes, this one was about to blow us up." Olga chuckled.
"If not your missile I think it would be really so." the man in the military uniform agreed with the young lady.
"You know how to make someone nervous." Andrew chuckled too.
Then they turned their heads to the cyborg which wasn't moving now.
"Is it their new weapon?" Vulovich asked the members of the division.
"Who knows, but I don't think they could make something like that." Andrew started to discuss with the military, "It won't be a surprise if this toy is from UFS."
"I think tech brigade will give a proper explanation." Owl joined them, "We can try to make our own cyborgs like this one."
"It's true, but we need to find proper components, for changing the controlling parts." Andrew replied him fast.
"Well, we'l deal with this thing, I think someone else will come and help us." Vulovich suddenly said, "You all need some rest, there three cars behind the forest, one of them will deliver you to Belgrade or whatever you want."
"Thanks." Andrew nodded and then turned around.
Everyone went the way, they all came from Owl was helping th masked man to walk as it was hard for him to go, after such tensed battle with a wound like this. Oleg was wandering around them, trying to distract the man of painful feelings. Toru was holding Kikyo on her back. Taimanin decided to obey, their allies, because there was no reason to continue the fight with one who was capable of functioning. Shizuru was chatting to Haze, but it seemed like the blonde woman was unnerving the brunette.
They reached the road in ten or so minutes and saw three cars, which were there. They took the one which was told and then they car was started and they left the battlefield, where they could say goodbye to each other.
Lazar was sitting in his cabinet, and was watching at the ceiling. The man seemed nervous, but still he tried to hold himself. The man didn't know what was with his men, who were after Taimanin, however he tried to hope in good. He was walking by the office. It was night, however he didn't want to sleep at all, as excitement was taken him. The man looked at the map on his wall from time to time, he tried to contact them, one time too. But it wasn't successful so he decided to wait until the end of their mission. He planned to send someone to check the situation, there however he understood, it was pointless, because when they reach the place the chasing can be over.
When it was night the man suddenly heard how his phone called, he quickly grabbed it and accepted the call.
"Mladich, who is it?" he said loudly as the number was unknown.
'It's us.' the man heard a quick respond.
"Why so long?" Lazar quickly asked another question to Owl.
'Sorry, but we were ambush by Croats.' Owl answered.
"Croats?!" Lazar raised his voice, "So, it was ambush after all." he said to himself, "What's with Andrew and the spies."
'Well, about that.' Owl pondered as if he was thinking what to say, 'Everything is fine, Andrew was injured.'
"What?!" the man shouted.
'Not that loud.' Owl quickly answered, 'Not seriously, and we got the spies, I think you'll be impressed.'
"I hate when you say such things." Lazar said angrily.
'Don't worry, you'll like that.' Owl chuckled and stopped the call.
Lazar looked at the phone and only sighed, because he understood, it was a pointless talk and to give a proper report he needed them here. Lazar could feel easily now, because his men were safe, he fell onto the chair, and rubbed his eyes with nose as great stress started to leave.
"Well, it seems there will be really something interesting." M ladich said out loud to himself, and then slowly left the office.
He did another call and ordered to deliver the spies to not to the office, but to the investigating office. Where he quickly started to go too I order to make a proper interrogation.
He left the building, where he was now, called a car and headed there. Lazar knew he would be there earlier, so he wanted to prepare everything. The way took about three hours and a half as it was night and there were no cars on the roads. The interrogation facility was near Montenegro's broad.
Mladich could sleep a little in the car as the whole day of not sleeping, was a little hard for him. When the car came the driver quickly awoke him, and then the party leader headed to the three storied building, which was in the middle of the fenced area. There were guards outside and inside the territory. The man quickly showed his pass and then headed ahead to the building not wasting time on taking he was just nodding to the people he had seen.
He quickly reached the second floor, and then asked the first man he saw about any cars tonight. However the man only shook with his head.
Mladich mumbled something and quickly took his phone. He found a needed contact and did a call.
"Howl long will you be in the way?" the man asked a direct question.
'Probably forty minutes.' there was a respond, 'Maybe thirty, but we'll come soon.'
"Fine, I'm waiting." Lazar sighed and rubbed his eyes.
The man found a daily room on the third floor. There were few people, who were either sleeping or doing something, like playing something or reading. When Lazar entered it everyone got up, but he quickly gave them the sign to return to their activity. Lazar decided not to sleep as the team should be here soon, so he decided to see how two men were playing chess. The man saw their three games, when he suddenly received a message from a soldier, who quickly entered the room..
