Chapter 46
Title: Checkmate
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Third Person POV. -- 30th of December -- 2415
[ Kawaguchiko Town ]
Today at 30th of December, where a member of the Benihana family was missing, the rest had arrived to today's tourist spot and had been having fun for untill 12 am.
Duo to the carelessness of one Benihana Retsu, she had forgotten her skiing equipment back at their resort, resulting in her separating from her group and going to a nearby stall to buy herself a new pair, which resulted in her getting separated from her friends and mother, becoming an isolated and perfect prey for her long pursuing wannabe kidnappers.
Yes, she had become a perfect prey to them. Or maybe not, considering what kind of being Benihana Retsu is.
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"Benihana Retsu, I am only going to issue this warning once. Either come with us peacefully, or bear the burden of the lives of every living being on this resort, as well as the lives of a pro hero and your father, Redvein which we have in our custody. " One of the twin villains, the blue bodysuit wearing, and over all blue themed twin says, his name being Nek.
"What the hell are we doing? Let's just take her by force already! She has no chance against us with her father not here. " Poz, the red themed twin says, scrutinizing the rigit posture Retsu has taken, likely thinking she must be scared to not be moving right now.
Giving her twin brother a side look, Nek then turns his gaze back towards Retsu, waiting for her reply.
As for Retsu's reply?
"Come with you people, you say? And why would I do that? After all, the fun part is only starting now!" Saying so, Retsu's posture slightly hunches, her eyes and mind narrowed only towards the immediate opponents right in front of her, completely isolating everything else in her environment.
'To hell with waiting until tonight, to hell with holding back! They came to me of their own volition. This can be attributed as an act of self defense later! ' She thinks. A smirk, one who's on the verge of turning unhinged, marks her face as she gets ready.
Though before she can take even a single step forward,
"Retsu-chan? "
Her eyes widen, her mind clearing out just with that simple call.
Retsu turns her head, her eyes falling on a familiar pink girl who is standing behind her, one of her hands outstretched as if uncertain, her other hand close to her chest, with her unique, black sclera'd eyes creased in worry as she gazes at Retsu. "Retsu-cha, who are these people? Are they bothering you? S-should we call aunty or uncle Tetsuya? "Mina asks, her tone wavering, as if uncertain yet also seeming scared, resulting in Retsu instinctively moving close.
She moves close and takes hold of Mina's hand, clasping it in the middle of her palms as she then reassuringly smiles. A smile that conveys trust and calm, one who comes from her genuine emotions and not something fabricated.
"It's okay, Mina-chan. These people are just fellow pro heroes who works with my father in the field. They came to inform me of something, that's all. There is no cause for worry, Mina-chan.
By the way, why are you here? Shouldn't you be with mother and Himi-chan? " Retsu asks, by now seeing the tense and rigit posture of her friend having calmed down.
"O-oh, I just wanted to come get you, but if it's something related to uncle Tetsuya, then I guess you'll be coming later?
Do you want me to stay with you, Retsu-chan? " Mina says, before asking a question,
Shaking her head, Retsu denies her second best friend any involvement in this, "It's okay, this is not going to take long. You should go and join Mother and Himi-chan. I'll be right behind you in a moment so don't worry. "
"A-ah, okay then... " Mina uncertainly says, before turning and walking away, planning on following her best friend's instructions despite her heart hammering in her chest in quiet worry.
Seeing Mina off, an expression of ease on her face, Retsu then molds that expression of serenity into one of quiet, cold focus. Her eyes losing their light as her posture slightly hunches, like the hunching of a predator ready to pounce on her pray.
Her dead, cold and emotionally unresponsive irises turn, her cold orbs zeroing in on her two awaiting opponents as she turns around.
"I thank you for waiting, " She says, her tone calm and unhurried, being polite even, as if she isn't in any mortal danger whatsoever.
"Now then, Shall we take this to somewhere else? You wouldn't want to expose yourselves to the public based on your secretive nature up until now, now would you, mister foreigners? " She says, before and without waiting for a response, she starts on moving towards them.
