Blood of the Innocent

File 6: Exodus

Mafia di Proiettilo Records
Code name: Exodus
Age: 17 years old
Class: Sniper
Bangtan Gang #32
Exodus was a simple girl who walked around the streets of Venice, stealing money as a means of getting her next meal. Her parents had abandoned her at a young age, and she wasn't able to attend school because of it. One time, she almost died by being brutally beaten up by trying to steal money. However, Wraith had found her, recruiting her into #32 since he had seen her potential. Upon joining the Bangtan Gang, she has found a sustainable life and an education from being taught by both Wraith and Minny.

Power: B
Durability: D
Speed: C
Potential: C
Range: C
Precision: A

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Persona drove Minny's dark red Mustang down the streets of Italy. Despite Exodus being older than Persona, she doesn't have any experience when it comes to driving. In fact, she hasn't taken a drivers test in her life. They both arrived at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, a university housing college students.

"So, why are we here again?" asked Persona as he looked over a brochure.

"I just need to pick up some textbooks from this place," replied Exodus, "I need them to study. The mafia has already paid for their expenses too."

As soon as they stepped inside the campus library, they looked for the textbooks with math and geology on them.

"If you think about it," said Exodus, grabbing a geology textbook with a flamingo as it's cover, "There aren't many animals that are pink."

"The most I could think of are flamingoes and shrimp," replied Persona, "There's also birds and frogs possibly."

"Well birds and frogs come in multiple colors, so they don't really cou—"

Exodus noticed something as she opened the textbook. She looked around the library, seeing the books arranged in place. There weren't any people.

"The shelves have been moved.." said Exodus, "And the writing inside these textbooks.. they've been reversed!"

Someone stepped out from behind a bookshelf, nervously, "The moment you stepped inside this library, you were trapped in my.. trap room!"

"Who the hell are you?" asked Exodus, pulling out her dark silver snubnose revolver and aiming it at the boy.

"My name is Mirage," he replied nervously, "I'm a 14 year old newbie Magia Wizard, and my first mission is to take down at least two of you horrible mafia members! Unfortunately for you, I've got you both trapped in my trap room because of my Reflection Magia!

It allows me to trap my opponents in a singular room, with that room being reversed like how you would see yourself in a mirror!"

Exodus fired a bullet at the boy, but the bullet reflected off of him, ricocheting and hitting Exodus back in the shoulder. She yelled in shock as Persona healed her wound with his Magia.

"It's not only that," said Mirage, "Whenever any object in my mirror world, including me, is hit by an attack or projectile, the damage is reflected back to the person who did the damage!"

"Damn you for shooting me!" yelled Exodus in anger, "Listen up, Persona! Lesson #2: Don't take shit from anybody!"

She fired the remaining five bullets in her barrel, shooting at Mirage. The bullets all reflected back, shooting Exodus again. Persona quickly healed her wounds before she passed out.

"Don't get so hasty!" yelled Persona.

"I know that if I get wounded, I'll just get healed by you," replied Exodus, "Not only that, but from shooting all those bullets, I can conclude that his Reflection Magia isn't energy based. It'll keep reflecting even if he's all out of energy."

"Even so, don't take it too far. If you were to die, I know I can heal you. However I can't really return your soul back and revive you. Don't die by your own attack."

Mirage smiled, "Looks like I didn't need to worry at all! I didn't think my Magia would be this powerful!"

Mirage pulled out a knife, forcing Exodus and Persona to back away. Mirage's Magia seemed to be so powerful that damage was reflected. This was bad.

"No one in our crew has the Magia to defeat a person like this," said Exodus calmly as she created bullets out of thin air to reload her gun, "My Bullet Magia allows me to create bullets for my revolver at any time."

She shot a bullet in the air. Suddenly, a thin circular plate appeared in the air. The bullet ricocheted off the plate and hit a bookshelf. Exodus sustained a bullet wound to the hip. Persona healed her once again.

"My bullets can be redirected using those plates that I can create out of thin air," she explained, "The bullets can ricochet to shoot at their target. Not only that, but once they ricochet, it's like they're being fired from out of the gun again; dealing more force. It looks like Mirage wasn't bluffing when it came to hitting objects. They'll still reflect. This mirror room really is a living hell that we can't escape."

"So.. how do we escape?" asked Persona, "This seems impossible to get out of! We can't just defeat Mirage either because of his damage reflection!"

"It's like we need to bypass that damage reflection with a means of manipulation."

"What? What do you mean?"

"You don't know this, Persona, but before he died, your father was a member of the Bangtan Gang. Originally, the Bangtan Gang consisted of Butcher, Minny, and the Great Persona. With an addition to Lettuce before Butcher became a Capo and Minny overtook as leader. When I joined the crew, he immediately showed me this ability that he was working on. An ability that he used because he had no Magia."

"Ability?"

"If you've noticed, I'm the only one in the Bangtan Gang that uses some sort of projectile as my Magia, excluding Lettuce's Telekinetic Magia. This ability that he showed me only applies to projectiles that can spin.

He called it Rotation.

Whenever my bullet here spins, it goes faster and faster. Upon impact on an object, the bullet can use the energy used from the friction of spinning, or rotation, to cause more damage and penetrate objects. I don't know how, but your father found out a formula. If you spin the bullet at a certain speed, it causes a temporary shift in dimensions, allowing it to penetrate through Magia!"

"So basically: If you use Rotation at a certain speed, you can deal damage through almost any type of Magia? It's a bypass!"

Immediately, Exodus fired a bullet into the air and a bullet across from her. The bullet in the air bounced off the plate that appeared in the air, shooting down and targeting Mirage. Then, the bullet that was shot across from Exodus slightly grazed the top of the bullet that was shooting down, giving it a forceful spin.

TCHK!

Mirage's leg was injured! The bullet penetrated through his Reflection Magia! Mirage yelled in agony.

"It takes two bullets to create a Rotation shot," smiled Exodus, "But I can easily take you down with only one bullet."

She shot a bullet at a plate that appeared in the air, shooting another bullet to spin the first bullet. The projectile went through the arm of Mirage, and bounced off of another plate, shooting through the chest, and bouncing off of another plate. Mirage kept getting shot by the same bullet ricocheting off the plates until Exodus had no bullets left in her revolver to spin it. Mirage fell to the ground, dying from blood loss. The reflection room broke down.

"This was your first mission wasn't it?" asked Exodus.

"Looks like you failed," commented Persona.

"Alright. Time to get my textbooks."