#junglecatt

“Also Jon.. they assigned you a new partner.” “Is this going to be another Michelangelo situation where they get cocky and they end up with a bullet wedge in their shoulder?” 

His colleague could not help but express discontent through a sigh, “Oh no, it won’t be like that at all this new guy: he’s quite something, real crack shot - here he comes..”

     𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓  𝐈𝐒  𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆  𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍  '𝐏𝐎𝐍  𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐒𝐄𝐘𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐒.   waves  are  slowly  crading  asleep  soldiers,   and  bravely  welcoming  taciturn  butterfly.   with  easy,   curved  silhouette  is  stepping  out  of  her  cage  (  a  laughable  notion  ). military  boots  are  compelled  to  carry  her  steps  through  the  plateform,  and  embrace  freedom.   something  that  the  sniper  could  easily  reclaim ;  as  if  some  absurd  laws  could  really  cut  off  her  wings.   they’re  tucked  away,   awaiting  the  right  occasion  to  fly  again.

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To say the least, two months into the Steel Ball Run race, things were getting ‘quite interesting’ in the United States.

It had become clear to some this was not some ordinary race... well, everyone already knew that, but not how particularly extraordinary things would be. Shinohara had left her homeland behind int he hopes that she could ‘find a new life’ here. But something had awoken in the blazing Arizona Desert. 「Ocean Blue」had awakened inside of her, and it felt like she was steadily moving ‘closer to her goal’ now.

But others were obtaining similar powers...

But this was fine. This was all more than fine.

“... Hey, I don’t bite... and it’s just us. You can come out if you want, you know.”