Bsd: Mission TB300KC

Chapter 3

"I do." The president answered. "...Ariyoshi Sawako, the red dragon. ... Probably one of the most dangerous woman to ever exist."

He drifted of in his thoughts, when Ranpo grabbed him by the shoulders. "President, please, if you know who that was then tell us what you know." he said almost desperate, this signaled the whole room just how special this woman seemed to be. If Ranpo didn't have a clue, then she had to be powerful.

"Alright, fine. I'll tell you what I know and afterwards, we will do some reseaches about certain events and people." He paused.

"So, where to start. ... You all know, that I used to work as assasin for the goverment, right? Well, the first time I met her, was sixteen years ago, in my time as goverment assassin. Back then she probably wasn't much older than eight or maybe nine years old. It was for a mission, we were paired for an assassination. They had found a group, which had been causeing them trouble. So therefore they made the decision to completely eliminate them. And for this mission they chose her and me.

We were supposed to play father and child, housing in the same hotel, they were using as headquaters. So we did, we observed and waited for the right moment. To be honest I-"

"Wait hold on, they tasked a nine year old girl to attent an assassination mission and you didn't try to interfere?" Yosano asked frustratedly.

"Yes, they did and I couldn't refuse. However I truly did have my doubts wether or not this was such a good idea. I had been told she was trained, but not wether or not she had killed before. I assumed she hadn't because they sent her with me, in order to intoduce her to it or something like that. NOt that I agreed with sending a child into murder missions. But in the end it turned out to be a little different than what I expected. She had in fact killed before and a lot at that. The night we went in to cut them down, she did most of the work. She had a unique way of doing it. There was no blood, but the enemies hearts were crushed and taken out, she collected them and then later sucked the blood out of them, like some starving vampire. Until this day I do not know how she killed those people. Taking a heart out without any blood is impossible, yet she did. A fragile little girl, taking out over ten grown men.

That was the first time I met her. The second was much different. It was after Ranpo and I had met. I had just quit my job as assasin and we had just heard from Yosano for the first time. I ran into her. She had grown older of course, but also colder, her eyes were colder, her posture straighter, her body more woman like but also much more muscular and visibly scarred and her voice harder..." The president paused to collect himself.

"Sir, what happened then?"

"I ran into her in a train, I was on my way back from Nagoya. She was seated in the same compartment as I was. At first I didn't realize it was her, only when she pretended to have fallen asleep and her face was leaning against the window I recognized her. One half of her face had been covered with a scar and her eye had been blinded, so she looked very differently while her entire face was showing, but once there was only the unscarred side left, I recognized her. And then it hit me, that, while I had gained freedom, she had been a child, unable to help herself, unable to free herself.  At first I had had the fear she would ocme after me, but that thought quickly dissapeared, when two other people entered, they were two flags of the mafia, called Lippmann and Piano man (I took these names of of the webside idk wether there is any info on them yet or not-sorry). They sat down next to us.
When night came, I intentionally stayed awake and just as I had persumed, she made her move, just the same way she had fone before. One swift hand movement and the hearts were in her hand and then the blood fell into her  mouth once again.

Then she called out to me, saying she knew, that I was awake. So I looked up into her eye. Those were not the eyes of a girl anymore. They were like the ones of a soldier. Like a machine like a weappoon. SHe apologized for the inconvenience and left me. Can you imagine, a girl existing for the single reason of being a weappon, since the day she was six years old? Later I kept thinking, I should have stopped her, taken her with me back to where we belonged, Yokohoma. But I had no right to do such a thing. Back then I believed, that she belong to the government by a contract, not as job. I had just gotten the government to agree to me working in a different way. Had I asked of them to release one of their own killers, probably the most skilled one..."

"it's alright sir, we can understand. Is that all you know, or is there more?'' Yosano asked

"I met her once more, although it was just me seeing her, I doubt she knew I was there, but still ... if it hadn't already been too late to safe her fife years prior, it was definetly too late then. It was on one of my outside missions,  I was in New York for a meeting with a couple of governers as security and moral support, the exact circumstances don't matter. The meeting was all done and some of us went out the office to drink a coup of tea or a coffee in the offices own cafè, which located in the same building. We watched the people walk by, withing them was a young woman probably between eighteen and twenty, she was walking with three men, no acctually there were four, but one of them had already been dead. Tortured to death. Two of the others were in heavy handcuffs and feetchains, the third one was holding one of the walking men and carrying the dead one and the woman was also keeping hold on the second man in hsndcuffs. Then she started yelling for someone to clear an interrogation room for 'specialized questioning'.  Then she left with the men. I of course recognized her, by the scar on her face, although I was confused as to what she would be doing in the US, but it was clear what she'D been about to do and that she had done it countless times before. She was going to torture Info out of the two men, probably had tortures the first one to death before hand. I regret not taking her with me when she was a child."

"DOn't worry about it." Ranpo said "If she was a professionell killer in the age of nine, you couldn't have saved her back then either, you would have just forced her into a place she didn't belong in, though she probably didn't belong with the government either. ... Still now she isn't government anymore, we'd know if she were, so who does she work for now? Or did she just quit and hide and only came out now, because of this Mission they were talking about and Dazais connection to it?"

The office was silent for a while. "I don't know how it is now, but I've also met her before. Back when I was with the military. Mori once brought me to a young girl, she was injured so badly I didn't need to do anything, I just touched her and through that she was saved, however, I couldn't fully heal her, there were scars, which simply stayed. That girls name was Ariyoshi Sawako, when I asked Mori about it, he simply said, it had been an order to safe her. I always assumed it had been an order from the government, but the more I think about it, the more I realize, Mori never truly worked for the government but for the Mafia, he only pretended to, so with the urgency he forced me to safe this child, she must have been lethal to the previous boss. Or maybe not, but to get to the point, maybe she somehow at some point in time transferred to the mafia."