"Mikoto"
"Leave it to me, Sir Knight, the next time a monster attacks me from surprise, I'll be sure to tell you." Mikoto said to Astrea with a shameless smile splattered over her face and her arms crossed behind her head.
"Don't worry, though, this happens way more often than you would expect, hehehe!""Anyway, now that I've proved that I'm not just a random nuisance. Will you finally, buy some... Wha!?" Mikoto almost jumped off of her skin when Melissa crept on her from behind without a single warning and had to take a few seconds to calm her heart before saying
"Your name is Melissa, right? I know that you're cute and all that, but... you can't creep on people like that. What if my heart was weaker?"However, once Melissa mentioned that the snake was previously charmed and, furthermore, that it could possibly have been sent to kill Mikoto, the peddler fell into a pensive stance.
"So, this means that there's someone out there who wants to kill us peddlers? Hmm... talk about a savage market" she said before fishing a sack full of pet snacks from yet another one of her pockets and throwing one to the snake before petting it head.
"Now that I have a giant pet snake, what should I do with it?" Mikoto wondered, before turning to Astrea and asking
"Any ideas, Sir Knight?""Anyway, I had this great idea just now and would like to know what you two think. What do you say of us traveling around for the time being? I don't have anything better to do for now, so I think that I'll just follow Sir Knight to wherever he goes... at least until I can make he buy something." Mikoto said, before turning to Melissa and asking her directly
"What do you say, Melissa? If you come along I'll even allow you to call me sis. It's not a bad deal, is it?"
"Aria"
"Ahem... the fault is mine... I think." Aria cleared her throat loudly and righted her posture, trying to ignore the obvious embarrassment that she was feeling.
"Anyway, you are right, we should move fast. There's no time for, erm... distractions now."With that said, Aria gave a step backwards and closed her eyes, concentrating on the flow of mystic energy around her as she pronounced the incantation's words
"Wind, grant us wings that can reach the sun. Icarus, Duet!" As soon as she had finished, a powerful gust of wind, engulfed Sedril and Aria, momentarily disarraying their clothes and hair. Once the gust passed, their feet were enveloped in what looked like small wings made of wind, granting them faster movement as well as the ability to jump as high and as graciously that it could said that they were almost able to fly.
"Now, try to not forget the plan, and don't worry... we will get out of this one, I know you can do it." Aria said as she moved past Sedril and lightly patted his shoulder, before stopping just a few feet away from him and turning her head to look at him over her shoulder while moving a strand of disheveled hair behind her ear.
"Come to think of it, we never introduced ourselves, right?" Aria gave Sedril a warm smile before continuing,
"Arianna Weiss, but you can call me Aria. Once we finish here, what do you say about we go back to that tavern and talk about something more interesting?"Once Aria said what she had to, she waited a few seconds for Sedril's answer, before saying
"Now then, we will see each other later..." and dashing away to the church's tower with the speed of the wind.
"Kurenai" & "Momo"
"So that is it, huh?" Kurenai said when she noticed Ruxen's state.
"If you can not answer because of these chains, I'll have to take them out of the way." With that said, the stoic swordswoman drew one of her blades, even as her companion tried to object.
"Are you really sure this is something intelligent, Kurenai? She looks scared, what will happen if she attacks us?" Momo said apprehensively after she noticed that Ruxen could distinguish her otherworldly nature. Indeed, it looked like the beastgirl was suffering and that was all the more reason to be wary of her once she was freed.
"If this happen, I'll knock her out. I don't want to kill someone that might be a victim as well." Kurenai said as she took a step closer to Ruxen, though, right about the same time the living chains came out of the floor and wrapped themselves tightly around her body holding Kurenai in a very compromising way.
"What's is this, a trap? Wasn't that your job to take care of them, Momo?" Kurenai said as she closed her eyes and clenched her teeth, feeling the chain embrace crush her, like a giant constrictor snake.
"Well, you know, Kurenai... I could have warned you, or deactivated the trap beforehand, but..." Momo said as she gazed at the bound Kurenai with flushed cheeks and a ragged breath
"Just imagining the sight of you bound and gagged was so exciting that I kind of forgot about it."And then, to further spite Kurenai, Momo stuck her tongue out and chuckled, a childsish teehee, before saying
"My bad, I'll fix it now." After saying so, the ghost girl disappeared within the floor and went to search for the trap's source, in order to deactivate it, like she was supposed to do.
Meanwhile, Kurenai had finally succeeded in getting a hold of a length of the chains with her artificial arm and, with a inhumanly strong twist, snapped it. As she fell to the floor coughing and tried to get back to her feet Kurenai coldly said
"I swear that if you weren't dead already I would kill you for this" to her Momo, who no doubt was listening and chuckling, right now.
After that, Kurenai hurried to Ruxen's side and cut down the chains that were binding her, before removing the muzzle from her mouth.
"Now that you are free, answer me. Who are you and what do you know about what lays deep within these ruins?" She waited for Ruxen's reply, while fending off some more of the chains.
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