Sockonia

A few moments after the peanut butter bombs are hurled into the tank's cannon, it stops firing. Lots and lots of shouting can be heard from inside.

"Hm. Well...let's go and get this over with." Red spun her Fairy Wing blades, generating enough fire magic energy to create a large White Blaze spell. She then sent it forth into the tank, scattering flames on it that lingered, heating up the tank to the inside.

The shuriken bombs, once inside Garrison's hollow shell of a body, are about as effective as you'd expect; the blast quickly consuming him and sending a shower of metallic shrapnel flying everywhere.

Once the smoke clears, all seems well - aside from the fact that in the epicenter of the explosion where Garrison was just standing there now lies a foreboding concentration of miasma with his mug on it; said cloud proceeding to scream numerous profanities at the heroes.

That being said, of course, it doesn't seem like he's going to be getting up any time soon.

Heated up far beyond its limits, the tank quickly explodes into pieces. None of the bandits inside of it survive.

The Zaritoni siblings approached Garrison's inanimate body, and they are relieved that the shurikens actually finished him off. Shu's hired hitman has failed to complete his mission.

"I still can not believe that Shu sends in a hitman to kill us..." Karasz commented the situation and shaken his fists, "Nobody messes around with us like that..."

"Shu is looking forward for his demise when we--" Leilanie then stopped and sighed, "...Nevermind..."

"Let's go to the hideout and finish the job." Karasz commanded, "I hope they're okay..."

The siblings and Leilanie are running towards the bandits' hideout and leaves Garrison behind. In the hideout, the Noname Gang, Koseki and Hana claim their victory against the tank. Pressingly, the bandit leader was in the tank.

"We did it! We took out the tank!!" Crunch cheered, "OOOOOOOOOHHH YEEEEAAAAAHH! CRUNCH'S STILL GOT IT!"

"Hurray!" Hana cheered as well.

Red sheathed her blades. "Well, three cheers for us, I presume. Anyone keeping track of our head count?"

"Uhh... there's so many of them, we seem to lose count." Hazel-Naut replied.

"Oh great.. you lost count..." Crunch sighed, "Krem, did you count how many we killed?"

"I think we reached 200. Good enough for now." Kremlouie shrugged.

Indeed they have. And with that, Karasz and friends are teleported back to Hellborne Valley alongside the... not quite up to shape Garrison.

Meanwhile, not too long after the events regarding the bandit hunt, the tiny black stone that Garrison curiously left behind during his (failed) assassination mission has suddenly started to glow with an otherworldly light.

Seemingly drawn to the strange stone's energy, a certain shade soon appears nearby in a burst of magic; quickly floating over to the rock and snatching it from the ground, before immediately teleporting away again.