Shibuya

[Bloodedge]

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[Apollymi]

Late in the evening, a young woman looked around a high-tier game and manga shop in the streets of Shibuya, which was of course, her hometown. She had a bit of a high-class air about her, but she was still rather politely browsing the shelves. She was dressed currently in a short black skirt, and a white jacket complete with belts and clasps across her chest. Her hair was styled in pigtails complete with long flowing waves ending at her lower back. Her expression was rather sour, but this wasn't displeasure, it was simply how her face looked anytime she wasn't consciously smiling. She was looking for a new game to play on her VR system and her eyes had stopped on one top-selling title. "Age of Eternity... huh?" she said softly to herself. She then immediately pulled out her phone and began scanning online reviews for the game only to find... There were none.

[Bloodedge]

That same evening, the game titled 'Age of Eternity' was being played by one of few people who didn't shy away from a certain stigma surrounding the title. Age of Eternity was a game which had become infamous since its release, as many of its players went missing after logging a certain number of hours into the game. Some brave souls who knew of this urban legend didn't care at all, and continued to play it. One such individual in Shibuya was a young man in his late teens. In contrast to the lass presently inspecting the game for potential purchase, he sported a very disheveled appearance, though it didn't much matter, considering he was in the comfort of his own home with nothing more than his games, anime, manga and figures to accompany him. "Agh! Fuckin' Goblins again!? Can I pick up a quest that isn't just killing midget rape-demons?"

[Apollymi]

This young woman stared at the blank review page and shrugged. It had everything that was necessary for her to enjoy it. 'It doesn't have any reviews but it's a best-seller. It's also compatible with my new face scan, VR, and the quick-key interface on my new system...' she thought to herself. This moment of deep thought came with what seemed to be a sour expression on the girl's face. And this didn't change as she picked up the game, nor did it by the time she reached the front-counter. "I'll take this," she said without really looking up for a few seconds. When she finally did, she'd find a nice older woman staring at her in apparent fear. "No. No... you must not buy this game. It's cursed! Cursed! CURSED!" there was some extreme distress from this older woman which caused the girl with the pig-tails to look up at her with wide eyes. "Huh? But it's just a game..." she mentioned.

A young man came from the back. "Obaa-sama, please stop scaring the customers..." he said only to reach out for the game. "Age of Eternity, huh? It has become a bit of a Creepy-Pasta. It is said that people disappear when they play it too much. My Grandmother is here a lot and she's noticed people who bought that game stop coming by. She thinks it's cursed, but... I think she might have scared them off. I haven't heard anything bad about the game play. Admittedly, I haven't played it myself, I'm more of a shooter kind of a guy..." said the clerk, as he worked towards ringing the girl up. "Rewards card?" he asked and she produced one, along with removing a black credit card from her wallet to use as payment. "Oh... well, I can't find any reviews on it online either. But... I want a game I can dive into for a while. I have a three day weekend coming up..." she said. Having made a plan to dive into this game fully though it wasn't exactly the kind of game she normally played either. After this she turned the credit card swiper towards herself and paid for this product. "Arigatou gouzaimasu," the girl said as she walked off, with a bag in hand. "Come back and tell me about it sometime!~" this young man said as yet another person was claimed by the game known as Age of Eternity. If this girl thought anything of the warning she was given, it didn't show in her face as she headed home. If nothing else, there was a smile on her face.

[Bloodedge]

"Oh, wow!" the male currently engrossed in playing this game said aloud. "A Goblin Lord, huh? That's something different. Pretty strong, too," he continued. His questing was proving successful despite what he considered to be a major setback in his day initially, as he'd grown tired of the quests he'd randomly come across in this game as of late. Finally though, he'd managed to stumble upon what the game referred to as a Pseudo-Legendary enemy spawn, not quite unique, but allegedly with worthwhile loot at the end of combat. "Let's go, bitch! Just another stepping stone to find out where that Dragon is, and something else to get me ready for it!" As he spoke to no one but the game itself, this young man clicked his computer mouse and various keys numerous times. The result was his face being lit by flashy animations numerous times as he happily dominated the Goblin Lord he'd located mid-quest.

[Apollymi]

The girl in question, made her way home. Upon entering she found a note located in the front hallway of a house considered to be rather massive. It was a simple message, scribbled in the handwriting of the girl's own mother and it simply read. "We headed out on a flight after coming home. Sorry we missed you... enjoy your long weekend relaxing post exams. XoXo Mom and Dad." This young woman looked at this, and strangely it didn't make her sad, a large grin spread across her face as she headed deeper in the house to prepare for a long gaming session. Some fifteen minutes later and she was within a her bedroom, sitting in the middle of a large four-post bed. She'd had a bath and dressed down, sitting in nothing but an exquisite set of lingerie. She was wearing, panties, a bra, and silk thigh-high stockings as she logged into her gaming system. Beside her bed a mini-fridge full of drinks and snacks the lights of the room set to dim as she slipped her fingers into a strange set of gloves which functioned as the mouse and connected directly to the keyboard of her computer. With the simple movements of her fingers, she was able to type as if she had a full keyboard in front of her. And the massive wall across from her bed, showed the high definition TV which was more than 70 inches and mounted to the wall. "Yosh!~ Game time!~" she chimed to herself as she signed in under her online ID and started up the game known as Age of Eternity. Beginning first with a scan of her face unobstructed to create her first character. After this was done, she spent a few extra minutes picking her set up before she would start her online experience properly.

[Bloodedge]

Though it took minutes on end to slay the Goblin Lord, the young male at his computer completed the quest and retrieved his loot. In that very moment, he also achieved Avatar Level 50, at which point he was presented with a few surprises. "Osu! Max Level! And... what?" he wondered aloud as he viewed these additional achievements. "Omega-tier skill unlock... Dragon Emperor's Mask fragment... Minor Class unlock pending? Unlocked requirements for Special Class: Alter Ego? There are more than 50 levels in this now?" The lad's tangent went on for some time, but he decided in the end to save this additional Class choice for after he experienced everything else the game was presently throwing at him. At the very least, he knew he would be taking a shot at this 'Alter Ego' Minor Class he was being shown, as it seemed like something he wouldn't be able to unlock a second time if he skipped it once.

[Apollymi]

Soon the blonde version of this girl had been named and was walking through the introductory dungeon dressed in a plain red cloak with nothing but a naginata to fight with. "Ugh, it's a cave. Well, at least they got these cute crystals everywhere..." she mumbled. She began gathering things within this game. Only to be attacked by a small orange balloon like creature. She forced her avatar to jump back and swing the poled weapon down quickly. This would result in the balloon bursting and her gaining experience. "Huh... pretty simple combat, but at least this character is quick... Alright Miki... time to grind," she said speaking specifically to the character she was currently using. And as such she began her early world grind, within this closed off space.

[Bloodedge]

Needless to say, the male playing this game had been immersed for days at minimum. Days later, he finally returned to the game with intentions of selecting his Minor Class. He'd finally discovered the mystery behind the Dragon Emperor's Mask fragment he collected, as well as the mysterious extra levels beyond 50. Now, he was ready to make a selection. In front of him on screen were all seven original selections he had when choosing his Major Class, as well as a few other special selections... including the very exclusive 'Alter Ego' Special Class which registered differently compared to all the others. This was his selection without a doubt, but the moment he confirmed his choice, his screen blanked out with a bright white light... and his consciousness did the same.

[Apollymi]

This girl found herself immersed, and days later she was approaching what she thought was max level as well. Within a deep dungeon she was looking for some rare loot. At her side, a Winged Dire Wolf as she stealthily approached a creature which looked unlike any other. A simple use of a skill allowed her to sneak up on this creature, which she immediately used to aim her naginata at its heart. She stabbed it through the back and it dealt critical damage, even before it had been properly identified. "Ugh, an Orc... Lord? Well, I guess if I am going to have to kill pig people, they might as well be high-class pig people. Must just be this region in the game," she mused to herself as she began to string together an series of attacks. The screen on her far wall, showed a great deal of colorful attacks as she stabbed each area of this creature several slashes took place. It would take her no less than ten minutes to kill this creature, but rare loot it would drop would be well worth it. Sometime over the last couple of days, she'd bought a complete guidebook to the game and knew this Orc Lord would drop some interesting loot for her Class and Type choices. And then it did, the loot drop at the end of this epic fight was one which she found to be relieving. "Woooah!~ Level 50!!~" she said only to see the messages about the increase in level as well as something about the creation of a sub-class of the ones she saw she saw one which had her attention. "Alter Ego... huh? I think I like the way that sounds. Miki is basically my alter-ego already. Plus, that isn't in the guidebook, it must be one of those intuitive things. It will help me get to the dragon!~" she chimed. She made this choice with no other research necessary. And then right after the selections had been made, her screen blinked white, and then her consciousness went blank as well.

Continue the Adventure Here (http://www.roleplayuniverse.net/forums/showthread.php?853-The-Kingdom-of-Eonis).

[Bloodedge]

A long journey had been taken in another world. Aiba Yugi had seen things, done things, experienced things he could have never imagined... and with people he could have never imagined having those experience with. Sadly, he was just robbed of the experience that could have changed him in an irreversible way. Ashikaga Kimiko was the name in his mind as he woke before the same computer he'd last seen in this world. Nothing seemed to have changed since he was transported to that other world, bar his computer shutting itself off. He sat in darkness with puckered lips when his eyes opened, having only a single thing to say. . .

"... Fuck," he muttered. Unbeknownst to Yugi, he was being watched through hidden cameras placed inside the box of a room he lived in. Three days had passed since he was sent to that world, and that was all it took for a hidden group to find him as one who disappeared playing Age of Eternity. This group was quite excited to finally locate a player who returned after vanishing, and in such a short amount of time to boot! Yugi, on the other hand, could not have been more disappointed.

He hadn't been dreaming. There was no conceivable way that he'd fallen asleep while gaming, and imagined so very much in what he thought to be a matter of hours. There was also that cryptic message from the Nexus to consider, but he couldn't be bothered to do so. What was he to do about the developing situation with one Ashikaga Kimiko? He felt a desire to find her; doing so would be a very easy task for him. Alas, there was an existence within himself that said otherwise. He'd given her the method of answering the greatest question he could ask her, and the only way that could be done... would be for Yugi to lead his normal life in this world─ that much he understood deep within.

[Apollymi]

Parting words? He was so close that last kiss might have helped her deeply... but alas it wasn't to be. A frown over took this girl's face. Who actually expected her to be okay with this parting? Her mind drifted as her eyes opened. Ashikaga Kimiko sat herself up in bed and leaned forward into her hands. She had been so close to what she wanted. She didn't dream that... right? She wouldn't have made up a guy in her head who fit all her necessary criteria? A single tear rolled out of her eyes and she heard a chiming as she moved back? What was that sound? It was... the sound of a jewel hitting the keyboard in her lap. She was once again in her own room and her own body. She was still wearing lingerie but added to her fit was this large red jewel on a golden chain necklace. It was so clear it reflected the color of her eyes perfectly. 'Sou ka... it was real. So I guess that was my actual warning for the game of tag this time?' she thought but... that didn't sit right with her. She threw herself out of bed pushing her keyboard to the side. Her projector was off and so was her set up but none of that mattered now because she needed to think. She stood and walked towards her private bathroom while rubbing away that tear. 'He actually wants to be found right? He actually likes me too?' she questioned. An old insecurity, part of what had fallen away from her in the other world, was rather suddenly back. She knew that he knew who she was, but what if he really didn't like her? Earlier in their adventures she'd been a bit worried and those worries resurfaced immediately. Anxiety plagued this girl as she showered water hitting her body and washing away everything, including the random tears she allowed to fall.

What she couldn't know, was that within this large mansion there were many extra bodies moving around. They were all looking for evidence of her disappearance. She'd come out of her shower wrapped in a towel with newfound purpose. Of course, she'd spent a large amount of time talking herself in and out of finding the lad. And she'd settled based on her own selfish desires. 'He really isn't the type to lead me on like that. I have to trust this... and find him. Ask him directly, and maybe...' she paused that thought. They'd spend far too much time together, she'd grown so attached to him. She really wanted to know him and didn't think it was weird at all. It could be considered like internet dating right? They liked each others personalities so they could like each other in actuality once they got past the awkward stage of it. Once she found him... it would be easy to know or not. Kimiko wasn't shallow, as long as he didn't classify as a fat-ugly bastard she could see herself easily finding the good in whatever form his body had now. As long as he was truly the guy she'd gotten to know and like... everything else would be fine. Aside from that... that final face looked like one she'd seen before... she simply couldn't remember from where. But... they went to the same school so he could have easily just been a face in a crowd. 'Or outside of it... he definitely isn't really a crowds person. Anyways, Akashi said I had everything I needed and I am pretty sure that face at the end was his... so...' as she walked across the room towards her closet her bedroom door opened. She'd already started using processes of elimination to narrow down her search. Assuming it was one of her parents she simply called out, slightly hostile because they were breaking up her concentration. "Oi oi, let me get dressed first. You guys promised to start knocking before you opened my door!"

[Bloodedge]

'Shit. What do I even do now?' Yugi wondered. Aside from a budding relationship that surpassed all expectation, there were so many things in that world worth sticking around for. His sister, Yumi, could likely not exist in this world since her passing roughly one year ago. He never wanted for resources in that world, nor did he ever experience a dull moment. Many things could receive thanks for that, but there was one in particular that always came to mind. Now was no exception as the lad leaned back in his gaming chair, staring into the ceiling. 'I wonder if she'll actually want to go on a stupid wild goose chase like that─' he pondered. There wasn't a doubt in his mind that Kimiko could solve the puzzle, but he did wonder if solving it would even be a worthwhile endeavor. Time would tell, he supposed.

Lazing around to push his way through the funk seemed to be a good idea to the young man. Being in this world had long since become a cause of lethargy, and this return made things worse than ever before. Why couldn't he just have a bit more time? Oh well. This would either be for the best, or for the worst; there was nothing between the two options. Worse yet, the lad who thought to push through an encroaching bout of depression would soon be receiving a type of excitement he didn't want at all. . .

Meanwhile, Kimiko's place of residence was not nearly as vacant as it had been when she last left this reality. Her home had been invaded by the police force─ several officers and detectives even remained just outside of her room when she spoke aloud. Surprise appeared on the face of multiple figures. There was no one here but them, right? Ah, but that was certainly someone within a room that had been marked as a restricted area. "Who the hell is in there?!" spoke an adult male as four total members of his squadron aimed assault firearms at the bedroom door. "Come out! We have you surrounded!"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko decided on her clothes. It was pretty late, but she could go out and visit her favorite arcade and wait out the start of the school day while she thought over the clues given to her by Akashi. Instead of an answer or barging in from her parents, Kimiko received silence initially. So, she began picking out her clothing, within her walk-in closet. A nice set of lingerie white lace with red trim were what she chose throwing them into her bed from within. 'I'm going to find him. I wonder if he'll have a preference... maybe I should have chosen something different?' she questioned her wardrobe choices but continued pick her favorites. Soon after a small black pleated mini skirt and a long sleeved sweater with a cross like silver marking in the middle. This was her favorite and because it was a turtle neck she could easily hide the necklace she wore which was also on her bed. She stripped the towel from her hair and tossed it into the shape she normally wore, while striding in just her towel. "WHAT!?" she stepped out of her closet and opened her bedroom door. What kind of new staff had been hired in her absence or how long had she been gone? She hadn't checked the calendar yet and her phone was still charging so it was off. There was a bit of a break in her memory, so perhaps someone would be surprised to see her. She opened her door and immediately became furious. Four assault weapons were pointed at her and she saw caution tape across her door. "RUDE! You're pointing guns at me in my house? Who let you in here?" she questioned immediately seemingly unafraid. But if the cops were here perhaps she was gone for longer than she would like to have to explain. She needed more context clues to figure out how she would handle this situation. But outraged rich teen would at least get the start of the job going.

Meanwhile at an internet café a while away from Yugi's house someone was watching the cameras. They'd seen him reappear and had been shocked by it. A series of hushed phone calls later within the private room of this café and someone was soon madly typing away on a computer screen. This was a hack and was set up a couple of days prior to this one. It would lead of course to the lad's computer screen turning on while he looked at it and begin relaying several sets of instructions.


We've been waiting for you to return.
Now that you know the truth, nothing will ever be the same.
Put on some clothes and pick up your phone.
We charged it for you.
Leave your place and walk a block down the street.
Towards Shibuya Crossing.
More instructions to follow.
Do not deviate.
We will not harm you.

The instructions were a bit too specific for them to be fake. And to prove that he should comply at the end of the message which turned on his computer, he was given a point of view photo of him exactly as he was at the point the messages started. Several over the course of seconds as he read so he couldn't deny the reality of the situation.

[Bloodedge]

Whatever person had made their way into the Ashikaga household, they were to be considered an intruder and a suspect in more than a single case. Ashikaga Kimiko had vanished with neither rhyme nor reason behind her disappearance, and even a single day of letting the case sit was viewed as absurd. More importantly, it had been discovered that she was in possession of the game called Age of Eternity after being reported missing. Who could the culprit be?

These officers were immediately shocked the moment that door opened. This girl, in her bath towel, was recognizable even to the few who weren't fully aware of the missing person. "Ashikaga─" said one gun-wielding male who went on to discourage the aim of his comrades. Clearly, none of them expected the missing girl to appear angry, in her bedroom, after a bath. The man who spoke up would soon be speaking again, into a receiver this time. "Sir, we've found... Ashikaga Kimiko. Hai. No, sir. She's at home... in a towel. Sir, but she's─... Hai." It seemed whatever person this man answered to, required something of the group. "Ashikaga Kimiko, we would ask that you come with us immediately. This building is under quarantine, and you are being considered a suspect in numerous missing persons cases," he said to the girl. "Please, come quietly. We will at least give you a chance to get dressed."

All the while, Yugi was met by a surprising stranger as well. In his case, his gaming computer was hacked into, and used to relay a message. He raised a brow, thinking this to be an impossible occurrence. 'What the fuck? Nobody should be able to get past my security,' he thought, knowing he possessed what could be viewed as some of the world's best protocols due solely to the situation of his upbringing. Surely enough, though, there was proof provided in the form of an image series. The images... were of Yugi himself, as he sat there receiving the message. Being given these bits of proof, he threw his head back and let an exasperated sigh escape him. "Ugh, fuck!" he exclaimed. 'Don't tell me I wound up in an isekai scenario within the best game ever, and came back just to be thrown into Welcome to the Game. This is bullshit. . .' Yugi did have one thing to say. Since he was being watched so closely, there was a single question that came to mind. "And if I tell you to go fuck yourself?"

[Apollymi]

It seemed in the case of one Ashikaga Kimiko she was at least recognized by one of the individual cops present. He went on to discourage the others from holding her at gunpoint. That was one thing in his favor in the moment. She also still became privy to the conversation he was having on the walkie-talkie with whoever his superior was. From what she could gather from this side of the conversation it was being demanded that they bring her in, a sigh escaped her as it became obvious that something bad was happening here and she wasn't just going to get to visit her favorite arcade and think through her main objective which was locating the lad behind the name Geno Killer. On a brighter note at least the man before her had tried to be reasonable... and she was about to find out exactly how reasonable this man was as he confronted her with some strange information. "Uh-huh..." she said with a little bit of an attitude. Why were so many things always getting in her way? Regardless this man had at least offered to let her get dressed. "I'm closing my door. I'll be out in 2 minutes. And I'll accompany you. I won't answer a single question without a lawyer or one of my guardians present and I need... your name." she said looking directly to the man who'd been speaking to her. After she received this information she would go on to get dressed and emerge from her room in two minutes time as promised. She would be dressed then, in her red turtle neck sweater with the sliver cross on the front. Tucked into her neck line a large gemstone necklace she'd already become quite fond of. As well as the black pleated mini-skirt. She'd finish her look with some thigh high socks and also bring out a large pink designer hoodie and a large pair of sunglasses. After all being spotted in custody wasn't at all on her list of things to do.

In the meantime the lad known as Geno Killer was experiencing just as many inconveniences to his return as well. Though he'd done nothing wrong and shouldn't have been on anyone's radar he was on someone's. His question to the world at large was indeed heard and with it would come an answer. Strangely though it was more of a threat than anything. Across his screen came new words and with those words came the exact nature of this group who'd offered to simply have him come along without fighting.


If you do, we'll come get you.
And you won't like it.

To prove this point a red laser pointer dot appeared over his shoulder through his window directly over his computer screen. Proving there were physical eyes on him nearby enough to make his escape impossible. The invitation he was extended was technically undeniable. He would either do as they asked nicely or they would make him comply by force.

[Bloodedge]

That attitude was precisely what these men, particularly the one receiving their orders, did not want to deal with after seeing the girl beyond her room door. One man spoke for all the others, but the intent was that of another who stood above even him. Despite acknowledging within himself that there was no logical reason to bring this girl in without hesitation, he was under direct orders to do so... but he certainly wasn't going to drag a towel-wearing girl from her own home into an interrogation. He could only nod when Kimiko claimed no questions would be answered without the presence of a lawyer or guardian, but most troublesome was the moment she claimed to need his name. A bead of sweat trickled from the man's forehead, and he gulped. "Uh... Gojo. Gojo Satoru... desu," he spoke nervously. In the depth of his soul, he felt he would be out of a career rather soon. The shameful thing was that he had only recently graduated from the required schooling to become an officer, and performed well enough to be put in something resembling a position of power.

Many thoughts crossed his mind. What could he do next? He supposed he was good-looking enough with a reasonable amount of charisma when necessary; he could find a job that paid well enough somewhere. Something could suffice after his dream went to waste. For now though, he had no choice but to await the girl getting dressed. It didn't particularly matter what she chose to put on; whatever her comfort determined would be fine. Once she emerged with a few layers, it seemed the time had come. "Are you ready?"

