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>>32977299
Kurao Goto, uncle to your adopted subordinate, the half-oni Kurao Yui backed down from that fight, which you consider a good thing because at this point you're not sure what might have happened next. Yui rescued your client's daughter, the half-dragon Kumatori Kiki, while Kiki's half-dragon sister rescued your best friend and other subordinate Hebiki Akari, a Stone dragonette who was supposed to keep you from developing powers beyond those of an ordinary dragon-child.

Failed that one hardcore.

They are safely away, and you are standing on a rooftop, one which at some point in the future, is going to be destroyed, along with several miles of tract housing, subway station, and sewer lines, as a result of Kurao Goto's rampant destruction within the spirit realm. There is a soft, cool rain spilling from the skies, but your honestly unsure if it is a natural phenomenon, or a result of you tampering in power you should not have.

But then again, you aren't simply a dragonette either, not really. You, like Kushinada, are a demigod, a child of a Kami. Which is probably why you're still alive and not insane or brain damaged.

Sliding down the rooftop you leap and land lightly on the garden wall, and then hop onto the sidewalk. It's early evening, and you have situations that need seeing to.

[] Walk the rest of the way to the safehouse, take the time to think.
[] You need guidance, go to Jinyuu-onee-sama's.
[] You're in deep over your head – Hinata-hakase may not be trustworthy, but she is a professor.
[] Get to the safehouse as quickly and secretly as possible.
[] Get to a safe place and make a barrier of your own – you need to know what you've done.

>>32977299
Finally. It's been too long!

>>32977335
[] You need guidance, go to Jinyuu-onee-sama's.
But send a message to the others somehow, sothey don't panic/freak out/try to come at our rescue for no reason.

>>32977335
>[x] You need guidance, go to Jinyuu-onee-sama's.
Honestly, after that pearl-crack this seems the wisest choice.

>>32977335
>[x] Get to the safehouse as quickly and secretly as possible.
>[x] Walk the rest of the way to the safehouse, take the time to think.
Our girls are probably worried about us, let's not waste too much time

>>32977335
>[x] Walk the rest of the way to the safehouse, take the time to think.

>>32977335
>[x] Get to a safe place and make a barrier of your own – you need to know what you've done.
Anybody else think it's still a good idea to pray?

>>32977335
[] You're in deep over your head – Hinata-hakase may not be trustworthy, but she is a professor.
[] Get to a safe place and make a barrier of your own – you need to know what you've done.

For all our sisters knowledge, she isn't sure what's happening, we need a second opinion here

>>32977335

Oh, and by the way, maybe we should warn someone in our clan, so that they (or anyone) can be ready to deal with Goto's rampage when it hits the real world. No need to have umphteen civilian casualities on our conscience.

>>32977335
Time for more dragonette cuteness and badassitude.
>[x] Get to a safe place and make a barrier of your own – you need to know what you've done.
It can't fail!

>>32977299
Not light-hearted anymore?

>>32977335
>[] Get to the safehouse as quickly and secretly as possible.
figuring out what's happening to us is secondary to smile protection

>>32977404
it stopped being lighthearted after episode 3

>>32977404
It's the angst episode. Note the rain.

>>32977438
Could also be the noir episode then.

>>32977404
the lightheartedness died a long long time ago anon...

>>32977335
>[x] Walk the rest of the way to the safehouse, take the time to think.

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[X] Get to a safe place and make a barrier of your own – you need to know what you've done.

It doesn't take long to find a small park, out of the way and quiet, where there are no houses or buildings to destroy, except maybe a public restroom. After Goto's rampage in the spirit world, it's risky to do anything that could be destructive in the spirit would and lay another layer of destruction over his.

Especially given that you have no idea what you are capable of at the moment.

The good thing is that this will take no time so you aren't losing time catching up to the others, or allowing the enemies – multiple, always a fuckin' blast – searching for you to catch up to you. It takes but a second to throw up a small barrier, no larger than the part and some of the surrounding streets. The rain stops falling, the wind ceases, and the world is a silent and empty place. The clouds above immediately become darker, thicker, and the atmosphere is positively oppressive, yet is feels comfortable and calming to you. Neither of those things has ever happened when you've created Barriers before.

[] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
[] Try some Barrier Combat powers.
[] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
[] Try some of your own, more basic magic.
[] Tentatively reach out for the power of Horobi – no praying just....just check. Just to see.

>>32977575
>[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
Time to check our specs!

>>32977575
[] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
[] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
Gibe info pls

>>32977575
>>[] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
Curious.

>>32977575
>[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.

>>32977575
>[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
>[x] Try some of your own, more basic magic.

>>32977575
[] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
[] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.

Let's do this slow and easy...

>>32977575
[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.

>>32977575
>[x] Try some Barrier Combat powers.
Cause I still could use some more of this to figure them out.

>>32977575
>[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
Let's stay away from that last option, I get the feeling any interaction with the god will cause more problems.

>>32977575
>[] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.

>>32977575
>[x] Flex you 'hands' even though you only have one.
>[x] Call your Pearl forward and see how badly damaged it is.
Now that's a consensus.

>>32977667

We normaly have four days before our battle with Goto. Let's take it easy right now, we can always do some mock battles with Akari/Yui/Kiku/all of them during those four days.

>>32977708
Eh, I guess you're right

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You can't really feel your other hand, or the arm it is not attached to – phantom pain is a condition you doubt you will be subject to, considering you destroyed your own arm so thoroughly it transmuted from flesh and blood and water to solid stone. You DID withdraw it's spiritual essence into yourself, in the form of your power and blood, which while losing you the Chi a living arm would have maintained kept you from losing any Shen energy, and increased your Jing as well it seems.

Twice now, you have felt your left hand and arm, and once, Miko-Kiku felt your arm around her, both times in a Barrier. So you flex your hands, and you feel a response. But not the kind of response flesh and blood moving would create – your right hand, sure, that feels and acts normally. But you flex your left 'hand' and the sky rumbles threateningly, and the clouds above you ripple violently, the winds picking up around you, spattering the raindrops frozen in time in a rippling, swirling vortex away from you, though they freeze in their new pattern when you relax. A vortex centered on you, with a clear space of about fifteen, maybe twenty feet where the rain was pushed away. A flicker of lightning passes through the clouds, and the rumble follows slowly after.

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>>32977775
….okaaaaayyy, that was ominous as fuck.

You close your eyes and call your pearl forth, the sharp crack of your breastbone splitting and the soft ripple of flesh as your Pearl slides out of your body. It used to be the size of your thumbnail, a glossy, blue-black. It rests just below the hollow of your throat....and is a deep, almost crystalline black, like obsidian. It is almost an inch and a half across, half the size of your sister's, and the crack in it's surface is like a shell rather than an open wound. The opening reveals an iridescent, black sheen like oil on water, roiling and shifting impossibly – Pearls don't MOVE or SHIFT like that, they are perfectly stable, no matter how powerful the dragonette is.

You wonder if a True Dragon's Pearl looks like that at all.

[] Try some of your own magic now.
[] Let's not play with horrifying powers.
[] Try a Barrier Combat Sequence.
[] Flex your not-hand again.
[] Carefully withdraw your pearl before you try anything more and take a moment to calm yourself.

>>32977788
>[x] Flex your not-hand again.
>[x] Try some of your own magic now.
See what the pearl does when we do these.

>>32977788
>[] Try some of your own magic now.
I want to know.

>>32977788
>[] Carefully withdraw your pearl before you try anything more and take a moment to calm yourself.
>[] Let's not play with horrifying powers.

>>32977788
>Carefully withdraw your pearl before you try anything more and take a moment to calm yourself.

