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[Thugren]

my loyalty isnt to the arbiters."

 

she says bluntly, removing her iron helmet to reveal a young woman, at least 17  with a bright red eye hidden behind a mop of blue hair.

 

"If you make a stupid move it isnt your drachens that will be put to the fire because of your cushy place as a PDF. its the Cujo. Kamuhi is doing something we all beleive in, so if i have to save some scummy butcher ill do so."

 

she points to the street outsuide the school.

 

"Youve got some vassals coming to try and help...Id advise getting your man and getting an ambush moving."

 

 

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the blades meet the staff hard with a loud clang, the man gaining his footing quicjkly as he bears down on you with his weight, trying to get you into an awkward recoil.

 

"DOnt worry about the little freak."

 

he hisses in annyoance as he presses harder.

 

"Focus right here you little bitch..... I want to know i had your full attention when i kill you."

[Oce]

Sevatheda angled her staff to displace some of the weight, hoping for the blades to sc*CENSORED* off since she wasn't physically capable of outpowering him. "'Little freak'? That's honestly the best that you could do? Pathetic," she didn't even snarl. Her calmness poured off of her in waves, her smirk never wavering. Though there was some sort of spark of something akin to irritation in her chest, which she assumed was because he was trying to anger her in return. That had to be it, right? 

[Armoured Priest]

Orochi shrugged. The woman might be an Arbiter, but he knew being the SDF wouldn't really stop much if whoever it was had enough sway with the government despite what she said. Maybe she didn't know just how bad things are, only know that they are. "Either way. Thanks." He said, holding up the hand with the pouch before turning away and back to the school, picking up his kanabo on the way. Entering the school and then immediatly to the nurse's office, held out the pouch to the medic drachen working on Guzma. "Here use this, gift from a friend. Squad Alpha, Bravo, lets move. Need to set up an ambush on enemy reinforcements coming, set up positions overlooking the road and get entrenched. Wait for them to get out of their vehicles and out of cover, then put them down."

[Thugren]

You find your men in the halls scavenging , but it's when you get to the infirmary you are given pause

Hikari is in the bed, her body banged up and bruised from rolling the car, thebworst of her wounds being tended by yuno.

" she needs a medic orochi."

The hand maiden says as yukari hisses and stands.

" if I were them I'd be reinforcing... let's go."


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You manage to turn aside the arbiters blade , but he presses the attacking .

His attacks come in quick and precise chops, hacking at the staff to cause strain on your arms before he lashed out with a kick that collides with the staff , breaking it and sending you back a few feet

[Armoured Priest]

"You aren't going anywhere." Orochi said as he moved to stand in Yukari's way. "The only thing you're doing is getting patched up here and not dying sis." He said firmly, knowing he was still talking to Yukari of all people. "Besides, what would googy think if she saw you out there not able to do anything useful other than hoping someone slips on your blood as you bleed out? Hm? Nothing good I'll tell you that." The black varghen asked with a raised brow, bring Googy into the discussion as a way to shut down any possible counterargument the purifier may have. He looked over to the medic that helped Guzma. "You got a new charge, fix her up as best you can." He said, nodding over to the bleeding ganger.

[Oce]

Sevatheda barely managed to keep the annoyed grimace off of her face at the repeated blows, and a hiss when she was forced backwards. She kept her knees locked so that she wouldn't stumble; she wouldn't give him the satisfaction, even if it wasn't easy on the joints. Sevatheda didn't bother merging the two halves of her staff back together, only partially due to the fact that it would take away part of her focus. It would be pointless regardless, and if this arbiter was going to use two weapons, then she may as well too.

 

The albino didn't step forward, merely raising her fragmented weapons and adapting her stance to remain mobile. She wouldn't be able to overpower him, but she would likely be able to outmaneuver him.

[Thugren]

yukari  goes to stand up but a deep wound opens on her side making her grimace. SHe falls back into the table and winces as the medic runs over and checks her.

 

Outside you can see your men are standing around the ferrari, pulling corpses out from under the car as you can see yakuza moving in the distance.

 

Your men are obviously antsy, wanting to move out but you can see that the enemy are splitting their forces, one half going to the nearby pool colp[lex the other going to the track field.

 

 

 

 

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THe arbiter presses, striking out and trying to bear you down, but every now and then googly flashes a tendril out as if attacking, causing the arbiter to jump back out of instinct to give you time to breathe.

 

 

his chest rises and falls as he glares at the girl who swings her legs only to run to her brother and rest her head on his coat.

 

"YOu are interfereing with a battle monster!"

 

he growls and points his weapon at the girl.

 

"I will see you punished!"

