... all according to plan.
Internally, Chouko needed to hide her elation at her current success. As the mercenaries, Steele and the rest, are trying to figure out where Chouko could have escaped, one of their very own allies is escorting her along. Under the disguise of Shortcake, she's cemented her temporary escape. Black hair hidden by fake white locks, and crimson red eyes inconspicuously narrowed to conceal their prominent color, not a single one of these daft mercenaries notice anything wrong.
It's astonishing to Chouko that Shortcake, one of the many lifelike human androids, can just detach her hair. That's a very interesting thing to learn about Shortcake, one that came up in the middle of their planning. A very convenient thing to know, especially given the fact that Shortcake's hair is long enough to hide her very own.
There are some... differences, but these mercenaries can't tell anyway. It's not like they saw the android as a person with characteristics. This plan ultimately only works because Chouko is the one these mercenaries are focused on, the person that they need to pay closer attention to than the android. Chouko takes the android's identity for now, hands holding onto the hair to make sure it doesn't fall off at any point during the walk.
Granted, Chouko does feel great amounts of guilt leaving Shortcake behind. An act, a temporary setback, on the forefront of her mind. However, if either of them are to leave unharmed, this temporary sacrifice needed to be done. Shortcake will hopefully be fine...
If she isn't, then... it will just have to be another thing that Chouko kills these mercenaries for.
She could call for help, sure, but so can these mercenaries. However many of them are in this building, if she doesn't take them out now, they'll call for assistance to put down the escapee. No, action needed to be taken now, action needed to be within the walls of their hideout.
Now that she's come across the mercenaries working for him, working for the killer, the killer hired by the actual Kuroiwa, Chouko didn't need to put this face on. She's ready to enact her vengeance as Chouko Ashford. Her escape into the building going as planned, her given escort the one chance she will ever have.
Chouko takes a great- great note of the building in question. An office building with four floors. Some mechanical security at the front door, which the mercenary bypasses by pressing a button to tap into the building's intercom system. The one single entrance and exit of this building, minus some fire escapes that only open outward.
"Hey- coming in now. Steele wants this android to be looked at by our hacker."
"Got it."
The doors open, and the two walk in.
Entering the front lobby of the office building, traditionally designed. Some elevators present, with a mercenary behind the front desk to operate the doors. Several doors split off from this lobby, doors that lead down hallways to other doors on the first floor. All she can see on this first floor is this relatively small receptionist's lobby. Whatever else happens on this floor is unknown to her, for now, except two elevators and a stairwell to the left of the entrance.
To her knowledge, this building is quite reminiscent of the Connection Office that Sedimate had. Only, instead of androids being remotely piloted by humans, it's humans coming in to do the work of androids. The mercenaries appear to have made themselves at home in this building long before her arrival, their plans mostly a mystery to her... but the building layout is familiar and recognizable enough.
The elevator doors open.
"Alright. Get in," the mercenary tells the android, pushing her into the elevator.
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Revenge Fantasy
Misterio / SuspensoKuroiwa. A known figure throughout the mercenary black market, more recently renowned as something "inevitable". As an employer, any job that he puts up is regarded as the highest demand, money not an object. As a mercenary, she carries out her own...
