MAN IN BLACK 1 : Aaah!! What the hell!? How is this guy so strong?
MAN IN BLACK 2 : No! Please forgive us!
CROW : Phew! Looks like I'm on a roll! That'll teach you to ambush me and beat me up!
MAN IN BLACK 3 : We're the ones getting beat up here!
KAI : Okay, calm down Crow, it looks like you already broke some bones. If you keep hitting 'em, you're gonna wind up in jail.
MEN IN BLACK : Just leave us alone!
ITSUKI : Then talk. Why did you target us?
MAN IN BLACK 1 : We're agents of a family called the Kingsleys. They're rivals of the Bloody Lady.
CROW : The Bloody Lady!?
MAN IN BLACK 2 : We heard that the Bloody Lady has been smuggling in all sorts of weird, illegal shit, and so we're trying to find out what it is.
MAN IN BLACK 3 : We thought you mighta been related to them.
NOAH : Fools.
MAN IN BLACK 1 : Damn it, and we were doing so good until the attack on the courier. Seriously, what was that shit in the bag? It's making our people crazy!
KAI : Crazy, how?
MAN IN BLACK 3 : One of our men who got hit with that shit is in really bad shape. He's been flailing around and moaning. It's like he's possessed by something.
NOAH : Possessed?
CROW : Hey, it didn't happen to be a weirdly shaped gun, did it?
MAN IN BLACK 3 : A gun? No. It was black powder.
ITSUKI : Black powder?
MAN IN BLACK 2 : That's right. The more you breathe in, the more fucked up you get.
MAN IN BLACK 3 : Okay, we told you everything, now let us go!
KAI : Wait. Take us to them.
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SEVEN : …………
EMMA : Seven! What are you doing here?
SEVEN : What am I doing? What are you doing?
EMMA : I was just thinking…
SEVEN : I see. Well, I prefer meat over fish. But, whatever you think is fine.
EMMA : Hmm? Oh, no, Seven, I wasn't thinking about dinner.
SEVEN : By the way, is the study down this hallway?
EMMA : The study? I was told that there is only a storeroom for supplies.
SEVEN : Thanks…
EMMA : No, Seven! That's not the way!
Ignoring me, Seven headed down the hallway toward the storeroom.
EMMA : (What should I do? Should I go after him?)
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EMMA : (I thought Seven headed this way…)
As I headed down the long hallway, the hustle and bustle from the main floor got quieter and quieter. Eventually, all I could hear was the sound of my own footsteps echoing eerily off the walls.
EMMA : (I should go back and check. I don't want to be separated from the others for long.)
NAVI : Hey, master~
EMMA : N-Navi! I told you to stay in the key!
NAVI : Look over there!
When I looked in the direction Navi had pointed, I saw a half-open door swinging back and forth. Making a squeaking noise.
EMMA : (Is that the supply room? I wonder if Seven went in there…)
EMMA : Navi, go back in the key.
NAVI : I don't wanna!
EMMA : Then at least stay here and hide. Please.
Leaving the reluctant Navi behind, I swallow hard and bit my lip, taking a step toward the door and grabbing the handle.
EMMA : Seven?
I hesitantly push the door open. Feeling my heart hammering painfully in my chest. Hand shaking from fear. But, there is no sign of Seven inside.
However, the dimly lit room is full of items that did not belong in a normal casino. There were a great number of weapons, bundles of dirty banknotes, machine parts, medicines, bandages, and other things that looked like they didn't belong here.
NAVI : Wow! So many fun toys to play with!
HIMMEL : It stinks in here. It's the smell of misery.
NAVI : Haha! My master is frozen with her eyes wide open!
EMMA : (There are a lot of guns in here…Why would a casino need these…? Could they belong to the Bloody Lady? Hm…They don't look like the same kind of guns that shoot Black Fairies.)
I reach for the weapons in order to examine them a little more closely when…
?? : Don't move.
