[h3][img]http://i.imgur.com/52Kspeh.png?1[/img] [color=0072bc]Izumi Airi — Eastern Field[/color][/h3]
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[@Berserk Gene]
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[color=0072bc]"Oh, hpey, are you phe ohn who waph comph—"[/color] Airi attempted to start a conversation with Ernest, but her mouth was full of burger (slightly less burger now, having sprayed a bit here and there). She finally managed to finish it off after a few seconds, turning back to her Servant. [color=0072bc]"Oh fuck off, dude, I haven't eaten [i]since I got here[/i]."[/color]

...Does she know what the term 'potty mouth' means?

[color=0072bc]"Anyway..."[/color] Now not burdened with a mouthful of dead cow, the girl turned back to the necromancer with slightly less of a scowl now that she had finished her fourth burger and wasn't [i]fucking starving.[/i] [color=0072bc]"Are you the one who was talking through that creepy-ass zombie earlier?"[/color] Their appearances were different, but their manner of speech were recognizably similar. [color=0072bc]"Hey, if you're the one who's Servant got offed, we're kinda in the same boat, dude. Not to, like, shit on what happened to you or anything, but I'm kinda glad it's not [i]just[/i] us."[/color] Thumbing back to the croc-bearing man whose sense of fashion could only be described as Chaotic Mad. [color=0072bc]"I'm Izumi Airi. Mind if I just call you Ernest?"[/color] So many foreigners mixed up in this. At this point, it seemed like a reasonable assumption that anyone with katakana in their name could cast magic.

[color=0072bc]"Anyway. Yeah. Oh, hey, you're— oh wait, no, different guy. Damn, is every Archer in this war a white-haired prettyboy? Is that a Class Skill?"[/color] Casually referring to the mysterious servant of the bow as she grabbed hold of a fifth burger. They had a decently-sized chat group together, five people, not bad. [color=0072bc]"Anyway. Yeah. It's kind of a big deal. I mean, I said it before, but, the Church isn't even a safe place with that guy running around. Ruler, serious question, what would you even [i]do[/i] if you were trying to shelter a former Master, and whats-his-face just plowed through the wall like the fucking Kool-Aid Man? Can you even actually do your job right now?"[/color]

Maybe she was giving him too hard of a time, given that he'd clearly put forth his best efforts to deal with the situation with the barbecue and all, but Airi wasn't the type to pull punches, verbally. The Archer Servant hadn't been there at the Church, so it merited repeating in any case. [color=0072bc]"People can't even [i]drop out of the war[/i] safely. So we gotta group up and do [i]something[/i] if we wanna have an actual Grail War without it turning into a massive fucking mudslide."[/color]

After downing a fifth burger in record time, the unpleasantly loud girl began reaching for a [i]sixth[/i] with no hesitation. [color=0072bc]"Props for the free food, by the way."[/color] She mentioned to Ruler, turning back to Ernest. [color=0072bc]"And I think we [i]do[/i] have a way to track down where he's been operating from recently...or narrow it down further, at least..."[/color] Her speech slowed down somewhat, as she came out of her usual ramble and into a more serious dialogue.

[color=0072bc]"Stirner Cartisius. This guy and me were planning on going after him anyway, but it'll be better with a group."[/color] Airi didn't go for a seventh burger — not yet, at least — arriving at the figurative meat of what she wanted to say. [color=0072bc]"We can't track down the Black-Haired Man, since he basically doesn't show up on radar. But we [i]do[/i] know that he [i]kidnapped[/i] a mage, who is also a Master in the war."[/color] She recounted, [color=0072bc]"'Tracking down other Masters' is a thing that most people here can do. Even if we don't find the culprit, finding where he took Stirner will probably give us some intel on him, since it'll be an area that he's been to before, at the least. And if we get [i]really[/i] lucky, he'll be cornered up there and we can just collapse on the guy like you mentioned."[/color]

'Safety in numbers' was rule number one in her world. To the others, the prospect of partnering up with other Master/Servant pairs, or even revealing abilities to them, must have been a hard pill to swallow. But for Airi, that reticence was something that she simply didn't understand. She was glad that Ernest seemed to be on-board with the Anti-Interference Coalition — having his own Servant killed by the guy probably helped with that. Airi hadn't been sure how well she'd be able to get along with mages in general, based on Yuko's description of them, but this guy and her were already pretty much on the same page, from her perspective, despite their wildly differing backgrounds and demeanors. If nothing else, that was something that Airi could be happy about.

[color=0072bc]"He was on the northwest end when he got sideswiped. So based on that n'the other stuff, maybe Ruler can do like you said and point us somewhere, without giving away people's info? Otherwise we'll have to go to the hotel they were at and do like forensics n'shit. Hopefully someone else has a third piece of info that can narrow it down more...as fast as that guy is, he can probably cross over the city without too much time, so the locations of his previous appearances might not even mean much."[/color]

Having given her piece, Airi finally began on burger number seven, turning back to her Servant. [color=0072bc]"Hey, though...you said 'black-haired demon', earlier...do you really think that's what he is? Like, 'Demon' with a capital D?"[/color]