"This cannot be happening."

( You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. -- Al Capone )

The first step in rescuing Karasuma was a prison break of another kind - beating Zaizen to the punch before he could abduct a prisoner - a former SOLOMON researcher from the genetics project - bound for Europe ( Read more... )

"Ohaiyo!" Dōjima sang as she came into the office, her coworkers hunched over keyboards. "Good morning everybody!"

( It’s a downright shoot-em-up. We’ve made a graveyard out of the bone white afternoon. / It’s another wrong-man-dies scenario )

Dōjima had a meeting to attend, and she had slipped out of a warm and restful bed to make it here at this time ( Read more... )

Dōjima hated everything.

This was a trap; she knew it was a trap. She was following a male Witch down a dark - dirty, ew - alley into a damn trap. Her trap.

Blessed kami, some days she loved her day-job.

( Give me bullet power. Give me power over angels. --Wishbone, Richard Siken )

It had started with the teleporter, but now half of the Walled City population was missing. The Chief was gone, so was Hattori, and SOLOMON didn't seem to know what Yurika was talking about when she called in, claiming that the STN-J had always been a branch without a civilian police liaison ( Read more... )

"Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiichael~kun!" Dōjima was possibly throwing a tantrum that would make the most spoiled Kardashian proud. "Why haven't you gotten me the files on the teleporter yet? I asked for them yesterday, and I can't move forward with the case unless you upload them to my phone! I'm not some genius who can guess your ( Read more... )

To say that Dōjima was less than thrilled with the outcome of last week was an understatement.

"Do you even understand what the term 'non-lethal' means?" she hissed angrily into her phone. "You were ordered send in two teams - two, not three - one to lead the Hunters on a chase, because they would chase intruders, and one to secure the files ( Read more... )

Normally it would be a bit early in the season, but Hanami was almost in full-swing at Ueno Onshi Koen, and Yurika couldn't pass up the chance for a picnic. She'd even put on her favorite blue sakura-patterned yukata for the occasion ( Read more... )

The best part of prepping for a sting operation, Dōjima had decided, was the fact she got to go home for lunch, to see what sexy outfits she had in black to pose as a bar waitress ( Read more... )