MRC #40 -Bounty Hunters The Hunt for Vianna! Vianna/Katsura

Katsura was walking around in Shibuya again, in her arms she was carrying Nyao the BlackGatomon. Money was running out once again and they need to make money fast. The only problem was how, that's when she saw a Lunamon handing out fliers. That was a weird sight even for someone adapt to the digital world and it made Katsura open her eyes in confusion.

When Katsura got her hands on one of the fliers it turned out that someone had put a bounty on Vianna's head but more important she had been harassing her friend Timothy according to the picture on the bounty.

Katsura stared bewildered at the wanted note, how could someone do that to poor Timothy and why is Vianna wanted in the first place? Well there was only one way to find out that answer. Katsura stopped the Lunamon in the act.
"Excuse me" Katsura held up the bounty showing the picture to Lunamon. "What is this about?"

Katsura and Nyao sighed in unison.
"I knew that Renamon was trouble."
"You say that about all dark digimon."
Katsura and Nyao looked at each other, they quickly had to admit that each of them had a valid point and they couldn't come up with a counter. The stalemate was also caused by an inherent wish not to hurt the other. Katsura looked towards the building.
"Well, I guess that it's better I do it. I don't want anyone to get hurt sigh."
Nyao jumped down while Katsura pocketed the flier, then she took out her digidevice.
"Are you ready?"
"Always"
A beam of light shot out from Katsura's digidevice and hit her tag the beam then got magnified before it hit Nyao who then started to glow.
"BlackGatomon digivole to... LadyDevimon!"
The cat was gone and in its place a woman who looked like a fallen angel stood. Nyao flew behind Katsura and held her firmly in her arms close to her chest. Then in a swift move, Nyao spread her wings and lifted Katsura in the sky.
In mere minutes Nyao was now in front of the building, she gently placed Katsura safely on the ground and they studied the building.

Katsura and Nyao looked at the building, now that they have arrived the easiest part of the bounty hunting was over. Before them stood a large building. Katsura turned to Nyao:
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Katsura asked meanwhile a flier from the top of the building flew down and landed in Nyao's face blocking the view. Without removing it Nyao replied,

"Definitely"

Nyao then removed the flier from her head and took another look up, it was clear that Vianna is on the top.
"We need to get up on the roof."
"How about we fly up?"
"Katsura that's dangerous, if anything happen to you, I won't know what to do."
"So what do you suggest?"
"Let's just go in, It's safer that way."

Katsura shrugged before walking near the door. Nyao held the front door for Katsura as they both walked inside the building and started looking for stairs to get higher up.

Katsura shrugged when Vianna came down begging them for help, the moral dilemma just got bigger open seeing just how worried Vianna was. What made it much more difficult for Katsura was knowing how scared Vianna looked, on the same time Timothy was her friend and while Katsura couldn't care less about the battle of good of evil she cared deeply about her friends and Vianna had done something it seemed. Still Katsura thought she owed Vianna a chance to talk. Katsura did not want to reveal just yet that she was aware of the harassment let alone the bounty.

"Why are you even wanted? And umm what research could possibly warrant a bounty?"
Katsura did her best to come off as sympathetic as she could, if she could resolve this without a single fight that would mean the world to her. That being said friends came before anyone else.

Katsura kept hearing Vianna's rant although most of her pity went to Nyao who from Katsura's point of view was caught in the middle of a temper tantrum. It was an amazing display of self-control even taking into account that Nyao could poof into gas anytime she wanted or for that matter fly. Still Katsura resorted to the old tactic of smiling and nodding. Something useful came out of the rant as Katsura now had an excuse to mention Timothy without exposing herself.

"Did Timothy want to be a part of that research, forcing someone is not nice."

As Vianna broke down in tears over needing shiny stuff a rather annoyed LadyDevimon patted her on the back to give her the comfort she asked for even if Nyao didn't feel that much for it. Meanwhile Katsura spoke up about the notion that Vianna didn't return all her stolen shiny goods.
"If you love those... shiny things that much just imagine how much their owners miss it and how they feel about them being stolen like that. You could at least stick to shiny items no human cares about anyway."

To demonstrate her point Katsura picked up some used tin foil from a trashcan and reflected it in the light.
"Nobody will miss this shiny thing"

Now this was insane, Katsura had barely showed the tin foil before Vianna attacked her for it. Nyao was about to retaliate when Katsura sent her a look to tell that she can handle it herself so far. Katsura nonchalantly let go of the tinfoil proving that no, nobody cares about tinfoil.
"Anything in those cans is fair game, humans contain things they don't care about in there." Katsura indicated the trashcan while keeping a matter of fact expression.
"However, things that is not in those cans belong to someone else and they would like to get it back. Those things mean at least as much to their owners as they mean to you. You have to give them back"

Vianna then started ranting about Timothy as if everything was his fault, a rant that made Katsura and especially Nyao bewildered.

"Sounds more to me as if you were chasing Timothy away until he fought back in fear."

It was then that Vianna said something very peculiar about Nyao wearing dominatrix outfit. Katsura hadn't thought about that Katsura had gotten so used to the digtial world that such attire no longer caused her to batter an eye. Nyao looked confused at Katsura.

"Don't ask." You could tell that Katsura knew exactly what Vianna was talking about. To honor Katsura's request she just turned to Vianna.

"I don't think now is the best timing." Once again Vianna never got a chance to explain her research, this time around it was because Nyao thought it showed a poor awareness of priorities.

Nyao wasn't sure if Liliana was lying or seriously entitled and diluted regarding Timothy's part of this and the tale of an oversized chicken. Likewise, Katsura knew Timothy as a rather kind person and more often than not the voice of reason between his digimon. There had to be a reason why he would fight back.

"Vianna, when a human runs away that is more likely than not a rejection. Besides how would stalking poor Timothy solve anything?" Katsura was starting to roll her eyes, as nice as she was this Renamon was rather difficult to reason with in her opinion. At that point Vianna came to the conclusion that the tinfoil was not as interesting as a shiny ring she had on her finger.

Katsura looked at the ring with cringe, she was the possessive type and she could only imagine how much such a ring would mean to its owner. Then there were the whole logic of sharing it, how selfish could this digimon be?!
"When you take from people without asking that's not sharing, it's stealing!" Katsura said.
"A ring like that could cost any number of money to replace. I bet it would cost at least 10.000 bits just to buy it, and that's suppose its rightful owner would sell it in the first place." Nyao remarked with a deadpan expression.

It was then that Vianna got the 'brilliant' idea of having Nyao use her powers to force others into giving up their shiny belongings. That idea sounded to Katsura like the recipe for disaster and no matter how she utilized her calculating skills she could not come up with one single beneficial outcome of that idea. In fact, the more Katsura thought about the idea the more obvious it became to her that this idea would benefit exactly one person at the cost of everyone else: Vianna.

Nyao was about to answer when Katsura lashed out in disgust over the suggestion, theft was clearly a soft spot for Katsura.

"Absolutely not! I don't know how you found out about that power, but mind control is not a toy. When we use those power it's out of need and we barely take enough to survive. I feel terrible every time we use it. Stealing for the sake of stealing is just cruel!"

Nyao still looked, for a moment at least like she wanted to say something. It quicky became clear that Katsura had said everything worth saying as she raised her palm up in the air.
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