Retsu could feel something crack and it definitely hadn't been her fist. Her grin widened just in time for her hand to be caught while the horned bastard went for a headbutt. She replied as she always did. Leaning with the punches and making sure she hit harder than she got. When her forehead met his Retsu saw stars for the first time in their fight but likely not the last. Her left eye stung as her eye patch was dislodged by the impact and half of it became exposed to sudden brightness.

"Quirks weren't a fookin' thing back then shit fer brains!" Retsu shouted with her last breath before the air was knocked out of her lungs. Hacking and wheezing she pulled her eye patch off entirely with a growl and shoved it into her pocket. Fook. He'd used the moment she was trying to breathe again to take his distance. Like hells she was gonna let him get his way!

"Fook you ya scaley fook, eat shit and die!"

Placing herself firmly in between Jack and Springboard so he couldn't use any of the fifty fooking heavy hitters hero fooks like him always named individually Retsu pulled a frag grenade off her harness and tossed it at him in an arc. Clicking her tongue as he blew it away before it could detonate her eyes couldn't help but hone in on the glittering energy he'd used for just a moment. The focus pushed down the pain in her left eye for the slightest second before she got charged and had to let her instincts take over once more.

With a manic grin on her face Retsu raised her arms in a guard stance, feigning a right jab towards his face once more before going for a knee strike to the guts. Once the media arrived more law-abiding glory hogs were never far behind. The gloves were off, she'd hit him with everything she had and get the hells out before they could wear her down through attrition.

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Tag: Jack Orion

"Weird flex but okay," Retsu shrugged in reponse to Olivia's comment on explosives. "Front it is. Works fer me. Dun' fook up any papers ya foind inside."

As far as the building they were about to enter went it was so stereotypically a second-hand car dealership Retsu was surprised they hadn't been busted solely for looking too normal. A glass fronted reception room that had a wide open floorplan, semi-circle couches around small round tables, flimsy rotatable holders for a bunch of advertisement folders and a large fancy looking counter at the back made up the main area where customers were received. At the back was one door leading to the manager's office and another leading to the garage slash depot where the overpriced additions the smooth talking salesmen talked the customers into getting were added to the rust buckets they sold right before being shipped off. 

"Take the one on the left," Retsu said with a wave of her hand, cutting off the salesman that had turned their way the second the front door's chime rung. "Ah'll take the one behind the counter. If ya foind any papers with schematics on 'em y'r in the roite place. If ya don't ah'll meetcha in the back."

Not bothering to waste a bullet on the salesman that was clearly way out of his depth Retsu simply laid him out with a straight right to the chin before continuing on. At this time of day the depot was likely to have both members of Ars Natura and normal employees in it. Retsu couldn't say she cared in the slightest how Olivia chose to deal with any of them so long as none of her stuff was lot in the crossfire. Besides. Their more illegal dealings all happened out of the fourth room, a separate workshop in the back where they officially kept vehicles in need of far larger repairs. Either that or they kept it locked up in the office she was heading too. Hopping over the counter Retsu figured she was about to find out.

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Tag:Olivia Liang

"Hmm," Retsu hummed thoughtfully. That was the most sensible thing she'd ever heard one of those hero types say. More importantly it was mighty convenient right now. "Of course I can," she replied answering snark with a brusqueness that made it clear what would happen if Yoko tried to push her luck with the implied insults.

"The whole shebang ey, plannin' ta hunt a Gorgon?" Retsu jested with a grin, keeping a close eye on Yoko's reaction while tapping her finger on the workbench. "Three types sounds doable. What kinda stun rounds 're we talkin'? Rubber bullets ta pack a punch, taser rounds ta paralyze or ya got somethin' else in mind?" 

Regardless of her opinions on hero students Retsu was a consummate professional when it came to her craft. The identity of the customer didn't matter. She'd make the best damn thing she could so long as they paid. "Hoo~ Buildin' up a brand are ya?" Retsu snorted mockingly. There it was. Regardless of what those damn wannabe do-gooders said that's what it was always about for them. Fame, fortune and making their own mark first and foremost. Disgusting.

"Looks easy 'nough," Retsu replied while wholly focused on the picture. Now that she was taking a closer look it felt oddly familiar. Not that she'd seen this specific piece before but definitely items of a similar make. Now where...

Ah. The exhibit a few months ago. She didn't know the maker but it was clear they were skilled. Retsu wasn't planning to let herself be outdone.

"Hmm, barrel could fit inta the shaft, handle at the end ken be a screw-on ta remove parts. Trigger could be worked inta the button ta open it. Chamber 'n ejection port ken be hidden in the groove, maybe a turn ta reveal 'r hide it? Either tha or 'aving the button be on a removeable plate fer those and puttin' the trigger elsewhere," Retsu muttered to herself while scribbling down a primitive schematic. She could see several ways to construct it but it'd come down to Yoko's preferences and what it was intended to be used for.

"Ya plannin' ta use it in CQC as well?" Retsu asked while turning to face Yoko. "And d'ya want the casing ta be wood or metal?"