She walks towards them, her posture unhurried and her eyes looking ahead, not at their faces or expressions but ahead.
She walks, and she passes right from the middle of the duo of villains, with no rigidness to her posture whatsoever, as if she's taking a light stroll.
'It is so easy to knock her out at this distance, but... ' Nek thinks,
'... My body... It isn't moving at all! ' and Poz finishes.
Only after that and when she's walked out of their midsts, having gone a few steps further behind them, are they allowed to move their bodies again, only then having realized they had been holding their breath the whole time too.
'Dangerous. ' is the only word echoing inside their heads in that moment, as they turn around to follow her into the woods.
A sense of danger, something instinctive within any prey animal.
The word prey, can be attributed not only to herbivorous animals, but also even carnivorous ones sometimes.
Sometimes, a lion can fall prey to a pack of hyenas, or a shark falling in the wake of a killer whale, –an orca's assault, or even something as small as Assassin Bugs and Spiders; The Stenolemus bituberus assassin bug enters spider webs and vibrates them to mimic trapped prey, luring the spider to its death.
The purpose of these examples, is to tell that sometimes, a predator can fall in the hands of another predator. This is also a cycle of life and something that has become natural.
So now the question arises, what correlation does this have to the current situation?
Well, it is simply another phase, another situation where two opposing parties, two predators will duke it out, and the stronger one will triumph over the weak.
Humans after all, are also animals at the end of the day.
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Arriving at a forest clearing 1 kilometer away from the skiing resort, the trio of combatants consisting of Retsu, –who's standing apart, and her two opponents, –Nek and Poz who are standing on the other side of the clearing, the trio eyeing each other in quiet preparation for the upcoming conflict.
Before that though, Retsu has some questions she wants answered,
"Before we begin, I have a few questions I'd like you to answer. " She says, eliciting looks of confusion from her two opponents.
"Firstly, what did you hope to achieve by trying to capture my father? Of course, you have failed in that regard but still, " Retsu asks, getting confused looks from her two opponents.
"Failed? " Instead of an answer, Nek asks a question, making Retsu tilt her head in mockery,
"Oh come on, you don't actually believe you've restrained Redvein, the third strongest pro hero and physically the second strongest one in the whole of Japan, now do you? " Retsu amusedly asks, though she already knows the answer to this question of hers, and she also doesn't wait for a reply this time, already having moved on,
"We Benihanas have special constitutions that give us great immunities against drugs and poison. And with the help of our inherent blood manipulation quirks, we can overcome any status effects in the blink of an eye.
You morons have had a ticking time bomb in your midsts all this time, and you were also the morons who put him there in the first place. So now I'm asking you, what did you hope to achieve by making such a self-harmful move? " Retsu finishes, her tone of voice amused, as if an adult, seeing two kids play at being bad guys, and sucking at it in a particularly entertaining way.
"... It doesn't matter. The whole point of that move was so that he wouldn't get in our way of taking you away. And now that he is away, that endeavor was a worthwhile one. " Pausing for a moment, Nek then replies, choosing to ignore the earlier shake of his body when they were walking this way.
'It must have been the work of her quirk that made us paralyzed, not anything else. ' a man in denial, choosing to believe in his own false belief, over the scary idea that he was actually, honest to god scared of this little girl before him earlier.
"Hm? So you went through all that trouble, all so that you could have a private audience moment with me? Now I feel flattered. " Retsu says, tilting her head with mock emotions of flattery.
"Enough talk! Nek! This is getting me irritated to no ends! Let's just end this farce already! " Poz, the red themed twin and the man with the shorter fuse barks out, crouching in readiness in order to pounce and subdue Retsu who's a few feet ahead of them.
Turning her gaze towards him, Retsu let's go of her supressed emotions fully, letting her aura, her killing intent to flood this space, like a tidal of blood getting unleashed and engulfing everything around her, with herself standing as its middle point.
