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Chapter 4

The Death Corps we are

Motoko was looking at the ceiling on her room, she had her head bandaged by Haruka, as there was some kind of pact to never allow the police or the ambulances reach the inn, something about keeping the secrecy of their personal problems…

'I've lost… And now I'm honor bound to accept them… What a disgrace…' Motoko thought. Any other time she could have thought on getting revenge, on thinking in a way to escape her promise, but not this time.

'He defeated me, there is no doubt on that. I challenged him, I did set the rules, and I had the advantage with a true weapon… And I forgot that in a true battle, a warrior can make use of ANYTHING as weapon… I forgot I wasn't battling a samurai' Motoko rationalized, maybe it was all the time spent in bed, or maybe the hit moved something in her brain, but she began to think first on her faults, before looking onto anyone else

'I was overconfident, I deemed him as not worthy, and to make it worse, I fell for an insignificant taunt, what would my sister think of me now? She would send me to learn all over again with the children…' Motoko finally thought, allowing herself a small smile at the thought of sharing lessons with the children on the school. Suddenly her door opened, and Kitsune entered with a tray with some food, which was a sandwich and some water

"How are ya feeling? Is the world still spinning around ya?" Kitsune asked, placing the food at Motoko's side, the kendoka looked at her for a moment before replying

"No. Not anymore. Neither I see more objects than there truly are. May I ask why are you bringing me the food instead of Shinobu?" Motoko asked at the end, mildly surprised that it was the drunken Kitsune, and not the always attentive Shinobu, the one to attend her.

"Well… I'll put this in the softest way possible: Shinobu is utterly angry at ya, and there was a high chance of her poisoning yer food rather than attend yer wounds" Kitsune said, sounding serious and worried, instead of playful and teasing… And that alone was worrying

"That explains the bland food" Motoko deadpanned as she took a bite of the sandwich

"HEY! I MADE THAT STUFF FOR YA!" Kitsune shouted, although she snickered at the end

"Then I rather take my chances with the poison… But returning to what is important… Why is Shinobu so angry at me? I did nothing she was not aware I would do" Motoko asked, one thing was to have wronged Haruka, another entirely different was to wrong the young cook

"I don't know. Maybe she has a crush on him, maybe she has seen him before, maybe he just helped her with the groceries… Maybe… Just maybe… She was at Hokkaido five years ago…" Kitsune replied, but the last part came out as a whisper

"What does Hokkaido have to do with anything?" Motoko asked curious about the last part, for she could imagine Shinobu being tricked into liking Keitaro through a simple show of chivalry

"Nothing! Nothing at all… Anyway, some friends of the new managers are going to arrive soon, with their personal stuff. I'm telling you this because it's for the best of your health to not go out of this room while they are here… In fact… I think it would be best if all of us remain here while they are here…" Kitsune stated, trying to evade any explanation about Hokkaido. Motoko noticed this, but decided not to press on it for the time begin

Later that day…

Against all beliefs, Motoko didn't allowed everyone into her room, so, from their respective windows, Naru and Kitsune watched how a truck made it's way up to Haruka's tea shop. The truck was loaded with numerous boxes, most of them pretty large, and with many writings in several languages. From the truck, two men and one woman came out, and greeted Keitaro and Sheva as they went to meet them.

"More men invading our home… I'll make you pay, Keitaro, I'll make you pay dearly for this…" Naru muttered as she saw how the entire group began to move the boxes to the inn

"And here I was saving these papers to gloat in the fact that I wrote for a renown newspaper… I prefer these papers turned to ashes than I explaining why I have them to the new manager… I love life and getting drunk, I'm too young to die in such gruesome ways…" Kitsune muttered, while setting fire to some newspapers that negated the incident in Hokkaido as a bio-terrorism attack, and the contract that linked her to the newspapers.