Lazar got up and headed to the stairs, in order to go to the second floor. The man liked the idea he will interrogate the spies personally, however he didn't like the words Owl told him as his voice was cunning.
The man quickly reached the needed roo and then entered it. The room had nothing special, there was only a long bench, a big desk and several chairs. The room was lit well, so the man could see well the ones , who were in the room. There were three so called spies and Owl along with Haze.
"So I was right, 'Red Division' is under Yugoslavia." Shizuru suddenly said, when she saw Lazar.
"What your tone." Haze looked angrily at her. Kikyo also hit Shizuru in order to show her to be careful with her words.
"Well, you made us play a long tag game." Lazar sat onto the chair and looked at the three Taimanin with his eyes, Kikyo and Toru flinched, as his wounded eye also was slightly opened, "Now,. I want you to tell the whole story, who the hell you're and what you forgot here." then he looked at Owl, "Since you know who are they, tell me that."
"We're Taimanin." Shizuru quickly replied him.
"Interesting." Lazar narrowed his eye, "And what have you forgotten here?" he asked them.
"I have got a question." Shizuru quickly asked the man in front of her.
"In a position like that and trying to trade." Lazar smirked, "Do you think you're in the position to make your conditions?'
"Well, since we're allies I think you must to let us go." Shizuru smiled him.
"In Japan." Lazar seriously replied her not like her behavior, "Here is another story." Shizuru tensed so she nodded at his words.
"We're spying on our politicians." she replied him, "We had a suspicious they're working for someone, as one of ours was killed and then these three joined in one party, and decided to go to the meeting in the other country."
"Sure, it's really strange and weird." Toru nodded agreeing with her.
"So we were ordered to check them, however we didn't know you're well prepared and have them under your sleeve." she turned her head at Owl and Haze.
"I see." Lazar nodded, "Then why didn't you name yourself before?" he asked another question.
"We didn't know about that." Shizuru answered fast, "We knew about that only in the forest."
"The same with us." Owl nodded too.
"Since you suspected that, you could at least say that." Lazar looked at Haze angrily, however she merely turned her head away, "Fine, if you're here with this task, how did could you hide for so long? We could reach you only on the broad with Croatia."
"It was pure luck." Toru said instead of Shizuru.
"Well, it really was." the blonde chuckled, "But the way to Bosnia was helped. Do you remember reporter, who asked you about Macedonia?" Lazar nodded her in a second, "Well, he helped us to find a car, which supposed to deliver us to Tuzla, but still he set us not far from it i9n a small village." she was carefully watching at Mladich, who didn't plan to interrupt her, what made her a little uncomfortable, "There we too the bus to Banja-Luka, but also set not there, but in Laktashi."
"And that is not far from Croatia." Lazar mumbled, "It seems you're really from the luckiest ones, who could run that long." Lazar sighed he looked at the man with the beret, "Well since we dealt with that, another question." he looked at Shizuru, "Did you contact with some criminal groups on your way?"
"No, we did everything ourselves." she merely replied him, "If you're talking about Croats, we met them only along with your men, but we fought them too."
"Understood." The Serb nodded, he looked at the ceiling trying to understand what to do to them, he didn't know well, 'I need to release them, but at the same time, I need to give Japanese government a lesson, not to work here without my permission.' he suddenly opened his eye wide, "By the way, is this mission from your government or not?"
"What do you mean?" Shizuru asked him back.
"Don't play dumb, I know Japan and Russia work together." Lazar replied her, "This mission can be given you by the Russian government."
Haze looked at carefully at Lazar, however the man did the same so she didn't say anything to him.
"We got this order from the leader of Taimanin." Shizuru gave a vague question.
"Leader, you say…" Lazar pondered.
"Igawa Asagi." Haze added.
"Thanks." Lazar nodded, "Can I have your phone and remember, YOU'D better to cooperate." the man was watching at Shizuru seriously what made her a little tensed, "Your return depends on it."
Toru wanted to say something, however Shizuru quickly did what was told and found a needed contact in her phone.
"Here she is." Shizuru pointed at the name with some hieroglyphs.
Lazar nodded and pressed against the name and took the phone. First try was pointless, so the man decided to repeat the act.
'Shizuru? What is it?' Mladich heard a question in Japanese.
"Igawa Asagi, I presume.' Lazar said, but in English.
'Who is that? And how did you got this phone?' the female voice switched to English too.
