[img]https://i.imgur.com/mJqWtBQ.png[/img][hr]

Hizuki shook her head in response to the frog girl's protests and questions. This reaction wasn't exactly unexpected. She wasn't a GEM, either, which was good. Maybe she could be reasoned with? [color=yellow]"They haven't done anything to me,"[/color] Hizuki said, relaxing her posture slightly in the absence of an immediate threat. [color=yellow]"The Detention Club isn't threatening me - although the Demon of Hibusa is still [i]terrifying[/i] - and as far as I know, they've mostly told me the truth. I'm not going to fall, either, because I know I'm doing what's right, and nobody in the Detention Club told me to do it."[/color] She paused, suddenly looking a bit more awkward as she remembered one detail. [color=yellow]"Well, uh, Shatterscape did kinda try to strangle me, but I think that was a misunderstanding. We're okay now. I think."[/color] Daybreak shook off the brief stumble and continued. [color=yellow]"In fact, Rei actually saved my life a few nights ago. That's not why I joined, either, though."[/color]

She took one step forward. [color=yellow]"I'm actually here to help Hibusa, just like you. Just. . . in a different way. There's one group of people that light girls like us never bother trying to help. The only people who have to be afraid of anything in the City of Light. Dark girls are people too, they're just people who have had bad stuff happen to them. So I'm going to try to make their lives better, so they can be happy, and won't have to struggle quite so much. And, if they're happier, and dark girls really are the source of Hibusa's troubles, then it'll help heal Hibusa too if they don't have to fight so much."[/color] Hizuki met Kaeru's eyes through her visor. [color=yellow]"I'll be alright, I promise."[/color]