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Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Hizuki was soaring above Hibusa once again. She climbed higher than usual, as she wasn’t scanning the streets for miseria, hostile magical girls, or people in need, but just going somewhere. She said she wouldn’t be hard to find, and she looked kinda like a shrine maiden. . . I think someone mentioned frogs on the mountain, too? Her body tilted into a lazy banking turn, bringing the towering landform into view. Yeah, that’s probably right.

Her wings flashed as she put more magic in, darting toward the mountain. From the air, it didn’t take long to see the distinct cutout of human structures in the verdant terrain. She let off the proverbial gas again, gliding down toward the shrine’s entrance. As she drew close, Hizuki pulled upward a bit, bleeding off the rest of her momentum. She came to a moving stop, losing the rest of her speed with a few running steps before glancing around to look for the frog-themed magical girl from the other day.

The sun was already setting by the time Haruna made land at the shrine, painting the whole place in a golden hue. Apart from the chirps of the cicadas throughout the mountain’s surrounding woods, there was not a sound to be heard. The stone stairs led to a Torii entrance that led to the main Shrine’s ground. It had two buildings - The shrine, centered towards the back, and Sayuri’s - that is, the shrine keepers - house more to the side. A pathway beside the shrine led to the woods and, eventually, the cemetery where Sayuri first met Boleite.

Exactly as intended, this place was the perfect refuse from the hectic city lifestyle.

"You actually came!" Haruna heard chirp nearby. The door of the house closed behind the girl now advancing towards the guest. She had blond hair tied at the back and modern clothing this time, not the whole shrine maiden attire.

"We’re done for the day, but the Shrine’s always open of course. I’m guessing you’re not here for praying or good luck, though?" This Sayuri was a bit less quippy, and seemed more downright positive and outgoing than the Kaeru Haruna met last time.

"Of course I came," Hizuki said, turning toward the girl she only knew as Kaeru as she replied. "I said I would, and it doesn’t take me very long to go places." She looked around at the shrine. "I could probably use some good luck, given how things have been going for. . . a while, but no, I didn’t come here for another blessing."

Sayuri’s smile turned to an exaggerated frown; "Nonsense! Here." she took Haruna’s hand as if they had been friends already, leading her towards the shrine proper. Once there she took an Ema, a wooden plaque, and began writing on it with a small brush.

"Did you think about what we spoke about?" she dropped, as she was still looking down, writing.

"If you’re asking whether I’m going to ditch the Detention Club, the answer is no." She shook her head for emphasis. "They really do need my help, I think. Not that they’re exactly making it easy to do that, but they’re still people. Mostly pretty miserable people, as far as I can tell. They’re all so afraid, it hurts to watch sometimes." Haruna sighed, letting her transformation go as she did so. "And it’s not like there’s no reason. The GEMs just straight up abducted Acid Drop off the street to do who-knows-what to her."

There was a moment of silence where Sayuri finished writing and put the plaque down, still looking straight ahead. Haruna’s words resonated a bit, of course. "Yeah, they really do." she said alluding to the needed Haruna’s help bit.

"Of course you won’t ditch your friends - and asking you to would be so wrong of me!" Sayuri grabbed some colorful little strands of thread and began to tie them together to the plaque.

"I know we just met, but I’m still, you know… worried a bit. Apart from the nature of simply being…a member of that Club, I just have such a hard time believing their feelings is mutual. Worried for you, that is."

"It's hard to say," Haruna said, shrugging. "I think Evil Eye cares what happens to me, even if she's kinda inscrutable. I don't know Earthshaker that well, but her partner Nyxia seems to like me. Willow. . ." Haruna shook her head. "I have no idea honestly, and Rei thinks I'm interesting. I don't know if most of those count as worried, but it doesn't really matter. I'm a big girl, I'll be okay." She smiled, as if to emphasize the point. "All I need is to know I'm doing good by someone."

Sayuri finished binding the plaque while listening to Haruna.
"I’ll be honest with you. As selfish as they are, as evil as some of them can be, The Club… they seem to at least care for one another, I can give them that much. In their own way" she started to hang the plaque on the wall alongside many other, all of which had little prayers and messages written on them. "...which I *don’t* understand, mind you."