>Flex your not-hand again.

>>32977788
[] Carefully withdraw your pearl before you try anything more and take a moment to calm yourself.

after that:
[] Flex your not-hand again.

And only if everything stays "normal" (i.e. no pain, no weird feels)
[] Try some of your own magic

Nice and steady, people...

>>32977788
>[] Try some of your own magic now.

>>32977788
Yeah, backing >>32977803
gotta experiment some. That is, unless it's normally a bad idea to do magic with your pearl exposed.

>>32977788
>[x] Try some of your own magic now.
Let's hope nothing breaks

>>32977840
>half the city is now on the bottom of the ocean
>....Goto did it.

>>32977788
Oh cool, our left hand is now a force of nature. That's gonna come in handy!
>[x] Flex your not-hand again.
If it's okay:
>[x] Carefully try some of your own magic now.

>>32977788
>[] Flex your not-hand again.
>[] Try some of your own magic now.

>>32977859
What could go wrong? Blaming him is foolproof.

>>32977859

Heh, that would be a nice way to cover it up, yeah, but let's try avoiding compounding the damage in the first place

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[X] Try some of your own magic now.
[XX] Flex your not-hand again.
[XXX] Carefully withdraw your pearl before you try anything more and take a moment to calm yourself.

You let your Pearl sink back into your flesh where it belongs, the sensation feeling no different or unusual than it did the other times. Only the burning of your Pearl itself remains constant, but the exposure didn't change that either. You take some slow, deep breaths, centering yourself, but your heart is still fast, your mind is still filled with the shock and glory of the cracking of your Pearl. Still, you manage some level of self control, your Cleverness overriding the anxiety and shell-shocked sensations you've been feeling since you faced down Goto.

Still, the need to know is strong. So you decide to try a little more of that power that you seem to have gained from the experience. You flex your not-hand again, still both 'hands' at your sides, and again the clouds above darken further, rippling and shifting, turning a faintly greenish hue. Lightning ripples through the upper clouds and the raindrops swirl around you again, in the same direction before but in a wider area....the shifting of the clouds above you is also slightly circular, a sort of....vortex....with a greenish hue....to the clouds....

Very carefully you relax your 'hand' after deciding that creating a tornado or hurricane in a barrier the size of a small park might not be a very good idea or anything even resembling safe.

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>>32977989
Your unusual mind makes not using an ability, even one just learned, as easy as deciding not to. While control of its use might be an issue, the on-off switch is under your absolute control. Something a little less dangerous seems to be in order. With that in mind you draw your left hand back, and send a swath of winds rippling along the ground, a fairly traditional and simple blast. It seems to go as you expect, the winds crashing along the ground and churning the earth it slides along. Crating water, that seems to go normally, at first, but the water is darker, colder than you usually summon. Still, it obeys normally, and you have no issues sending it away.

Faintly, a soft, strange susurration echoes from behind you, off in the non-existent distance.

[] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
[] Another couple of practice tests with your own magic, especially water, might be okay.
[] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?
[] Maybe test a minor Barrier Combat technique, something simple.
[] ….starting to get scared now.

>>32977999
[] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.

>>32977999
>[x] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?
>[x] Maybe test a minor Barrier Combat technique, something simple.
Gathering info, please hold on...

>>32977999
>[] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
So far so good.

>>32977999
>[x] ….starting to get scared now.
>[x] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.

>>32977999
[] ….starting to get scared now.
[] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.

If nothing worrying to see, then let's keep at it prudently with:
[] Another couple of practice tests with your own magic, especially water, might be okay.

>>32977999
>[] ….starting to get scared now.

>>32977999
>[x] ....starting to get scared now.

>>32977999
>[X] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?
>[X] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.

>>32977999
>[x] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
>[x] ….starting to get scared now.

>>32977999
>[x] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
>[x] Another couple of practice tests with your own magic, especially water, might be okay.
>[x] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?
Better know these things in advance

>>32977999
[x] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
[x] ….starting to get scared now.
Something is coming for us, and it's probably the Lord of Destruction wanting to know the holdup in his resurrection.

>>32977999
>[] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
>[] ….starting to get scared now.

We should try to ask Void Dragon-chan about our powers.

>>32977999
>[x] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
>[x] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?

>>32978104
I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of the smile-protection crew. I wonder who'll end up as best girl...

>>32978234
they are all best girl anon, and we gonna fill them with dragon babby's equally

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[X] Fly up, and take a look around at the edges of your barrier.
[] Another couple of practice tests with your own magic, especially water, might be okay.
[] What would happen if you reached out with your not-hand?
[] Maybe test a minor Barrier Combat technique, something simple.
[X] ….starting to get scared now.

Having the power to call down a tornado isn't exactly impossible for a Void or Water dragonette in a barrier. It's entirely possible to do so...during the third and fourth tiers of FREAKIN' BARRIER COMBAT! Or maybe when they're A COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS OLD!

Calm, deep breaths, calm. It's okay, you have it under control at least. Heh, that would have scared Kurao Goto all right, and probably would have scared that bitch Kushinada. It's sure freaking you right the fuck out.

The soft susurration, the soft, rhythmic hissing is something weird, like it would sound if you made the water fall like rain in the barrier – the hiss of rain with no other noises to detract from it. Kicking off the ground you soar up in the winds and along the water, something you do so rarely because it makes you incredibly vulnerable to counter attack since most of your effort is in controlling your flight. But you're safe enough at the moment and no one is here to take advantage, so looking over Tokyo City from the hillsides is just fine. The edges of your Barrier are intact, and it's faint and soft....unusual, but you're in an unusual frame of mind right now. Probably nothing to be concerned about yet.

That in mind, you fly back a bit and decide to see what might happen if you reached out with your no-hand, rather than flexing it. So you reach out for the playground equipment, your right hand at your side. Your concentration dips and you fall a few feet in the air....but not before you get a reaction.

Or rather, a response.

>>32978269
Really, Kiku? I mean, she's good (they all are after all) but...

>>32978234
Kiki. That's a given.

Only question remaining is how many other we can convince her to include in our happy marriage.

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>>32978290
The lightning flicker in the clouds is not merely pronounced – a blue-white bolt of raw, mundane, storm driven lightning leaps from the sky, lashes out, striking the metal A-frame of the swing-set, the tallest object. The lightning bold heats the corner red hot and the momentary magnetization of the steel and iron makes the swings jump in place as the instantaneous thunderclap deafens you. The blue white flash leave retinal burns, and the purple-red flash is fixed before your eyes.

If you were only mildly scared before, this last trick is terrifying. No one, not Dragon, not Oni, no Kami that you know of can control the lightning. Not even Susano-Oh himself, the god of storms and wind can command the lightning. Many can create lightning bolts, or throw lightning with magic, but NO ONE commands it.

Suddenly Susano-Oh's enmity with Ame-No-Horobi-no-Mikado makes a horrifying sort of sense.

[] 'Kay, time to go home now!
[] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....
[] It was a fluke, it just happened to strike the tallest thing, right?
[] Try something less dangerous, like summoning the water and striking with it.
[] Call down a rainstorm, that's something in your normal magic range.

>>32978295

Nah, Kiki, sorry. She's our ordained mate. All the others are juicy bonuses.

>>32978301
Well, we'll just have to make sure to be as convincing as possible!
>>32978312
>[x] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....
Awww shit
>We Thordin now
AWWWW SHIT

>>32978312
>[X] 'Kay, time to go home now!
>[X] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

>>32978312
>[] 'Kay, time to go home now!
>[] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

>>32978312
>[x] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

>>32978312
>[] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....
Whoever asks for a real fight next is going to get...surprised..

