The Danish cold case (6)

15 minutes before Shiruka called Reiju...

Mimi giggled as she spotted a middle aged violet haired woman trembling by a campfire.

"You may look older and wrinklier, but I know you're Vivi," Mimi smiled.

"MI- MIMI!?" the woman gasped in shock.

"Why you so scared?"

"H- How!? Y- You were frozen!?"

"Wait, did you know I was frozen, then why- oh, you're too old now right?"

Vivi relaxed a bit and sheathed the knife she attempted to draw from her back pocket.

"You'd best leave then. I don't know how you found me, but leave. They will come for you too," Vivi trembled.

"Who?"

"The traitor! The one who wiped our team, the one who got us captured... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Vivi began to hyperventilate as she began to suffer from her PTSD.

"Vivi! It's alright! I'M here! I'm alive!" Mimi attempted to comfort Vivi.

"Gah!"

Mimi turned to see Ri flying towards them. Ri landed before them and winced in pain as she gazed at the woman who kicked her.

"Well, it seems I've found you, traitor," Marzi glared.

"MARZI!? You're an old woman!? Wait, what do you mean traitor!?" Mimi shouted.

"Vivi, she betrayed Denmark, though I guess you knew it as Danablu."

Mimi nervously turned to see Vivi with her knife drawn.

"W- Why?"

"I killed Sherry! I didn't want to, but I killed her! I KILLED HER! I KILLED HER! I KILLED HER! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Vivi cried in pain.

"Vivi? You... killed Sherry?"

"I'M SORRY MIMI! I DIDN'T WANT TO, BUT I BETRAYED THE COUNTRY! SHERRY FOUND OUT, AND SHE WAS SO PATRIOTIC SHE FOUGHT ME, THEN I KILLED HER! I DIDN'T WANT TO! SHE CRIED TOO AND APOLOGIZED! MEI-SAMA ORDERED ME TO KILL YOU TOO, BUT I COULDN'T! I FROZE YOU INSTEAD! BUT I DIDN'T BETRAY TO HURT YOU! I WAS TOLD YOU'D ALL BEEN CAPTURED AND-"

Marzi cut Vivi off by clashing knives with her.

"Seems age hasn't dulled you, or perhaps age has degraded me to the point where a deranged treasonous wreck like you can pull somewhat even," Marzi glared.

"YOU'RE THE REAL TRAITOR! YOU CAUSED US TO GET AMBUSHED! I GOT CAPTURED AND WAS DECEIVED AND TORTURED BY MEI-SAMA!" Vivi shouted.

"I sold not one of you out! You inexperienced brats probably screwed up despite what Sherry claimed.

As Mimi stepped back in shock, a third party entered. It was a large namahage with a knife.

"LOOK-"

*Stab*

The Namahage had stabbed Marzi through the neck before Mimi could warn her.

Mimi and Vivi both screamed in shock as Ri got up and tried to run off with Mimi.

"We've gotta go NOW! That guy's a mass murderer-"

Mimi had already grabbed Marzi's knife and was attacking the namahage.

"She's holding her ground!?" Ri thought as she watched the fight.

Vivi immediately ran off, as Mimi delivered a nasty slash on the namahage's left arm, leg and the left side of his neck. The namahage immediately limped away as Ri's eyes widened.

"No way, no one's ever been able to even scratch that guy. How?" Ri asked as Mimi leapt into the air and stabbed the namahage through the neck.

"So I can't fly with my hands," the Namahage growled as he coughed up blood and fell to the ground dead.

"Now let's see who you- huh? The mask isn't coming off!" Mimi nervously stated as she tugged at the namahage's hair.

"This might sound crazy, but I'm pretty sure he's a real namahage, or at the least genetically modified to be a namahage. He's an infamous hitman that only killed publicly on the Ides of March, but secretly killed in the shadows year round. I had never seen anyone land a scratch on him, though I never saw him spar with people like my father or uncle," Ri stated.

"Huh, well I've seen crazier guys and even a few cyborgs so no biggie. Though, Vivi ran off."

"Oh I can catch someone like her easy. Least I can do for all you've done for me," Ri smiled as she gave chase.

"Wait! Why are you so confident!? Vivi's strong!" Mimi cried as she ran after her.

Shiruka took pictures of the scene then took a shortcut and appeared before Vivi.

