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She couldn't do much here. Gauging this demon the group was staring down, it did not bleed, meaning that Akiko's relic wasn't very useful in this situation. Regretful, since she wanted to get a little more practice with it, but probably for the best. Rose's flying wasn't exactly the greatest for concentration, much to Akiko's chagrin.

Though, getting pulled out back onto the main deck wasn't the worst thing that could happen, as the catgirl began to just... gravitate towards her summoned Serei in Lorelai. It might've just been with how Serei worked somehow affecting her soul, or it could just be that Lorelai's imposing presence assisted in keeping the Bard feeling safe, Akiko was not sure, but Lorelai dropping the Corpse Collector overboard was also very reassuring to the bard's state of mind, since CC did something that only a Jester had done before, and she vaguely got the impression that the Jester was some sort of bad news. Maybe not directly, maybe not at all, but something rubbed her the wrong way, and it wasn't Lorelai's hand along her tail.

[color=hotpink]"I'll come check in a minute, Rose. I'd rather make sure that demon is dead before we get to checking the haul."[/color] That was partially a lie, as she stepped right closer to Lorelai's side and shuffled up against her. She drew a card from nowhere, the Monkey Card, and she took a moment to consider things. [color=hotpink]"... yeah, Monkey, I'm gonna do the thing. Lorelai dear, mind making sure I'm not gonna fall overboard? I dunno if this'll be as easy as the first time."[/color]

With all said and done, Akiko began to absorb the willing card of Monkey into her [color=ed1c24]soul.[/color]