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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 14, 2011 3:05:05 GMT -5
Tachi sighs. "Let me explain to you a bit about institutional design. See, institutions, like the 'legitimate businessmen' you are a 'consultant' for, need to manage risk, among them legal risk. It's one thing to enforce gambling debts with a little broken fingers; gambling's illegal, victim's afraid, not a big deal. It's another thing entirely to go after high school kids. Get everyone involved the death penalty. 'Specially when those high school kids are willing to go to war. These hypothetical people ain't just below the Yakuza's honor code to target in the first place, if the 'legitimate businessmen' fail to get rid of them, they look like bitches. Other gangs step in. And people who have been witnesses to multiple assassination attempts? Who ain't afraid of going to the cops? Who ain't afraid of assassins since thus far all they've done is failed and exposed the weakness of the family? Well... That's a real threat. Seems to me that the prudent thing to do would be to find some policy that gave everyone what they wanted."
Tachi turns his seat around. "Seems like someone who works for them might find it good job security not to make veiled threats in a public place and instead tell their bosses that they have one last chance to back off before everything comes crashing down. The Soviets thought in Finland that outnumbering a-hundred-to-one was enough. Each Finn took ten Soviets with em. I can promise you that these hypothetical high school kids, before they go down, will take a hundred men and a million dollars each".
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 14, 2011 14:32:00 GMT -5
Everyone at the table looks more than a little surprised at the long dialouge that Tachi rattles off. Izuho and Nabushin look at one another confused as to weather or not this confrontation is a good or bad one. The present female company has a look of surprise and admiration on her face and now looks eagerly to the enemy present. Said enemy does not give away nearly as much as the other three in his facial expression but even he seems a bit taken aback.
"I think you overestimate your chances Mr. Inazuka" he says folding his arms in front of him. "Especially considering you've survived so far in part through your father's reputation. Something the other members of Yuu's former clique didn't benefit so much from".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 15, 2011 4:14:25 GMT -5
"Let's talk about that. What do you think happens if I die? An innocent who offered you a chance to back off? War would have to happen. Only bitches go after high school kids. You'd expose everyone to risk. In the hypothetical where these honest businessmen make this mistake, we're willing to go all out. I've had my dream. I'm not afraid of anything anymore. And if I let you kill kids, I wouldn't want to live with myself. Tell your bosses it's time to back off, or it's time to expect unacceptable losses. And even if they win, they and everyone they love will die. Just like Yuu was going to."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 15, 2011 12:45:56 GMT -5
The guy smirks at the last part before going on.
"You seem to be operating on the assumption that we need to take care of you and your friends before taking care of our true targets. As for you and your friends don't go thinking any of you are of any true importance. Though you are getting in our way currently this is still an affair between the children of "honest business men" he says uncrossing his hands and taking out a cigarette.
"If our fathers have anything to say about any of this personally I trust you of all people realize how insignificant we'll ALL be. Honestly I think you'd keep more people safe you would consider backing off yourselves" he inhales closing the right part of his mouth and opens the left to exhale the smoke.
"Some of them might even be spared".
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 15, 2011 13:53:35 GMT -5
"Doesn't matter if we're true targets, and doesn't matter if you don't attack us one more time. We ain't budging. I'm not going to sit idly by and let high school kids get pulled into the life. I'd think that your new bosses would show any code of honor and let them go. If they ever get back into the life, I won't do a damn thin' to stop anything from happening. Seems your bosses forgot that the life has rules. And if they keep up forgetting, I'll make sure everyone in the life knows they forgot the rules".
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 19, 2011 1:23:42 GMT -5
The present company holds up his hands and shrugs.
"I can see that talking with you is pointless. Just continue whatever you are doing and this will all come to an end soon enough" he says upon exhaling another gray and cloudy breath. As he gets up he shoots a look to each of the other three in turn. "Rest assured we will not loose interest in you as we have them. Koushei, Aiko and the Mitsune couple are proof enough of that".
He gets up and begins to walk away when the girl gets up from her seat.
"Tough talk for someone who walks up on us, drops a failed threat and then tries to walk away. What makes you think we'll just let you leave?" she calls. This seems to surprise the guy causing him to stop and wheel around where he stands to face the four of you again.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 19, 2011 2:50:42 GMT -5
Tachi shrugs. "I was gonna let you go, be a messenger to your bosses... But she's right. You need a beating. That'll be a great message. Your bloody, battered, bruised body will tell them that we have no problem putting them into the hospital."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 19, 2011 12:39:28 GMT -5
"Y-yeah!" Nabushin says standing up in his seat. Izuho following suit. "We're not going to let a murderer just walk outta here!".