>>32978312
>[x] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....
>[x] It was a fluke, it just happened to strike the tallest thing, right?
Not in order, but eh, C+P annoyances.

>>32978317
True, true.

>>32978312
>[x] 'Kay, time to go home now!

>>32978234

>>32978263
This guy almost gets it, however he has forgotten that there are limits on dragon babbys.
Lucky we're not actually a dragon then, isn't it?

>>32978312
[] 'Kay, time to go home now!

STOP! THIS! RIGHT! NOW!

of course:
[] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

let's see what we did.

>>32978312
>[x] 'Kay, time to go home now!
Time to cuddle with our girls and calm down

>>32978350
oh I get it perfectly anon, this just means we're gonna get them ALL knocked up

>>32978312
>[x] 'Kay, time to go home now!
>[x] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....
Yeah, let's not push our luck or destroy even more of the environment.

>>32978365
But what if
hear me out here anon
okay
what if some of them knock each-other up before we get to them?

>>32978312
>[] 'Kay, time to go home now!

>>32978427
thats why we gotta use our newfound powers to make sure we knock em up before others get a chance to

>>32978427

I, personally, am okay with this, to be honest. We can be the doting aunt to a couple of Human/Oni/Dragon hybrids.

>>32978312
>[x] 'Kay, time to go home now!
>[x] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

>>32978474
Yeah, I would be okay with it too. A big happy family either way, after all!

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[XXXX] 'Kay, time to go home now!
[X] Wait, what was that you saw...not in your barrier, but through it, across Tokyo....

Fear isn't something you feel, typically speaking. You're mental and physical makeup just isn't really wired that way. But this shit....this shit is beyond the pale. There's a weird metallic taste in your mouth, the ozone in the air is making you dizzy, and your heart is racing. Your hand is even shaking a little. Getting run through by Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi? No problem. Facing down a true Oni, servant of the gods, while wounded? Cakewalk. Being tied down and helpless and having to trust your aunt's pawn? Easy.

Calling lightning from the heavens? Fuck that shit.

You lift your hands to bring down your barrier when it catches your eye again. Though still burned by the lightning bolt, you peer at your Barrier....no past your barrier, into Tokyo, grey and shimmering through the color-sapping spirit-wall. No, there it is. Movement. Not in Tokyo, beyond Tokyo. The bay.

>>32978427
Seeing as how the ones that applies to are Yui and Akari, I have to say I'm okay with it.

>>32978427
I would be happy in that case, we just have to wait our turn.

>>32978553
Well, SO FAR it's those two. Who knows what might happen later though. And are they even, uh, compatible, so to speak? Can they procreate? I dunno if their compatibility has been mentioned.

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>>32978552
The oceans are rising and falling. Waves. You can see the dark, blue-green waves rising and falling. The ocean, heaving, moving, tsunamis of proportions the mind must boggle at because to see them from this distance....the waves would have to be miles high. And moving. In a barrier. OUTSIDE your barrier. Where it isn't possible to see anything moving or even in color. Or hear it, because you can hear the crashing of those waves as they start rolling in towards Tokyo.

You shatter the Barrier, your eyes shut tight, falling the forty feet to the ground and landing lightly in a crouch, your arm spread wide, your head down. Impossible, Utterly, totally impossible. You could not have seen that, nothing like that could possibly happen. It goes against everything you know is real and true according to the rules set down by the Kami themselves. It's shock, shock from having your Pearl cracked.

[] Go home. Quickly, quietly., now
[] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.
[] Take a bus home. You're in no condition, obviously.
[] Go find a tree, or a stream, and take a nap.
[] Call for help.

>>32978569
>[x] Take a bus home. You're in no condition, obviously.
Hope we can pay the fare!

>>32978569
>[x] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.

Call for help? Like that worked so well the last time we did it.

>>32978569
>[] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.
Even if we get jumped, we can just throw fucking lightning at them.

>>32978569
>[x] Go home. Quickly, quietly., now
Tell me didn't awaken Godzilla or something.

>>32978569
>[] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.
Maintain the swagger, protect the smiles.

>>32978569

Suggestion: Use Water Eyes to try and confirm what we just saw. Not to see the future, just to confirm if it's really there now.

>>32978569
>[X] Go home. Quickly, quietly., now
No time to lose, when our darlings could still be attacked while Akari is out.

>>32978569
>[x] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.
That's some spooky shit

>>32978569
>[x] Take a bus home. You're in no condition, obviously.
Because this sounds most fun to be honest. Let's see what the status of public transit is in this setting!

>>32978427
there also the possibility some of them don't want to have kids.

>>32978569
>[X] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.
>>32978646
As if

>>32978646
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Also man y'all boring. Who wants to walk when you can bus!?

>>32978646
They'll want to have our children. We'll make sure of it.

>>32978569
>[x] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.

>>32978715
Anon, mere loving is more than enough if some of them don't want to commit to children, immediately at least.

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[X] Go home. Quickly, quietly, now
[X] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.

Your first impulse is to run. Move as quickly and as quietly as you can. Get to the safehouse as fast as possible. Your loved ones are there, and that....that's fear talking. Is that what it's like, to be afraid for your life? To fear that the world is coming to and end?

You open your eyes and slowly stand up. It's a soft, cool rain. The darkness is safe and quiet in the non-quiet way that the human world is supposed to be, a loud sort of silence. You don't hear those distant waves. The lights of Tokyo blaze faintly through the rain and clouds, a glorious tribute to humanity. The distant ocean is invisible, the clouds concealing it entirely.

You turn and start walking, a controlled, calm, steady stride. Whatever you thought you saw, you can't worry about. It won't matter, not here. In the spirit world, it might, but at this time, in this world, it doesn't. You need to be home, to see your family safe and your people protected. You don't give into fear. Fear is the – no, that was Dune, fuck that. You're fuckin' Ryuu Ryukusa and you'll cope with this just like you cope with everything else, head held high and knowing you're the best that there is at what you do. No, that was Wolverine, fuck.

>>32978569
>[] Walk slowly, calmly. Take deep breaths. You can't scare your darlings like this.

seconding >>32978600

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>>32978764
As you walk down the silent streets, there are few people out and about, mostly hurrying home with umbrellas or hunched shoulders. There are even fewer cars, the rain and the lateness of the evening having driven the humans into their homes for the night. So you are immediately suspicious of the car that is slowly creeping up the road behind.

The problem with Barrier Combat taking no time is that Barrier Combat takes no time. It makes rescues easier, and makes escaping pursuit slightly harder if you have to stay close to a location. As a result, you're only a few miles from the merrily burning remnants of the house that you made your first retreat to. While it's not unusual for the first safehouse location to be compromised, blowing it up isn't typical. You also destroyed two vehicles, and spotted others, so it wouldn't be impossible for them to have found you by canvassing if they had enough help.

Still, you're walking through a residential district at night, so it can't be too unusual.

[] Ignore them for the moment.
[] Turn and give them a good, hard look.
[] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
[] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.
[] Fuck it – I'm outta here.

>>32978789
>[X] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
>[X] Fuck it – I'm outta here.

>>32978764
Ryu Ryukuza: So awesome the only thing able to scare her is how awesome she is

>>32978789
[] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
Safe houses aren't sage if were followed back

>>32978789
>[X] Turn and give them a good, hard look.
>[X] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.
>[X] Fuck it – I'm outta here.

>>32978789
>Look at them discretly using the Water Eyes

Data, then action

>>32978789
>[x] Turn and give them a good, hard look.
>[x] It's raining – a sudden downpour right here and you can vanish.

Death glare followed by RAIN VANISH. Build some mystique.

>>32978789
[] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.

If they somehow manage to follow:
[] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.

