--- "Henry J. Cobb" <hcobb@io.com> wrote:

Sakura Kinomoto's magic is too lethal to be used in self defense?

What is she, some kind of assassin?

Eh, Sakura doesn't quite have the killer instinct.  At least, *she*
doesn't...

---

It was while grieving over her friend's - no, lover's, even though they
had never consummated it - grisly execution that Tomoyo Daidouji was
inspired.  One last design, to both celebrate Sakura's life and power,
and avenge her murder.

Tomoyo had no magic of her own.  Her invention was all technology,
tapping into the latest theories and findings about direct neural
control and molecular forging.  Later generations of her device would
not be nearly so crude, but her first version - the one she wielded
from then on, the one she became so infamous for that she was buried
with it - required a radio to be implanted in her brain, that she could
control it.  The surgery was little problem for one of her wealthy
means; the months of self-directed training were even less of a problem
for one of her absolute dedication.  Even so, it was a wonder that she
lost no fingers.  She almost killed herself three times while
practicing with it.

Then it was time.  Exactly one year after Sakura had fallen, Tomoyo
tracked down the yakuza lord who had ordered her termination.  She had
kept track of him for a year, planning this day, and so faced no
difficulty slipping past his guards and into his study.  She was
unsurprised to find him studying Sakura's cards - which would never
work for him, but a man desparate for power would do anything.

He did not even recognize her.  Instead, he saw the beyond-razor-sharp
self-propelled piece of metal she held between two fingers, painted to
look like the ones he had committed an unforgivable act to obtain.  "Is
that the missing card?"

She nodded, and tossed it to him.

He held up a hand to catch it.  That hand would be the only part of
him left intact when she was through.  "Which card is it?"

"Bloody!"

---

Yes, I know, I'm probably far from the first one to cross CCS with
Dirty Pair.

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