It's already rapidly approaching sunset. You've lost count of the hours, but it's been definitely four or five hours since this all started. Assigned to kill a fellow Magical Girl that's been declared as a liability, you decided to talk to them, in person, at a place of their choosing. That turned out just as well as you'd hoped. A secondary murder attempt and a haphazard rearming later, you find out that your target has taken someone close to you - someone who, while you were asleep, told your would-be murderer that you were gunning for her.

And now you're here, to carry out what you've been told to do. A decommission. A retirement. Fancy-sounding words for an ugly job. Sure, you hated the person you're going to do it to, but it never fails to leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Because one day, it will happen to you. Not a question of if, but when, and who is sent after you.

Despite the fact that you're currently in a fiberglass-and-steel vertical tunnel heading to the roof of a skyscraper in ear-popping altitudes, you hear the faint chatter of both Sayaka and Misaka, in the building a couple of blocks away from the one you're in. They don't seem to be encountering any resistance, and you hear Sayaka cheerfully introduce Misaka as her younger sister. Cover story, probably. That's the thing you admire most about Sayaka - she can act like no one's business.

58, 59, 60. You feel the elevator slowly come to a halt as it reaches the top floor - the floor where the helipad should be. And if you played your cards right today, the place where a Magical Girl finally dies. You or Kirika, you're not particularly concerned who at the moment.

One of you. It's just the way it has to be.

The golden Desert Eagle snaps into your hand like it's the most natural thing in the world as the doors slide open.

Previously on Magical Girl Noir Quest:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Magical%20Girl%20Noir%20Quest

Cue music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omQ-7wZTXvI

>>19721553

You step out into the Helipad, your heels making sharp noises on the hard tarmac. You immediately see two people, right at the very center of the pad itself: Mami, bloodied but standing, a firm and resolute expression on her tearful face; and Kirika, behind her, arms crossed, a small smile on her face, pleased at some personal joke.

Her eyes are the darkest black you've ever seen. Darker than Pinky's.

And her smile is bloody.

"Salutations, Murderface." She calls as you approach. "It's nice of you to join us."

How do you respond? How do you react?

>>19721553

Keep our grip tight on the weapon and step forward, ready to meet our foe. We need to trust now that Misaka and Sayaka will be in position and ready to do their part when the opening comes. It's our job to create that opening. Kirika will be ready for us, so we should expect to be at the disadvantage. However, it's very possible that Kirika, given her particular contempt for us and our style of fighting, will indulge in some self-serving monologuing before attacking. We should draw it out as long as possible to give Misaka time to set up her shot.

Walk out cautiously and purposefully, and assess our surroundings as quickly as possible. We need to know exactly where and how to maneuver Kirika so that there won't be any obstruction between her cranium and the armor-piercing round coming to greet it.

>>19721618
This. Oh, and check discreetly if Sayaka and Misaka are in position.

Put the deagle away and get out one of our other guns.
Tell her to let Mami go since she isn't involved in this

Make sure Mami is ok then tell her to go back to HQ so she can get patched up if Kirika let's her go

We can have a chat with her about leaking info and such things later but right now we need to get her out of danger

>>19721611
Check Mami.

"Mami, are you alright?"

Focus on Kirika. Keep the golden desert eagle and get ready toss a flashbang and equip the AA-12.

"Let her go.".

>>19721618

We'll talk to Kirika until Mami is close, and in mid-sentence, signal Misaka to fire while throwing the flashbang.

>>19721611
Try to discreetly check if Misaka is ready to introduce her to the 20mm.

Get ready to use a flashbang and the AA-12, keep the deagle about.

Hey there Kirika, I'm here, one of us is going to die, would you mind letting Mami get out of the way, she isn't needed here any longer.

>>19721538

OOC: I thought we agreed to leave the gold Deagle alone after what happened last chapter. We don't want Pinky getting her claws into us any further than she already has.

>>19721713
We are going to try but it is one of those cursed items that will just keep turning up as we go for a gun

>>19721618
Second. Getting Mami out of the line if fire and out of here is our first priority, though.

>>19721713

As these quests go on I'm thinking it's a cursed weapon, like the kind you find in roguelikes.
> where's that scroll of identify

>>19721611
"Fuck you."
Drop the DEagle. Don't stash it, just drop it. Pull out something else.

OOC: We need to have a talk with Mami too if we survive all of this. I understand she doesn't want her friends to die but this Care Bear faggotry will end up getting all of us killed, and she needs to understand that.

>>19721720

So...we can use it like a (blunt) boomerang?

>>19721756
Yeah but we have to aid sure she is safe before we can have a talk with her.

We might be a bitch but we don't want our friends to get hurt ( there aren't enough of them to begin with ) and we want to keep our pancake supply safe

I don't think guns will be effective

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>>19721626
>>19721618

You step forward, slowly, deliberately, the Desert Eagle glinting heavily in your left hand as you make your way over to them - stopping just ten paces away from Mami, and twelve paces from Kirika. You realize with a small smile on your face that you could, in one moment, shoot the both of them before they could react. The range is short enough that their skulls will be pulped with the impact, their faces rendered unrecognizable.

Mami is the first to speak, and when she does, she is pleading. Begging.

"Chiaki-san, please."

She is in her Magical Girl costume - a costume that you've always thought looked especially nice on her, accentuating her curves, complimenting her colors. Her Soul Gem gleaming by her ear,pinned next to her beret.

Her voice is quivering as she begs you to do the impossible.

"You don't have to do this. L-let Kirika-san go, please. She won't hurt anyone else. Just let her go - Kyuubey doesn't need to know. He won't find out. He'll never find out. I'll...I'll take full responsibility for it! No one has to die here, Chiaki-san! Please! Let Kirika go! For me!"

The Desert Eagle seems to twitch in your grasp. Or is it your own hand twitching?

>>19721926
You know I can't do that. I may be a killer but Kirika is a mad dog, she'll never stop killing people, she needs to be put down.

Get out of the way Mami, get somewhere safe.

"Give it up, Mami-chan. It's impossible." Kirika says from behind the blonde, smiling her shark's smile. "Do you think she'll actually listen? We don't know if she's even sober enough to actually comprehend what you're saying. Look at her." She gestures to you. "She probably doesn't even know where she is, right now. Do you really think someone like her could understand?"

"N-no," Mami murmurs, seemingly rooted to the spot, unable to turn towards Kirika. "I...I trust Chiaki-san. With my life. She'll listen to me..."

You watch this play out in silence, before murmuring quietly into your headset's microphone.

"Misaka is ready," You hear the arms dealer whisper, a tinny voice in your ear. "Misaka has Kirika in her sights, but Mami-san is too close. You have to get her away from Kirika-san..."

