(Brain is messed up today. Won't be my usual quality, but will contain the usual levels of story stuffs, apologies if stuff is weird. Work kinda fucked me up, drove 2.6k miles in 4 days, took a bit to recover. Still not there, but...getting there.)<br/><br/>At Ayaka's comment, the other devs shared a worried look, though further conversation was cut off by the following interactions with Hikari and Kenshin and company.<br/><br/>Hikari snorted rather rudely at Ayaka's comment, saying with a muted glare at Hakuro's direction, clearly wanting to continue attempting to punch him, but deciding it wasn't worth the effort. "Well then, you two got lucky. And to settle the record, I DON'T sleep around.....the dev team got drunk one time, and decided to party in the game one night. I got really drunk, and started talking about a...situation that happened ONCE. that's it!" While her tone was angry enough to be justified, the faint embarrassed blush made it seem that, perhaps she WAS trying to hide things.<br/><br/>While keeping a careful eye on Hikari, Hakuro pointed at Akane, and said with a rather pointed glance at Akane.<strong>"Your fire attacks won't. The reason it happened, is because we were still testing battle damages, and how the different elements worked. THIS moron decided to test out a brand new Chakra shield for her Puppet Arms, and INSISTED I use a fire jutsu to blast her with. The shield worked, but the fire jutsu also destroyed her equipment because of a bug. I warned her we should have tested it in a dummy first, but she didn't..."</strong>Here he had to jump out of the way again, as a flurry of Kunai and Shuriken flew where he was crouched on the wall.<br/><br/>The two started chasing each other at that point, yelling and throwing various attacks back and forth.<br/><br/>Kenshin sighed, and bowed deeply. (Going to change his color to blue, yellows hard to read for me)"A pleasure to meet you both. Since they're going to be at this for the rest of the day....We've known each other for years, thanks to being developers. The game itself took around 15 years to develop fully, once the technology was actually developed to the point we could start programming. So I've known Hikari and Hakuro for around 10 years now. However, Hakuro and Hikari have known each other since...well, they were childhood friends. Or Rivals. Its hard to tell with how they act. Honestly, Hikari has always been a spitfire type, and Hakuro's normally a very calm, withdrawn type. Hakuro gives an outlet for Hikari, and she draws him out of his shell. They are good for each other, except when they act like children."<br/><br/>He sighed with an exasperated, finally his calm exterior snapped. "That's ENOUGH!". Then the two girls got a glimpse of what his skillset was. Clearly he had focused on speed, and similar to the samurai guy from before, he had IRL martial arts experience. He moved so quickly his outline in the game actually seemed to blur, and then he moved faster, Actually moving so quickly that he truly did blur. He intercepted the two squabbling, and struck with a lethal attack...."Sōryūsen!" He appeared between the two attackers, spinning in an attack as he drew his Katana. The sheath smashed into Hakuro, throwing him across the roof, effectively winding him. The blade slammed across Hikari's middle, downing her almost on the spot. He sheathed his blade, but did so slowly. Upon closer inspection, those that had not realized before would see his blade was a Sakabato, a Reverse Blade Sword. Then his character's choice of appearance might click. Long red ponytail, a Cross shaped scar on his left cheek, and brilliant yellow eyes, with distinctive outfit. He was almost a mirror copy of Kenshin Himura.<br/><br/>Reaching down to grab Hikari, he dragged her sorry ass over to Hakuro, and proceeded to chew them out for acting the fools, with the rest of the dev team watching with some amusement, though more and more with a sense of unease.<br/><br/>Akane's question, however, cut everyone to silence. Z finally rubbed his head, sighing quietly, before turning to answer her question. "Your dead on the money Akane....We've been in contact with the other developers in the other villages...all except for one group. Those in the Hidden Mist.....The players in the Hidden Stone kicked every developer they could identify out of the Village. Sand didn't seem to care. The rest checked in, but nothing's been decided yet. The Mist is the only one that we haven't heard Anything from our team members there, and since it WAS supposed to be the PVP village..."<br/><br/>They were interrupted, however by a message notification. A Group notification, sent to every dev on that building, but from their viewpoint over the rest of the village, they could also see this was being broadcast on the game's Intercom system. A video playing, displaying a chat box.<br/><br/>THE WORLD IS KILL OR BE KILLED.....THE WEAK DIE, THE STRONG GET TO LIVE....<br/><br/>The scene shifted, showing people strung up by their wrists and legs so they couldn't move, while a figure in a Hunter Nin's mask calmly drew a sword, and cut them down. Before their outline shimmered into sparkling motes, the camera man made sure to highlight the gold Ninja Headband, something only developers could use. The camera panned left, showing a good ten figures still to go. The video showed another four executions before the video was finally cut by the Dev Team from Konoha.<br/><br/>From the fragments Akane and Ayaka could overhear, Some of those strung up were recognized as the missing team members from the Hidden Mist. Additionally, apparently they had access to Developer only skills/items, since only developers could access the video screens in the Village Plaza's. Confirmation from the other Villages confirmed they also got the message Mist had sent.