The Other Side of the Mask

XiaoLong walks up to 'his grandmother' (ew) and whispers in her ear.

The Medicine Elder smiles, "Then I'll leave this to you and your friends."

XiaoLong gives me a secretive thumbs up.

The Medicine Elder returns to her room or laboratory. We step onto the stage, and 1111 looks around with a smug, proud face.

I pull out a medallion, "Everyone, have a look at this medallion."

I swing the stolen medallion from the Hypnotic Elder at them, as the unaware women look up at it, enchanted.

After five beats of silence, I speak in a cold voice, "Kill everyone here except for me and this girl."

At that moment, all the girls turned around and punched everyone around them. A bloody smell fills the air. 1111 and 1212 look at XiaoLong and I as if we're possessed by a devil.

"W-what a-are you doing?" 1111 asks scared out of her wits.

1212's face turned purple out of fear.

I tie all four of us up and sit.

A bloody massacre is ongoing on the lower level and from all the screams, all the pirates headed over.

"WHAT'S GOING ON!" the Big Five bellows.

XiaoLong shouts out, bashfully, "Pirate Big Brothers! P-please help us! M-my grandmother poisoned them and now they're going crazy!"

The Big Five look at us, livid, "How dare she! I knew that old-witch is not someone good!"

One of them unties us, and we thank them. 1212 was about to say something, but I cast her a glare. She shuts up after seeing a dagger hanging around my leg.

XiaoLong puts up a pitiful act, wiping away fake tears. The pirates' hearts are moved trying to comfort him.

I can't imagine how hilarious their faces would be if they found out XiaoLong is a guy and he's using teardrops hidden in his hand.

The pirate suddenly turns, "Don't worry, we'll definitely slay that witch."

He bends down on one knee in front of XiaoLong, "We'll definitely save everyone."

That 'romantic' moment is broken by a scream down there as the women go crazy killing everyone; even biting the pirates.

"We need to go," the pirate captain says, splitting the group into one to hold down the people here, and another to go to the Medicine Elder's room.

I immediately signal XiaoLong and we climb through a vent, arriving at the Medicine Elder's chambers way faster than the pirates.

We quietly sneak around and confiscate all the antidotes and medicine in the room. It is quite easy because of all the things we looted from the Elders room.

As expected, the Big Five storm in. The witch literally jumps out of her chair in fear from the big buff pirates.

"What are you doing, storming into my room so disrespectfully?" She sneers.

As they bicker, I quickly pull out a gas poison and masks.

"Here you go," I whisper to XiaoLong.

He nods and puts it on.

"... I never did such a deed!"

At this point, the witch is fuming, "I didn't even step out to explain anything!"

"Who else could have caused such a way to massacre other than you! Of course you're the biggest suspect for poisoning them to do your bidding!"

"Har? Poison them to do my bidding? I wouldn't even waste my poison on such imbeciles! They're already loyal! Someone definitely framed me!"

Captain Bartholomew facepalms, "Anyways, you're coming with us as the biggest suspect! We have to deal with this now or else our plan will go down the drain, and we'll lose trust of the bandits of the North."

"No! I didn't do it!" the witch screeches as the pirates close in.

On cue, I let out the gas poison.