[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

"Ya sure it’s here?" Retsu asked Rui, more to fill the silence than to get an actual answer. She could only ignore the evidence provided by her own eye for so long. It was subtle in a way, clearly hidden away on purpose, but signs of human passage still remained in the area. Nothing about the terrain they were traversing right now was formed by nature. Well, nothing except the canopy obscuring it from above. Even so Retsu harbored strong suspicions that Koi had a hand in twisting that too to suit their purposes. Her jaw clenched. Yeah. That sounded like something they’d do.

What kinds of fuckery Koi got up to wasn’t exactly something Retsu knew -hells, finding out was part of the reason she was here today- but if Rui and her own suspicions were anything to go by it likely had to do with quirks. That made anyone that had one a potential liability. It was for this exact reason she’d chosen to hire Yingshe to accompany them today. While she wasn’t entirely certain the green haired woman didn’t have a quirk she at the very least didn’t seem reliant on it. That would have to suffice.

Finally an entrance came into view, one set into the side of a mountain. Retsu sneered. She’d be bringing the whole thing down on their heads before long.

"Yingshe. Mummy. Take point ‘nd fook up anything that gets in our way."

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[Rui Matsui]

Rui had been through a lot today already, but she wasn't about to miss out on the big island adventure with treasure and violence. She was wearing a gray shirt that was two sizes too big for her and blue overalls stained in someone else's blood, no socks or shoes because they were usually redundant when your quirk always healed you. She was holding her knife in one hand as she looked ahead to where Retsu was indicating. ''Yeah this is it.'' She confirmed casually, looking back at Olivia and Retsu. ''They used to take me through here all the time when I was little.'' She climbed onto a tree stump simply because she felt like it, and it helped bring her closer to eye level to her besties. ''They like to collect people with strong powers when they're children. Me and a bunch of others.'' With a little hop she landed back down on the path. For being Rui, she was surprisingly mellow at the moment.

A lot was going through her mind. Past memories flooding to the forefront as she remembered all the nice people at Koi that had tried to help her, and how most of them died in return. She didn't know why but the Koi people were scared of her. Had been ever since they first brought her in. ''You got it, bestie.'' She walked with her shoulders a little slouched, like she was too lazy to fix her posture. Walking up to the entrance she banged her hand on the metal. ''Yeah hello? I'm here to see Junoichi. He called for me, said he wanted to see me just ask him.'' If anyone happened to open for them or answer the door she would immediately strike to kill without hesitation.

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[Olivia Liang]

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Rui's revelation that she was just a kid when all of this happened to her put Olivia at Retsu levels of anger. She would move past the two and, with a strong strike from her sword, would cut through the entrance and then kick it open. Armed to the teeth, she would enter the facility. "Leave one alive, it doesn't matter which one."

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[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

Retsu let out a hum that was half skeptical and half irate. Strong powers ey? Rui certainly counted for that. Guess she herself didn’t. She was going to enjoy setting this place on fire when they were done with it.

Her eyebrow went up when she saw Rui’s suddenly slouched posture. Was she attempting to act natural? That brought a scowl to her face. This was what Rui was like when she was with Koi, huh? Her hand twitched towards Temper’s ignition. She felt almost grateful when Olivia cut open the door saving her the hassle. The element of surprise wasn’t worth nearly as useful as just maintaining momentum and blazing through the facility.

"More den one. Bring anyone that looks important ta me. Ah brought sealin’ foam grenades ta lock the fookers down ‘til we need em."

Stepping through the destroyed door and past the screaming employee that Rui was going to town on Retsu reached a door to a guard post just as someone stuck his head out to see what the commotion was about. Socking him in the face she made him fall back inside, tossed a grenade in after him and closed the door again. They didn’t have time to waste on doormen.

The faint scent of antiseptic hanging in the air reminded her of those few times one gang or the other had taken her to some back alley doctor after a job gone wrong, albeit the clean surroundings and hard angles were a far cry from the squalid mess she’d had to deal with. The width and height of the corridors surprised her. She supposed it was easier with quirks but hewing that much rock out of the mountainside without tipping anyone off implied a breadth of resources that made her bristle. Five sets of footsteps in the distance tipped her off to the fact that their response team was rather fast too, their training clearly impressive. Anger roiled beneath the surface at that thought. The investment here was huge. The kind that implied backing that made what the Akimichi had possessed look like playground shenanigans.

