Helltaker: Life With Demon Girls

Chapter 9: A Mysterious Mission! Goodbye Phil!

Last time Bryce and Phil both cornered a killer in an abandoned house. They were able to capture her, but Bryce got a stab wound to the arm for his troubles. Now things seem to be settling down a bit.

Philip Baker was your average twenty nine year old homicide detective. He was the child of a Japanese man and an American woman, his father chose his organization over him and returned to Japan when he was five years old. Despite his legal last name being his father's, he prefers to go by his mother's maiden name of Baker. Phil was content with his seemingly average life as a homicide detective, but sometimes your past has a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it to happen. Even though it sucks, that's life right?

Gym
Phil was at the local gym in the boxing ring. He had on red boxing gloves, red protective headgear, a mouthpiece, a grey shirt with the sleeves cut off, black workout shorts, and workout sneakers. Phil sidestepped a jab from his opponent before delivering a right hook to the side of his head. His opponent stumbled from the punch as Phil took the opening. Phil delivered a powerful uppercut to the head with his left fist. Phil's opponent collapsed onto his back as he tapped out. Phil took out his mouthpiece before grabbing his water bottle and squirting some water into his mouth as he sat down.
            Phil got out of the boxing gloves and packed up his stuff into his gym bag before exiting the gym. Phil started walking home as he pulled out a cigarette and was about to put it in his mouth. Phil stopped himself before dropping it on the ground and crushing it. "Come on Phil, you've only been smoking for two years, this should be easy to kick!" Phil scolded himself as he had been trying to kick his habit for a the past few months. Phil arrived at his front door as he spotted a large brown envelope on his doorstep. Phil walked up to it before picking it up.
            Phil grit his teeth in anger when he saw emblazoned across the top of the envelope was "FENIX" in big, bold, black letters. Phil let out a groan of frustration as he glared at the envelope. Part of Phil wanted to toss the damn thing out, but knew that if that bastard was sending him of all people something, it must be important. "Dammit! Why does this prick have to acknowledge me now?!" Phil thought to himself in annoyance as he entered his house before setting down his gym bag before sitting down on his couch before opening up the envelope to find a punch of papers and a few files that appeared to be classified.

One Hour Later
Phil ran his hair through his hair as he let out a frustrated sigh. "You've gotta be fucking kidding me! Ignore me for most of my life and now when things are getting dicey on your end, you want my help?!" Phil shouted in frustration as he couldn't believe this bullshit. Phil was about to just burn these papers and forget about it when his eyes focus on the information file on a FENIX Agent. It was a picture of a young girl with short black hair and serious grey eyes. The file had her name written down as "Akemi Baishō" she was only twenty one years old.
Phil also noticed that in the important notes section it stated that she had been showing a few signs of mental instability and high strung, stressed out behavior. "Dammit, as much as I don't wanna help that asshole. I also don't want this girl hurting herself or someone else. Guess I'm quitting my job and heading to Tokyo. I better let Bryce know." Phil thought to himself as he let out a defeated sigh before sitting back down an looking over the files that explained FENIX's operations, recent missions, and overview of their technology. If he was going to start working for this organization, he wanted to know everything he could about them.

Next Day, Bryce's House
Phil had already finalized everything with the Chief, all that was left was to tell his partner that he was leaving. "This is gonna suck, but it's to late to turn back now." Phil thought to himself as he raised his hand and knocked on the front door. Phil heard shuffling from behind the door before a girl with curly white hair, with glasses in a black dress opened the door.