1 Stop the Mugging! [B-Rank Mission/Private] Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:03 pm
Shinako
D-rank
- Stop the Mugging:
- Mission name: Stop the Mugging (Repeatable)
Mission rank: B
Objective: Stop the mugging.
Location: Konoha
Reward: 240
Mission description: There has been a mugger stalking the streets with a knife. While he has no caused serious harm or death yet, your job is to hunt him down and put a stop to it all before it does escalate.
Mission Details: The mugger has all the strength and skill of a Chunnin (C2 stats across the board). He carries an ordinary butcher knife, which deals C-rank damage as his weapon of choice, and tends to target women more than men. His basic maneuver is to sneak up behind them and drag them into an alley way to rob them. You can either catch him while he's hunting his target, or while he's in the midst of mugging someone. If he hears you approaching, he will instantly kill his target and flee. If his current target dies, you will fail.
The Legendary thief Ryoku attempted to rob Shikamatsu, as student of Lord Shikashige. At the time, Shikamatsu had none of his treasured belongings, and had gone out onto the mountain to appreciate the beauty of the moon.
Upon seeing that Shikamatsu had nothing, Ryoku expressed his disappointment. Seeing that Ryoku was disappointed, Shikamatsu offered the thief the clothing from his back. Ryoku bowed to Shikamatsu, took his clothing, and left.
As Shikamatsu walked home naked, another student of Lord Shikashige asked him what had happened, and why he had given the thief his clothing instead of killing him. Shikamatsu responded that he could not leave the Legendary thief disappointed with the reputation of Lord Shikashige's students, and that, if he could have, he would have even given the thief his appreciation of that night's bright moon.
The Will of Fire was strong in Ryoku and Shikamatsu.
The moon shone bright over Konoha, and the streets were emptying. The military village did not have a curfew, but the people tended to rise early, and only the seedier elements could be found out and about at night. This fact would benefit Shinako greatly, as her quarry could only be found in the dark. While the mugger had not developed a legend as thorough as Ryoku's, he had become a sensation in the papers in the past two weeks. She had been tasked with catching him.
To that end, the young woman had designed her trap. Something in her, deep and dark, felt the thrill of hunting in the shadows; felt a sense of sleek anticipation at being the predator. Her knowledge of her prey was not absolute, but she knew how he moved. She knew how he thought. It was this closeness with him that would bring them together tonight.
The clock struck midnight, and the Kunoichi knew that she would have scarcely an hour to spring her trap. The mugger liked to work between twelve and one, mugging no more than two women per night. Some of the women had light knife wounds, and had stated that the mugger did not immediately injure them. However, one woman had truly feared for her life when the mugger had heard another person approaching. She had been convinced that the criminal was going to kill her if he had been caught. For this reason, Shinako knew that she could not allow the criminal to get his hands around the throat of another innocent Leaf Village woman.
She had made a pitch to her superiors as to how best to apprehend the criminal, and they had liked her idea so much that they had sent her out on her own, despite her relative inexperience. The proposal had been simple. In order to more effectively become the predator, Shinako would become the prey.
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