[h2]Akira and Andrea[/h2]

A girl...? Well, they were close to the entrance, that should make this an easy one to get out then. If it was a girl. There was, after all, a distinct lack of any nearby demon to have caused the bloodstain, or any remnants of a body here. It [i]could[/i] just be that she was lucky and overlooked, or an errant contractor. Or maybe this was a disguise, by possession or consumption or... honestly, Akira didn't really want to think about the number of ways that somebody [i]might[/i] be impersonated by a particularly smart demon.

She'd rather take the ones that were confident enough in their power that they didn't bother hiding. Even if they were [i]right[/i] about that, it was less of a headache on her end, and it wasn't like the boss was generally that far away, so at least those cases were [i]simple...[/i] well, unless something even more powerful showed up.

Then they might be screwed.

"Andrea here could show you to the barrier, then you could leave," she suggested. If they [i]were[/i] a demon, then they'd be unable to leave. Hopefully, even if they were meatpuppeting a girl. If she [i]could[/i] leave... well, the fact that it was [i]Andrea[/i] doing the escorting ought to be a clue, right? That meant their team's strongest combat asset had been (temporarily) sent away on a routine job. It ought to get picked up on, if the demon tried anything after.

And if escape wasn't an option, then having Andrea in the firing line was better than [i]anybody else.[/i]