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Previously: 

They stood up and started running towards Tokei’s car, who then drove it to where the plane had crashed.

‘I’m getting a weird sense of deja-vu.’ Aoki muttered. 

…

Aoki Miru - Ability: Psychic Empath

‘Have we seen this plane before?’ Tokei asked.

‘98% of the planes we’ve seen were shattered to pieces, so I doubt it.’ Aoki replied.

‘Well, I think I know who’s plane this is.’ Tokei said, nodding to a bright green piece of debris they drove by.

‘Fucking [censored]’ Suisen muttered. ‘Sorry.’ she added.

‘No, it’s okay.’ Aoki mumbled. ‘Any curse word is allowed when talking about that bitch-ass Italian.’

‘I thought we agreed on calling him an emo-fucker.’ Tokei muttered back, looking at the road ahead.

‘There’s not enough curse words in the Japanese language to describe him.’ Aoki replied.

Ranpo and Tanizaki watched with a grin, whilst Atsushi, who was uncomfortably squeezed in the middle of the backseats, just stared squeamishly outside.

They reached Dordrecht, where the plane seemed to have crashed on a farmer’s ground, just behind a place called Intratuin. It smelled like pumpkins, gasoline and melted metal there. Only the finest of smells for our protagonists.

‘It looks like that time Aoki accidentally set off a grenade in our local bank.’ Tokei remarked.

‘Please context. I beg you.’ Tanizaki said.

‘Sensory overload.’ Aoki answered.

‘And you thought a grenade would help???’ Atsushi said wide-eyed.

‘That only raises more questions.’ Tanizaki muttered.

They exited the car and went to investigate the situation. The plane was, as expected, in utter destruction, but there were no visible blood spatters.

‘No sign of people here.’ Suisen said, looking at some shattered plane seats.

‘Sorry, jullie mogen niet op dit gebied zijn, voor jullie eigen veiligheid.’ A cop started walking towards them.

‘We’re Japanese detectives.’ Ranpo stated. He seemed to have realised what the Dutch cop had said without understanding a word.

‘Koen van der Weij heeft bevelen gegeven in die trant, of niet?’ Tokei told the man in Dutch.

'Oh ja, vergeten. Ga jullie gang, alleen alsjeblieft niets aanraken.’ The cop said and then walked away.

Just then Aoki picked up a weird button.

Immediately she got flashbacks from Kaz pressing that button and sending electric shocks through her body.

‘That asshole.’ She muttered and dropped the thing.

‘What’s wrong?’ Tokei and Suisen asked before moving closer.

Aoki bit her lip. ‘Kaz was here, look.’ she pointed back at the button.

‘Let’s hope we find his corpse then.’ Suisen said, eyes dark.

‘When are we ever lucky……’ Tokei said, examining another bit of debris.

‘I mean we defeated the HMMM just now.’ Aoki shrugged and stared into the setting sun.

‘No not that. I mean I have something even worse over here.’

Aoki and Suisen stared over her shoulder to find a poker card, slightly burnt at the edges.

Tokei pointed towards one corner of the card. ‘ N.G. Nikolai was here too.’

Aoki let out several curse words, getting the attention of the guys.

‘What’s going on, found something?’ Tanizaki asked, walking up to them.

‘We sure did.’ Tokei said. ‘Now help us prevent Suisen from committing mass murder please.’

‘Suisen, listen to me. If you’re in jail, you can’t roundhouse-kick kaz in the nuts.’ Tanizaki said sympathetically. ‘But seriously, what did you find?’

Tokei and Aoki respectively held up their finds.

‘Dayum. Ranpo come look at this.’ he exclaimed.

Ranpo came to them, followed by Atsushi, both looking slightly troubled. But that was his standard facial-expression, so nobody thought much of it.

‘Use your powers.’ Aoki said.

Ranpo put on his glasses, shoving them up on his nose bridge with his middle finger. His coat flew around as he grabbed the items from Aoki and Tokei.

‘Hey I was using these.’ Aoki grumbled, still annoyed.

‘Shush child, let him work.’ Tokei said, making the shush motion with Suisen’s hand, which she was still holding.