“Rui, call out anyone ya recognize. Yingshe, kill the rest.”

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[Rui Matsui]

''You're really not scared for a bleeder.'' Rui giggled with amusement as Olivia just cut her way through the door and marched on ahead. Most of the time when Rui got hired to help other criminals or villains it was so she could be a bullet sponge, soak up damage from the enemies while the bleeders hid behind her like little cowards. Not Olivia though, nor Retsu. It was something she really liked about both of them. They weren't just reckless, they were fun. Violence was a special thing, and how people enacted it on other was deeply personal and all the more fascinating for it.

''Anyone important?'' She looked at Retsu, then looked around as they stepped in. ''I guess anyone that looks smart or something. Ask who's in charge we just capture them.'' She fidgeted with her knife as she walked, letting the other two go to town while she just took it all in. Memories from her childhood were flooding back, but they were all so distant and vague. ''No way!'' She exclaimed, running up to a blank, white room that stood unlocked. The room was completely devoid of decor, safe for one full body window that linked it up with another room. ''They used to put me in here all the time!'' She said it like she was musing about getting to go on the rollercoaster as a kid. ''This is where I met the other kids. I sat right here.'' She sat down, just like in the old days. ''Then I tapped on the glass and there was this boy- in there.'' She pointed to the other room. ''He just sat there.'' She slowly stopped her tapping, excitement draining from her body. ''He never said anything...'' After a brief moment she jumped back up to her feet and smiled widely. ''We had the best conversations! Did you know he was my first bestie?''

''Project Eir!'' One of the guards called out as footsteps and armed men started approaching their position. ''She's accompanied by two other villains, get a stunner for Rui Matsui now, it's a priority 10!'' Rui still wasn't phased by any of what was going on, as all she could think about was when she would start killing more people, and what Retsu had said earlier. She was kind of like, the brains of this operation since she knew the place, so she was supposed to call out anyone important. Nodding towards the response team as they took their position, Rui pointed one of them out to Retsu. ''Bones.'' She said, referring to a face that would look very familiar to Retsu specifically. ''It's Araki.'' The young man corrected Rui while keeping a handgun pointed at the trio.

''Yeah, but like, you're bones, right? I'm simple, not stupid, I know how your type of quirk works.''

''You're... Bakuretsu?'' He said, perplexed as he pointed the gun at Retsu.

''Did you think your makeup is fooling us? Hey Violence Bestie.'' She looked over at Yingshe, before pointing back to Araki. ''That guy's pretty tough, he won't die so you can go all-out killing the rest of 'em.'' Besides, if they accidentally went too far she could just bring him back. ''Project Eir, you will cease this attack, right this instant!'' Araki shouted, pointing his gun at Olivia this time.

''No. Is Junoichi home?''

''He's not.. wait- I don't have to tell you anything!'' Signaling their attack, Araki took the first shot, firing a couple of bullets at Yingshe, but before they could connect Rui got in the way, soaking up the damage with a big grin.

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[Olivia Liang]

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[attr="class","pinscroll"]Normally someone barking orders at Olivia would have resulted in a minimum some snark, but this place made her put that aside. She didn't care for the details, nor did she particularly like Rui, as she had attempted to kill Arsenal in the past, but Olivia was cautious, not reckless. "Some of us don't have lives to spare but we prepared the best we can to make sure we get what we want." Rui overall made her uncomfortable as her very existence made her feel conflicted as Rui surely resembled a child but one with a death wish. It was just easier to avoid her.[break][break]

"Blah Blah Blah." Olivia would raise her gun as the man raised his and when the fighting broke out she'd take a few pot shots assuming a defensive position by using Rui as a shield. She would then use her shoes to dash up a nearby wall and revealing her Armor Piercer it was a quick one two slice to cut through two of the men, landing behind the group putting them between her and Retsu + Rui. A click of her teeth as she fired her hallucogenic needles at the man known as Araki. [break][break]

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[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

'He was there'

The realization hit Retsu like a brick when Rui pointed at Araki. That fooker had been there the day Dream World ended and she'd finally found out what was so-

She pushed the thought aside. It didn't matter, not anymore. Only the future did. Even as she made the justification her hand clenched around Temper's hilt. 