"BOSS! SHEVA!" Michele shouted as she ran to hug the pair, she was glad to see them again so soon, just as the other two, but she was more expressive

"It is good to see that you got such a beautiful land to retire. It makes an excellent place to defend" Hakim stated, giving a look to the area, hard to reach, only one entrance, a very good fort

"Why don't we all retire here?" Josip asked, laughing at the end

"It's good to see you all in good spirits, but you can't stay here yet. I haven't fully inherited the place, so I can't welcome more men yet… You can stay though, Michele, just don't tease or torture to other girls" Keitaro welcomed the gang, although they suddenly shared shocked expressions

"GIRLS?" The three asked at the same time

"Yes, Keitaro inherited the Hinata-sou, an all-girls dormitory. Please refrain from doing some dirty jokes, as we have some underage girls and a pair of man-haters" Sheva explained

"Who wanna bet the Boss bags them in less than a month?" Josip asked

"The underage girls ot the man-haters?" Hakim asked

"Obviously both!" Michele added, earning a lot of laughs, and a sweat drop from Sheva

Motoko was curious, she was up and watching the interaction between Keitaro, Sheva and the strangers. Their speaking mannerisms were crude, and irreverent, but there was something absolutely clear, Keitaro was the leader, whatever he said, was carried as an order, even when Josip was the eldest, or when Hakim seemed more experienced, or Michele smarter. Motoko had to wonder though, how did Keitaro earn such loyalty?

"Keitaro, I'm not that weak and you know it, I can carry my own stuff!" Sheva complained, for Keitaro forbid her from anything that required more strength than the required to lift a watermelon

"Until that baby is out and healthy, you will not go through any risk" Keitaro replied, making Sheva put and the strangers to chuckle. Motoko had mixed feelings, on one side, she hated how he treated her, like the frailest thing of the world, on the other side, she couldn't blame his way of thinking, as he was trying to protect both his wife and his unborn child

"I think it's cute. He truly loves her and will protect her at all costs" Shinobu said, she too was watching, she too was forbidden to help, albeit the strangers told her that she was too little to handle the boxes

"But what do they have inside? Bananas? Something edible? BANANAS?" Su asked, and Sheva thought that it would be better to tell them what was inside

"Most of the cargo are Keitaro's toys, the rest is just some standard gear for us to properly start our lives here" Sheva replied, using the most appropriate term she could think of

"Toys?" Motoko asked now

"Yes, toys" Sheva deadpanned, although her tone denoted them to be most dangerous things

"Like guns, explosives and robots?" Su asked with a dreamy expression. Sheva was about to answer, when a sudden thought forced her to ask something to Keitaro first

"Sweetheart, did Thompson allow you to bring the robot dummies?" Sheva asked, earning a dreadful face from Motoko

"No. He wanted them to train the new recruits. A shame though, I'll need new moving targets" Keitaro replied, and then went to help bringing the boxes to their room

"Well, there goes your answer" Sheva said now to Su, who had a thoughtful expression

"Does that mean that the contents are guns and explosives?" Motoko had to ask, she wasn't exactly afraid of a gun, giving the fact that the most dangerous gun that she has ever seen was a cal. 38 revolver from the police officers… But these were soldiers, and something in her brain told her that policemen revolvers were like toy guns for these people

"You already have your oversized knives, so don't come to ask for toys you can't even hold" Sheva said with a teasing smile, and then went to her room, so she at least decides how to place things

When all the boxes were placed inside the managers room, Josip and Hakim were invited to the tea shop, while Michele was allowed to stay and help to unpack. Shinobu and Su were allowed to stay, so long they didn't touch anything dangerous, while Motoko went to the tea shop, using the excuse of going there to support Haruka, should the men misbehaved.