"Phasing through wildlife rules!" Shiruka grinned as he floated through Vivi.

Vivi stopped and immediately turned to see no one around. She then panicked and began charging for the brush.

"Huh!? In my vision she headed straight and got killed in a manner that appeared to be self defense, I was hoping to send her back the way she came. _!? The vision changed!? Now she's getting stabbed in the woods!?" Shiruka stated as he floated towards the woods.

As he floated in, Ri and Mimi arrived and came face to face with the one who was originally going to kill Vivi in a so called act of self defense.

"And why is a young girl like you running around with a sharp knife?" Ruchi Ookuma sneered.

Rage and hatred immediately boiled up in Ri's eyes as she charged at Ruchi.

"Ri-chan! Why are you-"

"SHE'S AN INHUMAN DEMON! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HER FOR MAKING ME COMMIT SUCH AN ATROCITY!" Ri shouted as she pulled out a lighter and set her knife ablaze.

Ruchi smiled as she normally did and countered easily with a jagged hunting knife she pulled out of her suit coat. She effortlessly threw Ri back towards the face of a steep cliff. Ri managed to jab her knife into the cliff side and prepared to leap back up, but unbeknownst to her, Ruchi wanted her to do that.

"RI-CHAN DON'T!" Mimi shouted.

Shiruka turned and floated towards the scream. When he emerged, the sight he saw horrified him.

"Why?" Ri tearfully muttered as she gazed at Ruchi's demonically deranged smile, and Mimi's bloodied body falling towards her.

"MIMI!" Ri shouted as she caught the bloodied Mimi and fell with her to the forest below.

Ruchi's calm demeanor returned as she shook the blood off her knife, sheathed it, and continued on her walk. She then looked at her suit coat, took it off and began burning parts of it. Presumably to erase the traces of Mimi's blood.

"Why!? Why didn't I see a vision for this!?" Shiruka cried.

Ruchi looked up and gazed confusingly in Shiruka's direction. Shiruka clenched his fist and retreated into the woods. He drew his phone and managed to snap a photo and catch the tail end of a conversation.

"It was you! You betrayed us..." Vivi shouted as she died from a stab wound to the neck.

Shiruka took one more picture then raced to the bottom of the cliff.

"MIMI NO! YOU CAN'T DIE!" Ri tearfully shouted.

"You... are... dumb... become...a sexy... hot spy... or chef... for me," Mimi tearfully smiled as blood flooded out of her lips.

In on slash, Ruchi Ookuma had crudely sliced Mimi's stomach along with some of her internal organs.

"NO! YOU WERE JUST UNFROZEN! _!"

Ri immediately ripped Mimi's skirt and used it as a makeshift bandage. She then mustered all her strength and picked Mimi up before vanishing. Shiruka than phoned Reiju.

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"Huh? Why're you all running up to my cube?" Fumiyo asked as she drove by the police station.

"HIE CRYOGENICS AT TOP SPEED!" Reiju ordered as she tried to hop in the backseat.

"WHOA! I'll unlock it! Don't rip the handle off!"

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Ri cried as Mimi's blood soaked into her hair, giving it a crimson coloring. The bleeding hadn't stopped, but Ri was almost at the cryogenics lab. The only problem was that there was still a heavy police presence though Ri didn't care. She landed in front of the building and charged for the secret room. Even though she ran faster than the eye could see, she was forced to stop in front of the empty vat Mimi had been in. Most of the paparazzi had left, though Maria and her crew were still there along with a full squad of officers. Everyone immediately gasped as Ri and an injured Mimi suddenly appeared.

Ri frantically put Mimi in the vat and began smacking the control panel frantically.

"Who are you!? Wait that's-"

"SAVE HER!" Ri shouted as she pointed a knife at the researcher.

The researcher nodded and began tapping away at the control panel as Mimi breathed heavily and police began to surround Ri. Ri didn't care and kept her knife pointed at the researcher until Mimi was cryogeniclly frozen again.

"Not again..." Mimi tearfully thought as she drifted off to sleep.

She had been saved.

"She's safe. Her wound looks nasty, but maybe in 50 to 100 years we'll have the technology to save her life," the researcher stated.

"Good, now make sure she's preserved until I can find a doctor that can heal her," Ri ordered.

