Roland stood up from the bench and pulled out a new cigarette and placed it between his lips. He placed the pack back into his pocket and then lit the cigarette with a match. Inhaling deeply then exhaling, Roland placed his hands into his pant pockets and started to walk down the street.

He walked towards the fire skull base or at least the last place it was thought to be located. Roland walked cautiously through the back alleys of the Fire skull territory. Though he made no real effort to hide his presence.

After awhile, Roland eventually found the Fire skulls base. Well at least that's the way it looked. There was two fire skulls standing guard at a back door to an old building. Roland shrugged knowing that this was bound to be it and if it wasn't then there were two fire skulls that he could 'convince' to tell him where it was.

HAYATE

He hobbled slowly in the direction of the base, having tied the torn vest awkwardly looped around his neck and under his left arm. He really didn't want to meddle for fear of getting in the way of the more skilled Fire Skulls, but they had to be warned. That huge police force...or were they Hunters?...had given him a decent wake-up call to how bad the situation really was. Good thing he had looked like a normal civilian, though perhaps one who had been caught in the crossfire. Better yet, the Skull Hunters hadn't cared, he thought, half in sarcasm and half in actual appreciation.

It wasn't as if he was particularly keen on saving the Angry Cat. But she was still a person, as was everyone else in there.

Hayate took a moment to shrug off as much anxiety as he could, then turned a corner and nearly staggered headfirst into the policeman from earlier.

Makoto lightly rested against the wall. She huffed in frustration, and slammed her fist against a metal drawer. I let that damn boy distract me, and I completely forgot about that woman! I should have killed him when I had the chance!

She dropped her hand, and took out her handgun. She removed the ammo clip, and looked at the remaining bullets. Tch. Six bullets left. Makoto reloaded her handgun and rested her eyes.

Roland turned his head when he heard someone stumbling around behind him. He saw a wounded kid hobbling about towards the base of the fire skulls. The kid looked like any normal civilian but there were subtle hints that he was a part of the fire skulls, and by the looks of things he was on the losing end of a fight. Then again he was alive so that by itself was a small victory.

Then Roland got an idea. He needed a way into the base and this kid would be his ticket in. He slowly started to creep up behind the kid and struck him at the base of the skull. Just enough to knock him out and as he fell, Roland grabbed him and threw him over his shoulder.

"Sorry about this kid, but I need to use you to get into the base." Roland sighed and started to walk towards the entrance. "I really hope this works." He grumble under his breath.

As Roland approached the entrance of the base he noticed that there was more then just two guards at the door. There was more in the windows.

"Stop right there!" one of the door guards yelled out as he raised his rifle and pointed it towards Roland.
"Whoa there. I'm one of you guys. My buddy here was wounded in an ambush and needs medical attention."
"If you're one of us then what's the password?"
"Um..." Roland scratched the side of his face and mumbled. "No one ever mentioned anything about a password..."
"So you don't know the password then?" The armed gaurd motioned to his partner and he walked up to Roland and grabbed the kid from him.
"Hey its Hayate, and he's all fucked up!"
The armed guard aimed his gun at Roland. "What the fuck did you do to him?!"
Roland raised his hands up and shook his head. "I found him like that I swear."
"Yeah right. We'll let Ms. Kitazawa deal with you. Search him and tie him up."
The guards searched Roland and cuffed his arms behind his back using his own cuffs.
"Hey give me back my smokes!" Roland demanded.
"Fuck you. These are mine now." The guard flipped Roland off as he was lead into the base towards the meeting hall.
"I'll be back for my smokes you little prick! And There better not be a single one missing you hear me!" He yelled out as he was lead inside.

Roland grumbled as he was forced down on his knees in a very large open room that seemed to be used as some sort of arena. He looked around slowly and noticed the glaring eyes of all the Fire skulls that had come to watch his fate. But the thing Roland noticed the most was the age of the majority of the spectators. "They couldn't be older then twelve." He thought to himself.

A lower-ranked Skull approached the Flame Ryuujin where she was napping on the fifth floor. "Ms. Kitazawa, we've caught an outsider trying to get into the base. He had Hayate with him all beat up like. He's in the meeting room on the second floor," the member said, rousing her from her light slumber. She stretched and pulled out her phone to glance at the time. "Damn it, only got a little over an hour of shut-eye," she thought to herself as she stood up and stretched.