She then bowed twice to the shrine.
"But we’re supposed to do more than just that. Friends are important, but we’re meant to project *everyone*. No? And I’m not saying that the GEMs do it right, or defending what they did or how they did it. Whatever they were aiming to do anyway." She clapped her hands together twice and closed her eyes.

”I am still protecting everyone. I’ve been going on patrols constantly, but that’s not the main thing. Think about it. If the dark girls of Hibusa are actually happy and don’t feel terrified of light girls coming to beat them up or drive them away all the time, then they won’t need to try so hard to get strong.” She looked as if she were about to continue, then looked between the other girl and the shrine. Haruna hadn’t come for a blessing, but she did still want to be respectful, so she gave it her own couple of bows and waited a moment for Sayuri to finish.

When Sayuri opened her eyes again, she smiled at Haruna upon seeing her respect the Shrine even though it was written all over her ths wasn’t why she was here.

"I have no reason to doubt you, it’s just… I’m not sure if I believe as much as you do that any of the Club members would act as you believe they would. As far as my understanding goes, the Club started from selfish desires, not fear. Trust me, Rei aptly demonstrated just how much she did not fear me back then." she said, speaking of some past event without trying to clarify what had exactly transpired.

"But…" Sayuri continued, changing the subject immediately "Frogs are powerful symbols for good luck but also the safe return of anyone looking for their home. I like to think it also means not losing sight of where we come from. This Shrine’s kami is represented by a Frog." Sayuri produced a small bag from one of her pockets that she had prepared earlier; an Omamori.

"Like I said, I didn’t want your visit just to debate or change your mind. I wanted to give you this, a small charm I made for you. For good luck, but also so you never lose sight of your home, your ideals. It’s okay to prop up your friends, but just be careful not to let them - or your mission - drag you down into the same kind of darkness."

Haruna smiled at the gift, but there was a distinctly hollow look to her expression, the happiness not quite reaching her baggy eyes. "Remember home, huh?" She took the charm and turned her gaze down to where it rested in her hands. "And my ideals." Her hand closed around the bag, and she nodded once. "Yeah, I can do that." Haruna looked back up at Sayuri. "I really appreciate this." She hadn’t been very superstitious before, but now that she was a literal magical girl, Haruna had begun to give a little more credit to things like gods and blessings. ". . . You know, I don’t think we ever introduced ourselves with our actual names."

"Oh!" Sayuri’s face perked up at the realization of just how right her new friend was "You’re right! You only got to see me at work. Well, I’m Sayuri Kotowaza. My family and I have been the keepers of Hibusa’s Shrine for a while now so I’ve been in Hibusa all my life. Nice to properly meet you." she said, yet again giving her a polite bow and a big smile.

"Haruna Maeda," she replied, returning the bow. "I only moved into Hibusa a couple weeks ago, actually. I’m from the city of light originally. Nice to meet you too, Sayuri."

"Wait…from the City of Light?" What she had been told by the GEMs came back to mind about visiting. Boleite probably also mentioned it once or twice. "So you’re from the same place the GEMs come from? The name feels a little on the nose, doesn’t it?"

"Yep. Morganite’s actually the one who showed me the ropes on the whole ‘being-a-magical-girl’ thing. The GEMs wanted me to join, actually. In another world, I might have introduced myself as ‘Tenacious Tourmaline.’ I just. . . don’t like them, even with them still being mostly good. They don’t really let any other light girl teams exist, and I’d never even seen a dark girl before I came to Hibusa."
‘Hibusa has enough Gems as it is, I think. And from what I’ve seen, even the City of Light might agree.’ Sayuri said with a smile, as a jest. She wanted to say that she understood why Haruna did not trust or like the Gems. That sometimes we do the best we can but still make mistakes. The road to hell is paved with good intentions kinda talk - but she realized only too well the hypocrisy of that statement, so kept it to herself for now.

"Well…" she stepped back from the Shrine now that the prayer was done "Not to worry about the light girl team thing - I work pretty much solo anyway." she said with a wink.