Answering 'no' was not an option for Yugi, apparently. If the statement that he would be retrieved wasn't enough, this mysterious group was willing to aim sniper fire at the lad through his only window. Who could have wanted his attention so badly? Surely it was some political nonsense they wanted; it wouldn't be the first time he was approached by politics who knew who he was, and what he'd done. There wasn't really much choice; he had to get moving. "Fine, fine. Whoever you are though, if I don't think this trip is worth my time, I'm punching you out," he declared while reaching to a nearby chair filled with discarded clothes. From there, he retrieved a few articles worth throwing on. He went without a shirt, simply throwing on a red vest he favored along with a grey pair of cargo pants.

[Apollymi]

The name of this officer was given with a bit of hesitation. He looked quite young and given her attitude upon opening her door, she could at least reason that he might have felt a little intimidated by her question. If she was going to complain about anything she now had his name. She could use that information to throw him under the bus if she felt like it but... that wasn't necessarily why she wanted the information. "Gojo Satoru, ka..." she said committing it to memory before she was dressed. When she opened her door a few moments later she had no doubts the lad probably thought his job was at stake. Still, he'd reasoned enough to try and present some arguments to his superior and that was commendable. Still the question he asked at her emergence made her chuckle just a tad. She turned those dazzling red eyes towards this man and smiled. Though it wasn't the kind of smile she would have given her resident Geno Killer it was definitely the kind that made her an idol at her high school and made people trust her. It was one that was practiced with intention and it came only with a reminder. "Gojo-san, remember what I said about questions. Lead the way," she said casually more than content to take this trip to the police station. To prove this point she zipped up her hoodie and threw on the overly large sunglasses she was used to donning for the kinds of activities she got into at night. The only thing missing was her usual baseball cap, but she thought to forego it given the nature of her still wet hair. High pressure and high stress situations were nothing new to her. And she didn't find a police presence intimidating only annoying. Her parents should have been on vacation so if it wasn't too far after her disappearance then... there was no reason for the police to be involved at all. So figuring out why they were so interested in her was her main objective while they were after her.

The threat made by the resident Geno Killer after her figured out there was no way out of his situation was laughable to the person at the other end of the screen. Of course, he hadn't the slightest idea of who was seeking him or why. As such he wouldn't know what was going. Still, the person on the other side had at least a slight sense of humor the message which appeared on his screen was a simple but pointed answer.


You're more than welcome to try.
Remember to grab your phone and turn towards Shibuya Crossing.
You'll receive further instructions at the intersection.

And just like that the tiny red dot disappeared as he dressed. What a strange evening the two were in for, though admittedly for very different reasons.

[Bloodedge]

That smile may have incited faith in the peers and partners of Ashikaga Kimiko, but for Satoru, there was an entirely different meaning to be taken. He had already resigned himself to the idea that he would not be employed within a matter of days at most. As such, that smile was nothing more than the frightening confirmation of his impending doom. With the statement that came along with it, he could only hang his head and turn toward the entryway. "... Hai. This way, ma'am," he said while leading Kimiko, as well as a group of other officers, toward the station.

Only a short amount of time would pass before a small group of four, Kimiko included, were in the leading officer's car en route to their destination. They passed by Shibuya Post Office on their path to the police station, lights blaring without sirens. The passing emergency vehicles were noted by a certain male pedestrian on his way to Shibuya Crossing. The young man in question was none other than Aiba Yugi, after finally getting himself together enough to begin his journey. Naturally, he wondered if this police presence had anything to do with where he was being called. The car did travel in the same direction he happened to be headed─ at least on this street. Whatever the case, something worrisome was afoot. "Yare yare," he wondered aloud, checking his phone while walking along. "Got my phone hacked too, I'm guessing? Maybe it would have been a good idea to buy a guy an Uber or something. That'd be one way to convince somebody to go along with a thing. Yeah... I bet it's cheaper than snipers, too! Who even has the money for snip─" He paused, having given consideration to a very specific thought. Ashikaga Kimiko surely had the money to hire something like a sniper, and likely the connections as well. Was it possible that she identified him so quickly, and this was all part of another puzzle he would have to solve before reaching her location? It didn't seem very realistic, but he could at least hope for a moment.

[Apollymi]

Kimiko soon enough found herself in a car on the way to the police station. Her eyes darted around the car taking in several pieces of information in the meantime. Presently it was approximately three days after she'd defeated the Orc Lorde. Ah, that did indeed explain why such a commotion was underway. Her phone had several unanswered text messages from her father which was indeed unusual. While it was perfectly normal for her to ignore text messages from her mother she usually answered ones from her father promptly. This didn't bode well at all. But still didn't explain the police presence at all. If her father thought she was missing he likely wouldn't have used the police to figure out where she was. So... who then called the police? And more over what kind of questions did they think she could answer? As the girl sat deep in thought her brows furrowed. She watched the passing bodies and movements across the streets several pedestrians caught her eye, even the lad in the grey cargo shorts moving about as her face remained hidden behind her sunglasses. 'I am going to have to come up with some excuse as to why I was unreachable for days at a time. The police aren't going to like how this sort of thing ends for them but... Gojo Satoru doesn't deserve what is likely to happen,' she thought carefully. 'Ugh and I have to work on my smile... that one felt wrong.' She thought, never giving consideration to the fact that fake smiles would feel wrong now that smiled for real so often. Even so, it was still received by those who didn't knew her the way she intended so... she supposed it was a problem for another day. She found herself easily devising pretty standard answers to questions which should be asked of her, assuming of course they thought them pertinent, including how she got in and out of the house without rousing any suspicion.

At the same time as the car passed the lad at the intersection, he received a series text messages.


Yes we hacked your phone.
Ubers are expensive.
A little exercise won't kill you.
Turn left and walk past the large screen. Below it there is a door covered by graffiti.
Follow down the hall and enter the first door on the left.
Have a seat.


The person sending these messages still hadn't moved from where they were sitting. In fact, they were basically just hacking various points nearby the lad and had bugged his phone for audio playback so they could hear things he said.

[Bloodedge]

The words Yugi spoke were to no one in particular. He hadn't been expecting any sort of response to his rant, but it came through his phone nonetheless... and even while he was having such a pleasant thought to the contrary of his current predicament. His eyes widened when the messages appeared. This was probably the most invasive experience he'd ever been subjected to, but he imagined that sniper still had eyes on him this very moment. Honestly, the idea of getting inside was suddenly very appealing, even if he was walking right into a trap. "One: Snipers are more expensive. Two: I really want to know how you managed to hack into my stuff. Three: It'd be a lot less creepy if you called instead of sending texts that respond to my fucking voice," he said. When this was over, he'd have to get rid of this phone... as well as his computer. The number of odd jobs he'd have to find just to replace them would be ridiculous, but he could at least ditch the apparently terrible security features. Either way, he would be following the instructions given, lest he be shot or something ridiculous like that. Into the suspicious graffiti door he went─ what a wonderful idea. . .

[Apollymi]

Apparently this lad, known to most as the Geno Killer was one who didn't like the idea of being spoken to through his text messages. That being said, the person who was answering him had nothing directly to do with how this interaction was taking place. Even so the answers would come swiftly and without much prompting.


Snipers are already with us. They are free.
You'd have to talk to the person who does the hacking.
I don't talk to people I've never met before.


All of those things were simple to understand. A secret organization like the one she belonged to had many people on payroll and lots of people who didn't know the truth of anything. In the case of their resident hacker, she was simply the best computer expert that money could buy. She didn't like interacting directly with people though and knew nothing of the true depths of the organization. As such the person who was sending the text messages and organizing this meet were different from the person who hacked his computer and phone. The boy was now in the hall way, this much she new, so she made her way into the room she'd sent him to from the other side. By the time he reached the door, she'd be sitting across from him. A purple haired girl with golden eyes that seemed to be a bit too bright for the kind of lighting currently present within the room. They were hyper reflective and on her wrist was a large metal double set of rings which didn't move up or down her arm even though it was much smaller than the opening itself. Several things were wrong here, but pulled up over her head was a cloak. "Yo, they've been waiting a long time to meet you... Geno Killer. I wouldn't know, I'm not into games but apparently they've been waiting for you..."

[Bloodedge]

Well, Yugi was at least acquiring some information as he went. Whatever this organization was, they had snipers handy without requiring any outsourcing. The person in charge of hacking his technology was not self-incriminating enough to address him themselves, and the one talking to him would not send their voice through any traceable form. Information was shared freely enough that this was not a 'professional' organization, yet they were certainly skilled and efficient. "Gotcha," he said, for no reason other than the fact that he understood enough. Sadly, this was not Kimiko's doing at all; she couldn't have even been involved. On the other hand, this was not done by anything resembling a government official, though that was just as much a negative. Whatever he was walking toward was an underground organization.

Soon enough, he entered the room he was being led to. There was a woman within, whom he assumed to be the one sending those annoying messages through his computer and phone. She looked... very strange. If he didn't know any better, he'd say she had been cosplaying as an Age of Eternity custom character at a convention recently. This only made her claim of not being into video games even stranger. As far as her knowing his identity as Geno Killer... Well, that much was to be expected from anyone capable of hacking his computer. Standing next to a chair opposite this stranger, he pocketed his phone and crossed his arms. "Ugh. Get to the point, yeah? You lot obviously didn't send hackers and snipers after me to have a friendly chat, so what do you want? If you're talking pay, I might even listen... Y'know, since there's no way I'm keeping compromised technology after today."

[Apollymi]

Yugi's understanding was very strange. Still it was acknowledged, as the lass who sat across from him stared blatantly she noted that he didn't actually take a seat. Apparently he had no desire to sit and have this conversation as civilly as she would have liked, but she'd been warned of this possibility. Their 'Hacker' was a girl who claimed that given the things she'd found in the lad's gaming history he likely wouldn't be very friendly after the hostile entry into his privacy. That didn't really matter though as what they had to discuss was something much more serious. "Fine. Be that way... I just wanted to talk with someone else who'd seen it... the way the world is supposed to be..." she mentioned but she still seemed unfazed by the lad's antics. "Whatever the case, I can't talk on money or anything like that, that's what the Bishop does. If you won the competition money is part of the prize but that isn't the real goal... or rather the money wouldn't be useful here," she said with a casual roll of her eyes. "So, then until he arrives I am technically tasked with making sure you know the basics..." she said making it clear that she was open enough to take questions and given the other bits of information she'd divulged she garnered he would have at least a few before the person who actually wished to see this lad arrived.

Meanwhile hearing the lad's conversation he received another text message. This one from a very different person. Obviously this hacker had a bit of a conscience and sent him a text message explaining herself.


Sorry about the hack. Your setup was amazing though, I doubt anyone besides me could have done anything about it. I just did what I was paid for ya' know?
I'm not really deeply involved with these guys... and as a point of good faith there is an app there I designed to mirror both your original systems. When you're done, it will restore your system back to normal, and change your numbers and IP addresses while booting my access. I already stole my cameras back as well.

Gomen.

[Bloodedge]

While this woman spoke, Yugi occupied himself by inspecting the cause of his phone's additional vibration. He had another message, and it was from the hacker herself. Of course, he still kept an open ear for whatever dribble the purple-haired girl had to offer him. He even managed to respond while reading the unnecessarily-long text. "Way the world's supposed to be? Bishop? Competition?" he questioned in sequence. All the while, his eyes scanned the message in his phone. Everything was so annoying, and even the claims of kindness made by the hacker would receive no compassionate retort. With a sigh, Yugi let his phone fall to the floor before stepping on it, crushing the device under his heel. Either he'd find a way to acquire another phone later, or he'd do without one; it wasn't like he had many people to text or call anyway.

"Sounds dumb," he said. "So you're all in some freaky cult church, and you want me to take part in some competition full of freaks who think the world isn't the way it's supposed to be. Do you really think one competition can change the state of the whole world? Nothing works that way, and there's no way I could be helpful to your weird cause even if it could be that easy. Besides, you're not exactly offering any incentive. Well... unless 'we'll shoot you unless you cooperate' counts as a reason to join a gang of nutcases."

[Apollymi]

'Sound's dumb?' did he even understand what he was saying. She could tell he knew the truth and yet he was content to make it seem as if they were crazy. This unfamilar and wrong world wasn't where she wanted to be. "You really think that after you've seen it? What the world is like when everything works... when our powers work?!" she frowned intensely, her hand slamming down on the metal table hard enough that her fist was left as a print but she showed no sighs of visible pain or distress. Those guys were really so sold on this guy actually being capable, of letting the world be restored to what it was supposed to be. And yet, he acted like they were all crazy. Were these 'Geno Killer' obsessed people wrong? Did this boy just go on vacation or something and not to the other side? Did he own a copy of the Gate just because? "You're supposed to be a link, because you're the only one to go there and come back while being from here. The rest of us, ended up here while being from there we didn't get to go back... to be stuck here is an affront to who I am..." she said with a sigh as she calmed herself. "Whatever, no one here has actually ever shot anyone for not helping... but the Bishop won't like it. The competition is supposed to help open the gate and flip this world back to what its supposed to be. I'm not religious nor a nutcase I simply know I don't belong here..." she said. If this lad wasn't here to help she could hardly tell what the higher ups would actually want with him. Whatever the case, it wasn't her job to question, she was promised the world she knew and everyone else was a means to an end.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah. Dumb," he said, though his brow rose when he acquired a new tidbit of information. They knew he'd been to another world, where 'their powers' worked. One could only be discussing the situation he'd recently been pulled from, at this point. When more was said, it became quite clear that at least this woman had come from the world he so recently left. That made sense of why she looked the way she did, but claimed she wasn't into video games; why would she be after living the way she did before? "Sou ka. I figured it was a two-way street. Either way, I'm not sure what makes you think I'm supposed to be some link to open the path to that place. Just play the damn game, and you'll probably end up there anyway," he claimed.

Bishop this, Bishop that. The identity of this mysterious man was going to be bothersome from what Yugi could tell thus far, but he was more interested in the here and now. Finally taking a seat in the chair he casually flipped backwards, he stared into the purple-haired woman's face. "You're leaving out important information as well, y'know? You keep saying shit like competition, but that means too many things. What sort of competition are you even talking about? Besides that, you say you're not some cult of religious nutters, but you're following someone called a Bishop? Why?"

[Apollymi]

This girl's brow rose in suspicion as the boy stated that he thought it was a two way street. He was only partially right in this assumption. People did apparently travel from one world to the other in both directions but the streets didn't work two ways. The path he'd taken to get in, and the one he'd taken to get out were invariably separate. More like two parallel one way streets which never crossed paths but connected their two opposite directions. "If that worked for us everything would already be as its supposed to. That game... doesn't feel right and whatever method it uses to create gates between here and there can't be accessed by those who come from there," she explained tersely. The truth of the matter is after being picked up by this group, she'd tried this game they spoke of, but couldn't get into it. Nothing about its workings drew her in. Though she could see clearly it was based on the world she was from, it didn't draw her in properly. It was like the land of her birth rejected her understanding of it. And that was the single most distressing fact of ending up in this world.

It seemed that Geno Killer took issue with her use of the world competition but that was the word she'd been told to use. When the whole thing was explained to her, she'd called it a war. "Propaganda, is what they call it. When they described it to me I called it a war. But they said in this world people wouldn't participate in something called a War because it means something different. But you know what I mean right? You've been there so you understand that a War isn't whatever this world thinks it is. The War grants a prize and the prize is the wish... that would right this fallacy of a place," she explained. Perhaps she'd still get what she wanted out of this situation which was a conversation with someone who understood both sides. Not just the ones trying to push back into the other world, but someone who could pick apart these things she was being told. "Bishop is what our leader is called... Arch Bishop, in actuality but there he would have been called something different. But he said this world didn't appreciate the word. That it had too many negative associations," the girl explained. "Someone like that should be called a Witch." She gave this information freely because it was simply her desire to do so.

[Bloodedge]

Something was missing here. His assertion of the path between worlds being a two-way street was taken in an interesting way, as the purple-haired woman had previously been incapable of returning to her world by playing the game. "Sou ka," he muttered. "Not just the game itself, then. I figured as much." It seemed there was a greater puzzle to solve after all. If things went his way, he would have but a single reason to remain in his world, but he thought both himself and his person of interest would both be keen to stay on the other side instead. Of course, that would be to assume things worked in his favor. Either way, finding the path to that other world would be ideal. Perhaps he could work with these strange people after all. . .

Another question was answered, though not fully in the way he would have preferred. The competition previously mentioned was, in fact, a war of some sort. When this woman spoke of said war, a wish being granted at the end, and so on, something did come to mind. When he scoured through the files of Age of Eternity, Yugi had seen a great deal. Discovering the Ryuuko was a major boon, but quite a few scrapped or hidden ideas were seen... including something that had been called a war. "So let me guess... You want this world's Holy Grail, and someone in-tune with the other world enough to use it? I'm guessing not just anybody can make that thing do something, if it's even the same type of thing as the ones over there," he surmised. As for the aforementioned Bishop, there was yet another link to be made simply by uttering the word Witch. "So your Archbishop is a Warlock from there. I never actually ran into one of those, and I'm glad I haven't yet. By how easily you just ruined a table, I'm guessing they managed to keep even more power from there than you did? No way are you able to do that, with that frame, using any normal amount of human ability. So then... you're looking for someone who keeps as much power as the Witches do, maybe more, to make use of the Holy Grail and let all of you cross the border."

[Apollymi]

It seemed to this lass that the boy before her had been at least thinking about how the two places related. She had no real knowledge of it, she simply knew this world was absolutely wrong and she was tried of being here. Ah... but there were more interesting things afoot. The lad known as the Geno Killer apparently had a summary of what was going on here, given the little bit of information she'd supplied him. And much to her general surprise most of that information was correct or as correct as she'd been given anyways. "That would be the general idea yeah, but someone actually had to go and come back. That's the hard part though... until now, none one who's gone over has ever made their way back..." she explained the part of the situation she understood completely.

Her difference in words did enough to get the mind of Geno Killer working. "Sou ka, they said you were a top gamer and that it came with an amount of cleverness that was unusual. I didn't see how those sorts of things could be related but..." she stopped talking. "We found you immediately so I guess you haven't tried yet. It's harder to get them to work here but sometimes... they do. There are a couple of places that allow the use of those abilities. They are planning to stage the war there." she explained more of the plan. And a small smile appeared on her face. She was going there to feel more like herself and fight as she was born to do.

[Bloodedge]

"No one, huh?" he questioned rhetorically. He knew this to be false information, but they clearly didn't know about the other person he knew to have been returned here at the same time as him. There was no other way; he'd seen her disappearing while he felt himself doing the same. Ashikaga Kimiko was here... but none would have reason to suspect her as a player of that game. Anyone searching for Geno Killer would have suspected him to be involved with any sort of gameplay. Regardless, he wouldn't dare incriminate her at this point. "So you want... or rather, you need someone from here, who's been touched by the other side?"

His every question was leading, all for the sake of understanding why this odd group sought him in particular. Surely this Archbishop in question had made some prior attempt to create the gateway. Speaking of attempts, though, it was believed that he had no abilities from the other world simply because he hadn't been trying. That made sense. If he could retain any amount of his skills though, he would become something quite ridiculous. "You want me involved in what's obviously a combat tournament. I've got other shit to do. You realize I'm a high school student shuffling between part-time jobs, right?"

[Apollymi]

A nod came from this lass, it was obvious that she didn't know about the possibility of anyone appearing. What he went on to say were about what she expected of his current brain output. They did indeed need someone who had done both things, one or the other wouldn't be enough. Time and time again such things had been tried and they'd never gotten close enough to get anyone back where they came from. Perhaps what was missing was the touch of crossing both ways, perhaps that would let the proper wish be made. "Yes. That is the hope. Someone who has gone both directions is capable in a way those of us who can only go one are not. It is thought they'll be able to make the right wish. And currently they are betting on you..." she said with a fairly lax attitude. If this boy could do what they wanted she could return her life the way it was meant to be. Not this fake version of her world but the real one she remembered in her dreams.

"Combat is a means to an end. We can all use our powers during those time periods. We are trying to right the wrong of the world... restore it. If that wording makes more sense to you." she offered watching. It was unclear looking at this lad where his mind was leaning. "And we know of your situation, if you participated in the competitions you'd be awarded prizes... if you won at least. You'd actually have to be capable of harnessing some power though to guarantee that sort of thing," she stated. She wasn't allowed to speak of money in any direct way as it referred to this world. But they were at least preparing to keep everyone who was involved satisfied in someway, and if this was all it took to guarantee this lad's participation then she had no reason to keep the information from him.

[Bloodedge]

Hope. What a stupid, stupid word. The problems of this situation were piling up in Yugi's mind as he learned new information, and he already knew all he needed to determine his answer in the end. "Still dumb. You guys would suck at gacha games," he proclaimed. Sliding his way out of the chair, he took a single step away. They had already made it clear there would be no shooting in actuality, and he didn't have reason to believe the Archbishop's ire was something worth being concerned about just yet. "You don't have any reason to believe a person like me would be the answer to your problems, and you haven't even tried enough methods to solve it otherwise. Besides that, I didn't once hear you say anything to make me think you considered any other explanations for the situation. Why would the world be wrong? I went one way, and came back another. What you're talking about is time travel. I can tell you several reasons time travel isn't the case here, and every one of those reasons just adds to the reasons why I'm not doing shit for you people. It pisses me off when people don't even think their way through something that could be way simpler if they did."

As he spoke, there was the strangest occurrence. Unbeknownst to him, there was a brief shift in his dark brown eyes─ a temporary change to the color red. He'd had enough. There was, however, one other thing of importance to be addressed here; he had an interest in meeting one person. "Oi, hacker! You're obviously the only one being proactive about anything, so do me a favor and step out where I can see you," he said. There were words to be shared with the hacker, and he was done speaking through technology in that oh-so creepy way. Given how the hacker had been in touch with him thus far, he assumed this very room was bugged as well.

Meanwhile, the police holding Ashikaga Kimiko in custody finally made their way to the station. An interrogation room had already been arranged, and the officer named Satoru stood next to the table while they awaited the interrogator, and apparently Kimiko's lawyer. "Anything while you wait, ma'am? Coffee? Tea?" the man asked. Sure, he would be losing his job by the end of this ordeal, but he was resolved enough that such a thing wouldn't stop him from doing it. Besides, he understood this to be an inconvenience that he wouldn't have forced on anyone without proper reason.