>>32978789
>[x] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
Safety first.

>>32978789
>[x] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
Can we Water eyes them?

>>32978789
>[x] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.

>>32978789
>[x] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.
>[x] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.
>[x] Fuck it – I'm outta here.
Why not be thorough?

>>32978789
>[] Use your party trick and kill the car's engine.

>>32978789
>[x] It's raining – a sudden down pour right here and you can vanish.

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[X] Right, you fuckers need to TAKE A HINT, and BACK THE FUCK OFF.

You close your eyes and open them again, the Water Eyes letting you see more than surfaces and appearances. You stop, and turn you gaze on the car fallowing you. The windows, while tinted, aren't tinted enough to prevent you from seeing what you need to see.

First of all, you still aren't seeing that horrifying tsunami hallucination, so that's all good. There are two people in the front seat, one a younger man, cheerful and humble, his spirit clean and warm. His companion is less wholesome, a man of duty and deeds, sanctified in his belief that what he does, he does for the Right Reason and to Fight the Good Fight. Despite his belief his soul is stained and only his hubris keeps him from seeing that. They both have a goodly amount of Chi – they have talent and maybe enough strength to use a little of it.

The man in the back seat is far more dangerous. This is a man who does his duty as it is given to him, at whatever price must be paid. This is a man to whom the Word is Law, and the Law is His. His spiritual power is enough that he is clearly a practitioner of some art, some magic, even if he calls it Miracles and Faith. A man of a god, undoubtedly, but not a god-fearing man. Because god is on his side, of course.

These are not the people whom were expecting, but they're definitely interested in you.

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>>32979028
Nevertheless, you are sooo not in the mood right now. You gazer at them, and they all seem startled, all seem to see your true nature. Well, that's peachy. You lift your fingers and snap them, and the car dies, the electrical system overwhelmed and the carburetor flooded. You give the two dangerous men a good hard look, and then intensify the rain momentarily. The sudden downpour is thick and sheets of rain obscure you from them....and you GO, leaping to the rooftops and then across them, forty, fifty, sixty foot leaps that take you out of their rage and into the quieter, darker neighborhoods.

They, and anyone else is long lost by the time you're done, and you reach the safehouse unfollowed and unafraid after that jolt of anger.

[] Slip into the house quietly, don't disturb them.
[] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.
[] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
[] Skip the safehouse, go to Jinyuu-onee-sama's.
[] Call first, check to see that they're there.

>>32979041
>[x] Call first, check to see that they're there.
>[x] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
>[x] Slip into the house quietly, don't disturb them.

>>32979041
>[X] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
>[X] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.

>>32979041
>[] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
>[] Call first, check to see that they're there.

>>32979041
[] Check the perimeter thoroughly.

One can never be too prudent. Afterwards:
[] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.

>>32979041
>[x] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
>[x] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.
Don't want to surprise them.

>>32979041
[x] Call first, check to see that they're there.
[x] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
Make sure we're not compromised first, then enter.

>>32979041
>[x] Call first, check to see that they're there.
>[x] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
>[x] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.

>>32979041
[x] Call first, check to see that they're there.
[x] Check the perimeter thoroughly.

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[X] Announce yourself quietly, and see what's going on.
[XXX] Check the perimeter thoroughly.
[X] Call first, check to see that they're there.

You pause, looking at the house at the edge of the city, not to unusual, as there are a number of such places here, at the edges of the city and the forest, expensive, ~private~ places. How private? Well, that being so debatable, you walk the perimeter, checking the secret entrances, the not secret entrances, and noting that the house appears uninhabited, which is as it should be even if they were having a massive party inside. It doesn't take long at all, and you find yourself reassured, relaxed, and feeling much better afterwards. The burning of your Pearl hasn't subsided, and you don't think it will subside until....well, you have no idea, you're no mystic scholar.

You flick open your cellphone – got you love being a Water dragonette, your cellphone never gets wet – and call Akari's cell. That otterbox phone cover was the best freakin' gift ever. You're not surprised when it is Yui who answers, and doesn't say anything at all. “You know, Yui-niji-chan, you're the only person who can sound suspicious when you haven't said anything.”

“Aniki!” The relief in her voice is mixed with a heavy dose of elation. “Are you okay, are you hurt?”

“Well, no, but I'm supposed to ask that first, you know.”

“Sorry, aniki! Akari's okay, Kiku-sensei is giving her tea and ice chips. Oujo-sama is fine, she's sitting in front of the fire with tea.”

“And you, Yui-niji-chan, how are you?”

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>>32979390
“I am all right, aniki....” There's a hesitance, and you are quite sure that it's because of her uncle.

“That's good. We can discuss it later. He's gone for now, and you needn't worry about any more surprise visits. I'll be coming in shortly, I have one more thing to take care of.”

“Hai aniki!”

You hang up and check the perimeter one last time, this time making a special stop at a small, hard to see shrine outside the walls. You take out several coins, and flick them into several of the little house-like shrines, seven coins for Seven Sisters, and then leap over the wall and land on the other side, making your way to the house. The place is secure, looks uninhabited, and you makes your way inside through one of the secret entrances, shedding the remnants of the rain as you do.

They're in the living room, all of them, you can hear their soft voices: Yui speaking to Kiki, Miko-Kiku talking to Akari, Akari replying in a hoarse voice.

“Sorry it took me so long. There were some issues,” you announce quietly as you walk in through the kitchen.

[] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
[] Ask if anyone needs more tea.
[] Go see to Kiki.
[] Go see to Akari.
[] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.

>>32979406
[] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.

We're all alive and well! This calls for celebration!

>>32979406
>[] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.
Always.

>>32979406
>[x] Ask if anyone needs more tea.
>[x] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.

>>32979406
>[x] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
>[x] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.

>>32979406
>[x] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.
Not getting away from us

>>32979406
>[X] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
>[X] Go see to Akari.

>>32979406
>[x] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
I'm expecting atleast one of them to somehow notice something happened to us.

>>32979406
>[X] Ask if anyone needs more tea.
>[X] Go see to Akari.
Have to make sure.

>>32979406
[x] Ask if anyone needs more tea.
[x] Go see to Akari.

>>32979406
>[x] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
>[x] Go see to Akari.
She nearly died for us, she deserves being the first we go to.

>>32979406
>[x] Go see to Akari.
First things first.

>>32979406
>[] Go see to Akari.
>[] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.
>[] Ask if anyone needs more tea.
>[] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.

In that order

>>32979406
>[] Go see to Akari.
>[] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.

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[X] Grab some sake from the fridge and join them.
[X] Go see to Akari.
[X] Hug Kiki from behind the couch.

You grab a bottle of sake from the fridge – normally you drink it hot, but this time you think it would be bad to pour hot sake along your already burning Pearl – and blow a kiss to Yui who blinks and then blushes. Her reaction causes Kiki to start to rise, but you lean over the back of the couch and give her a quick squeeze, careful not to press the cold bottle against her. She gasps softly and shudders in your arm.. “Be right back, gotta make sure Akari's not broken.” Your pearl pulses and the agonizing sensation just about makes you drop the sake, even as you involuntarily give Kiki another squeeze.

She doesn't seem to be in pain – she shudders again and murmurs almost sleepily, in a breathy, soft voice, “...hai, Ryukusa-san....” Yui blinks, her eyes wide and alert; you couldn't steel your expression enough to hide the pain. Despite that she settles next to Kiki on the couch as you slip past them and head to the kotatsu in the middle of the room where Akari and Miko-Kiku are.

