[color=7bcdc8]"Oh, I see you've already taken the liberty of making yourselves food! That's good. Unfortunately all the food left here went and spoiled [color=fff200]long, long ago[/color]..." Abernathy nods towards Lucas and Fred before he turns back to Makoto and Minako. "Absolutely sir! After all, the ladies need be shown respect, eh? Miss, would you prefer I be something else?"
"Oh, it's completely fine. Please, be what you feel like. Just...be wary of where your claws and teeth are. Wouldn't want anyone to get hurt." Minako replies to the ghost.
"Of course! I hardly brawl at all anyway, my dear. I mean, unlike some other residents here..." Abernathy chuckles with a glance at Ellysa.
"Oi! You wanna go, dino?" Ellysa whips around to face Abernathy. "I bet you could turn into a huge fire-breathing dragon if you wanted, and you'd still fall to my mighty sword! I-" Ellysa is cut off after hearing what Makoto has to say to her.
"There's a monster down there...no one sane would venture down there[color=fff200] by their own will[/color]." Renn murmurs, trembling a bit.
"Yes, the girl's right. The beast down there is possibly the least friendly thing in the whole place, including that ghoul Kuroneki. Actually, me and Renny here are pretty good friends, seeing as I saved her from that beast. Renny got thrown down there on accident by another resident here, and the monster was gonna eat her. I stormed down there as fast as I could. Almost lost my other arm in the process." Ellysa unbuckles some of the armor covering her right shoulder, showing off a line of stitches in her skin. "I know Renny doesn't like to fight, but I'm hopin' that one of these days, she'll be forced to fight back, and then she can get stronger too!"
"Does this monster down there have a name...?" Minako asks all of the ghosts in front of her.
"It's cliche, but most people call [color=fff200]him "The Dark One[/color]", or, "The Living Black"." [color=fff200]Amelia[/color] offers from where she lounges now, on the rail for the staircase.
"...His name is [color=fff200]Yorugiro[/color]." Abernathy answers Minako's question more directly. "He's a fiendish beast with a horrid temper. Personally, me and Negloria think he's behind people disappearing in this mansion. I'd even be willing to believe that Ellysa might be right, and that he's behind our binding curse..."[/color]