"...and so I reasoned that I should detonate the shoe lockers," Sousuke explained to Mao. "Unfortunately there was a civilian that apparently did not hear instructions to clear out. Injuries were, fortunately, minor and we left her in the care of her mother. The individual who tampered with the locker is still unknown."
"You blew up a civilian?" Mao asked, vaguely amused given the fact that it appeared the situation was resolved.
"Yes, one Eija Satomi," Sousuke said.
"Oh, one of the kids you asked the background check on?" Mao asked, a little more interested in that. "That means you had contact with her mother. Our suspected freelancer."
"Is she as hot as her picture?" Kurz asked.
"Yes, also..." and here Sousuke gritted his teeth for a moment. "...I believe that she may have recognized my purpose here in school."
Even Kurz turned a bit cautious at that.
"Are you sure about that?" Mao asked.
"This isn't some sort of paranoia, is it?" Kurz asked. "Like the plaster bust you shattered? Or the guy who couldn't hold a scalpel straight in biology class?"
"No, I am quite certain she knows what I am here for," the sergeant said. "She stated that if anything else threatened her children that 'the people responsible for each of us' would hear about it. If she assumed I was a normal high school student, wouldn't she have said 'parents' instead?"
"That is an odd phrasing," Mao said. "I guess we'll have to look into it."
"Don't worry, you have just the man for the job," Kurz said, smiling. "I'll have her wrapped around my finger and telling everything she knows before you know it."
The blonde sniper's grin could almost light up the room on its own, so brimming was it with confidence.
****
Sixteen hours later.
"Lesbian," a certain red-head said to a flabbergasted blonde smooth-talker, her hand held out in a stop gesture inches from his face. "Go away."
And then Ranma walked out of the supermarket, grumbling.
Over the radio, Kurz could hear Mao chortling hysterically.
"Laugh it up, Sergeant Major," Kurz said. "But who does this leave to figure out what she's doing?"
The laughing stopped.
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(Posted Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:06)
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