" 'e a Project too?" She asked Rui with emotion laden in her words. Retsu herself didn’t realize it, her focus entirely external at the moment. Araki’s survival depended on Rui’s answer. If he wasn’t one, anger would win out and she’d take him down with extreme prejudice regardless of what it’d take or how much he might know.

Perhaps him opening fire on Olivia saved his life as Retsu's priority instantly shifted to taking the entire group down, instincts taking over where emotions had held the reins before.

A grenade was in flight before Retsu had even considered how to act, her actions not slowed by the heavy chains of thought as she kicked off to the side to avoid whatever gunfire might have been fired at her initial position. She didn't stop moving, a single smaller step breaking up the pace of her motions before she rushed further to the side. The concussive grenade landed in the middle of the group and tossed bodies all around just as Retsu finished drawing her rifle. Several shots were loosed and between the combined efforts of her, Yingshe and Mummy the guards were done for before long.

The moment the battle was done she pulled out one of her less used grenades. A nonlethal one that covered a small area in a rubbery adhesive foam to lock someone in place. Without the right chemical to neutralize it the foam could lock someone down for hours. Well, if it got time to set without being torn, the target wasn't too strong and enough of them was covered. There was a reason she didn't use it often. It was downright useless against anyone conscious enough to move even a little before it finished setting. 

Aiming her gun at Araki during the minute it took to cover him and set Retsu was ready to open fire and put him down completely should he resist. Rui had said he was tough, not that he was immortal. Unless Retsu was mistaken that meant he could be put down permanently with enough firepower.

Regardless of what happened she'd move on after Araki was handled. There was much of the facility left to explore and who knew how much time they had. The next notable feature they found caused her to stop in place while her eye went wide. It was... a playground? But that wasn't the part that she was focused on, no, that went to a mural in the back. She recognised one of the people on it... 

"Rui," Retsu said shakily, "Oy, Rui. What the fook is that."

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[Rui Matsui]

''That guy?'' Rui pointed at Araki as she looked at Retsu before waving her hand dismissively. ''Don't think so, I don't recognize him and his walking around all free and stuff. No projects under Koi are allowed to walk around.''

Araki looked nervous, clearly realizing how outnumbered they were. One of the key characteristics with Project Eir was that she was unstable. Not because of her quirk, but because of her psyche. The event that Rui Matsui teamed up with someone to attack this place, well, it was regarded as so unlikely that they wouldn't need to worry about it. Araki flinched as he took in bullets from Olivia's gun, but otherwise didn't bleed or go down. ''Stop her!'' He ordered his men right before two of them were cut down. ''Agh!'' The hallucogenic needles stung him as they flew into his neck, but he would soon come to realize the sharp pain wasn't their main function.

As if things couldn't get worse, Retsu was dishing out a ton of damage with her grenades too. Realizing he had to do everything himself, Araki intercepted Rui with a knee strike when she tried to attack him sending her flying backwards. Blinking his eyes, as his vision began to fade he realized what Olivia had done to him. However, before he could defend himself Rui was upon him again, slicing his ankles making it impossible for him to dodge Retsu's foam attack. ''Where... The hell are those stunners...'' He collapsed, unable to fight the rubbery substance. ''You two are pretty tough.'' She smiled up at Olivia and Retsu before following her Bomb Bestie further into the facility. ''Oh man!'' She exclaimed, running ahead into the playground as they entered the room.

''This takes me back! Sometimes they would take me here if I did well on tests!'' She eagerly climbed up a slide, only stopping at the top to look back at Retsu. ''That's me and the others!'' Or at least as many as she knew of. Some of the faces were familiar to her, but not all of them. ''It's just like a painting, bestie, nothing to worry about!'' She put her arms up over her head as she slid down the slide.