[Apollymi]

"Gacha...games?" this word was unfamiliar to this purple haired lass but the other person who was indeed still monitoring this situation found herself coughing immediately. She felt like that statement attacked her. Still this meeting seemed to have reached a falling out. By the words of this lad, he had no intention of helping them at all. This was fine, they didn't expect much though apparently the higher ups had higher hopes. "Suit yourself, you might not end up with us... but you'll definitely end up there. If those eyes are any indication. The world is wrong..." she said in reference to the random color shift in his eyes, obviously he was in the other world at some point. She had no reason to assume the existence of two different places. And time travel? What could that possibly be about, all of this was well above her interest levels and paygrade. At the very least she might get to fight him later... as such it might be worthwhile in that case. She wasn't the type to chase beyond her orders and she'd already done what was necessary. No one could say she hadn't put in more basic effort than normal. "Go then. I don't really care."

The boy's upset words reached their spy in question and she though scared slipped out from a side door with a bag slung over her shoulder. She had on a plain black fluffy hoodie and a black pleated miniskirt beneath but that was about all one could tell of her outward appearance. Atop her head a messy ponytail in a fiery red color and golden orange eyes. "You really didn't have to say that like that you know. I did apologize after all. This isn't my normal kind of gig..." she explained her two fingers touching each other. She was abjectly curious about what he said about gacha games she'd gotten lots of advice about them but her own luck was absolutely abysmal. She could use another opinion on that matter, though the lad before her seemed like he might be a little too cranky to give that sort of information freely.

In the meantime, Ashikaga Kimiko found herself sitting in a chair in an obvious interrogation room. It was a bit disturbing. How did they expect people to be comfortable enough to talk to them in a place like this? The girl crossed her legs at the knees and sat back with perfect posture. How long would she have to wait? Did these people realize the kind of space they were putting between her and her goals. She would have been fuming, if she had all the information she needed already. Still this young officer who feared for his job was once again showing he was the only person she'd come in contact with since her return who was even remotely reasonable. He offered her a choice of coffee and tea. How strange. She'd already mentioned she wouldn't be answering any questions and as such she only smiled again. His resolve to treat her decently even after she gave him the option not to, needed to be rewarded. Even so she'd remind him of this option he kept refusing to take. "Gojo-san... the questions~" she teased just a tad. Perhaps that part of her was a bit more obvious than she'd originally given it credit for. Still she wasn't one to let a bit of good will go to waste. "Gomen, I am only teasing. I'll take a bottle of water if you have it." How easily she fell back into old habits. She had to watch her figure for now, no overindulgences. And after her mind began to drift again, how to find the Geno Killer? Would it be fruitful enough to search for him online? Did she need some idea of what his face looked like? What did she know about him that should make him easier to find? All these questions passed over her mind and she began working through each of them as their own trees of thought figuring out the amount of time and resources that would be required to see one from the beginning to the end.

[Bloodedge]

"Stay away from them. A gambling addiction wouldn't suit you," was all Yugi had to share with the purple-haired woman. According to her, he was going to end up involved in this 'competition' whether he did so with them or not. She mentioned his eyes, which was something worth thinking over. No matter; her earlier statement gave him all the confirmation he needed when addressing the hacker.

He was right; the hacker was listening, and she was close as well. She emerged in all the shady attire he would expect from an organization like this, but that didn't really matter. "I don't really care," he said about her apology, and about how this wasn't her normal type of 'gig' so to speak. "I didn't call you out to bitch at you or anything. Your work's really good for you to be able to hack my shit, but... a warning." Yes, there was something irksome about this entire scenario. Mostly, he had a problem with the fact that there was a competition, and an entire group sought to recruit him. What had been so recently said by the purple-haired girl was the final nail in the coffin to a theory he'd been holding since earlier in the conversation. "Wipe everything. If it's not too late, wipe all the evidence you have on me as well. That one's partially for personal reasons, but besides that... I'm sure the other groups like yours are going to come looking for me too. Who knows, I might change my mind about this whole thing later, but I've got more important things to do right now."

Kimiko was certainly a difficult one to deal with for Satoru. After his offer of something to drink, she once again reminded him that she would be answering no questions without a lawyer. He sighed, assuming he would not even be allowed to ask questions which provided her some amount of comfort during this ordeal. Ah, but it was apparently mere teasing. Maybe he wasn't cut out for this cop business anyway. Whatever the case, he sighed again before nodding. Off he went afterwards to retrieve a bottle of water.

Alas, Isao would not be the one returning. Instead, Kimiko was visited by a male with an average build, naturally white mid-length hair with no particular style to it. Though quite handsome, there were no notable features on his face, nor any particular shine to his golden eyes. He could be described as the epitome of the color white, wearing a white suit which went down to his ankles and perfectly matched his hair, underneath which, he wore a long-sleeved blue shirt that matched the color of his earring, of which only the scuffs were visible. The suit itself was white on the outside and black on the inside, with the suit's ten buttons, edging, cuffs and minor details on the inside and outside being gold in color. Matching his hair and his suit, the trousers and shoes worn by him were also white. Perhaps the most striking detail of his suit was the opulent high-neck collar, which had an intricate, black and gold design, with the most noticeable feature of it being a large gold collar clip resembling the infinity sign. He took a seat at the table, just across from Kimiko, and gazed endlessly into her face. "Konnichiwa... Ashikaga Kimiko," he greeted. "I thought I would have to find some alone time with you by force. Are you already tired of being back in this world, after being in the other for so long?"

Strangely, this man spoke without worry of being heard. There should have been cameras and audio surveillance in this interrogation room, but one would note that they had been... somehow, rather suddenly destroyed before he set foot in the room. As if he had no awareness of this destruction whatsoever, he sat before Kimiko, even mimicking the way she sat by crossing his right leg over his left knee, keeping his hands clasped in his lap with an unassuming smile on his face.

[Apollymi]

Aiba Yugi's request of the orange haired girl was a strange one. Meanwhile the purple haired girl thought over gambling and then rather astutely let herself fall into a very relaxed position. She didn't really care what else went on here. The girl with her orange eyes found herself looking at the lad with random curiosity. He claimed she should get rid of all the information she had on him, not as a favor to him but because it connected her to him. Along with everything about this organization. Strange for him to care what happened to someone else so randomly still there wasn't anything really to worry about. "Hm, this isn't my first rodeo or anything... I always get rid of that stuff. Hell I build computers and gear specifically for jobs from scratch and incinerate them afterwards. No harm no foul... I won't keep anything related to this, it will get rid of my plausible deniability. No worries," she said very easily. There was an extreme amount of truth in her words. Though she didn't like these strange jobs she took all the time, she was at the very least supremely conscientious in her work. With that the girl would go on to slip out of the door with only a casual wave over her shoulder. She was quite done here already and needed to get to the cleanup stage of her work so she could get back to spending her money.

After teasing that poor police officer the man left her presence. Kimiko managed to keep that same pleasant mask up for the next few moments until a white haired white clothed man made his way into her interrogation room. She stared at him with slight questions furrowing her brow. A hint of excitement in her soul as she thought he might have been the man she sought. He called her by name and took a seat across from her, making mention of her time in the other world but... something about that was wrong. 'I thought it might have been him... but everything about him leads me to believe that he's not rich here. Or at the very least he doesn't like it as an idea. No reason to assume he'd show up before me, dressed like that, when he claimed he wanted to be found either.' Her mind eliminated the idea that the famed Geno Killer would break into a police station just to see her. Especially in the case of being here. What was more, knowing it wasn't the Geno Killer she was looking for meant some other strange man had decided to speak to her instead. This man at the very least wasn't a police officer. That she knew, no police came looking that restful and well put together. They wore the stress of their jobs like badges on their faces and clothes. A level of unkempt was obvious even in the youngest of officers. She looked more at this man's clothing as he sat across from her in the same position she kept and noted the infinity like symbol around his neck. Those eyes of hers narrowed slightly and she began speaking aloud for the first time in several moments. "Do you work for my father? You're dressed a bit like you do. My statements about not answering questions stays and I'll feign ignorance about what you're talking about, unless you are here to get me out of this annoying situation."

[Bloodedge]

The good news was that this new girl already intended to remove all evidence of this exchange. The bad news, of course, was that she hadn't done it already. This may not have been her first excursion into shady activity like this, but he doubted she previously had anything to do with world-crossing, or the types that were sure to be born of such an event. Perhaps she had at least dealt with matters surrounding someone like him in this world, but that didn't matter presently. All Yugi could do now, was hope she properly addressed matters that needed tending to. "That's cool and all, but I wonder what that means for the other organizations having people just like you... ones that would have been looking for me the same time you were. Maybe it'll work out though, right?" he asked, seeming quite sarcastic. Whatever the case, he was done with this strange cult, and content to make his way home again.

The question of the white-haired man was not given an answer. Instead, Kimiko offered a question of her own. Did he work for her father? Not at all; he had no clue who the man was. The internal musings of Kimiko were an unimportant mystery, but there was one fact that mattered. In a way, he was here to get her out of this annoying situation, though not at all for the reason she would have wanted. "Feign ignorance if you like. You can't lie to me; I know you were there. I'm sure you remember me," he said, offering his right hand to the girl. "Come. We have a war to enter. When we're done, you can finally become my wife. Or before, if that suits you~" Regardless of his words, he had a simple intention when offering his hand. If Kimiko took it, she would find herself sitting at a very different table─ a dining table to be precise, in a candle-lit room that seemed to belong in a European mansion. Of course, the white-haired male would still be in front of her... and so would be a rather magnificent turkey dinner.

[Apollymi]

"Eh, too much pessimism in you..." she mumbled as she left. His sarcasm was noted. She could at least feel good that she'd tried at least, and that was much more than could be said of another young woman.

A scoff came from Kimiko as she was content not to move. This man's hand extended over the table and her hands remained clasped in her lap. Whether he was here to help her or not, she didn't like the casual phrasing of his statements. Beyond that she had no intention of taking this man's hand without being certain he was the man she was looking for. She wouldn't be the type of person who gave off the wrong vibes and beyond all of that there was only one man's hand she wanted to take, regardless of the faces he wore. This man... he didn't feel like those did and his attitude also didn't suit her current desires. "So, I am not taking your hand. I very honestly have no memory of you or anyone like you. I have no intention of joining a war nor being your wife. Those things are especially true, when I have no idea who you are, or what is being fought over, and most importantly what the benefit is to me doing so...." she said swiftly. Kimiko was nothing if not a negotiator on her own behalf. There was no way she was going to put herself in a strange position and at the mercy of a man she didn't know outside of the watchful eyes of others. Beyond all of that, if he wasn't her resident Geno Killer she had no intention of helping him in whatever his goals were, she wanted to find that young man and continue on her budding relationship. That didn't involve a random marriage to a man who claimed they'd do so. Especially not with someone who didn't believe in her choice in this matter.

[Bloodedge]

This girl claimed to have no memory of him, but that couldn't be true. He had every memory of her, and knowledge of her multiple faces. He claimed long ago that she would be his wife, and though she had never confirmed such a thing, he would have what he desired. "And why would you not? You joined the previous war, before we were brought to this pitiful version of the world. Between you and that boy... Yes, one of you must be Pride. I have decided that it is you, which is why you will be one of my wives. Who, but you, could say such a thing to the Archbishop representing Greed?" This man seemed to be initiating a bit of a rant, which had no foreseeable end to it. "I, Regulus Corneas, declare that you will be the best of them! There may be 78 others, but that doesn't matter. The love of Pride will outshine theirs! Now, stop toying around. We will return to the world we belong in, where the rest are. Once we gain the Holy Grail, we can raise a bridge to take us there... even if we have to tear this world apart to make it!" Well, he certainly seemed confident when making these proclamations. In fact, he truly believed there was no future other than what he stated.

[Apollymi]

This man before her seemed to have memories of her she didn't have of him. Interesting. She ingested enough science fiction as media to come to a general conclusion in that moment. Obviously they were from different points in the world's history. His words though were at least worth taking in and pulling apart between herself and that boy? Someone he saw as being equivalent enough to her for them to possibly have the same title. Yes... this was all the confirmation she needed that this man wasn't the one she was looking for. Moreover his little rant was full of things she could reduce even further down to useful information. He called himself an Archbishop of Sin and associated himself with Greed. This definitely wasn't something she could attribute to any of the Geno Killer's faces, though Pride seemed more likely she also knew the lad to possess something else at a much higher ratio, not that it mattered.

About herself she had but a few things to say, "Pride? That doesn't sound right about me... you must not know me at all." she said still sitting with those hands clasped together in her lap. "Though, admittedly nothing you've said in the last few moments makes much sense to me," she commented with nothing but that same serene mask of a smile upon her face. "First, even if I was the top, no girl wants to be in competition with 78 other women. If I am not someone's only choice I definitely have no desire to be just their top option... I have higher standards than that," She concluded easily the idea of destroying one world to get to the other also didn't sit right with her. "Second, if I did participate in a Holy Grail War, I wouldn't destroy anything. I have fond memories of this world and fond ones in that one. I'll have both worlds not one or the other. Your thinking is way too small for me. I'll get myself out of this..." she mentioned never once removing her eyes from this person. Her tone had been clear, concise and to the point though admittedly a tiny bit dismissive. She had no intention of getting involved. She had more important and better things to do. She didn't know what he expected, but she would definitely not be helping him destroy anything. Beyond all of that she had no intention of being involved in the destruction of her home world. Though she fully intended to return to the other one at her earliest convenience, those plans included a certain male individual she was in the process of tracking down.

[Bloodedge]

Pride didn't sound right, she said. He'd seen otherwise. This girl stood at the top of the world... a world of her own creation, in a way. Oh, but it seemed he was quite wrong in what that meant. Her refusal to acknowledge being one of many, her claim that his thinking was too small for her, her desire to have both worlds instead of sacrificing one for another─ they were such obvious signs. How could he have been so blind? He could see it so clearly in her face now, and hear it so loudly in her words. "You are..."

Though he thought himself otherwise, Regulus was among the greediest of people. To hear someone exemplify a greater greed than his own, he could hardly contain himself. His eyes were wide, and his grin wider. In his mind, he knew exactly what she was. Regulus rose from his chair, slamming his hands onto the table as he leaned over it excitedly. "Greed! All this time, and I never knew it was you! You are the Witch of Greed! I've got it all wrong; you're the one I should be following! How you wound up here is beyond me, but I am your servant, my Ruler!~ You want both worlds, yes? I, Regulus Corneas, will make it happen in your great name!"

[Apollymi]

This man took on a way too excited face looking at her. Had she just talked herself into a problem? There was skepticism in those eyes of hers and they moved on to being shocked and confused. The man in front of her, Regulus as he was calling himself, claimed that he was a worshipper of hers. He referred to himself as her servant. This was very strange, but it was obvious at this point that the man before her came from the other world and was familiar at least with some of her exploits, whether she'd completed them yet or not was an entirely different matter. "Uh-huh, I am not at all used to these sorts of mood swings, but if it means you'll do as I say and stop claiming you're going to marry me, it works in my favor," she said still seeming to be rather aloof about the whole of the situation. There was still the matter of this police station to deal with and the matter concerning both worlds, but her primary focus was locating the Geno Killer and nothing would get between her and that focus. "I am not the type of person to make others do things for me. I definitely don't want my name associated with an action I haven't yet fully sanctioned. If I am going to have both worlds I'll do it on my own terms and if I find use for you during that, I'll let you know. Regardless, before I even think about all of that... there is something I desire and it has nothing to do with you or your Holy Grail War. And I'll have it first and everything else is an afterthought," she said very firmly. She had no desire to be part of any other world shenanigans until she found the lad she considered her partner and settled up. Her own desires couldn't be denied by her and she'd have it this way or no way.

Making the general assumption that this man would be fine with the sort of terms she laid down she had but one more thing to say. "So, is there a specific way I contact you or is this one and done sort of thing?" she asked of the meeting. It was a surprisingly long amount of time between now and the officer leaving to get her water, and she had no intention of trying to explain this man's presence. Though given the amount of silence around them she could assume he had some left over power from the other world. Hell she was pretty sure he'd destroyed or stopped the cameras given that no one had barged in yet.

[Bloodedge]

Regulus would of course do as the 'Witch' said for the time being, but would he cease claiming they would be wed? Of course he wouldn't! He could see their wedding day as a clear and certain future, but it was of little to no importance at this very moment. His excitement grew nonetheless. This girl spoke of claiming both worlds on her own terms, and that was yet another level of greed he could only appreciate in the end. Her desire, as well, was for something very specific, yet unmentioned. Either way, the fact that she put her own desires first and foremost was exhilarating to one such as Regulus. No other could call themselves more worthy to be his wife, just as only he had enough greed to call himself the husband of this Witch! "Of course! Your desire is my desire! If I see your Greed fulfilled, then I am victorious!" he chanted.

It seemed Kimiko thought this may have been a temporary ordeal, his... 'alliance' with her. There was no such thing. How she even reached such a potential conclusion was beyond him, but as it was a question, he saw fit to answer accordingly. "Your Authority calls to me. Whether you understand or not, now that I know, I can feel it," he explained while grasping the air, as if holding something tangible in his hand. "You can reach me with Greed alone, or... call for me. So long as we have a connection, I will feel your summons... and answer immediately~"

[Apollymi]

"Uh-huh..." Kimiko muttered aloud. She still hadn't moved, her visage held that practiced smile but she was mostly just trying to get rid of this man. His words about her Greed being satisfied being a victory for him was one she couldn't believe. Mostly because she was fairly certain that if he understood what or rather who it was she wanted, he likely wouldn't be okay it. That was at least as assumable as her own desire to be someone's only choice. In fact, she couldn't imagine anyone properly told this man no, and didn't really want to find out what would happen if he actually felt like his outlandish notions were being challenged. Life and gaming experiences told her the outcome wouldn't be pretty. 'Hm, I really can't deal with this man until I am sure of my own powers here. To be honest this level of fanaticism makes me want to kill him... I feel like I'll end up doing so for my own safety at some point in the future,' she thought as absently as she'd thought about quitting GTA Online after being annoyed by another individual who thought they were suited to making claims for her time and attention. But the plan for now was non-binding placation and distance. And that would work, for a time at least.

Though the man before her gave her very creepy vibes, he was at least rather free with information. Whatever this Authority she possessed was, it called to him on a level deeper than she'd like. She'd have to figure out how to properly harness this at some point in the future, but for now, she knew she could potentially contact him again if she felt like it."Sou ka, this 'Greed' connects us and it will summon you to me if I feel like doing so," she paused her outward speech. 'This guy is more like a pet than a person. And not even one I'd choose for myself. That's so gross... It's like having a weird stalker that knows how I'm feeling...' Kimiko thought. She found something about this man repulsive but at least she understood a little of what triggered his worship of her. "Alright then. I need you to go for now. I don't want to have to explain you to the cops. Nor do people just doing their jobs need to be harmed to get me out of here. If I find use of you... I'll summon you. Until then, stay out of my way..." She said the last with a smile on her face, but there was an underlying seriousness in her eyes. Some people found this sort of speech from her threatening but it was one of her most basic personality functions to be this way.

[Bloodedge]

What would she have of him first, he wondered. No matter the case, it would all be progress toward her overarching goals in the end, and thus would progress his own goals as well. As the Sin Archbishop representing Greed, his ultimate desire was ensuring the fruitful endeavors of Greed itself... and in this case, Kimiko was the embodiment of Greed. She at least understood that it was her Greed keeping them connected, which would always be the case so long as he served her as Archbishop. That, of course, was something he would never not do, so long as she proved herself to be the Witch of Greed, as he knew in the depths of his soul that she was. "When needed, yes. I will claim victory in the war regardless, but it will make quite the statement when the Witch herself decides to join."

Now, there was the matter of what Kimiko actually wanted. Her intention was for him to leave, all so she didn't have to explain things to the police. She didn't believe the officers and investigators needed to be harmed, and would rather he stay out of her way until she had use of him. How foolish; he had already made himself useful. That same unassuming smile stretched across Regulus' face once more, as he explained the situation Kimiko was actually in here and now. "I offered you an exit through my hand earlier, and you refused. Walk out of this building. No one here, besides us, has even been able to move since I arrived. Any records of you being brought in, don't even exist. Go. Seek your goals."

[Apollymi]

She wasn't quite sure how she felt about his statements of need. She didn't need him, she didn't really want him if she was being honest. But that was a simple matter, her own desires were for another. It likely didn't help that he gave off creepy vibes but that may not have been entirely his own fault. "Hmm...." there was much to consider though and none of it required a direct answer. Until of course the ending.

Strangely this man had already made himself useful according to him, he'd already erased her arrest and questioning. Beyond this none here would even remember, that she'd been here. How strange. Kimiko stood for the first time and walked towards the door. She didn't like the idea that she was taking any kind of order from this man and strangely felt the need to maintain a certain amount of dominance over him. She opened the door and peeked out into what should have been a bustling police station and found it still. Motionless soundless, even to the point of it being unnerving. "Sou ka. That is actually pretty reasonable work. Nice job." she said not one to hold back praise even when creeped out. If nothing else, she had to respect his moxie. Even if she didn't like it being directed at her. She turned back to him as she pulled her hood up over her head in the manner she felt most comfortable. "Don't get the wrong idea though. I take what I want... and that last part still stands. Ja ne~" She ended their conversation with the reminder that she wanted him to stay out of her way. She had no desire to get too caught up with this individual, though now she had a full idea that her powers might still be useful here. She'd have to test them, as well as doing something else.