Ranpo inspected the items. Just then he went blank, and took off his glasses. ‘Grill me a cheese.’ He muttered, walking away, seemingly defeated.

‘No. Grill your own. And wait,  why do you look so sad?’ Tokei said, waving her hand in front of Ranpo’s face as she walked after him.

‘Wait what just happened?’ Aoki wondered. 

Tokei stopped walking.

Tanizaki and Atsushi just stared after him, stunned.

‘I think… he couldn’t find anything…’ Suisen whispered. 

A silence followed.

‘Well someone grill this poor guy a cheese.’ Aoki grumbled, though she seemed more sad than mad.

‘I’m not grilling anyone a cheese in this economy.’ Tokei muttered. ‘ He can go buy some himself.’

Just then Ranpo’s sobs were heard.

‘Oh for Mr President’s sake, I’ll go give him money for the cheese grilling.’ Tokei said with a sigh, before bounding after Ranpo. 

–

A while later, after Ranpo calmed down, the group decided to take a break and question him.

‘Are you okay now? What happened?’ Suisen asked, while Ranpo was munching on a grilled cheese.

‘I wasn’t able to deduce anything. The crash already had no evidence of anything happening. I thought with your button and card, there would still be some evidence of something, but no…’

‘At all?’ Atsushi asked.

‘Weird.’ Tokei said, cutting Atsushi off. She then patted Ranpo once on the head. ‘That’s rough buddy.’

‘Well, at least we know who were on the plane, right?’ Aoki offered.

‘Yes, but not where they’ve gone, or if they’ve even survived.’

‘Knowing Nikolai he is probably still alive.’ Atsushi said, to which Tanizaki nodded along.

‘So what and where would they be now….’ Suisen wondered.

Sigma - Ability: Information Exchange

I’ll admit that was freaking scary. The plane was crashing, and I thought we were going to die.

But then again, Fyodor and Nikolai, AKA the mentally ill guys, probably wouldn’t let themselves get killed by a plane crash. 

Anyways Nikolai wrapped us up in his cape and now we’re in a bus. The Italians who were with us, Kaz and Jake, were nowhere to be found. Just then I realised something.

‘Wait was this a plan to kill Kaz and Jake?’

‘Obviously.’ Fyodor said. ‘I thought that was abundantly clear.’

‘You didn’t tell me anything though.’ Sigma replied, to which Nikolai giggled eerily.

‘I have a feeling they aren’t dead yet.’ He said smugly. ‘But don’t worry, dear Fyodor here has more plans in his pocket for them

Sigma sighed a little and nodded thoughtfully. ‘So where are we going now?’

‘This bus is going to another airport, the Schiphol one.’ Nikolai stated.

Fyodor looked thoughtfully out of the window, clearly plotting evil things.

‘Is that a scheming face?’ Sigma asked softly. Nikolai leaned in close. ‘Oh, definitely..’ he grinned. ‘Just you wait, Kaz and Jake, just you wait…’

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Hon Tokei - Ability: Ship of the Dead

After the huge scene with Ranpo’s deduction, Tanizaki decided to call their President about what happened. Aoki complained about possibly missing their plane. I seized the opportunity to call my aunt.

‘So, shit went down.’

‘Cool, did you win?’

‘Short-term yeah, long-term we'll see. Anyways, I’m calling because I have to go back to Japan for work and little Hiroko left several texts with me asking to prolong her stay with you. I hope you don’t mind.’

‘No problem kiddo. It’s about time she spends some quality time with me. Take care of yourself all right, or I’ll stick your parents on you.’

Tokei smiled. ‘Thanks aunty. Love you, and I’ll visit again next summer for sure.’

‘You better.’

In the background the chatting between Ranpo and a cop could be heard, along with Tanizaki calling Mr President and Aoki complaining to Suisen and Atsushi.

Tokei sent another email to Kunikida and Chuuya, informing them of her return. This time, she just copy pasted it seeing that the greeting was: hi, y’all. 

A while later Tanizaki reported back to the group that the President was very unhappy, partially because of their possible delay and the T.I.E. 's pressure on a report, partially because the DOA was also in the Netherlands. 

‘Guess we should just leave then.’ Ranpo walked up to them. ‘I told the police there was no evidence of anything for the crash. He just sighed. We can go now.’

