COMPANY:17

Number 1. Mockingbird.

Ryuko Kuro, who had just turned 19 last May, finds himself with a representative of a company simply called 'company 17' wanting to recruit him. 

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"so..." Ryuko says whilst stirring a cup of tea. "you want me to fight extremely powerful magic users, all because I can shoot lighting out of my body and I fight well?"

"...yea...?"  the representative says, just as confused as him.

"yall gonna pay me?" Ryuko asked bluntly, though his expression remained the same.

"handsomely." replied the representative with a smile.

"I'm in." Ryuko responded with a straight face.

"...j-just like that?" the representative asked. a surprised expression matches his tone.

"I'm broke and I'm in college, what did you really expect?" Ryuko replied.

"...fair." the representative replied, failing to find other words to respond with.

"when do I start?" Ryuko asked, sipping from his cup of tea.

"does next week sound good?" the representative asks a hint of surprise still in his voice.

"I'll start whenever, I don't give a shit as long as I get paid." Ryuko says before sipping on his tea again. 

"we'll see you Monday...I guess?" The representative says "oh and come to this address on monday." the representative hands Ryuko a business card before leaving.

"...what the fuck did i just get myself into?" Ryuko, only now asks himself.

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Monday comes and Ryuko arrives at an address given to him by the representative, wearing a black compression shirt and black harem pants

"Yo, anyone here?" Ryuko asks into the empty hallways but only silence answered.

Ryuko then walks across the empty halls, his steel toed shoes are the only sounds that accompany him until he finally see's a door at the end o the hallway, light pouring out of its cracks.

A regular office waited for him, it only had a handful of people working, maybe around 8-10 people.

"Can i help you sir?" a dark skinned woman asks, she was roughly a few inches shorter than Ryuko, her hair tied into space buns.

"I was told to come to this address...but I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong building." Ryuko replies, flustered.

"Wait, are you by any chance Ryuko Kuro?" the dark skinned woman asks.

"Uhh yes, I am Ryuko Kuro."

"Ah! Then follow me sir." the dark skinned woman instructs Ryuko to follow her into the back part of an office that is separated by a door.

"hello, Ryuko." a man sitting in front of Ryuko says. 

"I'm Director Masahiro Saito. pleasure to meet the famed 'excellence of execution'." the director smiles and extends his arm.

"nice to meet you too, Director." Ryuko shakes his hand.

"so...where's the rest?" Ryuko asks.

"So far, only two of you have been recruited. But you're the first one we recruited."

"Oh...but why me first?"

"You are... a special case...but with that being said..." the director reaches under his desk and pulls out a yellow folder with files sticking out of it.