She motioned for the other Skull to lead the way and said, "Tell me, what's he look like? Any idea who he's with?" As they traversed the building, the member said, "No idea whose he is, but he's got a yellow shirt on and bandanna with a skull on it. Could be a Punisher." Maki paused for a brief moment before scowling. "What the hell is that cop thinking?" she wondered as they approached the meeting room.

Maki grumbled under her breath as she flung open the meeting room doors. "Shut up, the lot of ya! Now, let's see..." she said as she approached Roland. "Well, hey there Bandana Man! I heard you brought one of ours back here. Awful nice since you could've brought him to your place instead." She wasn't about to throw the guy to the wolves since he'd let her go earlier, but she wasn't about to get all chummy with him either.

She stopped a few feet in front of him and crossed her arms in front of her chest. The other Skulls could be seen muttering to one another and exchanging money, making bets on what Maki would do to the man. "Whoop his ass!" someone in the crowd shouted, and Maki shot a fiery glare at the kid. Others around the person stepped away in fear of the Ryuujin's temper, but Maki made no move to physically punish the kid, instead only shouting, "I said shut up, ya brat! Grown-ups are talking, so cram a lighter in it before I put you on scouting duty!"

Lillian looked around the building and saw that she was in an abandoned dorm building. There was a layer of dust on everything, but the graffiti on the walls told her that the building had previously been a tech skull base. "Damn it," she said quietly. She knew that there would be traps all over the old Tech Skull base. They didn't simply leave their hideouts for people to investigate. No, she knew that they would protect any secrets that may still be lurking about.

Actually, she was surprised she'd even made it into the building unharmed... that is, until she saw two corpses in the entryway. They were both Toxic Skulls from the look of them. One was full of holes, and the other had a large, jagged-tipped spear sticking through her.

Lillian looked around to see where the shots may have been fired from and saw a large harpoon gun sticking out of a hole in a counter, and several guns hanging from holes in the ceiling where tiles were missing. Looking down, she saw a laser tripwire not two inches from her left leg.

Backing away from it slowly, she stood at the doorway and took out her cell phone and took several pictures. She exited the building and took several more pictured outside of the building and surrounding area. She saved them all in a file and sent them to one of the Punisher Ryuujin. They would have to investigate the area further later.

Roland shifted into a seated position with his legs crossed. He smiled up at Maki. "Well he was closer to you guys and I just happened to be in the neighborhood and such." He looked around the room quickly and then looked back up to Maki. "Hey I don't suppose you have a cigarette on you? One of your underlings took mine at the door."

Makoto woke up from her small nap. The pain in her back still bothered her, but she gripped on a dusty desk and forced herself up on her feet. She staggered out of the building, and shook her head as the sunlight blinded her.

Dammit. I need to get back to the apartment...but I'm completely lost. Makoto sighed as she tied her jacket around her waist. "I'm not walking back to that battlefield." She turned around, and continued on her way.

That sounds like another war, Chloe thought to herself, listening to the gunfire as she leaned against the rail of the rusted fire escape, her lab top resting against her side. Wishing not at that moment, to get involved with the undergoing battle, mainly cause the fact that were guns were being used, the only weapon that Chloe had grown a dislike to. Anyone who used a gun, in her book, didn't deserve the least amount of her respect.
Making her way down the rusting fire escape stairs, taking two steps at a time every so often due to the step being broken or completely missing, Chloe starts in the opposite direction of the gunfire. If any of the tech skulls needed her, all they needed to do was reach her on her flaming cell phone that was tucked in her pocket.

{Just a small and lazy post to break my char in, figure be easier if someone wants to bump, etc into her}

KYD

Kyd stretched and slowly got out from behind the trash can, glancing both ways before fully standing up. But wait. There was someone coming his way. A Tech Skull.

Hm.

Maybe if he walked casually, she wouldn't suspect a damn thing. Sticking one hand in his pocket and doing his best to avert his eyes, he walked towards the girl and nonchalantly swiped the cellphone from inside her pocket.

Something like that...Wonder if anyone wants to buy some quick info.

Chloe had paid little attention to Kyd as he passed her. It was only after she got to one of the more decent internet cafes that still was open and had reached into her pocket to pull her cellphone out to make sure no one had been trying to call her to discover the cellphone was missing.

"Damn it." Chloe says through gritted teeth, thinking at first the cellphone must of fell out of her pocket upon the way.