Akari looks like she's been through hell – she's wearing a simple black robe, her face bruised, her eyes not merely bloodshot but almost bloodied with petechial hemorrhaging. She doesn't have any bandages – if she had, she's have to be under medical supervision by an expert for sure – but she has most certainly been beat to crap. Despite this she smiles as she looks at you, while Kiku sits across from her, gazing at her with glowing golden eyes. A bowl of crushed ice and a tea set lay on the kotatsu top.

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>>32979846
“Sorry, aniki; I made a mistake.” Her voice is rough, like her throat has been torn.

“This one is more stupid than you are, Ryukusa-san. She got herself trapped in an airless void and nearly suffocated to death.” Miko-Kiku's cute voice does not make for stern lecturing, but her irritability seems to make up for it.

That's a new one. “What do you mean, an airless void?”

Yui walks up and kneels next to Akari and places her hands on her lover's shoulders. “Goto-san removed all the air from around her after it became obvious he couldn't beat her into submission. It wasn't a Barrier trick – it's something he can do with air, like making thunder or lightning.” That's a sobering thought.

[] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
[] Hugs tiem.
[] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
[] Tell Yui to take care of her, and let Kiku know you'll want to talk to her later.
[] Ask her if she regrets her decision to come with you.

>>32979870
>[] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.

>>32979846
>pearl pulses and the agonizing sensation just about makes you drop the sake
Looks like praying resulted in us not being able to be near Kiki without incredible pain shooting through our Pearl.
Praying to the Lord of Destruction sure has its consequences, doesn't it?

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
She protected the girls and didn't die, that's good, but just to be sure
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.

>>32979870
[] Hugs tiem.
[] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
FUCKING PRAISE HER FOR KEEPING THAT MONSTER AT BAY!!!
Toast her!
[] Tell Yui to take care of her, and let Kiku know you'll want to talk to her later.

>>32979870
>[] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[] Hugs tiem.
>[] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Hugs tiem.
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
>[x] Tell Yui to take care of her, and let Kiku know you'll want to talk to her later.

Removing air, huh. That would be a problem if we couldn't make water to breathe in.

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Hugs tiem.
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Hugs tiem.
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
Give that girl the full package,

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Congratulate her smile-protecting skills WRT Yui.

>>32979870
>[] Hugs tiem.
>[] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
>[] Tell Yui to take care of her, and let Kiku know you'll want to talk to her later.

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Hugs tiem.
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.

>>32979870
>[x] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
>[x] Hugs tiem.
>[x] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
>[x] Congratulate her smile-protecting skills WRT Yui.
Yup.

>>32979870
Akari best minion.

>>32980041
That's not fair. We only have two.

>>32980052

We'll need more, obviously.

>>32980052
Yui will have a chance to be best minion too, don't worry anon.

>>32980066
We're a goddess. We need mikos and dark priestesses.

>>32980073
They're all best minion

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[X] Kiss her forehead. She did exactly as she should.
[x] Hugs tiem.
[X] Gently but firmly inform her she is not allowed to die in your service.
[x] Tell Yui to take care of her, and let Kiku know you'll want to talk to her later.

You sit up and lean over and instinctively Akari turns her head to the side slightly as well as down....and then blinks, the mask that would normally require her to turn her head to receive the kiss gone now. You look into her eyes and set the sake down on the kotatsu, smoothing her damp hair away from her face and her horns, before laying a soft kiss upon her forehead. She closes her eyes and shivers slightly, her cheeks blooming with heat. “You did just right, niji.” Yui smiles and straightens, letting you hug her sweetheart.

Akari murmurs softly, “I couldn't beat him, though, aniki....”

“He was a servant of a the Kami, Akari-niji-chan How many of those have you fought before?” She shudders and murmurs softly, “None.” “Then you can't really say it was a loss, you lived.” You let go of her and grab her by the horn and she squeaks. “Speaking of which, no dying on the clock. If Yui isn't allowed, then you sure as Heaven aren't.”

Yui giggles, but Miko-Kiku seems strangely nonplussed.

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>>32980160
Popping the lid of the sake with your thumb you poor a goodly amount into her bowl of ice chips. “Yui, make sure she drinks all of that. Every drop.” Yui blinks and then looks at Akari who shrugs mildly, and sighs, knowing it's one of the only ways she's going to heal at all, alogn with Miko-Kiku's help.

“Baka dragon, that'll ruin her throat!”

You wave the bottle at Miko-Kiku. “Believe me, this will help her more than you think. Take care of my best friend Yui, and for Kami's sake, let her sleep tonight.” Miko-Kiku's hair explodes and Akari's cheeks redden. “To the second most invincible warrior, kompai!” You drain half the bottle of sake, and close your eyes, feeling the burning of your Pearl subside just a bit. You lower your head, letting out the rush of breath, and look at Kiku, winking at her as you stand up.

[] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
[] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.
[] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
[] Let Miko-Kiku know you want to speak with her later.
[] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

>>32980160
Ooh, ooh, we should also give her the mask shards we picked up.

Maybe they can be recreated into something new? Signify a blank slate, an end to her being a pawn for Oba.

>>32980205
>[X] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[X] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
>[X] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

We just take both along.

>>32980205
>[] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

>>32980205
[] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.


then

>[] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
>[] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.

>>32980205
] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

Loli-grabbing is a pastime of us, it seems. Bring her to her sister, and let's have a chat.

>>32980205
>[x] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[x] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.
>[x] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
How's our last girl doing

>>32980205
>[x] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
>[x] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.
>[x] Let Miko-Kiku know you want to speak with her later.
>[x] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

>>32980205
>[] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
>[] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.
>[] Let Miko-Kiku know you want to speak with her later.

>>32980205

[] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
[] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.

>>32980205
>[x] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[x] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.

>>32980205
[x] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
[x] Take the bottle and go sit on the couch with Kiki.
[x] Let Miko-Kiku know you want to speak with her later.

>>32980205
>[x] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[x] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.
This update was appropriately hnnnngh, I approve.

>>32980205
>[] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
>[] Let Miko-Kiku know you want to speak with her later.
then
>[] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.

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[X] Go see how badly traumatized your principle is.
[X] Take Miko-Kiku aside and see how bad Akari really is.
[X] Grab Miko-Kiku and let Yui and Akari have some personal time, though not really alone time given everyone is in the living room.

“Right, that's that, making more tea for my oujo-sama.” You walk around the table and sweep Miko-Kiku into your arm, and make her squeal by pressing the cold bottle to her cheek. “You two play nice, I'm taking my loli and leaving.”

The nicest thing that Kiku screams at you is somewhere around the equivalent of shitfaced asslicker, you think, because her dialect gets really messed up when she's trying to scream and escape at the same time. Even Kiki giggles as you march the dragonette into the kitchen and start making more tea. You set her gently in a chair and place the bottle on the counter after taking another deep drink of it, and she stops screaming almost immediately, though she'd definitely breathing hard.

“How bad.” Your words are soft, almost silent as you throw a dragon ball of oolong tea into the pot, making the strongest tea you possible can.

“Her eyes are actually fine, they just look terrible. Her throat is raw, and her lungs might be injured, but that bastard didn't try to kill her – at least, not with his power. I've never seen anyone take so much punishment, Ryukusa-san, she should be half dead. And I have trained in Clan Ryo, so I know what I am talking about when I say that. Her treasure couldn't have protected her, not from that.”

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>>32980517
>“You two play nice, I'm taking my loli and leaving.”

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>>32980517

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>>32980517
It isn't difficult to put two and two together; she's spent almost her entire life around you, and she built a shrine dedicated to you,. Prayed to you. Maybe for your healing, but maybe for the strength to help you. It would be an extremely unlikely coincidence for the two to be unrelated, even to a duller mind then yours. “Will she be all right?”