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Getting intimidated, the red themed villain can do nothing but gaze on, as in his vision, the skies begin to darken, everything turning dark and bloody, with a single silhouette visible right in front of him, his eyes unable to leave her form, not allowed to even blink or breathe in her presence, not allowed to move a single inch. Being allowed only to hear the words she utters in that moment,
"Silence. I am speaking currently. "
That is the only coherent sentence he hears, his ears being flooded by the unrhythmic sound of his own heartbeat in that moment.
Turning her gaze away from Poz, Retsu then looks back at the sweating Nek, her eyes and killing intent not losing even a single bit of its edge.
"Now my second question. Who are you people and where did you come from? " Retsu asks, her tone as calm as the ocean surface, an ocean of blood if being more dramatic helps.
"... " Nek doesn't answer this time, just looking towards Retsu with a serious gaze and full of sweat.
'What the hell... Is with her? What is she? How is she able to generate such crippling killing intent?!? ' he questions, though he can never know nor understand the origin of this emotion, this killing intent he is feeling.
A killing intent so vile and strong, that it could even be categorized as a seperate ability of its own.
Seeing as her opponents aren't answering her, Retsu just shrugs, knowing fully well from the start that they wouldn't crack under this kind of pressure and spill whatever they know.
"Very well. It seems that I won't be getting any answer from you two.
Sigh, no matter. I didn't have any hopes regarding it to begin with. Now then, let us start with the fight.
Put your all into this, because I am currently feeling quite expectant. "
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Looking down at her watch, Kimmy realizes that time have passed and it's currently 12:48 am, marking this as the starting point of the end of the scuffle.
"And so it begins, " She quietly mutters,
"The 12 minute fight that will mark the end of this scuffle, and put an end to the scheme brewed by a foreign power.
Sigh, I wished to know of the one behind this, but it seems they were quite careful in their involvement. I'm not even able to find out of them using my ability. " Sighing quietly, Kimmy then continues with her work, her hands flying on the keyboard console at high speeds as she sorts through today's work.
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Meanwhile back with Retsu,
"Prepare yourselves. " Is the only warning she gives, before she vanishes from her spot, not a single dry leaf or snow droplet being disturbed in the wake of her movement.
Fwoooosh!
Arriving before her first chosen opponent, Retsu swings out her hand, her blood sword already materialized in the palm of her right hand.
Shing! Shlick!
The blade cuts through the air, before it carves out a chunk of flesh from the raised guards of her first opponent, the red themed twin.
"A-agh!" He cries out, before getting flung away with the aftershock of the blow, getting thrown away and hitting a tree bark a few feet in the back.
Ka-kra-kraboom!!
Sound of Electricity being generated is heard, its origin being Nek who has blue electricity running through his right fist, as he moves and strikes towards the space Retsu is occupying.
Boooom!
Hitting something, Nek then quickly jumps back, readying his next assault as he awaits for the snow fog to settle, his posture hunched and ready.
Moments pass before the fog is settled down, and Nek's eyes widen in shock as he sees his uninjured opponent, just standing there with her sword arm raised, having blocked the blow with no visible effort or dent to her form.
"That was an excellent blow, –though weaker than what you'd expect, now let me respond in kind. " She says, before her form blurrs, her sword hand vanishing from sight for a second, before a gigantic blood slash is released in his direction.
"Tch! " Clicking his tongue, Nek raises his guard, his bulky form getting engulfed in his blue electricity as he readies his stance in order to tank the blow.
'Worthless. ' Retsu thinks, already knowing the outcome of this exchange,
Which then turns out to be false, considering she didn't count on her second opponent to move in and tank that blow beside Nek, resulting in the attack failing and only leaving superstitious injuries on the twins,
'The emotions he had exhibited until now would suggest something other than him moving to protect his brother, so this was an unusual act that I didn't account for. Well no matter, ' Retsu thinks, acknowledging this outcome in less than a second, her posture never having lost its hunched and readied for battle state.
"You okay bro? " Poz asks, reffering to Nek who has cuts on his form.
"Yeah I'm fine. Instead of me, you should be worrying about yourself. Your forearms seem to be in worser states. " Nek replies, seeing the visible cut on his twin's torn suit, and the massive gashes left behind on his forearms from his earlier block.