A crackle. "Jesus Christ, Murderface. You should see how big this goddamn thing is. It's--"

"Chiaki-san? Are you listening?" Mami is crying now. "I...I told Kirika. I told her when I saw your dossier. I didn't want to lose either of you, and...j-just please, let her go. She's not going to bother anyone else. Please..."

"Kill them." Another voice, a third voice, whispers in your ear, hissing like a snake. "Kill them, Homura-chan. Make this easier on yourself. Kill them both."

You're not sure if it's Pinky, or just your imagination, picking out words in the static. Either way...

How do you proceed?

>>19721945
This.

Then grin to the mad magical girl. "Remember the prediction ? Remember the number on this gun ? Tomorrow I will live, and you won't be alive anymore.". That will maybe destabilize her.

>>19721926

Check their soul gems for corruption.

Why aren't we losing the damn desert eagle yet? Take a deep breath. Resist mental compulsion. Drop it. NOW. And use the AA-12 instead.

"That depends on Kirika."

>>19721948
I am starting to think that killing Kirika is a bad idea

>>19721948
Flashbang, time stop, grab Mami and pop out, then have Misaka cripple Kirika.

>>19721948
Toss the fucking deagle either in the shield or off the roof but either way get it out of our hand.

Tell Mami to go. We can't have her hurt due to us, then turn to Kirika and ask if she is sure she wants to go this way because we aren't dying here today

>>19721948
"Mami, I'd be more incline to listen if you hadn't betrayed me. You could have at least warned me that she knew." Raise the gun, point it at Mami.
"You're a liability. Aside from your fucking glorious pancakes, give me a reason not to pull the trigger, right. Now."
If we hear Misaka fire over the mic, timestop and pull Mami away, and fire at locations Kirika is likely to dodge.

>>19722007
Don't. That makes it seem like we are even more unstable then we already are given that we just pulled a gun on Sayaka before coming up here.

>>19721948

Stop listening to Pinky. It's the booze talking. It's a fallen angel. It's the final revenge of painkillers. We are our own woman. We fight on our own terms. We /kill/ on our own terms.

Reach down, reach for our bottomless ewer of antipathy and rage. Every slight and every wrong, every person we had to see die, by the hands of another or our own. Feel out the insinuating influence. Then drown it.

Drop. That. Fucking. Gun.

>>19721963
>The prophecy is coming true
As Guts, Kamina, and any other badass would say
Fuck the prophecy we make our own destiny
>>19722041
This

>>19721662 >>19722005 >>19722041

You glance down at the Desert Eagle in your hand. You're gripping it tightly enough for the grip's texture to imprint itself onto your palm, tight enough for your knuckles to burn white with the strain. Your index finger impatiently tapping against the trigger, like a persistent spasm.

You close your eyes briefly.

One by one, you feel your fingers uncurling from the grip. Each one relaxing.

Nothing is compelling you to hold it, you tell yourself. Nothing. No one. Not even the pink-haired girl from your nightmares.

You open your eyes as you hear the dull thud - followed by a sharp clatter - as the
Desert Eagle falls from your hand.

"Murderface, did you just--" You hear Sayaka snap at you from your headset.

"I can't."

It's the first words you utter ever since you've stepped into this nightmare. You are slightly horrified to hear how dry your throat is, and how gravelly your voice sounds like in this eerie silence. Mami blinks at you, eyes widening, tears streaking down her cheeks as you refuse her the one thing you cannot give her. You would give everything else for her, you know - just as she would have.

"Why?" Is all she asks, tearful, heartbroken. Disappointed in you. As if you could have said anything else. As if you could have been anything else than worthless.

>>19722275
"Pancakes."

>>19722275
Because it needs to be done. I'm sorry.

You could answer her. You could convince her. That her friend behind her is unstable, a danger to herself and others. She is unpredictable, a maniac psycho-killer that kills as easily as she breathes. She does not care who she kills, so long as she does. Being paid for it is a bonus.

You could make that case against Kirika.

Knowing full well, of course, that you've made that same case against yourself, too.

"I told you, Mami-chan." Kirika's smile grows wider. "See? She refuses, but she can't tell you why. Why so, indeed? Is it simply your dedication to your job, Murderface - or Chiaki Matsuda, whatever the hell you call yourself now? Is it loyalty to the Incubator, who sends girls to do his own dirty work for him?" Kirika one-handedly draws her weapon - a brilliant, shining blade of gold, gleaming where the dying sunlight hits it. "Or is it simply because you cannot bear to let someone like yourself live and have her own happy ending? Like some sort of misguided penance, like you don't deserve it."

Kirika cackles at this. In a voice not entirely of her own. A harsh, grating cackle, not at all like her smooth, dulcet tones.

"No. No, I don't...no, Chiaki-san. You wouldn't do that." Mami shakes her head weakly. "I know you. You're...you're better than this! Just let her go, please--"

>>19722364

Mami's eyes grow wide, suddenly, as a brilliant crimson lower erupts right in the middle of her chest. A sliver of golden light stabbing forth from the rapidly-expanding flower of blood, piercing her uniform's ribbon at the very center, undoing it, letting the length of yellow cloth fall downwards.

"C-Chiaki...san..."

There's a liquid sound - and blood hissing as it splatters on the hot tarmac - as Kirika tears her sword away from Mami, the sunlight on the blade turning the bloodstains an ugly black. Mami's own form jerks back at the sudden movement, before crumpling into the floor, limp, a puppet with its strings cut.

"No more babbling." Kirika laughs as she licks Mami's blood from the sword. "Come on, Murderface. Time for that retirement."

Your entire being screams at you to pick up your gun. This you ignore.

You're much too angry for that, now.

The loaded AA-12's bulk falls heavily in your hands just as Kirika charges you.

What do you do?

>>19722377
"Nobody messes with my pancakes, Bitch."

Circlestrafe, keep firing the shotgun at her, don't let her get close.

>>19722377
She killed Mami! Shoot her down!

>>19722377
Time Stop.
Empty an entire drum magazine in front of Kirika.
Throw in a flashbang for good measure.

Then go and pick up Mami's body and her Soul Gem, and get them to cover and safety.

>>19722377
Yell "Mission, execute!" Begin pumping buckshot towards her. Timestop once she crosses half the distance,

>>19722390

If we time stop, pin a few grenades on Kirika's person (preferably on her legs). Then get Mami & her soul gem the hell away from there.

>>19722377

Sayaka warned us about this, didn't she, when Kirika would try to charge us? Let reason and reflex kick in for now, there will be time to grieve and rage later. Step aside, to her main-hand side in order to avoid both the impaling charge and any swing she might take at us. Get out of her way. Misaka has a split second to lead her and blow a new cavity through her chest if we're lucky. If not, open up on Kirika as she recovers from her momentum and put her down for good.