She reached the bottom just in time to see some Koi guards dressed in some kind of mercenary armor show up with odd-looking guns. Standing up, Rui drew her knife and got ready to fight them, but before she knew it one of the guards fired some kind of electrical pulse at her, knocking her unconscious on the spot. ''Get the others too!'' Lined up like a firing squad, more electrical pulses flew at Olivia and Retsu as they tried to hit them with the 'stunners' as well. The stunners were weapons that temporarily turned off someone's quirk. A weapon designed specifically for combating Rui. What they didn't know, was that Olivia and Retsu didn't rely on quirks at all...

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[Olivia Liang]

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With a quick flick of her blade Olivia was finished with her own targets leaving just the...oh they got him already. She took one last scan around looking for any cameras or anything that would indicate they were being watched. She was sick of surprises and she didn't care how sentimental this place might be it was disgusting and deserved to be ripped apart. Hopefully Bakuretsu with her firepower felt the same.[break][break]

She would remain silent, observing the area carefully as she watched Rui launch into a nostalgia filled ignorance and Retsu follow her. Stopping for a moment, she would flip over some of the corpses or at least what was left intact for their combined assault and search them for anything worth taking. A few bullets, a bulletproof vest (which was used up) and...oh? Something special in a box. Whatever it was, she pocketed it for later.[break][break]

As she showed up late to the 'shockers' she would activate her 'Slime Escape' to propel herself backwards. If those shockers were able to knock out Rui in one shot she wasn't going to let them catch her. Hopefully Retsu had a better way of dealing with them.

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[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

The way Retsu glared down at Araki was cold enough to freeze water. She wasn't just looking at him as if he were trash, no, she was looking at him in the way one looked at gum that they'd just scraped off their boot. The disgust was both personal and horribly impersonal, something to be discarded and forever forgotten. He wasn't hers to deal with. Once the foam finished setting she handed Rui a thermite grenade without so much as another glance at Araki .

"Unless he's as good at comin' back as you this'll put 'im down no matter what kinda fookin' durability 'e 'as. Use it, keep it. Choice is yours." With that she moved on in both meanings of the word, passing by Yingshe and gesturing to get a move on while Rui decided. There was much to do and little time to do it.

When Rui finished explaining what the mural was Retsu's stomach dropped.

There were so many…

They couldn't all be like Rui could they? The thought went through her mind that one of those might just have what was hers. Hissing at the spike of pain that shot through her eye Retsu denied the very idea despite the sickening gut feeling she had. It couldn't be true. There was no way.

Transfixed as she was she made the crucial mistake of failing to notice the new arrivals. Cursing while she whirled to face them she was just in time to see and feel the electrical pulse hit her head on. The pain vanished but other than that it did nothing. Retsu saw red. By the time she had her next conscious thought her grenade pouches felt lighter and the group looked like they'd been caught in a hurricane full of razor blades. Monofilament wire grenades were terrifying like that.

"Oy, Rui." Retsu said once more, just as quiet as she had when they'd found the mural. "Get up." The wait before she did brought with it emotions Retsu was unfamiliar with, a type of fear she hadn't felt before, one that was for someone else. “Yingshe. Scout ahead, we can't be ambushed lahk that again.”

Heading further in it didn't take long before they ran into the more heroic group of intruders. Time almost seemed to slow as Retsu saw Recall, The Gorgon and Yoko.

"Oh course. This was all you people."

Remembering their talk at the park her gun came up and she opened fire on Recall no matter what else was happening. She knew. She'd known. Lifting her gun higher between shots Retsu fired frag grenades to arc high with her attached grenade launcher, aiming some diagonally to clank off walls and the ceiling alike so they'd come in from all manner of angles. Rage had won out. Retsu didn't care what kind of damage she was taking. She didn't care what her allies were doing. All she cared about right now was hurting those that had hurt her.

That realization, the way she'd admitted it in her thoughts with such certainty that she'd been hurt by them caused her eye to widen and her clarity to partially return. In the distance she spotted a blur attacking The Gorgon. Almost as if through magic just the right words were spoken between the cacophony of battle and the thunderclap of gunfire and explosions.

It... it really had happened, hadn't it? She'd been whole once a long time ago, and then...

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghh!!!"

Her heart sank even as her rate of fire intensified. They'd pay. They'd all pay!