– Schiphol Airport –

It was a big airport, which Tokei has seen more times than she could count. She started leading the gang towards the customs area where there were a bunch of shops and restaurants. Whether you wanted sushi, stroopwafels or french croissants, this was your place to go. While walking past the MacDonald’s she swiftly turned. There were some cosplayers sitting at the table or something, but they looked extremely familiar. Hmmmmm. Maybe she saw them in an edit somewhere.

‘C’mon, Tokei, they’ve got patatje oorlog over there!’ Suisen broke her thoughts, before grabbing her hand and dragging her along with Aoki over to a snackbar.

‘10/10 pronunciation, I'm proud of you. To celebrate this victory, you are paying.’

Suisen stuck out her tongue at her.

Tokei mirrored her.

‘Yeah I’m still broke so pay up.’ Aoki teased, knowing very well she still had the money from the jewels she stole in Italy.

‘You heard the woman.’ Tokei said, risking one glance back to the three cosplayers before following them into the snackbar. She swore they made eye-contact. Maybe they were lovers. Tokei was an ally, so as she walked she gave them a thumbs-up. The guy with the white hat giggled at her.

‘I want the banana milkshake, the patatje oorlog, and chicken nuggies.’ Aoki listed.

Suisen let out a sigh of someone who was about to be broke.

Tokei stood next to them and saw the emo face of Suisen. She snickered, and said ‘Alexa, play Welcome to the Black Parade.’

Somewhere in the airport the song started playing, and the three girls burst out in laughter.

‘Anyways gimme some fries, a large cheeseburger and some chocomilk.’

Suisen let out another sigh and began to order.

A while later the girls were chatting and eating together.

‘Hey I got an extra nuggie.’ Aoki exclaimed.

Suisen took it from her hands and ate it.

‘HEY MY NUGGIE!!! HOW DARE YOU STEAL FROM THE POOR, YOU TRAITOR!’

Suisen just grinned.

‘Because I can. And I want a nuggie, I see a nuggie, I eat the nuggie. Deal with it my friend.’

‘Yeah, I will get you back for that.’ Aoki responded, looking intimidatingly at Suisen. She proceeded to attack her with tickles.

‘Wait, my food!’ Tokei exclaimed, grabbing her food as Suisen bumped into the table because of the tickles.

‘MY ARM IS IN THE MAYONNAISE!’ Suisen yelled through laughter.

‘Disgusting.’ Tokei said, while eating her fries and watching the two. ‘Now nobody can eat from the mayonnaise anymore.’

‘Ha-ha.’ Aoki replied.

Meanwhile Tanizaki was debating on having a stroke of his own, because he now understood Kunikida.

Ranpo was raiding the supermarket from all the candy, Atsushi was a full-on tiger, about to be kicked out of the airport, and the girls were nowhere to be found.

‘Woah, is that a tiger?!’ One kid exclaimed.

‘It's not a regular tiger you know,’ another said ‘it has stripes!’

‘All tigers have stripes dumbass!’ The first kid replied.

‘No, they don't, only this one, because he's special.” The kid said, and he continued petting. For some reason, Tanizaki thought, Atsushi seemed smug.

“I can't be with you anymore.” The first kid said in exasperation.

“No, my boyfriend please!”

Tanizaki felt like he was about to go insane.

He was about to give up when an announcement came that their flight was about to take off.

Finally, an escape. If the others didn't make it on time then that's their problem.

He grabbed his suitcase and strolled away.

Suisen Yoru - Ability: Cloaking the Eyeshot

‘We should go because the gate is about to close.’ I said. 

‘Right let's go.’ Aoki said, standing up.

As they exited KFC they saw the Atsushi situation.

‘Now I want to pet.’ Tokei said.

Suisen held up her leftover chicken. ‘Here kitty kitty, that's right, let's go to our airplane. But first you must transform back alright?’

‘I don’t want to. I finally get the respect I deserve.’

Aoki walked up to them. ‘If you transform back and get into the airplane without any more trouble I'll buy you tea on rice.’

‘You got me there.’ Atsushi said and then detransformed.

‘Good. Let's go then.’