“She should heal in a few days, and she can't get sick, so there is that. But Ryukusa-san....that monster should have had her broken into pieces. He destroyed half the district with her body.” Kiku's huge golden eyes are glaring at you. You continue to make the tea, and pour it into the cups before you set up the tray, stalling for a few precious seconds.

[] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.
[] Tell her you'll explain later, right now Kiki needs seeing to.
[] Akari is tough, of course she'd survive that, she's you're niji. Don't be silly, and don't worry Yui.
[] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?
[] There's more than anyone can explain starting to happen, Miko-Kiku.

>>32980113
If we need dark priestesses we should go see that other miko sometime.

>>32980517
>“You two play nice, I'm taking my loli and leaving.”
Oh Ryuu!

>>32980561
[] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.

She's on our side, dammit. And she's the only one (present) with at least an inkling of what on earth is happening.

>>32980561
>[x] Akari is tough, of course she'd survive that, she's you're niji. Don't be silly, and don't worry Yui.
>[X] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?

>[x] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.

>>32980561
>[x] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.
No reason to hide it, she's on our side after all. But...
>[x]Cuddle Kiku as a pretense, so you can whisper it to her. No reason to worry anyone who might overhear!

>>32980561
>[x] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?
>[x] Tell her you'll explain later, right now Kiki needs seeing to.

>>32980561
>[X] Akari is tough, of course she'd survive that, she's you're niji. Don't be silly, and don't worry Yui.
>[X] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.

>>32980603
I vote for this. This is perfect.

>>32980561
>[] Akari is tough, of course she'd survive that, she's you're niji. Don't be silly, and don't worry Yui.
>[] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.

>>32980603
Yes

>>32980561
>[x] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.
I'll also back >>32980603 for some skinship.
Then:
>[x] Ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?

>>32980603

Good thinking! Seconded!

>>32980603
Cuddling is a-go. Sadly kitchen chairs aren't the best for cuddling, but at least we can hug her from behind fairly easily.

>>32980561
>[] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.
>[] Tell her you'll explain later, right now Kiki needs seeing to.
>Don't worry Yui

>>32980562
Well of course. I'm sure we can give her a taste for something else than dragons' Pearls

>>32980603
Oh, Loli kuddling I like.
>[x] Seconded

>>32980561
>>32980603 and
>[x] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?

>>32980561
>[x] Tell her you'll explain later, right now Kiki needs seeing to.
>[x] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?
All lolis are ours

>>32980561
>[] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.

Theory: Cuddling is always the best option, no exceptions.
Proof: My heart.
QED

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>>32980683

All your lolis are belong to us!

>>32980729
Sometimes people have uncuddly reactions to cuddling. Those people shouldn't be cuddled.

>>32980836
Indeed not. They should be purged.

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>>32980836
I apologise for bringing WH40K in this, but I have no more appropriate raction image to this outrage!

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[X] Tell Miko-Kiku your suspicion.
[X] Akari is tough, of course she'd survive that, she's you're niji. Don't be silly, and don't worry Yui.
[x] Deflect, ask about the shards, can we remake them into something else?

“Can you use the jade we collected to make something for Akari? Perhaps something for Yui-niji-chan to enchant.” You don't think the question will distract her at all, but it's worth a try, and it gives you time to think.

She considers, and pulls her shards from ~Nowhere~ and lays them gently on the table. You check the tea, and do the same. It's less than half the original, but you're surprised you found as much of it as you did. “Yes, I believe so. But nee-chan would be better at the remaking of it – it is jade, but only ordinary jade now. She could make it into whatever she wants.” Her golden eyes find yours. “Er Yin Long would be able to enchant it. And you need her anyways, don't you....”

with a sigh you walk around her chair and lean over it, your arm sliding under hers and gently trapping her against the chair as you brush your cheek against hers. She starts squirming immediately, but not trying to escape, really. She settles after a moment of your horns rubbing together – which is really a nice feeling....a REALLY nice feeling, actually....OH, RIGHT. “I think....I believe that being around me has made Akari more....in tune with her element. I think she's gaining power because she is praying to Ame-no-Horobi-no-Mikado. To me, indirectly. In fact....” You hesitate, but you need her help, and sadly, as much as you trust Jinyuu-onee-sama, she's showing increasing reluctance and ignorance where your powers and growth are concerned.

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“I think that anyone praying to me is going to find that it works pretty well. Better than it should. I would bet Yui-niji-chan is tougher and harder to hurt than she used to be, or her powers are more destructive.” You nuzzle her neck, and give it a soft, light nip, and she gasps, arching her back. “Mine certainly are.”

“....Ryu...ryukusa-tan....you have....”

You lick the outer edge of her pointed ear lightly. “Hmmn....”

“You have to...have to let me go....”

“Why is that?”

“....because I'm....ah....about...about to set....fa...fire....fire to the ch-ch-chair....”

You pull back, blinking, your pearl throbbing in your chest, and your head spinning. There is smoke rising from where Miko-Kiku is sitting, slender curls, and her face is bright read. Her horns are shimmering and she is swallowing rapidly, her nipples diamond hard points under the yukata you dressed her in. She takes several slow, deep breaths, and controls her power, and you drain the rest of the sake, and turn off the tea-warmer.

Your hand is shaking and your hear tis racing, and not even slightly out of fear.

[] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!
[] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
[] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.
[] Warn Kiku to keep quiet, check the others, cool your jets, babe..
[] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.

>>32980941
>[x] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
>[x] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.
Enough Loli teasing for now. Time to look at the first mother of our children.

>>32980941
Jesus hnnngh and lewd!
>[x] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
>[x] Ask her thoughts on your growing powers.

>>32980941
>[x] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!
>[x] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.
Man that was really lewd

>>32980941
[] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.

>>32980941
[x] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!
[x] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
[x] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.

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>>32980941
At this rate, we'll get everyone else pregnant before Kiki!

[] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.
[] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!

>>32980941
>[x] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!
>[x] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.

>>32980941
>[] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.
Cute, lewd, glorious.

>>32980941
>[x] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.
>[x] Ask her about the pain you felt around Kiki earlier.
We really want to clear that pain up!

>>32980941
>[] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
>[] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.
>[] Right, discussion over, ea for oujo-sama!

>>32980941
>[x] Call her lewd.
It's only fair pay-back after all her colorful language!
>[x] Ask about your pearl.

>>32980941
...I'm appreciating the elemental aspects as relating to arousal more and more. Do...do any of the other cuties have those? Or even Ryukusa herself? Maybe I just forgot about it.

>>32981180
>Or even Ryukusa herself?
She drenches her panties when it's go time. And is a squirter.

I'm just bullshitting, by the way, I've got no clue.

>>32981202
Sounds plausible though. I wouldn't mind.

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>>32981251
>Ryuukusa's_first_time.png

>>32980941
Lewd as fuck

I am so glad that the loli was added to the collection.

>>32981180
>Kiki getting an hard wood

People, we are being so distracted by the sheer adorable lewdness of her power to recognize the real problem here:
How are we ever gonna make love to her if she burns the house down just by getting horny? What happens if she orgasms? Wonder if she has to masturbate in the bath for that reason.

>>32981317

Instant sauna.

>>32981317

We're a water dragon, so , fire isn't much of a problem.

>what if she burns the house down just by getting horny?

Barrier "fight", of course.

>>32981317
Just fuck her in a water sphere. Problem solved.

>>32981317
>How is the WATER HALF-DRAGON who is also a reincarnation of a GOD WITH POWER OVER THE OCEAN going to deal with FIRE?
Think.

How different would this quest be if Ryukuza had a different element? I can't imagine how this quest would go without water eyes.

