An ashen-faced Christie came to get me – one look at her and I had pulled out of my daughter and was running to the phone."M-m-master..." Sophie sob...bed on the other end of the line."Calm down – tell me what happened." Your s-son ... he came home from work early t-today ... and shot ... he shot himself in the head."Time stopped – I remember dust motes in the air, hanging motionless in the sunlight coming through the windows, fragmented into shafts by the trees outside. Christie was standing next. M.”The Colonel looked over the authorization, then he handed it back to Ruslan. “I don’t really give a shit who this General is. This is a medical institution you leave your weapons or you don’t enter.”Karina and Serafima both bristled reaching for their weapons, only freezing upon hearing the clicking of at least twenty weapons. The fact that several laser sights were also trained on them wasn’t lost either. Ruslan gave a slight shake of his head causing both women to relax.Ruslan allowed the. I asked him how in the world you could get a woman like that in the sack. He said you needed a scam that appealed to their instinct to be helpful. I asked him to explain. He told me about the beautiful aerobics instructor he bowled with, named Dot, who had never cheated on her husband in forty-nine years of marriage and still loved him more than anyone in the world. He explained how he started telling her how low and lonesome he has been since his wife died two years ago and. Shishio: So this is how you repay him.Houji: Ridiculous! Even at his peak, Battousai was pitiful compared to Lord Shishio! The outcome would have been no different!Shishio: Let it go, Houji.Houji: Lord Shishio!Shishio: I haven't fought in such a long time. Let's leave no doubts about who is the strongest. Now that I've beaten Himura and the others, it's me. Care to defeat me and lay that honor before the Oniwabanshuu?(Aoshi blurs into the Kaiten Kenbu.)Shishio: So our alliance dissolves....