>>19722390
This.

>>19722377
Dodge her charge, then timestop and shoot all the bullets.

>>19722377
Jump out of the way of her charge, listen to Sayaka's advice.

While doing so Time Stop, we've got 32 rounds in the AA-12, we're going to use all of them. Focus on taking out her legs to turn her into an easy target for Misaka, but don't ignore the rest of her. Leave a pile of cooked grenades right in front of her, flashbangs in front of her eyes, frags by her limbs and so on.

Get to Mami and move her out of there.

>>19722377
Dodge the charge. Sayaka warned you about it, she might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but when it comes to melee she knows her business.
Keep calm. As much as you can at least.
Keep your distance and keep your eyes at her.

does spiderchan just not find these thread? fuck my life

>>19721948
haha, seeing a 7 foot rifle for the first time would blow my mind too

>>19722377
hostage is down, fire the 20mm

dodge the charge if she lives and pump her full of buckshot

>>19722465
>haha, seeing a 7 foot rifle for the first time would blow my mind too
it gets even more hilarious when taken out of context

Stop time and unload into that whore.

Let's make her into Rin to go with Emi

Then go help our friend and pancake dealer. See if we can get her healed

This, >>19722503 after we dodge the charge.

>>19722503
We should avoid timestopping unless she's in out face

pink is sure to be here, doing whatever it is she does.

she probably feeds off the violence

>>19722377
Dodge-shoot to the right, like Sayaka hinted. It's max payne time.

"Maybe we-"

Give the signal to Misaka.

"-can schedule that later."

We should probably give a "Man Down" over the radio

>>19722519
She's charging from 12 paces way, for a skilled swordsman who's as fast as she is, that is in our face.

>>19722589
12-foot rule, aye

>>19722600
If you are speaking of the Tueler principal, it is 21 feet and refers to the time it takes to draw and put the first round on target. and the time it takes to get within contact range (approximately at parity at that range)

>>19722624
Except she can slow time and move faster than most people even without that

>>19722624
Whatever the rule says, I don't think it applies to Magical Girls with time manipulation powers.

>>19722624
A pace is usually considered around 2 to 2.5 feet long, so she's about 30 feet, but add in that she's a Magical Girl, which means she's way faster than normal, and that she has time slowing powers, it still counts as in our face.

>>19722411 >>19722390 >>19722385

The shield on your arm - the device that stops time itself around you - is behaving strangely. It's clicking, as always, and you feel it grow warmer with each passing second - but there's something strange in the way it clicks. Like the gears are catching against something, unable to function.

You'd have thought this strange, of course, if you weren't busy at the moment, snarling an oath at the cackling, black-garbed form of Kirika Kure as you roll to the side to dodge her just as she comes charging past - and it's then, on one knee, you start unloading at her general direction. Pulling the trigger far enough and hard enough that you're pressing it into the grip.

The first shot takes Kirika by complete surprise as it slams right into her back, tearing into her uniform, tearing into flesh, and blasting her across the helipad. She manages to right herself in mid-air a split-second after, and you're shown just how quick and slippery the cackling bitch can get with her time dilation ability as you try to track her, firing all the while.

It's difficult. She phases out of reality one moment, phasing in the next. Like an animation with some of its frames missing in between, her motion is incomplete, jumping and then landing in two places while being non-existent in between.It's her time dilation ability, working to her favor. Kirika is not giving you any time to activate your Time Stop, either - she's sticking close to you, making you move, making you dodge, making you react instantly just as you strive to blast her full of holes. She cackles as she hears your drum magazine click empty, and you curse as you let it drop and shove the other one in.

>>19722652
Nope. Though it would be pretty damn funny asking someone like Masad Ayoob for his thoughts on this upcoming fight.

>>19722710
Ah crap. Pinky must be interfering with our Time Stop.

We should probably use a flashbang now while warning Misaka so she doesn't get blinded.

>>19722710
Whatever we do, we need to avoid using explosives or spraying bullets randomly.
We could end up damaging Mami's Soul Gem if we do.

>>19722748
This. Getting her to stop long enough for Misaka to put a hole in her would be nice.

>>19722785
Aye, we can't have that happen.

>>19722748
Or it hasn't cooled down from last time we used it. We don't actually know how often / long we can use it

We did push it to the limit when we were talking to Pinky earlier on after all

>>19722710
normally, I would say go full Danmaku on her, but I think we might hit delicious pancake maker more than stabby bitch. Throw some flashbangs to get her to stop moving, have overwatch take the shot

>>19722809
Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised if Pinky's bullshit was fucking with it.

>>19722814
Can we get Mami behind us so we CAN go all out Danmaku?

>>19722710
Flashbang, then reload.

>>19722831
She's dead bro.
Well, her body is.

>>19722843
But her Soul Gem is intact, and that's what we need to protect.

Making sure that Kirika isn't near Mami when Misaka takes the shot, or us covering Mami's body and Soul Gem when Misaka fires, is probably what we should aim for.

>>19722843
We can get that fixed. That's sort of the point of soul gems anyway. Kyuubey or someone will be able to patch her up and flip her back on

>>19722710
even at 1/10th time dilation, overwatch bullets would still travel ~260 feet a second.

so, get pancake maker behind us and fire more sparingly.

>>19722710

You roll to the side once more as she lunges toward you in mid-reload, barely dodging a golden pig-sticker aiming to seperate your head from your shoulders. You scramble to your feet, desperate to increase the distance between the both of you. Kirika laughs again, a demon's laugh, as she saunters slowly toward your direction.

Her eyes shining wetly with black, tarry blood.

"I have tasted the flesh of fallen angels, Murderface." She grins, licking her bloody teeth. "I've tasted the Devil's sweet blood. It runs in my veins."

She steps over Mami's prone body, on top of the puddle of scarlet expanding underneath the girl who smiled at you and baked you pancakes whenever you asked her to.

"I've seen beyond the world of skin and flesh, the architecture of blood and bone marrow. Death...death is coming, Murderface, and hell follows with her."

Shut up, you scream at her. Shut up, you crazy, murdering bitch. The words have barely left your own lips as you raise your shotgun again, intent on ventilating her - when you feel a horrifically cold sensation on your right arm.

You look down, and realize you don't have a right arm anymore. Cut neatly above the elbow, your shield clattering on the ground. Joining your dismembered limb on the tarmac, your soul gem still firmly planted on the back of your hand.

>>19722869
Aww shit.

>>19722869

Dimly, you hear Sayaka and Misaka arguing over the headset, panicking, the faint patter of gunshots in the background. At the same time, you feel your own blood dripping down your side, your skirt, into your stockings.

