"Uhhh... Hello? Are you okay, little girl?", Kohei said, feeling nervous. Yabo looked at him with annoyance.
"Why the hell are you tryna talk to it, Kohei? Its an alternate, just kill it.", He said with a smug voice trying to make Kohei look stupid for not doing the obvious.
"She's crying... She must be an alternate-user. Let me talk to her.", Kohei replied. Yabo rolled his eyes. "Whatever..."
"Hey... uh... kid? Are you okay? Can you tell us what happened?"
Kohei gently tapped the little girl's shoulder. "Hey, ki-"
CHRR-NOMP!
"AHHHHHH!!!!! SHIT!!!!! IT BIT OFF MY FUCKING FINGER!", Kohei screamed, feeling immense agony.
The alternate began going wild stretching around its body parts randomly. It was as if it was trying to get the SOMA members to back off by scaring them.
"See? I told you it was a fucking alternate. Stay behind us and start healing, We'll take care of it.", Yabo said. "AHHHH... Alright...", Kohei replied.
Yabo and Hina got prepared to battle. But, Takeru was feeling conflicted. Even though they had realized it was an alternate now, it still kept the appearance of the little girl and was the body of one moments ago.
"Its a little girl...", He said. Yabo smacked his head in disappointment. "I guess you're gonna be useless too, you lazy bum. Me and Hina will take care of this." Hina nodded and her and Yabo paced towards the alternate.
"2nd form."
Hina stretched out her arms and wrapped them around the alternate to stop its movement. The alternate began biting her arms in retaliation but Hina could withstand it.
"2nd form."
Yabo grew out and sharpened his nails preparing to cleanly decapitate the alternate. He was getting closer, almost there.
"HAAAAAAAAA!!!!! UAAAA!!!! AHHHHH!!!! HWAAAAA!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!! UWAAAAAAA!!!!!!!", The alternate screamed. Those screams seemed sort of fearful and scared.
"Who are these people!? Why are they trying to hurt me!? I'm telling them to stop but they won't listen to me!? Are these agents of God that have been sent to punish me for my crimes...? Please forgive me, God! Please... I just though that her purse was pretty so I took it... That's all I did, Kami-sama...
I don't deserve this..."
Takeru's eyes widened. "WAIT! STOP! STOP IT! JUST WAI-"
SNIP!
The little girl had been decapitated. Kohei hit the ground with his fists in frustration. "Damn it! Poor little girl..."
Takeru began breathing heavily. "NO! NO! NO!" Takeru rushed over to Yabo and grabbed his collar. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?"
Yabo looked confused. "Huh? The fuck's wrong with you!? That was an alternate, I just did my job."
"NO! NO! NO! YOU DON'T FUCKING UNDERSTAND! THAT WAS A LITTLE GIRL! IT WASN'T AN ALTERNATE, SHE WAS ONE OF US! I COULD HEAR HER THOUGHTS! SHE WAS JUST A SCARED LITTLE GIRL! SHE PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE ALTERNATE BODY AND COULDN'T SPEAK! YOU KILLED HE-"
Takeru got punched and fell onto the ground. "Bullshit. It was crystal clear that it was an alternate. I get that you're supposed to be some sort of special case but there ain't know why you're hearing other's thoughts. You haven't got your unique ability yet, speaking of which, we have enough bodies now." Yabo looked over at Hina. "Bring them out."
While still groveling in pain, Takeru began muttering something. "You... don't understand... I'm not lying... That was really a little girl... You killed her..."
Just like Yabo, Hina and Kohei also didn't believe Takeru based on how the little girl was acting and the fact that Takeru couldn't be able to do something like reading other people's thoughts without obtaining a unique ability.
"Shut the fuck up! I ain't no fucking child killer! That was an alternate! Alright!?", Yabo screamed, feeling annoyed. "Hina, are you done?"
"Yup." Asano Hina's unique ability, Hidden Inventory, allows her to store a limited amount of things in an invisible and intangible space. It is akin to the inventories that Video Game characters possess.
Out of her inventory, She brought out 4 dead bodies. "There.", She said in a cold unfeeling voice. Kohei looked at the 5 dead bodies including the little girl's and felt morally disturbed but didn't say anything and looked plain.
"We have 5 now. You can go ahead and get your unique ability now, you lazy bum." Yabo brought his head closer to Takeru's who was still on the ground. "You were told how to do this, right? Make a deal with your alternate and let him eat these 5 bodies. In exchange, he'll give you his unique ability. Do it, now. I need your stupid ass to be more useful in our missions."
"No... I won't!", Takeru said in a weak frail voice.
"Huh? What did you just say?"
"I won't let him eat it! That's a little girl... Her body needs to be sent back to her parents so she can have a proper funeral..."
Yabo scoffed at Takeru's words. "After being with us for a week, you still don't get it, do ya? This ain't the kinda job where you can bring out morals such as those. Eat those bodies, now. I'm giving you an order as your Senpai."
"No... I said that I won't! That was not even an alternate, it was a little girl that got murde-"
SMACK!
Yabo kicked Takeru's face. "You're spouting out that bullshit again, huh!? I guess I've gotta just beat some fucking sense into you, don't I!? HUH!?"
SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!
Hina and Kohei watched saying nothing.
"WILL YOU LEARN NOW, YOU STUPID BITCH!? IF YOU SAY THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT ME BEING A MURDERER OR BRING YOUR MORALS INTO THIS JOB EVER AGAIN, I'LL FUCKING KI-"
whoosh!
"Stop it.", Hina said. She had grabbed Yabo's leg preventing him from kicking Takeru. Yabo looked over at her with rage filled eyes, he was breathing heavily. Looking at her face, he began to calm down.
"Ahhh... Thanks for stopping me, Hina. I guess I had lost my temper, this brat really pissed me off."
Takeru was still on the ground bleeding out from all over his face, suffering from extreme pain. Yabo glanced at him again.
"Oi, will you finally cooperate now, you fucking dumbass? Go make that deal and eat these bodies."
Having now understood the situation and realizing he had no other choice, Takeru looked up at Yabo. His voice was hard to understand as his mouth was all bloody.
"F- Fi- Fine..."