"My name is Lazar Mladich." the man named himself, "I think this name is well known to you, since you sent your subordinates to check our country." the man didn't heard anything so he decided to continue, "Don't worry, I don't have interest in killing them or holding them in a prison."
'Then what do you want?' Asagi asked him seriously.
"To meet with your superior." Lazar replied her.
'We don't have a superior.' elder Igawa answered him.
"And here you're lying." Lazar smiled, "I know about Yamamoto Nobushige and that he coordinates you with Japanese government."
'How do you…' Asagi mumbled.
"I have my own information resource." Mladich quickly interrupted her.
'How the hell does he know so much?' Shizuru was shocked of that man in front of her, 'Does 'Red Division' know that much?'
"I'm not interested in holding them here, but since they were found and taken, I want to discuss it in order not to let this happen again." Lazar did a small pause, "I want to coordinate our moves." Asagi didn't replied so the man decided to continue, "What will you ay? I think it's fair, after all I informed you, while I could do vice versa."
' I understand that, I will discuss everything with Nobushige and he will contact you.' Asagi replied the leader, 'I hope this idea suits you.' she was staying calm.
"More or less." Lazar replied, "I will wait, but don't make it long, I will need you the number where to call."
"Got it.' Lazar heard a respond, however he didn't hang the phone, but gave it to Shizuru.
"For now it's all." Shizuru replied Asagi, "We'll contact you later."
'I will wait.' Asagi replied with her casual voice.
Then Shizuru stopped the call and put her phone onto the table, but before that, Lazar told her the phone number and she sent to Asagi.
"Well, with that we dealt." Lazar nodded, "Now we need to deal with you, I forgot to ask you." he looked over the trio, What are your names? You're Shizuru, am I right?" he looked at the blonde Taimanin.
"Yes." she merely replied.
"I'm Toru." the male Taimanin replied fast.
"Kikyo." the brunette with glasses answered.
"Yes…" Lazar pondered.
"We need to fix her legs." Owl suddenly said, "Her prosthesis was badly damaged."
Lazar got up and came to the bench and looked at Kikyo, who was sitting on the bench on the left.
"Deliver her to the mechanic block." Lazar commanded, "Tell them to find something suitable for her."
"Yes!" Owl reported.
"Where're the other two?" he looked at Haze.
"In medical block." she replied him.
"I will go there, bring them to the daily room, I will come to check them, when her leg is done, deliver them to my residence in Montenegro and inform me, when they are there."
"Sure." Owl nodded.
"You're with me." he told Haze then, who merely followed Lazar without saying anything.
Haze and Mladich left the room and headed to the stairs.
"What happened there?" Lazar asked her, "I need to know everything."
"We encountered the squad of Croats." Haze answered, "They were prepared well, they even had a battle cyborg. It's a Raiden type."
"UFS Chinese Union?" Maldich asked her.
"I don't know, it'll be delivered to tech brigade and they will tell whose it is." the woman told, "Also, Olga did a reckless move."
"What did she do?" Lazar was wondered hearing that.
"Vulovich was about to strike our position. If not her with shooting a signal gun, we would be dead." Haze added.
"He knows, which people to have around him." the man smiled slightly, "At the same time, why didn't you inform me about them?"
"I encountered them when they were fightin." Haze answered him, "Also I didn't know was it correct or not, so it's better not to give false data or they could pay with that."
"I hate that it you." Lazar mumbled, "You never change."
"Why should I?" Haze looked at him.
"Never mind." Lazar replied her and then they went farther to the medical facility, which was another building nearby.
Haze told everything about they fight, while Mladich was only listening ot her attentively. When they entered the building, he quickly came to the woman in a white robe and told her about the person he needed. She only nodded and told them to follow her. When they came to the needed ward the nurse went to the other one as she was told not to bother the talk. Haze decided to stay in the corridor too, as she understood it was the talk of the people, where she isn't needed.
"And I was guessing, when you come to see me." the man on the bench chuckled seeing the Serb.
"This place was on my way." Lazar took the chair and sat onto it, "What is the wound?"
"Just few broken ribs." Andrew replied with a smile, "The nurse told I'll be fine soon."
"Nice to hear." Lazar was glad there was nothing serious.
"By the way, did you finish interrogation?" Olga asked the man with interest.
"Yes, for now they will be in my residence, in Montenegro." Lazar exhaled, "I also contacted with Igawa Asagi."
