"Is it true, Neo-san?" Yukina asked her companion, to make sure if Neo was certain that blood was used to write the hex sign in the small skull. She was standing beside Neo, who was in from of Sid.<br/><br/>"Fuck yeah, I'm sure." Neo said as if he meant it. He then grabbed the small skull and made the Japanese lady smell the sigil painted on it. "Smell that?"<br/><br/>"It smells like... iron." She remaked. "It is blood!"<br/><br/>"Yeah, them fuckin' bastards are fuckin' around wit' us, Ratt." Neo told his superior. "And Jappy told me all 'bout wat ya' dipshits found while Lexi and I were 'round the shop. Those assholes look like they wanna do soldier shit here in Seattle."<br/><br/>"And from our side, Lexi also reported that she received a death threat in her bathroom first thing in the morning." Rattus said. "She said it was written in blood, then disappeared in a manner of seconds."<br/><br/>"That is worrying, Rattus-san." Yukina commented. "They are using magic to scare and threaten us. What else could they possibly do?"<br/><br/>"I'm asking the same question myself." The businessman agreed to her. "If they can use magical methods to send us threats like that, then why aren't they using magic to instead cause bodily trauma?"<br/><br/>"I'm thinkin' dat they ain't no powerful magi or shit, ya' know?" Neo said. He then glanced at the small skull and said, "I mean, look at this shit. These fuckin' faggots used some sort of a goddamned pentacle. That's it. No other signs, no ritual markin's, nothin' at all! Pentacles do jack shit all by their goddamn selves, man! It's like the goddamn voodoo doll they sent us!"<br/><br/>"So, are you saying that this is another symbol of intimidation, then?" Rattus questioned him. "Because, with the way that they are harassing us, I'm sincerely surprised that they have yet to use offensive types of magic against us."<br/><br/>"I'm tellin' ya' already, you dumbasses: They can only do basic shit!" Neo insisted. "You guys saw, didn't ya? If they're top-tier mage faggots, they ain't gonna need no guns!"<br/><br/>"I agree with that postulation." Rattus acknowledged his words. "However, I have a proposal in my mind that we must do, in order to really know what the opposition holds against us."<br/><br/>"I always thought that you would think of such too, Rattus-san." Yukina said, knowing what he had in store for Neo. "You want to send Neo-san to see their base again, is not that right?"<br/><br/>"Precisely." Rattus nodded. "I am, indeed, thinking that we must send Neo and Lexi to do a more thorough reconnaissance at the opposing parties' garrison now that the weather is cleared."<br/><br/>"And I'm damn game with that shit." Neo interjected. "As far as I fuckin' kno', it's going to be damn easy if they're just out there in the fucking public, while the motherfuckin' pigs are hidin' in their pens and doing nutthin' but jacking off to midget porn or somethin'."