Retsu knew what she'd pick of course but she was no stranger to customers wanting alterations to her designs to better fit their aesthetic. Thinking on the details would have to wait until she knew. Each material had their own properties after all. 

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Tag: Yanai Yoko

"Of course you can," Retsu replied to Rui perhaps a bit too quickly, a change that wasn't noticeable to outsiders but akin to a wrong note when one was familiar with their dynamic. Uncharacteristically keeping her mouth shut Retsu handed over one of her newer designs.

A thermobaric grenade.

Two seconds after the pin was pulled it would cause a small detonation that fired out an aerosol cloud of gas. Half a second later a following, larger explosion would detonate both the grenade and the combustible mixture spread throughout the air. It would destroy everything around it down to the air itself creating a vacuum effect mere moments after. Everything except for Rui herself of course. Retsu had no doubt it'd take more than that to keep the horned devil down.

Screams resounded within the club, at first mistaken for ambiance by all but the Wildfire Warriors themselves. Three of them were already headed to the source of the problem by the time Rui shouted her challenge.

"Mummy! Don't think you'll be able to get away with it this time!" The one at the front of the trio, a villain by the name of Flamemane, shouted with pistol drawn while approaching.



The three heading for Rui were far from the only blue-capped individuals keeping an eye on the situation. From the corner of the room Cyberwolf began to push his way through the crowd while scanning the surroundings for more signs of trouble. His path averted to the entrance upon spotting a second source of trouble.

"Well, looks like y'r up, Yinshe," Retsu laughed while aiming her assault rifle at the crowd. Without hesitation she opened fire while swinging the gun from left to right. 

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Tags: Rui Matsui,Olivia Liang

"The one an' only," Retsu responded humorously. How curious. It was rare these days that she conversed with people that didn't recognize her in advance. The sight brought Retsu back to simpler times. Her jaw clenched as a painful twitch in her left eye diverted her train of thought. Ignorance was bliss but Retsu wasn't one to stop just because something was painful. Besides, it wasn't like the past had been much better.

Her gaze homed in on the umbrella as Yoko held it out, taking in the whole before her eye flicked between certain parts. By the casual way the student held it Retsu doubted it was a weapon but she'd seen stranger things and faced weirder assassination attempts. Her second-in-command had been sworn to silence in regard to the blueberry incident on pain of death. 

"Yah, ah fookin' know what an umbrella is," Retsu spat back while looking at Yoko as if she were an idiot. "Kent say ah've 'eard of UAU student packin' heat before but ah guess tahms are changin', ey?"

With a snort she gestured for Yoko to approach while hopping off her workbench. While she didn't have an awful lot of information on the younger Yanai ENKI had a fair amount of basic intel on UAU students. Facade was very insistent they stayed the hells away from them and likely included intel on them so they knew who to avoid but Retsu had never been one to play by others' rules.

Fetching her welding equipment she rearranged the mess covering her workbench before she continued speaking, her mind already abuzz with ideas.

"You lookin' ta use any kind a' special bullets or just the regular?"

Of course she'd fully be charging her extra for every single request the blonde made. After all, why wouldn't she?

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Tag: Yanai Yoko

Hero society had diverted its resources to more bread and games but unfortunately for Retsu that didn't mean all her enemies had vanished. The Wildfire Warriors had been a pain for ages and one of the few groups that had caused her to actually lose ground in her struggle to claim Tokyo's underbelly. By themselves none of their members could take her on but annoyingly they knew that too and never put themselves into a situation where she could take them down one by one. Even worse was that whenever one part of their organization sighted her the rest used the opportunity to strike at other parts of her turf. Retsu had no intention to change her methods just because the Wildfire Warriors -or the quadruple U's as they were often called- had figured out the weak point. No, that'd never been her game. She'd simply bulldoze through the obstacle in her path, viability be damned.

Attacking their headquarters, an exclusive nightclub, was foolish at best and suicidal at worst. If she were alone, that was.

Mummy and Yinshe each evened the odds in their own way. The former was a right terror, damn near invincible and far more dangerous than she seemed. The latter was a guided missile aimed at one member of the Wildfire Warriors in particular. Cyberwolf. A quirker capable of integrating functional technology into his own form. With the recent addition of EMP grenades to their arsenal Olivia should be able to handle him or at the very least hold him off while the most devastating parts of his armory were unavailable. It wasn't an ideal set of circumstances but with hero response times being much higher due to the Sports Festival this was the only time she could take them down and it was crucial that she did. If they figured out she was out of the country during her upcoming trip to America who knows how much territory she'd lose. No, they had to go right now no matter how entrenched they were.



And entrenched they were, of that there was no doubt. Even from a street away Retsu could hear the booming music coming from their base. It appeared they present in full today, squad leaders and subordinates alike. Rui, Olivia and Retsu had one hell of a fight ahead of them.

"Y'all ready?" Retsu asked while cocking the slide of her assault rifle. Once they were in there wouldn't be much time to talk. Hells. Even now she had to raise her voice to be heard over the music, let alone once they were inside. "Ah'll be right behind y'all. Give 'em hell."

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Tags: Rui Matsui, Olivia Liang