"Wow." Andrew tried to get up, but Olga quickly made him to be in his position, "I'm fine, I'm fine." he didn't like that she was over caring.
"I told her to inform Yamamoto and make him contact me." Lazar continued, "Now I need only his call."
"You need to go to Japan." Andrew told him.
"I will." Lazar nodded, "Do you think I don't know?" the man with the scars said fast, "I came to know what should I take with me and what should I say."
"Well, to give this Taimanin back, make him to do one of two conditions." Andrew replied, "Sell them some of our cyborgs for their Taimanin."
"Is it too fast?" Lazar was surprised of that.
"I think so too." Olga was wondered too, but much more than the man.
"No, it the best time, because these ones will tell in any case you're in charge of 'Red Division'." Andrew told him "Tell them that Yugoslavia is in charge of it and you want to assist in fighting 'The Third Law'."
"And second condition?" Lazar said, "Is to drop sanctions from your family?"
"Yes." Andrew smiled, "But if everything right, our politician will help in that." he added after a little pause, "By the way, where are they now?"
"The meeting is about to be finished." Lazar replied him, "So tomorrow they will go to Japan."
"I see, the first ideas and thoughts, must be told to them so they will start to act." Andrew nodded, "He will be informing them too." the man on the bunk pondered, "And what are you going to do now?"
"When the legs of that Taimanin will be fixed, I will deliver them to the residence." Lazar told his plans, "Then I'll return to my work until I go to Japan, after all I'm in charge of their party now."
"It seems you'll have many business trips." Andrew chuckled.
"Shut up." the man mumbled, "If I see Drunkard, do I need to give him something?"
"No, nothing." the man on the bunk shook with his head.
Suddenly, something rang, Lazar took out his phone and looked at the screen.
"It seems their faster than I thought." the man looked at unknown number, and then accepted the call, putting it on the loud mode, "Lazar Mladich is listening, who is that?"
'Yamamoto Nobushige' everyone heard the respond of the old man.
"You work surprisingly fast." Lazar slightly smiled, "Did Igawa Asagi inform you about everything?"
'Yes, and I would like you to do everything without big publicity.' Yamamoto said to him, 'I know, I ask a lot, after what happened, but…'
"I understand the situation." Lazar agreed with the man, "I also don't like such things."
'When can we take our people?' Yamamoto asked the man.
Lazar looked at Andrew, who only nodded.
"I will deliver them myself." the man replied fast.
'What do you mean?' the old politician didn't understand him.
"I want to come to Japan in order to discuss something to you." Lazar said seriously, "Don't worry, it's not about your Taimanin, on the contrary, I must thank them for helping us in taking down the attempt of Croatia to make terror on our territory."
'If you're saying that, it must mean everything is settled with them I right?' Japanese man asked the Serb.
"Yes, we don't have anything against them. Here you should be calm, I just want to discuss our future partnership." Lazar suddenly chuckled, "I think you'll be surprised." he did a small pause, "But before coming I need to make something business and one of your Taimanin needs he legs to be repaired. Her prosthesis was damaged."
'I see, it's so kind of you to take care of the people, who gave you some problems, even if they helped you.' Nobushige was staying calm.
"I told there's nothing to worry about." Lazar said, "Your Taimanin will be my personal guest for this time." the man stopped for second, "But I belive we'll come soon, probably in a week, is it good for you?"
'Yes.' the man replied fast, 'When you come we can even meet and discuss what you want in nonofficial meeting.'
"Then we dealt." Lazar was glad the old man was that serious and straight, "I will inform you by that number."
'Yes, I will wait for your call.' Nobushige answered him, and then Lazar stopped the call, "What do you think about it?"
"Well done." Andrew nodded, "Now we need to prepare what documents we'll give them."
"You gave the data on Yasuhiro, isn't that enough?" Lazar didn't know what was in the head of the man on the bunk.
"I didn't give all information, just what work he did in Japan." Andrew quickly replied, "He gave some information to us directly, you need to make it as he gave it to you, avoiding mentioning of my name."
"Ah!" Andrew seemed understood what he was talking about, "You're talking about our arrangement not letting UFS touch Japan."
"It's too." the man nodded.
"Fine!" the young lady suddenly clapped her hands, "Andrew needs to rest, you need to do your work too." the girl looked at the man with scars.
"Fine, I'll let you rest." Lazar agreed with her, "Give her a better reward for saving you all." Lazar looked at Olga.
"Don't worry, I will." Andrew smiled and looked at Olga's face, which became red.