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Suisen Yoru - Ability: Cloaking the Eyeshot

We were all gathered in the meeting room of the Armed Detective Agency office. It was not a friendly one; it felt to Suisen like they were being scolded. Not what you’d call a pleasant experience.

‘That's a total of 1.6 million euros worth of damage!’ The President yelled.

‘Yeah, but we gained 10 million euros for catching the criminals.’ Ranpo shot back.

Suisen felt glad he and Aoki did most of the talking.

‘It is about the principle of things!’

‘Well, we refrained the ADA from going bankrupt.’ Aoki muttered.

The President shot a deathly glare at her.

‘And saved a bunch of people from being exploded.’ Ranpo added. 

‘People were MURDERED.’ The President yelled.

‘Hey, that was Tokei!’ Aoki exclaimed defensively. ‘Just look at the video, it was clearly her.’

The President sighed and took a look back at the video posted by two teenage girls who went to the school that was threatened. It showed most of the fight from a decently safe distance, plus a couple of shots of the girls themselves, smiling and pointing as if it were a football game.

The President gave a furious groan and rested his head in his hands. ‘I need to think about this. You're dismissed.’

Aoki and Suisen made eye-contact as they rose from their sears.

‘Time for a day off.’ Aoki whispered.

‘Oh absolutely.’ Suisen replied.

Sure, they needed to write a full report about all the shit that happened in the Netherlands. But that could wait. Right now, they needed a drink.

‘Let's call Tokei to see if she can join us.’ Suisen offered.

‘Yessss!’

Hon Tokei - Ability: Ship of the Dead

My situation was not much different than the girls’. The only contrast was that I wasn’t being actively ordered around, and they didn’t disapprove of the murders. You probably know who I’m talking about:  

He’s very short, so easy to remember. Also ginger. I kept that to myself, though, because that was a bit too mean.

It’s the choo-choo train.

‘I told you to stop calling me that!’ Chuuya yelled.

Since when could he read minds?????? Or did I accidentally say that out loud?

Anyways.

I briefed him about what happened, and about how the ADA ruined my vacation. That point of the talk had a bunch of colorful proverbs in it. I did brag a bit about the table bit, since I felt that it was pretty on-brand for myself. Or off-brand, considering my personality against my actual job. We solemnly agreed with each other that seeing ADA members when you’re on a vacation or day off sucked ass.

–

Tokei was lecturing Chuuya about how amazing patatje oorlog tastes when her phone rang.

Chuuya eyed the phone as if it killed his mom.

‘Hiiiii!’ the voices of Suisen and Aoki simultaneously rang through Tokei’s phone.

‘Who are they?’ Chuuya asked. Apparently, he wasn’t good at recognizing voices of people, even if he’d met them before.

‘Oh, hey girls.’ I replied while motioning for Chuuya to shut the fuck up.

‘We’re hanging out today, we won’t take no for an answer.’ Aoki stated.

‘Yeah, meet us at the local Space museum in an hour.’ Suisen added.

‘Byeee!!!’ they both yelled before they hung up.

‘Seriously, after all that you’re still hanging out with those ADA fuckers?’ Chuuya exclaimed.

‘They’re not ADA fuckers when they’re with me. You have no idea how willing those girls are to commit crimes when there's nobody to lecture them.'

‘Oh, right, the whole Italian Mafia thing.’ He muttered.

‘So proud.’ Tokei put a hand on her chest.

‘So I guess you gotta leave now?’ Chuuya asked, ignoring her previous comment.

‘You guessed correctly. I will buy you a souvenir.’ Tokei grinned deviously. ‘Maybe some space-slime. That sucks to get out of someone’s hair.’

Chuuya grinned. ‘Your efforts are appreciated. Now, I’ll leave then. Have a good time, but not too much fun.’ He got out of his seat.

‘Babaiii!’ Tokei grabbed her jacket as well and then walked towards the garage.

Suisen Yoru - Ability: Cloaking the Eyeshot

We met Tokei outside of the space museum. She was blasting Bad Girls from M.I.A. on her mini speaker as we walked over the parking lot. It was pretty badass.

Once inside the lobby they immediately went stealth mode and snuck in without paying by hiding behind plants. It was like a bad movie where the characters moved the plants while behind it. Everybody around them was incredibly stupid, since they didn’t notice three moving plants, but we won’t talk about the quality of employees who are on a minimum wage.

