#deepfearsrevealed

Hed start his proceedures pretty easily. This time it was a minor job. Another “brilliant” contractor who though he’d hacked the system by offering a sacrifice outright and then send him on errands. Rich people were really a weird folk, he though, but it wasnt like he would be able to turn down any job at that point. And these were very well payed errands.

The real part of the job was to track down and bring back a runaway of a daughter, her name, fake name... The man had almost everything figured out, yet he sent a highly skilled assasin on such an errand worthy of a childgroomer of sorts.

In any case, it wasnt that hard to check her accounts, her fake id, her registry. A bit of computering and research that was well over in two hours to get the details right were he wanted them. Attending hero school, yet so young, not even once hed thought that she would provide with any threat possible, so he packed light equipment, if any, anticipating for the worse, he got some basic tools to deal with law enforcement and heroes, such an ocasion as that arrive, hed be ready.

After all, if he were to fail in abducting her, it would take so much more extra effort to get her a second time and he would not see extra for it.

Sighing, he waited at the spot. Her cellphone id had been registered to be passing at this point in town on a regular basis at certain hours. He chose to stand by and wait to ambush her at the latest hour, close to dusk, since people would be already in their homes coddling away from the cold and early winter night.

And so she appeared, around the hour he predicted based on the schedule. And she looked exactly how the photos the father had provided him with. Staring in a dark alley nearby, he waited for her to be a few meters away from her location and then walked into a nearby streetlight.

“Are you Sueoka Himei?” he prosed. Long shadows extended from the streetlight just above him, that, despite that, his masked face and cloak seemed to not light at all, remaining as black and dark as they had beeen in the shadows. “I have something very important-urgent to talk to you.” 

His cold raspy voice with jitter carried little to no emotion, and standing still, he was conscious of the dread a teenage girl would be filled with to be in her shoes. Fear caused panic, panic caused mistakes. He would exploit that, not let her utter a noise and be done with nonsense of an errand in an instant.

“Well for starters, your thumb goes outside of your fist.”

Walking over to the girl, Tama grabbed her hand, forcing it open before closing it the right way. Then, she adjusted the other’s arm and hand.

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   Her vision almost entirely obscured by the stack of papers in her hands, Kanna was currently doing her utmost to navigate through the building without dropping her cargo or walking into anyone. Which, admittedly, was a task far easier said than done, looking at all the people which were currently roaming the hallways for their lunch breaks.

   When Ectoplasm-Sensei had asked her to help him with some papers, she had expected a normal-sized stack, not the goddamn Tower of Babylon! But now it was too late to complain, leaving the soon-to-be heroine no other choice but to continue on her wobbly quest. Or at least, that had been the plan.

   She only realised that someone was exiting a nearby classroom right in front of her, when it was already too late; with a shriek, Kanna tried to come to a halt before colliding with the other person. Stopping abruptly, the redhead did manage to avert a bigger accident, but in response to the sudden action, the top half of her stack slid out of her arms and rained down on the person in front - which, now that Kanna could see something again, turned out to be one of the underclassmen.

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   Yuuei sure was something else. Shiketsu wasn’t small, either, but the scale of this campus was simply ridiculous. His friend had sent him many many emails, texts and letters talking about her time here, but somehow Han-Jae had always assumed she was merely exaggerating. Apparently she had been very truthful.

   With how things were, the young man highly doubted that he was going to easily find his way around here. At the very least he sure wasn’t going to waste any time or energy on trying. So, instead he turned towards the closest person without hesitation, offering a friendly smile as he stepped closer and waved his hand a little in order to get the student’s attention.

     ❝Excuse me! I’m here for a visit and a little lost - could you maybe give me directions to the third year dorms?❞

   Posing his request with a little bow, he straightened again and tapped a single finger against the ‘I’m a visitor and my name is -’ sticker which currently adorned his chest, giving the girl he had approached his best ‘what can you do?’ epression.

      ❝ aw maaaan, my ice cream! how clawful! ❞

the young heroine huffed as she stared down at the cone she had been enjoying until the other had bumped into her. but! nonetheless, she put on a smile anyway.