Ashikaga Kimiko moved about in her pink hoodie, dodging the random bodies of the frozen police officers until she hit the outdoors. Assuming nothing else got in her way, she'd be walking the streets of Shibuya that she remembered with new thoughts in her head. All of them concerning the Geno Killer and how to find him. She remembered waiting on his reply during their gift exchange in Atlantis. She'd been such a ball of nerves for days and days. She wasn't sure how she planned to find him exactly yet, but she knew she'd need at least a little time. Perhaps then there was a way to let him know. A smirk came to her face, as she had an idea. It was a pretty simple idea for a very unique message to be left for the lad and as such her path of walking took her towards their favorite arcade. Once there she placed a token in a certain game, one that came to mind because of their discussions. An earlier version of GTA which was like an arena battler game. It was considered a classic but she'd had a good go of it a few times. Here she'd stand and play for a reasonable amount of time. With her hood up at this hour no one was really playing attention to her. This place was one of her favorites because as long as one didn't come here during the school release rush it was quiet. Perhaps this was why the lad known as Geno Killer also frequented this place. Leaving this message would take a great deal of time, and almost broke the high score mechanic. Even so, it was worth it to leave this message, three top scores were created by her. All of them a single word to give the lad some understanding of her current motivation. 9,012,012. That was a really high score. Higher than even the last one up. 6,901,404 A number also basically unattainable by anyone else. 2,515,021. All of those things together were a bit more complicated as a cipher than her original one to him. Each 0 was just there as a place holder, to bolster her scores enough that they couldn't be topped. Moreover, each of the sets of digits beyond that were connected to a letter. A secret message from Kimiko to Geno Killer so he'd know not to give up on her. It was simple this message and though the puzzle was slightly more complicated, she had faith he'd understand. Her desires were strong and she needed him to know how she felt. That message... would he even see it? After spending what most would consider a ridiculous amount of time, inside of this Arcade she left walking back towards her own house. She could have called for a car, but she'd use her walking time to think.

[Bloodedge]

The most casual bow was all Regulus gave as a response to Kimiko's praising. One didn't need to tell him he'd done well; it was simply a fact of life that all he did could be considered an amazing method of doing anything. It seemed however, that Kimiko wished to have him stay away from her regardless. It didn't matter if they were in close proximity; the Witch of Greed would acknowledge his efforts, and there was nothing short of truth in that. "As you wish, my greedy mistress. I'll be seeing you~" he offered as a farewell, seeming content to remain in the vicinity while Kimiko took her leave.

After the annoying meeting with some strange, otherworldly cult, Aiba Yugi made his way home. It had been a while since he'd eaten, even in the other world, but he was in for a time that was both satisfying and unsatisfying. Poor as he was, there was hardly a thing in that storage crate he used as a home besides cup ramen. Naturally, he was going to eat and enjoy it, but he couldn't do so at all without his mind wandering. Kimiko had once mentioned never experiencing cup ramen before─ a moment in which her status as an incredibly wealthy individual showed itself. He remembered being adamant about the idea of locating an equivalent in the other world, just to offer her the experience those in her situation were missing. How droll; the one thing he could think to offer was an almost mandatory meal for those in his own situation. Ah, but he was thinking too much about that. In his mind, there was a very real chance that all those thoughts and decisions no longer mattered.

Once he'd eaten, Yugi decided it was time to return to life as he knew it. He couldn't sit around being lost in his own head forever. He was the Geno Killer, and as such, there was something he always had to do. He left home again, heading to his most frequented arcade as he always did. He was closer at home than he was when heading there after school, so he arrived just a bit earlier than he normally did. Still, the setting sun bid him farewell as he stepped inside the darkened building to play a large chunk of his evening away. There was little traffic, but he always arrived wearing an oversized brown trench coat with a high collar, and a large hat which cast a shadow over his face. There were so many leaderboards to be topped by the lad who looked far sketchier than he needed to, though apparently not much worse than the regular, sweaty customers entering this arcade. One after another, he took away top scores─ including his own from days before. One particular game captured his eye for unusual reasons. Grand Theft Auto was something he and Miki had discussed during their time in Eonis, and the nostalgia of the conversation alone brought him to play for a bit. The interesting thing came when he saw the top three scores, which made him take pause after a moment of observation. Was he to take some sort of message from those three scores, made by a single person in a single sitting? Perhaps he could crack the code, if so. Ah, yes... there were a few ways he could look at this and take some sort of message, but there was one method used which made his eyes widen toward the screen. "Nana... juuni, juuni..." he chanted as he counted each number in his mind. A few moments later, there was a grin upon his face. Well, perhaps he would return a message. . .

Yugi's eyes began to glow red in a way he couldn't realize himself, as he focused on the game ahead of him. All onlookers were capable of seeing was the wide grin on his face, but a few others did swarm around him while watching the highest score be challenged. It was almost as if something had come over him; his performance in this game could be called nothing short of perfection. This arcade's games had a certain feature he wanted to use, which allowed the top score of a game to issue challenges to others on the leaderboard, so long as their own score overthrew second place by a certain amount. With what Kimiko had managed, there was only one way for him to issue challenges in this game. One hour. For one hour, the Geno Killer played a single run until he achieved the highest possible score. When the time came to insert his name at the end, the top number shuffled at one second intervals between 9,999,999, and 0,000,001 while the game attempted to reach a number it couldn't fit on its screen. Now, he could return the message. After 'Geno Killer' was inserted, he pinned numerous scores in a very specific order. He had to scroll nearly to the bottom of the list. Ten challenges could be issued, and ten were issued. The first was a low score, only 9 points. Afterwards, he challenged one who scored 13 points, then one who scored 23 points. A random challenge was given to someone who managed to score only a single point, then another 9. Yugi then challenged a 20, yet another 9, a 14, and a 7. Only one remained, and it was the perfect number... because the final challenge was issued to what had become the #2 score on this game's leaderboard─ Kimiko's own.

With all of that done, it was time to take his leave. Those who sought the Geno Killer would soon be looking for him again, so Yugi thought to vacate the arcade before word spread around too much. All in all, he left half a dozen patrons crowded around one machine, but it didn't seem to be much of a problem. Back home he'd go. . .

[Apollymi]

While the Geno Killer spent a whole hour crushing high scores. A young blonde girl found herself watching for quite a while. What a strange boy. She'd been looking at this same arcade for quite a few days and had seen the other girl in the pink hoodie play the same game for hours. She'd watched as that girl left with a smug satisfaction on her face and she'd waited for others to move about. She seemed to go unseen. But every time she even gently bumped into someone, they immediately felt better. It was simply as if her being nearby brightened the lives of others. A pockmarked boy's face was cleared, a young woman with a limp suddenly straightened her gait. Oh, these were simply the movements of a place way too crowded for its own good. This world was so full... surely they should do something about it. Surely, the one she was looking for might have a better time doing something about this problem. This boy in the oversized trench coat was grinning as he played, very similar to that girl. But here and now, there was something done she hadn't even imagined. 'He beat a score like that? For what?' she wondered. Surely with those eyes that came from the world beyond, he could have done literally anything else with his time... perhaps... it was the sign she'd been searching for. She didn't recognize this lad, but they felt kindred in a way. Perhaps there was an obvious similarity. There was one she felt in her very soul, a pull from the deep. She pushed those blonde locks away. Tucked them deep under her blue and white hat. She took up pace walking alongside the lad as he headed home.

"I wonder, if you're a sinner like me?" she questioned. "I thought that girl might be Pride but she wreaks of something else. I can smell her in the air, she smells like him. Oh well... I can't associate myself with her. But you... you could be Pride." she said softly. "Or maybe not... you might be a bit too familiar to be that," she spoke easily. She wasn't like the previous people. She'd been active. For quite a long time she'd been in this world. Enough that she understood games and things. Perhaps even a bit of an Urban Legend herself now that she moved about in such a way. Not that it mattered she turned her large blue eyes up at this young man and waited for his reply.

[Bloodedge]

Home... that was his goal. Maybe eventually, he'd be allowed to do the things he wanted in the time he wanted to do them. He wanted to think over recent occurrences, and some annoying cult got in his way. He wanted to play his games, and his own secret identity got in his way. He wanted to go back home and be done with the events of this day, and now... he was being followed by another damned psychopath! Someone talking to him out of the blue while he made this trip was hardly strange. He was approached like this every now and again by pesky children, usually trying to pin him as a flasher, or a train molester. He never let the speeches bother him on his scenic trip home, but the words spoken by this feminine voice were of a different nature entirely. . .

Was he a sinner? In many ways, he would agree without a second thought. In this world alone, he had caused such horrible things to happen through actions that he thought were for the best at the time. Strangely though, this girl seemed to be on a very different wavelength than even himself. This talk of 'Pride' and some girl, who went compared to him in such a way could only have been Kimiko during her earlier arcade trip, was... somewhat off-putting. "Yare yare," he uttered, knowing this was about to be another thorn in his side. "What the hell are you even talking about? Pride? Sounds dumb; go away."

[Apollymi]

"Hm?" the girl's large blue eyes flickered over this lad. He did indeed have the general look of a molester or flasher, but that didn't matter. She'd seen the glow in his eyes, she knew there was something much more to him than something so mundane. "I'm looking for a Witch of Sin. I can sense them, Pride is the leader of all we'd all follow that one, but..." she paused. "No one knows who Pride is. I thought it might have been that girl her actions made it seem so... but then, she got Greedy!~" she chimed seeming to find it amusing. "She's definitely the Witch of Greed. So... she'll be associated with him," she mentioned. "Ah, but you wanted me to go away. That's strange, someone who came from the other world should be a bit more happy to see another like them. Unless you've already ran into one of the others... then it would make sense that you weren't happy to find another like minded individual!~" the girl spoke like she was thinking about things and she was, but there was more at stake than something so small.

"One who was Pride would definitely admit it though..." she said softly. "So you have to be one of the other ones then. But what sins fit a gamer aside from Greed and Pride?"

[Bloodedge]

Of course... this one was also going to yammer on about something that should never have mattered to Yugi in the first place. In only three words, 'Witch of Sin' to be specific, she proved her association with that troublesome group from earlier. Yugi sighed. He knew there were going to be other factions that caught up to him. This one was... Pride? No; that didn't make enough sense. He could now assume some association with the seven cardinal sins, and therefore seven factions representing each of them, but... he couldn't imagine someone representing Pride to be this girl. Perhaps she was Lust. She did, after all, have the look of some strange, otherworldly nun; people were into that. It didn't matter regardless. "So, you think that girl was a Witch called Greed. And you think I, a dude, am also a Witch... of Pride? It's not getting any less dumb," he proclaimed.

This girl was convinced that he was whatever 'Witch' she was looking for in that head of hers, only wondering witch one. If all it took was letting her believe otherwise to make her leave him alone, he'd simply have to avoid showing any qualities one would expect. Yes, that would surely work! "There's no point calling me a sinner because I'm a gamer. For your information, I avoid stuff that would be called sins. Everything I do is for good purpose; I can't help any negative connotations you get from the aftermath, and they're not my fault," he said, in spite of the fact that he spoke from a very real place deep within... and certainly thought those negatives to be his fault. For now, all he wanted was to say something that would make this girl leave.

[Apollymi]

It seemed he didn't want her to go away just yet. Was he fishing for information? Probably but that didn't much matter. She'd give him what he needed until she pegged him for a sin. Either, he'd be one she could tolerate or he'd be one she avoided. It was very simple she only needed to figure out which one he was. "Yes, I am quite sure she is... she smells even more Greedy than that Archbishop and he's the greediest person I've ever known. I hate him..." she clinched her right hand together in a tight fist. She imagined punching that man right in his smug face, of beating him to a bloody pulp. But... alas that would never be. There was fury burning beneath the surface of her person. "But Witch is a general term it doesn't have those male and female connotations. If you'd rather be referenced as a Warlock I suppose I could. This world is full of those types, I guess I shouldn't be surprised..." she said speaking of the culture of people who were overly concerned with male and female pronouns.

Still this lad's words may have been meant to put her off, but her own mind began to wander as he spoke. He spoke of only trying to do good, of the aftermath not being something that was his fault of a deep connotation. "I've been here a very long time... and I've seen the kinds of creatures gamers become, since the inception of such an idea~" she mumbled. All this lass had been pulled over here quite a long time ago. So long in fact, that she'd had plenty of time to learn new languages, earn new fames and see the same great anger burning in the back of her mind. "But those words... those are the words of someone kindred. Oh!" she seemed excited as she clapped those little hands of hers together. "You do the right thing and watch it go wrong? Do you save many to lose that which is important?!" she questioned her eyes going rather wide and large at the same time. "Are those hands of yours stained in blood that saved and harmed!? Lungs tainted by breaths that exist because you willed it even though every breath is full of burning fury at how stupid they all are!?" Closer and closer the girl got, though she seemed to be on the verge of a mental break. "Do you cry the tears of rage because no matter what you do, it always comes back to that same stupid moment!?~" This girl's tirade was in general one of psychosis but also of truth. Her fists were clenched so tightly her hands should have been bleeding but no harm came to her person. She punched the wall of the nearest building repeatedly and yet nothing happened but the wall began to break. Literally nothing about this girl should have shown that kind of strength and yet, she was unharmed by her own actions. No one could ever be harmed by her direct actions, not even herself.

[Bloodedge]

"Smells greedy? Alright. Cool story," he said in the flattest tone he could muster. Whatever area of the other world this one had come from, she seemed sold on the idea that 'Witch' was not quite as gender-exclusive as this world would have him believe. He didn't care; there was nothing linking him to such an identity. Witch, Warlock, he didn't care for any of it. While he was here and human, he would rather remain upbeat with the new information he'd received worth being excited over. Kimiko sent him a roundabout message to announce that she was searching for him, but sadly, she wasn't the only one who sought his attention. One could only wonder if she was meeting the same types of freaks he'd been seeing all day.

What Yugi thought to be a method of removing this girl from his presence... was very much the opposite. In a moment of revelation, he came to the conclusion that he would have been best seeking more knowledge before going with that method. His mind was too busy for this problem to be in front of him now. Busier yet, was the blonde who grew more psychotic by the moment! What was she even going on about? The words he spoke were kindred? That could mean so many things, but the true meaning became clear only as her excitement grew to unmanageable levels. Words flew from her mouth like objects carried by a conveyer belt gone haywire, and her fists slammed repeatedly into a wall that should have shattered the bones of a human assaulting it─ yet she remained intact while the wall began to crumble. Of seven sins, there was only one that could suit these actions and words... and he knew if there was any chance of him being a Witch, Warlock or whatever term applied, it was certainly suited to how he often felt deep inside. Slowly, he backed away. This girl was beyond erratic, and though Yugi doubted he could properly remove himself from her, he thought to put as much space between them as possible while offering his reply. "Alright, so which answer will get you to not try and recruit me for that crazy tournament those other guys were talking about? I don't plan to be anybody's tool for some war to change this whole planet into a thing I play as a video game─"

[Apollymi]

Yes, the girl smelled greedy, but that wasn't exactly all there was to the explanation. In truth the smell of those who held Authorities, was strong and slightly different for each of the ones which existed. Those who were attuned with such powers could both feel the connection to those powers when they were alike enough and smell the scents of ones they weren't aligned to. Such was a sensible way for the world to work.

At the same time the girl's excitement hit a fever pitch. She knew for a fact that this lad was one with the same feeling of hers. She hadn't been able to see it initially but the familiarity in his tone was one which she understood greatly. Her hands covered in brick dust, her manic outburst stopped, just as suddenly as it had started. She noted the amount of space this lad put between them and turned to him with a wide smile on her face. "Recruit?! No you have the wrong idea..." she said. "I don't know which one you saw before but only those who don't know what you are would try and recruit you... but I know... I know!~" the girl said. "I don't want to recruit you. I'm not meant to... I'm meant to work for you. You're my Ruler!~ Or maybe you prefer King?! A Warlock of Wrath!~ I didn't expect to find such a person!~" there were tears in her eyes. Perhaps she'd finally found whatever redemption she was seeking? Or maybe she was truly unhinged? "I don't know what I want, but I don't belong here... if there is something you wish out of that place, I'll see that you get it... you only need know one thing~" she mentioned holding her fingers together in a tiny space to make one thing about her clear. "I can't harm anyone... it isn't how Wrath speaks to me nor works through me. I can harm no one... directly. And I have no control over the consequences of my actions~" she chuckled after saying this like it was the funniest thing in the world. In this case, she wasn't looking to recruit, more or less she was looking for someone to make use of her skills. And the Witch of Wrath should have been the person she followed. If he wished to be called a Warlock she'd do that. If he didn't wish to participate in the tournament she'd not. No matter what if he wished it of her, if she could do it, she would. What a strange amount of devotion for someone she'd only recently seen and met. "Oh right. I'm Minerva and I am the Sin Archbishop representing Wrath," she said bowing before this lad.

[Bloodedge]

Apparently, this weird woman didn't intend to recruit him at all. Now that he thought about it, the purple-haired one earlier spoke of her leader being something one would call a Witch. So, this one thought he was the Witch of her faction, and resigned herself to servitude? How strange. At the very least, it seemed she was much calmer now; that was a huge plus in Yugi's book. He could certainly hear what she was saying, whether it meant anything in the end or not. "Ruler, huh? King? That's all pretty weird, but whatever keeps your wig from flipping, I guess. Whatever."

The Archbishop Minerva, as she claimed to be, offered an explanation of her powers... her limitations. All things considered, she seemed to be some strange sort of healer class. That explained why she had taken no damage at all from all the wall-punching she'd done, and Yugi could see a few benefits to having such a person around... but something else she said struck him the wrong way. The lad glanced left to right, then slipped into the nearest alley, avoiding the eye of others. Another cult of Minerva's ilk knew his identity earlier this day, so there was little point in keeping that silly trench coat and hat on now. Still within the alley, assuming Minerva remained at least within earshot, he kept the discussion going. "Archbishop of Wrath... long title," he started. "So... what do you mean when you say you can't control the consequences of your actions?" This question was, by far, the most important subject to Yugi in this conversation thus far. He had already begun toying with the idea of being this supposed Witch/Warlock of Wrath, but the reason behind said consideration was the same reason behind his inquiry. If this status was connected to some sort of power that he was allegedly meant to have even in the current world, he demanded understanding of it... or even, justification for events long since passed.

[Apollymi]

According to this lad as long as she was calm he was alright with her. Was this acceptance of her as his servant? She hoped so, she remained calm but there was a light of excitement in her eyes as she managed to keep herself nearer to more reasonable levels of emotion. The lad slipped into the alleyway, assuming he wished for privacy she didn't follow and instead found herself at the end of it close enough to hear but not looking directly in his path. His question about her abilities was indeed the correct one to ask. But why did he bother to question it? Perhaps his power hadn't properly manifested yet, perhaps then there was still time. "I mean it as I said it. I cannot hurt anyone, directly. But I can't control what happens afterwards. This power re-writes what is true and makes it the opposite. If I act against something it heals. If I am enraged fight, I heal with every blow. This will work even to the brink of death. But the magical power of such an action is ripped directly from the world. So at random, tragedy will befall another, every time I act. Such is the nature of Wrath as I hold it." Her words were simple but very clear. She could heal millions directly but kill just as many indirectly because of the universe righting itself. Of course, she had no idea who or what would be damaged as a result of her actions, but she knew it to be a direct connection. Whatever the case, she would act as directed from this point forward. "No worries though, if I am your servant I will act according to your wishes and not my own. If you want to reign random terror down upon the masses I will make it so, but if you'd rather use me more effectively... I will not act without permission." Her voice held a sing-song quality at the end of this... sentence she seemed to be wholly relieved and strangely agreeable. Perhaps she would rather be used as a weapon than have the weight of each of her actions fall to her own shoulders.

[Bloodedge]

Interesting information was to come in a matter of moments, while Yugi shoved his hat into a backpack and slung the discarded coat over his shoulder. Minerva revealed the truth, and Yugi began to believe in this power. A life saved meant a life lost, and vice versa. What then, would happen if numerous lives saved by a single action created a chain of horrendous events? It certainly seemed viable, and therefore functional as an explanation for his own past. Frankly, Yugi wasn't sure if he should feel relieved... or annoyed by this 'power' he allegedly possessed. "Karma as a superpower... maybe even as a cost to the use of power. That's weird. I think I might hate it," he said somberly from within the alley. Soon enough, he emerged. This girl announced her status as a servant to his will. Yugi wasn't one for absolute servitude, but she was from the other world. He could be fair here, and also secure a future for himself and others.

Regardless of what that other group believed and sought, Yugi wanted access to the other world on a whim. If all things went according to his desire while Kimiko searched for him, and after successfully discovering his true self... then what if they became separated? He'd been moved between worlds twice now, neither time by choice. His sister was dead to this world, but very much alive in the other. His life there was exciting, even though he thoroughly enjoyed the dual life of a gamer and urban legend in this world. Being able to run from one to the other was so titillating, how could one resist? Moreover, it was best to let those who were foreign to the current world return from whence they came, lest there be chaos here. "Yare yare. For right now, I guess my choice has been made until I hopefully get a very specific second opinion. Don't go reigning terror on anyone who hasn't done wrong. I'm heading home. I guess that weird chick was right, though... I'll probably end up in that Holy Grail War after all. Oh, and.... fix that wall if you can, yeah? Don't just go around breaking stuff."

[Apollymi]

"I do hate it... but that is part of the reason it works for me~" she still sounded happy but there was a dark edge and dark light in those bright blue eyes of hers. And in that moment it was obvious that she was old, much older than her body would make her seem. Years and years played in those eyes in just a few seconds. Whatever the case her new King had orders for her which were specific but also slightly vague. He didn't want her harming anyone who didn't deserve it. She was to fix the wall she broke and be at the ready for some potential event in the future. "I will do my best to follow these directions. I will be around if I am needed," the lass said and then she walked towards the wall she'd broken while her master went on about his day.