"Wow! That is a great collection of toys!" Su shouted in joy. Keitaro had everything, passing from a wide arrange of modern and old handguns to the portable Gatling gun, passing from shotguns, sub machine guns, machine guns and lots of grenades of all colors

"Indeed it is! Of course this will need a lot of maintenance and care, these toys may look though, but they need love too" Keitaro stated, and then they noticed that Shinobu was looking at a shotgun in particular

"Something wrong, little one?" Sheva asked to the young cook, then she looked at the shotgun, it was the Ithaca 37 that Keitaro used on the mission at Hokkaido, it had no buttock, but a pistol like handle, engraved with a pair of wings, and the words 'Angelo Guardiano' marked along the cannon. Shinobu wanted to reach for the battered old weapon, for her it was like watching Excalibur, a holy weapon that once was used to protect her life. Suddenly Keitaro reached for it, he checked the chamber, and then handed it to the little cook

"Here, so long you keep it clean and don't try to load and shot it, you can keep it" Keitaro sweetly said, much to the surprise of the others. Shinobu turned red, and with shaky hands she took a hold of the shotgun, and while muttering a silent thank you, she kissed Keitaro's cheek, and then ran to her room

"She is very affectionate, isn't she?" Keitaro asked, smiling dumbly at the show of affection

"She is the one from Hokkaido, isn't she?" Sheva suddenly asked, along with a rising need to hug the young girl

"She has been the only one to call me Angel, I can part with one of my prized guns if she stops having nightmares" Keitaro said with a sad voice

"How do you know she has nightmares?" Su suddenly asked, so far she was sure that only she knew about those

"Because no one can survive what she survived, and have no scars on the soul" Michele replied, and Su proposed herself to discover what happened in Hokkaido

At the tea shop

Josip and Hakim were laughing at all the stories that Haruka told them about Keitaro, of course Haruka didn't tell them the most embarrassing ones, just the funny tales of the clumsy nephew he was. Motoko for her part was confused, she just couldn't place the man that smashed her head on the roof in the image of the sweet boy that Haruka was talking about

"And then he made this childish promise of meeting her at the Toudai when they become older!" Haruka said, smiling at the memory, and cherishing that her nephew had moved on, and not becoming obsessed with such promise

"We should find her, and present her to Sheva!" Hakim said between laughs

"OOOHHHHHHH! It would be better than the time we stopped at Sofia, my town! My daughters surely were hard to control!" Josip said, laughing hard at the fond memory

"I remember it, it is always fun to watch the Boss being all flustered!" Hakim said now, and bot kept laughing for a long time… Until Motoko had to ask what was bugging her

"Even with all the disrespect you keep showing, you keep calling him boss, which denotes that he is of a higher rank. How did Keitaro become your leader? You are older and obviously much more experienced than him, any of you could be a better leader than a young man" Motoko asked, and all laughter was gone, the faces on Josip and Hakim were the faces of fierce soldiers ready to rip the head off from whoever dared to badmouth their commander

"The Major may look young, but he is by far the most experienced, the best choice to lead the unit, none of us would be here talking if he wasn't there to fight and win, not even you or your friends" Hakim said, sounding vengeful. Motoko was baffled, she didn't know that the new manager was that important

"Anyway, if you want to hear the story, you better sit down. Now listen well, for this starts the day we died…" And so, Josip began to tell them the history of their first meeting…

Two and half years ago, a few miles away from the City of Pala, Leboa-Seko…

Inside Mike's bar, three persons were, for the lack of a better word, holed up. They were armed, they were high on caffeine, and they were ready… the three of them knew that this day they were going to die

"Well, we had a long life full of emotions and excitement, so, let's take as many of them as possible before going down" Josip said, while checking that his Flame thrower and grenade launcher were at full capacity

Just yesterday, Marty and Warren helped the APR to finally eradicate the UFLL, this was supposed to help in their mission to find and kill the Jackal, instead of that, the APR declared them terrorists, and ordered their immediate executions.

"Do you think that Marty and Warren will make it?" Michele asked, she liked the young lads, and she hoped that at least they were able to succeed on rescuing the people at the church in Pala.

Marty and Warren could have helped the other mercs, but they were contacted by the good doctor, who requested their help to move the children and women out of the city. They split from the main group, and went to help the poor people of the city, not knowing that it was a trap too.

