CE 3.0 2017-2018

[yinsukin]

Marcus

"Ooooh thats cute," he said.  "Your pretending to be serious.  C'mon, we have both done this dance before."

His aura began to emulate hers, turning it into an inky black.  Just like her, a lance formed in his hand and a grin popped onto his face.  "Tell me, how would you feel hunting with yourself?"

[Kotomine_Rin]

Rundas

The demon smiled wryly. "Ha! Can't say I've yet to try that, my friend. Thank you, for this once in a lifetime opportunity. I'll savor you until the last drop!!"  She released a true battle roar and charged forth with movements too graceful to be compared to a beast yet too feral to be considered human. A demon in every sense of the word, she'd close the distance and begin with a thunderous flurry of thrusts, circling and slashing in all directions and constantly shifting in order to test the boy's mettle.

[yinsukin]

Marcus

"Don't worry, i'll give you enough to choke on," he said, one eye closed and mirroring her wry smile.  Adaptive and experienced was the best way to describe it.  He was surprisingly good, but by no means a master. He started by dodging the strikes, parying the spear with the trunk of the weapon.  He had to learn to feel the weight of this weapon before he made his offensive.  For now, he would stay on the defensive.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Tarset

Her eyes focused, seemingly having her thoughts brought back into order by someone actually approaching her. Tarset's brow furrowed, taking a short moment to look at the girl. Then she shook her head. "Thanks isn't needed. My master said that they should be fed, so they are fed. I have simply performed as I have been asked to."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Rundas

So he was able to deal with this much, not too shabby. The blows intensified in speed and power, but its not like she was holding back in the first place. Once she wielded her spear, she became death incarnate, and simply wasn't able to stop. Each and every blow was far from mindless, and a killing blow in itself. But she wanted to see how long the boy could hold on the defensive, so she didn't back down.

"Not bad, copycat! You've got nice intuition. C'mon, c'mon! Left, right, left, right!"

Her thrusts surpassed the might of cannonballs and reached speed rivaling military machine-guns.  If he kept being pressured he'd be stepping backwards over and over until he lost his ground. In that case, even if he'd survive thanks to her power, it would be the sign that he could do nothing more than cower behind a stolen weapon like a craven, and she'd offer no mercy any longer.

[yinsukin]

Marcus

Damn I always hate this part. he thought, shifting between blows.  It didn't get any better when she began striking him from all different angles.  However, he did not give her the edge.  He used the fact that she was moving from different directions to slowly re position himself.  When she slashed on the right side of his torso, he attempted to step outside of it, blocking it with the trunk.  When she went for the opposite, he stayed inside.  This continued until he was no longer being backed into the edge but the door.

He was getting a little better, a little more used to this.

[SINIB]

Julius

"Partly, the police does its job, but it's overstretched due to limited resources. Hence the pressing need for hiring vigilantes and bounty hunters. I'm somewhat different from the two, but you could say I'm someone who helps the police in his own way." Usually by apprehending evildoers and reporting them to the police after their defeat and through slaying monsters.

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"Oh, I see. That will be all, thank you for your time." The man turned to leave and move onto other people. If Julius looked around he'd see many more men and women doing the exact same thing in an almost identical manner.

[SINIB]

Anastasia

"Alright, then I will guide you to the district." Anastasia offered and led the way. It was honestly somewhat awkward as she felt tension in the air regardless of how polite Aurelia sounded. The small talk just... didn't happen. But she was bad at small talk anyway, so she just glossed it over in the end and continued her walk.

When she realized that Medaka was nowhere around, she felt something akin to mild dismay. She showed the apartment to the two, keeping cool on surface and without abandoning her guests in hurry. She wondered what has distracted Medaka from lingering around, but she appreciated she fixed the damage she did and didn't do any more damage while she was gone.

Instead of asking if she could look for Medaka, she mustered some courage and asked Aurelia. "I'm sorry if I bother you about it, but I was working on a way how to figure out my student's potential. I've only trained her so far to perceive magic. I mostly only received rudimentary education in other spheres of occult knowledge than my own magic. I'd really appreciate advice since she's a kind of non-human who doesn't exist in my own world, so I'm facing the unknown here."

Parvati

"Oh, what kind of non-human?" Parvati asked with a smile on her face. "I might be able to help too." She moved in towards the kitchen, intent on cooking their host a meal.

[SINIB]

Fran

Fran ran around the park, chasing after her dog with a happy smile on her face. They'd been playing fetch, and neither of them was lacking for energy now.

