>>436700185>>436700494(ONE WEEK EARLIER)
A moment of concentration for Shogun Aina is broken, as glass shatters, fireworks whistle, and then BANGS are heard. Normally, she'd panic, rush for help, wonder why in the world is this happening to her and her friends...but not this time.
She's been here before. Too many times. Though she places a 911 call to get the Spaghetti Town Fire Department to assist, instead of a panicked run, she merely walks outside to see who had the guts. Should she even be surprised? She looks at the woman who would cure the "curse" that is her existence dead in the eyes.
>...>Happy Fourth of July to you, too.She doubts Raquel even heard her throughout her own maniacal laughter, but she wouldn't give her the satisfaction of fear. If she could help it, never again would she let someone break her down, even for the one moment La Jefa had her in tears.
Never again. It was time to get to business. If the girls weren't already evacuated, she'd make sure they were, and while there wasn't much she could do about the roof, she immediately took action and took care of the would-be fires in the living room, having already found the location of the extinguisher after a particularly chaotic cooking night (who'd have guessed that putting gasoline on an open flame WOULDN'T help something cook faster, but completely burn it instead?).
Unlike when wrong was done to her friends before, while she most certainly cared for them and was concerned, the only thing she could think while squeezing the trigger of the extinguisher was this:
>(How do I get even?)No running away to train, no moping around the house. She needed to show that this behavior would not be tolerated.
...then again...
>(How do I make sure this never happens again, either?)A defensive act, yes, but a necessary one. Perhaps it was time to relieve the current guard of their duty. Skelly's residence being defiled would not stand. And she did have one idea on who she could ask...