Kiyoshi nodded at Forest's words. He stayed at the girl's feet, intending to carry her as before, but Archer instead scooped the girl up into his arms and headed off.
"Alright, follow me", he said, before heading off towards the gem room Forest had mentioned.
"Yeah, sure, I'll make sure no-one gets near her", Kiyoshi said to Forest, before taking off after Archer as quickly as possible.
From the way he was moving, Archer was clearly in a hurry. But, at the same time, he was obviously holding back to allow Kiyoshi to keep up. Whilst Kiyoshi was reasonably fit, without reinforcement he was still a normal human, and self-reinforcement was something he was not yet good enough at to use except when absolutely essential.
As they moved towards the room, he noticed the girl was clearly improving, the unusual red lines on his neck beginning to recede. However, before they could reach the room Forest had directed them towards, the idiot who had attacked them before came running after them.
"Stop... I can help her...", he said.
Kiyoshi tensed up, still not fully trusting the man, but he didn't attempt to summon his swords or attack. After all, he had said that everything was a misunderstanding, and he was offering to help the girl. Archer walked towards the man, clearly accepting his offer, and Kiyoshi relaxed.
He watched on, somewhat concerned, as the man grabbed hold of the girl's hand and started to do something. Kiyoshi wasn't sure what he was up to, exactly, but he was clearly in some pain. Finally, though, he stopped, gasping for air.
"Holy shit... that actually worked", he said, giggling nervously.
The girl, clearly feeling much better, looked up at the man and spoke.
"Thanks. Big time. I think I owe ya one", she said.
Then, she looked up at Archer.
"Hey Da-I mean, Mr. Red Guy, you mind putting me down?" She said, glaring at the . "I'm thinkin' I have a few choice words for our unwanted house guest."
What? Did she just say "Dad"? Kiyoshi thought, astounded.
Kiyoshi was overjoyed at the thought. If she had, then this was yet another big sister he could get to know. And, she seemed nice, too. Archer, meanwhile, did as asked and put the now-recovered girl down, keeping his hand on her shoulder to try to stop her doing anything stupid. Kiyoshi turned to the girl, intending to ask her what she meant but, before he could, all hell broke lose in the house.
First, the insane axe-cop guy slapped handcuffs on the man who had just saved his potential sister, saying something about filling out paperwork. Kiyoshi stiffened slightly, but there was no reason to intervene, certainly not if the man had no desire to react. Instead, the man reached into his pocket and pulled out some odd-looking flask.
"Hey Bitch! Welcome to your new home!" he said, as the tattoed girl he was targetting was dragged towards the flask.
However, before he could finish his attack, Connor took a swing at the man and, in response, the axe-wielder moved to block.
"Stand down, citizen," he growled. "That's assault", before turning to address Lawrence.
"That goes for you too. The freaky ghost lady was about to leave. You have no right to unlawfully imprison her, as Bad as she might be. You are not one of the Ghostbusters."
Kiyoshi looked at the man somewhat incredulously. Whilst he could understand him trying to stop the conflict without further bloodshed, his insistence on doing things "legally" in a situation like this when surrounded by supernatural beings was frankly hilarious.
Kiyoshi's parents had lived most of their lives outside of the law, by necessity, and therefore had little respect for it, particularly his father. The regular police were simply powerless in the face of the sort of threats they dealt with, whilst the Magic Association was neither benevolent nor particularly interested in dealing with anything other than keeping magic secret. As a result, and because of his nature, Kiyoshi had little respect for the law either, especially in situations where it clearly made no sense, like here.
Meanwhile, Kiyoshi noticed that Angra was melting, to Forest's chagrin. She apparently didn't like the mess all over her floor. Kiyoshi, oddly, found himself feeling somewhat sympathetic towarss her, perhaps because of how she felt a little like his mother, even more so when her curse started to leak out.
He watched as Forest cleaned up the mess and, then, put it in the sink, where Lancer used his runes to burn it. Then, she told Connor to take Sakura back upstairs, which he did as instructed.
Finally, with the whole mess starting to end, Kiyoshi turned to Rebecca.
"So, who are you?" he asked, curious.