As Yugi had more strange encounters, Kimiko had one which was a bit more normal. After she'd gotten some lunch and left the arcade her phone had vibrated a reminder for her weekly meeting with her therapist. As a matter of absolute curiosity she'd found herself in the office of one Kitera Ume and within this office the black haired girl was sitting in her favorite chair discussing her current developments in very non-specific terms. It'd become obvious to her since she'd showed up here, that this version of her therapist wasn't yet a player of AoE. Kimiko had softly explained that playing the game she'd met someone and she'd wished to find that person. This had ended strangely in the lass asking for some advice which was currently being played out. "So, do I actually look? Like is it selfish of me to look?" She asked of the young woman. Kitera pushed her purple glasses up onto her nose and began to speak. She didn't directly answer the lass' question but instead walked her through her own thought processes. "You are worried that the connection you developed without knowing each other in person will crumble once you are more than just pixels on a screen. This is a very normal insecurity to have... you shouldn't feel bad for having such an anxiety, Ashikaga," she explained. "Also I wouldn't outright call it selfish. We all get curious when what we see and know of someone is only part of who they are... and we all aim to piece together what we can based on that. Figuring out if our ideas and realities match up, is a normal thing," she concluded. "Kitera you never really answer my questions you know? You always just point me in the direction you think I'm already leaning... that's weird." Kimiko mentioned as she anxiously twirled one of her pigtails between her fingers. "I am aware of all of your nervous habits as your doctor. I know how you feel and I cannot tell you directly what to do. Nor can I say if you are right or wrong based only on what you tell me. I can only make guesses based on your own mannerisms. And what I see now...." she gave a brief pause as she removed her glasses. "Is a girl who has obviously developed feelings she is has never had before and is trying to process them. Who is a bit afraid of rejection. But you can't allow a simple fear to stop you from doing something. If you need some assurance, I assume there is a way you can find out that you should. And knowing how proactive you are... you've at least partially taken care of that already," she said and Kimiko's eyes widened at her rightness. "I would advise you find the answer you set yourself up for, and proceed the way your heart will allow you to, opening up a bit can sometimes be painful. But... it can also be wonderful," she mentioned as another timer beeped. "And that is the end of our session. You've shown a lot of growth this week. Do make sure not to worry anyone with your non-disclosure agreements. And I'll look forward to hearing what you decided."

And with that... Kimiko gave a gentle bow and left out of the office. What a surreal experience. While she thought this over, she pulled her hood back on and placed a large pair of sunglasses over her eyes. In her own eyes, she was perfectly disguised as she headed back to the arcade. It had been more than half a day since her last visit perhaps she'd received a bit of confirmation. Though the walk she took there was admittedly slow as her heart beat in her chest at a strange frequency. And she once again argued with herself over her doubts. 'Come on Kimi, you can't go making outlandish declarations multiple times, and be scared of a bad reaction. He... can be trusted.' she felt that thought in the depths of her soul.

[Bloodedge]

Once he was home, Yugi took all the time necessary to consider what he'd learned after returning to this world. Up to seven cults of some sort existed from the world he'd been plunged into. At least two of said cults wished to experience their home again, even if for different reasons. The first he met... was quite problematic. With this new Wrath faction, though, he could at least take matters into his own hands. The important thing to consider for now, was this power of Wrath. . .

For every action, there was a reaction. This ability could not harm without helping elsewhere as he understood, but he also could not help without doing harm. The latter stipulation was not one he could not tolerate at all. What good could he even do, if every positive resulted in the same amount of negativity coming as a repercussion? Nonsense! This was just another puzzle to be solved, and he'd sit atop his futon and contemplate a way to avoid such ridiculous drawbacks before making use of a power. Actually... what if he had been making use of that power actively all along? It could easily be likened to situations earlier in his human life, but also potentially manifested in his Avatars. There were certain abilities his various selves utilized that simply felt... different when triggered with anything resembling a vengeful mindset. Was this the core of Wrath? If that were the case, he may have been on the right track already. If not, he would have to solve a different sort of puzzle─ one he would undertake with the intention of removing Wrath from his being entirely. 'Mendokuse. If there's one thing I actually hate, it's a negative drawback like that. I feel like there's something there, though...' he thought. Perhaps it was best if he gave heavy consideration to the skills he had in mind?

'Counter... Constant Flux... Everything Akashi does... and...' Yugi's eyes widened as he stared into his ceiling. His most recent Avatar had something that fit so perfectly. Within it, there was the ultimate ability to enhance all damage output at the cost of himself. Could that have been it? Perhaps the power of Wrath came with consequences simply due to how it was being used previously. The counter ability of Kou had no such feeling, but maybe 'counters' were the solution.

[Apollymi]

'He can be trusted.' It was her mantra. 'He can be trusted.' Kimiko had to keep repeating it, so she could believe it. 'He can be trusted.' Oh? Something was a bit amiss. Unlike the time previous there were several people crowded around the Grand Theft Auto game machine. Several were wearing matching school uniforms and were discussing the Urban Legend known as the Geno Killer. "Wait don't let anyone get rid of it, before we take a picture!" said one. "Yep! He was definitely here, challenged a bunch of random scores. No one saw any reason though!" another guy said. "Shit we barely missed him, but why challenge a bunch of low scores if he beat the high one?" they questioned aloud. Kimiko squeezed through to see the machine and what she saw made her face break out into a strange smile. She looked at the screen and saw that he'd flipped the numbers on the high score, but more over, there were 10 challenges issued. "Oi oi, don't challenge it, we're trying to figure out why he did it!" someone excitedly uttered. "Sou ka, no problem, I just want to see it too..." she said. After a few moments she saw the challenges issued in addition to her now secondary score. The cipher was her own so it was rather easy to read in the moment. Placing those numbers in order her eyes lit up and an excited giggle escaped her. She then turned and left the arcade with a confused group of young teens staring at her. "Eh? Maybe she was just crazy. No one gets the Geno Killer!" one child exclaimed.

He was wrong. She fully understood, she could have squealed her happiness in this moment. 'He's waiting!' Knowing that information made the girl's heart so light. She couldn't even help but feel quite elated at it. And with that lightness in her heart came the clarity of her mind. She had to think about how best to find him. He claimed in two of his forms to have given her all the information she needed to find him. And had gone beyond to claiming he wanted to be found. As she walked towards her own home again she began putting together her next set of thoughts. What did she know? 'He goes to my school. He loves puzzles and video games. He has an oddly political mind and is a bit ill tempered. Can't complain about that last part, I get it.' She thought in a line of branches into several different lines of thought. 'Wouldn't be directly involved with Student Council we're similar and I am not involved with them either though they want me to be. It's carrying and the Geno Killer doesn't carry.' She marked off a line of thought completely and back tracked. 'Ill-tempered means he could be a punk, but... that doesn't fit with the big-brother mentality either. His sister is a bit spoiled by his attention and admitted to being sickly while she was here. He wouldn't do anything that could have potentially jeopardized her. Mark that off too.' Her walk towards home had become a roving map in her mind as she tried various lines of thought to get her towards figuring out the Geno Killer's identity. 'People know he does puzzles, because he finds that annoying he hides his identity in video games. He even advised me to do the same when we talked on the ship. That means, no one would know who he was, if I mentioned gaming. Knowing his gamer tag also lets me rule out any potential claims anyone would have to being him but so does his love of puzzles.' She moved forward from that thought to the next one pausing at a crosswalk. That was a pretty straight forward line of thought which led her pretty close to a reasonable conclusion, ah, but that wouldn't really work at face value. 'Hm, but he doesn't want people bothering him. He wouldn't just be a member of the Puzzle Club. I couldn't just walk in looking for him...' she twisted that lock of hair around as she continued to think over this problem. She took it back a few steps. 'He doesn't want people bothering him, and he wouldn't be a member of the Puzzle Club... but someone in the Puzzle Club should know who is he... because they've been trying to recruit him.' Her eyes lit up! Potentially one step closer, to solving this puzzle of the boy. So, she at least knew what the next step of her journey was, in her search to find the real Geno Killer, she needed to find those who sought him for his puzzle solving abilities. This mean being indirect, she needed information about the Puzzle Club, its members and their practices. She didn't doubt her ability to get information out of people, but it was definitely easier if she came with full ammunition. So, she pulled out her phone and sent a text message to a certain Systems Administrator of her company. She was about to pay the girl to do some off the books work for her.

[Bloodedge]

'Weird. I might actually understand this shit. If that's how it is, though...' Yugi's thoughts never ceased. As much as he would have preferred spending his time thinking of more enjoyable things, that was a train of thought best avoided for the time being. If he kept mulling over the thought of being found, he'd wind up thinking himself into a situation which ruined the puzzle... and by virtue of that, the initial purpose. Never could he throw himself out there. Either Kimiko found him herself, or he would forever be left with questions he couldn't even bring himself to ask, or believe any positive answers to.

And so, he continued giving consideration to these powers and organizations. He was at the cusp of something potentially great; logic was at least on his side. The lad wasn't sure when he'd be able to test things for himself, but he figured it would have to be with something small, if he even showcased any special abilities. "Wrath. If something is triggered, consequences are selected at random... RNG," he mused. "The power itself is the ability to rewrite, though. It should be as simple as choosing the second criteria, directing repercussions to a specific target that can take the equal opposing force of the first action. It's just a basic lateral if I look at it that way," he said, comparing the situation itself to a puzzle. "Hmm. More like a game mechanic. I guess that should have always been the case, huh?"

The more he thought about the scenario, the more he thought it would be necessary to run tests for himself. He was given reason to believe his abilities from the other world could be accessed here in some capacity, but he wondered which ones. A single assumption could be made about something, at least. If it worked, he would have a very interesting answer to everything that came his way.

[Apollymi]

Taishou!? Was the response to the first text message sent. Off the books work. I require information as much as you can get on the Puzzle Club at my high school. Every shred of information you can find. Compile and send to me. I'll send your usual extra fee once you respond. Also sweep my home PC for bugs. I don't trust the cops. Another block was covered as Kimiko found herself around the corner from the house. The lass on the other side of the phone was quick to begin work, typing on one of her monitors at her work space while sending a text message through her phone mirror on the other. This girl was indeed exceptional at her work, so long as she was focused she could complete a great many tasks without causing any problems. If only her spending habits had this much focus. Hai. It'll be done. I'll send everything to you encrypted key. Pu33lerz. And I ran a quick sweep. You should really set an automatic empty for your browser history but I took care of it. A brief pause before Kimiko walked towards her house. At least her workers were always dependable. Hai. A quick bank transfer would occur as Kimiko walked back into the front door of her house. Surprisingly the evidence of the police presence was still there, but no officers were found on sight. "Tadaima!" the girl said announcing her arrival home, not that she expected anyone to meet her. She hadn't been greeted at home in quite a while, there was nothing to be worried about while she did a bit of remote work from home.

[Bloodedge]

There was so much to figure out about these powers, Sins, the cults in general, and whatever linked these two worlds. Yugi thought long and hard about all connected things while dilly-dallying in his room. He'd originally decided to think of such things to distract himself from the thought of being sought after by Kimiko, but he was now actively seeking a distraction just to have some mindless activity while his subconscious worked. In the end, he decided to pick up a puzzle. He took up a rotor puzzle in the shape of a circle, which seemed to be comprised of five jigsaw pieces, and began fiddling with it. The pieces were pushed inward and outward, revealing the intricate grooves that held all five segments together at multiple points for the sake of complexity. Never did Yugi seem bothered by the shape of this puzzle; he seemed to be using it simply to stabilize his thought process.

"Sin is absolute, right? If Wrath itself is wrathful, it would probably be expressed whether someone wanted it to be or not. It's pretty hard to not show rage even when trying to avoid it, after all." His thoughts were spoken aloud as he didn't seem to be fully disassembling the puzzle at all. By the end of his thought process, though, all five pieces separated at once in Yugi's hands. "But... nothing satisfies anger like a good vent. Sometimes, the only solution is to let it all out─"

[Apollymi]

There was no noise inside the Ashikaga household, as such the girl made her way to her room without stopping. This was in general what her life was, walking around this big house, which was usually empty aside from staff members who came and went on their own scheduled rotations. She rarely saw anyone she didn't pay outside of school and even when she went to her office building she felt alone. 'Wrong thought process...' she mused as she kept walking. Upon reaching her bedroom she stripped down to her lingerie and took up position cross legged at her computer desk. That ruby around her neck shining as it caught the light of her display. A small smile came to her face, what a strange amount of comfort she got from such a random item. She found herself rubbing it between her fingers in the same nervous manner she did her hair from time to time... feeling strangely close to the one who'd created it. Regardless she waited for a ping from her email. And while she did, she committed to going through the motions of her normal business transactions. She had no idea how long she was to be back in this world, but she couldn't let down all of those who depended on her while she was here. Her work load hadn't piled up while she was away so it wasn't as if anything was amiss. Some button clicks some read and answered emails and some instructions to her various staff members in case she was unreachable at any point in the next few weeks. These were the motivations of a girl who ran an entire business even as a teenager. By the time she was composing her last email a new one finally hit her private inbox. She switched tabs with marked excitement, typing in her encryption key to open the files presented to her.

"Sou ka... let's find out about the Puzzle Club." She spoke to herself as she often did when alone. She scrolled through the basics. The Puzzle Club at her high school was a group of like minded individuals who enjoyed the challenge of new puzzles. Various puzzles were often brought before them to be solved, any there would take them on. They also attended competitions against other schools. These included time trials and complexity leveling. "Ah, so like a guild of people who just do puzzles. Not terrible but I kind of get it..." she murmured. Going though she saw various articles listed about competitions attended and scores of those contestants going back three years. One set of articles in particular caught her eye. "Miura Seiji, ka..." her eyes traveled over the information and took in his various feats. "A third year student, in his first year he'd attended several competitions and consistently had the highest scores in all types of puzzles completed. If I thought he would have joined the club, I might believe this is the person I am looking for..." she said, opening up his file she had a look at his student photo as well as his grades and attendance. His school records stated that he'd joined the puzzle club and then quit. This brought great pause to Kimiko. "Well, I guess now I can't completely rule him out..." she murmured to herself. Though he'd rejoined there were many reasons that might have been the case, and he did mention being hounded constantly to do puzzles. Perhaps he'd joined the club preemptively so people would leave him alone? That didn't fit with what she knew of him enough, but maybe she didn't know enough yet? So far as she'd seen, the Geno Killer had managed a great number of different types of puzzles while they were adventuring together. It would be simple enough to assume that he'd simply grown bored at some point. "Miura Seiji, even if he isn't who I am looking for... he's the one to most likely have the answer, or at least another lead to follow up on. I wonder if it would be best if I came bearing a gift then?" Kimiko questioned her own motivations. She could potentially use one of her more complicated puzzle run-ins from her time in the other world as a litmus test. Either the lad would be able to complete it and she'd could further push him into talking to her. Or she'd show him and he'd admit to his involvement with her. Whether or not he was the answer or just another clue... this one boy seemed to be the most viable step in her journey towards finding the Geno Killer. With a plan in mind and her research done... she printed off a blank version of the Sudoku Super Giant. She spent a few moments at her desk there after, drawing in the runes which had been part of her Druid Ascension Puzzle. Once she was sure it was perfect she went about the rest of her daily life. Tomorrow she was going to school and then afterwards to club activities. She was going to find the Geno Killer.

[Bloodedge]

Miura Seiji was a young man whose attention was sought after by the entire puzzle club of their school. He didn't care; there was only one thing puzzle-related that kept his interest. He much preferred spending his free time gaming, or finding other sources of entertainment, as of late. On the following school day, perhaps it would be Ashikaga Kimiko who discovered the things which had his eye now. Sadly, the boy she sought would not even be attending this upcoming day. The life of a shut-in such as Aiba Yugi virtually dictated a minimum number of skipped school days, even in spite of his exceptional grades in all subjects. Ah, but it didn't matter if he showed up or not. Kimiko happened to be on his trail, whether she knew it or not... if she only managed to get the information she sought.

Lunchtime on the following day, Seiji sat alone in the puzzle club's meeting room. He had no intention of being in said room while their after-school meeting took place; they had nothing worthwhile to offer him. Perhaps someone would eventually appear with something worth his time, but for now, he would enjoy his lunch in solitude. In doing so, he leaned back in a chair placed next to a very specific, unsolved puzzle box that was highly regarded as impossible in its normal form. This, however, was not the normal version of even that puzzle. The standard version was referred to as the "dovetail box" due to having dovetails cut into four sides to make opening it a visual impossibility. It typically possessed a hidden set of diagonal cuts between its two halves to let it slide open when a ball bearing was ejected from one internal side to the other, but this one... was not even a box. This one in particular had twelve sides, and every two sides created a segment. There were six shifting ball bearings within, total. To solve it, each bearing had to be taken through three paths within the puzzle, and all had to remain in the puzzle's center for the entire puzzle to be taken apart at once. Inside, there was a box... and an additional item: a slip of paper with a phone number written on it. Sadly, no member of any puzzle club in the region had even become aware of how many bearings were inside this version of the dovetail box─ none could even dream of solving it, including Miura Seiji himself. That very puzzle was the only thing keeping him in the club to this day.

[Apollymi]

To be technical the next day at school had been pretty uneventful. Kimiko had returned but that was mostly because she was contracted to attend a certain amount of school all the time. She wasn't a slacker by any means either but socializing was never easy for her. Case in point, by the time lunch had rolled around the girl was almost as exhausted as most people would have been running a marathon. Forcing smiles, answering questions, pretending she had interest in anything other than her singular goal. Ah, but it was lunch time now and it was a time period she normally spent alone. One could not account for the amount of recharging that normally took place. Kimiko preferred to be out of the watchful gazes of her peers when she could, as such her disappearance after picking up a coffee was hardly worth anyone looking into. But she had work to do, her plan in general was to enjoy the cup of coffee she had and maybe spend a little time scoping out the puzzle club. She'd intended to find out the habits of one Miura Seiji from his fellow club members. She'd once heard that many club members spent time in their club rooms or with club members during off time. She figured such a place at lunch would be a reasonable enough time to do a little digging. "I was just wondering if anyone here had time to chat a bit... I brought..." imagine her surprise when she opened the door of this room to find the main subject of her targeted investigation alone in this club room. "Oh? Sumimasen... I didn't expect for it to just be one person here. I didn't mean to interrupt."

This scene was a bit too surreal to her. There was a boy alone in a room, eating lunch, a singular puzzle nearby. She had to wait his answer to find out a couple of things. 'Calm down Kimi, even if he recognizes you. Everyone at school pretty much knows you. Him being here, near a complicated puzzle... not enough proof.' She tried to reassure herself. Still she wouldn't join this lad if he didn't want to be bothered. She supposed she could try and fish for information a bit more directly but she didn't like such undertakings. She'd only gotten a baseline understanding of this lad, she needed more to work with to be perfectly capable of figuring out if he was the boy she was looking for.

[Bloodedge]

Seiji was mid-bite when, via periphery, he saw a shadow just outside the door. This was a very quiet part of the building at this particular time, so he also had the displeasure of hearing the footsteps on the way. One would have hoped those steps would keep moving past the door, but no... this female figure would enter the clubroom while speaking aloud. This rather famous girl intruded on side-swept, yet otherwise unkempt dark hair with a single red fringe on the left side, and a bit of blonde hanging just behind the male's ear. He was of average height as he sat lackadaisically in that leaning chair, setting sapphire eyes with a golden gleam upon the raven-haired lass.

He seemed nothing shy of surprised as he realized who this was entering the room. Stunned beyond words, he gulped down a mouthful of calamari. "Ashikaga... Kimiko ka─" he muttered under his breath. What could she be doing here, he wondered. Either way, it had to be something rather interesting. None would believe this girl to have an interest in puzzles, or the types of people who frequented this very room. "Iia, iia. To be honest, I shouldn't even be here at this hour. This room is a ghost town, but... that's pretty much why I show up for lunch. So? You brought what?" he asked, wondering what had been left unspoken in Kimiko's initial clause. From the expression on his face, he, too, sought information of some sort. He was made incredibly curious by the act of Ashikaga Kimiko showing her face in this room, and he would at least have the answer to that. "Oh, and have a seat, I guess. You're looking for something, right?"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko found herself looking at this lad mid bite. There was some sort of nostalgia here, a scene which she'd witnessed before in a very similar manner. But just because it was similar didn't mean it was exactly what she was looking for. Those bright eyes of hers still took in the sight though, how strange. It was very odd to be on the look out for signs but not be able to figure out if the signs were simply being applied because she was looking for them, or if they were actually there. 'Ugh, I should have paid more attention when Olga was teaching me about bias,' the lass thought. She likely owed her PR person a few apologies not the least of which was about her own inability to deal with people on a personal level. Ah, but this one recovered pretty easily, that was a decent sign but again not enough. "I brought a puzzle, mostly as a peace offering..." she mentioned. Still he'd said she could sit down and admitted that this place was normally a ghost town at this time, he stated he was here at a lot at this hour.

She walked over, sitting across from him, she sat the puzzle down on the table the Sudoku Super Giant which used the various Runes from the game AoE and her coffee to the other. when she took her seat, it came with a sweeping motion as she tucked her skirt in under her bottom. She also crossed her legs at the knee right over left and sat with impeccable posture. "And yes, I am looking for someone, but it's a bit complicated. Was it that obvious?" she asked rather directly before sipping from her coffee. The lass was rather direct, but still polite and cordial. She wanted information but the amount of thought this lad had going on in his head would likely determine exactly how honest she would be about what she was after. People were indeed very strange, and if she could find out what she wished to know without giving up too many of her own intentions. Just the same that smile of hers, fake as it was was plastered pleasantly on her face. Was this the type of lad to find her presence menacing regardless? Or would he simply not know how to react to her? Would he be a strange fan of hers? Or would he detest her? All were options but until she knew his exact stance she couldn't really proceed as she wished. But she'd learned a bit about people who liked puzzles so she could work with that as a base, and give no more or less information than was asked for as a testing grounds.

[Bloodedge]

"A puzzle, huh," he repeated. Surprise surprise, the one known as Kimiko entered the clubroom in the same way many others before her often did. Either normal students came with some overly-simplistic puzzle they were given, wanting it solved, or those from other schools (or even the same club) brought puzzles for the sake of issuing a challenge. However... Seiji would at least glance over this puzzle regardless. How strange it was that she would offer something as boring as a sudoku, but... what was this? "H'oh?"