"Miss, you're-"

Ri immediately leapt over the police and escaped the hidden room. As she ran outside, her body began to ache from the strain. Reiju and co then came speeding up in Fumiyo's car. Reika snapped a picture of Ri on her phone as Ri leaped out of the way to dodge. She screamed in pain and dropped her knife as Reiju leaped out of the car and charged for her. Ri winced in pain and exceeded her limits to make an escape, leaving her knife behind.

"Ah! Don't touch it with your bare hands! Reika shouted.

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Reiju, Chika, and Reika all stared at Mimi and the other frozen figures in the room.

"I fall asleep for one minute and you two do something reckless! I'm locking you two in a cell next time I see you!" Kaemi angrily yelled over the phone.

"Thanks for giving us clearance at least. We'll send ourselves back with the murder weapon after we pay our respects to this girl," Reiju stated.

"I hate to interrupt a moment, but we need to discuss something," the researcher nervously stated.

"What about the girl?" Reiju glared.

"It's about her. As much as we would like to preserve her, our policy requires financial-"

"Ginkawa, bill me," Reiju glared as she whipped out her credit card.

"G- GINKAWA!? Yes, right away ma'am!"

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Ri collapsed as she arrived back at her mansion.

"Oh boy, you really fucked up," a girl with red hair in a middle school uniform sighed.

"Ichika?" Ri groaned.

"Father's pissed. Well, let me give you a little "manicure" for your fuck up," Ichika sneered as she began dragging Ri in by her hair.

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Reiju closed her eyes as she took one last look at Mimi.

"I don't know who you are, but ghost sent me tons of pics of you and that girl havin a good time. Also said you had it rough. I'm sure my family's medical technology will be able to heal you in 20, no 10 years tops. So just chill for a bit until then. You're a high priority client now so they won't pull the plug on you and make sure you won't be unfrozen until we can save you. Best part is your capsule is portable so we can just take you to the mansion and unfreeze and fix you there. Sleep tight, Mimi."

Maria shook her head as Reiju emerged from the secret room.

"Oh hey, um, thanks for bailing me out a few days earlier and for exposing all this to the world," Reiju said.

"No problem red head," Maria winked.

Reiju then exited and hopped back in Fumiyo's car.

"I was told to bring you back to the station," Fumiyo pouted.

"No worries, we'll be taking evidence there anyway," Reiju grinned.

"So this is how the case ends," Kaemi sighed as she gazed at the knife.

"Shall I tell the jailbirds it's a perfect match?" Reika asked.

"And why're you acting so smug? If I had know you'd run off with them, you'd be in time out too."

"Had I not gone, you would not have this clear conclusive evidence to convict that girl," Reika stated as she showed Kaemi the picture she took on her phone.

"It's not so perfect. Phone camera's aren't the highest quality, and it looks like her hair's drenched in blood so her real hair color might be something else. Still, a girl so young an assassin."

"That could be the key to finding her identity. Do a search on assassins, though she'll likely be killed unless she's a prestigious member or has some further use."

"Wow, you actually do think like a detective, guess we're opening a detective school here, though are stupid chief probably won't mind."

"And could you explain more about the chief?"

"Basicly a guy that wants us all to get along and sing kumbaya. Even gets happy when we call him "Chief Kumbaya". Guy's an idiot though. He stubbornly keeps Kin-kun partnered with Nakayama hoping they'll get along. However, Kin-kun's mostly been going solo which gets both him and Nakayama scoldings from the chief."

"Scoldings?"

"Well, more like a hour of crap like, "Come on fellas. It's better to stick with a friend and work together." That kind of crap. Has a very punchable face too."

"I see. And is he the highest authority at this station?"

"Since our Superintendent's a wild woman that likes to aid law enforcement abroad, no clue when she'll be back."

"Right now," a sexy female voice snarled.

Kaemi and Reika turned to see a beautiful woman clad in jeans, sneakers and a tanktop. She wore no makeup and had a tomboyish haircut and had such a beautiful and sexy voice, many would mistake her for a tomboy goddess.

"Superintendent Rouge!" Kaemi gasped.

"So why are two highschool girls using a prison cell to play paddy cake?" Rouge glared.

"Well..."

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"That idiot. I'm going to go kick his ass. Where is he?" Rouge glared.

"Interrogating a suspect in regards to the murder case," Kaemi stated.

"Give me the report."

"Yes ma'am!"

"Wow, she's cool," Reika mused as Rouge stormed away.