She wasn't able to get more than a few extra shots off before she had to throw herself to the side as the creature flew her way all fangs and teeth, her back slamming against the wall and her rifle spinning to follow and fire parting shots at the thing's back while it vanished down the corridors. The fact that it got away grated at her but fury put her back on a warpath.

She had heroes to kill.

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Having flown over and past the team of Pro Heroes Eloise hung from the ceiling for a brief moment before pushing off towards the open doorway with full force. Wait a minute, that person over there, was that...

With recognition in her blind eyes Eloise hooked her nails into the vent, briefly hanging as a curled ball before a gush of blood from her back sent her flying forward, hooked limbs spinning around her like a tutu mid-pirouette as she flew past something panicky.

"Eir! You're not a prince!" Hemogoblin shouted in passing before racing away down the corridors, her gait briefly turning more wiggly when several somethings slammed into and through her. They were small though so they probably weren't anything bad. She'd be fine. She just had to keep moving. Time was ticking and she had a prince to find before Koi put her back in her room. She didn't want that. No, she was getting out of here. Today.

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[Rui Matsui]

Rui woke up with a yawn and looked around with a confused look on her face. ''What happened?'' She sat up, stretching her arms above her head before jumping to her feet. ''That was a great nap! I feel much better now, but I already felt great!'' She chuckled, adding a light skip to her step as she followed Olivia and Retsu. She was all smiles and happiness until she spotted the three heroes. The student was unknown to her, she had seen Iphi's face before, but the third one... ''You!'' She pointed a finger at Hebiru, gasping. ''You're the one who tried to murder me in cold blood at the police station! I was even being nice and cooperating but you wouldn't listen!'' She accused Hebiru with bold-faced lies before turning to Olivia and Retsu. ''Besties, she's evil and tries to trick you, don't listen to a word she says!'' She then pointed at Iphi. ''And you have weird eyes!''

Rui laughed maniacally as Retsu started tossing out bombs. ''That's right, bestie, blow them all away!'' She shouted while keeping her hands over her ears, not even able to hear her own voice in the ensuing chaos. She only barely registered Hemogoblin escaping and didn't really pay attention until she called out to her. ''Huh? Hey, Helios!! Get back here!'' She shouted, her want to chase after Hemogoblin only slightly lower than her want to kill heroes. ''Which one are we killing first, besties?'' She grinned wickedly as she looked back over her shoulder. However, before she could act, the hero student made her move.

Hemogoblin, Bakiri Retsu, Olivia Liang

[Olivia Liang]

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As she expected, retaliation wasn't necessary for her. Bakuretsu had the same plan as always- blow them up. Had Olivia not cared for her own life more than revenge or pride she was sure she'd have ended up exactly like Retsu. Except her partner wasn't someone who could bring her back from the brink of death, one day her luck would run out, and Olivia didn't want to be too close when that happened.[break][break]

She paid virtually no attention to any of the imagery or what the others were saying as she heard what she could only describe as rattling even from this distance. Her paranoid perception always meant she had one foot on the gas while the other was on the brake. Retsu didn't have to even say scout ahead as Olivia already moved, peering around a corner to the site of 2 women she saw on the news frequently - The Gorgon and Recall.[break][break]

Know your enemy and Olivia's eyes fixated on Yoko. She may have been an unknown variable but if she was with two much more famous individuals and wasn't noteworthy herself odds were she was a noncombatant and that was her safest option. The screech of Hemogoblin was her cue; with the heroes and their sidekick distracted, she drew her 'Nato Hasso' and dashed around the corner just in time for Yoko to be doing the same now, looking like an ACTUAL mascot. [break][break]

With a click of her tongue, she fired a stream of needles at Yoko only to watch the umbrella she was certain they would pierce deflect them. The force of that swing was nothing to scoff at and she changed tactics, bounding up into the air and engaging the propulsion aspects of her staff which pushed her onto the wall. From the vantage point she would send some shots at Yoko with her handgun.

