Being true heroes(Ai, Daiko, Gurren)

mission details:

Well. This wasn't the oddest set of missions she'd been sent on. While her little sister rushed about eating sweets and meeting anyone and everyone who would talk to her(which of course consistently involved the creation and performance of numerous musical numbers) Ai prepared, as Pinochio did, for a long week of hard work. There was some odd disconnect between two higher powers who controlled this village. She wasn't  truely sure what was going on, but her village, among others were tasked with what seemed to be an important task.

There was a bakery down the street from the gates which supposedly was making poisoned cookies. That didn't set right with Ai. Aya loved cookies, and would inevitably be sampling from every shop in the village. Something seemed off though. She had to take a moment to consider if this was all some ploy to lie to the ninja who seemed most likely to simply go along with a task handed to them, without consideration of the effects it could actually have. Maybe the poison was a hoax.

In the end it didn't matter. As she waited for her team to show up, she planned out the task at hand. She'd gotten a significant ammount of jutsus now, so it wasn't any dificulty to simply remove the shop from the equation completely, but when her teammates showed up, she'd check with them and see how they wanted to handle it. More likely they would be infiltrating instead of simply razing the entire building down to the foundation, even if that plan was much easier.

She remembered something about a note from the third member of the party. It didn't seem like they were from kiri, which was odd, but given the fact that they were magically transported from a pepermint gate directly into this magical land of people who wierdly resembled Pino, She didn't really question it. It would just be herself and Daiko taking out these cookie poisoning evil doers today.... Or these genuinely innocent creators of delicious confections who will be unfortunately punished because their group was given false information by a cruel higher power. It was important to try and get some information before she finished the list given to herself and her group by this itazura person. If she was correct, and yoi was bad, then this would be a geat tale to tell her little sister. Otherwise, She would probably keep it under wraps.

Behind her stood her own retiue. The coach puppet glanced about, clueless to what was actually going on as Ai scoped out the situation. At her side as always, the Saya puppet was keen to the world around her, searching for any clue about the situation at hand with eyes that did not work. I mean they're made of glass. Still, as Ai felt her consciousness extend to the puppet version of her sister, her focus increased, allowing the minor details of the village to easily catch in her web of understanding.

(TWC 251/1k)