Izuho and Nabushin move to his left to cut him off as the girl moves to the right. Your antagonist simply watches them move into place, the rest of the room seeming to have little to no objections to this sudden display.
"Fine" he says taking his hands out of his pockets and allowing them to rest at either side of him. "Then you will follow sooner rather than later". Despite bold words he does not take the first action, as Tachi has seen before.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 19, 2011 14:16:05 GMT -5
Tachi waits for someone else's action, circling around, waiting for him to commit to something so he can show off his new tiger claw combination or the power of the Volcano Punch.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 20, 2011 15:20:54 GMT -5
The present female dashes forward eagerly lashing out with the ends of her hands, index and middle fingers pointed out and the rest clustered inward to form the iconic snake style strike!
Utilizing a variant of the mantis style the man hooks the wrist beyond the attack and throws it aside with a variant of mantis style. He even manages to throw away the second attack as well, an almost instant follow up. Nabushin and Izuho get on either side of the assassin and try to double slide tackle only to have their target take a short hop backwards that puts the two of them between himself and his primary attacker.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 20, 2011 15:27:04 GMT -5
Tachi takes advantage of the rushing clash of motion and goes for a savate kick, trying to pass it right through both of them and get him in the leg moving towards the groin.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 20, 2011 16:21:02 GMT -5
The assassin pivots back on his right foot in preparation for the attack. Picking up on the nature of the attack (or perhaps just being familiar with savate) he maneuvers himself so as to only take a grazing scuff to the knee. Having minimized his target area he makes a simple matter out of knocking the foot aside with a downward swoop of his left arm. THEN he puts the same left arm under the calf and grabs onto the foot with his right hand yanking Tachi up and shoving him backwards. Though it causes Tachi to stumble a bit he does not fall due to his sturdy nature.
The present female attempts to jab at the assassin's exposed left side immediately after he disengages with Tachi. He brings his arm into himself blocking the first half of her efforts. As the assassin launches his own snake-style strike in retaliation with the same arm her second follow up attack hits him where the first did not. Causing him to waver.
"Mimicry is dangerous" she taunts.
Nabushin gets up and preforms a roundhouse kick aimed at the assassin's back while Izuho switches legs so as to put his left in front of him and his right in back of him and initiates a sweep kick! The attacks come so quickly that the assassin's only recourse is to roll forward which succeeds in avoiding the attacks. However it puts him less than two feet in front of Tachi.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 20, 2011 22:09:06 GMT -5
Tachi rears his fast back and goes for a Volcano Punch straight to the face. He wants this guys' injuries to be prominent and public.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 24, 2011 23:10:53 GMT -5
Tachi's enemy tries to drop back to the floor on his back but underestimates the length of Tachi's arm and is caught right in the face with a devestating Volcano Punch! Tachi can feel his opponents nose break under the impact as the assassin's body bounces off of the floor before coming to a more definite stop.
In this instance the female company holds her own action allowing Nabushin and Izuho to go next. The two look at each other, nod, and rush to either side of the fallen assassin initiating elbow drops from the left and right sides of him simultaneously. "Hiup!" "Hooh!" The targeted assassin rocks himself backwards and halfway through links that into a backwards roll, in so doing he manages to mitigate the larger portion of Izuho and Nabushin's attacks as the elbows bounce off his moving body.
Holding his nose with his left the assassin turns towards the present female who launches her own attack now that he is closer. Due to his anticipating this the assassin is able to move his right in the way of her finger strike in a similar manner to Tachi's sticky hands! Thwarting the attack he then launches a counter kick! At the same time the assassin's target launches kick of her own that comes around the outside smacking the assassin in the back of the head as he kicks straight into her underarm.
The exchange leave both dizzy and with the assassin still in control of one of her arms.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2011 13:48:01 GMT -5
Tachi charges forward, hoping that in the confusion immediately after the kick with the man's eyes welling up after the broken nose he'll be able to grab either one or both arms.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 25, 2011 16:51:48 GMT -5
Tachi finds that his opponent is not nearly as off-kilter as he would have liked to find. Using a back kick that is somewhat remeniscent of karate he smashes his foot into Tachi's stomach preventing him from closing in all the way.
