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*'''Are the bio safety concerns real?'''

There are 2 years between Kerr's arrival and Mai's Daodan implantation. Was that enough time for WCG to check their story and decide the next steps? What exactly were they considering? Did Griffin influence them. Is the bio safety so important if Muro has also Daodan? "It" is in the wild anyway. Is that the reason why Griffin was able to make that trip to the north? (See also notes at the end of the chapter.)

In order to prepare Mai for later missions Griffin wants her to control her emotions. "She needs to be familiar with badly hurt animal and humans." As in "they [the Syndicate] are just animals" and "we are the natural order", "now pull the trigger".

Possible relativization: "Don't worry, Mai, you are here to get stronger. I'm teaching you how to encounter difficult situations because there are sometimes decisions we don't like but we have them to make them nonetheless. Don't you think this is fun for me to teach you these things. I do this because it is necessary."

Maria tells Griffin to establish social binding so that Mai will be loyal to him. Her ulterior motive is to let Griffin feel compassion and not make her a weapon. However Griffin looks right through her motives and doubles his efforts. He might play games such as paintball and ego shoots with Mai. He lets her watch photos of roadkills and corpse at crime scene. To prepare her for shooting reindeer. Griffin expects strong concerns from Maria so he doesn't tell her the details and the trip to the north. When Maria later finds out she tries to compensate this by introdusing Jack to Mai and she also influences Shinatama. Maria is deeply worried about Mai's education and psychological development.

Mai rose the ax to gain new momentum. In a flash the sharp metal flew off hitting the tree next to Griffin. He somewhat dodged but the metal was already in the wood. It had gone through the upper layer of bark.

"Wow, not so fast. Before you use a tool make sure it works as it should otherwise you can hurt someone."

"Sorry, Griffin."

He took the ax and hit the end onto the chopping block. The inertia of the metal pushed it back into the wood, strengthening the connection again.

"Here." He gave her the ax back.

"Chop some more. I'm going to prepare the meat for the soup."

Chopping, bonfires, wood sculpting, shooting training, different methods of hunting. Indoc talk.

The days passed. One evening they got a visitor.

Kimura got notified that Griffin and Mai were up in the north. He figured this to be the chance to fulfill his promise he gave Hasegawa to get back Mai from the TCTF. It was simple math. Two Daodan hosts were better than one.

Griffin heard a terribly familiar voice.<!-- The other man had stepped into the light to reveal himself.-->

Kimura: "A good place to calm down and forget all the trouble that waits at home. May I join?"

Griffin exploded a little. "No, you stupid. Arms mean weapons. Sometimes." He took it from his shoulder and hold it under Mai's nose.

"Nah. There's no need to ruin this wonderful trip ... ", Kimura needed a moment to recall, "... of Jacob Flodström and his grand daughter Johanna Flodström."

"Why don't we continue the talk in your warm blockhouse?"

"Do you wear weapons?"

Kimura rose his hands. "No, I don't."

"You said blockhouse. You know very well where it is."

"Though I may be Syndicate I agree little on their plans and agenda."

"Funny that you say this. I actually believe I have a prime example right here."

"You could say I belong to the eyes of the Syndicate to monitor everything. So I monitor the whole world. And I began to not like what I see."

 

 

 

"For all these years the WCG continued to polarized the masses. Either you are for them or you are collaborator of evil. Neutrality for whatever reason is seen with suspicion. No space for critics or independent thinkers. The political climate got poisonous – just like the soil and air around us. Instead we have propaganda from all sides, controlled media, pool reporting. [Bioc Inc.] Total surveillance. Controlled internet. [3D printing] Controlled science. - Think of it, they started to build science prisons all over the world."

Griffin was glancing to Mai for a moment, thinking of her and Kerr. Meanwhile Kimura continued his monologue.

 

They passed the wooded hilltop. The house came into view. It was still about 100 meters away. There were two pickups, a blue and a gray one.

"Very well, straight to the point. I'm putting together a team of special people to do some cleanup. To normalize things. I don't expect you to join us. But I could need the abilities of your trainee. I heard she is terribly talented."

"Hahaha. Yes you are. You are a hunter. You are a soldier. You kill. You ARE a killer. And talk about craziness, look at that partnership with Taka. You can't say that's not crazy. Do you actually know about him? How tied the other Yakuza to his bidding?"

Kimura smirked.

 

Kimura knows this because it was Taka who tasked him to come up with means to control the other Yakuza.

Six capsules from the helicopter were dropped onto the snow covered forest street. They turned out to be octocopter drones and two men with tank-piercing sniper rifles.

"Time then to ramp things up." Griffin had finally freed his wrist gadget to speak into it. "Activate defense perimeter."

Night fell and the moon was bright, in the old age this was a good time for hunting. But could they reverse the situation? They combined the sensors of the remaining Spiders and Kimura's "pickup". They dissembled the weapon from the Spider that couldn't walk anymore. After an attack during midnight the Spider's were destroyed and Kimura had disappeared.]

 

Griffin shot him through the wooden floor.

The merc who had fallen into the storage room was revived by this suit. He crawled back into the kitchen. He quickly orientated himself and chased after Griffin's footprint that were still glowing in thermovision. The man had to be quick. Griffin had to carry Mai but he also had an advance of an hour.

Griffin shouted into his wrist gadget trying to get a GATC member but the device was damaged. There was only glitches and noise.   

 

 

 

 

Alternative lines: "This fact is not under discussion. The board of TCTF directors and the sci staff have made that decision years ago. Your protest will change not one bit."

 

Grffin talks with Tracy? (Move the little text before Yakuza beat up?)

 

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That was the mental image. I wanted Kimura to recognize Griffin's determination to save Mai though his own life was in danger. No Syndicate man would have dragged Mai through the deep snow. Due to respect and other details Kimura will prefer Griffin's survival over Kumo's.

'''Aftermath GATC'''

There was more than one helicopter. At the outer perimeter GATC had lost men to protect Griffin as he is their door into TCTF and might still have access to their "puppet master" technology. Griffin and GATC administration have a complicated relationship. More on that later. Basically Griffin is doing his own thing now and supports the idea of science prisons for "good reasons". The WCG owns him a lot.)

'''Aftermath Kimura'''

Kimura: "Kumo, you're starting to really piss me off."

From this day on Kimura doesn't care any longer about any Syndicate fellows - only Sturmanderung is important to him?

The commander used his connections to get regenerative treatment for his dead feet. Something Maria noticed as stem cell treatments are strongly regulated by WCG.

Maria had some questions... After the crazy trip Griffin could only laugh about her verbal provocation.

'''Plot twist for later chapters:'''

The bio safety concerns aren't real. It's just on paper.

If the Daodan was contagious Muro would contaminate the ecosystem no matter what happened to Mai. The trip into the north for indoc was removed from all databases. The WCG was agreeing on Griffin's actions - from the very beginning.