❖ A SIBLING'S BOND ❖ (Job/G&J/Endolf)

So this is how their day was going to go, huh? A pair of twin siblings—a brother and a sister—screaming at the three Knights from the top of their lungs, completely berating and denouncing their "bond" as coworkers? Apparently this is what warranted the intervention of a Knight of his calibur plus two others. It was complete nonsense and Doppo was beginning to suspect that they were no older than sixteen by the looks of them.

As much as Doppo wanted to leave, these siblings, unfortunately, were harrassing the townsfolk of Shirotsume. There were many reports of aggravated assault, battery, and just generally being a public nuisance with all of their challenges.

Atop a roof, the two twin siblings screamed at them from up high. Doppo listened indifferently.

"Dear sister! Look at those fools gawking at us from below! Who are they to think they can possibly challenge our bond?!" hooted the brother.

"What insolence! Truly!" the sister echoed.

Doppo seemed almost at a loss for words. What kind of life and oddly intimate life did these twins live for them to get such dumb ideas in their heads? Is this what teenagers did in their free time nowadays? Harass the townsfolk of mountain villages with a strangely close bond? The redhead didn't know and didn't care enough to ask his three juniors—Privates Hawke, Grappa, and Jellisha, who accompanied him on this mission.

". . . Ahh. . . right, so. . ." Doppo started with a sigh, awkwardly scratching the scalp of his head, ". . .you two need to come down here so we can get all of this resolved and—"

Suddenly, a rock flew down from up above and landed on the very center of Doppo's head. It bounced off and onto the road beneath them, leaving a glowering expression on his face as he stared up at them.

"Take that! You guys clearly aren't tough enough to even speak with us!" the brother suppressed a smirk and laughed.

"Exactly!" the sister echoed again.

Another day, another fish. Today brought Grappa and Jellisha along to help some of their fellow Rune Knight members out with a very important mission, or at least that's what the clerk behind the counter said as she tried to convince the two that the mission they had been assigned was integral to the safety of people of the world. Jellisha rolled her eyes but Grappa seemed all the more happy to go and help, even when it turned out they were just going to help a pair of siblings down from a roof from causing an annoyance to everybody within earshot. They arrived just in time for the shouting match to begin. The brother and sister above were hurling vulgar language and insults on anybody that passed them, including the group of Knights that had come to put a stop to their nonsense. the twins looked at the General with a curious glance as they scouted the situation.

"So, General, whatcha gunna do? It's not like we can throw a spell at them." "Not unless he gives us an order to."

Grappa puffed her cheeks out at her sister, who was much too busy with a smug looking expression plastered on her face to care much for it. "Still, we can't do much if they don't wanna come down. Unless you want us to go up and get them down ourselves." The General cleared his throat and spoke to the brother and sister on top of the mountainside building, hoping to come to some sort of come together. His answer came in the form of a rock clocking him square center in his face. It landed with a small "pap" while the older gentleman would stare at the two who had just insulted them once more. The action made Grappa angry, the human form'd Exceed stomping to the forefront and placing her hands on her hips, a finger pointed at the two.

"Hey, snobs!" She said in a commanding voice, a much darker and more serious side of her Jellisha hadn't truly seen before. Her eyes narrowed at the two. "Now you've turned your fun into a little petty crime! Come down here with your hands up or we're coming to get you the hard way!"

Doppo could hardly feel any pain that any normal person might've felt if their heads were struck with stones. The redhead would've tended to the situation more attentively if the twins didn't refer to him as "General." But Doppo wasn't a General—he was a Major. Catching the mistake, he peered over to the twins without a change in his expression, still as indifferent and weary as before.

"Ah, no—I'm not a Gener—" Doppo started, but was interrupted with another rock striking his head. The laughter of the siblings up atop the building could be heard faintly amidst Doppo's explanation, but he would continue regardless. However, despite his expression remaining the same, his face suddenly began to cover itself with cross-popping veins—most notably on his temples.

"I'm not a Genera—" A rock bigger than the ones before interrupted him again. Another popped vein appeared.


