THE MURAMASA TRAIN...took a while to get back here

[way_of_justice]

[1]
[For one terrible reason or another you let Ichijou be your navigator through a city. This proves to be a fatal mistake, as within minutes you're both completely lost and have wound up in a completely different place. You're pretty damn sure that the both of you are lost.]

I think we're almost there!

[Ichijou on the other hand is in complete denial.]

[2]



[What started off as dinner in a normal restaurant has somehow turned into a Mexican standoff thanks to Ichijou picking a fight with some random drunk soldiers. The only thing between the two of you and the soldiers now is a bar counter.]

We might need a plan to get out of this.

[A bullet whizzes by.]

A good one.

[3]



[Combat! As usual Ichijou is just rushing ahead. She's surprisingly strong for a girl fighting with a weird gauntlet, she even manages to destroy some grunts in power armor. Still, she's getting in over her head and is quickly surrounded by those grunts. ]

Comments

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[gravitons]

This doesn't resemble the area that was described in the slightest...

[How did they wind up here in the first place? It looked like the complete opposite side of town...

Meanwhile, the bird on the Professor's shoulder grows restless.]


Aah! I had a bad feeling about this! We should've asked for a different guide!

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[way_of_justice]

Look I have this alright! We're nearly there!

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[gravitons]

...

[Shu doesn't quite know what to say here, so he's trying to figure something out to help solve this problem. Maybe he can retrace their steps...

Unfortunately, that doesn't apply to his familiar.]


So you say, missy! But I know someone who's exactly like you; the next thing you know, we'll be in a completely different dimension with no way to get back!

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[zenbuzenbuzenbu]

Why does this keep happening?!

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[abugslife]

I thought you wanted to show me a unique place, where an amazing local delicacy is served. Food which you won't find in any other location on the entire planet.

...This is a junkyard.

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[way_of_justice]

I don't have to take that from a bird who can't even work a navigation system!

[She consults the map she took earlier.]

We're totally almost there.

[way_of_justice]

They were jerks that's why. Let me see here.

[Ichijou tries raising her head over the counter again and is immediately forced to duck back behind it. Several more bottles of wine burst.]

Not getting out that way...

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[way_of_justice]

I-I know that, I just...wanted to show you the sights around here first before we got there.

[abugslife]

And what kind of interesting sights would there be on a junkyard?

[way_of_justice]

W-well maybe we could find some old robots, or armors!

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[way_of_bloodshed]

...Ah, youth...

[Bathory covers the same distance in the blink of an eye, and promptly rips the heart out of a grunt with her bare hands-through his power armor. It's quite bloody, but she seems rather pleased.]

Tell me, girl. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

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[way_of_vengeance]

[And Kanae is taking cover with you.]

Ichijou, sweetie, can you please try NOT to pick fights with everyone we meet?

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[way_of_justice]

If I ever met the devil-

[Ichijou doesn't seem too bothered by the display of gore. She sends another one of them flying into a building with a single punch.]

I would slay the devil.

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[way_of_justice]

They just pulled a gun on a waitress to get a free drink!

What was I supposed to do? Sit here and do nothing?

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[way_of_vengeance]

Well our mission is to QUIETLY and CALMLY investigate the area, so...

Yes! Yes you were!!

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[way_of_bloodshed]

And if the devil...turns out to be you?

[way_of_justice]

...

I fight for justice. I don't think that a devil would do that.

[way_of_justice]

Situations change!

Besides, you're a GHQ person anyways. I thought it was your job to pick fights with the Rokuhara.

[way_of_bloodshed]

I wonder how long you'll keep thinking like that...

...This is getting boring. Do you mind if I kill them all?

[way_of_vengeance]

No, our mission is to prevent abuses of power and help oversee the Rokugahara Shogunate.

[Spoken like a true PR official.]

Didn't you read those pamphlets we brought?

[gravitons]

That's great! So we're only almost LOST?

At least I get Master to where he wants to go, isn't that right?


[Shu still says nothing. Thinking intensifies.]

[way_of_justice]

Of course not, why would I read GHQ Propaganda?

[way_of_justice]

...not at all.

[way_of_justice]

Listen, I said that we're not lost you stupid bird.

[She grabs Chika from Shu's shoulder and stuffs the familiar into a bag.]

There, now I can concentrate.

[way_of_vengeance]

Oh, it's not propoganda! It's actually quite informative-

[Kanae pops out from behind the counter they're hiding behind to nail one of the guys between the eyes. Then she's back behind cover, reloading her rifle.]

-for any civilians who had questions about our mission here in Yamato and how it will impact the common man!