You fall forward. First on your knees, and then on your one remaining hand. The AA-12 falling around your feet in two distinct pieces.

You never even saw her coming.

"This is the twilight winter, Murderface. I am ready to be her herald." Kirika's voice is the only thing you can hear now, above your own pounding heartbeat. "Her time is now, and all who stands in her way...must die."

You feel shock settling in, with adrenalin pumping hard in your veins.

The Golden Desert Eagle glowing brightly, on the tarmac, no more than six paces away from you. Kirika is approaching from behind, evidently moving for the kill.

What do you do?

>>19722869
I leave you people for an hour and this happens

>>19722869
WELP

Its either overwatch saves or our doom.

>Captcha
>Among testes
Wat

>>19722883
We will not use that thing

>>19722883
fuck

fuck shit balls

die or use the deagle, not cool

We have like 20 seconds, unless we can use the shield while it not attached to us we have to use the deagle

>>19722883
grab it and fire.

I'll take a deal with the devil over certain death any day of the week. Iori is expecting us home before supper after all

>>19722883
Go for the DEagle. The girl with the VIII weapon has to kill her, right? Presumably with the deagle.

"I am the wolf."

And blow her fucking head off.

>>19722883
Don't fall for that golden gun. We're better then that. Even if we are going to die, we were prepared for that before.

We look at her and smile. She's gloating. Standing still.

We win.

>>19722883
reach over to our severed arm and timestop.

>>19722883

i really do not want to pick up the GDeagle, do we have any other options?

>>19722883
We still have our knife in our ankle holster.

Draw it, and throw it at Kirika. Tell Misaka to take the shot.

>>19722883

Six paces is too far for us to crawl before Kirika, unwinded as she is, merely lunges forward and finishes us. Sayaka and Misaka seem to have problems of their own now, with nothing to stop Kirika's inevitable advance towards us. But we do have a weapon even without our shield, don't we?

Draw the knife from our boot, flip over, and throw it straight for her heart.

>>19722883
Wait, is our soul gem far away?

If so, then go kamikazi on the psycho. Take all our grenades(or any explosives), prime them while the bitch is coming from behind, then embrace her.

>>19722883
Wait for her to strike, then grab the hand holding the blade and call for Misaka to snipe the fucker while she's disabled.

>>19722914

There's gunshots in the background and Misaka & Sayaka arguing. It may be possible that they're getting swarmed by Yakuza or other hostile forces.

>>19722883

Fuck this shit. Grab it by the barrel and lob it at her.

>>19722883
We don't really have a choice, our Overwatch is compromised, fuck you Sayaka by the way you were supposed to keep Misaka free to take the shot, we can't use timestop or retrieve more weapons quickly enough with our arm off. Get the Deagle, ventilate the bitch.

>>19722883
Mule kick when she's close. She thinks we're down, she's gonna want to savor this.

>>19722930
we have golf clubs

>>19722883

are those fucking yakuza ambushing our backup?

we still have the knife.

>>19722883
Don't fall for it, leave the gun.
Violently throw ourselves into her.

Fuck Pinky.

>>19722914
This.
Kirika has just made the biggest mistake possible, Misaka is the best sniper Kyuubey has and she is slowly walking in a straight line towards us with no interference.

She is about the get a 20mm lead aspirin

>>19722949
we're going to pass out in 20 seconds max from blood loss

I doubt we'll be able to stand by the time she waddles to use

>>19722883
Ask her why she didn't kill us back at the bar.

>>19722967
We are a magical girl lich though. We may well be able to hold out longer than that

>>19722883
"Yippie kai yay, Misaka."

Prime flashbang. Don't touch that deagle.

>>19722963
>>19722914
Misaka's position is compromised, though. They're currently under attack by Yakuza and Sayaka is being a worthless bitch like always.

>>19722973
This might get us a few extra seconds, maybe enough time for Misaka to ready the Anzio again and take the shot. At the least, it'll give us time to get our knife.

if overwatch is being ambush I'm gonna say I said they should have been farther away

>>19722981

We do keep stuff that's not in the shield, right? Right?

> This is what happens when you don't get Misaka to shoot first.
> Oh shit, we dead now.

>>19723004
Knife on our leg iirc.

>>19722912
This.

We'll deal with whatever comes of it when it does.

>>19723004
It's a fine question, as to how the inventory system works, if it requires our shield or not.

>>19723004
>>19722993
I trust Misaka to pull through. They can put us back together so long as our soul gem is alright, can't they? So no worries, our arm's a few metres away, it's not in the way.

Fuck it, grab the gun, use it, shove it back into the shield.

Get the deagle. Our immortal soul and sanity can go fuck themselves, she killed Mami.

>>19723014
Use our Knife then

>>19722998
This is Kirika's final showdown.
Its not surprising if she pulled out all stops and asked her yakuza friends to set ambushes on ALL possible overwatch positions

>>19723016
>>19723026
>>19723031
I suggest we put that on back-up plan. Misaka still has the time to shoot.

Besides, if shit goes south, we can still
a) knife, claws and bite.
b) Ram her off the roof.

>>19723031
Pancakes isn't dead until her soul gem shatters, it hasn't happened yet.

>>19723025

There's nothing guaranteeing that Kirika *won't* go for our soul gem except for us. Unless she's just sadistic like that in her current state.

>>19723023
The capital I Inventory is accessed through the shield. Afaik the only thing we have on our person is the knife in the boot.
>>19723031
Well, disabled her body at least.

>>19723031
>>19723026
If we use the deagle I'm betting we'll kill Mami.

Remember it's whispering kill them both

throw the knife, hope for overwatch

>>19723041
she has magic claws and the sword. we're missing an arm

melee is a no go

>>19723041
>b) Ram her off the roof.
Oh shit, she cut our arm off. Our Soul Gem is safely here on the roof.
Even if we go over the edge, taking Kirika's Soul Gem with us, we won't be permanently dead because our Soul Gem will be intact.

>>19723063
This. Fucking awesome.

>>19723050
She seems pretty fucking sadistic like this given last time she decided to take one stab at us, taunt then run

Oh god

Yeah, try to keep her distracted and away from our soul gem- granted, that probably won't matter if she lops our head off.

>>19723063
Aye, exactly. She's lowered her guard, just a bit. Maybe time it with the shot that may or may not come?

Pity we cant use the grenades. Now is a good time for some ALLAH ACKBAR

>>19722883

No, wait!

"Kill me, and you'll never know what happened to Oriko." Bluff, get us time to flash her.

Whisper, "Now, Misaka, fucking now!"