Scooping her labtop up, Chloe quickly hurries to double check to see if the phone is just laying on the pavement anywhere on her journey. Only after doing a complete check, Chloe realizes what had happened, the phone must of been swiped when Kyd had passed her earlier. And for his sake, he better hope she never ran into him again cause there should surely be hell to pay.

Makoto slowly walked towards the end of the alleyway. There was a person standing still, looking quite frustrated. Makoto hid in between two dumpsters, and watched the woman.

Wonder what she's looking for. Makoto rubbed her back, and played with the small wound on her back. If she's a Skull...I don't have to waste bullets on her. She lowered her hand, and began to feel for her knife.

I'll wait and watch for now, I guess.

There was no point of crying over the lost cellphone, not like there had been much really stored on it to begin with. Anything of real importance was stored under password on the computer under her arm but that wasn't Chloe's main worry. That was the only number the school where her sister attended had in ways of contacting her.

Rummaging in her pocket, Chloe pulls a few coins out and wonders if the owner of the internet cafe she had been in would be willing to give her a lend of his cellphone to contact the school if she offered to pay the cost of the call. She would work on getting a replacement in the morning, if anyone else needed her than they could wait till then, if not, the tech skulls knew where she stayed and knew the rules, no banging on the door after nine at night. Not with a sick child staying there as well.

With a sigh, Chloe begins the walk back to the internet cafe.

Maki glared about at her subordinates, then said, "Sorry, but I don't smoke. It kinda slows you down when you can't fight for lack of breath. I'm sure someone else would be willing to help you out, though." A brief moment passed, then a couple nearly-empty packs of cigarettes were tossed in front of Roland. "So then, you got some other reason for being here? I wouldn't expect someone of your... occupation... to just drop by for pleasantries, although I do appreciate you helping out one of mine."

Lillian gritted her teeth and brought one of her wrist blades up to the bullet wound she'd gotten earlier. She carefully dug into the wound with a finger and the blade and barely managed to dislodge the chunk of metal. "Shit," she swore as she tossed the bullet into a nearby trash can. The wound bled a bit more, and she put pressure on it to stem the flow.

A couple minutes later, she fished around in her pocket for something to cover the wound. Finding nothing, she took a pillowcase off a clothes line overhead and tore it into strips, using it to dress the wound. It was a tad sloppy, but at least she wouldn't have blood trickling down her arm now. She wandered around away from the explosion site, wanting to get as far away from that psycho Skull Hunter as possible.

HAYATE

He blinked his eyes open, and after the nausea faded a bit, gingerly felt the bandage wound around his chest and shoulder. Wincing, he gathered his wits -- he was in Maki's lounge. But...how did he get here?

...There was...that man. Um. ...Didn't he look rather familiar? In all his muddled-ness, Hayate was having trouble placing his finger down on it. ...Wait.

He sat up so suddenly that the sofa seemed to threaten to dump him out from its cushions. Hayate clutched at his head for a moment before pushing himself to his feet...then promptly went sprawling across the carpeted floor.

Dammit. In his hurry to get downstairs, he had forgotten about his leg. He glanced down and saw that someone had wound another bandage around the cut, over his pants. His sandals were besides the sofa, but he couldn't be bothered to put them on.

Some few minutes later, panting, he managed to catch the last few of Maki's words, and braced himself against the doorframe. He recognized the policeman as the one who had nearly fought the angry cat a couple days ago.

"Helping? I think you're sorely, sorely mistaken. The only help he gave me was rendering me pain- and consciousness-free for...some time."

He paused, then limped over to Maki and nearly fell again, grabbing her shoulder in an attempt to steady himself. Keeping his voice down, with his hair conveniently draped (when had he lost the hairtie?) down to hide his face, he muttered in Maki's ear, "There are Skull Hunters coming this way. At least, soon."

Makoto looked over the dumpster, and noticed the frustrated woman had walked away. She stood up, and began to rush out of the alleyway. She passed by the construction site and a crumbling theater. Her apartment was only a few blocks away.

Makoto walked up the stairs, and entered her apartment. She dropped her jacket on the floor, and sat down on the single chair in front of all of her equipment. She took off her shirt, and unwrapped the bandage around her body. The wound stopped bleeding, but it still hurt Makoto whenever she moved around. She reached for her first aid kit, took out a bottle of medicine, and squeezed out its contents. She gently rubbed the ointment on her back. "Augh...at least it won't hurt as much anymore."

