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Ozzie Winters

Ozzie was standing nearby with a sort of sway to his form, looking about the area with wide, curious eyes and hands in the pockets of his slacks. He was already forgetting about the fuss that his dear friend has made on the poor lads in the train, whistling the luxurious tune of "La Vie En Rose" as he waited for the bags to be done. Seconds passed and Ozzie already noted how quiet the place is. "Quiet." he mumbled to himself while Friedrich would start on his line of questions. "Nothing." he mumbled again. Friedrich finished asking his inquiries and Ozzie answered with a single clap of his hands and a grin on his face, turning to face him with the grin quickly disappearing.

"Wait, I thought you had all of this planned? With the fact that you told me that we were going to take a vacation two hours before the flight, I thought you had everything read-- Well!" Ozzie stopped himself, making sure that he'll look into the positive in this and tapped a finger to his forehead. He looked back to Friedrich, soon reaching over for a couple of bags. "I guess we're going to have to hold them ourselves, Freddie. You heard that correctly, right? We're. Not just me." It wasn't long until the red-head would find his shoulder being preoccupied with a heavy handbag, Ozzie encouraging him to go along with it whether he liked it or not.

"It's the least you can do. Heck, I should be back home working on my portfolio, but nope! Nope, Fred decided to make a kidnapping." Ozzie turned his head, quickly looking about, a two fingers already drumming against his chin. "I wonder if there's a bus close by. Is there a bus nearby? There should be a bus. We can take the bus."

Kisa and Raidou

"...What's this?"

"A school uniform. Obviously."

"You're going to Yasogami now?"

"No, you are."

Kisa stared at the Summoner. She'd gotten a message via demon-courier after being dropped off, and she'd obligingly used the Amala Network to hop over to Tokyo, pick up the Kuzunoha, and come back to Inaba with her. Raidou had carted along a mysterious package, and upon opening it, Kisa had found a female school uniform and a pair of nice, tall boots. For Yasogami High School.

"I CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL!"

"Sure you can. The paperwork's already submitted, and by morning, everyone in the entire country will know the tragic tale of the poor girl who was kidnapped and experimented on!" Raidou's eyes sparkled gleefully.

Kisa simply gaped. Literally hundreds of scenarios flashed through her mind, most of them ending with the school burning down and the JSDF pursuing her to the very northernmost tip of Japan, where she dove into the ocean to try and escape... And... and... and... "I... don't think this is a good idea..."

Raidou put her hands on the Demi-Fiend's shoulders. "If you want to break some eggs, then you ought to be making an omelet." the Kuzunoha said firmly.

"...I don't get it."

"You don't need to. It's already in motion and everything; all you need to do is put this on and go see your friends. I'm sure Soji would appreciate knowing about this before you just pop up in his class, because that's where we're putting you."

Events were moving by pretty much too quickly for Kisa to really grasp. For the last few years, she'd been living by hiding in the streets... and now Raidou was calmly explaining exactly how her entire life was getting turned upside-down. Home? Check. Yatagarasu-chosen adoptive parents? Check. Her own were still alive, it turned out, and had already been contacted... and had been talked into signing off on 'Professional Adoptive Therapists', which was a fancy way of saying caregivers for troubled children. Which the cover story had fairly straightforwardly pointed out, going on and on about her traumatic experiences, and how the Government's professionals (actually the Yatagarasu's, but for public consumption it was otherwise) would be doing their best to help her. Also, money. Quite a stipend, actually, to see to it that 'money concerns would not be a problem while she recovered from the horrendous events she was forced to undergo'. It was all very pro-Government, and Kisa was fairly certain there wasn't a single actual fact in the entire thing. They'd gone with everything. Her tattoos were the result of heavy work by the 'cultists' as part of their preparations for a sacrifice. The spike on the back of her neck was something they'd implanted into her as part of their bizarre worship practices, and the medical professionals who'd supposedly examined her had come to the conclusion that trying to take it out stood a very good chance of paralyzing her for life, so in it stayed. The change in eye color was from some of the drugs they'd given her, strange concoctions made out of wild plants and modern chemicals in an incredibly dangerous brew. They'd gone the works.

And all of this... well... it was practically a chance to be human again.

"...Okay."

Aselia and Korina

Sometimes, life had a way of not really being convenient, and at the moment, Aselia had wanted little more than to be at home so she could support Rednal and Keira. Unfortunately, work had this awkward way of getting in the way of what people wanted to do, and Aselia had to be a good role-model for the other workers in the area. More importantly, though, she'd finally finished tracking down some strange rumors; she'd been at this for weeks and had found a strange, pale girl who'd occasionally stepped out of the shadows to ask if people would like to worship the King in Yellow. She'd been quite willing to offer... compensation... and the people involved tended to totally disappear or behave very oddly. Hence her mission of tracking the target down.

It had taken maybe half a second for Aselia to determine that her target, such as it was, had some sort of supernatural power... which was probably what had ultimately led to the current situation. Far back from the train station and outside the town limits where they were less likely to be observed, Aselia shot to the side as Korina darted by, huge claws made of water swiping at the air where Aselia had been. A swipe from the broad side of her weapon smacked the crazy cultist backwards a moment later, but Korina simply hopped back to her feet, then raised her arm and licked the blood welling out of a cut.

That... probably wasn't good. Tendrils shot out of the air and wrapped around the girl's body a moment later, infusing her with magic... and Aselia barely had time to get her defenses as high as they could go before an enormously powerful fireball roared down from the heavens and slammed her into the ground, dizzy and hurt.

Korina slowly approached the still figure of the Atma warrior, sizing her up carefully. Yeah, that had been a pretty nasty blow, all right... aah, praise Hastur! She licked her lips as she looked at the soft, smooth flesh of the girl's arms, then slowly continued to advance on the still figure. Yes, this girl would be a most wonderful sacrifi-

Aselia whirled around, locking Korina into a hold and slamming the girl's head into the ground. Then again, and again, past the point where the girl had woken up and started thrashing, until finally she was on the ground and truly unconscious. Pretending to be more hurt than she was had often been a useful plan, though this time... well... Aselia was pretty tough, but she didn't want to take many more blows like that one. It had been much stronger than she was expecting. With a frown, the girl began to plot how to bring this particular figure back somewhere safe...

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Silence! Now continue, Sheoldred…

He had heard about the notice about a captain that had disobeyed and was currently having a bounty on his head. He thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to test out his skills, he had just reached the outside limits of the station area, and had noticed the Brigadier General, as well as someone else. So he had decided on interacting with the General, but then Sheoldred had interrupted him before he had gotten close enough. Do not do it, Get ready for fighting first.