Stuffing another bite of calamari into his mouth, Seiji lowered his chair to the floor. Kimiko admitted to looking for someone, questioning the obviousness of it. He had nothing to say immediately. He was already picking up a pen, and glancing over the puzzle. "Hmm," was his only utterance for some time. He did, in fact, recognize these symbols. Seiji was a very frequent player of AoE, and Rune Magic was not completely foreign to him. As for the puzzle itself, he appeared to be working through it with relative ease, if only by using runes that appeared within the puzzle as reference. "It couldn't be more obvious. Were you trying to make it anything else?" he asked. "If you were, maybe the puzzle club wasn't the best place to come."

[Apollymi]

The lad looked over the puzzle and then with only a simple shift in his expression grabbed a pen and began working on it. She knew it wasn't a truly interesting puzzle, it was meant to be used on someone else for this exact reason, that being said he didn't seem to show the same great love for puzzles that her target did. She could pass these moments of relative silence without much change in her disposition, if only because her mind was already hard at work. She'd come here with the intention of eliminating or confirming this man to be the one she was looking for, confronting him directly wasn't part of her initial method. With this slight shift in plans all of her thoughts had to be adjusted to directly dealing with the problem of another overly clever lad speaking to her. 'Clever people are always so sassy...' she thought, given the lads words when he finally spoke again. No speaking over the puzzle only working on it. Did he recognize it? The mental questions Kimiko asked herself were numerous and filed within her mind as separate things to be addressed at some point. Figuring out this young man's base knowledge was an important part of ruling him in or out as the Geno Killer.

"I wasn't trying to, at this point. The plan changed when you were the only person here. Admittedly, though if there had been more people, I would have expected to retain a certain amount of ambiguity. It's easy to hide in a room full of people, much harder to do so in a one on one situation. I simply gave up the pretense... I wouldn't want to be insufferable company," she said speaking of her own mental intention. "Besides the person I am looking for may be connected to this place, coming here was inevitable. I get the feeling I could have gotten away with my intentions seeming vague if it hadn't been you here."

[Bloodedge]

One by one, Seiji filled in the sudoku without so much as a hiccup in his execution. This puzzle was interestingly simple, yet with underlying complexity. All in all, he could call it a decent attempt, but he would not rate it very high on a personal scale he kept in his mind. As for her plan, he didn't really care one way or another. Of course, that wouldn't keep him from the commentary. "Ashikaga Kimiko, maintaining any amount of ambiguity... is an oxymoron, isn't it?" he joked. For her to say such a thing, was legitimately laughable. That face, that personality, that identity of hers, could never blend into a crowd no matter where she went in Shibuya. In fact, she could probably go halfway across the country and be recognized by the most random pedestrians.

"Besides... something tells me that unless you're trying to have this 'gamer's sudoku' solved, the person you would be looking for wouldn't just be found in this room when it's crowded. There aren't any gamers here. You'll most likely get the stereotypes─ fanny packs, pocket protectors, retainers and all that jazz. That is... unless you had a reason to believe I would be here," he stated as a glare boasting no ill-intend whatsoever was sent in the lass' direction. With that, the puzzle was complete, and slid across the table toward Kimiko. Now was time to address business. Ashikaga Kimiko didn't need to come here for the sake of having a puzzle solved, nor could any member of the club have been someone she had reason to look for. What she needed, then, was a link... and he had an idea what it might have been to. "So? What's the question you're not asking? Sorry to say, but this puzzle isn't good enough for you to have brought it as a challenge. I'd give it a 1.7 out of... that." At this final word, Seiji nodded his head in the direction of the club's prized puzzle: the impossible box kept in a glass case to his left. "Awesome game to base a sudoku on, though. Two points for creativity, so I'll listen. Call it a good mood based on nostalgia."

[Apollymi]

"Well, hiding in plain sight is a thing. An acquired skill..." she said her words were oddly sarcastic, but still truthful. A bit of a joke in her own way. The girl knew she was very recognizable, because of this, she was well aware of the sort of attention she would draw if she entered a room full of nerdy boys. She was a school idol after all, and if she wasn't at least a little aware of the effect that she had on people who were attracted to her, she couldn't have lived a normal school life. 'At this point I might as well change my name to Eira Gremory...' she mused. Though that wasn't really the truth. Unlike the leading female of that particular series, Kimiko couldn't bring herself to gather anyone around herself she considered a friend. At school she maintained a safe and cordial distance from everyone. No one to get upset with her or anyone else. Hell, she wasn't even a member of a single club, which is why she chose lunch as a time to invade. He finished the puzzle she'd given him, with about the amount of wit she'd expected from the one she was looking for. Even so, there was something off about his thought process.

There was a glare in Kimiko's direction, but she never backed down from that sort of thing. The smile on her face, shifted just a tad cracking her normal facade to become something more of a smirk. Still not the smile of happiness she presented to the lad she knew as the Geno Killer, but a bit more like the ones she showed people who sat across the table from her during business negotiations. This was still an exchange, and he'd given her more information so she'd give a little more in return. "I wasn't looking for you at first, I did need information though..." she said with the same tone and cadence she'd had this entire time. Her hands were clasped in her lap as she thought over the processes. He was slowly ruling himself out, though his follow up question was enough to make her hesitate. "Oh? Well, it's a strange question... I wouldn't ask it without knowing about the base knowledge of the person I was talking to... it would have given too much away for too little in return. I am on my own kind of clock after all..." she mentioned, though she still didn't ask the question. No there were more pressing things to observe as he compared the puzzle she gave him to another one, in a manner she wasn't used to hearing such things. This boy was definitely not the one she sought, she could be about 90 percent certain of that now. Ah, that was a bit disappointing, but also very exciting. What she was looking for was still out there. And something about that was still a bit exciting. Maybe she was a glutton for punishment, waiting was torture, but chasing solving puzzles, using all of her brain power to try and find something she well and truly wanted. That was an entirely new sensation for the lass. "I didn't make that puzzle, the game did, though it was originally generated for me. Also you were right, I didn't need help with it, I finished it a long time ago to complete an aspect of my build... it is a great game though. I also didn't actually ask for help either... I did call it a peace offering, after all. It was meant to let me blend in while I fished for information about you... so I could figure out how you were connected, Miura Seiji." she stated in a very business-like manner. This boy's talk of points being awarded would have made her think twice, caused a hiccup in her mind's processes, but he pointed out the other puzzle and just seeing it made Kimiko's heart skip a beat. Still she couldn't let go of what she'd put together in her brain just now so she spoke of it obviously. "What, a 3.5 minimum on your scaling for something to be worth your time.... who ever made that must be really interesting to you then." she mentioned. In that moment she chose her question and it was unrelated to her earlier inquiry. "Have you solved it?"

[Bloodedge]

"Depends on your build, doesn't it? We are talking about games here," Seiji said in the most nonchalant manner possible. Now that he was done with the sudoku, he slid over a blank piece of paper which he proceeded to scribble on. It seemed he was creating a new sudoku on the spot. He organized a 50x50 version of the puzzle, which he would have rated about a 4.0 on his scale. "Here. Call it a stepping stone," he said while sliding the new sudoku across the table.

It seemed Kimiko had no intention of revealing her true question without enough information beforehand. That didn't matter much; Seiji was simply staving off boredom. Now that the lass mentioned, it was true that she'd never asked for help with that puzzle. He was quite used to the others who approached with the sole intention of wanting a puzzle solved. "Hm. I guess you didn't. Since you didn't, have that one on me. It's a more fun challenge than what a video game'll throw at ya'." Kimiko's eyes were drawn to the puzzle he'd pointed out in a strange way, which brought his attention to it as well. This was the puzzle which determined the scale; nothing which scored too low in comparison was worth his time at all. Every puzzle he took of his own desire, was one which could get him even a step closer to that monster of a puzzle. When asked if he'd solved it, he could only shake his head. "That thing's the only reason I even came back. As far as puzzles are concerned, it's not even something anyone has been able to comprehend. It looks like a D10, or just a 3D jigsaw... but it also looks like a dovetail. It's got a lot more going on inside than that, though, so it gets counted as one of those impossible boxes. Everyone else wants in because it's the only way to get the person who made it into the club. No clue why they'd bother recruiting someone they could never compare to; they'd never see any action that way."

[Apollymi]

Kimiko watched as this lad created a new puzzle after finishing the one she'd brought. He called it a stepping stone and she looked at it with a raised brow for just a second. 50 by 50 was a bit extreme, that was quite a few numbers in combinations to keep straight. Still, it wouldn't be quite so bad, in fact her mind had already started working. 'Something about this is markedly easier than doing that other one, while having low base mana, after already using way too much and being scared half to death by a ghost~' she thought to herself. A wicked smile spread across her face in the moment. A hint at her true nature and more over a face she normally only presented to those who challenged her. "I have a lot on my plate already you know? But it's not like I can do anything but accept something offered so freely. I suppose I can add this to my to-do list~" she mused in the snarky manner of the personality most didn't see. That hidden clever part of her, which was normally masked behind her popularity, the part that made her dangerous in the business world. Her inverted pattern of thinking had her remove all but one kind of symbol and after picking up the pen, beginning to fill in the missing information block by block. There was no obvious rhyme or reason to how she did this, it wouldn't seem to make much sense as her pen movements went across the board in a spiraling order. Moving from the outside inward only to go back outside. If one cared to notice, she was filling in the symbols starting with the ones most present and spiraling the other ones in by process of elimination. Each minor pause was her filling in the details as her mind processed them. Much like how she used math to solve Rubic Cubes, she was using the processing power of her brain to fill in this large array of symbols.

She looked up when he began talking about that puzzle box if only for a second. If she needed more confirmation about him not being the lad she sought, it was all in the information of that headshake. "Sou ka, that was the information I needed..." she said softly. "Arigatou gouzaimasu~" Knowing that there was a puzzle he couldn't solve, meant that he didn't think like the Geno Killer thus he couldn't be that man. 'Oh, just wait... I'm really close now~' she mused. Her mind still working on that puzzle. While she was around the halfway point at this time, hearing what the lad had to say about the nature of that puzzle gave her a hint of her own nostalgia. "Hoh? That sounds pretty interesting. I do enjoy impossible things... I'm kind of doing something impossible right now," she mentioned, it having nothing to do with the Sudoku puzzle she was finishing and everything to do with finding out the identity of the Geno Killer. She'd come to understand a lot about that boy since meeting him. And knew they shared many of their views about people. "Maybe because they want him in the club, they don't care what that would mean for them. Most wouldn't care if they just wanted to use him. Of course, if you can solve it though... that means you could compare, so you wouldn't need him, right? I've heard puzzles say a lot about their makers~" her eyes flickered up with intensity as she took a sip of her coffee. She continued writing. She'd finish the puzzle before her and when it was done she'd sit her pen down and return her hands back to her lap. "I'd like to do that puzzle, and I'd like you to tell me who made it." She said, the name of the person who made that puzzle was what she needed, and if she was right about his personality there was likely something inside. He didn't put himself out there like that... so he likely wouldn't have agreed to anything outright, but... he made exceptions. She was such an exception in the other world and she knew how she'd attained that special status.

[Bloodedge]

"That's the ticket. Have fun~" he said when Kimiko accepted the sudoku. Seiji leaned against the table, chin rested atop his hand while observing her work. An open ear was kept all the while, but the majority of his focus seemed to be on her puzzle-solving technique. Kimiko utilized a very queer method, and yet everything she entered was accurate without question. Interesting. "You call that information?" asked Seiji. It wasn't that he wondered why she sought the person who designed that impossible puzzle, but rather why she didn't have more to go on than what he'd already mentioned. She spoke of doing something impossible at present. "Obviously it's not that," he said in reference to the ongoing sudoku. "That's the biggest part of it all. Getting that guy on your side is... well, literally as hard as the puzzle. . ."

There was more, but not at all in a good way. Seiji was also of a mind that carrying the entire team was a worthless endeavor, and it was exactly why he could appreciate the box's creator. In fact, what Kimiko had to say after her summary was something very... very familiar. "So you've actually had a conversation with him before?" he questioned, assuming the phrase 'puzzles say a lot about their makers' was one with Aiba Yugi at its core. Kimiko completed his sudoku, wanting to try her hand at the impossible puzzle... and wanting Seiji to reveal the identity of its creator. So, maybe she hadn't met that boy. "Guess not." Sadly, this was the part that was not quite good. He could allow her to try the puzzle in question, but there was no way he could speak the name of its creator. In fact, that was one of the conditions for it being allowed in the club. "No can do, Ashikaga," he said while turning to unlock the glass box containing the puzzle. "If you don't know who made it, I can't tell you. Guy doesn't like being pestered about stuff. But... I guess there's a loophole. Apparently, there's some weird thing about how the puzzle is how he can be reached. Don't ask; I've got no idea what it means. But! Whenever someone solves this thing here, they alone have permission to reach out... however that's supposed to work. I'm guessing the secret's inside the thing."

[Apollymi]

"Information is like branches Miura-kun. If it's a dead end, we clip and back track until we find the right one~" she mentioned which shed only the tiniest bit of light on part of her mental process. Planning was necessary and more so than that, was finding the right information in a sea of knowledge. Knowing something alone did you no good if you had no use for it. But every bit of information you could get on a person, business, or game would help you tease apart its inner workings. This lad apparently had exactly the knowledge she sought without being the person she was after, she'd entertained that possibility all along and knowing she was right she held a triumphant light in her eyes. She'd finished his puzzle and knew he'd been watching her the entire time.

"I guess that would have been a step too easy. No shortcuts... that's fine though~" she chimed. She watched as the lad unlocked the case which held the puzzle and she looked on with the eyes of an excited child. Her goal was so close to her now she could hardly contain her feelings. He told her a few more things about the puzzle, claiming he couldn't explain anything extra about it, she couldn't help but giggle. She understood already, after all... she'd already completed a puzzle he'd created. "I understand. He's a pretty complex person. And to answer your earlier question I've had several conversations with him... so I figured he wouldn't make it something as easy as finding the right person. It's no problem..." she held her hands ready to accept this puzzle and begin the crazy process of solving one of things in her original body. 'He's waiting for me. Hand it over!' Her mind screamed as she tried to remain serene. Too bad for this lad, Kimiko wasn't made of patience anymore. She could see the light at the end of a very dark tunnel and she fully intended to reach it.

Today was going to be a glorious day! She sat back with this puzzle in her hands. Studying the outside with sharp eyes. Each turn she heard rolling inside so her concentration increased to include that as well. "Sou ka... this would seem pretty impossible... " she mumbled as she turned it more and more. Within seconds she'd mapped the entire outside and understood the reference to 'dovetails' made by the lad earlier. What was more the segments which made it up were also numerous. There was much nostalgic happiness in her, as she remembered sitting around in Atlantis with the white haired lad's head in her lap as she talked herself through the first complicated puzzle she'd completed. 'I guess this isn't so bad either. There's no magic, no locks. no buttons or movable pieces to keep track of, actually....' she looked up at the lad across from her in this moment and she understood why the lad known to her as the Geno Killer wasn't at all interested in this group. She could pull this puzzle apart in her own way. She kept turning it more and more as she received all necessary information from the audio cues within. To solve a puzzle like this one needed to think beyond what was normal. One needed the ability to see a problem and attack it in pieces and as a whole simultaneously. Something like that was apparently not as normal as Kimiko might have assumed it was. She'd solved the first puzzle she'd done by mapping it like a Rubix Cube. That kind of logic could be applied to three dimensional puzzles in general as long as you knew what all went into them. But this puzzle wasn't about simply what was on the outside, it was about what was on the inside. Instead of mapping all the groves outside, she was forced instead to map the inside she couldn't see and figure out how many of whatever was inside needed to be at the end. 'EASY!~' she chimed mentally. There was nothing but the light of victory in those eyes of hers, the smile on her face neared that demonic ecstasy she was known to show those she destroyed. This was actually going to be fun.

[Bloodedge]

"Well, congratulations. That's the most prolific thing I've heard from another person in... days? Weeks? Who knows?" the lad replied. It seemed Kimiko had no real issue with not being able to know the puzzle designer's name, and in fact, she'd shared words with him multiple times. What seemed strange, was the excitement clearly radiating from the raven-haired girl when she took the puzzle from its case. For one who didn't seem the type to have an interest in puzzles, she was certainly holding a high level of interest in this one. She agreed that it seemed impossible, but the young man who designed it would never create something that couldn't be solved. There was a way; could this girl be the one to discover it after knowing Aiba Yugi? Seiji would surely be perturbed if so, but... that would also give him another target to strive for.

"You're not seeming like someone who doesn't belong in this club right now," he said casually, simply offering his observation of Kimiko in the moment. She wasn't truly one suited to the club, but this very moment was reminiscent of the one who created that puzzle. "Guy must have left a pretty big influence on you then, huh? You're sitting here looking like someone just gave you a present instead of a thing that's pissed off almost everyone who's touched it. That's the kind of thing he'd do."

[Apollymi]

Apparently Seiji thought the words Kimiko shared were prolific. She didn't find them so, but they were also her own words. Still, her personality the real one was leaking through as she began the processing the puzzle, and she couldn't help the rather snarky reply she had in mind. "If that works for you... you should probably hang out with some different people~" she mentioned. Though given this lad's personality she expected he didn't interact with very many people at all. She kept an ear open to the lad, but the rest of her was all for this puzzle. Her replies meant very little to her and since they came without thought they were unfiltered. She was too busy completing this puzzle to hide who she was. "Iie, I don't belong in any club. I wouldn't ever, I don't like carrying people either..." she mentioned with finality. Though she had no idea what she looked like in the moment.

She turned the puzzle in her hand hearing the first of the ball bearings within roll towards the other side. She continued to turn it, until it hit the far side. Then she tapped the entire puzzle's outside to move it along to the next path it should take. She turned it again... Following it around through her mind's map. Her eyes closed as she did this, making it easier for her to imagine the pathways she was taking. "I know... he's pretty excitable about stuff like this. I am also excitable but it's a bit different for me... and it is a gift~" she mused. He couldn't know what she meant, but this was likely one of the biggest presents she could receive. She'd get to know who he was, and with that knowledge would come one of the greatest bits of satisfaction she'd ever achieved. She'd have the prize she wanted more than any other... and that was well worth going through any puzzle for. She kept moving that one ball, having to tap it one more time to set it on the last path it had before it stopped moving. Her eyes widened. 'Sou ka... there is a space in the middle for all of the ball bearings,' she thought after achieving this small victory with the first one. Her eyes sprang open as she looked once more at the outside. 'Intervals of three... because of the sides... so are there three, six, nine or twelve?' she questioned herself. 'It took three paths... so three would be too few and 12 is too many potential variations for something this size. Six or Nine then,' she summarized within her own mind. She tapped near one of the segments and heard another ball roll free... 'Each segment is two of the total so Definitely six. I have to get six of these down three paths each towards the middle.' there was a knowing light in her eyes in that moment as she condensed her own thoughts down a great deal. She followed that sound in her mind and began turning the puzzle again. Several taps and a quiet bit of relief as each ball found its home towards the middle. She counted them, she mapped their movements. It was truly much easier than it'd been the first time. Like opening her puzzle the second or third or even the tenth time when she started to use just her telepathy. 'Sou ka, you're really just like this... you want people to understand you. Not use you... but know you. I get that, you're probably the only other person that truly understands that...' the girl thought happily. She'd all but forgotten the lad sitting across from her in these moments. She'd forgotten about school... she didn't care. All that mattered was finishing this puzzle and then it happened. The last ball fell into the middle and she sat it down before her.

"Oh shit!!" was her excited utterance as she felt the shift. This puzzle was now in her lap. What was she to do. It was here now. It was hers... she could have him. She felt relieved and frightened. She wanted this but didn't expect it to happen so fast. She needed to open this, but she also needed to pull herself down before she had a panic attack.

[Bloodedge]

Hang out with different people, she said. It was almost ironic to hear such a thing from one who sought a boy like Aiba Yugi. Seiji laughed. "Did you plan on telling him that when you got hold of him? This is like some weird situation of pot, kettle, and frying pan," he said. Apparently, Kimiko sympathized with the idea of not 'carrying' others such as those who were found in clubs like this one. He, too, could commiserate. Seiji initially quit this club because he was tired of being the go-to person for puzzles too difficult for the others, while they remained content to be stagnant in their ability. That Aiba Yugi was different; he had the patience to improve those who sought it for themselves, and somehow reach a consensus that benefited everyone involved. Could that have something to do with Ashikaga Kimiko? Perhaps.

Either way, there was a puzzle being worked on, and Seiji watched intently. This girl had long since given up on him; he could see that clearly in her face. As such, he remained silent while she approached the puzzle in a very interesting way. Multiple movements, multiple taps. It was interesting to watch, though the progress of such a puzzle was nigh impossible to tell from an outside perspective... and even from most solvers' perspectives. Alas, the level of excitement growing in Kimiko was far too familiar. As he watched, he felt as if she could actually solve the thing. That feeling was right. In one shining moment, Kimiko lowered the puzzle into her lap. Her excited utterance initially seemed like one of failure, but that wasn't at all what it was. Her expression indicated satisfaction, and... something else he couldn't quite pin. Mostly though, Seiji himself was surprised by the idea that she may have solved the puzzle.

"You..." he said with slight hesitation. Surely she couldn't have, right? Was there truly someone else, in this school even, who could have been his goal? If so, he was a bit disturbed that it had to be such a random and unexpected person. Still... he may soon be rather excited. "Well? If you've solved it, open it. Whatever's inside is apparently yours, and yours alone."

[Apollymi]

Seiji laughed when Kimiko mentioned that he should hang out with other people. He asked a question which she understood the purpose of but she couldn't rightly answer. Well, she could but the answer likely wouldn't be well received. "Similar people know the truth of each other. To be honest though, I don't really care if he doesn't talk to anyone else, as long as he talks to me~" was her reply. What a strange girl she happened to be. The different aspects of that lad's personality were quite right, she really was greedy. She was fine having all of his attention, and with that out of the way she'd sunk so deeply into the puzzle she didn't even register the other person in the room with her.