Makoto put her shirt back on, and resupplied her ammunition. She was one gun short, since she left her MP7 back at ground zero. Shit. I don't have another protective vest, and I don't have my other gun. Makoto cocked her handgun and holstered it.

Makoto stood up, grabbed her jacket, and walked out of her apartment.

Returning back to the internet cafe which is still pretty much dead, none of the other skull groups, as far as Chloe knew would set foot in here and she never seen a skull hunter or any member of the police force snooping around, Chloe sits the computer on the bar and explains the situation to the owner of the cafe, who lends her his cellphone without charge.

After dealing with the school and handing the cellphone back to the owner, Chloe boots the labtop up and decides to spoil the fun of the cell phone thief. In about twenty minutes, Chloe has managed to hack her cell phone's system and to be a complete ass, has set the password options on all important information with an unbreakable password.

With a smirk, Chloe sits back and thinks, Just let see how much fun you have when you or your buyer try to access any information and find there's no way of gaining access to it.

Roland shifted in his seated position and started to use his feet to rack in the cigarette packs with a cheerful grin on his face. "Well I came here to learn the truth about the explosion." Roland began to stand after some how managing to get a cigarette between his lips. "I also to give you some information depending on what I learn here. Mind you if I don't... I'll have to rid the city of the fire skulls." There was no emotion on Roland's face when he said those words yet it pained him to say it.

Makoto traveled back to the area where she and that Punisher Skull faced off. There were bodies from both the Punishers and the Hunters laid out on the floor. She spotted her MP7, picked it up and slung it over her shoulder. She walked over to one of her fallen Hunter, and examined his tactical vest. You don't need this anymore. She gently took off his vest, and put it on herself. Makoto examined the remaining bodies, and began to take off the dog tags from her fallen allies.

Makoto proceeded north, following her lead from the naive Skull. She spent a few hours investigating each of the abandoned office buildings for his hideout. There was nothing there, and most of the buildings were almost too dangerous to live in.

...You bought yourself some time, boy.

Roland looked around the room briefly. The heat Maki was generating was effecting some of the younger skulls and the looks on their faces made it easy to tell that they were afraid. "I wont lie. I'm pretty sure that the hunters will be here in force soon. And they will kill every last one of you and your families too. The police are no longer allowed to investigate the explosion and the precinct has been taken over by the hunters as well." Roland shook his head. "I came here on a... Personal matter to learn the truth. And you will tell me what I want to know. One way or another. "

Vincent blinked some looking out the window his crimson eyes looking over the area. He could hear small whispers and talk with in the group this was not going to fair well for him and or Jubeii this would be a driving point to find out what would be happening. All he knew was everyone will need to be on their guard from the hunters.

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Zaki messed with the radio his head phones around his neck green eyes looking intently at the machine before him. "Uhhh man this going to be a pain in my ass." he thought to him self as he was a little worried about getting a visit from other skull members to try and find some info he knew who was around and who would be looking but he didn't think it would be this bad he had already got word that Vincent would be stopping by and that guy scared him some. It wasn't like he was a chicken or anything it just not his style to be around crazy or anything that follows it in the end. Lifting the ear phone back up to see if he could gather up any new info to write down.

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Ashton found her way back to the bridge she happen to be sitting on early that day before anything had happened not seeing any other candy skulls around the girl sat down on the bridge leaning on the railing trying to wrap her mind around what was happening. "I wonder what is going to happen now?" she thought to her self.

Makoto left the abandoned office buildings. Damn it. What a waste of time! If I see that Skull again, I'll cut off his head for sure. She slammed her fist onto the brick wall as she walked past a few shops. I better be prepared for an ambush. His gang's probably ready for an attack by now.

Makoto returned to ground zero. She sat down, and leaned against the wall. Once again, she looked at her fallen allies.

"Huh? What's this?" There was a trail of blood leading into another alleyway. She grinned, and stood up. "Let's see where this leads to."

HAYATE

He turned around slowly, face slightly contorted by an emerging snarl. No matter how much he had wanted to stay out of this...

"And I...seeing that you're a policeman, a protector of the people...I hope you'll do your job to guard these families, right?"

He paused for a second to blow the hair out of his face, and continued, "I might not be much, but do you really think you can force us to tell you anything?!"