"Yeah. I’d offer an invitation to my team, but, uh. . . you know." Haruna shrugged. "You seem like you’re doing fine with your amphibian friends, anyway, so I wouldn’t want to cramp your style." She sighed. "Before I head off again, I did have a couple quick questions. Do you know anything about Schrade’s past? I heard she lost someone precious to her, but it’s a little hard to talk to her personally. . . oh, and, uh, have you met a dark girl named Ashbringer or heard anyone talking to her?"

Sayuri did not often refer to the boss of the club by that name, but guessed it was expected of Haruna to do so. "Ashbringer? Sorry, does not ring a bell. With a name like that, are you sure she’s not part of your Depression Club?" Sayuri said as a jest, sticking her tongue out, then grabbed Haruna’s hand and walked away towards a side path at a leisurely pace.

"As for Rei, yeah - a little. We grew up around one another due to family business. I’d like to say we were friends when we were little, but I think that was pretty much one sided. She left for a while and then…" her hand reached for her side for a moment before falling back down, but Haruna probably caught it "...We had a falling out! Call it a difference in opinion. All I know is when she came back to Hibusa, she changed, but I got no idea why. Sorry."

By this point, they were back near the Temple’s entrance. "So she wasn’t always the cool, enigmatic type?" Haruna asked. "Did she ever have, like, a particular guy she liked? It’s kinda weird to picture you two being friends, honestly, you’re very different."

Sayuri stared at Haruna for a second "What’s weird is imagining Rei loving a guy. Besides, we were kids. I got it in my head we should be friends, and I didn’t take no for an answer until she made it very clear." She shrugged.

"That’s just kinda how kids are, isn’t it?" Haruna shrugged back. "And. . . sometimes people older than kids." This was also more or less what she’d done with the detention club. "Anyway though. Thanks for letting me visit. I hope we can be friends even if we end up in conflict down the line."

"Aren’t we friends already?" Sayuri said with a warm smile "Besides, that entirely depends on how hard you’ll hit me in a brawl. No point in thinking about that now, anyway - I don’t usually go looking for fights, despite what your violinist friend claims." She stepped forward and gave Haruna a little friendly hug before bidding her farewell.

"Thanks for visiting, come around anytime."

Haruna, despite wincing at the mention of Willow, returned the hug before breaking off with a short wave. With a glance around to check for observers, she transformed, then took to the skies once more - and, for what felt like the first time in a while, she left in a better mood than she arrived in.

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

From inside Kaeru's hat could be heard a croak in protest of what Boleite had said, possibly arguing their endurance.

"I wouldn't underestimate these not-so-little guys, but suit yourself."

She barely had time to finish that sentence before Topaz grabbed her by the shoulders, Sayuri's fingers lingering on her cheek for a second, clearly surprised by this sudden European farewell. "Hum... I'll think a-about it... See you around." before shaking the surprise off.

Seeing the Gems scatter after that was almost a relief. It seemed like the fight was over before it began and everyone would go back in their ring's corner for the night. The fact Topaz offered help to the club all the same was not lost on Sayuri, though.

After having bid farewell to Boleite, she was about to leave too when her attention go caught by Pearl, one of the Gems Sayuri didn't get to interact with yet. Her interlocuter, though, she'd met; Hizuki. Sayuri got interested in what the Witch-looking girl had to say.

The more she learned about that Beach event, the more Sayuri was convinced her own point of view on the Club wasn't flawed.

"My!" Hizuki'd hear from behind Pearl. "Where did you hear that before?" On this quip she'd have left, but felt a little bad for Hizuki. All in all, she was doing what she thought was just.

"Helping others is never wrong. Trying to rise them up is noble - just don't let them bring you down at their level, Hizuki. Come talk anytime, if you don't know where just ask your glorious Leader."

With a leap into the night, Sayuri disappeared back towards her mountain.

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Topaz' explanation of her powers made Kaeru feel admittedly a little embarrassed. Maybe she spent too much time alone to think that fellow Magical girls of the Light would hurt even one of their fallen kin in such a way - even a member of the Club. The GEM's final comment unexpectedly brought back some painful thought to Kaeru that made her lose focus for a second.