When the girls were actually inside the museum they immediately dropped the plant disguises and went to the anti-gravity chamber. They cut the line, pushed aside some children and went in first.

‘Wheeee!!! I believe I can flyyyy~’ Suisen sing-songed and she did cartwheels in the sky.

Tokei put on the mentioned song and they all did illegal karaoke (electronic devices were not allowed inside)

Aoki bumped into the ceiling a couple of times and possibly got a concussion. During that she was also possibly eating a lollipop she took from one of the kids they pushed aside.

Suisen did a couple more cartwheels, kicked in a light and now had glass in her shoes.

Tokei was vibing and doing the macarena at double time speed off-beat.

The employees stared in a mix of horror and awe.

When their time was up they threatened the employees to go again or else they would release beeswax in the chamber.

And so they went again. Good times. 

This time Aoki was on the ceiling upside down, eating said beeswax. Nobody knew where she even got the stuff from, nor how she got the spoon she ate it with. Nobody questioned it either.

Tokei and Suisen were acting out scenes from their favorite movies together, the latter now busy in a live-action megamind monologue.

By then the ADA had been called. The girls looked at each other when they heard a familiar voice coming from a phone and started swimming? ( floating? ) to the exit to try and make a break for it.

It was safe to say they failed horribly.

Suisen got her foot stuck. Again. When the other girls tried to pull her out Tokei’s hand was stuck on Suisen’s pants from Aoki’s beeswax, somehow. Then, when they finally did get Suisen’s foot unstuck it flew out against Aoki’s head. Now she definitely has a concussion.

By the way, Tokei was still stuck to Suisen’s foot so they had to fly/swim over together. It looked very goofy and Aoki took pictures that would haunt them forever.

Like we said, good times.

When they were out of the tube, Tokei immediately ripped her hand away from Suisens pants now that she had gravity to help her. She also ripped off a piece of the pants, but they chose to ignore that. They then started running as fast as they could deeper in the museum while a voice was heard on the phone of one of the employees: ‘Girls. What the fuck.’

‘Swearing is bad! Don’t do it!’ Tokei yelled over her shoulder as she ran.

‘I- I don’t even know what to say. I’ll leave Kunikida to handle this.’

‘NO NOT KUNIKIDA!!’ Aoki yelled.

‘HIS TEACHER VIBES ARE TOO MUCH!’ Suisen agreed.

‘...’ Was heard. ‘Oh right. I shrugged over there.’ Tanizaki said. ‘Anyways I’m passing the phone right now.’

‘NO!’ Aoki exclaimed as she hung up the employee’s phone and took Suisen to run away after Tokei, who’d already exited the entire simulation.

The girls now made it to the door at the other end of the simulation room and bolted through it in abject fear and hatred of scolding. There was a big set of stairs and another room with tiny model spaceships. They chose to go upstairs, as they saw Tokei's pumps disappear there. Up there was a small gift shop and toilets.

‘Should we hide?’ Aoki asked, pointing to the toilets.

‘Maybe, one sec though. Tokei said, who’d been waiting there for the others. She walked into the gift shop and grabbed a small nerf gun and a couple of small projectiles that they could use as ammo and distractions. In the small bag she filled was also a small toilet, filled with green slime. There was also some candy in the bag for snack reasons.

The taller two followed with curiosity.

‘Ay, look at this!’ Aoki yelled. She pointed to fake space suits. ‘Let’s try them on.’

Suisen nodded and together they put on space suits.

‘I will not be found dead in that thing. But this one is fine.’ Tokei said and then pointed towards a neon pink one. ‘ There will be no grey in my wardrobe.’

When she’d put it on the girls had already gone to another section of the gift shop.

Aoki was staring at snow globes while Suisen had ripped open a lego spaceship and was now building it.

The employee behind the counter was too shocked and disappointed to scold them.

Tokei shook her head and took a small peek outside the gift shop's windows. What she saw made her grab the girls and start running again, bag now over her shoulder. It was a certain man’s car. A man they did not want to see. And his name was Kunikida.

‘Hey! I wasn’t finished building that! Can we go back?’ Suisen sulked.

