An Assignment To Accomplish (Rebooted)

(Short chap)

Back at the makeshift outpost, everyone gathers around a table inside one of the tents where Xu has his laptop connected to a projector so everyone in the room can observe what Seiryu uncovered back at the hotel from his USB, which is plugged into Xu's computer. Now, they're looking at what looks to be a photograph of the mountainside town of Jiufen, which is in the Southern part of Taiwan.

Xu: "看起来他们正在策划一场袭击。 看起来我们阻止了他们——"
(Looks like they were in the midst of plotting an attack. Looks like we stopped them--)

Seiryu: "不，许。 我们没有。 我们推迟了他们。 已经有红十字会成员和全国人民解放军士兵在那里等待命令。 他们就像卧铺特工，徐。 他们就在那里，耐心地等待消息传出，这样他们就可以开始屠杀平民了。"
(No, Xu. We didn't. We delayed them. There are members of the Red Cross and soldiers of the NPLACCP already there waiting for the orders. They're like sleeper agents, Xu. And they're there, waiting patiently for the word to go out so they can start massacring civilians.)

Everyone there, looks and they watch as Xu and Seiryu speak with one another in their mandarin dialect.

Seiryu: "听着，我说我们在他们得到消息之前对那些士兵和战士进行先发制人的打击。 我们有一扇打开的机会之窗，让我们抓住它，进行打击，徐。"
(Look, I say we do a preemptive strike on those soldiers and fighters before they get word. We've got an open window of opportunity, let's take it and strike, Xu.)

Xu: "听我说......我会通知我的上级，在那之前，我们会看看他们怎么说。 看。 当谈到这些交战规则时，我束手无策。 他们告诉我在哪里，他们告诉我什么时候，但他们不告诉我或我的人如何。 如果他们说我们在他们进攻的那一天罢工，我们就照办。 否则，我们在人民眼中就像怪物一样。 他们会认为我们是在找平民开玩笑，J--
(Listen to me... I'll inform my higher-ups, and until then, we'll see what they say. Look. My hands are tied when it comes to these rules of engagement. They tell me where, they tell me when, but they don't tell me or my people how. If they say we strike on the day they'll attack, we do it. Otherwise, we'll look like monsters in the eyes of our people. They'll think we're picking on civilians for shits and giggles, J--)

Seiryu: "徐，然后告诉他们你想脱掉手套。 摆脱交战规则，做我该做的事，脱掉手套战斗。 这并不容易，我知道......但如果我们要拯救我们的国家，这是我知道的唯一方法。 那天我们不能罢工，平民会死。 他们会死，因为你的同龄人选择了比现在更晚的罢工。"
(Xu, then tell them that you want to take the gloves off. Break free from the rules of engagement and do what I do, fight with the gloves off. It's not easy, I know... but it's the only method I know if we're going to save our country. We can't strike on that day, civilians will die. They will die because your peers chose to strike later than now.)

Xu looks at Seiryu before leaning into his seat to think. He then looks at everyone before signalling them to go outside as he needs time alone to think.

Xu: "I'd like some time out, please. Could you all please go outside for a bit?"

Everyone obliges his request and they start walking outside where they begin questioning Seiryu, nosy to wonder what he said to his cousin. First, it starts off with Deniz getting slightly hostile.

Deniz: "What the fuck did you say to him? You tryna get our asses kicked?"

Hoshiko: "Dude, what was that back there?"

Seiryu sits down on a bench where he sighs softly before responding to the questions and he looks them all in the eyes.

Seiryu: "I told him to fight without ROEs. I told him to take the gloves off and fight."

The mercs and Michael look at him, surprised by what he had told his cousin and Mikhail begins asking him a question.

Mikhail: "Could you translate that from metaphorical to English?"

The middle-eastern contractor, Gamila answers the question for Seiryu and she looks at him.

Gamila: "It means to fight like how our enemies do. Ruthlessly. Without the rules of engagement, Mikhail."

Seiryu: "There you have it."

He leans back in his bench as Dae walks away to his tent, yawning and Deniz follows him. Everyone but Gamila leaves Seiryu to be alone and the 2 sit together on the bench.

Gamila: "You know that some of these mercs will draw the line, right?"

Seiryu: "I understand. But my home's in danger from a bunch of Communists from the mainland. There's no other option I see if we're going to save my people."

Gamila: "Hm... I'm with you, all in, Seiryu."

The Taiwanese-Japanese man smiles at her before sitting back in his seat while everyone waits for an answer from Xu. Little does he know, Gamila glances at him as he looks at the tent that Xu's inside. She then looks away from him with a tint of pink on her cheeks.

Soon, about 2 minutes pass, and Xu walks outside the tent toward the bench Seiryu's on to speak with him.

Xu: "下令先发制人，清流。 但他们不允许我像你说的那样脱掉手套打架。"
(A preemptive strike is ordered, Seiryu. But they won't allow me to fight with the gloves off like you said.)

Seiryu nods, smiling before looking at Gamila and he pats her shoulder to have her look ate him as he informs her.

Seiryu: "We're doing a preemptive strike. We're going to knock them out before the whole massacre of theirs begins."

She smiles before looking at Xu who informs the 2 of them in English right before walking away to the tent to inform everybody else.

Xu: "We're going tomorrow morning. Get some rest you 2..."

To be continued...