Project I-X/Tying Up The Loose Ends

Tying up the loose ends is the first episode of Project I-X, and chronologically 15th episode of Project Zero-X, marking the end of it.

Getting rid of the loose ends
4 months after General Hirashi Hishikimori death, Anna Novackova is now taking care of the loose ends.

One of the loose end turns out is the newly acquired seat of JGSDF, Hayato Hishikimori; whom has been on court for numorous charges of money launderings.

Knowing that her normal gun would be a dead-giveaway to her, she goes to Tokyo Public Library to look for the "Anna Karenina" book, that she she carved and hid her disassembled Kimber Aegis.

While she's assembling the guns, she encouters Kolya, a former Spetsnaz that works with her (that was later revealed that they are non-binary). When Anna asked them why did they look for her, Anna learns that she's on a bounty hunt by a mafia gang and is offered a 140 millions Yen.

The 2 shortly comes to brutal fight, but Anna was able to defeat Kolya and snapped their neck, killed them.

Anna then infiltrates the head of state, and enters the room when Hayato was briefing with his assistance. When Hayato tolds her to walk away and forget the past, Anna shoots him in the face without letting him finishes the sentence.

The assistance, trembling in fear, asked why did Anna didn't killed her; but Anna insteads tell her there's a safe that Hayato hid his "fresh" money, and gave her the safe code.

Anna then walks out of the place while disassembles the guns, and throws the parts out on the way, then disguises as the assistance and stole her car.

Anna then destroys the car, marking the end of Project Zero-X.

2 Years Later
Anna is now hiding in a luxury house somewhere in Belarus.

A prostitute woke up from Anna's bed and leaves early. While the prostitute go to the market, she was followed by a group of spies before she got killed by them. They then revealed that they have killed the wrong target because they got similar hairworks, and calls for report.

Meanwhile, Anna was making juice, she receives the call from Vadim, an intelligence, to informs her that the prostitute has died, and warns her that something is wrong, but Anna didn't care and insteads drove her car on a speedway for a ride.

When she was refilling the gases, a group of Belarus mobsters comes to ask to buy her car, but she refuses, and drove back home. The mobster was able to snap a picture of her car and the license plate, which then he calls for his associate to backtracking it.

14 hours later, at around 2-3 o'clock; Anna hear some small noises, which she goes downstair. As soon as she steps downstair, however, she got hit on the head by a thief with a baseball bat, and got kicked multiple times. The kicking one then signals the bat one to looks for the car's key, and pulls the mask down before knocks her out.

Her cat was panicked and ran away, but ended up got killed.

Woke up from her concussion, she was stumbling looking for her cat, only to found it was dead due to bloodloss.

After setting up the grave under the maple tree at her house, she vowed for vengeance.