[color=orangered][h3]Natsumi Fujikawa[/h3][/color]
Natsumi had to admit that she felt a [i]little[/i] bad for the blob-demon. Whether that was misguided, she really didn’t know. Do demons choose to pass through an Emergence Gate? Could the blob have stayed put in wherever it is that demons come from, or was it pulled here against its will? She wasn’t taught about that at the academy, if answers to such questions existed at all.

[color=orangered]“Alright, look, we can’t just let you go free into the city. Even if we were convinced, we don’t have the authority to remove the Demon Denial Field.”[/color] Would Ayako drop the Denial Field for this if they asked her to? Probably not, she thought, but either way it seemed useful to shift the decision to an unseen entity that the blob couldn’t argue with. [color=orangered]“But you could still get out of this alive. If the Emergence Gate is still open, perhaps you can just go back through.”[/color] Again, she didn’t know if that was possible, but it seemed logical. [color=orangered]“Or you might make a contract with a human and join our side, like Andrea over there. If you let the girl go, then we will do what we can for you. But we can’t help you if you keep forcing our hand like this.”[/color]