230. High Priestess

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Yuki walks along the mall rather silently.

"Damn that Dark..." she whispered.

Yesterday...

Dark charged as he cut through the several Mafiosos into pieces. Yuki, who was with him, teleports around the shadows of the apartment as she slaughtered the Mafiosos by stabbing their brains.

Several Mafiosos with guns appear before the pair from the hall to the left.

"Yuki. Free the sex slaves downstairs. I'll take them on," Dark squinted his eyes.

Yuki nods as she teleports downstairs.

Yuki then drops from the ceiling as she tears out the padlock with her bare hands.

"Get out," she said.

The men and women shiver in fear.

She slams the cage.

"I SAID GO!!!" she howled, as they whimper and run away.

*RATATATATATATA*

*SHING SHING*

*yelp*

*SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT*

*panting*

"Hey, Yuki?" asked Dark, panting. "Did you free the sex slaves?"

"Yeah..." Yuki silently breathed.

"Wanna go out next Saturday?" asked Dark.

"Huh?" she asked.

Now...

"Damn it..." Yuki turned red as she covered her face with her arm. "Goddamn it, I hate dating people... For some reason, though... I just couldn't say no..."

*clack clack clack clack clack*

A beautiful fair-skinned fit blonde woman with a pair of red high heels sees Yuki in the distance. She sneers. "Hmhmhm..."

She suddenly transforms into John Stefanio.

Earlier...

Gabrielle accidentally trips on a small toy car in Dark's mansion.

Gabrielle begins to sob.

Anne sees Gabrielle sobbing. "Oh... Oho..." Anne began to cry. "Don't cry, sweetie..."

Anne begins to sob.

"Mrs. JoJo!" smiled Hercules. "What's wrong?"

Miguel sighs as he drinks some beer. "Anne cries every time Gabrielle cries."

"I'm an empath..." sobbed Anne. "SCREW OFF!!!" she growled.

"You'd think it'd be hard to have two crying babies... What about three and the other one is the one you sleep with..." said Miguel.

"That sounded pedophilic!" sobbed Anne.

"No, it's not... BECAUSE YOU'RE A GROWN WOMAN, ANNE!!!" Miguel facepalmed. "Anyway... Yuki?"

"Hm?" asked Yuki, wearing a blue skirt and heels.

"Uh... Where's Dark," Miguel squinted his eyes. "I have a new assignment for him. Also, what the hell are you wearing? You look girlier than usual."

"I think it's sexist of you to think that a tomboy cannot be girlier!" she raised her head.

"I consider all genders as one, Yuki Yamagishi. I agree that there are multiple genders, but I consider them as one since no race nor gender should be above one another."

"Uh... Patriarchy?" asked Anne.

"I have faith in the world that patriarchy would be decimated, Anne... Believe me! I'll fix up the world's problems."

Now...

"Hey..." sighed Yuki.

"Oh! Hey! Hi! Hello!" she... I mean... "he... John Stefanio..." said.

"Hello, John. So... Are we doing this, or what?"

"The date you mean? Yeah! Yeah, totally!"

"You're acting less composed and sarcastic than usual."

"Uh...! Diarrhea!"

Yuki squints his eyes. "Alright! Very well! Let's carry on and bond." Yuki walks away as "Dark" follows.

The pair arrive at the ice cream store.

"Carry my things," said Yuki.

"Sure."

"Hm..." Yuki squints her eyes.

"What's the matter?"

"Oh... no reason..."

Later... the pair went to the park...

"Hey, John. What was your father's name?" asked Yuki.

"It... hurts too much to say his name."

"Fuck this... Do you like Marcos?"

"That tyrant? Hell no!"

Yuki immediately stabs "him" in the stomach.

"I applaud for the short performance... But I already knew that you weren't John... I just wanted to see where it goes... Because clearly, you haven't done your research. Now, enough with the charades. Who are you?"

"He" transforms into the same blonde woman from before as she runs away and into the crowd in the mall.

"HEY!!!" Yuki chases after her, but she disappears into the crowd.

Yuki squints her eyes as she steps into the shadow of a man who walks by and disappears.

The woman transforms into a cowboy, a dog, a cat, a rat, a senile old man, a nun, a maid, a runaway bride, a TikTok celebrity, an obese woman, a firefighter, a cop, a butterfly, and a little boy.