>>19723063
If there is any chance we can do this, do it. It's just too delicious not to do.

>>19723089
>>19723051

Fuck, combine the two. Bluff her with Oriko and ram her off the roof with the knife.

Misaka might save us, but Sayaka's not as fucking effective as we thought.

>>19723063
Okay yeah this is great. Let's do this.

We're going to have to lecture Sayaka when this is over.

>>19723109
What for? She actually sat down shut up and did her job as far as we know

>>19723102
Okay, do this. I like the sound of this plan.

I think the main problem is that we havn't had anything to drink in the last 8 or so hours. That's just wrong.

>>19723114
If she was doing her job correctly the men who are shooting at Misaka would be bloody smears on the ground before they got a single shot off.

>>19722932 >>19722930 >>19722928
>>19722918

You find yourself being strangely calm and peaceful as you continue to bleed out on the tarmac. The Golden Desert Eagle still calling out to you, begging you to use it, to save yourself.

You ignore it. It's not worth it, not even now.

You're still angry, of course. You're still angry at just how badly you've screwed this one up. You're angry that an uppity little bitch like Kirika Kure managed to get the better of you, even spouting that crazy monkey talk direct from your nightmares. You're angry that you let a hallucination get under your skin, making you doubt the very skills that have seen you through worse. And more, still, you're angry at yourself for letting Mami get hurt.

Gritting your teeth, you lean forward, grinding your forehead into the hot tarmac, using it to support you as you reach back for the combat knife strapped to your ankle.

Funnily enough, it seems that Kirika has walked around you to face your front. Gloating long enough to mistake your awkward last attempts at setting things right for abasing yourself to her, to beg for mercy.

"No need for that, Murderface. I'm not in the business of granting you any." Kirika licks her teeth again, a rasping noise. "But I've always thought that groveling fits you."

You have ten seconds of consciousness left.

The knife comes away easily from its sheath, and you hide your smile.

You only need three.

The first is for you to spring forward with the last of what you have left. Your heels finding easy purchase on the cracked tarmac, you lunge right for Kirika, catching her immediately off-guard as you all but crash into her. The second is for you to stab your combat knife, held in a reverse grip, right in the middle of her chest - right where she stuck Mami from behind like the coward she was.

>>19723102
Make sure we scream, "DDDDDAAAAAMMMMMMIIIIIIITTTTTTT, SSSAAAAAYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

As we fall to our death(?).
> mfw Didn't pack a parachute.

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>>19723102
This plan! SO MUCH THIS PLAN!

"Wanna see if that flesh of those fallen angels of yours actually gives you wings?"

Golden Deagles, not even once.

>>19723143

Smile at Mami as we take her off the roof.

>>19723146
>mfw Didn't pack a parachute.
And you know the infuriating thing? I remembered to list it as one of the things to get, since we're going to be fighting on the roof of a skyscraper. But it got drowned out in getting guns.

>>19723146
>>19723169
We won't die because our soul gem is still on the roof on the severed right hand. That said, falling 60 stories and hitting pavement is probably going to hurt like a bitch.

>>19723143
we didn't stab her hands

we're fucked

>>19723159
Yes. Yes. Say this.

>>19723143

The third is for you to scream into your headset's microphone - as Kirika stumbles backward, stunned from the knife sticking out of her sternum, right into her spine, making it difficult for her to breath - for Misaka to take the shot, just as you fall back onto the floor.

You hear Misaka crying out your name over the channel just as the Anzio's thunderous discharge blots out everything. A moment later, you hear the exact same report - only this time, it's followed with a wet, crunching explosion, and the sensation of a warm sticky mist settling onto your skin.

Propping yourself up by your one remaining arm, you open your eyes. Seeing nothing but rivulets of blood misting your glasses.

Oh, and the bottom half of Kirika's corpse, standing for just a moment before falling back onto the tarmac.

"Nice shot." You murmur into your headset, before closing your eyes as you lie back down.

You are Chiaki Matsuda, and you're very tired.

>>19723159
DOEEEET

>>19723143

Thanks for giving us a hand, Kirika.

Augh, the puns. They hurt.

>>19723202
Heart shot. It will put her out of commission just like it did when she stabbed Mami

>>19723217
Crawl to Mami, apologize and pass out

>>19723217
Yeah! Mission complete.

Time to get smashed.

>>19723217
Good, that settles that.
Look for her soul gem.

There is still the chance that it survived the blast. Best be safe than sorry.

After that, check on Mami. This is not going to go well for her.

>>19723217
>mist

say that's what you get for bring a sword to a gunfight bitch

then this >>19723230

>>19723217
One last thing left to do. Go over to Mami, make sure her Soul Gem is alright.

We still have a Grief Seed left if we need to cleanse her Soul Gem.
THEN we can pass out.

>>19723217
Fuck is that a knife or a machete?
Sternum to spine is a decent depth

>>19723238
And once we get back, get a crateful of gin, the strongest they have.

>>19723232
What we say to Mami is, "Now you know why it had to happen. I'm sorry."

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>>19723217
>You are Chiaki Matsuda, and you're very tired.

No fucking time to rest! Crawl over to Mami.

>>19723245
oversized bowie knife

>>19723217
First confirm the kill, make sure her soul gem is utterly destroyed.

Second grab our arm and keep it close.

Third get to Mami and apologize, ask if she'll still make us pancakes tomorrow. Make sure her soul gem is alright.

Fourth get some fucking sleep.

I'm pretty sure we ran out of blood here guys... I don't think we'll be taking any actions for a bit. We should just focus on replenishing our liquids, as it were.

You all seem to forget we're going to pass out in less than 7 seconds.

We should make sure Mami doesn't flip the fuck out. In the anime when she realized that magical girls were basically liches destined to fall into despair and become witches she went crazy and killed Kyoko before trying to kill the rest of the girls before offing herself.

>>19723260
Second. Just because we're bone-tired and bleeding out, doesn't mean we can leave a job half-done.
We're a Magical Lich Girl, after all.

>>19723264
it's magic, we're talking to panckes

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>>19723264
>Fuck Liquids
>Acquire Mami

>>19723270
Psh, naw. We don't even need seven seconds to do this shit.

>>19723264
Pancakes > human limitations

>>19723260

Also get Sayaka and Misaka to get our asses out of here. I hope they're not dead.

>>19723280
It's girl-on-girl. Both of those are implied.

And now
>NEXT TIME

You all know it's a good time for it.

need to crawl over to mami if at all possible and grab her hand, this isn't a suggestion this is necessity.

If there's anyone nearby still conscious, we should make "need a hand" jokes with our severed arm.

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>>19723298

UUUUDZ!

>>19723298
We're only at 168 posts, I think we can get to another UNTIL NEXT TIME good point. I hope.