Kaeru's attention was quickly forced back at what's directly in front of her, though, as an angry Rule Keeper came charging down towards her and the group she was with. Aware of Roche's abilities, Kaeru and her huge toad were poised not to attack the club member, but to instead trap her; it was not the lash of a tongue that would have met Roche, but the giant gaping open mouth of the frog Sayuri had summoned especially for Roche - but her opponent managed to outmaneuver the beast and hit it on the side. With a painful croak it launched backwards, slowly dissipating as it crashed in the storefront.

That's bad!
She remembered thinking as she herself was about to attempt blocking Roche's next move, whatever it was. Though it never came. Just as it felt like everything happened at the same time and this would soon turn into a literal battlefield of Light versus Dark, the presence made itself known and literally forced a reset. Both Roche and Topaz just vanished. Down in a portal they went before she could even react.

Now, all of a sudden, team BadVibes were all together having a little huddle with their newfound ally. Who oddly looked a little more aged than any of them. Of course on the one time a team of Light Magical girls show up in town to even out the scale, a new Dark Magica-- Kaeru looked down nearby only to see the armless, legless torso of Suki having crawled up to Tsubomi. Everything got weird before, but this took the cake.

Tsubomi's location was somewhere in between the grouped up GEMs and the Club, with Sayuri still having been left exactly where she was.

There was about a few seconds lapse of time where both groups were either talking or focusing on something else in which Sayuri pointed down to the Oros-Tsubomi bloody mess and gave the Dark Magical girls groups a 'Anyone?' kind of face - but they were focused on Darth Mary Poppins there.

So much for Teamwork.

With a sigh, Kaeru started to walk back closer to the GEMs.
At this very moment, Sayuri felt out of place. Magical Girls were supposed to hunt Miseria and make the city a better place, not take roles in...whatever theatrics this all was. For a second there, just as her eyes looked back down to Oros worried for her friend, Sayuri even felt bad for them. Seeing a scene like this, her strongest instincts were to kneel down and help, but... those were Club members. Even the innocent looking Tsubomi was. They were the enemy, no better than Miseria. Right?

With a small hop, the Frog Girl got closer to the GEMs - because where else would she go? Leaving would be in bad taste, plus Boleite just got here and Sayuri still felt like she owed her. "If I knew you'd be late, I'd have carried you." she said at Boleite, attempting to lighten the mood a little while they were in this kind of awkward forced cease-fire.

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

So much happened in so little time, Sayuri needed to take a moment to get it all in. Topaz assessment was right, KAeru did prefer to know what was happening before charging blindly into situations.

Though, right now, it wasn't possible. The situation was charging blindly onto them.

Kaeru recognized there - in the form of the monstrous bloody bone monster - Suki's magic. An information barely registered before Topaz arrow hit her mark first in the chest, then straight in the head. Kaeru could not help but gasp at this, surprised. Magic being magic, it probably did not kill the club member. Between Boleite and Topaz though, the GEMs magic seemed to take a more direct approach.

"Yeah..." she muttered to Topaz statement, more so to herself than anyone else.

What followed happened in quick sucession:

A duo of Dark magical girl landed near them, Diamond arrived holding a knocked out Tsubomi, the purusers were dead on their trail and, worst of all, Topaz had gotten out an arrow and was readying to stab the knocked out girl.

"Hold on..." Kaeru said, low at first. She was feeling something coming, something possibly worst than all of...this.

At the motion of Kaeru's hand, a long tongue reached out from a nearby tree to grab Topaz hand and seemingly stop her from stabbing the girl, but in truth - while it did do that - it mainly pulled it backward, away from the laser aimed at her wrist. Fujin, somehow hidden until now, landed beside Sayuri, offering a barrier between her and the Club's angry duo.

"What the hell is going on?" she said, louder now, as much at the GEMs as the other girls around them. She'd ask them to chill out, but a quick look over at the club's rule keeper's face told her it was a bad idea and a futile attempt.

Despite the apparent Club's bloodlust, she was somehow more worried about that strange presence-like feeling she could not shake off. From the looks of Roches companion, Kaeru was not the only one to have picked up on it.

