Pov 3

  Bke made her move just in time when one of the three intruders , y on the ground to check through the gaps at the bottom of the stalls to see if anyone was inside . Due to the fact that Lappnd and Bke did not close their stall door , it was also not clear through the red marker on the lock outside whether anyone was inside . Ultimately this led to a situation where it was unknown which stall they were in .

  Of course , with the knowledge of the intruders , that they are in here . It didn't really matter if they were hiding . After all , they must be ihis room . Still , hiding bought them time and gave them the element of surprise in a situatiohey would have to defend themselves . The intruders also khis , which made them not want to recklessly opealls .

  After all, the intruders were not uninformed idiots . They knew who they were kidnapping . Both girls because of their parents should have self-defense abilities including aura . Such skills in the hands of a child could make them difficult to capture . Of course not much more difficult in the end they are still children without much experience or intuition . heless, in the case of a surprise attack even a normal child hurt an adult .

  And well none of the intruders were willing to lose an eye as a result of a scratch . In this case, however, these children are faunus , who may have an aura and an unknown level of training in self-defense . Which makes the situation likely to end in something worse than gouging out an eye . A small amount of information , bined with a lot of probabilities makes this at first unplicated mission , bee dangerous at any time .

  And that's not even ting the parents and guardians of their targets . If it were not for the fact that the targets had separated from their caretakers , the mission of this group would still remain only to observe the family . They did this from the time the Beldonna family arrived in Ats , until the children were separated . Thehe ma learned of this opportunity , they immediately ordered the observation group to take advantage of the situation .

  Surprisingly , it was not Bke Beldonna who was the main focus of their task . It was a girl named Lappnd , Beldonna's family adopted child . For some reason , the bosses are much more focused on capturing the adopted daughter than the biological one . Of course the purpose of the task did not matter , they were to capture twets . If that is not possible then only one , preferably Lappnd .

  This made this group , not focused on fighting but on information gathering and espionage , has to do it alone . Due to the suddenness of this order, they had no time to be prepared . Support would also not arrive in time , so they were left aloh what they had .T hey did not have the aura , equipment or support to handle a fight with a trained hunter or aura holder . If something ged and the parents or their guardian would appear at any time , the entire operations group khey would have to run .

  They were not hunters or aura holders . They were not even officially affiliated with SDC or ats , even though they're w for them . If caught , they would be left alone by the SDC , they would be nobody . Therefore , despite the fact that they ware fag the two children they remained professionally cautious .

  After all , who knows what the kids will e up with in a moment of danger . With this type of operation they does not want to get scratched or injured because of some stupidity . Not so much for the sake of leaving a trail , after all if the kids go missing , their bosses will make the polily pretend to care . What motivated them to be cautious , was not wanting to get another scar etting caught by parents of ther targets .

  ??? : " Sir , I'm not sure if threats will help us here at all . Scared , they may start doing stupid things and we do not want that to happen . Besides , I'm not sure I want to take part in harming children . "

  Said the young male with a clear in his voice disfort aation for the current situation.

  ??? : " You kidnaping them idiot , you are already hurting them . Besides , you've already sighe tract , so there's no escape now . An order is an order . Let's get this done quickly , the st thing I want is to be caught in the dies room while kidnapping two underage girls . "

  Said a seale voice belonging to the intruder lying on the ground . Who after saying this got up from the ground and after looking at the third intruder who was standing in sileh his arms folded , he shook his head letting him know that he found no movement ialls .

  Standing uhe fshing lights of the toilet . The three intruders looked no different from the other people outside . They were wearing ordinary civilian clothes . On their hands they were winter gloves made of leather , quite normal for the cold climate of the Ats . On their heads they were hoods from their bck winter jackets .

  Only the surgical masks on their faces and suood out in their clothing . Although the ret flu epidemic may have been a pretty clear justification for the face masks on ther face's . So in the end , the only suspicious thing about these intruders may have been the bulge from uheir winter jackets . As to what it was , who knows . In the eyes of the people it could have been anything . However, looking at the situation it is most likely a on .

  ??? : " Behind the bathrooms door , in the escape van, our female agent is waiting for us . Her job is to draw people away from the bathroom . Unfortunately, this may draw attention to us which we do not want , so we o act fast . "

  Said a deep male voice , belonging to the intruder standing with his hands folded . After saying this , he pulls his gsses off his face , showing the world his red eyes .

  Red-eyed man : " Besides , the store employees will eventually turn their attention to the two girls who did not give back the key to the toilet . Too muoise also attract their attention , so let's do it quietly . "

  Said the red-eyed man, putting his gsses in the pocket of his jacket as he spoke . After these words he began to approach the door of the first stall .

  Red-eyed man : " And harming children is not in my pns , but if they do not cooperate we will have to use force . "

  Said the red-eyed man turning to the uain co-worker , making his attitude clear . He did not have a strange fantasy of harming children . Kidnapping them was just his job , the morality of this a is certainly questio such is the world . As for hurting them , as he said " if you force me to " he will drag them out by their hair .