So, imagine her surprise when he spoke to her directly after realizing she'd succeeded in opening the puzzle. "So, I really forgot you were here," she said with a slight blush crossing her face. She wasn't used to falling so far into her own mind when there was someone else present. Especially when that person wasn't already familiar with her habits. "Hai hai, I'm going to open it... I know what's inside belongs to me," she said. Though it wasn't simply what was in the box it was everything beyond that. The entirety of the young lad she was looking for. Strangely she took an entire two sections off the puzzle sitting it on the table, and looked down. And found something most unexpected. A single scrap of paper and written upon it was the standard number of digits for a phone number, local. "Sou ka that doesn't really answer my question at all though..." the girl murmured. Still, she wasn't without ways of finding otu the rest of what she sought. She pulled her phone from her pocket and sent a message.

I need you to screen this phone number for me. Quickly. Was the message she sent to her favorite Systems Administrator. She was basically using the lass like a hacker, but given her background she knew this was her preference. Few personal interactions. Given notes, and then back to her computer like nothing happened. Kimiko remained quiet while she waited for the answer and it took a few moments. When she got it her eyes widened. This is the number for the landline of the former Prime Minster.

Kimiko blinked several times that couldn't be right. It'd been quite some time since a number like that should have been active. She'd met that man at least once, she knew her father didn't like him. Beyond all of that, she was quite sure he'd been executed for crimes following the information provided by... his own son. 'FUCK!' She stared at her phone screen a few seconds longer and asked her next question. How dangerous. A number that belonged to a dead man shouldn't still work, but if it did... she could probably have her answer sooner rather than later. Is it still active? That was all. So simple. Yet so loaded. Was she really about to find the lad she was looking for? Was she really about to have what she wanted? Hai. No one's called it in ages, but it is definitely still active. Kimiko's heart was beating out of her chest. She knew who the son of the Prime Minister was, she'd met him once when she was very small. She hadn't known what his face looked like, because well, he was always wearing a mask. But that didn't mean she wasn't casually aware of who he was, a wicked smile broke out across her face. 'He's mine.'

[Bloodedge]

"Mhm..." was all Seiji had to say. Kimiko was hardly even in the same space as him, mentally; she was essentially inside the puzzle... just like that boy. What she had to say about the lad was interesting indeed, and well beyond what he would have expected for one who sought Aiba Yugi. Perhaps this wasn't a simple matter of her wanting him as one of the many connections she likely had. The next thing Kimiko said was unquestionable proof that she'd essentially deleted the outside world when diving into the puzzle, and in response, Seiji shrugged. It wasn't at all the first time his presence had been forgotten, and it wouldn't be the last. If only the other club members could forget he existed now and then. . .

The box was open. Whatever it held inside, Seiji had no right to view it, so he respectfully looked away. In fact, he took the time to lean his chair back again, and work toward finishing his lunch before the bell rang. Though this had been an entertaining experience in a way, it had successfully kept him from a complete meal for most of lunch period. Oh well; he could probably finish before this final five minutes or so ran out. 'Somebody finally finished that damn thing, and it wasn't me... or even anybody from the club. Well, it might be about time for me to quit again. There's nothing left in this room without that guy as a goal, and the key to bringing him in is gone now. Maybe I'll give sports a shot. Culture clubs are kinda shit. . .'

[Apollymi]

Miura Seiji was looking away as she opened the puzzle. He truly was a respectable individual. He didn't try and steal her prize and seemed to be in deep thought as he finished his lunch. If this puzzle was the only reason he came back to this club what would he be doing now? The girl was excited and happy but she wasn't without perspective. "Miura-kun, you've been pretty helpful today. I appreciate you letting me take up your time... and I'm sorry for stealing your goal," she said with a small smirk on her face. She pocketed her phone and the piece of paper and picked up the 6 pieces of the puzzle. "If you find yourself in need of something or a new goal, and you think I can help... let me know~" she said offering the lad a casual wave as she stood to exit with her prize in hand. School was done for the day. Rather she could have gone through with the rest of her day's classes but she had no other intention but her goals. There was a boy who was waiting on her, and nothing else mattered.

A few moments later she was exiting the school building as the bell rang ending lunch. She had no intentions of hanging around there for the rest of the day. Instead she found herself in an open air park making a phone call, to the house of the former Prime Minister. If the number still worked there was no problem she called it. She was strangely nervous now back on the other end of waiting.

[Bloodedge]

An equally casual wave of Seiji's hand was to follow, dismissing the girl who'd spent virtually all of lunch period in the clubroom. He wasn't bothered by his goal being 'stolen' by her; he simply had a second one now. As for any new goal she could potentially help with, well... maybe he had something in mind. "If I need you, I'll find you. Don't sweat the other stuff. Ja," he said. With that, he went about working toward the completion of his lunch. Sadly, he'd be left with quite a few bites by the time classes started anew. His teachers would simply have to deal with a bit of in-class snacking.

Yugi was still at home, still considering the new developments to this world. He had actually managed to make a bit of headway, and there were a few broken puzzle pieces in the area surrounding him on his 'bedroom' floor. Interestingly enough, these pieces weren't the same ones he'd broken. Each time he broke a piece, he managed to do so in a way that had no positive effect on other broken pieces. As a test, however, he had been tapping pieces with what felt like the other world's application of mana to repair them... and did so without causing 'Wrath' to shatter other pieces. This small usage of power may not have been all he could muster, but he wouldn't be testing anything bigger just yet. In fact, he would soon be rendered incapable of testing anything.

Aiba Yugi lived in a storage box that had been repurposed into a tiny home of sorts. However, there remained a proper, even large home just outside his door. The phone in that very house... it rang. Yugi was alerted via the security system he had routed into his computer, which showed the visuals of a camera focusing on the phone itself. The number calling the landline was unfamiliar, but he knew what it meant for someone to call that number. He would rise from the floor, stepping outside and approaching the house of the former Prime Minister. There were only two options. Either Kimiko had already found the answers she needed, or someone at the Puzzle Club actually managed to crack the puzzle he'd given them. Which one would it be? He'd fine out soon, but first, he had to enter the house he hadn't been in since the passing of his sister. A single turn of a key, and he was able to push the door open and hear the ringing phone for himself. It had been ringing for quite some time, but soon, he reached out to answer it.

"Across the street from Hitachiomiya Palace." This sentence was all he said before hanging up the phone. Whoever it was on the other end, they had all the information they needed. He could wait now, in the dim lighting of his old living room... for whichever person managed to solve his puzzle.

[Apollymi]

Kimiko heard the parting words of Miura Seiji. She wondered if he'd actually end up taking her up on her offer. He probably should, such offers were rather rare from her... Ah but that didn't really matter in the long run. The lad had mentioned playing AoE, and there was at least the possibility she might end up running into him again at some point in the future. Beyond this point, Kimiko found herself sitting on a park bench, waiting on a ringing phone. It took a long time to be answered. She thought about hanging up immediately after she dialed. After all, her social anxiety was quite high and she hadn't given herself enough opportunity to talk herself out of her more impulsive actions. There was still always the possibility he didn't want to be found. The possibility the old number had been repurposed. The reigning fear that it'd all been for nothing because this lad wouldn't actually want to meet with her at all. But just before she could bring herself to pull the phone away from her ear, a voice picked up on the other end. The message delivered was brief and then suddenly the phone on the other end was hung up. Her eyes widened with surprise, she hadn't even had time to properly react. 'Was that his voice? His actual voice!?' There was so much to unpack here. She would have started pacing and thinking and talking to herself... but she was outside already.

'Across the street from the Hitachiomiya Palace, huh? No time like the present I guess.' The girl stood up and began walking. All the while she was a ball of endless nerves. She pulled her hood up over her head, having her face disappear underneath a large pair of sunglasses. She also zipped it hiding her school uniform. She was still a very recognizable person, but no need to have any one stop and question her before she did what she was looking for. After a while, she'd find herself, walking upon a reasonably large house across the street from the previously mentioned location. Immediately after she had a bit of a neurotic moment, 'Oh god. This is it! What do I do?!' she thought as she approached the door.

[Bloodedge]

Minutes after hanging up the phone, there was a knock on Yugi's door. He could feel the beat of his own heart as slow, agonizing steps took him closer and closer until... he opened it. There, standing right before him, was an overweight male not much older than Yugi himself. The pudge of the other young man's face shook as he breathed heavily, and that simple movement only served the purpose of accentuating his acne. He was dressed normally as well; was this some new member of the Puzzle Club? No. Nearly an hour beforehand, Yugi had ordered a pizza to be delivered for tonight's extensive gaming session. It just so happened to be the case that this pizza place didn't have a uniform policy, and the pizza was initially out of Yugi's field of vision. "Pizza delivery, dude," spoke the young man who seemed to have walked down the street with Yugi's order. "Sorry for the wait. My car's busted, so I had to walk the rest of the way here," he explained.

"... Right. No bother dude, here," said Yugi, who offered this man a few additional yen for the trouble and dedication. The two exchanged nods before Yugi shut himself inside once more, and the delivery person turned away to walk back to his job. Of course, just as the door closed, this person saw a feminine figure walking toward the house he was leaving. There wasn't a known identity behind those layers, but the shape and general features were there for the world to see regardless. A lecherous grin passed the male's face─ he simply couldn't hide it as his path inadvertently took him closer to where Kimiko stood. He could get away with being a little devious off the clock, right? "Oi, oi~"

[Apollymi]

As Kimiko approached the house, there was someone in her path and it wasn't at all who she was expecting. 'Worker? House person... no... no one would let someone be in their house like that,' she frowned deeply. 'Oh god no!' She was horrified, mortified and absolutely frightened. 'Don't tell me I jinxed myself. Maybe if I don't move too much he won't see me... and I can turn around and disappear into the daylight like a flash of light?' she thought quickly. 'No that's stupid. Stupid, Kimi... Now would be a great time to have invisibility.' Her thoughts raced. She was covered from head to toe. Maybe this guy would pass her by and she wouldn't have to deal with it. Her face was covered maybe just once she could get away with not having to deal with some grossly disgusting dude.

Of course not. This man spoke directly to her. It had to be to her too, because she was the only person standing here. She couldn't keep the disgust from her voice as she replied and aimed to keep walking, 'EWWWWW...' she wanted to scream, but her voice came off as her more usual disconnected one. "Sorry, I don't know you," she said as she aimed to keep moving forward eyes hidden behind those large sunglasses. At times like these she missed her bodyguard. Actually she hadn't seen him at all since she arrived back. She'd seen the lecherous grin, how did people even let themselves look that gross and delude themselves into thinking they would get anywhere. Worst case scenario, this was the man she was looking for and she'd go home and collapse in on herself like a black hole. Her saying she didn't know him would hurt his feelings and he'd never talk to her again. He'd call her a stuck up bitch and she could simply move on with her life. Go back to stealing other rich people's money. No fun, no enthusiasm... none of their adventures. Best case scenario, this strange man was completely unrelated to what she was going to do, she'd get to walk past him and pretend like this never happened and try her best not to inhale too close to him.

[Bloodedge]

She didn't know him? Of course she didn't, but that was not an important fact in this scenario. She could get to know him, as he intended to know her. From the looks of things, the obviously wealthy male he'd so recently delivered pizza to was expecting this girl. Her face was hidden as if she wanted to avoid all recognition, which told him one crucial thing. She was hiding... from her boyfriend! Yes, of course! The mythical 'booty call' was happening here and now, and this whore of a woman would certainly be up for another man to cheat on her boyfriend with. Oh, he was so, so clever!

"No need to be like that! I know why you're here," said the repulsive male as he turned on his heel, following closely behind the girl who passed him so casually. His hand even reached out to get a nice feel, a very thorough rubbing even, of her rather scrumptious-looking posterior. This man was salivating, and it was strangely audible to anyone nearby as he slurped his own saliva. "C'mon, princess. Let's see something, at least. I'll make it worth your while before you even go in that old house!"

[Apollymi]

Gross. Everything about the man she passed was absolutely gross. When he continued talking she knew for certain he wasn't the lad she was looking for, which gave her an extreme amount of comfort. No one could be hiding anything so grotesque for that long. As relieved as that thought made her, this man's speech also disgusted her, she could hear him slurping in his mouth. "Eww!" was the only reaction she could give. "There is nothing you can give me and nothing I want from you. Get the hell away from me." That was about as polite as Kimiko could be as she made her way towards the door. Everything she'd learned about her own defense said running triggered these types of people so she remained calm. 'This is what bodyguards are actually for, huh? I've never actually encountered someone stupid enough to approach me in public before. I feel like I owe Hoshimi an apology, maybe if he ever shows up again. I'll do that and stop ditching him to shop,' the girl thought as she reached towards the doorbell.

Strangely though if this man got too close to her, he'd find himself unable to interact with her directly and then blown back violently by the shockwave which would happen when that time was restored. The back of Kimiko was aligned with a strange power one which she didn't yet completely understand but one which could protect her from such ill-advised advances. Whatever the case her finger met the doorbell and she listened for the coming sounds.

[Bloodedge]

Sadly, the doorbell of this building had long since been disabled. Kimiko's finger pressed into it, but nothing came of the action. There was one saving grace, though, but all positives came with negatives. Try as she might, Kimiko could not properly shun the portly male who desired her attention in a less-than savory manner. He could see himself committing all sorts of vile acts that would make one's mother blush, and he intended to see them to fruition. Since she hadn't acted violently against his touch, he'd hazard another. What a shame it was when suddenly, some unexplained pulse of a foreign energy sent him careening into one of two fountains beside the walkway.

And then, there was the positive side of that repulsive approach. The doorbell didn't work, but the sudden tremble and following splash in the fountain were hard to miss. One could only assume the delivery guy had a bit of a mishap on his way out. How annoying. In a matter of moments, the front door swung open. Inside was Yugi, sporting his grey cargo pants and red vest, albeit this time with a black A-top shirt underneath. "Dude, what the─" he called out, only to cease everything the moment he saw the girl standing on the other side of the door. That wasn't the pizza guy at all, though he was still very much on the property. This face, though, was quite unmistakable; it belonged to Ashikaga Kimiko. So then, it was her who solve the puzzle after all. He figured she would have the easiest time doing such a thing, but he hadn't been around to discover whether she'd even made it to the puzzle club thus far. Apparently... she had. "... Oh," he said, his eyes wide with shock. To say the least, this wasn't at all how he expected this meeting to happen.

[Apollymi]

"In my defense, I did tell him to get the hell away from me," Kimiko said after looking up at this lad. He really was quite familiar and she realized in this moment why his face was strangely one she knew. "You're in my home room," she said with a small smirk. "Let me in, Yugi~" the raven haired lass said. She'd really lucked out here, him not being a fat ugly bastard and not being an exceedingly good looking snobby type. He did have the general dress appeal of a hoodlum but that was hardly worth worrying about, he had a reasonable face, a bit like his Avatars though it was like those were made to make him... pretty. That wasn't at base how she'd describe him, but pretty men were a bit strange outside of anime so, this was also fine. There was visible relief in her soul in this moment and she was happy her instincts hadn't let her down, and glad her life in the new world hadn't let her fall for someone completely fake. Beyond all of that though, she had no real desire to explain that she'd almost been the victim of a strange hentai plot, nor that she well and truly missed her bodyguard right about now. Strangely enough, she was quite pleased with that random use of power... and felt more relaxed with that guy slammed into a fountain. Now if she could get out of the watchful eyes of the public she could have a good day reuniting with this young man.

[Bloodedge]

"Uh... yeah. Looks like it. I'd guess this is the third strike?" he questioned, watching the other male panic his way out of the fountain and scurry off. The poor thing looked so out of breath just from that, but Yugi supposed he was going to be out of breath regardless. The fear on his face, though, told the tale of how surprised he was to be thrown by such an unassuming lass as Ashikaga Kimiko.

Speaking of Kimiko, she had Yugi pinned as someone from her homeroom in school. This was true, they were classmates whenever he actually decided to attend school on time. Calling him by his given name, she expressed her desire to be let in, and in a slightly demanding fashion no less. Yugi shook his head. "Iia. I only came here to answer the phone and get the pizza delivery. I don't live here," he said, taking a moment to grab the large pizza box before stepping out into the open. As the door closed, he set his gaze reluctantly on the storage crate beside the building. "... This way." With that said, he led the way to his actual 'home' so to speak. It was just a simple crate that had been sectioned off. In essence, he lived in a bedroom with a futon, a few shelves filled with manga, DVDs, video games, and anime/manga paraphernalia. His computer setup was toward the rear, next to a basic bathroom that had been built into the structure. He had a kitchen as well, simply in the form of a mini-fridge with a hot plate resting atop it, and a countertop with a microwave next to that. All of these things were simply near the entrance. All in all, he could have simply been living in a microhome.

[Apollymi]

"Yes, yes it was..." Kimiko said of the three strikes. There had actually been two times in which she'd have let that man pass without incident. The first of which was the lecherous grin, the second of which was the passing statement. At the point where he got bold enough to touch her, she decided he was far too intrusive, but that didn't really matter at this point. She glanced behind her as the man scurried off, visibly shaken and obviously having not expected to be tossed at such a distance by her. It was a strange fact, but she wasn't at all certain how she'd managed such a thing but assumed she had some variation of the time altering power that Regulus had shown. Strangely enough while she was thinking this over, it seemed that she was not going to be let into the house. Some mild explanation came from this lad, alright... this was fine, and privacy was strangely important to her anyways. "Hai hai!" the lass said. Instead he led her around to the back of the building to what looked to be a storage shed. The girl's left brow rose behind her glasses and she was a bit taken aback.

Upon entering she took off her sunglasses and pushed back her hood, lifting her hair out. She slid out of the lad's way and began having a look around. This space reminded her of the Sims video game. It was one of those college dorm style rooms. But it was strangely cozy. To be honest, she liked this space, not for its size, but instead for all of the interesting things in it. Right at the moment she was stopped looking at the lad's collection of anime and manga related memorabilia. Her eyes widening as she saw figures and characters she recognized and enjoyed. "Sugoi! Look at that you have the Thong Eira. That one was sold out when I went... I got stuck with the censored one!" she said excited as she looked around. She saw a replica of Mugen, Raizen's Zanpakuto, not the spirit but instead the staff. She squealed audibly. "Squeee!~ I can't believe someone actually has one of these!!~" she chimed. She was fully amused and enamored looking around this place, it was almost as if she didn't notice how very small such a place was. There were so many cool things to look at, it was like seeing a room that suited all your tastes. Besides that it was like seeing a piece of the lad himself. She could definitely tell by the amount of stuff in this space that he lived in it well, but that wasn't bothersome either. She appreciated that he could decorate his space so openly and be himself so readily. 'Actually, I am pretty sure that sort of thing is what I like about him in general.'

[Bloodedge]

Into the crate they went, where Kimiko would see first-hand how the lad known as Aiba Yugi lived. What would she have to say, he wondered. Strangely, she had nary a thing to say about the fact that he lived in a literal box packed to the brim with the gear of an otaku. No... her first and only commentary was about the quality of merchandise he managed to collect over the years. "... Uh..." he muttered. It was one thing to ignore his current living conditions, but he felt just a spark of embarrassment when she pointed out the first figure to catch her eye. Well, at least she moved on to acknowledge other figures and replicas, particularly the replica staff he had propped against the wall. "Yeah, it's been a long time coming... this collection," he stated.

Still, there was so much strange about this reaction. Perhaps he'd simply been too caught up in his own head , but he couldn't get over the stark differences they had to have between their living conditions. Yugi remembered the very beginning, where he assumed they were completely incompatible. Kimiko proved him wrong time and time again, of course, and here it seemed to be happening once more. Alas... it was a matter that had to be brought up as he lowered the pizza box onto his singular dresser at the storage container's rear. "You... do realize you're in a box, right? This shithole isn't my mancave or anything; this is where I live. day in, day out... I'm in here. Don't you feel claustrophobic or something just being in here?"

[Apollymi]

Maybe she'd said too much. To be honest her collection wasn't too far off from this one. She had several figurines she'd have been embarrassed if someone mentioned directly, but she figured that their shared interests made this sort of observation fine. Besides, how could she be calm while there were so many interesting things to see? This room was probably one of the most exciting she'd been inside, in quite a while. "I can tell it's exciting~" the girl mentioned. Actually meeting this lad was very different from what she expected. It was a slight guessing game as to how much of his personality had properly manifested in his various Avatars. She felt there was probably a more than reasonable amount of skepticism the lad had yet to voice, but after he put his pizza down, he voiced that as well.

"Yes, I realize. You definitely said you weren't living in that house. I am pretty clever too~" she said with the slightest teasing quality in her voice. "It is a lived in space, that is something to appreciate. You have no idea how boring the places are I normally get invited to," she mentioned thinking of all of the horrid places that were supposed to be lived in by teenagers but looked like they were designed and decorated by people who were eighty. "As an aside, I figured there was likely a reason, or rather given how you are probably several reasons, that you don't live in that house. I didn't think I should pry," she explained of herself. Though that wasn't quite it, as her hands clasped in front of herself she looked towards this lad very directly. "But that doesn't really matter either, I don't dislike this space. You're in it." Her statement was clear and without question the absolute truth. She could hang out here with him because she liked him. She enjoyed the idea that he would even invite her into his space at all. Beyond all of that, she could see little pieces of him everywhere, in how this space was put together. She liked things, but she wasn't so judgmental as to be upset about what people did or didn't have. If he wanted things, that wasn't very hard to accomplish, but there was no reason his choice in living space so long as it was clean should be any reason for her to cast judgement on him.

[Bloodedge]

Once more, Kimiko was proving her ability to go above and beyond all preconceived notions related to her 'type' as a person. He should have known by now; he should have understood. Still, reprehensions existed for a reason, and even Yugi found shaking a few to be difficult in a situation such as this. "Boring, huh? I guess that makes sense. I'd be bored in the stereotypical rich person setup too, but I figure the luxury alone would make that bearable. It'd be a plus for me at least, since it'd be a pretty new experience and all," the lad explained in all honesty. He could still somewhat see the other side of that argument, though. To one who only knew such a life, it had to be incredibly mundane... much like his own situation was to him, as much as he enjoyed it regardless.