Haru

Fran hears in her mind the sound of a door opening and closing. "What do they know? I'm totally great at skateboarding. All they know how to do is swim. Right skateboa--Oh. Uhhhh... Hi, uh... where am I? I could've sworn the exit was the third door to the left..." An annoyed, and then confused male voice that is clearly lost speaks in Fran's mind.

Fran

"Um, what? Who is this? Can you please get out of my head before I get angry?" The girl stopped in a huff and looked around, trying to find the invader. They usually needed eye contact or something in her experience. It was really weird how lost the sounded though. Maybe this was something else entirely?

[Kotomine_Rin]

Rundas

What a crafty little mouse. She had fought countless battlefields and was a war veteran by all respects, something so basic as this would never escape the huntress's intuition. Still, she had to commend him for not remaining idle and using that head of his. Otherwise, cutting it off might do him more good than harm.

Well then, if he wasn't going to come for her, it was time to raise the ante. A cornered rat will bite the cat, or so humans of this age said. She merely wanted to test how true that statement held.

The lance came flying for his neck, drawing a brilliant crimson line signaling one's sure demise, a point that would have him hurriedly block the strike like all the prior ones. But all of a sudden, it shifted and moved, like a pendulum swaying hypnotically in some unpredictable direction. Spinning the lance in place with this skillful feint, the trunk came crashing on his foot, smacking into his point of balance while sending spider cracks along the asphalt, utterly ruining his footing and tripping him backwards.

All it'd take was one opening in order to strike once more, she would use the momentum and the tripping boy's position to land a decisive blow to his rib cage.

[yinsukin]

Marcus

The second he saw the spear going for his neck, he knew he couldn't deal with it optimally.  Instead, he took a dangerous gamble.  His spear shot forward, aimed at her heart.  Thankfully, the attack was a feint, buying him the extra time needed for a double strike.  His blade pierced her chest, while hers struck his foot.  He grimaced in pain, stumbling backwards and making the cut shallower than he would have liked.

He stummbled backward and took a defensive stance, expecting her to finish him off.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Rundas

Rundas's one eye flashed open as the kid thrust at her chest. Was he insane? What foolishness, to throw his life away over such a shallow strike. But it had heart, even a weakling with no power could become commendable if he sought to grow. She once had those very same eyes as well, so she might say she felt a sort of kinship with the boy at that moment.

Her hand gripped his spear tightly, keeping its point from reaching her with vice strength at the last moment. Her other hand was extended and pointed her lance at his chest, but the all too expected fatal strike never came. But the demon had stopped smiling now, and she looked down on the  fallen human with a grave stare.

"Sorry kid. Looks like you were all bark and no bite." She rejected his victory, as she had every right to. He had a solid plan, and his gamble was commendable, but even with his stolen power his skills were lacking. No, more than that, she recognized his look by now. The whole time while he was fighting, he was no different from the game she'd hunt in the forests, their lungs pierced and their eyes awaiting death by her knife.

"In war, you don't fight to win. You fight so you don't have to lose. How did you get this far and forget something so simple?" She asked him with words that pierced the soul more gravely than any demonic lance could.

[yinsukin]

Marcus

Marcus stared up at her with unflinching eyes, ones that were soaked with the blood of loss.  "You know, sometimes I wish people would just kill me instead of talking so damned much," he groaned.  "What the hell would you know about it?"

[Kotomine_Rin]

Rundas

"You're not the first weakling who has met my blade, and you are far from the last. Honestly, seeing my lance being handled so sloppily almost made me want to flay you alive." She smiled sadistically before stripping his lance and shattered it like it was the most fragile of glass with a sadistic smile.

"I don't need to know anything. I've fought more wars and battles than you've taken breaths, brat. Once you've killed enough men you get a hunch for telling one from another."

As snide as she was, her words rang as nothing more than the truth. She had fought, lost, won and killed. Killed so many, oh so many people that even in her afterlife she was cursed to do so.

"But you made a promise that you cannot keep. Yet. Which is why I'm going to help you. But first, how about a drink?" Her grin was almost wolfish as she uttered those words.

[Panda]

Emily

Emily yelped as she was hoisted up off the bird by her collar, flailing her arms and legs a bit, "I can get down by myself you know," she said quickly, activating another Contract in case he dropped her.

Still, this was a bit of an interesting turn of events. On one hand, the redhead was a bit curious about this other mount, on the other, Anesa seemed to hold her word in some regard. Fairly standard for knights, perhaps, but part of her wanted to see just how far it went.