"They have a better chance than us now let's put a barricade, if we are going down today, let's make them work hard to do it" Hakim finally said, and then they began to move vending machines and fridges toward doors and windows, so they can make a decent last stand…

Outside the bar…

The first soldiers had arrived, they were just half a dozen, their mission was to make sure that the targets were inside, so the full army can obliterate them… They never expected someone to fall from the sky and on their truck… They also never expected that the one who fell on their truck from the sky would be alive…

"Damn! The cord failed… Next time no parachute for me. I end falling directly into the ground anyway" Keitaro said as he raised to his feet

"W-Who are you?" One of the soldiers asked, already pointing his AK-47 against Keitaro, maybe it was the fact that he fell from the sky and was unharmed, or maybe it was the shotgun at his back and the pistol at his side, but to the soldiers, the young man in front of them was menacing nonetheless.

"That's right, you must be the local army… My name is Lt. Keitaro Urashima, and I'm here to investigate the traffic of bio-terrorism weapons. The BSAA has no interest in the local politics or balance of power, but the existence of bio weapons must be eliminated" Keitaro explained, but got immediately shot in the head

"You stupid Americans! You think you can come and take what we need to gain what we want?" One of the soldiers, the one who shot him, shouted… Just to receive the shock of his life

"I'm Japanese, not American. And shooting one member of the BSAA is a clear act of terrorism, for we are a branch of the UN, we protect the world, not only one country" Keitaro explained, and then got a few more shots in the chest

"Die already!" Another soldier shouted, just to get a shot in the head, this time by a beretta 9mm, and unlike Keitaro, he fell to the ground to never rise up again

"It seems that the locals are hostile, I'll have to report this to Thompson" Keitaro said, and then looked at the remaining soldiers, who immediately opened fire against him, but only earned shots in the head

Inside the bar, the three mercs slowly opened one of the windows, for the gunfire wasn't against them. They watched the young lad outside, and prompted him to enter with them. Keitaro obliged, and found on them a rich source of information. From they he learned about the Jackal, about the current struggle of powers… and of a nice cargo on special weapons.

"It seems like I hit the jackpot" Keitaro happily said, if the information as accurate, he will go home early, or maybe he will hit a nice pub in a nearby city or country, but he will get some nice time to relax and take a picture of the place for his photo album

"Whatever you say. We need to survive the attack that it's to come, and you are already heavily injured. Better call your army, so someone else can finish your job" Michele said, thinking that the poor guy was walking in pure adrenaline, and that he was about to drop dead at any given second. Soon the sound of trucks was heard, signaling the arrival of the APR army

"The BSAA is in need of new recruits. If I help you all out, will you join?" Keitaro asked. Thompson gave him the authority to recruit in the battlefield, should the need arises, knowing that his missions where 100% deadly

"Sonny, if you can get us out of this, we'll follow you to the hell if you want" Josip said

"Agreed" Hakim was quick to agree

"I'll even give you a good time, but unless you can summon an army now, we are doomed!" Michele said, but got her reply in a diabolic grin from Keitaro

"You just stay here, I'll clear the path for you" Keitaro simply said, and then took Michele's machete, and walked outside…

The Devil is here…

Keitaro walked out, machete in hand. The APR soldiers didn't know what to do at first, seeing a young man walking against them with only a blade in hand, they knew what to do when one of their own walked toward him… and got decapitated in the moment. Everyone opened fire against him, but it was futile, they weren't fighting a man…

He came for your blood…

He charged against them all, everyone a terrorist, everyone an enemy of his beloved ones, everyone a risk for his beloved sister, his beloved aunt, and his beloved granny. All of them will have no mercy, for they decided to have none

He came for your flesh…

Limbs and heads began to fly on the battlefield, blood began to run into the ground, which quickly turned red, broken guns were scattered all around, countless bullets flew against Keitaro, but the angel of death was only picking APR soldiers

He came for your life…

One by one they fell, but at a frightening speed, by the time one of the soldiers recharged the weapon, five of his comrades were slain in a ruthless way, it was a nightmare, and there was no guarantee of waking up by being slain

He came for your soul…

Josip, Hakim and Michele watched from the window, unable to believe the scene unfolding before them. They knew they were going to day this day, it was their time, but they had to wonder, if this was for the better, or for the worse, for only the devil could do what they were seeing, which means that they had just sold their souls to the Devil… to Keitaro

