Terry sighed, as he pulled a flask with a certain suspicious yellowy liquid, which he promptly swallowed as if it were cough medicine. After curling his visage as if he had tasted something horrible, he looked at Mike, and then at the other contractor, and then his gun.
"The other one is dead. Shall we strike a deal with this one?" He added, tilting his head towards his partner, without bothering to put any sort of emotion whatsoever. If it had been himself alone, he would probably kill the both of them after questioning, but being among humans, even in this kind of situation, he had to abide by his customs.
Plus, he may have had an use for him still still...
"We may have to." Mike aimed the pistol at the downed Contractor. "Alright, you. Talk."
The wounded Contractor did not respond.
"We know that Meyer & Hilton kidnapped the girl after her father refused to hand over what he found in Hell's Gate." Mike knelt down and aimed the pistol at his right hand. "Do us a favor and do the rational thing here. Spill the beans since we got you cornered."
The Contractor stayed silent.
"Great." Mike groaned. "I needed to talk to the silent types."
Duo succeeded in killing the mercenary who knifed him in the shoulder. However, both vans got away with the men bleeding from their wounds. Yon could use her specters to track them down to the Shinonome area.
However, his witness had sustained another gunshot wound to the chest during the crossfire.
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Terry didn't say something. Instead, he frowned without having to feign it. "Contractors usually hate self-harm and are more cooperative than this. I wouldn't be surprised if he was waiting for more people to come here."
He knelt beside the man."So here's what I will do." The doctor's eyes glared red once again."I will eliminate you before Meyer & Hilton catches word of you and your dead comrade."He paused, his hand doing a slight brush against one of his wounds, a small necrotic pang of pain being sent forward."Unless you part with any information you have, in which case I may heal you just enough to act as a diversion for us. Only one option has you living. Struggling would be meaningless at this point. So, what will it be, fellow contractor?"
Luvina nodded, before standing up, before pocketing the prescription. She was about to walk away when she saw the doctor stretch out his hand to her. Realistically, the man hadn't provided her anything she couldn't have gotten herself. She could literally walk into a pharmacy and acquire tetrabenazine on her own, with very few people able to actually stop her.
Still, it didn't help her anymore to offend the man either. A Contractor might not care about things like a handshake, but a regular human would attach all kinds of extra meaning to the gesture.
She shook the man's hand, before giving him another nod.
Without anything further she turned and headed out the door.
Yon watched the final mercenaries escape, placing a hand on her bullet wound - a small trickle of blood met her long fingers, allowing her spectres to watch from their wounds. Clutching the visceral medium in her right she calmly retrieved her knives, wiping them clean on the shirts of the dead before returning them to her boots. Duo was also bleeding, she saw as she came closer, and the student witness was in a worse way than before, "The target went to Shinonome." She relayed to her partner, looking to the student impassively.
The Doll let her spectres scour the area, now bloody enough to gain a more in depth picture and found the violence extended to the other side of the playground. From the remaining, unboiled blood of the contractor she could see two men interrogating a third, "Three more, across. Two ASE." Yon spoke, waiting for instructions in her usual trance.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”"Okay, okay!" The wounded Contractor yelled out. "I'll give." He sighed. "We're hired to take the girl to the Shinonome area. They're in a warehouse. You can't miss it."
"Which warehouse?!" Mike pushed the Contractor down on the ground hard.
"It doesn't have any signs or ads at the front door! You can't miss it!"
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"Hrm." The doctor pondered upon hearing the other Contractor's answer. Had it been human, there would be subtle traces of emotion that could assess the fiability of the information. In the end he looked at his partner, and shrugged.
Red eyes glared as the doctor knelt. "Shoot him if he tries to do something funny." He recommended to his human comrade. If this had been between contractors only, he would not have hesitated digging the truth out of him, but appearances had to be kept when in teamwork, and if one's words could not be trusted, that would be an impediment.
So he decided to heal the other contractor's wounds to a point they would not bleed anymore, but would reopen if sudden action or movement was done. "And this is for your cooperation." He added, swiping some blood from his opponent's wounds with his fingers and then licking it and gulping. "Of course, this is far from throughout so don't overdo the first aid."