‘It’s running or getting lectured by a former math teacher, I chose correct.’ Tokei said, still dragging the girls along.

‘Ah shit nevermind then.’ Suisen looked down at the few pieces of lego she still had in her hand

Aoki grinned and showed off the big snow globe she still had with her.

Suisen stuck out her tongue.

Tokei quickly debated in her head whether or not she would assume an employee's face to try and delay Kunikida, when she spotted a door that led to a courtyard. And inside the courtyard was… oh shit, yes.

Unfortunately, Suisen –who was running last in the line despite being the tallest by far– heard running footsteps behind her.

‘Guys, I think he found us.’ She announced.

‘Yes, I did! So stop running for fuck’s sake!!’ he scolded, followed up by some more very creative curse words.

‘Hmmm... how about NO!’ Tokei yelled, opening the door of a truly gigantic spaceship.

She jumped inside, holding the door and motioning to the girls to follow her.

Suisen dropped the legos behind her before entering after Aoki. Kunikida didn’t seem to have noticed that, or did not care, because he stepped on one way too confidently.

That is the sad thing about people wearing shoes. They had soles, so they had protection. Kunikida continued running and was now dangerously close. Seemingly out of options, Aoki lobbed the snow globe at his head. It hit him straight at the jaw and he fell backwards onto the legos. She KO’d him.

‘You’re welcome. I do want a new one though.’ She said, looking at the shattered glass that surrounded the tall man.

‘If we’re ever allowed here again I’ll buy you a new one.’ Tokei replied, looking at the rocket controls in the front bit of the capsule.

‘So like, should we drag Kunikida in here with us, or should we leave him there between the pieces of shattered glass?’ Suisen asked.

‘Depends on what kind of lecture we want; a you-are-stupid one or a live-action one in here that probably results in him trying to kick our asses.’ Tokei answered.

‘Okay yeah let's leave him.’ Aoki stated, and Suisen agreed.

Tokei then walked over to the controls and hit the button conveniently called ‘up.’

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Aoki Miru - Ability: Psychic Empath

I never knew being in a spaceship could be so chill. Me and Suisen were hanging out whilst Tokei messed with the controls.

Suisen suddenly frowned. ‘Hey Aoki, take a look at this.’ She said, holding up her phone. On it was a news article about Jake, stating that he murdered his cousin when he was ten years old. The headline was “PADAPOULOS AIRLINES ASSOCIATED WITH A MURDERER?!?”

Seeing as the name was one she associated with quiet murders, she was a bit surprised seeing it all out in the open. She tried to see the emo gay guy she met as a ten year old murderer. It was a bit hard, but he was part of his boyfriend’s mafia, so she supposed it was fairly probable.

The question was why people discovered such things, but not that the CEO of Padapoulos Airlines was a mafia boss.

She read the rest of the article.

Apparently, Jake was a junior delinquent, even before he killed his cousin, so public opinion of him wasn’t great.

‘Yeah, this is not something that I expected to see with that headline. Yet somehow I am not surprised.’ Aoki muttered.

‘Do you think the rest of the ADA has seen it yet?’ Suisen asked, while Tokei leaned over to read the article as well, hands still on the controls.

‘Depends. When did it upload?’ 

‘Like half an hour ago.’ Suisen responded, looking at the corresponding information.

‘Small chance, knowing our members.’ Aoki grinned. 

‘Okay what the fuck.’ Tokei had finished reading the article, before turning her attention back to the controls. ‘ I don’t think that’s good news for my peace of mind. Fuck.’

‘Why are you surprised? That guy’s the fiancé of a mafia CEO.’ Aoki responded.

‘I was less surprised, and more disappointed at this point. Also, I think we have to land to tell some people at least. Can I drop you guys off anywhere before we get caught by interstellar cops or no?’

Aoki and Suisen shared a look. ‘In front of the ADA headquarters is fine, I think.’ Aoki said and Suisen nodded along.

‘I don’t think that’s going to fit, but I will certainly try.’ Tokei said with a mad grin, grabbing hold of some levers to the left. ‘By the way, I’d buckle in if I were you. This is going to get rough, since I'm not NASA-spaceship material.’