Nabushin tries to tackle him from the assassin's right only to have him throw his bound contestant by the wrist into his path! Nabushin pulls back so as not to crash into her. Izuho throws a handfull of small poppers into the assassin's face! The assassin tries to duck them but to no avail! The poppers snap and crackle right in his face causing him to momentarily take his hand from his nose to wipe his eyes.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2011 23:39:23 GMT -5
Tachi hopes that the combination of the poppers and the distractions will either let him get the extended leg and control it with Sticky Hands or get the hands again.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 26, 2011 12:26:46 GMT -5
The poppers distract him enough to leave the slightest gap in which Tachi establishes an excellent grip on the assassin's leg. He more grabs it out of a defensive position that it had not quite settled into its prior defensive position.
With his leg held and his other hand momentarily occupied the present female swoops in. With one hand she casts aside the assassin's un-occupied hand and with the other riddles his front and sides with a volley of hard finger-tip oriented strikes! The damage causes the assassin to waver just long enough for Izuho and Nabushin to grab him on either side in a dual bear hug.
Completely held in place the assassin curses loudly. "FUCK!"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 26, 2011 13:06:55 GMT -5
Tachi begins kicking the man on the ground and tweaking but not spraining the ankle, carefully calibrating the damage he does to prove a point but not do permanent damage. "Get the point now, idiot? This will happen to every assassin they bring. Bones will break, necks will snap, until the only people left are your bosses."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 28, 2011 11:57:55 GMT -5
Even as Tachi holds back the force of his blows reverberate across the assassin's flesh. Nasty pops and crunches can be heard across the restaurant keeping any would-be rubbernecking patrons in their seats with eyes straight ahead.
"You idiot..." the assassin coughs in between blows "you still don't...get it...". His next words are stifled by more hits as Tachi royally beats down. After a while Nabushin and Izuho release the guy seeing as how he can barely stand in his new condition. Thoroughly brutalized the assassin limps off with little more than a backwards glance.
"That was really impressive" the present female compliments Tachi while gently wrapping her arms around him. "Will you deal with the others like that?" she asks, her hazel eyes staring deeply into Tachi's.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 30, 2011 23:08:22 GMT -5
Tachi says, "You shouldn't be impressed. That was disgusting", looking back into her eyes. "But yes, I think we have to. We have to make clear that, pound for pound, the amount of damage we can inflict is so great as to be unacceptable". Tachi was glad that, deep within him, he felt nothing but revulsion at what he had to do.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Jan 31, 2011 12:30:38 GMT -5
The present female looks a little dissapointed but also a little confused. However this takes a back seat to more pressing matters as the three are immediately approached by a middle aged man in what can only be described as managerial attire.
"Excuse me. I really need you three to leave and not come back. Teenagers brawling with organized criminals isn't exactly covered by my insurance if you know what I mean" he hisses motioning towards the main door.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 31, 2011 22:45:58 GMT -5
Tachi shrugs. "Make sure your clientele aren't Yakuza in the future, might make this happen less often. Let's go." Tachi wonders about this girl. Does she want him to brutalize people?
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Post by blacktothefuture on Feb 2, 2011 18:28:50 GMT -5
"Get bent Ichimari!" Nabushin calls behind him as the group exits the restaurant.
"I guess there's no going back now. But what do we do next? and what about the others being targeted?" Izuho asks as the group exits onto a moderately busy street. Businessmen and average teens intermingle to complete the scene of a standard japanese street.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 2, 2011 22:03:39 GMT -5
Tachi says, "We need recon. We need to find a way of getting information on the Yakuza so we can start being proactive."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Feb 3, 2011 13:45:17 GMT -5
"Sounds dangerous" the present female chimes in low and slow. "How do you intend to do that?"
"It'll be tough. Yuu was our only real contact and it's not like that'll work anymore" Nabushin says half to the group half to himself.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 4, 2011 1:58:10 GMT -5
"Then we find new ones. We can float some money, that talks. We can look to buy some stolen merchandise. Or we can just ask around. Once we hear about the places in town where people shouldn't go, won't be that hard to find".
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Post by blacktothefuture on Feb 5, 2011 13:46:27 GMT -5
"We should start on Chuo street, their business district has been heating up lately" the present female mentions.
"Yeah! I heard something about that just the other day" Nabushin nods. "Some guy's trying to start a monopoly on Royal Gin brand liquor, a really popular brand among the rich community, and nobody's stepping in to stop it. People have been speculating about why and the top theory is that they're backed by Yakuza."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 5, 2011 14:56:43 GMT -5
"Makes sense. If we screw with their alcohol business, we can send a message. The ultimate attack is on their pocketbooks."
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Post by blacktothefuture on Feb 6, 2011 1:06:39 GMT -5
"So how are we gonna do it?" she asks.
"Yeah, how are we gonna approach them? The two of us" Nabushin motions to him and Izuho "aren't exactly conspicuous. Being on the black list and all".
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