"Bro, " Poz says, getting his twin's attention, "She's strong. We should combine our power."
"... Yeah you're probably right. She has the both of us beat in individual battles.
So, which one of us should go against her? My long range, or your close combat? " Nek asks,
"Based on her earlier display of speed, I'd say long range is not a good match up, so lend me your power. I'll finish this with close combat. " Poz replies, before the duo of twins look at each other's eyes and nod in quiet understanding.
'Our combined strength is said to rival even the strength of the strongest pro heroes in the world, so we'll definitely win, no matter what! " Poz thinks, before he extends one of his injured hand towards Nek's outstretched one, taking hold of it and clasping their hands in a dapping gesture.
Members of a foreign organization who's priorities are a mystery to the public, the twin young masters who got recognized as the sons of the head of the said foreign organization.
They are a special case of twins who were able to manifest similar quirks at the age of four. The twins, Poz and Nek, both share the quirk, Electrokinesis, the ability to generate and control electricity in any way they wish, with the only differences being in the color of the electricity they generate, and their affinity for how they control their electricity.
The twin, Poz who's electricity takes on a red color, is more of a close combatant brawler type ability user. His quirk working better inside of his body, which then simulates his muscles and augments his physical strength.
The twin, Nek on the other hand, generates blue colored electricity, and his reach outside of his body is more and better than his internal electrokinesis, resulting in him donning a more long ranged and marksmanship type fighting style.
Now, the quirk that these twins share, there is a special property to it that allows in their usually very strong quirks becoming even stronger, an ability they've come to learn of during their earlier years when training together.
A state of fusion, where one twin will concent to letting their quirk, their electricity generation power be borrowed by the other twin, resulting in them temporarily becoming quirkless, while the other twin's affinity will get amplified and they go into overdrive.
The state will last only for 10 minutes, but in those 10 minutes, the amplified twin will become truly unstoppable.
'Or at least, that's what they think. ' Retsu muses, just standing back and letting the twins ready one of theirs for battle, completely at ease and waiting for their power up to finish.
'Their amplification, it leaves one temporarily quirkless, while the other gains the strength of the other twin on top of their own power.
I will admit, it is truly a move worthy of being called an ultimate power up.
Sadly for them though, they are up against me. ' Retsu muses, and as she finishes with her internal monologue, her opponents too seem to have finished with their preparations.
Bzzzzzt! Tzzzzt!
Electrical currents run along the red one's, –Poz's form as he gets ready, the coiling electricity being of two colors now instead of the earlier one, being both blue and red currents that run along his form.
"I take it that you are now ready." Retsu says, it being not a question despite the way she worded it.
"... " Her opponent though doesn't respond, choosing to instead ready himself by crouching low.
Keeping a side of her vision and sense on the now powerless twin, Retsu deigns to keep the rest of her focus on her now much stronger opponent, –stronger than even her, though only physically.
With no indication, the unofficial second match begins, with Poz taking a step, and vanishing from his spot.
'Fast! ' is the only thought Retsu can register, before her guard is instinctively put up, which proves to be accurate as her opponent appears before her form and flings her away with a straight punch!
Kraka- Boom!!!
Retsu is flung back, flying through the air as she feels her hands going numb due to the after effects that electricity generates on her body.
Fwooosh! Bam!
Flying through the air, her back eventually hits a boulder, cracking it before her form hits and slumps on the floor.
"Blegh! Cough cough! N-not bad... " Spitting out saliva and coughing, Retsu then smirks before looking at her opponent, complimenting his strength before she starts getting up, as if nothing had happened.
Something did happen though, Retsu having truly gotten hurt, –if only for a few measly milliseconds before her form got back to its peak condition again, no sign of any injury present.
'I am strong. Maybe not physically stronger or faster than him, but my strength still matters.
A normal man if flung like that and hit that rock, would have their internals split apart, yet the only thing it did was crack a few of my ribs, and knocked the wind out of my lungs. –which I healed back under just a few milliseconds.
