Ichika's scheme

After closing the restaurant for the night, Rika headed home. "Brr, really is chilly tonight," she muttered.

"How ya doing Ri-ri-ka?" Ichika asked as she appeared before Rika.

She was clad in her trademark attire and still just as hairless as before as she shivered before Rika.

"Well, you must be suffering," Rika scoffed as she passed her by.

"Hey, don't just ignore me! I'm freezing to death because you shaved all my hair off so now I get even colder at night!" Ichika protested.

"It's because you made that dumb bet and tried to kill Masaru that you ended up a hairless freakshow; though your dumb bet that forced you to only wear that skimpy outfit is probably the bigger reason why you're freezing."

"Warm me up!" Ichika cried as she leaped for Rika.

"Go snuggle with Nino," Rika snarled as she dodged with ease.

"She's in Tahiti though."

"Tahiti!?"

"Yeah, I won a single ticket, but made a bet with her. Loser stays behind and goes bald. I... lost."

"Well then that's your problem. Go warm up inside somewhere."

"But I can't! I hypnotized myself so I couldn't go inside until Nino-nee comes back."

"Just undo your own hypnosis though."

"..."

"Don't tell me you can't."

"I became so good; I became unable to break free of my own hypnosis! Nino-nee's the only one who can break me free of my hypnosis, but if she's not here, I'm screwed!" Ichika cried as she began to shiver even more

"Do you know about what mother did?" Rika glared.

"Uh, what was it again?"

Rika rolled her eyes and threw a knife at a bush. Nino let out a pained scream as she emerged and pulled the knife out of her thigh.

"I'm not going back to killing for the family, or the organization ever again!" Rika glared.

"Oh boo! I thought I could trick you," Ichika fumed as her sad persona faded.

"How'd you know she was acting?" Nino glared.

"Cause I could sense your presence. Now leave me be or you'll both be shivering out here nude," Rika glared as she stormed away.

"Yeah, even though we disowned you, that doesn't mean we'll just let you be now that you've got a bounty on your head!" Ichika laughed as she and Nino leapted towards Rika.

Rika dodged and performed a slash with her spare knife before sheathing it and walking away.

"Huh? the hell are you- KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Ichika screamed as hers and Nino's clothes were ripped to shreds.

...

"Well that was a horrendous failure," Ichika pouted as she lounged on a sofa in her sneakers and a bathrobe.

"Horrendous doesn't even begin to describe it! We were humiliated once again! What will we do if someone like Rebelle saw that? You're still trending on social media even though you were shaved months ago," Nino glared.

"And?"

"We were publicly humiliated! PUBLICLY! That means the public now recognizes us!"

"But they don't know we're assassins."

"Not so much in your case! Your disastrous meal earned you the moniker, "rotten egghead" cutesy of Rebelle. Thanks to that bitch you also ended up making the headlines in all the food magazines once your blacklisting was formalized. You're also even more recognizable now with that bald head of yours, and since you can't disguise yourself because of your damn bet, you'll have to be even more stealthy if you so much as wish to pull off a kill without getting caught!"

"Ugh, why can't you be a little nicer?"

"I'm now the head of the family. This means I now handle everything, including the bills!"

"Bills?"

"Yes, we have bills to pay! And we won't be able to get the income to do so if we can't get jobs!"

"We could always go for a romp in the Tt hotel's underground arena."

"Perhaps. Messing with Ri-ri-ka will only make our lives worse. At least with this failure, we can justify to I.L.U. that we are too weak to handle Ri-ri-ka."

"Madam Ookuma's gonna be pissed though."

"I imagine she had no expectation that we would actually defeat her. Though I still want to notch at least one win off her."

Nino let out a groan as she figured Ichika was about to drag her into something.

...

The next day, Ichika and Nino snuck into to Ryokoma.

"And what are we going to do exactly?" Nino glared.

"Ri-ri-ka's got these skimpy outfits lying around so I figure we wear em, and rile up the crowd with them. Or better yet, I hypnotize everyone here and make em dance in these skimpy outfits."

"And just what are you two doing here?" Rika's voice snarled.

Ichika began to grin and immediately whipped out her medallion. "Now you shall all dance in these skimpy samba outfits- No, COMPLETELY NAKED before your patrons!"

"Hmm, guess you are an exhibitionist."

"Huh? HUH!?"

Ichika recoiled in shock as she realized Rika was covering her face up with a mirror, meaning she had just hypnotized herself.

"Well, guess I'll have some mercy. You can still wear your sneakers," Rika snickered.

"That still leaves me 95% nude!"

"Too bad. Oh, and you're joining her, Nino."

Before Nino could protest, Rika shredded her clothes to bits. The rest of the day was miserable for the twins. Due to the hypnosis, Ichika was forced to dance from opening to closing. Nino was also forced to do the same, but mainly because Rika refused to let her leave.

"Ugh, we never mess with Rika again, for sure this time," Ichika groaned as she staggered out of the restaurant.

"Oh NOW you say that!" Nino angrily shouted.