Mardock Scramble

It's been an hour and a half since they've arrived at the shooting gallery, and now they're free to do whatever they want with each other. They're still waiting for the lady in the waiting room to show up, but she's nowhere to be found. The shooting gallery lady says that the October company wants a peaceful resolution, and that if she doesn't bring the kids back, all of them will die. The October company has a gun waiting for them, and they need to use it in a fight. They don't want to get drunk before they talk, so they borrow a gun from the October shooting gallery. The only problem is that the gun is a "translucent suit" , which means that it's very hard to see through. So they'll have to use a bottle of water to get the gun out of their hands. They can't use the gun because it'll make them look like cowards, but they can use it as a cover if they have to. They need to make sure that they cover each other if the gun goes off. Finally, they get to the point where they can talk, and the October guy says that he's the one who brought them all here. He tells them that they are the victims of shell's "wicked deeds," and that they have suffered countless losses because of them. He says that they picked up shell out of the slum and gave him the "Heroic pills" if they were guilty of anything. They have to protect shell, he says, because he wants to "pin everything on shell" and bury the case. He's going to kill him if he tries to do so.