"Do you guys often kidnap and stab unconscious people?" she'd quickly ask to Topaz, directly, a look of 'should I be worried?' on her face.

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Sayuri looked back at where Boleite should arrive from, probably seeing her catching up to her. From her perspective the night had been relatively calm. Which was why when her gaze turned towards the scene unfolding far from them further in the city, she froze for a couple of seconds staring at what she was seeing.

"We left them like... two seconds ago?! How the hell did this happen - and what even the hell is happening?"

They were of course too far to hear anything or see who was who and what was what. Though it was easy to tell for two of them; the big eye monster and the bloody skeleton. From what Kaeru saw of the club previously, she was able to make an educated guess. So the Club had that kind of power among them? For some reason, it made Sayuri a little angry. Mainly because she knew, or thought she did, from where they gained power. Seeing feats of power like that only served to further prove their selfishness and coincidentally how much misery they probably spread around.

Sayuri took a deep breath and let it out with a big sigh.

"I'm not hiding, that's for sure. Why would they go all out like that? I'm not feeling any big miseria around worth this much trouble toni-"

She was preparing to jump away to the Chaos unfolding to see for herself, but then Kaeru squinted her eyes.

"Something's coming this way, and you're not gonna like it."

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Sayuri looked far ahead, as if trying to spot this Topaz Boleite was speaking of. Of course, all she saw was building and more Miseria flying about. She heard electric sounds and barely has to time to look back to Beliete and cover her ears before the massive surge of electricity flew forward, destroying any and all miseria in it's path and then some. With the sound it made, people ought to think a transformer exploded or something.

Somewhere in all this action, Fujin had jumped away and was now out and about, doing it's own things, dispatching Miseria around them on the rooftops. Around them were more Frogs of the smaller variety. Some had massed onto a miseria painstakingly holding it down while Raijin walked up to it and gulped it down. In the frenzy, some were even holding on for dear life on some Mogalls near the rooftops.

"Summoning type, uh? Something like that."

Kaeru shrugged. "Well, Frogs are kind of my family's thing in a way. The Kami of Hibusa's shrine is represented by one, so I imagine that's why my magic manifest as such. What, you don't think they're cute?" Sayuri said just as she took off her hat, a small amphibian frog jumping right out of it onto her shoulder. She then looked up, her new amphibian friend doing the same as her. "So there's you and Topaz; how many other GEMS is there?"

Her gaze turned to the Mogalls when Boleite mentioned them looking for Topaz. "Must be... Alright then - let's go!" She jumped back on Raijin, who immediately readied itself..."Race you there?"... before launching both of them up onto the nearby rooftop, and then once again but forward this time - in the direction Boleite pointed. Sayuri knew her new GEM friend was more than able to follow up.

Kaeru may not be as flashy as Boleite was, but she was still putting in some work though it did not look it. All around them was an army of various type and sizes of frogs dispatching smaller miseria. If assistance was needed to finish them off, Fujin would show up to give them a hand. If a large number of them was spotted or a stronger one, then Kaeru showed up.

Sayuri did not have a team of Gemstones or a Club at her back, so she developed her own way of covering large swats of Hibusa at night in a quiet, discreet way.

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Sayuri had been worried when Boleite turned to the group and pull her little finger gun move, thinking that they were going to quarrel some more after all. It felt as if it's something Boleite might have done; she somehow looked the type to jump the gun, so to speak. Then again, Kaeru didn't really know anything about her - or the GEMs as a whole. Still, she was glad her offer of taking on Miseria being more important seemed to have been heeded.

As for the other Members of the Club nearby, Kaeru was all too happy to ignore them for now.

Except for Hizuki, who was now flying back down to them. It felt like such a headache to play the mediator for that bunch... which Sayuri might have said out loud, but decided against it. For Hizuki's sake, maybe. Poor girl looked like she had too much on her plate already.

"Daybreak, huh." she simply answered, seemingly impressed. Then, in a low voice to herself; "Should I get myself a cool name like that...?" She could have commented further on the whole 'not causing any trouble' but she instead simply put both arms up, hands behind her head, waiting for Boleite's reply. Hizuki heard Sayuri's take already.