". . .I'm not a Gen—!!" Instead of a rock, an entire cement block was thrown onto his head, and while splitting into pieces upon contact, his entire face suddenly began to bleed. It was at this point that Doppo's face was now littered with cross-popping veins, and if any more appeared on his face, it was certain that it would explode. But coincidentally, it seemed as if something else exploded regardless of how much he suppressed himself—and it just so happened to be his temper.

Abruptly, Doppo reached down to grab the broken cement block and chucked it at the laughing twins with all of his power. Not surprisingly, the cement pieces flew by their faces so fast that one couldn't even see them, and suddenly the vigor from their complexions drained as a result. When they looked down at him, they could only see his shrunken irises, bloody face, pulsating veins, and a finger pointing at them accusatorily. He was livid.

"WHAT THE F*CK? WHAT'S YOUR F*CKING PROBLEM, ASSHOLES? GET THE F*CK DOWN HERE! YOU'RE BEING ARRESTED, F*CKERS! F*CK YOU!" Doppo screamed at them.

An older man noticed the man's hollering, and in an attempt to pacify him, approached him. "Is everything alright—"

Doppo suddenly turned to face the older man now. "AND F*CK YOU TOO! GET OUT OF HERE, DUMBASS! IT'S DANGEROUS! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY SHIT?"

"Erm—you are, right now, losing your shi—"

"F*CK OFF, MOTHERF*CKER." Doppo cursed at him, steam practically pouring from his head. The redheaded Major then looked to the twins and Private Hawke. "AND IT'S MAJOR! NOT GENERAL, DUMBASSES! MAJOR SUZU-F*CKING-KI. NOW BEAT THEIR ASSES—OH, WAIT, WAIT—SHOULD I BEAT THEIR ASSES? IS THIS WHAT IT'S COME TO?!"

The privates were probably unaware of this side of their Major. It was actually quite obscure, but he did have quite the temper. The old man, as told, did fuck off, and the twins up above were just in shock.

Jellisha had to physically hold back to sister but was clearly failing to based on how hard her heels were digging into the ground. "Lemme go, Jellisha!" she grunted, trying to squirm her way out of the other girl's grasp. The other twin was pulling her back to the group from the twins on the rooftop while gritting her teeth. "Stop...We're supposed to arrest them, not kill them!" The leader of the group kept trying to correct their little snafu but kept getting interrupted by the falling rocks from aobe. With each rock thrown Grappa only seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. It wouldn't be long now before Jellisha's grip was going to fail on her. Then those two up above would be sorry they ever did something like that. The General Major would continue trying to correct them on that little slip up both of the twins had but kept getting interrupted. First by a rock, then by a much larger rock. Even Jellisha would have found it humorous had it not been for that entire concrete chunk that was hurled at him. The joke stopped as he literally screamed from below at the two above. Everyone froze during his little shouting much as both twins took pause. What strange word did he use? They had never heard that one before.

"F*ck?"

Grappa repeated the word that Major Suzuki had used as Jellisha would tilt her head to the side. The air was thick and full of tension while the twins above weren't even throwing anything anymore, presumably stunned by the outburst of the red haired man below. Even an old man came to try and calm the storm that was their superior officer but only received a yelling of his own. Jellisha furrowed her brows and looked at General Suzuki. "Hey, chill out. The old man didn't do anything. Don't get upset at him because your face got used as target practice." During her retort to Suzuki, Grappa had managed to slip out of her grasp as Jellisha flailed to try and contain her. It took some doing but she caught a ride to the roof of the building with her sister. The two shifted into their humanoid looks while Grappa would storm closer to the two.

"You heard the General! You're under arrest!" "Yeah, so, uh...Just hold your hands behind your heads and, wuh?"

Grappa had taken Jellisha's hands and began to spin her around to generate the wind needed to use their magic. "Grappaaaaaaaaah!" Wind began to form around the vortex the twins were creating as it would be aimed directly act the two in front of them. The blur of twin bodies would generate a strong gust of wind which hit the offending twins, toppling them down to the ground with a loud thud. The spinning slowed down until Grappa and settled back down and Jellisha was only just barely stable in her balance. "They're all yours, General! We'll be back down soon!" Her sibling was on the ground as the world kept spinning around. She shook her head and was helped back to her feet by Grappa.