[ continued from
Lie In Wait + Get Out ]
SAMURAI
Setting: Streets of Rome. Sirens can be heard in the distance. Aya has escaped from the café, but Serpenti has picked up his trail...
Serpenti: *walking* If it were us, we would escape into a crowd. Because we can use all the people as a shield from the bullets. It's a logic that even a child would understand. But you were different. You purposely fled to a place where there weren't any people. Is it a sense of humanism, because you don't want to embroil innocent people into your dilemma? Or...is this the way a samurai fights? Hehehe. It's no use where you hide yourself. It emanates from you, Aya...your bloodlust...I can feel it on my skin. I know you're hiding right there!! *starts shooting*
Aya: *jumps out from his hiding place with a yell, wielding whatever weapon he could find*
Serpenti: You can't do a thing with some wooden stick!
They fight, and Aya manages to immobilize him long enough to make a dash for the street. A vehicle pulls up with a screech...
Omi: Aya-kun!!
Ken: Aya!! Hurry, get in!
Serpenti: AYA!!!!! *yells after him and shoots at the vehicle as it drives off*
In the truck...
Omi: Are you ok, Aya-kun? Are you injured?
Aya: I'm fine.
Ken: It's a good thing he's a crappy shot.
Aya: No...it seems like he missed on purpose.
Ken: Missed on purpose? Why?
Aya: I don't know.
Back in the alley...
Serpenti: If that weren't a wooden stick but a katana, my hand would have been sliced right off. Aya...let's just say that makes us even.
Fortuna
Setting: Meanwhile in another part of town, Yohji and Tiffone have escaped from the hotel and are driving away.
Yohji: *sighs* Look at this. My Armani suit is all tattered! That damn Madarella! If it weren't for a mission like this, they'd never buy me these things.
Tiffone: Oh? Weiss lets you expense clothes? Maybe I should transfer there.
Yohji: Please, by all means. A woman like you, we'll accept with open arms, any time! By the way...what do you wanna do about continuing where we left off?
Tiffone: Eh?
Yohji: Tell me. What do I need to whisper in order to touch your black hair?
Tiffone: Hmm. I wonder. If it's this black hair you want to touch, you can say whatever you want. I'll take it off now.
Yohji: Take it off?
Tiffone: *pulls out the hairpins and removes her wig*
Yohji: H...Hey!
Tiffone: *tosses it at him* There you go! Knock yourself out.
Yohji: It was a wig??
Tiffone: My face might be known to Madarella, so I have to be extra careful with my disguises and makeup.
Yohji: Are you...?
Tiffone: Hmm?
Yohji: Er...nevermind.
Tiffone: Don't start to say something and then stop.
Yohji: It's really nothing. I just...had a really stupid thought right now.
Tiffone: "Maybe she's actually...a man?"
Yohji: Eh...
Tiffone: Looks like I was right.
Yohji: Nah...it's just, you leapt right into that room, even though you could've been killed. Not only that, but with a die hard, John Cage kind of action. So it just crossed my mind. Forget it. Looking at you, you're obviously a woman.
Tiffone: *sighs* I guess it's still no use. Since I was a man for longer.
Yohji: Eh?? *swerves*
Tiffone: Hey! Watch the wheel!
Yohji: Aaah!
Tiffone: Be careful!!
Yohji: It's because you say weird things!
Tiffone: It's nothing weird. I was a man up until just recently.
Yohji: So you...?
Tiffone: Yup. I had a sex change. I was transgendered.
Yohji: So you had the body of a man...but the mind of a woman?
Tiffone: I hated god for doing this to me... Why did he make the body of a man first, and put in the mind of a woman later? When I was a child, I couldn't understand why I couldn't wear a skirt or a dress. I believed that maybe when I grew up, I could wear them, just like my mother. But...
Yohji: Guess that couldn't have happened.
Tiffone: Yeah.
Yohji: Sorry about that...I didn't mean to make you talk about something painful.
Tiffone: No...I'm the one who should apologize. Thanks to you, I was able to steal some top secret information from Madarella's computer. In the manner of prestidigitateur.
Yohji: Presti...?
Tiffone: A magician. You keep the audience's eyes on your right hand, and remove the catch with your left.
Yohji: So I was the bait?
Tiffone: *laughs* Don't worry, I have a present for you. On this DVD Rom, you'll find the treasure map you're looking for.
Yohji: The place where Taizen's hiding?
Tiffone: Most likely.
Yohji: I'm Yohji.
Tiffone: And I'm Tiffone. Well, it's just a name I came up with myself.
Yohji: Tiffone, huh? It's a nice name.
Tiffone: Thank you.
Weiss regroups at Fortuna's headquarters.
Yohji: Hmmm. It's just like a regular office building.
Ken: They build some huge ass building in the middle of the city and call themselves a secret organization? The Italians are definitely pretty bold.
Jack: That's why I've got a problem with stupidity.
Ken: What's up with you??
Omi: Ken-kun!
Aya: To hide a leaf, you'll choose the forest.
Jack: It's common sense.
Ken: I know that!! That's why we run a flower shop in Japan.
Jack: Your boss is waiting for you in this room. *opens the door*
Manx: You're late.
Omi: Manx!
[ continues in
Calculation + Affection + Second Mission ]