She listened on like she was listening to two friends talking about the week end. Some sort of connection between Hizuki and another member of the GEMs, and hidden curhses? Sayuri was not usually a 'Tea' enjoyer, but this were juicy tidbit of information. "Hizuki!" she exclaimed, as if shocked. "A crush, already? Aren't you a little young."

When Boleite took off, Kaeru lingered for a second as if about to say something, though Hizuki was faster than her on the answer. Whatever the Frog girl was about the say was gone, instead she just said; "I'll watch mine, you watch yours. Deal? See you around." And then the Toad she stood on leaped off after Bodacious.

Somewhere along the way Fujin, who had stepped off to be better positioned in case something went join, rejoined them. Amid bounds and leaps the trio managed to take down any Miseria they came accross that Boleite might have left behind. Presumably because she knew Kaeru was right behind. Raijin landed on one particularly unlucky Miseria that was trying to flee as Kaeru and Fujin were dispatching a second one. She'd turn around just in time to see the the arrow pierce the miseria and disapointment on BB's face.

As Kaeru stepped off of Fujin this time, a Miseria lunged at her, but Kaeru did not bother looking it's way - it was quickly grabbed by Raijin's tongue and brought back in his massive mouth. Only an arm or a leg still propped out as the Toad swallowed, sending the evil thing to whatever end.

"I imagine this means your friends are in Town?"

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

Upon giving her name, Kaeru had expected the other Light girl to give hers but then it seemed a little anger took over first as Hizuki went against Willow. Kaeru herself had been ready to leave, but instead let Fujin, jump away into the night but she, and Raijin, remained. Other Dark Club Members had arrived, probably expecting a fight that did not occur. Kaeru felt something in the air though. Something coming their way.

"So um, are we chasing the frog or what?"

Kaeru scoffed - Oros. She recognized that one, whom chased her before in the mountains. "Want another go at finding your Prince?" She sat down, cross legged, on her red Toad and rested her head onto her fist. She'd decided to stick around.

As the GEM fell from the sky before them Sayuri sat straight, looking happy to see her. At least she thought she was looking happy, but perhaps Willow got to her more than she realized herself. "Don't mind it - I ran into some foul music during my own hunting. Soured my mood." Kaeru raised her hand in the air, Raijin extending it's massive webbed hand to Bodacious Boleite as if to shake it in Sayuri's stead, looking pleased. "Kaeru. Just Kaeru - Didn't get to introduce properly last time. It used to be just me around here, actually, so no fancy titles or names here!" Kaeru finally stepped off from on top of Raijin, the toad catching her onto his tongue before she hit the ground and sending her flying above Boleite and landing across her with a flip.

"Was hoping to meet you again."

The offer was tempting, but Sayuri hesitated. "I dunno... I already slapped that clown around some." she said, raisoing her hand and pointing to Willow with her thumb "But that never worked in working any kind of sense in the Club's goons."

Still she hesitated though. Hizuki was right there, and her words were fresh in Sayuri's mind. For sure if they fought, Hizuki would be brought into it. That would surely pull her ever so forward a dark path... They needed her to trust them to be better than the Club.

"The priority is the Miseria and making Hibusa city safe, and a better place - right?"

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

The Demon of Hibusa. Sayuri scoffed inside - was that how Rei saw herself nowadays?

"Mostly's and Maybes." the girl shook her head "The fact you tell me you're not gonna fall and know what you're doing is exactly why I am so worried."

She listened to the rest of Hizuki's speech. As it went on, Sayuri's emotions only grew in intensity. She tried listening, but the words just rung false - or Sayuri just did not want to hear them. The new girl's had some inkling of logic to her plan... but to Sayuri the ending chapter of that story was a forgone conclusion.

"You won't be." she said, matter of factly. Her arms fell down, no longer reaching for Hizuki's. "You think no one tried? I tried - with your 'Demon'. Rei. Before the club, before magic. Surprise; it led nowhere, and now we have a Depression Club worsening things everywhere they go!"