He came for you, in the shape of an Onslaught…

"Mercenaries, I did what we agreed to, now lead the way to Pala. The wicked resides there, their weapons of corruption are with them. And it's my duty to turn them to dust, for dust they are, and in dust I'll turn them all" Keitaro said with an ominous voice. Yes, they had just sold their souls to the devil… not that the heaven would open the gates for them… but this was unexpected

Back to the present…

"Amen!" Both Josip and Hakim said to finish the tale, and Haruka and Motoko shared the same shocked expressions, this wasn't the Keitaro that Haruka kept talking about, and this wasn't the Keitaro that defeated Motoko in the roof

"If this is true… Then… He was restraining himself when he defeated me?" Motoko voiced her shock

"Kiddo, if you truly fought him, then you were taken down by his mere hand shake, WHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Josip laughed, hard, and Motoko almost fainted

Inside the inn…

"You? In the university? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Michele laughed, hard, and Keitaro only rolled his eyes, he couldn't blame her, even he had a hard time to picture himself behind a student desk, changing his live ammo for rubber rounds, if only to not say good bye to his faithful companions

"You know, it's not funny" Keitaro suddenly said, and Michele stopped her laughter, suddenly afraid of her contract expiring all of a sudden

"Damn it! Stop looking at him as if he is the Devil! You are soldiers, not cultists!" Sheva reprimand the French soldier, but it had no effect. Michele was about to reply that it was exactly the opposite, when Keitaro's phone began to rang

"Yes? Oh! Hi Ark!" Keitaro greeted, but then his face turned serious

"I see… Well, this time I have the perfect cover. I'll enter the Toudai" Keitaro stated, grinning evilly, but the grin was suddenly replaced by an annoyed face

"No. I'm not going to enter as a teacher, but as a student… Don't give me that, you know I don't kill kids… Those were infected! Wait a second! What? Ok… I guess that can work… just don't let any of this information get out, I don't want granny Hina to think that this was a complete charade just keep on the mission" Keitaro stated in an all business voice, just to sweat drop at some kind of reply

"No Ark. It wasn't a charade, just a nice coincidence" Keitaro said, although it sounded… fake. The call was soon over, and Sheva looked at him expecting a briefing

"Our target has been spotted accepting a job as a teacher in the Toudai. My entrance has been guaranteed, so I'm attending school this year" Keitaro said with a depressed face, he truly wanted to enter on his own, not by sabotage

"ZN has been spotted? This is serious, and many lives will be in danger, are we getting any back up?" Sheva asked, their target was dangerous, and has endanger many innocents in the past

"But of course… Michele, tell Josip and Hakim that their dream of opening a bar has been granted, we will discuss the location later" Keitaro said, and the French soldier ran toward the tea shop, with a face of bliss

"You can't be serious! Are you really going to establish the Death Corps here in Japan? The collateral damage will be colossal!" Sheva shouted, for she didn't like the idea of such a violent group to roam around her baby in such an early stage

"Leon and Mike are busy in California, stopping the end of the world. Would you prefer me to call Jill, Rebecca and Chris?" Keitaro asked back, holding the phone for more impact. But Sheva was already hugging him and slowly taking away the phone

"No, Sweetheart. I'm sorry for doubting your wise judgment" Sheva said, and then began to kiss Keitaro senseless. She could live with Chris nearby, he was just a grizzly bear with an awesome accuracy, but Jill and Rebecca? The two of them had shown a sick crush for Keitaro, and while she was not against sharing him from time to time, these two would not hand him back if she let them touch him

Above them, through a hole in their ceiling, Naru had overheard them. The idea of them making out and being about to have sex was intolerable, but the idea of Keitaro entering in the Toudai by cheating was driving her insane… This information will be the first step on her revenge…

Magnus: Well, I hope you liked it, and maybe you have a slight idea of who is this ZN, if not, you'll learn about him in the next chapters, see ya until then!