[Oce]

Sevatheda rolled her eyes when the arbiter took his eyes off of her, taking the time to alter her broken staff into a dual gauntlets, the right covering her fist as well. The inch long spikes formed along her knuckles while she swung her fist out towards his cheek, choosing to take advantage of his lack of focus. 

"You must have been terrible at multitasking," the albino clicked her tongue to add the metaphorical salt to his wounds, already lifting her left arm in anticipation of blocking a retaliation. 

[Armoured Priest]

He looked at Yukari on more time but with a softer look with a hand up. "Just stay here. Please." he said before leaving the clinic towards the rest of the squads. The yakuza split up to two groups and were going in different directions, making Orochi give a short breath through his nostrils with frustration. 'They couldn't just stay together and die in one convienent spot could they?' he thought to himself. "Form up and start heading to the field, if they're trying to encircle we're breaking that ring before it even form. Let's go everyone." He said, already leading them to their destination.

[Thugren]

your men move with practiced grace... But as you go to the field you see something. Something no one else sees.

 

 A single figure standing in an alley, he is in black clothes in the old yakuza tough guy style similar to kamui, but his face is obscured by a mask of a leering skull. Its eye is covered by a red scar and as you stop to look at him he meets your eyes , staring at you from two inky black wells.

The words- "God has forsaken us" and "King of salted earth " are on the sleeves of both of his arms

 

you hear a loud bang of gunfire to your right, tearing your focus away. You see your men have stopped an ambush

 

as you look back the figure is gone and your men are taking place, waiting for you to meet up with them.

 

 

 

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your blow collides with a sickening crunch, shattering the mans jaw and sending him tumbling head over hip across the room. HE lets out a groan of pain and gets ot his feet as kamui slaps the breaking wheel, sending it across the room and behind the artbiter ominously where it begins to make a terrible noise.

 

"SHould hurrt up and kill her arbiter.....The wheels firing up."

[Armoured Priest]

"What the hell?" Orochi said under his breath. Was that just a random guy that just got caught up in the whole raid thing they were doing, or was he with the guys that came to reinforce. He doubted that his was just coincidence, but the unknown man was gone before he realized it. With nothing to follow up on, the Commander went to meet up with the rest of his men, admonishing himself for getting distracted. "Report?" he asked the sergeant, surveying the destruction they have just done.

[Oce]

Sevatheda chuckled softly, passively watching the arbiter for half a second as he recoils from her blow and staggering back to his feet. The cracking of his jaw was satisfying, more so than the albino had expected. In the very least now he wouldn't be able to taunt the kid further. As his blood slowly dripped from her gauntlet, leaving a small trail as she closed the distance between herself and the injured arbiter. The small splotches of blood were a far cry from bread crumbs, but it was gorgeous against the cheap tiles underneath. 

She waited just long enough for him to stop wavering on his feet before she went for an uppercut, her smirk growing as she moved to step into his personal space, knowing that it would make things harder to retaliate. 

[Thugren]

you get there and find your men are trading gunfire with the local thugs.  Gunfire rakes across the bannisters and you can see your men moving quickly behind bleachers to get a firing line.

 

THe thugs are undiciplined and obviously have no leaders guiding them. Many are shooting but the shots are going wild, as f they are more afraid of the reprocussions of having missed the fight than actually wanting to fight.

 

"ENough!"

 

a voice from above calls, making everyone look upward to show the arbiter from before.

 

"WHo leads you remanants?"

 

she asks, and a young man, one obviously only given the rank becasue his superior had been killed walks forward.

 

"Me madam..."

 

the arbiter points to you easily signaling you out.

 

"Speak to him now...Negotiate surrender.... the other force needs to be crushed."

 

tyhe young man comes over and bows.

 

"What should i call you ...sir."

 

 

 

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your second blow lands with another sickening crunch, snaping the mans head back and knocking him flat, blood runs down his throat and face as he claws at his neck, trying toclear his throat to let air in and googy comes over.

 

"ooooo..Nice hit"

 

she says as she looks back at kamui who has his foot on the laughing wheel. The eyes of the skull on the side begin to glow and you can hear the sounds of scream, tortured and broken sounds of atrocities being commmitted.

 

"Well done CUjo.... "

 

kamui says calmly, removing a length of chain from the revving wheel.

 

"youve won.... im going to handle our friend here.... Do me a favor and head to the front.... The captured officals and prisoners should have been rounded up for judgement."

[Oce]

There was a soreness in her fists that Sevatheda wasn't overly familiar with. She rarely dappled in melee combat for a handful of reasons, the main one being that she simply wasn't built to outpower brawlers, or anyone really. Her frame was too lean, better geared for stealth and agility. She was just fortunate that she could still throw one hell of a punch, when assisted with a gauntlet. 