"Where the hell is she!?" asked Yuki, as her eye peaked from each of their shadows.

Suddenly, a dagger drops from a cop's hand.

Yuki immediately teleported away.

She backs away from the shadow as she slams her back against the wall of her tiny pocket dimension.

Around her are walls made of unknown forces.

"Goddamn my life..." sighed Yuki. "What kind of idiot writes my life's story!?"

It's rude to talk about someone who's listening.

"Huh?"

...

"Must've been the wind."

Yuki looks left and right in a fearful manner as if someone or something followed her into her pocket dimension.

Yes. It's me.

Yuki's eyes quiver. She closes her eyes shut and shakes her head. "Must've been the wind."

Yuki peaks out of another shadow of a doctor as she looks around.

*pew*

Yuki is forced to retreat as a bullet is shot toward her.

*ting*

It strikes the ground.

Because the mall was so loud and the gun had a silencer.

Yuki realizes something. "Her footsteps... She has strangely heavy heels... which means that the sound of her footsteps is heavier than the others' footsteps..."

*clack clack clack*

"There!" yelled Yuki, as she tossed a dart into the woman's leg.

"AUGH!!!"

*pew! pew!*

Yuki retreats back into the shadow pocket dimension.

"What do you want from me!?"

"I only want what's best for our country," the woman spoke with a military accent.

"You sound southern... no... you're from the army..."

*shing!!! shing!!! shing!!!*

Knives are tossed toward her from beneath her as she dodges and the knives are shot into the ceiling of the mall.

"Why are you trying to kill me!?"

The woman look left and right with an expressionless face.

"I was promised that women will be separated from male soldiers in war, ma'am..."

"Why ever would you care about that?"

"Because I was raped by my fellow officers ten years ago... Afghanistan..."

Yuki's eyes quiver. "I'm... sorry..."

"So am I."

The woman spots Yuki's eye peering out from a shadow of the walls of the mall as she blasted a few shots.

"The sun is setting..." said Yuki. "You have one hour before you surrender and tell me where Dark is... or I'll kill you..."

"Ma'am... You simply don't understand."

"I do, mate..." Yuki sighs. "I used to be molested by someone... when I was younger..."

"Then why do you fight for someone name Miguel JoJo, who wants to equalize men and women? Do you know what that means? He'll allow unisex bathrooms... unisex prisons... unisex camps..."

"I don't think he'll do that," said Yuki.

"The man considered that all genders are one, Billy Jean. Don't you see how dangerous that is? If America ends up being part of whatever the hell kinda shitshow Maharlica is... It's all over."

"But what about feminism?"

"I believe that all gender is equal ma'am... But Miguel fails to see that all genders are different. They're different, Billy Jean. The world cannot be a uniform person... Everyone is different... Everyone has their own beliefs... traditions... cultures... opinions... and gender... Miguel wants to build a world where identity no longer exists. He's forcing everyone into his own united world. Can't you see that this President of yours isn't perfect after all? This world he's making will only cause tension."

"Fine..." Yuki squinted her eyes. "I'll talk to him. Just stop trying to kill me."

"Ma'am... my name is Ariana Sasha... and I'm a soldier of America... You're a soldier of Maharlica... the enemy... I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to fight you off."

"Then... I'm sorry... But I'll have to try and kill you..."

Yuki takes out her katana from her scabbard as she stabbed her foot, going through her left high heels.

She spits out blood.

"I knew it... The High Heels are your Stand. It allows you to transform into anyone or anything, huh?"

Ariana hisses and transforms her hand into a machine gun and blasts bullets at Yuki.

Yuki crawls inside the shadow as everyone in the mall runs away out of fear, all screaming and panting.

"Where's Dark!?"

"Kiss my ass."

*RATATATATATATA*

Bullets went flying toward every shadow Ariana could see. She blasted her bullets everywhere trying to kill Yuki.

"It doesn't have to be this way!"

"Yes, it does."

"I can talk to Miguel! I can make him change his mind!"

"That President of yours is a Grimm, Yuki! Everyone knows that Grimms are nothing more than stubborn headhunters!"

"He's also a half-blood with the blood of the Grimms' prey! He's half-Aswang! He can change the world!"

