[center][color=red][h1]Shade[/h1][/color]

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[color=red]"Quiet children really are the best!"[/color]

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Silhouette had managed to come out relatively unscathed after three battles, yet they were all still fairly close calls. Perhaps getting too into her disguise had led her to become disabled in the first, Caroline's offputting strategy doing the same in the second fight, and her own self-restraint just barely winning out over the undesired bloodlust in the third. It was unfortunate to say that getting excited over Caroline's defeat would be a mistake because they still had a war to wage, which was made especially evident by the sudden appearance of an ally of Caroline's. Things happened rather quickly and Sil could do very little at the time, so the main point was that they had lost Caroline to... something. Perhaps this was for the best, though. Silhouette wasn't especially fond of an abomination claiming a foe as strong as Caroline for its own. 

[color=red]"Geez, buddy, that is rough."[/color] Shade's expression showed concern for the dirtied dark mahou shoujo, who'd just had to bribe her own patron so that it wouldn't devour her. Her situation was not one Sil envied in the least. 

Mariette seemed to be as pleased as a dwarf with a yoyo -- that is to say, not pleased at all. [color=1462ba]"Wake up Suwako and go help,"[/color] she barked an order a Shade. The DMG wasn't ecstatic to receive an order from someone who wasn't  her employer, but Shade still smiled bright and nodded enthusiastically.

[color=red]"Alrighty~!"[/color]

Only she didn't really know who "Suwako" was. Thankfully, she was able to deduce that it was probably the small child she just floored with a single punch. It was not the first time she'd been in this situation, but it was the first time she'd been in it unwillingly -- err, been in a situation where she harmed a smaller child. She not have a habit of punching them. Anyways, feeling just the slightest amount of embarrassment, Shade kneeled down next to her poor victim and gave her a few shakes. Sadly, she lacked any smelling salts or the time to allow the girl to wake up naturally. 

[color=red]"Hey, hey, are you done resting? We've got things to do, places to see, bad guys to bop!"[/color] Sil had to admit she was more experienced at causing unconsciousness, not rousing one from it. Hopefully, she wasn't shaking her too hard. [color=red]"We've got to..."[/color] before she could finish that sentence, her eyes had drifted off towards the distance. In it, she spotted the happenings surrounding the ship she was on a bit earlier. 

[color=red]What the hell is going on here?[/color]

She wasn't able to discern whether or not the huge golem had succeeded in murdering the remaining crew of the ship, but she did know that she was thankful she wasn't required to deal with it. At least, not right now. [color=red]"...umm, hey we should really get going, Suwako?"[/color] 

She really hoped she didn't accidentally kill the poor thing. She only killed for necessity or profit, after all.