246.5 Masumi and Kaoru's extra
Letter: Letter of resignation
RandoOni: I apologize, sir, but... I just can't keep working under your as your Vice-Captain.
RandoOni: Yet another Vice-Captain resigned, huh. | How may does that make? | It's because Captain makes such unreasonable demands... | If he's that hard on us, just imagine how hard he must be on his Vice-Captain... | There's no one who can actually stick with working under him in that position.
Masumi: (How stupid. None of 'em can't do a decent job.)
Kaoru: I'm here to assume the duties of your Vice-Captain starting today, sir. My name is Namikido Kaoru.
Masumi: (Hope this one lasts a month, at least...)
Box: However, contrary to Masumi's expectations, Kaoru managed to do a perfect job.
Kaoru: Just your average job.
Box: Meeting Masumi's unreasonable demands, performing routine tasks, coordinating various places - all of it to perfection.
Masumi: (And to top it all, he...)
Kaoru: Captain Masumi. If you weren't an oni, what job would you choose?
Masumi: (...always tries to strike up idiotic convos...) I've no interest in ifs and woulds. (Until now, none of 'em tried to get to know anything about me.)
Kaoru: I'd personally want to be a florist! It'd be amazing to be able to work surrounded by flowers!
Masumi: How commonplace. And boring.
Kaoru: Let's quit the second-hand bookstore gig and convert it into a flower shop!
Masumi: Don't mess with me. Drop dead. (For such a plain guy, he sure is weird...)
Masumi: That's the warehouse that Nerima's Momo've been using as reserve lately. Nothing much's known about the place, so we'll do some snooping around.
RandoOni: All the members are in position.
Kaoru: Okay, thanks.
Masumi: Namikido. Get me the layout of the whole building, location of every entrance and exit, as well as every emergency exit, the number of Momo inside and their precise positions.
RandoOni: (Woah... that gotta be the most unresonable demand to date...)
Masumi: If you think I'm asking too much, then quit. Half-assing creates nothing but trouble anyway.
Kaoru: ? I'll do it though? If you're asking me to do it, it means you think I'm up to it, isn't that right, Captain?
RandoOni: (Eh...?)
Kaoru: You're not a foolish person who would make unresonable demands just out of spite, after all. If anything, I'm grateful for the trust you place in my ability, sir!
Masumi: Less talking, more working. We don't have time to spare for idle chatter. I'm going in.
Box: Target building for infiltration, Entrance vicinity
RandoOni1: Rookie, relax.
RandoOni2: R-Right... (I'm still nervious though...)
RandoOni1: All we gotta do is watch the entrance and report it if there's anything off. Captain and them will take care of the rest. Don't look so troubled and just blend in with the normies.
RandoOni2: (Well, if only I knew what I should do exactly to blend in... That's a Momo troop! Gotta watch him without staring... Watch him... Watch...)
RandoMomo: Sound the alarm!
RandoOni1: Crap...
RandoOni2: I-I'm sorry!
RandoOni1: Vice-Captain Kaoru! We've been busted!
Kaoru: Roger that. Momo wil make a move en masse now. Captain Masumi, we've got emergency.
Momo are onto us.
Masumi: Tch.
RandoMomo: Oni sighted outside! I'll head to check the emergency exit!
Masumi: I'm gonna buy you some time. Namikido. You act according to the plan.
Kaoru: Understood, sir.
Box: Nerima underground, Infiltration squad area
RandoOni2: I'm very sorry, sir...!
Masumi: If you can't do a decent job, quit. As present, you're being nothing but a hindrance.
RandoOni: He didn't have to word it like that... | Yeah, it's not like everyone can be like him and do what he can... | He holds everyone else to the same personal standards he applies to himself... | He only ever thinks of himself! Egotistic much?! He cares jackshit about those around him!
Kaoru: Does he, really? In my opinion, Captain always thinks about those around him first and foremost.
RandoOni: How so?!
Kaoru: He always puts the safety of the ordinary people and squad members first. Take this mission, for example: we all managed to escape safely, with no one captured or left behind. All thanks to Captain
Masumi buying us enough time and making sure escape routes had been secured beforehand in case of emergency, no?
RandoOni: Eh...?
Kaoru: He prepares a route with emergency in mind every time so that his squad would be guaranteed to make the getaway safely.
RandoOni: I didn't know that. | Yeah...
Kaoru: Besides, although Captain's demands are indeed severe, he always makes sure to keep them just barely within the limits of what you actually can do. Don't you think something like that would be impossible if he didn't watch us all very closely? You're running the risk of overlooking what's actually important if you put too much trust in rumors and badmouthing. In my opinion it's essential to keep an open mind and try to look past preconceived notions to the person's true nature.
Masumi: Namikido Kaoru... What a weird guy.
Box: As time passes...
Masumi: Kaoru, my bangs are in the way.
Kaoru: Right, understood, I'll give them a cut right away. (I don't think Captain Masumi remembers it... but he saved my life once. It was back when I was a Rasetsu student and participated in a mission as part of self-training. It was Captain Masumi who came to rescue me when I got captured. The Captain came in person just for a student who screwed up and had no one but himself to blame for it.... The nastiness of his tongue didn't change one bit since.
Masumi: (Bumbling fool | Botcher | Useless dolt | Die | Scum | Get lost)
Kaoru: (Captain Masumi... although you habitually talk them down... you never hesitate to venture into the most dangerous of places if it's for others. Always first to take initiative and never being anything but modest about it... Hiding your invisible kindness behind the abusive language and abrasive attitude is so like you, Captain Masumi.)
Kaoru: How short would you like them?
Masumi: You decide.
Kaoru: Then why not try the straight-cut version.
Masumi: Don't mess with me. Drop dead.
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