After checking around on the web for any new information, Chloe shuts down the labtop and stands up to go.
Outside the cafe, she pauses a few minutes to figure out which direction she wanted to take home, well, if you could call that heap of trash her landlord swear was an apartment a home. The possibility of running into Hunters was probably 50/50 which ever route she decided and more chances of running into the police, they always seemed to be like a swarm of flies. Always buzzing around and in everyone's god damn business.
Finally settling on not taking the way she first came back, Chloe heads east down the stretch of street that the cafe is on. She wouldn't head straight back to the apartment til she was sure there was no other skull members/police or hunters in the area, the last thing she wanted was for some unwelcomed guest to drop in for a visit..

Roland's hands moved from behind his back and it had seemed that the handcuffs used to restrain his hands had been undone for quite some time. He reached up and pulled out a small match book that he had stashed in the lining of his bandanna and lit his cigarette. Roland breathed in deeply and then exhaled, smoke billowing out and filling the air.

"To be honest I could care less what happens to you all. Though I will do what I can for those that are innocent in this matter." Roland placed his hands into his pants pocket. "But I suppose I should give a bit of information first. You don't have long before the hunter find you. I should know. I made sure they would find the files with the location of this place. I'd say you have less then three hours before they come here in full force."

Makoto slowly followed the trail of blood down the alleyway. At one point, the trail of blood turned into a small pool. That Skull must've stopped here for a bit, and then continued down...here. She scanned the trail of blood again, and spotted two people standing in front of a door.

Guards? That must be the base.

Makoto examined the building from the corner she stood at. It was pretty much an old building, like every other building in the city. Hmm...I wonder if I can get inside. She took to the rooftops once again, hoping to find a ventilation shaft on the roof.

Once she reached the rooftop of the neighboring building, she slipped her hand into her pocket, and took out a small device. She pressed a small button on the bottom of it, and threw it onto the rooftop of the Skulls' hideout. Makoto took out her phone, and dialed a phone number. "It's me. I've put a tracker on one of the Skull Gangs' base. Send some units over and surround the area. Wait for my signal, and we'll kill everything in there."

"Got it. Several units are in the area and are en route. ETA thirty minutes."

HAYATE

"...I'll be fine. And that's old news. That Hunter will probably be here in at most an hour. The buildings up north don't take that long to explore."

He winced, in part from the healing gash and in part from surprise at the handcuffs. This man apparently is more skilled than I had thought.

Makoto backed up a few steps, and took a deep breath. She sprinted towards the edge of the roof, and jumped across to the other rooftop, rolling out of her rough landing. Her phone vibrated in her pocket. She took it out, and flipped it open.

"Yeah?"
"Ma'am. There are two squads of four south of your position. The rest are still on their way, but they won't arrive for another twenty minutes."
"That's fine. Just tell them to get here soon, or else we risk losing the Gang. Also, tell the squads who are still far away to set up a perimeter around this block. Cover everything. Every alleyway, sewer, and rooftop. No one's escaping."
"Roger that."

Makoto's headset beeped from her utility pouch. She switched her phone out for the earpiece, and put it in her ear. "Dal Niente. This is Onyx 0-1. Granite team's also here with us. What do you want us to do?"
"There's several guards patrolling the outside of the building. Tell Granite Team to take out the guards. Do it quietly. Onyx 0-1. You and your squad are with me. Get to the rooftop. I need someone to tap the cables. I want to see what's going on inside there."

Makoto paced around the Skull Hideout's roof. She looked over the edge, and saw two dead guards, and Granite Team setting up a C4 charge on the door.

Roland laughed slightly and shock his head. "They were my cuffs after all. Funny story, I was in bed with a rather playful woman you see and..." Roland paused. "Ah never mind..." He scratched the side of his cheek and looked away. "Well anyways I guess that's suitable for my curiosity. Though I'd recommend you all hurry."

"Ma'am! We have movement behind the door!"

"Set up at the door! If a Skull comes out of there, shoot it down." Makoto radioed the Skull Headquarters. "What's the situation of the nearby Hunters?"

"We have several squads in the immediate area right now. Other available units are on the rooftops and on the streets, ready to take out any Skull fleeing the area."

The rooftop doors burst open, and Fire Skulls emerged from the building. "Weapons free!" Hunter Squad Onyx opened fire on the escaping Skulls. An explosion from the ground was triggered when some of the Fire Skulls tried exiting through the door Granite Team rigged, killing or injuring whatever was near the door.

"Shit." Makoto radioed the nearby Hunters. "All units! We have runners! We're hunting down Fire Skulls. Take caution, and open fire on all of them!" Multiple gunshots surrounding the building was heard, and several screams of fear echoed throughout the area.