"Why are you being like this!? Miguel JoJo is a murderer... He's a psychopath!"

"You're just being mind-controlled by The Boss."

"What!?"

"Shit..."

Yuki leaps out of the shadow and charges toward Ariana.

*RATATATA*

Yuki runs on the wall upward and dodged Ariana's bullets.

Yuki then spins and tries to cut Ariana with her katana, but Ariana shot Yuki in the legs.

Yuki drops to the ground as Ariana grabs her hair points the gun on her face.

"Bang..."

*BANG*

*TING*

Thriller warped on Yuki's face, blocking the bullet.

"What the hell!?" asked Ariana.

Yuki then takes out her katana and stabs Ariana in the torso. She then decapitates her machine gun hand, as the gun morphed back into a dismembered hand.

*SHING*

*SPLAT*

Ariana screams in pain.

Yuki pants as she struggles to stand. "I won't kill you unless I have to."

Ariana sighs. "Do you think that I'm mind-controlled?"

"H-Huh?"

"The Boss isn't controlling me... I am fully aware of my actions. It's because I work for The Boss... Get it? So, I am above the law."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean."

Ariana growls as she warps her hand into a pistol.

*BANG*

Yuki then takes out her katana as she slices the bullet in half. She then cuts the gun in half and into her arm, as the arm is now in tao vertical pieces.

Ariana pants.

"Where's... Dark?"

Yuki asked.

"In the closed-down restaurant at the back of the mall..." panted Ariana.

Yuki takes out only a small inch of her katana as she immediately returns it into the scabbard.

Ariana's head drops down from her body and rolls on the ground.

"I'm sorry..." sighed Yuki.

*SHING*

Someone slices the locks.

*creak*

The old glass door opens.

Dark sighs in relief. "Yuki! Thank God! This is just as terrible as the time I got a bunch of 12-year-old sidekicks killed!"

"I thought you said they were 21."

"I blame math, Yuki. Math! I know Rene Descartes is out there to get me!"

Meanwhile... a band of mathematicians including Archimedes, Pythagoras, Rene Descartes, and Stephen Hawking watches Dark from the Heavens...

"He's on to us," said Descartes.

Now...

Yuki sighed.

"Sorry I ruined the date..." Dark smiled.

Yuki's eyes quivered.

"Anything the matter, m'lady?" Dark sneered.

"Nothing."

"What? You thirstin'?"

"No, you fucking twat."

"Christ. I was joking." Dark squints his eyes as she is about to cry.

"Fine! Stop squinting at me like that!" Yuki yelled as Dark nodded.

"Talk."

"I killed someone who I agree with..."

"Ah... the old 'I murdered someone who is my own situation. Keep talkin'."

"I... ran away from home since my parents wouldn't believe me... Became an assassin ten years later..."

"What didn't they believe?"

"I had this uncle... He'd... touch me... in weird places... I didn't like to be touched..."

"Jesus..."

"Yeah... haha... And I killed someone who had a similar problem."

"Why did you?"

"Because I'm fighting for a different side."

Dark sighed. "Miguel would listen to me because I'm his half-brother. What would you want me to say to him?"

Yuki smiles. "You'd honestly do that for me?"

"I'm usually an asshole, but I pity you enough because of that sob story to be nice to you for once. Tell me..."

Now...

"A prison, army camp, and bathroom for every gender?"

Dark smiles and nods.

Miguel and Anne stared at Dark. Miguel was baffled and Anne was smiling.

"Every gender?"

"Uh-huh! And anything else that needs to be split between genders. Except for schools, of course!"

"Every 52 of them?"

"Yep!" smiled Dark.

"Well... I do agree that rape is still pretty common in Maharlica... Fine." Miguel squinted his eyes. "Wait... Anne!"

"Yeah?"

"The moon!"

"A prison... on the moon?"

"Yeah!"

"Miggy... We made colonies there... Now... a prison?"

"YES!!! I call it the Moon Terraforming Experiment for Forming Non-Genderizing Communities! Or... Much-Tefnuguhcuh..."

"Miguel... This'll cost us trillions."

"EXACTLY!!! AWESOME, RIGHT!?" smiled Miguel.

"Oh, sweet Jesus..." Anne sighed.

"We could also put endangered Animals in the other half of it!"

"I heard you the fourth time!"