[X] "Who and where can I find the person who killed me?"
-[X] Try digging through the memories of the girls close to you for anything useful. Where you are, where you sister is, what the kicking girl's problem with you is, anything.
-[X] Be ready to burn through your restraints. If that fails, be ready to tear a hand off. That scar on your neck makes it seem like you lost your head once, you can probably stick a hand back on later
Last words. It didn't take you long then, huh? You shouldn't be surprised. Still you can't help but try and think of a way out of this one. On another hand, you wanted to know as well. These girls may have an idea given their present circumstances. They didn't seem to have any intention of letting you out but at the very least you needed to know.
You wanted to burn the memory of your killer in your mind.
Raising your head, you let out a shaky breath as you glared at your captors. You looked at Reika straight in the eye and asked her. Your voice remained in a low, threatening growl as you parted your lips to speak.
"Who and where can I find the person who killed me?" You asked her as you stared at her.
Reika narrowed her gaze as she stepped back.
You then looked at the girl beside you, "Or was it you?"
The girl who kicked you suddenly stepped away from you in alarm. She bared her saber in response as you looked into her very soul.
"Or maybe it was you?" You questioned the next girl holding the spotlight that shined down on you.
Reika took this chance to step forward and cut through your questions, "It wasn't us. Clearly we don't have anything more to discus-"
"This wouldn't have happened if I was killed," you continued as you met her gaze, "If I wasn't killed, my sister wouldn't have gone to such lengths. You seem to have a robust organization. Why didn't anyone help me? Why was I left to die? Was it by my own choice?"
"Sh-Shut up!" The saber girl behind you said as she grabbed you by the hair to slit your throat.
You couldn't help but smile-
It was a party. More like a victory party.
The captain stood beside you observing that upstart that defeated a Hybrid Witch and amassed a number of Seeds.
Your group was jealous of her. Of her radiance. She would have been better off dead. Even the leader took a liking to her and not only that allowed a civilian in headquarters.
You didn't approve.
The next day, that girl was found dead. Good riddance.
.....
The memory ended as Reika stopped the Saber girl from chopping your head off. You couldn't help but sigh in relief as you glanced at the captain. Reika turned to face you as you stared right back at her.
"Jealousy. But it wasn't her," you told Reika. You leaned closer to her face, "So maybe it was
you?"
"It was not me!" Reika snapped right back at you.
You fell silent as you watched her. Reika seemed to feel more vulnerable the longer she looked at you. She stepped back as you held your gaze. Her hands were trembling as she clenched them into fists.
"Then who was it? Because to me, it doesn't seem like that you don't want to tell me... But you don't know," you stated in your raspy voice. The girls all tensed in response as they looked at you, "Then that means... That killer is still at large."
"So what if she is?" Reika grimaced as she looked down on you.
"Then that means that the killing hasn't stopped. It may not be occurring in this city... But you're using this
Treaty as you call it as a pretense to silence me... Otherwise this Killer will come back to finish the job, or risk collateral damage," you explained as you shook your head. You gave them a firm look as you said, "You're all too cowardly to act."
Reika grit her teeth and grabbed you by the front of your clothes, "You have no idea what you're dealing with."
"How many died since my death?" You asked her with a calm tone. You narrowed your gaze as you looked into her eyes, "Are you just angry that out of all of them, the one you were jealous of was revived?"
"You..!" Reika snapped as she raised her hand to strike you.
However a voice stopped her from the other end of the room.
"Then why not send her to find our mystery assassin?" A woman's voice said as she stepped into the light.
A dark haired woman had her arms crossed as she approached you. The ember from her cigarette casting a small orange glow as she took the stick out and let out a small puff. She smiled at you while the other girls straightened up in her presence.
Reika eyed the newcomer warily before bowing respectfully, "Miss Sai. What do you mean by that?"
The older woman chose to ignore her junior and walk up to you. She took out the box of cigs she had and snuffed out the ember from her stick. You caught the smell of tobacco and it made you wrinkle your nose.
She reached out and grabbed you by the jaw, turning your head to and fro while inspecting you, "Impressive. You have to give it to the younger Uchida, she's just as talented as her sister was. Just in the wrong end of the spectrum, it's almost hilarious."
She let you go as she stepped back to look at Reika. The younger girl meeting her gaze with a steely look. The older woman couldn't help but chuckle.
"Why not take this as a chance. If you let our friend here go, we might just make headway in this little mystery," The woman named Sai suggested as she crossed her arms.
