Raphael, among his brown-cloaked allies, stand on four separate rooftops looking over Unimori High. The school premises is oddly quiet, with neigh a single soul in sight.
All of the buildings within the Unimori High property can be considered huge, but the school complex itself is the largest of them all. The main hall is made to look like it is from the medieval times of Japan. The exterior is made out of wood and stone, but that only hides an interior constructed of reinforced concrete and insulation. Just barely visible over top of the three-story school complex is a smaller two-story building. That area is the offices for the school's teachers and administrators. In between those two constructs is a quiet outdoor plaza where the students of Unimori go to between or after classes to rest and convene for conversation.
Inside of a courtyard at the front of the school is a large, dome-like building to the left and two dormitories to the right, given facing from Raphael's direction. The dome-like building is the school's library, which is of equal size to the main school building, but is nowhere near as wide. At the very center of the complex's roof is a pyramid-shaped glass panel that allows light into it's interior. Windows are located on each side of the building on every story. As Henry had said, it would be a very good position to monitor the dorms.
The two dormitory buildings are literally placed directly next to each other, back to back. There is a roof exit on both buildings, but they are cut-off from each other by a large chain-link fence that goes around both buildings.
As Raphael's thoughts drift, the school's final bell sounds, indicating that the day's lessons have ended. This immediately catches the JB squad's attention, making them shoot their heads towards the school's entrance as they wait for their 'marks' to appear.
Within a few seconds, streams of teenagers pour out of the main hall's entrance into the courtyard. All of the JB member's duck down behind their vantage points to avoid detection. They all monitor the yard intensely, all searching for their marks.
Raphael finds his first. Within the small amount of time that he had before setting out the day before, he was contacted by Henry, who told him that he left something out from the earlier briefing. Apparently, Lera is so wealthy that her family was able to convince the school board to allow her to wear what she wishes when attending classes.
He sees Lera in her black blouse and black khakis walking across the courtyard to a boy with his back against the wall of the library's entrance. It takes Raphael a moment, but he is able to make out that person as Jian Orien. Raphael pulls up his communication device on his glasses and speaks “Quib, I think I found your guy.”
He looks over to a building on his left. At the top of that building he sees another brown-cloaked person reach up to their ear. “You did? Where is he?” says Quib over the communication device in her glasses.
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“Do you see the guy talking to the girl in the black blouse? That's Jian, your mark.” Raphael says while pointing his left hand toward the small group.
“Alright, thanks Raph-Raph. Oh crap, their moving!” Quib says before getting back up to her feet.
Raphael sees the two move away from the library entrance and out of the Unimori courtyard. Reacting in unison, Raphael gets to his feet and begins watching them as they walk.
Lera and Jian move through the alleyway between Raphael and Quib's locations at a rather quick speed, with both of them following immediately. Once they get outside of the alleyway and into the streets, Raphael activates his flight ability and flies over to pick up Quib before following the two via the air.
Raphael stops over top of a single building overlooking the beginning of the market district. Raphael lowers himself just near the edge of a rooftop away from the streets. He places Quib down and then looks over the other side of the building to see that Lera and Jian have stopped at a market stall that apparently sells decorative weapons.
“I heard that she likes ninjas, am I right?” asks Quib while walking over to the building's edge.
“Yeah, that's what Henry said, at least.” says Raphael while staring at the group of two.
“Well, I can definitely see that she wants to be one. Her posture shows that she has practiced her balance and form at least to a moderate degree. That or it's all natural to her, which would give her great potential for being a ninja. Hmm, I think I'm going to look up her family history a bit later to see if her family tree dates back to some kind of ninja clan on this world.” Quib says before Lera and Jian move off through another alleyway further into the market district.
Without saying another word, Raphael and Quib leap down into the alleyways underneath of them, seeing as the crowd would provide ample cover.
After breaking out of the alleyway that Jian and Lera had went through moments ago, Raphael and Quib see Lera and Jian moving onto the grounds of an outdoor restaurant. Sitting at one of the tables are both Boz and Carie. They greet Jian and Lera with a happy smile and a wave, but they don't use any of the Japanese honorifics when saying their names.
Raphael motions for Quib to follow him before walking over to one of the restaurant's tables. While approaching the table, he contacts June and Miyra through his communication device. “Meet me at a table at an outdoor restaurant called Bleu in the market district, all of our marks are here right now.”
Moments after both Raphael and Quib sit down, June and Miyra appear from the nearby alleyways. They walk over to Raphael as him and Quib take off their hoods. They both sit down on seats opposite of Raphael and Quib and do the same with their hoods.
“Alright guys, as soon as they split up, follow them back to their homes. According to Henry, the first one will die tomorrow, so we must do everything in our power to protect her, okay?” Raphael says before getting a swift nod from his team. He waits an hour before he sees the four marks get up and start walking off in opposite directions. “Wait for it...” Raphael eyes Lera as she walks away from the table and out of the restaurant's premises. When she passes by his eyesight, he says “Now!” in a low voice before getting up with the others and they all begin to follow their targets.