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"So who was that pretty tomboy that glared at us?" Reiju asked.

"Superintendent Segolina Rouge. So glad you agree she's a hot bitch at least," Fumiyo pouted.

"Why'd they lock you up?" Chika asked.

"Because you made me speed. I just got my license back too."

"Oh."

"Everything ghost told me made my head spin. So that girl killed the researcher, accidentally freed Mimi, connected with Mimi, tried to take her to a place called "Danablu" which was actually Denmark, found her old friends, killed the REAL Namahage brutus who might be a real namahage, then Mimi apparently got slashed by that Ookuma bitch while someone else killed Mimi's old deranged friend, an then the girl brought Mimi back to the lab to save her where we saw her. Ugh, what a mouthful."

"Do we pursue that killer he mentioned?"

"Doubt we can. Probably long gone now. He also failed to snap a photo of Ookuma slashing Mimi. I guess since Mimi didn't die, he didn't see a vision of her."

"Nobuto can see visions of people dying?" Fumiyo asked.

"That's what he claims at least."

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Beku's phone began ringing as Kintaro grilled him.

"Well, answer it," Kintaro glared.

Beku glared and answered.

"Beku-san, it's me," the second in command of the research lab stated.

"Oh, well I'm still in the police prison," Beku glared.

"I just wanted to inform you that a Ginkawa paid to have a girl with platinum blonde hair garbed in late 60s attire frozen after she recieved a nasty gash on her stomach."

"WHAT!? GINKAWA PAID FOR HER!? GRRR!"

"And care to explain why you're so mad? Who exactly is this girl?" Kintaro asked.

"She's- ACK!"

Beku suddenly began to clutch his head and fell to the ground as blood began to trickle out of his mouth.

"Shit, get him medical attention!" Kintaro radioed.

"Two can play at the bug game," Thrasher growled as he took out his listening device.

"Still, Ginkawa? Damn her! Must be the short haired girl. I'll have to tell Xander to deal with her. Better go with the wax dummy publicity stunt then, otherwise the Ginkawas might pull that girl back to their manor if they feel she's being threatened," Thrasher snarled.

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"So we're free?" Reiju asked.

"Yeah, got two- well one murder case for you," Kaemi stated.

"Why not two?"

"Reika already claimed the first. Apparently a suspect and head researcher of the cryogenics lab just died. Apparently, he died similar to those B-station officers. As for the other case, the old woman from before was found dead in the woods along with her presumed killer.

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Reiju looked down at the corpses of Marzi and Vivi.

"The violet haired one is apparently a deranged hikikomori that squats here. I guess she killed the diplomat and then herself with the knife she has with her," Kamei mused.

"I think it's murder, even I can tell the knife wounds look odd," Reiju declared.

"It does seem odd, but I only found that woman's fingerprints on the knife. Unless something else turns up, I'll probably end up ruling this a murder and suicide instead of a double murder."

"Bet she was murdered just like Nobuto was," Fumiyo declared.

"You're still paying those speeding tickets, and no. Don't even-"

"What if someone had evidence that woman was murdered?" Reiju asked as she displayed her phone.

Kaemi's eyes widened as she gazed at the picture.

"That's the victim being murdered by a middle aged woman with grey and orange twintails. Where did you get this?"

"My fan," Chika smiled.

"Well, guess he's a nature freak, first the namahage, now this."

"Oh speaking of which, he got some pictures of the REAL Namahage Brutus dead," Reiju stated as she showed the pics.

"We didn't see his body, but there's clearly an image of the murderer dragging it away. Your megafan is amazing. I'll get Kin-kun on the case," Kaemi smiled.

"Hmm, so Nobuto really is out there as a ghost," Fumiyo muttered.

"Sadly closer than you think," Shiruka groaned as he hid at the top of a tree.

"Say Rei, you think Obake-kun took a pic of his own murder?" Chika asked.

"Doubt it, though now that you mention it, I wonder if anyone out there has evidence that the ghost was murdered. Bet Ghost would appreciate it," Reiju grumbled.

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The three stopped and stared at the Hie cryogenics booth featuring obviously fake replicas of the three possibly real world leaders frozen at the lab.

"So this is how they weasel out of it," Reiju grumbled.

"I heard from Fumiyo that they were a last minute edition. Guess that kinda gives credence to the fact that they might be real," Chika suggested.