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| - “AN ENTIRE FLEET?” shrieked Iroppoi at her Ko Den Den Mushi whilst jogging from pier to pier with the woman from before situated upon her back. To Iroppoi's surprise, her shriek earned herself a look of disapproval from the now shaken Ko Den Den Mushi. “That's right,” conveyed the Ko Den Den Mushi to Iroppoi in a tone of voice which Iroppoi firmly believed to be much more hostile than the tone Aharon had utilized upon his Ko Den Den Mushi. To Iroppoi's annoyance, her Ko Den Den Mushi convey Aharon's next few words in an outright growl. “Tell me. Have you gotten the woman to the clinic yet?” "I will salt you," stoically threatened Iroppoi, adopting an eerily apathetic expression as she did so. Iroppoi's Ko Den Den Mushi twitched in fright at threat, prompting Iroppoi to grin in celebration of her victory over the snail. "Not yet. I'm still a couple of piers away from-" "There she is!" suddenly heard Iroppoi from behind her. Immediately Iroppoi stopped jogging, took a look over her shoulder, and carelessly dropped her Ko Den Den Mushi at the sight of a trio of humanoid tigers whom were each dressed in naught but a tiger skin loincloth. "If you aren't looking for a fight, you best hand that woman over to us!" "Isn't wearing tiger skin kind of redundant for tiger-man hybrid things?" asked Iroppoi of the trio. The trio blinked in unison before one by one glowering at Iroppoi. "What? You should be happy that I called out such a seriously lame sense of fashion," "Just give us the woman!" roared one of the humanoids before all three of them leapt towards Iroppoi, each of their arms blurring in all directions as they did so. With a roll of her eyes, Iroppoi withdrew the flintlock pistol that had been issued to her by the Marines and then flatly shot each of the humanoids in the chest before any of them could even manage to come within striking distance of her. Immediately, one of the humanoids fell at Iroppoi's feet while the other two fell to opposite sides of Iroppoi. Iroppoi holstered her pistol before resuming her jog as if the conflict between her and the humanoids had never occurred. "I wonder if those guys are the ones responsible for this woman's injuries," pondered Iroppoi as she left the trio of humanoids lying upon the boards of the pier. "Nah. I doubt it. I haven't even seen this woman in action and I can tell she's stronger than those three. The only way they possibly could've managed to harm her is by sneak attacking or something..." "You mean like this?" "No," sighed Iroppoi as she lifted the both of her arms into a cross guard, dropping the unconscious woman onto the ground as a result of doing so. A moment later, the integrity of her guard was challenged by a pair of axe kicks. With a grunt of effort, Iroppoi thwarted the momentum of the axe kicks and then lashed out with her arms powerfully enough to send her assailants back-flipping away. "I meant a real sneak attack. The kind where you don't telegraph it to your opponent with idle chatter beforehand," "Shut..." begun the first of Iroppoi's two assailants, a brunette woman dressed in a qipao, as she landed with a stagger and then positioned herself in a manner most would interpret as a silly pose rather than as a fighting stance. "...up!" finished the second of Iroppoi's two assailants, a brunette man dressed in a Chinese shirt and pants, as he too landed with a stagger and then positioned himself in the same manner as the first assailant. "I'm Song Mei!" announced the first assailant with gusto. "And I'm Song Lei!" followed the second assailant with just as much enthusiasm as Mei. "And I'm shooting one of you now," snorted Iroppoi before firing her pistol at Mei. Much to Iroppoi's disappointment, Mei managed to cartwheel out of the path of Iroppoi's shot. Without so much as a moment of hesitation, Iroppoi proceeded to fire at Lei whom was force to spring into the air in order to avoid being gunned down. "Please don't tell me that I'm going to have to actually fight..." "Kaiō-rui no Tosshin! (Sea King's Charge!)" abruptly shouted Mei. Before Iroppoi could so much as comprehend the meaning of the words that came out of Mei's mouth, she felt a tug upon the collar of the undershirt she was wearing beneath the jacket of her suit. Without delay Iroppoi looked down and tensed at the sight of Mei with both a hand grasping onto the collar of her undershirt and an arm outstretched as far as even inhumanly possible. "Bananawani no Shippo! (Banana Gator's Tail!)" "Soru! (Shave!)" spluttered Iroppoi only an instant before Mei nigh-instantaneous arced a chop towards her forehead in a manner which was reminiscent to how the bullwhip arcs its cracker. Right before Mei's chop could impact against Iroppoi's forehead, Iroppoi swiftly took a number of steps back. To Iroppoi's horror, the chop that could have made contact with her forehead, slammed into the boards of the pier with enough force to produce an outright explosion of splinters and sawdust. Not only that, but it also dropped the unconscious woman into the waters below. "Well that can't be good," Bananawani no Shippo, Furatto! (Banana Gator's Tail, Flat!)" shouted Lei from directly above Iroppoi as he swiftly arced his palm straight towards the top of Iroppoi's head. Much to Lei's surprise, Iroppoi easily sidestepped his blow before taking ahold of his now outstretched arm and utilizing it to fling him towards Mei. "Kaiō-rui no Tosshin! (Sea King's Charge!)" "Shousentai no Seitouboueiryū! (Legitimate Self-Defence Style of the Merchant Fleet!)" literally spat Iroppoi onto the boards of the pier as Lei repositioned himself in midair so that his legs were facing Mei and then kicked with enough vigor to "push" off of the air and launch himself back towards Iroppoi. "Now where did a couple of scoundrels like yourselves learn something like that?" "Jinbē-zame no Hyouhi! (Whale Shark's Rind!)" shouted Lei as he visibly tensed the muscles within his neck during his head first flight towards Iroppoi. "Soru, Suteppu! (Shave, Step!)" called Iroppoi before she sidestepped Lei's headbut literally at the very last last. Iroppoi then utilized the momentum of the step to slam her knee directly into Lei's stomach at the speed of a bullet. "Hizagan! (Knee Gun!)" "Oomph!" huffed Lei as Iroppoi's knee collided into his stomach, knocked him onto the ground, and sent him rolling. "Ugh..." "Look what you did to my hand!" suddenly complained Mei whilst waving a splinter-filled hand around. "You're going to pay for this lady!" "Yeah! What sister said!" agreed Lei as he stood up with an arm wrapped around his stomach. Iroppoi took a glance at the hole in the pier which the unconscious woman had fallen. Iroppoi then sighed as loudly as she could before commencing to remove her clothes. "W-w-w-what are y-y-you doing?" "Fighting seriously," answered Iroppoi as she stripped down to her underwear and then dramatically dropped her removed clothing onto the pier. "I acknowledge you as well-trained revolutionaries. So from here on out, I'm going to be using Mona-shishou's Sekushi Kenpo! (Sexy Style!)"
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