In terms of speed and strength I am beat, but in terms of a long lasting fight, no one can best me, not this man here, nor even Father. '
And this atvantage, this confidence in her strength becomes only possible due to her ability to true heal herself in real time.
Benihana Retsu is a forever continuing battle machine, something that doesn't rot or decay away with the advent of time.
She is a true monster who can outlast anyone in battle, and she fully knows and understands this aspect of her capabilities.
She is confident, as is her right as someone categorized as a strong being within this world.
"Stand down. "Retsu hears her opponent say, his tone being slightly distorted and vibrating due to the running internal electricity, "You have no chance of beating what I am now."
"Hooh~ One successful blow and what's this? Am I hearing overconfidence from your tone?" Retsu questions, her tone amused and no longer strained due to the earlier blow.
"Who do you think you are? Do you believe now that you've achieved a higher physical strength, that you can beat me?
In the first place, physical strength isn't even my strongest forte, and I have never actively pursued it, it being something that my body got granted to due to my ambition of wanting to fight strong opponents.
I know I seem like rambling, so let us cut the chatter here. Take this advice though; Don't become overconfident, otherwise you will disappoint me greatly." Retsu ominously says, before she vanishes from her spot, having thrown a blood slash from her spot before her departure.
Shunpo!
Appearing behind her opponent, –his 6 o'clock which is his blind spot, Retsu sends out another long ranged slash, before vanishing again, and appearing beside his form, his 3 o'clock and in his personal space in less than a second.
Her opponent, Poz though, was able to follow her movement with ease, his now much clearer eyes seeing her fluent and graceful movement with no visible effort, his mind capable of keeping up with her superhuman speed.
'I should end this fast regardless, the timer on this state is 10 minutes, and 1 minute has already come to pass. ' thinking so,
Fwooosh!
Poz vanishes from his spot, leaving a wind hurricane in the wake of his electrical repositioning, before he appears a few feet away.
Seeing her prey getting away, Retsu's focused attention doesn't waver, her two long range slashes just now appearing in the spot she is, –and their molecular structure gets severed on her command, letting them unceremoniously waft away through the atmosphere, dissolving the moment they clash with one another and her in the middle.
Not letting down her guard, Retsu instinctively readies herself, which proves to be accurate as in the next second,
Crackle!
An electricity bound fist homes in on her form, and collides straight with her blade's guard, flinging her away from her spot with the added aftershock of the blow.
Fwoosh!
Again sent through the air, this time Retsu controls her movement and, with the help of her Sanguimancy, she's able to pull herself to the ground and skid to a stop a few feet away.
"Ugh! Persistent pest! " Poz angrily mutters, "Just go down already! "
"Hah! How about no? You are free to take me down if you can!" Retsu replies, already in her defensive stance again and awaiting his arrival.
'8 more minutes. ' she counts internally, coming to this conclusion based on the way she's feeling the electricity affecting her opponent's internal organs.
'In 8 more minutes, his body will start to get overwhelmed, forcing his power into a cooldown. That will also mark the checkmate of this fight. ' thinking such, Retsu quietly smirks as she continues on blocking and parrying her opponent's strikes, not giving him any ground for as long as she can.
Meanwhile with the powerless twin, Nek.
Seeing the way that this fight is proceeding, Nek's frustration starts to boil out, his brows creasing in a frown as his lips fall in quiet agitation. 'This is going nowhere.
While Poz can deal the damage, it is not strong nor severe enough to one shot her. And her ability to heal isn't letting any damage accumulate.
Poz also doesn't have any attacks strong enough to one shot her. Is this... Is this a loss?
No! No it isn't! I'm still here, I should be able to make a difference even now when I'm powerless!' Thinking so, Nek extends his hand and takes hold of a hand gun from the strap on his tigh, –but before he can fully commit on the act,
"Don't interfere, extra. " He hears her voice, before his vision gets blurry and he rapidly starts to fall towards the earth, his face first as he falls and slumps down with his ass facing the sky.
