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The vampire had spent a little time familiarising herself with the apartment--it was functional and relatively nicely appointed, which would have to do. Aside from that, there was the distinct "not lived in" feeling: nothing to indicate who lived here and, more importantly, a complete lack of some basic necessities. If it wasn't for the time of day, she would have attempted to at least partly remedy that with the cash that she had on hand... but it was a bit late to go shopping for appropriate clothes. What she had on would have to do until she could shop for more; an adult's clothes would just look... ridiculous right now.

It was for the better that she hadn't gone out shopping when the call came through almost immediately; she'd have to see about explaining that if this was to be a voluntary relationship then more information would have to be provided than "something over here". Surely there would be situations where she could get away with letting that hotheaded knight go deal with it on her own and focus on more pressing matters. Or at least some that were less boring.

Not that she could really complain right now about the interruption, it was at least more interesting than watching random television, though like anything else... the seats were too big. She [i]had[/i] to find a way to store enough magic to hold that illusion; it was a shame she didn't have the magic pills that would do it.

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How could this be possible? To go only from sleeping beside Miku to the dorm, [i]Miku[/i], not existing? She'd lost Miku before, but that was only temporary, and it had been perfectly clear how it happened... even if her survival had been a mystery at first. But this... she'd just woken up in a world without Miku and what was the point of that?

It was at this point that common sense finally caught up with Hibiki and she realised that Tokyo couldn't just replace entire buildings overnight. If Tokyo was wrong in too subtle ways, if there was a strange magic-using man who didn't recognise what she meant by alchemy... if this was a world without the warm sunshine by her side, then that didn't mean that world wasn't out there still. Even if it wasn't the sort of problem that could be solved with her fist, she [i]would[/i] find a way home to Miku.

Of course, without looking into Hibiki's thoughts, one might get the impression that instead of actually realising anything, her change in resolve was entirely due to the cry for help that had gone out. Though it was a fair assessment of her character nonetheless, with the gear-wielder quickly looking around and then running off in the appropriate direction regardless of the darkness.

Because if [i]she[/i] could be here, and someone seemingly nice like Ben...

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Klaus had been quite enjoying his sudden trip to New York. Of course, it wasn't where he had expected to be; that city hadn't existed for several years. But when the Libra boss found himself inexplicably standing in a crowded subway car, there was little to debate about it: all signs and all the people around him pointed to this being a human-only New York that had never had to go through the Great Collapse and never had any experience with the Beyondians.

So he just enjoyed the trip. Then a little more. By the second time around, though, even enjoying the impromptu train journey had worn off, and the redheaded man had turned his attention to the task at hand: trying to get back to Hellsalem's Lot. It would be a difficult journey to make with no indications to how he had arrived here but--

Protecting innocent people from some truly inexplicable dragons took priority. Fortunately, having landed made them a much easier target, and with gauntlet on, Klaus went with the time-tested straightforward approach: run at your opponent and hit it as hard as you could--in this case, with an extra jump to make certain that he was hitting their bodies square and not simply the legs.

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--the massive cross-shield of blood, though it hit with an impressively solid impact, failed to do much more than make the beast stumble a few steps. It was tougher than expected, maybe too tough for blunt force... stabbing, then?