The villain headquarters would usually be located in a properly sinister location and look just the part - foreboding, merciless, harsh, or just plain nasty.
This was modern Japan however. Evil was currently wearing a tasteful olive Italian suit and sitting down at her desk going over reports from field operatives.
Evil was a middleaged Japanese businesswoman.
In the manner of most Ranma protaganists, she was a martial artist and fairly attractive as such things went. She routinely seduced maidens, played her little games of temptation into debauchery and things that were too nasty for even the typical Japanese to condone, before dumping the girl and moving on to the next after her life was well and truly ruined.
It wasn't that she hated women specifically. She simply hated. She preferred ruining men's lives through financial, psychological, or emotional means. Not that she didn't cripple a few sexually as well.
Her martial arts style? The dreaded art of the HellFist, a martial arts style developed by one of Happosai's seven siblings. Just as Happosai's style was based on Lust And Thievery, the HellFist was based on Hate And Suffering. It was not a quick-kill style, being developed to permanently cripple, scar, or break your opponent.
She thumbed an intercom. "Kejiro, explain your report."
Entering her office was a nervous little whippet of a man. "Just that. The manifestations have occurred in different places - though we have narrowed it down to somewhere in Nerima."
"Not good enough," she said coldly in response. "Someone is approaching mastery in the White Chi techniques. If this is allowed to continue, they might eventually pose a threat. Whereas if I possessed those secrets, I could become all the stronger."
Kejiro winced, hoping that she didn't want to practice poisoning or the Explosive Castration point. He'd seen the results of both around the office. If only he didn't have children who could be threatened, he could try to escape.
She considered the sweating sarariman for a moment, letting his nervousness and insecurities grow. "Use the Faceless. Strike every dojo in Nerima. A little strangeness in Nerima is normal and will be overlooked. Go. Your other duties will be suspended until you take care of this matter."
Kejiro practically fled.
The Faceless would destroy dojo after dojo and force the Masters to fight and thereby reveal if they were a chi master.
Then she could destroy that school in a way far more thorough than just defeating the dojo.
She sat back into her comfortable chair and got back to work. She still had a business to run after all.
After all, the Faceless were:
(Posted Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:49)
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