The blades of the airplane whirled as the two ascended into the skies.
The two sat in front of each other once again on black leather seats. Maria read up on the mission documents while Felix was completely in a daze. His mismatched eyes widely stared into the distance.
"It looks like we're headed to a hotel." She muttered to herself.
"Mister Aster, your coffee. Miss Readman, your mimosa and strawberry tart." An attendant spoke as she placed their orders on the table. A black coffee, an alcoholic beverage, and a sweet dessert.
"Ah thank you!" Maria peppily responded.
The attendant flashed a brief smile and left as soon as she finished putting their food on the desk.
"C-coffee…" He absent-mindedly replied, his eyes were open, but had no focus.
"That's right… now drink up." Maria smiled softly.
The moment he took a sip of the coffee, his expression turned back to his usual scowl, "Ugh, this coffee is too bitter."
"Oh good, you're back to normal." She replied passively.
"Hey, wait a minute, you knocked me out—"
"I had to. You were being uncooperative."
"Sigh… don't do that again."
"No promises." She smirked.
Felix leered over as Maria opened her suitcase. In it, displayed a gun, similar in appearance to his own.
"You also have a new gun?"
"Yup. Twin guns, kinda like yours. Speaking of, sorry about your old gun, though. It was important to you, right?"
"It's alright, I have these…" He answered as he looked at his twin guns.
"For now, until the agency replaces it again." She blurted out with a hint of dissatisfaction.
"Right… So how are they? The guns I mean?"
She spun them around, "Light, easy to hold. Bullets that could break through five inches of steel."
"Odd, why didn't the development lab give me that kind of firepower?"
"Wasn't it because you don't kill unless "absolutely necessary?"" She gestured in air quotes.
"Mhm… So what are they called?"
"I wanted to call it Maria Junior, but they were already given names. "Predator" and "Proditor". They said it was fitting for taking down the hunter and the traitor."
"Better than Agony and Misery." He scoffed.
She shrugged, "I still prefer knives. Guns just kill too quickly for me."
Felix looked at his twin guns, and with a contemplative expression, responded, "… My mentor always told me that if I had to kill, I should do it quickly and as painlessly as possible."
Maria crossed her arms with a look of mild annoyance, "And yet you didn't want me to kill Harbinger."
"Y-yeah."
"You were only prolonging his suffering, you know?"
He gulped, "Yeah, I know…"
The conversation turned silent once again as it was left at that. Felix returned to scouring through the holographic screen.
"That's odd… it says here that location is an abandoned building in a bustling city, but their current position is…" Maria remarked as she zoomed into the screen.
*
Felix prepared his gear, placing his new twin guns into the holsters under his coat. As they hovered closer to the location, Maria gulped as she watched him put on goggles.
With the wind caught in their throats, the two of them were forced to yell as the airplanes' opened its hatch.
"WE'RE JUMPING TO THEIR HIDEOUT?!" Maria shrieked at the top of her lungs, clinging on the other side of the airplane.
"YES." Felix replied as he placed the goggles above her head and dragged her closer.
"ISN'T THIS REALLY DANGEROUS?!" Maria clutched Felix's arm.
"PROBABLY." He answered against the strong whirling gust against his cheeks as he pulled her closer to the hatch.
"I WASN'T TRAINED FOR THIS!"
He turned to her with a shocked expression, "HOW CAN YOU NOT BE?!"
"REASONS!"
"WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! WE'RE ABOUT TO MISS OUR JUMP!" Felix grabbed her waist and pulled her down with him.
"NOOOOOOO!" Her scream faded into the atmosphere as the two of them plummeted together.
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