>>19723318
Someone had to say it. I volunteered

>>19723318
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0y0On8ZGQ

>>19723272
>Mami... went crazy and killed Kyoko before trying to kill the rest of the girls before offing herself.
Actually, Madoka killed her in that one timeline.

It certainly didn't feel like you closed your eyes for longer than a few seconds, but when you open them, you notice that you're looking up at the star-filled night sky.

Well. You would be, if it weren't for Kyuubey's stupid face blocking your view. In fact, he's almost nose to nose with you, as if trying to peer into your soul.

"Ah, good. You're finally awake." His irritating voice stabbing into your mind is...well, irritating. "I should remind you, Matsuda, that sleeping on the job is not all that professional. But I'll look the other way this instance, considering the circumstances."

Stupid asshole bastard cat, you ought to -- wait, what's this? What the hell is he doing here? And why does it feel like your head is resting on something really soft and warm, just like your favorite chair?

You look around as well as you could, and you realize that you're not alone in the Helipad any longer. A rescue helicopter is cooling its rotors a few ways from you. You spy Kyoko fussing over Sayaka, the latter peppered with bandages and gauze. Misaka is the same thing, but she seems to be talking animatedly about things exploding. You see Mami lying strapped onto a stretcher, seemingly conscious, but hooked up to an oxygen mask. She sees you looking at her, and she turns away.

This is...all well and good, but it doesn't explain--

You hear sniffling and sobbing above you, and you crane your neck upwards, as painful as it felt.

You manage to see no one else but Iori looking down at you, dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief. Your head, it seems, is pillowed on your thighs.

You try to frame the obvious questions, but you can't seem to bring them into words at the moment.

>>19723299
feebly swipe at the cat

ask about Mami

when did lori get here?

>>19723349
What I meant was that Mami killed Kyoko and tried to kill the rest of the girls before Madoka stopped her. But nevertheless, we need to make sure this Mami doesn't lose it as she'll probably be wondering how she survived getting impaled.

>>19723352
"Got a smoke?"

>>19723352

"She insisted. And yes, she can see me, for some reason." Kyuubey glances down at you, before shaking its head. "Nearly kicked me into oncoming traffic when she heard me talk. Anyway, congratulations on your assignment. Kirika Kure has been retired from this agency." The mutant cat nods, satisfied. "We'll have your arm reattached in a few days. In the meantime, your bonus has been wired to your account."

"This...this is what you really do?" Iori murmurs down at you, still tearful. "Being...a magical girl?"

Kyuubey stares at Iori, before shaking his head and turning away. "I'll...see about Kirika Kure's remains. Stay right here. Minase Iori, make sure Matsuda doesn't move around too much, or she'll tear her bandages open."

The Incubator leaves in a huff, leaving you alone with Iori.

How do you respond?

>>19723352
We know what started this shit; the golden weapons. This is a case of "when in trouble, disclose on the double." No matter how much we loathe QB, they've got better intel than us. We know the golden gun is fucking us and our shield is messing up. We keep this silent and it gets worse we're looking at being on the wrong side of that sniper rifle next time.

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>You try to frame the obvious questions

"I feel like I`m short on hands. Do you see an arm laying around here somwhere?" "

>>19723380
>Nearly kicked me into oncoming traffic when she heard me talk
she heard me talk
Good on her. Make sure she doesn't get any stupid ideas about becoming a magical girl to help us.

>>19723380
So you took my advice on what to do if you saw that little shit, good girl.

>>19723375
I think she would know about it in this setting. We have had things like Emi turning up after all

>>19723380

"Could you give me a hand here? I seem to have misplaced mine."

We have been waiting to use that since FOREVER.

>>19723380
"I guess there's no hiding it, is there? Fine.

"Yes, that is what I've been doing all this time."

>>19723391
holy shit someone agrees with me

>>19723380
well, we killed several people to save you too

never become a magic girl, it sucks

>>19723380
Completely straight-faced: "This is why you never talk to mutant cats."

Then crack a small grin and continue, "Got a smoke?"

"How's the Mami, Misaka and Sayaka doing?"

>>19723421
She was probably a little preoccupied with rape at the time to put two and two together.

>>19723380
Sorry to worry you.

Got any vodka?

>>19723380

"Un. It`s nothing like in the mangas. Sorry."

>>19723391
Plus, he already has suspicions we're not telling him something. He was told that we would know about Kirika's psychotic episode.

>>19723380
"This is why I wanted you to stay away from the freak cat. Becoming a Magical Girl is never like how it is on TV.
"Anyway, help me up. I need to talk to Mami."

>>19723391
Sayaka mentioned that she'll be the one retiring us. QB might get us nice and dead before we can get to the bottom of the golden gun mystery.

>>19723380
Never. Ever. Make a deal with that cat.

>>19723437
Mami? She has undoubtedly seen things like this before and especially if we act like this all the time

>>19723380
More or less.

Kyubey takes contract work and passes it on, sometimes it's nice like body-guarding or killing a monster, often it's wetworks and black ops. Retiring one of our own is rare.

Could you get me a cigarette, left inside breast pocket. The lighter is in the opposite pocket.

>>19723466
Woops, misread your post, Thought you meant Iori knowing about Magical girls

>>19723380

ask how Mami, Sayaka and Misaka are doing.
need to talk to Mami, not sure what to tell her but i doubt anything we say would get us back in to a good standing right now.

>>19723462
Which is part of why we need to get this shit out in the open ASAP. QB obviously has suspicions. We don't come clean, we'll probably be seen as off the rails. We bring forth how someone is infiltrating their network not only do we probably save our own ass, but have a solid chance of getting to the bottom of it.

We call QB and talk about the golden weapons ASAP. This is not something that can wait

>>19723467
>>19723511
Both?
Both.

>>19723380
>nearly kicked me into oncoming traffic

so...how close to the traffic did you get him?

>joke about making katana bitch into Rin
>shit hits the fan
>No, Murderface, you are the Rin

>>19723512
I've tried saying that we need to tell the god cat these things.

they think the cat will just off us in laziness.

The damned thing is pretty lazy though.

>>19723352
>She sees you looking at her, and she turns away.

She was trying to commit suicide-by-you, wasn't she.

>>19723541
>>19723512
If you want to come clear to the lazy uncaring boss who will probably just kill us instead of letting us sort shit out then sure.

I will be sitting here waiting to say I told you not to go full retard in a noir setting

Are people seriously suggesting we confess to QB that we have been compromised by pinkie ?
I mean, there is no way it could possibly go wrong, right ?
It's only good old Kyuubey after all, he will surely understand because he care for each of his magical girls !