>>32981367
Yes, yes, but while we can fuck her in a water-ball or whatever, how do we do it on the bed (or on the futon, as it were)? I mean, quenching her fire doesn't seem very conducive to a good sexual experience.

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[X] Right, discussion over, tea for oujo-sama!
[X] Take a moment, deep breaths. You're better than this.
[X] Get close to Kiki-hime, you need that pain to clear your fuckin' head.
[] Warn Kiku to keep quiet, check the others, cool your jets, babe.
[X] Stifle the smoke with a touch of wind, take the tea out.
[X] Questions, all these questions are burning....

[X] You know you hat a hot loli on your hands, but goddamn. RIGHT, tea!

You take a deep breath, and gesture, gathering the smoke – even the scent of it, you can find it easily enough – and throw it out the stove vent in a soft rush. You look at Miko-Kiku, and she at you, her eyes heavy lidded; she nods, slowly, understanding without your asking that she needs to think on how your power is starting to influence there on a more personal level than it had been before. She's well over 280 years old, there was no way she should have lost control like that. “I have....other questions....” She nods, and then motions you out, shaking her head, unable to deal with anything at the moment except her own boiling blood. Literally boiling, you can feel her heart racing.

Your Pearl is hot and pulsing under your breastbone, and you manage to calm yourself enough to grab the tea service and take it out to the side table next to the couch. You settle next to your oujo-sama, and take a bowl of tea as she looks at you shyly. Akari and Yui are lying under the kotatsu, just their heads and shoulders showing. There isn't a bet that could be made that you'd say they weren't holding hands. Akari is drowsing, and it look like Yui made her drink the bowl of iced sake.

>>32981406
Well, we'd have a different personality to match the element, for starter

>>32981407
Who says we quench it? At the height of her power, Ryuukuza can tank it easy. She won't even feel it.

>>32981407
Make her so wet she extinguishes herself. Easy.

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>>32981431
“They're terribly cute, aren't they?” you murmurs softly. You notice the tremor in her hand as she takes the shallow cup from you. Her fingers brush yours, and your Pearl ignites in your chest....but there isn't any pain this time, which is totally not what you were expecting. She gasps and lays her hand across her breasts, her own Pearl responding to yours. The cup falls from her hand and you catch it without thinking, your head filled with rushing wind and crashing waves, You slowly take a sip of the strong black dragon tea, and then, rather than let her take the cup again, you lower it to her lips, and gently tilt it, letting her sip from the cup slowly. Her bright, sky blue eyes are fixed on your sapphire blue ones.

Her hand comes up to meet yours, the other still resting on her chest....her skin touches yours and it is like being hit a sledgehammer, your pearl cracking in your chest, releasing a flood of lava....no, not lava. Water so hot, so boiling it may as well have come from lava....or....from deeper in the ocean. “The vents,” you hiss softly, hardly aware you spoke, your breaths almost non-existent. Kiki's eyes are huge and bright. It fills your chest, boiling your blood, the rushing force of it in your veins. Pain, but no longer a bad pain. A good pain. A pain that poisons and purifies all at once.

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>>32981520
You drop the cup, but the tea evaporates before it even falls from the cup. Kiki grips your hand and you grip back, squeezing tight as the boiling water fills your lungs, your chest, your body fever hot and your skin flushed. She doesn't complain, that soft, fearful, ignorant princess; she holds your hand tightly, letting you squeeze as hard as you need to, holding you steady as your Pearl floods you with the Black Water from the oceanic depths.

Seeing the pain in your eyes, your pale face, Kiku leans close....and her lips meet yours. The pain bubbles up, but before it reaches her, before her lungs are filled with scalding water, rising water becomes cool, salty, gentle....she kisses you and drinks of the tear-tasting waters that fill you, come from your pearl. And rather than drowning, she takes it, swallows it, and the oceanic tides subside, leaving you kissing, softly, your princess.

Your Pearl is cool and calm in your chest, softly pulsing in time to your shared heartbeat, your eyes locked together as they open once more. You slowly let go of her hand, and touch her face, as she looks down, shyly, almost....no, not ashamed. Regretful.

“I should have told you....”

….she didn't hate you at all. She never hated you.

Holy shit.

>To Be Continued.

>>32981544
Oh my.

>>32981520
This is some intense shit.
>>32981544
>It's ogre
NOOOOOOO

>>32981544

Kiki you mean. But okay, we got the point!

>>32981544
Yes, this is good

>>32981544
So apparantly Kiki is capable of calming whatever the crack in our pearl is doing to us?

>>32981544
Hnnngh!
My heart can't take much more of this!

>>32981544
Why is everyone so perfect?

BEST GIRL RANKINGS
Kiku=Kiki=Akari=Yui
Sis doesn't count.

>>32981628
This anon gets it.
>>32981544
More when?
Write-up when?

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>>32981601
I blame XS's writing skills

>>32981544
THANKS FOR THIS THREAD!!!!

So, a couple of quick answers.

If Ryukusa had been of a differing element, the girls would have been different elements as well, and while most of the situations would have been similar, the attitudes of the people she dealt with wpould have been different, reflecting their own elemental differences. Kushinada would have been the same, however, and just as dangerous.

Ryukusa's power would also have been much different, as would her choices (you would have had only 4 for any other element, and only 3 if you had been stone). Each element has it's own sight based powers, but they are significantly different. Ryukusa's cleverness is very much an asset to this quest, it is true, but the others bring their own benefits.

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>>32981407
>quenching her fire

>>32981544
Thanks for writing!

>>32981628
damn right

Next, a quick note - you didn't get to talk to Miko-Kiku, even though it was write-in, because you overwhelmed the poor girl, you naughty dragonette. There comes a point where you can't follow up because, well, they can't cope.

Finally, you'll have to see what happened to your pearl later.


I'll answer a few of your other questions now.

>>32981628
Even Ryukusa manages to be adorable and awesome, and she's played by /tg/ for gods sake.

>>32981699
>Next, a quick note - you didn't get to talk to Miko-Kiku, even though it was write-in, because you overwhelmed the poor girl, you naughty dragonette. There comes a point where you can't follow up because, well, they can't cope.
So the cuddling backfired, for a certain value of backfiring? Which is the shit value of backfiring, because there's no way I'd vote differently even in hindsight.

You are all very welcome.

>>32981601
Practice?

>>32981653
I should be done tonight.

>>32981667
Maybe by the end of season 3 Rikka will actually kiss Yuta on the lips!

>>32981699

Eh, practical question, since we managed to ship Akari and Yui together, a couple of us wondered if a half-dragon could get a kid with a half-oni somewere at the beginning of the thread...

>>32981586
Woods takes from Water and is nourished by it.

>>32981699
Out of Yui, Kiki, Kiku, Akari and Ryukusa, would any of them be against a Ryukusa-centric orgy? Because my money is on none of them.

>>32981722
Less "backfired" than "utterly overwhelming and partially overloaded elemental nature against utterly helpless victim." Miko-Kiku had no defenses against Ryukusa set up....but you can be sure she'll fix that quickly.

We've molested the fuck outta Kiku, and Kiki's getting makeouts and heartboners, so we need to molest Akari and Yui more. At the same time.

>>32981765
Awww, but she's cuter when she's not prepared!

>>32981433
Ryukuza's personality is already closer to fire than water anyway.

>>32981739
It's considered pretty fucking remarkable for us to be able to knock up another dragonette, even of a compatible element, so... Probably not. Especially since Yui doesn't have a Pearl. But, hey, Kiku proves they can live for centuries at the very least, so no babies isn't that big of an issue.

>>32981749
Anon pls, this is a smile-protecting quest, not an orgy quest.

