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☆Cepheus☆
Cepheus stared at the vampires with a puzzled look. If he felt incredibly lost by their theivery trivia, Cepheus did not want to imagine how confused Tori was. "Honestly, do you old vampires even understand or remember how to teach anything to young people?" he asked with a roll of his eyes. Cepheus and Tori were significantly younger than he rest of the crew, making him wonder if that was why he seemed to be the only one not overestimating a child. Tori was a vampire and probably naturally stronger than a human like him, but he was still a child. "That was just a long sentence of words that came out of your mouth too quickly to take in. At least, all I got from it was that every time you messed up, Jecht hurled lightning at you."

Nemesis huffed and crossed her arms. "Well, excuse me for trying to help. Tori must have understood that, right? He is obviously already much smarter than you." she complained, though Cepheus ignored her rebuttal and looked to Tori instead, who looked anxious and whispered his fears to him.

"Not while I'm around, so stay close to me alright?

☆Charlie☆
"Um...Okay." he agreed hesitantly, not wanting to be part of the team to find Jecht, but not wanting to disagree either. Looking around town would be the least demanding anyways. If he went with Videl he would probably become too nervous and accidentally mess up fixing the ship. And if he went with Nemesis, Cepheus, and Tori then he would just be a burden. It's not like he could have anything useful to teach the child and while he could fill in for Cepheus...he could not or did not want to comfort a frightened child. "Mariemaia, do you have any plans for where to go? All I can think of is the local tavern..."

☆Nemesis☆

"Yeah, good plan Mariemaia!" she grinned, giving her a thumbs up. It was completely obvious to her, like it was to every other person in the group, that the woman wanted to find the captain herself. It was almost cute how she thought her crush was a secret, but then again Jecht appeared to have no idea about her crush and Mariemaia seemed oblivious that the captain had a thing for Trixxtal. 

"Ah, so I'm the watchdog?" sighed Cepheus, but Nemesis ignored him because she still felt annoyed that he disliked her explanation. She whirled to Protettore, who was still gripping onto Cepheus' sleeve.

"I will definitely be the greatest teacher for little Tori. Come on, Tori and dog! Let's find you some pants." she said with determination, and took Tori's hand. Cepheus, who Tori had still been holding onto, followed behind them.

"Okay, Tori, the first thing that is going to happen is that we look for the best looking house to steal from!"

☆Cepheus☆

"Because the lower class probably won't have anything worth stealing." he clarified for Tori's sake, "And out of those houses Nemesis picks, I'll shift into my other form and choose one with more than one scent. Those will probably have a better chance of having a child around than one with only one or two scents. A home like that will probably only have an adult living alone or a couple."

Honestly, it would be much more convenient if someone on the crew could just make a pair of pants for Tori. However, Cepheus also had a feeling that even if they conveniently had extra fabric stashed somewhere to use for mending Tori's pants, Jecht would still make Tori go through the trouble of stealing pants anyways.

"Hey, Tori, do you want to pick the house?" he heard Nemesis ask, causing Cepheus to frown.

They had not been walking for very long so there were not many houses to choose yet, but he had a feeling Tori would feel a lot of pressure to pick the perfect house. "Nemesis...you pick first and give him an example." he intervened.

"Oh, it will be fine! He just has to decide on the prettiest looking home. I want to see his opinion." she replied cheerfully, excited over the anticipation of their upcoming theivery.

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