>>19723553
Oh god no

>>19723541
No, not in laziness. But as an attempt to cut his losses and cut whatever links Pinky has to his operation.

>>19723541
The cat WILL off us if we don't come out with what's happening. An agent that keeps work related secrets from her superiors is useless at best and a liability at worst. He knows something is up and there's a good chance he'll think it's just from us getting crazy in our unlife. We get what's actually happening out there, not only do we have a chance to fight it ourselves without being called a renegade, but we may have the organization's prowess and intelligence behind us.

Seriously, there are other people we care about who will get fucked over if this shit doesn't get taken care of. If we go down, who knows if Mami will get the next golden weapon? Go tell QB

Gentlemen remember that we can travel back in time

>>19723512
Mami was the one who told Kirika, right? She's the leak?

Well, QB already has a plan to kill us anyway. But he let us live on the helipad, so we might not get wasted on the spot if we tell him.

Then again, he might not have any information for us anyway.

>>19723593
Actually, that's debatable. Homura could only go back to when she woke up in the hospital, and this is obviously long past that point and our shield is broken. I don't think we could.

>>19723587
Alright, screw it, tell him now. All our friends are here, he can't slay us on the spot.

I think.

>>19723569
QB isn't stupid. He the acquisition of the golden katana and how it went hand it hand with a sharp slide into full out crazy land. He saw us break out of our death spiral into a full plummet... corresponding with the acquisition of the golden gun. He's lazy, but he's also smart enough to put 2 and 2 together.

We don't get this to our boss, he's going to have us offed. QB might be an uncaring, lazy fucktard, but someone is messing with his organization. He's competent enough to know that he needs to get to the bottom of it, and we're the only obvious way to do it.

>>19723593
Don't think so. That ability was bound to (preventing of) one specific event, which already passed one way or the other.

>>19723593
Our shield is broken, missing one of its jewels, and so it's unlikely that we can generate a new timeline.

>>19723587
>>19723579
>>19723569
>>19723541
Let's not tell him about Pinky.

We should tell him about Kirika talking about the flesh of fallen angels, the black eyes and that a golden gun popped out of our Inventory and she acquired her golden katana.

>>19723587
It is obvious most the people here never watched Madoka so I will spell it out

KYUUBEY IS NOT TO BE FUCKING TRUSTED WITH SHIT.

He is a manipulative cunt who makes deals which only serve him and he will cut losses on things short term to avoid bothering with longer term issues.

And that's in the relatively nice world of magical girls. We are in a noir setting, the place where paranoia doesn't exist because everyone IS out to get you at one point or another. You don't trust your friends, your boss, your colleagues you don't even trust your family because they will just fuck you. We trusted Mami and it nearly got us killed, while we may like her we showed a massive fuck up in forgetting what the tone was

>It was QB's orders to retire Kirika
>We hate QB
Why didn't we try to talk it out with Kirika

>>19723633
We hate Kirika more than QB.

>>19723633
We did. She didn't care.

If she really wanted to run, she would have, instead of coming back and taking a hostage.

>>19723626
Wrong
Mami trusted us and we let her down

>>19723633
Basically among the few people we despise more than Kyuubey the number one person on the list was Kirika.

>>19723633
Yeah, I tried telling them that and no one listened.

>>19723432 >>19723429 >>19723421

It's only after a few moments of silence - and of you realizing that you've been generously dosed with painkillers, seeing as you're not even feeling the stump where your right arm should be - that you reply to Iori, a small, sheepish smile on your face. You admit it to her, slowly, about what you really do. She knows the sort of things you get up to, but she didn't exactly know about the Magical Girl part.

"I...I never knew Magical Girls were real. I thought...um..." You see her glance down at your hand, and you lift it up to your face, looking at it. Your Soul Gem, in its diamond form, is affixed to your left hand now. Kyuubey must've placed it there for you, for convenience's sake.

You ask if she thought that you were just a bodyguard with a cosplay fetish.

"N-no! Of course not!" Iori shakes her head furiously, trying her best to look offended. "Nothing of the sort! That's patently ridiculous, I..." Her cheeks turning pink, she looks away. "I...I thought it was just a cute uniform your agency makes you wear..."

>>19723652

You would have laughed, if Kyuubey hadn't come around again. Kirika's sword, back in its sheathe, gripped between his teeth. He drops it beside you.

"Your salvage, Matsuda. Before the other girls get designs on it." Kyuubey smacks its feline lips a few times, as if trying to get the taste of something out of its mouth. "I've placed your pistol back in your inventory too, at that. You can thank me later."

You glance down quickly at the blade, expecting it to suddenly come to life and finish the job Kirika started, but it just stays there, just like an inanimate object.

"I told you, don't move around too much." The incubator seems to frown, before shaking its head. "Now, about that leak, Matsuda...did you find out who it is?"

You blink, and then look at Mami, who seems to be crying again.

[]Tell Kyuubey about Mami.
[]Don't tell Kyuubey.

>>19723648
>Mami trusted us and we let her down
How exactly? It was impossible to stop Kiriko any other way than to kill her.
Besides, it was not us who stabbed her though the chest.

>>19723633

Read the thread, we tried, she tried to kill us, kidnapped Mami, and we lost an arm.

>>19723626
> meta as fuck
Erm, okay, we shut up for now. Not stopping us from looking through his documents though. Assuming magic cats have documents.

>>19723648
How in the fuck do you get that?
We let Mami come into our house while we were sleeping, she was able to look at documents intended for us only and then went and leaked that information to the target

The only one I am seeing at fault here is the one who wasn't meant to be looking at the paperwork. Because if she hadn't told Kirika the job would have gone ahead without problems and we wouldn't be missing an arm right now

Don't say anything to QB that may make him doubt us more than he is already

>>19723657
[x]Don't tell Kyuubey.
And hey, may as well tell him about the golden weapons, give him something else to fixate on.

And see how badly it comes back to fuck us in the ass.

>[]Don't tell Kyuubey.

LIE GOD DAMN IT
I don't care if Mami hates us, but goddamn we cannot have her die. Think of the pancakes!

>>19723657
Just whispers on the wind.

Holy fuck did I just say something poetic? Iori, hit me up with alcohol ASAP

>>19723657
Don't tell.
This is something that is between magical girls not for him to know

Mention that Kirika seemed to go off the deep end and blabbered shit about the flesh of fallen angels. Nothing more

>>19723657
[x]Don't tell Kyuubey.

Mami's too kind for her own good and he might retire her if we tell him. She doesn't deserve that.

>>19723657
Fuck Kyuubey. We don't know nothin.

>>19723633
We did, she had goons shoot at us then took a hostage. The bitch was completely nutso, absofuckinglutely bonkers and she had a magic katana given to her by Pinky.