Yon almost looked confused by Duo's wound for moment, "I don't know." She said softly, her own wound slowly trickling blood down her arm and pooling into a cupped hand, "The vans are going to Shinonome... ASE are leaving now." She told her partner, hazel eyes far away. Unfortunately she couldn't drive, they hadn't given her enough programming for that.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”Duo would receive a SMS from The Syndicate agent, who now identified himself as Murasaki.
"Murasaki here. Got intel that the boys that held you up were hired by Meyer & Hilton as backup case someone wanted to poke their nose in it. Got a location on our targets."
An image file of the warehouse was sent to Duo's mobile, which was located near the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
building.
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Yon, after a moment, nodded to Duo and climbed into the passenger seat of the van. She made sure to place the safety on her guns and took the rifle from her back, placing it it back into her duffel bag for the time being. She didn't know what he meant by a 'new target' but she assumed they would have to drive there.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”Mike slowly crept to the entrance and sighted the marked patrol cars left untouched.
"Cover me. I need to get the keys to use one of these cruisers." Mike whispered to the doctor while he inspected the corpses of the police officers to determine if he can secure a keyfob. "Keep an eye out for anything unusual."
Yon looked down to the dried blood in her hands for a moment and brushed it off slowly, her spectres no longer stalking the dead and dying. However from the corner of her eye she caught movement in the direction of the marked police cars, a human figure though she couldn't make out any details. Presumably he hadn't noticed them attending to their van, thus not an immediate threat. When Duo was done tending his wounds she might mention it but for now simply waited and watched from the window.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”Mike was able to secure car keys from the corpse. It was car keys for one of the Toyta Crown squad cars left untouched.
"Got us keys. Let's move." He unlocked the door from the right side, given that it is a RHD car. Mike got inside and switched the engine on.
In a deserted parking lot near the abandoned warehouse, a man in his early 50s with a big nose, trench coat, Oxford shoes and a beret cap was seen smoking a Mile 7 cigarette.
"Damn. When are those reinforcements coming?"
Duo would get another SMS with the man's face on it, indicated to his be his next contact for the assault on the Meyer and Hilton hideout.
"All right, here we go."
Mike started the engine of the unused Toyota Crown squad car. He got a transmission from his earpiece from the ASE chopper that dropped him and the doctor off.
"This is Eye Sky." The pilot radioed to Mike via earpiece. "I've got ears on the route for you."
"I take it that you can help us with the location to Shinonome?"
"I do. Just head down the road and follow the signs. Just be warned that you shouldn't turn on the siren lights from that cruiser you got. We got word of another faction doing their thing in there."
Mike nodded and replied, "Roger, Eye Sky."
"Buckle your seat belt, doc. We're heading out." Mike told the doctor as he drove the squad car as fast as he could to their destination.
"Three way skirmish, huh." Terry commented out loud."This wasn't anticipated." He eyed Mike for a brief second, and pondered. It was no use withholding information any longer. "My contractor power only works on touch. I can also heal on touch, but I shall prioritize destruction of hostiles in order to avoid asset damage." The medic droned. "I will assume my emotions mimicry before engaging."
He paused. "Is that acceptable for you, Mike of ASE?" He asked.
The ride to Shinonome was less smooth and easy than to the bloodied playground due to Duo's shoulder affecting his driving. Nevertheless, he seemed a competent driver and Yon hadn't the programming to take over. A few errant specks of blood on the police cruiser told her others were on their way to the target, "Someone else is driving to the factory." The Doll commented, a few fingers to her again bleeding arm and eyes in the distance.
Once they arrived Yon would exit the van and wordlessly follow Duo to their next contact assuming no further issues on the way.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Duo dropped his rifle and drew his sidearm, bringing it under the chin of his attacker Duo began to rapidly pull the trigger, he was disoriented somewhat from the pain of the knife still being in his arm so he hoped that emptying the magazine would guarantee a kill.