[color=9e0039]"Well, well, look how popular I've gotten all of a sudden." Nimika hums when everyone finally catches up to her. She turns towards Srg as he leaps at her, and with a flick of her wrist, slaps him backwards in midair with her magic.
"Sorry, but I couldn't let them go if I tried, now." Nimika yawns. "But wow, I guess it really is true. Harm a child around people from the outside world, and they'll go ballistic! Hmph, those from the Demon highlands are much stronger. We send our children to war when they're toddlers."
"CLOUDY-CHAN!" Meora skids to a halt in front of Nimika and the door, as well as Felixter. Ammi keeps right on charging at the witch, though. Nimika doesn't throw her back, but instead holds her in place by the neck, just out of reach. Ammi struggles furiously.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BABY?!" Ammi roars.
"It wasn't me. It was Sephie." Nimika shrugs. "All of this is really her. If she hadn't left the Demon highlands in the first place, none of this would be happening. On a more direct note, however, this event occurring at the moment really [s]is[/s] her fault."
"What do you mean?!" Felixter demands sharply.
"The Master gave me an injection fresh out of the labs. He said it reacts with the darkness of one's heart and soul. Depending on the intensity and amount of darkness the person carries within...the effects are changed." Nimika explains nonchalantly. "These effects are because of Sephie entirely."
"So how do we fix it?!" Meora shouts angrily.
"...Heh." Nimika straightens her witch hat a bit. "Sorry girl...I've no idea. The Master only told me what to do with it, and what it did. He most likely didn't tell me how to remedy the situation because he knew of the slight chance that you could gain the advantage and try to force information out of me. Honestly, I would have thought you expected something of that sort. He's too smart to do something so foolish."
"....GRRRRRAH!" Meora suddenly lets out a cry of fury, whips out her pistol, and starts unleashing an uncountable number of bullets at Nimika.
Nimika throws Ammi off to the side, and then uses her magic to bounce each bullet back. Meora manages to dodge a few, but many end up hitting her. She falls onto the ground.
"K..kuso...." Meora trembles.
"Meora!" Felixter cries. Ammi gets up as fast as she can to tend to the girl's wounds in time. Felixter glares at Nimika.
"You're an absolute monster..." Felixter shakes his head slowly. "Do you even understand what you're doing right now, and how horrible it is?!"
"What a pointless question to ask. Of course I do." Nimika huffs with a smirk. "...I'm getting rid of undesirable flaws in my Master's nice little system."
At that moment, the door everyone stands around, the door that Sephie is behind, begins to shake slightly.
"[i]...nngh....ugh...g.....ungg...G-GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH![/i]"
The scream of pain, unmistakably Sephie's, leads to the door violently shaking, and tendrils of blackish-purple coming out from under the door at a rapid pace. They move to the opposite wall of the hall, and spread around like thick, ugly vines. They continue to move around, spreading on the floor and walls like a virus.
"If I'm correct...this stuff is supposed to turn the darkness into something that destroys both her, and those she loves specifically. How convenient that a large group of them is right before me." Nimika cackles.[/color]