Spoiled Bread

[East Empire] Operation Snatch Gear

"Clearing one side should be enough to make a path for us. Means two targets at least." Marrion assessed the situation around the building. She glanced at Izzy.

"You ready?" Marrion grabbed Izzy and lifted her bridal style with her four arms. Two upper one were the ones covered in chitin, but the two lower ones were fleshy human hands. Despite her slightly smaller size, Marrion was surprisingly strong and carried Izzy with relative ease as they soared across the sky.

"We will drop you off. You take the left one, we take the right one." Marrion dropped Izzy in a secluded hidden spot behind an Empire-style pillar near the guard's patrol route.

Meanwhile, Marrion immediately folded her wings and went crawling on all six like a giant cockroach. Using the shadow and nearby obstacles to stealthily made her way to one of the guard from behind. Once in range, she leapt at the guard. Her lower arms trying to choke the guard's neck while her upper arms trying to strangle the man's face with a sheet of silk. She was trying to cut the guard's airflow quickly while preventing him from screaming. If she success, she would drag the body away and hide it somewhere.

Action(Energized F & Extra 2 Limbs):
1) Carry Izzy - Flight F & Superstrength F
2) (Agile perk) Crawl towards the guard and strangle him - Fast F, Stealth F, Wall-crawling F, Superstrength F, Silk Affinity F
3) Hide body

[East Empire] Operation Snatch Gear

"Marrion. You can call us Marrion." She replied at Miyu's inquiry. Her middle eye glanced at Miyu but the normal eyes didn't really move, still keeping eyes on Neo.

"Yes killing. Noted."

"Yes. We...-" Marrion's words trailed as she correct her sentence. "I, can fly around for distraction. Distraction method varies. We, I, are good for that."

The blind guy paired her with the woman with the thick accent. Marrion wasn't sure about half of what the woman said but she seemed confident on her abilities. Good.

"Here's plan. We- I, dropped you on strategic spot. Do what you want. W- I will patrol around." A vague plan, but then again there's not much information about the enemies or the layout so she didn't want to overthink it. Marrion grunted briefly and two pairs of translucent insect wings appeared on her back. Faint buzzing sound could be heard as she fly above the ground and extended her chitin-covered hand towards Izzy, offering a flight for her.

[East Empire] Operation Snatch Gear

"No killing, noted." Marrion nodded at the extra condition. Though if someone dies, whether it was a guard or one of the fellow thieves, she fully intent to chop their head off for later snack.

Marrion tilted her head as she watched the man pointed at the hole a good distance away. He was clearly blindfolded, so he was using another means to sense the surrounding. Echolocation? Shared sense? Something else? She intents to figure out what would that be.

"Using that device would immediately alert the guards that someone is sneaking in." Marrion pointed at the orb on Neo's hand. She had been doing a lot of tinkering for the past few weeks, digging though the broken siege machines the Empire left behind within Hive territory and upgrading her puppets with some extra techs. She had seen those orbs a few times and can guess its function.

"We can fly around and provide better alternatives for distraction."

[East Empire] Operation Snatch Gear

A lone figure strolled across the hill. Her entire body from the neck down was covered in a black rag that was barely be able to be called clothing while the face was hidden behind a white mask, which create a striking contrast with the black rag and the dull ashen environment around her. Her two normal eyes stared forward, focusing on what's ahead, but the third eye in the middle was constantly on all direction, ever vigilant to any chance of ambush. Something taller than Marrion herself was tied on her back and wrapped in bandage, swaying with each step she took.

There's already a few people at the meeting spot. All humans, as expected of East Empire people.

"Greetings, fellow Prime." Marrion tried to be polite by mimicking what human do when meeting other human. Her voice sounded like there's three people talking at once from behind the mask.

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

Jilly watched silently at the mother-daughter reunion from behind a bush. Hiding as if her oversized hat didn't jut out of the bush like a pole. She helped someone today, hopefully Marra moved out of that village to somewhere better. The problem with that village probably runs deeper if the neighbors would rather sell a child than dealing with bandits.

Jilly bounced towards Garreth, her eyes looking curiously on his wound. She wanted to help, but wasn't sure how. Though this made her remember that her master was an expert at healing magic so Jilly herself should have some talent for it. Maybe she would practice healing later.

"Here, Mr. Guard. You should have some lunch and then take some rest." Jilly handed Garreth a handful of candies, which was her meal for that day.

Next she bounced her way to Fredrick. She spun her arm before playfully fist-bumping his leg.

"That was great, pardner. You should throw me again next time." She said gleefully.

"That man who blocked the bandits, I feel like I have seen him before..." Jilly rubbed her non-existent chin as she tried to dig deeper into her memory, though she seemed to have up midway and simply waved her hand at the direction where they last saw him.

"Thank you for the help, Sir Coin-sama!!!"

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

Jilly hopped over the fallen bandit and talked to the girl inside the cage.

"I will get you out of here. Hold on." Jilly didn't have the cage key, so she grabbed two of the bars with her hands before trying to pull it apart. Letting out a grunt and got her face turning red as she exerts all her strength. Jilly was as strong as a wet noodle so she wouldn't be able to break it in normal way, but the bars turned into gum-flavored jelly for her to tear through it.

"Let's go!" Jilly nodded at the girl and urged her to leave the cage.

Action:
Break the cage with Transmutation F

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

"It's okay, we came to free you." Jilly noticed the girl's distressed look and tried to give her reassurance. Though considering the man in front of her is swinging his weapon. Jilly inhaled the air around her to inflate her cheeks to an absurd size that blocks her face, and then use the inflated cheeks to catch the bandit's attack head on. Melting anything it catches into jelly.

Action:
1-2) Block with Slime Catch - Change State F, Elasticity F, Transmutation F - Block attack with inflated body part and transmute any non-living caught into gum-flavored jelly - 2 action - F grade

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

"OK. Let's take the archers first." Jilly nodded in agreement at Fredrick's suggestion. Though when she looked back at the positioned guards she noticed a glaring flaw on the strategy. Do any of them can do ranged attack? It seemed none of them carry bow or something like that. Rushing towards the archers through the melee bandit would be dangerous. The safest option would be to use stealth, or...

"Throw me!" Jilly exclaimed, she put down her oversized witch hat and then flip it upside down before jumping into it like a weird goopy ice cream. She wriggled herself deeper into the hat by melting her own body. It's like those circus performance where the clown stuff themselves into a cannon.

"Throw me at the archer. I can perform surprise attack and we can flank them from two sides." Jilly's elongated arm stretched out of the hat and formed a thumb up.

Action:
1) Prepare Surprise Cannon - Magic F, Componentless Magic F, Change State F, Elasticity F - Transform into a jelly state and ready to attack on impact

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

"1... 2... 3... 4... 5..." Jilly used her non-existent fingers to count the bandits present. Thankfully it was no more than 5 so she wouldn't need to use her non-existent toes. Still though, that would be too much for her to handle alone. She could sneak in, but getting out with Marra's daughter safely would be much harder.

"Let's regroup first." Jilly retreated back a few distance and waited for Fredrick and Garreth to arrive.

[Wickerford - Ryke] An eye for an eye

Jilly landed a few distance away. She didn't want to alert another whistleblower so she wanted to do this more stealthily. Her body shudder as she's trying to change her molecules, from bright pink jelly into soft green matcha-flavored jelly to blend with her surrounding. She entered the deeper pocket posing as a green jelly sludge, crawling very close to the ground, hoping the grass would be enough to hide her presence. She hadn't forget her mission to find the daughter here so she focused her search on where they might keep their prisoners.

Action:
Use Change State F and Transmutation F to sneak in as green jelly