Ninth: A Tactical Decision (Text; anon)

[corpsewarblade]

(TW: Murder/Sororicide, Betrayal, DR Spoilers)

[The last few months had given Mukuro a lot to think about- especially with regard to her own death back home. One part still didn't make any sense to her:

What had she done wrong? Why had Junko killed her?

...It was with those thoughts swimming around in her head that she sent another late night message to the network.]

27 AUG XX, 0324

Reviewing the strategy from a recent battle at home. I want to understand the rational for the decisions taken.

A soldier is engaged in a stealth/undercover mission. However, they have made a mistake that risks the operation's success, and have not realised their error.

The mission commander is in a position to eliminate the operative to preserve their mission, without exposing themselves in the process.

Is that course of action reasonable? To put it another way- under what circumstances would you consider sacrificing one of your own men to ensure a mission's success or to prevent it's failure?

Don't feel you have to answer.


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[ichoosefight]

[ It doesn't take long for Steph to arrive as well, an equally plain young adult with her hair in a ponytail. She spots Mukuro almost immediately just from the way the girl is looking around her. She waves, just to make sure she doesn't randomly accost a stranger. ]

Hi! Did you order already?

[corpsewarblade]

[Mukuro raised her hand with an awkward smile- to show the tattoo- before giving her a little wave.]

Hi, um...no, not yet.

...Thank you for coming to talk.

[ichoosefight]

Thanks for agreeing to come.

[ She leads the way into a fairly short line. The place does fair business, but it's far from capacity. ]

I know a thing or two about secret identities, so I'm not gonna push for names or anything.

[corpsewarblade]

Thanks...and I won't ask for yours, either. Wouldn't be fair otherwise.

[Mukuro followed her, looking around- she always kept her eyes around her, except when she was actively making the effort not to. She couldn't just turn off her combat instincts, after all.]

...I didn't think that many people would even bother to answer what I wrote.

[ichoosefight]

[ She just smiles. It's easy enough to find out who Steph is, even if she doesn't give her name. ]

We have a lot of military types, I guess. And killing a subordinate isn't really a normal thing.

[ In case you weren't aware. ]

[corpsewarblade]

...A lot of people have called it outright betrayal. I don't know how I feel about that.

[Denial was a powerful thing.]

[ichoosefight]

No? Why not?

[ She takes a moment to place their orders. ]