  Red-eyed men : " You opeher stall . And you watch the exit . I don't want them to somehow mao open the door and start shouting . "

  Said the red-eyed man addressing first the co-worker , who just got up from the ground . The sed task beloo the man , who expressed his disfort aation . Such a distribution of tasks clearly indicated that the red-eyed man , trusted the first co-worker as more posed and willing to do the task of capturing their targets .

  Immediately after issuing this order , the two intruders , cautiously opehe first two stalls . Immediately after that they moved on to the wo and these also turned out to be empty . After those failures , the red-eyed man finally stopped in front of the st stall . The three Intruders already khat it was in this stall that Lappnd and Bke were hiding , they were sure of it . Likewise , Bke and Lappnd were also certain that there would be no more stalling of what was to e .

  Lappnd already khat there was no escape or solution to this situation, so she simply watched the door behind her back with plete seriousness . Oher hand Bke sat frozen with fear . She was deeply panicked and only holding her breath ehat she did not give in to her emotions .

  Even though she too already had an aura and had her own training program . She was not mentally prepared for the flict . At the training she never felt real danger because her mom or dad was there . She was just a kid with basic training . So because of her stress-free life , Bke first entered a situation where her instincts panic like this . She did not know what to do with herself , so she just sat there with her pants down , paralyzed like a kitten in front of a speeding car .

  Looking into the near g eyes of Bke , made the look in Lappnd's eyes ge . From earlier curiosity and joy , they now have ess and indifferen them . Although her silver blue eyes had lost their luster , somewhere in them burned determination fueled by years of trauma . At this point in her life , Lappnd had experiehings that would shatter the psyany .

  For this reason, this situation like these did not seem scary in the eyes of Lappnd . The sense of danger and the rea to it , because of her life was pletely different from normal . It's like paring a veteran and a new recruit . Lappnd had already experienced her wars and for Balke this was the first rodeo .

  Lappnd had everything to keep calm in this situation . Her only reason , her purpose . Her friend with whom she has been for years .Now threatened and frightened . Her new family that saved her . If there was a ce to pay off the debt of life she had incurred . Now was the moment . Like a grateful and loyal dog ( wolf ) Lappnd had no pns to facilitate anything for their oppressors . If she does not do it for herself she will do it for Bke .

  Rip and tear as much as she , that was Lappnd's best pher she will kill them all , give Bke a ce to escape , or just buy them time for someoo e check the fusion . It didn't really matter . Lappnd has already lost her fears , she is not afraid of pain or death . Lappnd is a literal refle of a person who had nothing to lose but everything to protect . And it was this thought , this awarehat fueled the fmes in those eyes of her . Madness just taking the opportunity and jumped aboard that ship , which was heading straight into a bloody and untrolble storm .

  Under Bke's frightened and tear-filled eyes , Lappnd slowly removed her winter jacket . Then pulling out a smal knife from a inside pocket of the jacket . Lappnd turo face the stall door while giving Balke her jacket to hold . Lappnd's behavior shocked Bke . Lappnd ce gave her encement it is true , feeling Lappnd's willio fight and protect her made Bke try to gather the ce to help . However , seeing Lappnd pull out a small knife made Bke realize the stakes of it all . After all, Lappnd has no iion of making sandwiches with this knife .

  They were still children . It is true that Lappnd more than once hurt someone badly , the sight of blood was quite frequent since Lappnd came into her life . However, Bke khat Lappnd would not stop at hurting someone . She saw it in Lappnd's eyes . A look she had never seen but her body instinctively knew . Everything about Lapprayed her iions and Bke didn't know how to feel now . She was smart enough to know that there was nothing wrong with Lappnd's as , but she was young and i enough that fear was normal .

  While Lappnd right hahe knife her other , left hand , being ched into a fist between the knuckles of her fingers held the key to the toilet . Due to the fact that her fist was quite small , the key served as a good cw to push . Then putting , with the help of Bke , her jacket over the ched fist with the cw , Lappnd began to listen and wait like a predator for prey .

  Red-eyed men : " Are you going to leave this stall or not ? "

  Asked the Red-eyed men for the st time . Lappnd's as , despite her caution , were heard in the quiet toilet . This gave the group of intruders fidehat they were inside . At that moment Lappnd's heartbeat slowed down . Her mind was in a plete bnk from any thoughts , voices or halluations .

  Her breathing was incredibly calm and even. In her eyes the world slowed down . Her pupils tracted , her tail slowly waved from side to side . Her ear twitched . Her body no longer made even the slightest sound . Under her bck pants and white shirt with a red heart , you could clearly see how her muscles , tensed up in readiness . At that moment Lappnd was like a true wild animal , focused oarget , not g about the oute ......... ready to jump .

  Swallowing saliva her ears listened for the slightest rustle . She could hear the panicked heartbeat of Bake and the calm heartbeat of the people outside the stall . Lappnd was already in a trance-like state . Her instinct began to take over for the first time in many years . Her blood seemed as cold as the Ats tundra , despite the fact that her body was getting hotter and hotter .