Wars after war Volume 9, Part Six: It hits different!

City Of H: Homeless.

The Old manoir could be seen from afar on a hill, surrounded by dead leaves trees and ruined four to five story apartments. A sight to beckon as the two women; Farah and Sasha paved their way the farther they could. Reaching the outskirts of H-city, they find a good spot to rest.

"...I won't say thank you for what you did for me."

"I don't expect you to.. I know you are a thick-headed, abiding-by-the-law-freak of a woman. A true friend once that I loved but chose to give up on me. I gave up on expecting a long time aaaaaaagoooo--"

Argues Farah as she knows how to win a word brawl.

"Alright! I apologize, okay!? Thank you Sashie for helping me back there. I seriously thought that I was gonna die there. You made powerful friends this time.."

"Friends? I wonder. I don't really know these people. I just met them today. But one thing I can say for sure is that--"It's good to see you again, girls"--that."

Hopping their way from the shadows, five women lands in a perfect straight-line in front of Farah.

And they all scream at the same time:

«We salute the Runaway Fated Black Widow; Our heroine»

An 'oof' oozes its way out of Farah's mouth.

A clear mental shock as she was about ready to take them all down.

"Don't be so uptight. Unlike me who was pent up on ending you, they were happy to see you. It's always nice meeting a living legend, isn't that right y'all?"

"Living legend? Me? Where did they get that idea? And here I thought that I was seen as a bitch by my kouhai in plural.."

The girls still kneeling in front of Farah reacts to her words' with contempt..

And one of them adds:

"Dis one ca'th. You'se art us idol."

"Huhhh.. What the fuck did she say? What's wrong with her tongue?"

Says a troubled Farah, the head angled to one side working her brain cells to full capacity.

Sasha quickly adds:

"Don't act con! This one girl is the sole daughter of Antonia Dreykov; Taskmaster.. Like you, she sustained her ability to reproduce but lost her tougue to the hands of her grandfather, Dreykov himself. You could say that it's a scar from the red room."

"Ah! So, if she lost her tongue, she must've sworn her body and soul to Dreykov. Just like what the tradition stated.. But then, why didn't she kill herself like the other girls?"

Adds Farah, intrigued by the little girl's story.

"You can ask her, she's right there."

"Sweet, aren't you? I don't get what she says.."

A clap to her forehead, Sasha sighs at her stupidity.

"Right! How to put it: She's sworn to kill the murderer of her mother.. Whom appears to be Natasha Romanoff's little sister. That's why she's still alive. Until then, she won't die."

"Revenge. Then, she's bound to achieving nothing. Another dumb little girl wasted over nothing.. Anyways, moving on, what are your thoughts on joining Escleo's plan, Sasha? You heard everyone. They seem to have started taking a liking to you, apart Verin. But I can work on that."

Partially pissed at the little girl's stupid goal, Farah ignores her and questions Sasha.

But Sasha obviously agrees as she knows she is being observed by malicious eyes.

"It seems that Escleo is back. But I don't recognise the other one.. What a strange aura. Why is it so angry?"

"Farah. I feel like we are somewhere we shouldn't be, don't you?"

Farah explains an innermost feeling about a stare she's feeling at the moment and cannot determine why it's angry.

Sasha doesn't feel anything but she has a notch that something's wrong as she mentions that her place shouldn't be here.

The little girls, except one, don't know what's happening.

Suddenly, appearing from nowhere, a four eyed guy steps foot in the grassy soil as he ventures towards Farah and the rest.

Around noon, the sun is at it's highest.

Verin and Tsar are not that far but a few kilometres which they could easily run through with their physical prowess.

So, Farah knew that if she was to buy at least, twenty seconds.

She could at least get the girls saved, in spite of sacrificing her's.

Once again, Farah having trust issues doubted ‹one› of her teamates again.

"Calm down, Onna-musha. I'm the man Escleo recruited. He told me to come get you.. He's already in the manoir."

Facing an existence so powerful since Escleo, Farah didn't know that it was possible to be this menacing.

Realizing she's pointing a fist towards him, she lowers her guard and...

"Shallow Banner, the first one Escleo recruited. I understand why now.. I apologize for being like this.. It's just complicated to adapt to a life I've never had before."

"I don't mind. You ain't the first and you won't be the last, sadly. I will just keep striving for a way to be more friendly I guess. But each time I try, people find me scary. So, we going?"

A nod of agreement from Farah.

Sasha enlaces her hand in Farah's, saying with no words that she will follow her to the end.

A gesture from Sasha disperses the little girls into the wilderness.

"We can go. And don't worry, Sasha is part of it too."

Hence, the three of them returned back to the Wrecked manoir.