‘What did we get ourselves into?’ Suisen sighed, grabbing her chair and hanging on for dear life.

Aoki’s eyes widened but her smile was undeniable as Tokei made a sharp turn and the adrenaline kicked in.

–

Safe to say, the street did not look the same after the landing. In an attempt to not hit the ADA, Tokei had swerved and half-destroyed the buildings on the opposite side of the street. Several cars were smashed underneath the capsule, and it smelled of molten iron and smoke as a few small explosions had lit up the streets upon impact.

As soon as they had landed, Tokei quickly threw open the door for the girls in order for them to bounce. 

‘Can you guys explain this to the ADA? Because I have to go, I’ve got a feeling my business is about to seriously boom.’ Tokei said with a insane grin, waving at the ADA windows before running off to find the nearest unoccupied bike and getting on it.

‘Sure, but don’t complain when we blame you for at least half of this!’ Suisen half-jokingly yelled after her.

‘You better not!’ Tokei yelled back, already driving off. ‘I’ll never let you live it do—’ The rest she said was lost as she turned a corner.

Aoki, still full of adrenaline, grabbed Suisen to run into the ADA building as soon as she heard police sirens echoing through the streets. ‘I don’t feel like getting arrested right now.’ She laughed once they were on the stairs. ‘C’mon, maybe we can blame this on the Port Mafia–’

But as soon as she said it, the doors of the ADA office opened and some very angry people (save a few) spilled out.

‘Oh, hi guys.’ Aoki greeted, still having a broad grin on her face.

Suisen looked severely disturbed and traumatised, and she saw a little bit green around her face.

‘Hiii,’ Kenji greeted, ‘what happened to you?’

‘I’ll tell you what happened.’ Tanizaki said from behind him, phone in his hand. ‘Kunikida just called me. He is NOT happy.’

Aoki’s face fell a little, and even more when Suisen puked on the ground in front of her.

‘Oh-oohh, sounds like you have a little explaining to do…’ Dazai teased as the president stepped into view.

Aoki quickly snatched Suisen’s phone from her hands and showed it to the President. ‘We came as soon as possible to deliver some news.’ She said with a cheeky grin as the President read the article.

Ranpo snatched it on his turn from the Prez’s hands. ‘Lemme see that.’

Just then Suisen, who came by a little, remembered something. ‘The candy.’ she muttered to Aoki.

‘Oh yeah, a treat for you.’ Aoki said to Ranpo. She handed him the space rocky candy thingies that were in the bag from the NASA gift shop.

He took it from her without removing his eyes from the article. ‘Thanks, I deserved that.’

‘You’re welcome.’ Aoki muttered, still thinking about a way to avoid the consequences of their actions. She decided that pretending like nothing had happened was the best option, and she took Suisen's hand to drag her past the rest of the crew towards their own desks.

Suisen was just relieved the attention had somehow already shifted from their crash to something else.

A few moments later everyone copied, even the president, who was in a heavy discussion with Ranpo on whether this information was truly important or not, and the tension shifted towards the discussion instead of what was still going on outside.

At that same time, two people burst into the room. One, out of breath and tired, the other furious and also tired— but way less than the first. They were Atsushi and Kunikida, who had apparently both rushed to get here and arrived at the same time.

‘Guys! The Jake dude from the kidnapping used to be a child menace!’ Atsushi yelled.

‘We know!!!’ Everyone replied.

‘Aoki and Suisen, I swear–’ Kunikida began. ‘...Wait, what?!’ 

Ökura Teruko - Gasp of the soul

‘Tachihara, get ready for our mission or I’ll beat your ass!’ I yelled. I couldn’t believe a HUNTING DOG would be so addicted to their phone!

‘Yeah yeah, lemme just check the weath–’ he suddenly went silent. ‘...Holy shit.’ he muttered.

‘What? Seriously, what could be so important right now that you would show up late to the mission for it?!’

Tachihara rolled his eyes. ‘Just check this out.’ He turned his phone and a headline came into view.

‘"Stolen rocket from NASA crashed — ADA members suspected to be behind this."’ Teruko read aloud.

Her eyes darkened.

‘Now, that is indeed very interesting… Fukuchi would love to hear about this…’