"Hmph, worthless. " Retsu comments, having a side of her focus on him, and the moment Nek had tried to interfere, she had given him a dose of her specially made sleeping drug.
'He'll be out cold for quite a while, so now my full focus can fall on my true opponent. ' thinking this, Retsu then parries away another strong hook combined with electricity, her hands numbing in the process which then gets healed in the next millisecond.
And so, just like this 5 more minutes pass, leaving only 4 more minutes, 4 more precious minutes of opportunity for her opponent to best her in this fight, otherwise it will be checkmate for him.
"Letting you have the offensive in this fight the whole time wouldn't make this an enjoyable battle, so let's change it up a bit shall we~" Retsu excitedly says, and in the next moment, she borrows a move from one of her previous opponents in this world.
TSSSHHH!!!
Sound of high concentration of liquid cutting through the air is heard,
Sh-chlick!
And in the next moment, a highly concentrated blood beam pierces past Poz's shoulder, the man having instinctively moved to not get pierced by the attack, yet still his shoulder being grazed.
'Not as strong and effective as a certain someone else's piercing blood technique from another plane of reality, but the trade off is in how fast I can spam it during high speed combat. ' Retsu thinks, seeing her opponent retreating in order to find back his footing, allowing her breathing room again.
Jumping back, Poz registers the cut before his focus turns back to Retsu, seeing behind her a halo of blood hovering. But more accurately a halo of pressurised blood that can shoot out tiny blood beams with terrifying speeds.
'I could track it, I just got caught off guard because I didn't expect such an attack. ' Poz thinks, before he outwardly voices out, "resorting to such cheap tricks now are you? Where did all that bravado from earlier go huh? "
"Bravado? Oh you mean me speaking and the early scare I gave you by unleashing my killing intent?
That wasn't bravado, that was simply me stating for you to shut up, and let me finish with my talk.
Oh don't tell me that made you feel offended? Ah you poor thing, hahaha~" Retsu amusedly laughs, her tone quite playful which results in Poz getting further angered.
Not saying another word, Poz then poises to dash forward again, leaving a wind disturbance as his electricity augmented muscles produce more explosive strength, with visible red and blue arcs of electricity trailing behind him as he dashes forward.
Fwooosh!
Disturbing the atmosphere, he appears before the spoiled brat, his right fist already in motion for another strike...
'Ah, a mistake. ' Retsu thinks, as in the next moment-
Shk! Sshk! Shhk! Skh! Tschk!
Several gashes appear around the body of her opponent, his movement halting right before her, his hands, feet and body being skewered through by the strings of her blood.
True to her words, Retsu did use the fighting style of that water type quirk user from the mall all the way back then, but instead of a full copy, she combined his concept of encasing his opponents in a sphere of water, along with his projectiles, and decided to make binding blood strings that would sustain her opponent's movement's.
For dramatical effects, she even came up with a fancy name concerning this move,
Hemostasis, Veinbind!
Strings of blood, acting as binders by piercing through and coiling around both inside and outside of an enemy's body, adding a paralyzing effect due to some transformed components within the strings of blood, locking someone in place with no chance to retaliate.
"Overconfidence and lack of attention during battle, plus letting your emotions get the better of you during an intense exchange. Before my eyes, these emotions are considered a sin.
You are strong and fast, in both aspects you beat me, but it is your overconfidence that paved the road towards your downfall.
I thank you for the enjoyable battle. Now you have nothing else to offer me, so have this gift of mine instead. Enjoy your nap. " Saying so, Retsu abruptly makes the blood strings that are within her opponent's body change property, becoming substances that would rapidly make him lose consciousness.
Poz, though at first trying to struggle, quickly succumbs to the drugs, and despite the injuries his body is sustaining, the drug makes his pain receptors more dull, allowing for the drug to better work on his system, making him lose consciousness in less than a few seconds.
Slump!
The blood strings skewering him gets dissolved, letting his unresponsive body fall to the floor, where a veil of blood then gets thrown over him, starting on healing any injuries he may have sustained during the battle.