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[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

After dodging Hemogoblin her guard had been up. More importantly with her back pressed up against the wall she saw AI.PH.II coming from a mile away. Just because she got advance warning didn't mean she was able to react in time however. With her legs going out from under her she tossed her rifle at the thing's face and dropped into a sideways roll that ended up with her facing AI.PH.II while she kicked off the ground to leap backwards. Resisting the urge to have her eye dart all over the place to check the scene at large Retsu focused fully on turning the bot into scrap metal first.

There are two things experienced combatants are unprepared for. Those too new to have fallen into a pattern and the crazy. Retsu just happened to be one of those, something Iphigenia would get to find out firsthand when Retsu pulled out a piece of C4 and tossed it right at AI.PH.II mid leap. It barely got over halfway between them before she pressed the detonator.

The resulting explosion likely hurt her far more than it hurt the artificial intelligence. Where before she'd been leaping before now she flew through the air uncontrollably, Her face burned and the front of her clothes had practically melted to her skin in places as she uncontrollably span through the room, crashing through tables, dragging a metal plate on a plinth down to the ground with her and finally sliding to a harsh stop against a locked cabinet. Well, a cabinet that had been locked before the safety protocols were undone.

Forcing herself upright with gritted teeth before the mechanical abomination could force its way past the ongoing combat between Yingshe and Oniki Retsu heard something rattle within the cabinet. Any other time she'd have ignored it and started tossing more grenades around but something had caught her eye. Well, eyes. The explosion had ripped off her eyepatch leaving both exposed, more importantly however was that at one point during her flight her left eye had briefly stopped hurting. 

Her gaze found the cause again in an instant and once more her eye ceased hurting. It was the metal plate she'd knocked to the ground. As she looked at it a directly another scene overlaid her sight for but the briefest moment. Quick, shallow breaths rasped through her throat and her heart pounded a mile a minute. Her unblinking stare stayed on the plate for several long moments despite the far more intense pain memory caused her. She recognized that metal plate. An alley, a hand, a flash, fear like she'd never felt before. Her arms, so small back then, raising in front of her. 

Retsu's legs nearly gave out under her, one hand clutching the cabinet hard enough her fingers almost left dents in the metal to keep herself upright. Her gaze darted around, catching snippets of what was going on around her but never enough to get the full picture. Then she noticed one of the drawers of the cabinets right next to her. The one she'd heard something rattle in before. Her impact had caused it to open just enough for her to spot several glass tubes containing a gold colored liquid within. Looking at them dulled the pain. Syringe-attachments laid right next to them. One of her hands came up just a little as if to reach out for Rui before Retsu did the dumbest thing she could.

She grabbed one of each out of the drawer.

The lights went out.

Retsu screamed. 

The sound of glass breaking and Retsu's wailing was barely audible over the sirens announcing the facility's imminent self-destruction. Clutching at her eye Retsu collapsed to her knees. Her throat was rapidly going hoarse. As she felt the liquid course through her eye and creep through her head like vines she felt not just violated but in more pain than she'd ever been, only two other incidents even coming remotely close. Like strings of magma flowing through her Retsu could do naught but scream as she weathered what may well have been a force of nature.

"RUI!" A frantic cry left her as her screaming died down. The sheer pain made her retch up stomach acid. What stung almost as much was the realization. She'd messed up. Badly. Fear wrung her guts into knots. Retsu couldn't even put words to the thought, simply shaking in horror as she sat there on her knees, curled up so hard in pain her forehead nearly touched her legs.

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[Olivia Liang]

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If there was one thing stronger than her desire for revenge over the people who took her quirk, no, her future away from her it was her desire to keep on living. This predicament they were in wasn't something she didn't believe they couldn't handle. She knew the basics of what two of the three could do, and Mummy could survive anything. The decision was clear once Retsu started to break down - Olivia was leaving. [break][break]

"Alright, dude, I'm out." Disengaging from her scuffle with Yoko, she made her way as carefully as possible to Retsu and grabbed a smoke grenade from her pouch, assuming she was too distracted and having a freakout. "We're outnumbered, and this place is clearly either going on lockdown or going to explode." She handed the smoke grenade to Rui, and with that, she turned to make a few more potshots toward the heroes as she retreated.[break][break]

She'd have to check in later to see if Retsu had died. She had a lot of valuables in her warehouse that Olivia would have no problem rummaging through after she kicked the bucket.

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