Snippet #2757664

Shugo sighed, his plans backfired against him. He had hoped that this would've at least gave him some credit, but instead, they thought that he was just showing off. But then again, it could be seen as doing something like that. He wouldn't blame her for that. It was a miscalculation on his end of part.

"I told you this was a bad idea." Cyone said via internal comms.

"Well, I didn't expect it would backfire this spectacularly. Guess curiosity killed the cat." he replied internally.

Turning to Kali, who was trying to guess him again, he simply smirked. She was only slightly getting closer, but not close enough to guess his real character.

"Perhaps. Take it as you will." he said to her.

It was pointless trying to say that he wasn't showing off, because he would typically get the answer that it's the opposite. Even when he wasn't serious, he made it look like it was easy & seemingly showing off, though the latter's not the case.

"It might look like it was easy, but it wasn't if you're like the average joe." he said to her as he started to get a little more serious.

"If you can't cut through a Bamster's armor, then you can forget about beating a Marmod. It's more thicker than a Bamster, and unless you some sort of a hidden trump car, you will die, if this was a real combat situation. And yes, Marmods are a combat-specialized Neighbor." he continued, with the smile on his face slowly disappearing, before being replaced with a dead-fish eye look on it.

"I know that you're stronger than what I've seen during the previous mock battles, but since there's something that's preventing you from fighting at full capacity, you're at risk of either getting killed or captured." he said before Jin interrupted him, smacking his head.

"Sorry about this guy. He gets too serious sometimes. I know that he's like this, but he means well." Jin said after he smacked Shugo's head.

Just as he was about to say something, Kako came jumping in from behind him, locking her arms between his torso.

"Kurenai, can't you change your mind? Just join my squad..." she said to him, giving him chills up his spine.

"NOPE." he replied to her, slipping through her grasps and immediately ran away from her.

"You're not getting away this time, Kurenai-chan~." she said as she started to chase after him. Futaba was also alongside her.

"And there he goes... He'll be back soon though." Jin said after seeing the comic.

And Jin was right. After a few minutes, he came back, finally losing Kako inside the base. He was gasping for air, after running around just to get her off his back.

"I forgot that woman was here..." he said, visibly terrified of her.

This happened for quite a while after he joined Border. Because of his combat proficiency, many A-Rank squads wanted him on their team. Although some backed down since he refused, only Kako and several other squads that were persistent to keep asking him to join their team. Hence, he never really stayed in HQ for too long, aside from being lazy to participate in the Rank Wars. Other than Jin and Amo, who were both Black Trigger users, making them S-Rank and almost effectively solo agents, he was one of the only few agents that were not in a team, but strong enough to act for one.