Reika tensed up at that and pointed out, "You would break the terms of our agreement with the other magical girls?"
"Well no one's getting hurt as long as it's under wraps, right? That's what you're all here for after all, to protect the integrity of our little club," Sai said as she crossed her arms. She smirked and jerked a hand at you, "And this little guinea pig is just our ticket."
"We are protecting the organization," Reika hotly replied but Sai simply rested her hand upon the younger girl's shoulder.
The woman leaned close to the girl's ear and spoke, "Three died this week just past our borders. They were ours. Now you can either nip all the buds you want or you start turning problems into solutions, the Leader won't be too happy if your performance continues."
Sai shoved her away before pulling out a knife and cutting through the air. The magical girls around you gasped at once when you found yourself freed of your restraints. You looked down your wrists before you raised your head to look at the other girls around you.
The older woman took their weakness and capitalized, "While you're here ganging up on a dead body, living and breathing girls are dying out there. So why don't you go out there and have a gander, yeah?"
"You can't just do this. She's a GriefBorne. She's a walking Nuke!" Reika snapped before Sai raised up a cellphone with a message. She read the text before gagging. Her words died in her throat while Sai simply smiled.
"The Boss is willing to overlook your initiative in abducting and punishing Miss Uchida without consulting the proper channels. In the event of rule breaking, there will be an appeals process and a subsequent tribunal. Only after then will punishments will be distributed," Sai smiled as she grabbed your arm to pull you up. Reika looked furious but stayed her hand as her comrades looked just about ready to silence the woman.
Reika looked between you and Said before snarling, "You... This isn't over."
You blinked in confusion before Sai dragged you away. The two of you moved from the room filled with magical girls to a staircase leading down the abandoned building. The musty smell lingered in the air as the sounds of traffic remained in your ears.
Sai only chose to spoke once you both reached ground level and walked out of the building. An empty car was waiting for you two which she proceeded to unlock with her keys.
"Well then, that was scary," she said as she glanced up the building and waved.
You looked up to see a few Magical Girls looking down on you both before Sai grabbed you and shoved you into the backseat. The door was shut behind you just as Sai stepped into the driver's seat and started the engine. The car moved before driving straight out of the compound.
"My sister... What about-" you started asking.
"She's safe. A friend bailed her out," Sai said as she drove into the streets and made a few turns.
You narrowed your gaze at her before speaking again, "Why? Why did you save me?"
"Let's be clear. It's for our benefit. You want to find your Killer, right?" Sai said as she kept her hands on the wheel.
"Yes. This can't be just a simple murder case. There's evidence that suggests that I've made quite a few enemies... Or at least the owner of this body did," you replied as you looked down your hands.
"You can see fragments of that girl's memories?" Sai asked with a curious tone.
"It's like watching a scene. I don't quite understand," you admitted as you shook your head.
"Well alright. Long and Short of it is that there's an Assassin on the loose. We don't know who or where she came from but she's been killing a bunch of powerful magical girls from different factions around Japan," Sai explained as you both saw a red light, the car slowing down to a halt. The woman glanced at you and added, "And tension between said factions are getting high. We might end up having a full scale war between the East and West. You getting me?"
"Yes. I understand as much," you said with a frown.
"And you just showed interest in catching the bitch. I'm willing on taking anyone on this shitshow so I might as well as pick you up," Sai said as she opened her wallet and showed you a picture.
You took the picture and inspected it. It showed a much younger Sai with you and your sister on the frame. You looked up from your seat as the woman stared at you from her rearview mirror. It seemed like the owner of this body had some sort of connection with this woman.
"Is this why you saved me?" You asked her.
"I owe Yukina as much. Your name is Uchida Yukina, Magical Girl of one year. You racked up a kill count of fifty Witches in your tenure before you joined the organization," Sai explained as she drove forward, "You then proceeded to climb up the ranks by eliminating Hybrids one after the other. You were a Hero."
A hero..? You?
You looked down your hand at the picture and at the reflection on the window. The resemblance was there but you couldn't say that the girl on the picture was you. She was bright and warm while you were... You weren't exactly that.
Hero
[] "I'm not a Hero. I don't feel like one. You must be mistaken."
[] "So you're intent on catching this Assassin in order to gain justice?"
[] "Where are we going? What's your plan now? How do we catch this Killer?"
[] "A war... Why would someone want that? That's horrible and no doubt pointless."
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