Sayuri hopped into the air and back onto the large blue frog. She hated what she heard and what she saw. She hated that Hizuki would remain among the club... but maybe, just maybe, there was a slimmer of hope. Not for the club, of course, but for Hizuki. She sighed, the grave air she had going back to her more usual casual, semi-serious air.

"Look, if you want to stay with them be my guess. You want to teach them good manners and to stop spreading misery?" her stare went dark for a second as she looked up to Willow, just as her friend was launching eyes around. "Start by teaching them not to laugh at someone's Mother's passing. Some things should be off limit, and next time I won't be as playful."

She gazed back down to Hizuki as Raijin turned around, all three of them ready to jump off and leave.

"The name is Kaeru, by the way. When you'll need me, I'm not hard to find."

Kurai Majokko: Tsundere Gekido

The last thing Willow'd see as she'd be dragged down by Fujin was Kaeru sticking her own tongue out to the musician, smugly waving good bye. Below, Raijin has stopped the raging unicorn in it's track; it's now scorched feet dug deep in the earth. he was struggling keeping control of the beast, yet succeeded in it's task. As Willow came flying down, he'd jump out of the way with a deep croaks and land where the unicorn stood before it's mistress and itself barreled down some way in a cloud of dust.

Fujin landed back onto Raijin's back, and Kaeru onto Fujin's. From her perch, she looked down at Willow, now straightening herself out and getting up. All things considered, she seemed in pretty good condition.

"Calling some friends?" Willow pulled out a cellphone, and Sayuri did nothing to try and stop her. "I'm calling your bluff - you have none."

If the whole club was to come down to them, it would probably be best to make a quick escape - and yet... there was something inside stronger than all the reason in the world screaming 'bad idea': Anger. Anger at Willow for making fun of her grief, anger at the Miserai and anger at the Dark Magical girls whom Sayuri blamed for the rise in Miseria - and in misery - in Hibusa City.

More importantly, anger at herself. Though she might not yet realize it.

The monkey stealing the phone got her to focus back on the situation at hand. Sayuri crossed her arms listening to Willow's rambling.
"Why not?" she'd answer about waiting for the rest "I danced with you all before, don't you remember?"

"You could join us. You wouldn’t even be the first light girl to do so."

She sighed. "You already asked, I sai--...What?" Of all the things Willow had mocked and attacked Kaeru on, this seemed to confuse her the most. The bitter sting of Willow's evil words and taunt were expected. The thought of them having ensnared another innocent into darkness? Not as much. Sayuri inhaled to speak up, but was cut short of doing show by a bright flash of yellow light.

Other Light girls had been rare in Hibusa, but to meet two in such a short span? it was unmistakable - just like Bodacious Boleite before, Kaeru could feel the magic from this newcomer and she was no Dark Magical Girl. It only added to her surprise when the same newcomer would crouch to Willow's side and face her.

"Hold up!"

She hopped off of her two Frogs back onto the ground, a calming hand on Raijin's cheek while not breaking eye contact with Hanura. "You're with them? But - you're not fallen!"

Sayuri wanted nothing more than to help Hibusa city heal, and truthfully believed that Dark Magical Girls and their negative and selfish views on magic and how to use their powers were one of the main cause of all it's ills, and the growth of Miseria. In this very moment, Kaeru wanted nothing more than to understand. If Haruna's powers could indeed tell what others wanted, she'd quickly realize that Kaeru held strong emotions against Willow whom she saw as barely better than Miseria. She had no direct ill will towards Haruna, however, whom she saw as a natural ally. Though even that might change depending on her next move.

"What could they possibly have threatened you with? What kind of lies could they have given that'd make you turn away from the light and join their selfish crusade for power and self gain? We are meant to protect the city! They scavenge it for whatever scraps of power they can wrestle from one another. Sayuri said, quickly. It was hard for her to hide the disdain she held for the Club and it's members, but her words carried real worry for Haruna.

She took one step forward, extending one hand out. Her words were true, but there was something else that hard to discern. A sense of urgency possessed her words.

"Let me help you before it's too late, before you fall even further and can't turn back. This city has enough Darkness as it is!"