 

When she glanced at Googy with her usual passive smirk, she felt like she was humoring the girl when she replied with a certain smugness in her voice. "Why thank you, dear." Though when Kamui praised her, Sevatheda stiffened slightly, realizing that she had allowed her guard to slip down a little too much. While her opponent was downed and dying before her, she was far from alone and the arbiter speaking and the wheel.. screaming reminded her of that. 

 

The albino merely nodded at the orders, turning sharply on her heel and striding out of the door towards the front of the building, her gauntlets remaining even as blood dripped from the one on the right. She briefly wondered what exactly the torturous wheel was doing when it screamed like that. Obviously it was the essence of the wheel causing the noise rather than the woman herself. But... What was Sevatheda missing?

[Armoured Priest]

The Drachen commander bowed back to the younger man. "Dempsey is fine." Orochi told him, feeling as if anything else didn't seem right in the situation they were in, being a surrendering force that will only be for a temporary arrangement. "Come on, last we saw the other force they were heading to the pool complex. Come on, lets get this over with quickly." He said, gesturing his men to head out now as they were done here. He looked up to the Arbiter and gave her a thumbs up as both a thanks and a sign that they're good to go before turning around and keep up with his own soldiers, letting the man have command over the group of gangers so it was easier for everyone's sake for the time being.

[Thugren]

Googy follows silently, turning back to face the room as horrific screaming and the sound of ripping flesh and snapping bones fills the air. A visible shudder runs up her back as she continues to leave sighhing.

 

"Pandora is always so scary...I dont like her."

 

googy leads you outside and you see yuno tending to the men, patching up wounds as she rolls up her sleeves to keep from dirtying her clothes.

 

 

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The arbiter nods as the young man leads his forces after you, you get to the other force and immediately are forced behind cover. The yakuza street soldiers are behind cover and are firing from damaged bleachers and are easily keepign your men back.

 

"FUck.."

 

the young man says nerouvsly.

 

"THere has to be a way to get a jump on thm." 

[Oce]

Sevatheda's easy smirk tightened a bit as they left the room, catching the girl shudder in the corner of her eye. The kid was used to hearing screams like that- caused by herself no less, so it couldn't be that that was bothering her. Pandora was the embodiment of torture itself, and Seva knew that had to be the reason. Perhaps she was wrong earlier. The previous Cujos weren't afraid of a little pain; they were afraid of Pandora's strength and the source of it all. And if grown men were afraid of her, she wondered how much more intensely a child felt that fear. It didn't matter that Googy was fairly mature for her age and used to violence; Pandora was a thing of nightmares. Or so Sevatheda would assume based on the things that she had heard.

 

She gently rapped her knuckles against Googy's shoulder and offered what she hoped to be a comforting smile. She was impressed, after all, that the child managed to hold her composure until after they were out of the room.

[Armoured Priest]

"Hm, those look like they'll fall over to a stiff breeze." Orochi thought aloud, giving the bleachers a once over from where they were. Flames built up in one of his hands and around the arm as he focused the energy in a more dense ball than a usual, putting a free hand on the young man. "Stay here alright?" he said before getting up to move forward. Cupping the free hand over the ball of barely contained ball of combustion, he expanded it further and hurled the makeshift thermobaric bomb into the center of the bleacher structure to try to collapse the whole thing and burn the survivors out of their cover.

[Thugren]

googy says nothing as a figure at the end of the hall halts them. Yuno is there , her green yukata smudged with blood and her hands dirty.

 

"Madam mini cujo are you ok?"

 

she asks as she produces a small snack for googy which snaps her out of her rut immediately.

 

"CUjo the prisoners are rounded up....How do you want to proceed?"
 

she asks as the revving from the room grows louder and the hall begins to fill with a blakc mist.

 

 

 

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a hail of gunfire buffets orochi back, digging deep into his arms and side as the explosion is sent forward. The enemy isnt able to reac fast enough and the bomb detonates, going up in a plume of smoke and fire. Screams fill the air, ash begins to fall as you smell something odd. A loud snap from your right can be heard as you see a rutpured gas pipe leaking its conents into the air. One by one more pipes burs and begin to ignite as you see the pipe network begin to push upward, right under your peoples feet

[Armoured Priest]

"Worth." he said to himself, despite the multiple gunshot wounds he just received for his trouble. In his mind, the more bullets that headed in his direction, the less that went to those that were under him. But that was before the pipes began to ominiously bulge and then explode after the flames he had made began igniting them, heading towards his men because of course. "EVERYONE MOVE NOW, OUT OUT OUT!" He said, wasting no time and trying to get everyone out of the building before it all went off like a bomb. Orochi did always hated this damn school.