"Show some respect you-!" A Shinsengumi officer began, ever so slightly drawing his sword. He was interrupted with a cold, "Shut it" from Hijikata. They let Humaru pass without any more trouble. "Sir!" The officer complained. Hijikata tsk'd a few times and took out another cigarette, lighting it and letting it hang out one side of his mouth, "Deal with it. You don't draw your blade on a guy like that. He's like Sougo, always carrying killing intent with himself. If he wanted to kill any of us us he'd of already done it. You drawing on him would just make it self defence on his part." "Well... 4th Squad, you're ordered to go back to the headquarters. I'm going to the Terminal to see what Matsudaira has on the attack." Hijikata commanded, swiftly making his way towards the tall metal structure in the center of Edo, running past Humaru on the way. ---------- "Give in~?" Arashi said with a disheartened look, "But I didn't even explode my target yet..." That absolutely freakin' sealed it - she was one of the terrorists! Didn't even try to hide it! "So I'll go and do that right now!" She chanted. The clearly insane China girl then launched up onto the HQ's surrounding wall leaving kicked-up dust where she was standing, and then jumped down into the compound, the sound of a machine gun flaring up as men inside could be heard being cut down by it. ...But all that girl had was an umbrella, not a machine gun! She was going to destroy the Shinsengumi HQ! ---------- "That's a neat trick you have there..." Shiroko said giving Cronic an impressed look, "I suppose embracing the future does have it's perks. But you're a pathetic thing to behold... The embodiment of this corrupt world. Let me guess - without all that technology around and inside of you, you might as well be a corpse?" The lady ninja teased, readying another bunch of kunai between her fingers. Whether they broke into a violent battle or not, her objective was complete and she was free to escape as she willed. Damn all if the cyborg could keep up when that happened... ---------- At the same time these battles took place, a lone helicopter landed in Kabuki District, at the docks where a large airship was being loaded up with supplies. The strange man who looked like Takasugi, but with white hair, disembarked from the chopper and started walking calmly towards the large vessel...