At the door, in the reflection on her sword, Lan saw a shape came down the stairs and move across the other end of the hallway. She threw the door open and rushed into the nearest open room.
Right afterwards, she heard a gun fire in the hallway and a bullet pass behind her. It missed, but Lan still wondered maybe she should have brought a gun to this mission. The remaining bodyguards were alerted for sure, when she was still fighting the seifuku girl. Now, she would have to finish the job as quickly as possible, before Miss Luo can escape. Lan blamed herself for not disabling the Land Cruiser SUV in the garage, as Hui would have remembered to plan for any risks in the mission.
She checked the hallway again with her sword. She saw a short and slender young woman in a green business suit, a gray skirt and leggings, holding a pistol at the end of the hallway. The young woman's loose hair was dyed pink, contrasting much with her office professional look.
Lan thought about her options to get close enough for landing a killing strike on the suit girl very carefully. She wanted to save her Chi for later enemies, so she should distract the suit girl's aim, but she also wanted to make that girl shoot less. If she can save ammo in her gun, there would be more for Lan to use on the other guards.
Stepping out of the room, Lan moved towards the suit girl, holding the sword in front in a guarding position. The composite metal used to make it could stop most bullets if used in the right way. Blocking a shot in front of the suit girl would tell that girl to not wast more shots.
Like Lan expected, the suit girl fired when they saw each other. The shot was easy to block and deflect with Lan's training, and Lan made sure to let the bullet angle back towards the girl as much as possible.
The suit girl was surprised, and tried her luck firing another shot at Lan's lower body. Lan blocked it again, but she felt the sword could not take any more hits.
Lan got close to the stairs and started running towards it. The suit girl started moving to block her way, not daring to shoot again because Lan was too good at bouncing her own shots back at herself.
Lan threw the sword at the suit girl sideways, not trying to hit her, but to force her to move where she wanted her to, maybe to drop the gun. Shocked, the suit girl dodged by going up the narrow flight of stairs, still holding the pistol by her both hands.
Lan followed, since she was much taller than the suit girl, she caught up with her on the stairs immediately. Her left hand grabbed the suit girl's right hand and forced it to point straight up, while her right hand went between the girl's forearms and went at her chin in an open palm.
The suit girl released her left hand from gripping the pistol to block Lan's attack, while moving backwards to dodge. Lan kept pressing on, pinning the short and slender opponent on to the stairs.
Lan observed the gun she was trying to take over. It was a silver colored Wilson Combat M1911 with wooden grip panels, a very expensive high quality weapon. It had ten bullets at most, but the suit girl had used three already.
Then, she noticed the suit girl was blushing bright red and looking very embarrassed, trying to push herself up the stairs and away from Lan. Lan looked up and down the full body of the girl, and slowly noticed the reason. Her right knee was between the suit girl's slim thighs, just touching the girl's panties under tight black leggings. Without realizing what she did, Lan pressed on with her knee more, her black stocking rubbing and brushing against the leggings with a comfortable smooth feeling.
The suit girl did not feel comfortable at all from this move. She struggled to free herself, but only rubbed herself more on Lan's knee. Her suit jacket got pulled open, revealing a pink tie and a white shirt over her modest chest. She blushed even harder, about to cry out.
Lan noticed the suit girl was loosing her grip on the pistol so she tried pulling down the right hand with the gun. It did not take her much effort to lower it, and put the gun between their bodies. She pulled her right hand back from fighting the girl and grabbed at the gun.
Suddenly, the pistol fired. The suit girl's eyes widened in shock and pain. A small black hole appeared on her white shirt, blood coming out of it slowly.
She had accidentally pulled the trigger when she was still trying to escape Lan's knee, when it was pointed at herself. She looked at her stomach wound with surprise, and released the gun.
Lan pointed the gun away from both of them and took it over, then stood back up to have a better look at the suit girl's wound. She was very surprised too.
The suit girl wasn't able to speak, but waved at Lan, as if telling her she doesn't need help. She held onto upper stairs and slowly pulled herself up. Then, she turned around and started walking up.
Lan aimed at back of the suit girl's head and thought about ending her suffering, but decided she should save ammo.
Slowly, the suit girl reached the top of the stairs holding her wounds. She leaned against a wall to steady herself, then closed her eyes and sat down. Lan came up to her face to look for signs of life, ready to twist her neck if she was still in pain, but pulse on the girl's neck went out under Lan's touch on its own.
Lan heard the sound of running water coming from a large room with an open door. Holding the gun up preparing to fire on anyone inside, she approached it.
"Please come in."
It was Miss Luo's voice, the same as what Lan knew from recordings. Not answering her, Lan carefully observed around the door before entering, gun still in front of her.
Lan saw a big office space in front of her, to its side a bedroom where the sound of water came from. There was only a young tomboyish girl with short brown hair standing inside the office, wearing white martial artist clothing and fluffy leg warmers but no shoes. She looked at Lan with eagerness to fight, but waited patiently.
Miss Luo was in the bedroom, taking off a black skirt, and there was nothing else on her beside a pair of clear stockings. She slowly walked out of the room, kept undressing herself in front of Lan, making Lan feel embarassed for the first time in the day after so much fighting and killing in intimate ways. Lan blinked and felt herself blush. Miss Luo had a beautiful body shape. Large firm natural breasts, spotless pale skin, and long dark hair. Her expression was always gentle, but Lan knew nobody at Bai Bi could trust this woman.
"You're a Petal. The Black Hands, the Innocent Girls agent, the American, they all failed to stop you. Even my mechanic and my poor secretary Marina failed."
Lan tried hard to only look Miss Luo in the face.
"Please come with me. We don't want any more bloodshed, Miss Bai Meihua is still willing to work with you in Japan if you can leave the past between our organizations behind."
"I'm so flattered, yes, I know her thoughts. But what about the rest of the company directors?"
Lan didn't know what to answer.
The water was shut off. A maid came out of the bedroom behind Miss Luo, who handed the stockings to her. The maid took them then put them into a laundry basket. If the jogger told the truth, it was everyone left alive in the manor here.
"Hana, please go outside and help Marina here. She deserves to take a rest."
The maid Hana nodded and went out of the room, paying no attention to Lan. Soon, she came back gently holding the dead suit girl Marina in her arms, in a respectful but emotionally detached way. Marina was fully limp, her head arched back facing Lan as Hana walked by.
"Please let Anko here be your company while I take a bath."
Anko bowed to Lan, then posed ready to fight. Lan put her gun down on the office desk and took a step back, also readying herself to fight.