There was about as much hope of us talking it out as there is of an innocent puppy surviving atmospheric reentry.

>>19723657
We tell him it is likely he'll get her retired.

She fucked up bad this time, real bad, but I don't have the heart to condemn one of the only things we give a fuck about.

It may bite us later, but that's what this is about.

Also we'd lose our pancake wench.

Ask if Kyubey knows anything about the Golden weapons.

Ask Iori to give us a cigarette.

>>19723626
He still understands fucking priorities. He has the very real problem of right now, someone trying to turn his organization against him. Someone who has been contacted by this nefarious agent is far, far more useful to him alive than dead.

We pretty much have a choice. We can assume Kyuubey's retarded and won't pick up on anything. If we're wrong, then we're dead. If we're right, we're still trying to fight Pinky, someone who seems like they could kill us on a whim, by our lonesome or with very little support. Or we can come out with all the information we have. Kyuubey can either off someone who has already effectively rejected the offer, solving nothing, or he can help us to take down Pinky.

Seriously, Kyuubey might be a manipulative cunt. But he still has goals and is fairly logical and rational. If we don't get a wider backing, then there's a good chance that Pinky goes after Mami next. That's not a risk I'm willing to take

"Yes." That's it. He doesn't get anything more from us. She did wrong and knows it. If she doesn't we deal.

>>19723645
She was giving us a chance
>>19723668
Most of that was our fault
>>19723669
she wanted us to talk with Kirika

>>19723669
>the job would have gone ahead without problems
Actually, I doubt that.
Pinky would have known, being omnipresent as she is, and would likely have given Kirika warning about us at our planned ambush.

So we wouldn't have gotten into that fight in the bar, but we snagged a really nice bottle of whiskey, so I'm willing to say it balanced out.

>>19723657
hhughuhguhguhguhguhgughguhgughgughguhgugh


defy god cat, save our favorite person, get killed. fuck shit balls


distract him with golden weapons talk, pretend the painkillers are getting to us. say we don't want the sword

>>19723657
We say NOTHING about Mami. This is information that is of no benefit to him and will only get her killed. We instead bring up Pinky; it's a good segue and will keep us all alive longer

>>19723702
And we did and it ended up with her setting yakuza onto us, then trying to fillet us and disappearing with time fuckery to go off to our apartment and cause trouble.

This situation still came about because Mami leaked that we were assigned to kill Kirika

Feed him some information about the weapons and the flesh of fallen angels. If it comes to it, blame ourselves for Kirika suspecting.

>>19723657

[]Don't tell Kyuubey.

Mami shouldn't poke her nose in jobs unless asked to by the one who needs to carry it out.

she found out what that could lead to in the most horrible way possible.

>>19723703
We also had our house broken into, a good friend nearly killed and now seriously doubting herself and us.

We may have gotten a good drink out of it but we still got screwed on it.

>>19723657
Distract the little shit with talk about the weapons and Kirika going off the deep end about angel flesh etc.

>>19723657
Nope.

>>19723711
No just say we don't know where she got the intel from.

Then get Kyoko or Sayaka over here and get them to watch Mami and make sure she doesn't tell him she leaked the info

>>19723657
Don't tell QB. We'll handle Mami. Assuming she doesn't flip out or something.
"I think it's plugged for now."

> smacks its feline lips a few times, as if trying to get the taste of something out of its mouth

"So, how's it taste like? 'Flesh of fallen angels'? Kirika loved screaming it at me."
Try to prod him to revealing more information, about Pinky, fallen angels, the works.

"What the fuck is that sword anyway?"
Grill him about the katana.

We can make him know of it but without knowing we have it. Don't tell him we're infected.

Also, now that we know that Iori can see QB, we better make sure she understands how shitty (un)life as a magical girl really is.

>>19723748
I'm not saying that we say we ,leaked the intel, but our attempts to gain information from her led to her suspecting. Crazy girl who is paranoid suddenly goes off the deep end and leads to this mess. We were caught in the middle of it and didn't have time to think, and just jumped to conclusions.

>>19723726
>We may have gotten a good drink out of it but we still got screwed on it.
Well, yes, but this is a noir setting.
By the standards of the genre, wouldn't you say we broke even?

>>19723700
here. Backing this up: >>19723753

>She met with us at the bar to see if were thinking of killing her
She assumed rightfully so when we didn't tell about the mission
>She took Mami hostage just so she could prove that we could not be reasoned with
And she was right
>She refused to give us a third chance
And for good reason
Kirika might seem horrible but we're not much better

>>19723773
A Job is a Job

>>19723784
Until we're told to kill someone we like

>>19723657
>[x]Don't tell Kyuubey.
"I was hoping that you would tell me." frown at him "I was kinda busy tring to get the mission done and not get killed in the process. Which, as you can see, didn't go very smoothly despite my best efforts."

"The other girls got all emotional over this - blaming each other and obviously the foremost blaming me. But... I can't point my index finger on anyone." pause "and it's not only because the one that I usually use is not attached at the moment."

Look at Iori, smile, then back at QB

"Anyway - I'm gonna need a new appartment. Kirika payed a visit and she is... well... was one hand with Yakuzas, so now they know as well. Therefore, unless your next order's gonna be to hunt down every single one of them, I better more."

[x]Don't tell Kyuubey.
After he leaves tell Mami we're sorry. Break down.

>>19723773
> She took Mami hostage just so she could prove that we could not be reasoned with
> And she was right

I'd like to think it was the influence of Pinky's golden gun. I, for one didn't advocate wasting Kirika without reason. When she shanked Mami from behind, I think we have reason enough.

For god's sake don't tell Kyubey.

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>>19723784
>>19723773

The future looks bleak and pancakeless.

And we probably should do something about the Idol, too. It`s safe to assume that she`s fallen for us and I don`t think I need to spell out how bad of an idea that is.

>>19723793
>I better more."
"move", obviously

>>19723753
You really want to be asking pointed questions with no rational outside of "I'm curious?" Shit, the only way faster I could think of to a quick retirement would be to shove QB in a tea kettle and declare yourself Queen of England while mutilating everyone else in the room.

WITHHOLDING INFORMATION WILL GET US KILLED. Seriously, since when did QB sound like a guy who would just tell us everything? The son of a bitch will lie by omission until the heat death of the universe (which comes about because the organization is compromised because we didn't warn our superiors about fucking Pinky). We are right now the best shot at stopping Pinky. We make sure he knows that, we have a chance to save ourselves and our friends. Otherwise we're dead, they're dead, and we'll have accomplished nothing.

I actually reread Oriko Magica and realized that Kirika has a lot in common with Homura