>>32981746

So, she we just impregnated her....

>>32981782
She's got a personality like a wave crashing ashore, a waterfall, a whitewater flood, instead of like a gentle river, the rising tide, the ocean current. It's still water, just not the normal sort. It's still a fair distance from fire.

>>32981806
Nah. We still need to touch pearls, and supposedly actually fucking dramatically increases the chance of that making a baby. But we did probably give her a whole bunch of Chi, which we were likely overflowing with. She's our safety release valve, and gets power and sustenance from serving as such.

>>32981699
>you didn't get to talk to Miko-Kiku, even though it was write-in, because you overwhelmed the poor girl, you naughty dragonette. There comes a point where you can't follow up because, well, they can't cope.

I'm A-Okay with how that turned out and wouldn't change it for the world.

>>32981816
http://vimeo.com/98750479

>>32981833
We have to kiss her to cool off? Oh no. How terrible.

>>32981739
It's not possible no. Ryukusa is an exception to several rules. But you can bet if Ryukusa gets Akari pregnant Yui will happy be papa.

>>32981749
Kiku's is something of a prude, even if she is a lily, but you can see how well that works against Ryukusa's influence. Kiki might not even know what an orgy is. Yui and Akari would do anything for Ryukusa - including die for her. An orgy isn't as bad as dying at all.

>>32981782
Look up "Black Smoker Vents." Ryukusa will suddenly make a lot more sense.

>>32981765
>Implying any defense is strong enough to halt Ryukuza's raging libido

She will be as a sandcastle before the tide.

>>32981859
>An orgy isn't as bad as dying at all.
I beg to disagree; you die only once, but an orgy promises many little deaths. It's simply a question of volume, dear QM.

>>32981853
Yup. Just because Water is often calm doesn't mean it doesn't also move with decisive and unrelenting fury as it comes crashing down or through things. Ryuukusa's definitely Water, just a lot more of the latter than the former.

>>32981723
>done tonight
Oh baby.

>>32981859
>But you can bet if Ryukusa gets Akari pregnant Yui will happy be papa.
>Yui has a fetish for getting cuckolded.
Should I be this okay with that? I mean, I shouldn't be down to NTR poor Yui like that, should I?

>>32981909
....I speak with a fair amount of authority on the matter, it's safe to say....

>>32981953
It's more like a polyamorous relationship really. Yui loves Ryukusa too, in her own way, after all.

>>32981833

I doubt it's Chi we're venting into her, seeing as how that is our lowest stat.... maybe Jing or Shen....

>>32981857
It's a pretty great situation, honestly. We can keep running right up to the edge of our limit with the knowledge that she'll be able to help us back down, and be energized for it. She's, like, the very image of the ideal wife, insofar as supporting us is concerned.

The problem is that if/when she's not around, we might run into a situation like when our Pearl first cracked, and we were worried about totally losing control.

>>32981953
Since they both love Ruykusa-aniki, they don't mind.

>>32981953
Allow me to redirect you to a bit of the fortune Jinyuu-onee-sama spoke of...

Transformed Hexagram:

35 - Thirty-Five
Chin / Aspiration

The Sun shines down upon the Earth:
Constantly honing and refining his brilliance, the Superior Person is a Godsend to his people.
They repay his benevolence with a herd of horses, and he is granted audience three times in a single day.

Promotion.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is a time of reward for good works.
Those you have helped want to show their gratitude.
Benefits come both from on high and from the humble you uplifted.
Accept all gifts graciously, though the reward may not be what you truly need or hoped for.
Some may bestow more than they can afford to give, but you must realize that they need to feel that they have repaid you.

>>32981967
You've died? My condolences. You QM very well for a zombie/vampire/ghost/skeleton/whatever.

Also next thread when, I'm too addicted to not know.

>>32981859

Question. You said that Ryukusa is an exception to several rules.... does that mean that Ryukusa could get Yui pregnant?
Then they can be pregnant together!

>>32981975
Jing doesn't come back on its own normally, and determines our ability to knock up other ladies, so I doubt it's that. And Shen is similarly unlikely. Chi comes back on its own, though, and is what we use to power magic and shit. It's the most likely thing to be overflowing, and to be lowered without actually damaging us.

>>32981953

We'd ask them both if they wanted a kid before knocking Akari up, silly!

>>32981995
Been close several times now, actually. I'd much prefer the orgy.

Next thread tomorrow morning at either 8:30 or 9:00 AM pst.

>>32982046
I'd prefer you land the orgy over death too.
Looking forward to next time!

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>>32982011
Not normally - Yui is an oni-born.

On the other hand, you haven't talked to someoen who really has a clue of what Ryukusa-aniki is. You have to rescue her.

>>32981994
>Constantly honing and refining his brilliance, the Superior Person is a Godsend to his people.
Your peeps love you.

>They repay his benevolence with a herd of horses, and he is granted audience three times in a single day.
We get to knock everyone up and bang them constantly.

>Those you have helped want to show their gratitude.
Our followers are going to want to bang us.

>Benefits come both from on high and from the humble you uplifted.
We get to be friends-with-benefits with both our superiors and our underlings.

>Accept all gifts graciously, though the reward may not be what you truly need or hoped for.
Don't turn them away, come on, they need this as much as you do.

>Some may bestow more than they can afford to give, but you must realize that they need to feel that they have repaid you.
Yui and Akari are going try to give you way more privileges than they should. Just, you know, be aware of that. They'll feel obligated; your call if you take them up on it.

How did I do at interpreting?

>>32982097
Second to last looks quite suspect to me.

>>32982011
Yui doesn't have a Pearl.

>>32982089
We told Kiku we would meet with her prisoner, but things have been kinda busy...

Next thread?

>>32982014
Chi is the interaction of Yin and Yang....and while Wood is Yin, and Water is Yin, One is still weaker to the others strength, making a sort of 'reciprocation engine' out of yang-yin (wood) and yin-yin (water) . So Kiki provides balance to Ryukusa because her element can absorb Ryukusa's hyperactive element - she reduces the danger.

And love has something to do with it too.

>>32981664
>as would her choices (you would have had only 4 for any other element, and only 3 if you had been stone
This is a hilarious way of representing character intelligence that more quests should use.

>>32982169
Maybe,. Depends on which way anon jumps. I hesitate to predict.

>>32981664
>we could have had a clever water dragonette as our guardian
noooo

I still love you Akari.

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>>32982241
>not loving every last bit of our stoic, stony imouto

>>32982195

Thanks again for running, XS, and see you tomorrow.

>>32982216
Less intelligence and more degrees of thoughtfulness and insight. Ryukusa's thoughts aren't laid out clearly (or at all on occasion) and some depend on a level of foresight that doesn't make sense at once (the barrier choices when she was experimenting with her powers for instance came up regularly despite the avoidance factor). Akari's three choices are very well laid out and thought through - each one will have a significant impact on her world. Kiku's four choices will have a destructive and active nature, while Kiki's will have a patient, steady sort of flow, while Yui's will be marked with flashes of insight into their consequences.

>>32982218
The Akaris Tale pastebin seems to have been deleted ?

>>32982425
Ah no, just the formatting threw me off. Sry.

>>32982425
http://pastebin.com/3JjNVKbY

Sorry.

>>32982296
I'm just thinking about other possibilities. If we were Stone Kiku would be a 280 year old water dragon constantly making fun of our dumb ass. She'd probably save us from that half-demon guy's trap.

>>32982455
This was beautifully written.

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Have a good day all. I'm to bed.

>>32982489
Thank you.

>>32982467
If you were fire you'd be an even more hyperactive, destructive nightmare of a dragon.