Makoto looked over the side of the roof, and spotted two distinctive figures escaping on the catwalk on the side of the hideout. It's that naive boy again. And that aggressive woman that officer talked to. Without thinking, Makoto descended the fire escape, and jumped onto the catwalk, and began to pursue the two escaping Skulls.

Makoto radioed the Skull Hunter Headquarters one last time. "This is Dal. I'm in pursuit of what seems to be the Fire Skull's leader. One is a red-haired woman with bladed anklets and metal gloves. She's with an injured man who also has red hair. His body is bandaged up. I want these two alive. Notify all units to capture them if possible."

Makoto ran towards the two Fire Skulls, leaving the massacre of Fire Skulls to her comrades.

HAYATE

"Tr...trust me, I'll be fine," muttered Hayate as he nearly tipped himself off the catwalk. He glanced down to make sure the mask was still tied to his belt, then thought about the base. He wouldn't be going back anytime soon, apparently. The vest and shirt would be sorely missed.

...It wasn't as if there weren't unattended-to clothesline nearby.

"...We need to split. That woman has a grudge against me, I'm sure," he mumbled, glancing backwards

"Makoto ma'am! We need immediate assistance! I repeat, immediate assistance!" One of the hunters yelled over the radio. "Squads one through three have been eliminated by an unknown assailant wearing a bandanna with a skull pattern that doesn't match anything in our databases!" Scream could be heard over the radio and each new scream seemed to get louder and closer to the source of the hunter with the radio. "He's here! Oh god! Someone save m..." One last scream broadcasted over the radio before it fell silent.


Roland was sitting on a pile of hunters with a lit cigarette between his lips at the destroyed front entrance of the fire skulls base. Bodies of young fire skulls and hunters laid limp on the ground and in windows. Anyone who was in the area could tell that the fire skulls that were in the area were killed by the explosion. The hunters though appeared to have been mangled in a horrific manner. Their faces and limbs appeared to have been crushed and twisted.

Makoto stopped and listened to the Hunter. His panicking voice suddenly cut off from her earpiece. "Hey. Hey! What's going on?! Are you there?" The only thing that responded was the sound of static.

A man wearing a skull-print bandanna. That can't be right. Makoto looked in the direction where the two Fire Skulls ran off. She turned back and ran towards the Fire Skull's base.

Makoto walked past the corpses of Fire Skulls, and turned the corner to see the bandanna-wearing police officer sitting on a pile of fallen Skull Hunter bodies. Her eyes widened in shock, seeing the bodies of her comrades disfigured and crushed.

Makoto grit her teeth and pointed her MP7 at the police officer. "What the hell is this?!"

Once they were safely inside the next building, Maki let go of Hayate and said, "Alright, then don't let me down. I don't wanna lose any more family members today." She sprinted through the building, melting down any walls in her way with her Ryuujin powers.

Lillian was out in the market district when she heard a couple small explosions in the direction of one of the old office districts. "Wowee, there sure have been a lot of blasts going off lately!" said the vendor of the shop she was in. "I sure hope none of them Flame Skulls decide to blow up anything around here!" Lillian hummed in response as she gazed over the merchant's wares. "That would be... most troublesome," she said in an almost disinterested tone. "I'll take a pack of jerky, some bandages, and a small bottle of hundred-proof vodka."

Roland smiled at Makoto and waved at her. "Yo miss little hunter girl~" He reached down to one of the hunters and picked up a radio that was laying on him. "Did you like my little act?" He slowly stood up and started to walk off the pile of hunters. The hunters were all in the same condition but some where still alive, but barely so. "Unfortunately I went a bit overboard and I took out all the hunters before they had a chance to call you back. So I took the liberty." Roland tossed the radio at Makoto's feet and started to brush himself off. Despite the condition of the hunters there was no blood on Roland's clothes save for his shoes and the bottom of his pant legs which were gleamed a wet crimson color.

After brushing himself off Roland placed his hands in his pant pockets and exhaled smoke. "I told you I wouldn't be so kind the next time we meet."

Makoto quickly eyed at the radio that the police officer threw at her feet, and glared at the officer. She kept her sights on his head, getting slightly irritated at his smile.

"...And I said I would save a bullet for your head." Makoto noticed some of the Hunters holding onto the last threads of life they had, suffering from the injuries they sustained from the officer.

"What are you. A police officer who works with the Skull Gangs?"