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Black Thread of Fate

Kirika wakes up to find Mireille standing over her with her gun pointing straight at Kirika. Kirika tells Mireille that it is ohkay and she begins to close her eyes. Mireille pauses and we cut to Kirika's id card surrounded by droplets of blood.

Meanwhile in a baron area a man is tied up in the ruins of an old building, he is being questioned by another man who wants to know who killed his leader - Varjan. The old man does not answer so the Inquisitor kills the men either side of the tied up man. The Inquisitor asks again who killed Varjan, and the man answers 'Noir'. Having got his answer the Inquisitor kills him.

Out in the arid desert road, a jeep speeds by. Inside, Kirika is holding onto her side and grimacing in pain as Mireille looks over her. Their trip consists of walking on foot to the Aramera River where they will rendezvous with a helicopter. Mireille lectures Kirika that to be a professional assassin, they not only have to eliminate the target, but to get away without any injuries. As if to cause more headache for Mireille, the fuel indicator lights up. Looking over to Kirika again who is grimacing in pain, Mireille suddenly says in a joking manner, that if she dies here, Mireille will be rid of some burden. Kirika answers with, "is that right..." and remembers what had happened.

In the dead of the night, a man slept soundly in his bed as Kirika appears in the doorway. Without hesitation, she fired two shot at him and turns to walk away. But Kirika has been getting slack, and a shot is fired, Kirika gasps out in surprise. Immediately, she turned back and fired additional shots at the target. Kirika is injured.

Mireille parks the jeep and helps Kirika up the stairs. During the way up, Kirika tells Mireille that she had lost the Student ID when she got shot. She carried it throughout everything and couldn't throw it away. That even though it isn't the real her, it means something. Mireille admonishes her not to talk anymore, and continues up the stairs.

Kirika lies in bed with her side bandaged. In the bathroom, Mireille tries the taps for water, but there is none. Mireille looks in to the mirror, wondering whether she can cut her losses and get the helicopter herself.

Outside, the revolutionaries are searching for noir, building by building. Road blocks are set up and no one is allowed out with out revolutionaries demanding to see everything.

In the room, Kirika wakes up to see Mireille pointing the gun at her and saying it is alright to kill her and thank for being with her all along. Kirika takes a deep breathe in preparation for the shot. Mireille slowly lowers her gun, and Kirika looks at the hole on the pillow beside her head. With a much happier outlook, Mireille declares she doesn't care who Kirika is and that she has something to ask the Soldats. That until she knows what she needs to know from them, Kirika will stay with her. And only till then, will she kill Kirika. With a soft smile, Kirika agrees.

Outside again, the revolutionaries smash open a car window and rip off a yellow sheet. On the chair, they find blood stains that Kirika had left behind. Drips of blood could now be seen on the stairs all the way up leading to their room.

A phone rings in an airport somewhere as Mireille waits by the telephone for someone to pick up. When no one did, Mireille looked sullen when she hung up the phone but perks up with a fake laughter when she sees the shopkeeper holding her bag of grocery and looking at her. Walking back slowly down an alley and lost in thought, she suddenly hear something and darts into the shaded doorframe of the side building as truckload of people passes through. Realizing where the trucks are headed, Mireille drops her bag of grocery and runs back to the hotel room.

Running after the trucks, Mireille soon realizes that she isn't going fast enough to catch up and thinks of an alternative route. Looking up, she races up to the roof of the building and begins to jump from one to another.

In the hotel's stairway up to the room, revolutionaries packed the stairs up to the room and all have their guns at ready. Rushing in, they find Kirika alone in the bed and surprised that noir is a girl and a kid.

At the underground tunnel of where Varjan's base is, a man walks past Kirika's student ID and then backs up to pick it up.

Kirika is still bleeding and is now being questioned by the Inquisitor, he wants to know who she is. Just then a man enters and throws down Kirika's id card, she reaches for it. The Inquisitor places his foot on Kirika's hand stopping her and asks her the question again. Outside Mireille is active with a silencer and she manages to take down everyone. The music kicks in, Kirika admits to being Noir and as allways we get an excellent shoot out.