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Takato looked out at the mention of someone coming, a girl in a fancy kimono walked along. "Hide. I'll take the lookout spot." He scrambled up toward the top of the safe house, watching her silently until she disappeared underneath the tree. He gripped his chains tightly, keeping them apart and at the ready.

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Sachiyo paused underneath the tree, her eyes narrowing. She looked up and then back down. The platform had touched the ground recently, the grass where it landed uneven. Someone had found her home.

"Assassins?" She whispered. She wove a wire duplicate and used her strings to manipulate it down the path, wearing her favorite kimono. She sighed as she made the figure vanish into the trees and looked up and started to climb, knowing all the dead spots were one couldn't be seen from the top.