Spending the reminder of her blood halo's reserves in order to heal the other twin in the distance, Retsu then gives out a sigh, before she takes out her enemy's phone from inside his pocket, bringing it before her using a blood construct and opening the device.
Minorly metamorphing her thumb finger's pattern to resemble Poz's, she opens the device's lock screen and goes to his contacts.
Finding the one named Hans, she calls, all the while thinking of other things.
'A strong opponent true, but strong only compared to my normal physical stats. I didn't augment myself during the fight at all, otherwise this fight would have gotten quite boring.' thinking so, she awaits for the phone to pick up, idly turning on her spot while her mind wanders off again,
'Electricity generation and control, very versatile abilities, ones that stun the enemy while also dealing them significant and crippling damage.
If not for my healing capability, then even if I had augmented myself, I'd have a hard time. But because I had healing powers, I didn't augment myself to compensate and keep the fight fair.
If it was father who was in my place, then I'm sure the fight would have been much closer.' Thinking such, Retsu awaits for the call to pick up, and once it does she changes her vocal cords and begins speaking.
"Hans, where are you? " The voice with which she speaks with, it is a perfect replica of Poz's, with no difference to it whatsoever.
"Hah? I'm on my way to getting the hell out of this country. Why? " He asks,
"And what about Redvein and Whiteout. " Retsu questions,
"They're with tracer. Why, what's going on? " Hans says, before asking another question.
Not paying it any heed, Retsu cancels the call before going through the contacts again and finding the number named Tracer.
Finding it, she calls again and waits for it to pick up.
Kacha!
Answering the call, Retsu hears a voice, "what's going on? "
"Tracer, enable the sound feature on the call. "
"Huh? Okay but why? "
"Did you do it? "
"A-ah, okay okay just hold on a sec.
Okay it's done. "
"Good, listen very well. "
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Meanwhile with Tetsuya's side,
"Father, the twin villains are now apprehended, it's time you stopped slacking around and arrested the fugitive. " Redvein, –while pretending to be paralyzed on the sofa, hears the voice of his own daughter from the phone, making him suddenly look up in surprise.
In that moment, many thoughts go through the pro hero's mind, but one ultimately manages to surpass the others and come to the surface, making the pro hero smirk despite the situation.
'Oh that cheeky brat! '
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Near the coastline of the Pacific ocean,
Arriving at the place by night and with the sleek black sedan, Hans looks around with a cautious look before walking towards the area where his promised and awaiting aircraft awaits, his ticket to getting out of Japan.
Walking forward, he eventually passes the street and arrives before an old and abandoned dirt road that can act as a free highway, seeing an old and unused barn along with thrown away mechanical junks around it.
He walks to the rusty barn, and opens the slidings doors leading inside, expecting to see an awaiting light aircraft. And what he expected comes to pass as well, seeing the aircraft parked inside this old, worn and dusty dilapidated barn, but along with that there is another surprise waiting for him,
"Took you long enough to get here. I was starting to get bored honestly.
In another timeline you may have been able to get away, but not this time buddy, not this time when my Madame exists. "
It is Mister Confession, plopped on a wooden container before the aircraft's nose as he points a gun towards Hans, extending his other hand forward and gesturing towards him,
"Hand over the USB drive before having your hands in the air.
Oh and don't try to reach out behind you, my Madame has already seen the outcome of this moment, and let me tell you, it doesn't end with you as the victor. "
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Author's note/ WAAAAAAAAH! MY WORD COUNT IS OVER FIVE THOUSAAAAAND- anyways,
Hans's capture became possible only duo to one simple detail.
Let's assume here, just assuming that in another timeline, Confession would learn of where Hans was due to him learning of it from Redvein, who got his blood trace on Hans's clothing, as I mentioned before.
Now in this timeline, Confession's every action had already been seen by Madame Kimmy, so she knew where Redvein would point Confession towards in finding the running away Hans, allowing for Confession to get there ahead of time and confront him.
Divination type situations can be so tricky to explain, and I hope I was able to explain it here well enough for you guys.
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