She wouldn't pry according to her own words, but Kimiko did express an interest in the reasons he lived in this box. Yugi was aware that he had many secrets kept from the general public, and many existed simply because he didn't care to tell them. In this case, though, Kimiko was more than deserving of whatever information she sought. After all, she had already solved the puzzle of his own mind; anything else could be considered knowledge gained by that. "Arigatou," he said in regards to her respecting his privacy, though he also spoke this phrase as a way of bashfully acknowledging her final clause indirectly. "So... pizza? I got a large for gaming the night away, but if you want to know those reasons... we can eat, and I'll answer any questions you've got left after the goose chase you've been on."

[Apollymi]

According to the lad he could see his own side of it one way, and the way she presented it to be the other. She could appreciate this kind of thinking, though she wasn't necessarily the type to have such a cozy set up, she definitely like more lively things around than most people would be alright with. "Sou ka, that is an interesting perspective... I hadn't really considered that. I when I am invited places the extra luxury is standard, but it comes with uninteresting conversations, dress codes and bland food. The luxury of it was lost pretty quickly on me~" she mused. Being around this lad was a strange mix of fun, nostalgia and thought exercises, it was quite the exciting experience.

Whatever the case, after she shared her own thoughts about this matter, the lad before her thanked her. She was quite sure it was for the compliment she gave him. It was hardly necessary to her. She was an honest individual. She liked being around him so it didn't matter where they were, besides this place felt like him and she enjoyed that as well. She wasn't so spoiled that a place like this would immediately cause her any discomfort. Something surprising happened soon after, the lad offered her pizza and claimed that he'd answer any of the questions she had. A smile spread across her face. "I haven't really had much to eat today so thanks. And I do have a couple of questions if you feel like answering~" the lass mentioned. She took a seat on the futon looking about as proper as she always did and motioned beside herself. She also removed her own jacket and got decently comfortable and ready to eat. She was fine with not attacking the lad with questions immediately to be honest she just wanted to spend time with him. She'd been so excited to find him, she hardly knew what she wanted to ask anyways, she was practically giddy, with her true smile plastered across her face.

[Bloodedge]

"That makes a lot of sense. At this rate, it might be a pretty cool idea to switch lifestyles for a day. Y'know, like those weird movies, just... without the body swapping. Or... yeah, actually, without the body swapping," Yugi stated. He was a bit here and there with his idea, but eventually settled on a solid form of it. Regardless, he meant the idea itself only as a joke; he could never really put himself in that sort of situation. Luxury was always something appealing, though. If he wasn't so vehemently against overwhelming wealth while others struggled, he'd have already sampled that sort of life for himself.

Kimiko accepted his offer of pizza, claiming she hadn't eaten much of anything today thus far. He was certain she hadn't missed school or anything, so there was the implication that she she'd gone without eating anything provided by the school. With that in mind, she must've eaten as little as Yugi himself had while performing all those experiments this day. He opened the pizza box, unveiling an amalgamation of meats and cheeses that no health-conscious person should have been consuming, and gestured to offer the first slice. "Have at it," he said while placing the pizza box in front of them, simultaneously seating himself next to Kimiko atop the futon. "And... ask away."

[Apollymi]

"Hm, life swap, body swap, world swap... we'd do a lot of changed perspectives~" she teased. Though she figured it to be some sort of joke, she could always have let the lad experience the kind of luxury she was used to, it would probably be some weird mix of what he expected and the way she was. "Hm, though we could make that happen if you were interested," that one wasn't a joke but that was also an aside. After she'd managed to get comfortable the lad opened up the pizza box which she stared at for several long seconds.

Now Ashikaga Kimiko was rich beyond most people's wildest dreams, but she was a bit less than worldly in most cases. She stared with wide eyes as the meats and cheeses and could barely process her own thoughts. "I didn't know they'd put this many toppings on pizza..." the lass mentioned. How did one attack such a meal? She'd eaten pizza before and knew it was one of those 'hand foods' which were part of how her mother determined 'junk food' in her diet. She'd been allowed a slice or two in her life, but that had always been eaten with a fork and knife. And the idea of eating something like this the way they did in the movies was absolutely frightening. This seemed like it took a level of socialization that she simply didn't have. So, she'd ask her first question in the oddest of ways. "Alright first question, how do you eat this?" she said thinking about it a bit more her face flushed a little and she began explaining the nature of her question. "I mean, not like how... I understand how to eat. And it smells great so I am like down to try it, so it wasn't a pickiness thing. But like...mechanically, how does one eat this in this situation?" she asked in her normal direct manner. Of course in asking the question she panicked internally. 'Should I not have asked that? Did I mess up my delievery? Was that weird? Am I weird?' she looked to the lad with that same flush on her face as she tapped her two fingers together waiting for the answer to her question. If nothing else, this was a good ice breaker topic.

[Bloodedge]

"Nah, I'll pass. That's one situation I couldn't be caught in. I'd be lying if I said I would do even a single appropriate thing if I spent a day as a rich guy," he claimed. This, too, was not at all something to be considered a joke. He was fine like this, with his box house and a large pizza originally meant for himself alone. He had his games, he had things to watch, and now... he had company.

Of course someone like Kimiko wouldn't know the upper limits of something like pizza. He'd have been surprised to learn that she ever experienced one that wasn't some gourmet option, or even something as plain as pepperoni. "Welcome to regular, pleb pizza life!" the lad chanted. Now then, he was in for quite a shock. Kimiko stared at the pizza as if perplexed by it, never even claiming the first slice. She offered her first question of the day, and it was completely unrelated to their earlier discussion. It was certainly one hell of a question, though. Could she really not know how to eat a pizza? He supposed those with money tended to be very... keen on silverware, to say the least. Still, hearing this directly from anyone's mouth with any amount of seriousness was absolutely hilarious. Yugi couldn't keep himself from bursting into a seemingly endless fit of laughter. He threw his head back, he held his sides, he nearly even fell against the futon. "Seriously? You couldn't sound richer if you tried! You're spoiled rotten, aren't you?" he said, albeit all in good fun. "Here."

He could at least show Kimiko the ropes of being a 'commoner' as one would call it. Peeling away the first slice of pizza by its crust, he extended an extra hand to balance the tip. From its crust, he bent the slice into an upward curve, and kept that balancing hand in place as he guided the slice toward Kimiko's face. "See? Simple, easy to access, hand food. Try it~"

[Apollymi]

A chuckle escaped Kimiko, she understood his point, and how much of a not joke it was. She was after all a person who'd been rich since her birth, and she hardly found anything appropriate to do with herself. If she was being honest, she had devolved and evolved as a person who did or did not have anything reasonable to do as a rich person. "Iie, you'd get bored of it enough to muster up the desire to do something constructive," she mentioned, though appropriate was always a different factor.

But right at the moment there was something of a puzzle before this lass. She'd left the pizza unclaimed and found herself in her already embarrassed state becoming a source of extreme laughter for the lad beside her. In this moment she looked at him while he laughed at her expense. She might have wanted to be upset about it, but... looking at him in the moment he seemed so amused. His face was all light and happy, she couldn't have possibly been upset. Though her face was still flushed she did at least try to maintain her dignity. A playful pout crossed her face as the red tint it had gained still lingered. "Of course! Have you seen me~" she said while turning her nose up playfully. But all of this was taken in good fun, and soon enough the lad was showing her how this whole food thing worked. Most efficiently he was now holding a slice of pizza with both hands and using a technique she would definitely have to try guiding said food towards her face.

Now this was something new. Kimiko hadn't been fed in such a way since she was a child, but something about it felt oddly right. She leaned forward and opened her mouth to take a bite of the pizza. And as it hit her tongue she gained a new understanding in life. There were so many flavors mixing together, a little as she began to chew. Every slice she'd ever eaten before this moment was disgusting by comparison. She was almost to the point of tears she couldn't have been happier. "Sugei!~" she exclaimed. "Why have I never had this?!" she questioned the universe at large. This had to be some sort of delicacy. Why was her mother so caught up on cutlery when things like this could be eaten with ones hands. Why was plated food so randomly bland when she could have meat, cheese and bread?! Her mental utterances and her childlike excitement were so natural to her person. She even had the tiniest bit of cheese on her lip. She had no idea how she looked in the moment, but this sort of happiness was the kind she could only experience in the presence of this lad.

[Bloodedge]

He would get bored and do something constructive, would he? Well... of course. That much was a guarantee, regardless of what he had to entertain him. For Yugi, it wasn't even a matter of boredom per se, but a simple urge to do something exciting and see its effects on the world around him, even if only in his immediate vicinity. "Well yeah, but... that still doesn't mean anything I did would be appropriate," he claimed.

Even though his earlier statement had been one made in jest, he truly thought the incredible wealth had successfully spoiled the girl named Kimiko. It was such a hilarious thing, though. Paired with her state of visual embarrassment, Yugi quickly found himself incredibly entertained. His amusement was palpable even as he offered to literally hand-feed the girl a slice of pizza, which itself would have been something he found hilarious from an outside perspective. He could have simply explained things, but no─ this was what felt more natural for whatever reason.

And so, Kimiko managed to sample the pizza of the common folk. It was abundantly clear that she found it to be acceptable, even delectable. Her question to the world at large was met by the laughter of Yugi. Indeed, this one would soon be in for a long list of interesting experiences, if something as simple as a bite of pizza was so incredible. "Really? You just took a bite of like... the most common thing ever, and you're losing your shit over it," he said, his eyes being drawn to that string of melted cheese hanging from the lass' lip. Holding the slice in one hand, he used his other to trail a finger along Kimiko's bottom lip. He'd take that cheese, shoving the tip of his finger betwixt his own lips to consume it. It seemed he was in a comfortable enough state that he wasn't even giving consideration to his actions. "Wait until you get ahold of a really good burger~"

[Apollymi]

A single nod would come from Kimiko, she understood the difference between appropriate and constructive but that didn't change what she'd said. If anything she knew this information from experience alone. Moving right along, this pair was sharing a very intimate moment in the present. She was fed food directly from the hands of another person. She should have found something about this more than a bit patronizing but she didn't. In fact, she was truly spoiled and enjoyed being spoiled through experience as well. In this moment she felt more comfortable than any other she'd been in. She supposed it was probably odd, and hilarious from an outward perspective. Her resting public face was much more tough, but here in this moment, she felt comfortable enough to show herself and the lad obviously felt the same. In fact, from her current place beside him, she could tell he looked happy, and she found herself wondering if he always looked this happy. And if he didn't she wanted to make sure this was the case.

Before she could devote an extreme amount of thought to this though, there was something else. "But it's really good. I don't like knowing I've been missing out on things..." the girl said as if her reaction was the most normal in the world. In truth this was a matter of her nature as a greedy person, but it didn't matter in the long run. The lad reached out, a single finger running across her bottom lip. Very rare was it for this lass to seem out of sorts, but he'd found a single piece of cheese dangling from her lip and wiped it away. That was kind of him, what he did with it though, made her eyes widen and the flush on her face become even more obvious. 'Sugoi! He ate it. I thought maybe he was one of those super shy types, because Kou as an Avatar is super shy but...' she gave pause even within her own thoughts. 'That was an indirect kiss!' Kimiko could have died in this moment, she was finding Yugi to be exactly what she needed. "I've had burgers before... but I don't see what the big deal is... but given this pizza fiasco I am almost certain I've never had a good burger!~" she exclaimed. "I'm really excited to find out everything!~" she mentioned which was likely very obvious, and very fitting with the type of person she was. This was a reasonable enough segue.

A segue into what? Well, the most obvious answer was the line of questioning she had in mind for the lad. He'd mentioned her being able to ask any questions she had, and she was quite curious about his logic in these moments. For instance, why was he such a rare face at school? She'd barely have recognized him if not for her other habits. Why did he live outside of a mansion which was likely his? What did he get out of his modest experience? She gave pause and thought about how to ask a question. And it was something to give great consideration to, she enjoyed their conversations and knew they got along to a great extent so she could make some assumptions. "So, that puzzle you gave to the puzzle club, did you actually expect anyone to finish it?" she asked, bridging the topics slowly she could move through them at her leisure while they ate and she definitely would like to know everything she could about this lad.

[Bloodedge]

He considered it fair enough that Kimiko disliked missing out on things; he was much the same. Going without any experience that one could have, and may enjoy, was almost a repulsive thought. More importantly though, if he could offer such experiences and satisfaction to the lass, then there was much excitement to be had on his end as well. How many foods could they share this way? Beyond food, what else could they do? The more Yugi thought about the potentials, the more he realized they were endless. One could even say they were more endless than the options to be found in burgers, which happened to be the topic of conversation after a slight shift. "Let me take a guess, and say your burgers come with forks and knives too," he said, doubting that Kimiko had ever experienced what a commoner would call a 'proper' burger.

"There's so much more, too. Pizza, burgers, ramen, even TV dinners if you manage to find the right mood and brand at the same time. Seriously, you're in for a trip," the lad asserted. Ah, but at long last, it was time to move toward other topics. After Yugi stole a sample of cheese from her face, she saw fit to question the puzzle he'd left in the club at school. Offering up her slice, he reached out to claim another for himself, almost laughing at the question presented to him. "That's the first curiosity? Sou ka."

In truth, this was something he hadn't even given consideration to for quite some time. He could hardly even remember how long it'd been since the puzzle club was begging him to join, the day he decided to create that object. Leaning back with a slice to chew on, he stared at his collection of merchandise and gave it a bit of thought. "Well... I didn't exactly make it with the intention of them failing. That was the bare minimum to prove growth in the abilities they already had. I didn't want to answer their call to join up, just to become their supreme ruler or whatever dumb thing they wanted me to be. For me to join, I just wanted at least one of them to be pushing toward greater heights, and to show enough resolve to actually make the moves necessary to accomplish that. Me being around would just be a reason for everyone else to stagnate, otherwise. It's the same reason I don't like teaming up in video games, or... in anything, really."

[Apollymi]

"Things you eat with your hands are junk food and contradict your diet," she repeated a phrase she'd heard a lot growing up with the exact tone and cadence her mother spoke with. Kimiko was a person was raised to have the utmost dignity. Besides all of that her mother came from a very old and rich family. So, she maintained certain expectations for her daughter whether the lass agreed with them or not. Given this information literally everything that Kimiko ate, came with proper utensils, or she couldn't eat it. This was a habit she'd carried with herself even beyond this world, most of the things she'd consumed in the other world had been eaten in a similar fashion. But this wasn't worth harping over.

No, the future was much more exciting in this case. Apparently, Yugi could name many more things that she could eat. Things they could try. Her eyes sparkled at the idea that there were so many more things to try and do specifically with this lad. "Hai hai! I'm pretty excited about this, probably way more than I should be..." the lass admitted sheepishly, as she accepted her slice of pizza. She'd take another bite as the lad claimed his own. She spent time getting used to holding her own hand based food and hearing out the lad's explanation for that outlandish puzzle he'd created. After he was finished with his explanation she was a good few bites into her slice. She'd wait until she finished chewing to express her understanding. "Oh... that makes a decent bit of sense. Actually, it was pretty fun but compared to the one you gave me, that one was pretty easy. Still pretty fun though," she mentioned of the actual object. "Still I feel like I stole Miura-kun's thunder. He seemed like he might have figured it out... eventually. You were right about what you thought would happen with that group, though. Based on his attitude I am pretty sure they flocked to him and didn't get any better," she mentioned. Logically it made a great deal of sense people tended to look to others for guidance. Even so, in group activities and team sports, relying on a single individual was bad for group dynamics and for the growth of the group. "I do get it though, I wouldn't have joined that group either for very similar reasons. And working with other people is always strange but I tend to run into slightly different problems with that over all," she explained.

She went back to eating and a few moments later she pondered her next question. What else could she ask in this moment? Well there were quite a few topics left to cover... "So, why don't you go to school more often?" Kimiko's questions were about his mindset. She was curious about him as a person. That wasn't to say she enjoyed school very much herself, she was only there as a part of her contractual obligation. But he wasn't outright a hoodlum, he wasn't spending a bunch of time with other people. Though he didn't like socializing in the same way as other people she still found it odd that he was missing more often than not.

[Bloodedge]

"... Uh─" he chimed. That statement about what classified as junk food was, in all honesty, the most horrendous thing he'd heard in ages. One could only assume this was a clause used to raise Kimiko during childhood. Yugi couldn't imagine a life without at least a few meals that didn't require utensils. "Well yeah, but what's the point? If you never go against your diet, it's not exactly a diet, is it? That's just... eating boring stuff for life. It's... basically like being vegan."

As he spoke these words, Yugi prepared to take the first bite of his pizza slice. When he did, he took a large enough bite to fill his mouth, taking away nearly half of the slice in his hand. The time during which Kimiko spoke was used to chew for what seemed like ages. She spoke of the lad named Miura, and how she believed he could have eventually solved Yugi's puzzle. Yugi agreed; that boy was the only one who even stood a chance, based on what he'd seen of the puzzle club's members as a whole. More importantly than any of that though, was the notion that Kimiko found fun in the puzzle. "It's good that you enjoyed it. The one I gave you was way more thorough, but I got really into it when I was making that one. If anybody was gonna solve it, it would be you. That was just a matter of how long it took you to get there," he explained, having considered various time windows for Kimiko locating the puzzle.

It was time for the next question. She was making some rather interesting choices in inquiries, and number two was the strangest yet. Why he didn't go to school more often... Well, that was something that hardly even had an explanation. "Mostly because I just don't want to. I go enough for my grades to be fine, but it'd just be annoying if I showed up every day. Too many clubs, too much restriction, too little stuff that's... me. Suman; not much of an answer there."

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Yugi also saw the problem with the way that Kimiko found herself raised. He compared such restrictions to being vegan which she could definitely see herself. "Hm, I suppose that is a good comparison. I never much understood the point, but I would rather not pick that point to argue about. There are better battles to fight," she said with a chuckle. Of course, there were things which she argued about a lot but learned her lesson rather early and picked points she could win about. Most of which having to do with the nature of her mind and her desire to be a business person like her father.

Moving right along, she received a bit of indirect praise about her completion of the puzzle. Yugi claimed that she was about the only person to finish it, and though he'd put more of himself into the one he'd created personally for her, he thought her ability to complete the other one to be a matter of time. Her face flushed just a little as she finished off her slice of pizza crust and all. "Sou ka, well I'm glad you had faith in me~" the lass managed while looking away. Soon enough she was allowed to be more distracted than before. As the answer to her second question was given. Apparently the lad simply didn't like school that much and only went enough to keep up his grades. He didn't have any profound reason for this, stating only that it was simply not enough 'him'. "Ah, that makes sense. No worries. I was just curious. I am contractually obligated to attend school, it's how I get to do what is actually fun and interesting to me. But I don't much get the fun of school... and I am pretty bad at socializing in general," the lass admitted. She had a difficult time with school, not academically but with the people. But her father wanted her to attend and make the most of her experiences, and to be as normal as possible. Given the state of the other 'genius' type people in their age range she could say that she simply had different problems from the rest of them, not that she was anywhere near normal. But their compromise made it so she attended but still got to run a rather large portion of the business in her off time, so long as her grades were high and her attendance reasonable. So, now on to a more interesting question, if not attending school was just a matter of leisure then why didn't he live in his own house? "Okay then, big question... why do you choose to live out here?" she asked earnestly. She'd had a look at that house and it was well beyond a standard state of living. It could have been a matter of privacy, she could get it then... but that seemed a bit shallow.

[Bloodedge]

"The point of what, being vegan? About as much point as there is in religion, but... even I won't argue those things either. Some people don't want to hear about the bullshit, y'know?" he questioned rhetorically, tearing off another chunk of pizza with his teeth thereafter. He seemed to find more and more relaxation as the seconds passed, strange though the conversation was all the while.

When his eyes shifted to look toward Kimiko, she seemed to be gazing in the other direction. Was this embarrassment? It seemed to be, as he recalled the Avatar Miki to show similar enough reactions to draw such a conclusion. There was hardly room to address this, as there was an interesting fact revealed about Kimiko herself. She was contractually obligated to attend school, likely as part of her having a segment of the Ashikaga company all her own. "I don't know if I'd call you bad at socializing. Maybe just a little off-putting with the uh... face thing," he said, finding hesitation betwixt his words due to a lack of... well, proper wording. In all honesty, he strangely fancied the girl's resting expression that was sure to be a deterrent to most. Of course, Yugi was also simply a degenerate.

And then, there was the third question─ the one he'd been anticipating this entire time. There were so many reasons he had for living in the box they were presently in, and he hardly even knew where to begin. He was silent, taking another bite while gathering his thoughts before he could even begin to respond. "Well..." he started mid-chew. Only after swallowing did he decide a starting point. "From the start, I ran from that lavish lifestyle. I wanted to keep myself grounded because I couldn't stand the idea of having so much while being right down the street from people who have nothing. I always planned to go back, but... then some things happened with my dad, so I left my sister inside while she was sick, and I just used this room as my gaming den or whatever." As he revealed this information, there was a looming darkness in the truth of it all. He was already talking, so he thought there was no need to withhold the rest. "Yumi... she died last year. I still haven't figured out how she wound up in that other world, but I could never even bring myself to address it. Since that happened, I've barely even set foot in the house. Earlier today was the first time I unlocked the door in months, and it was only because the phone finally rang."

[Apollymi]

"Hai, that exactly~" she said about the vegan thing and about arguments that weren't necessary. She couldn't help but feel a bit more relaxed as time went on as well. She enjoyed chatting with this boy, even while she had the slightest hint of embarrassment on her face. It seemed though that Yugi at least didn't think she was actually bad at socializing. He claimed that it was probably just her facial expression that was off-putting to some. A chuckle came from Kimiko in the moment, and while she could agree that her facial expression did put off a few people from talking to her directly, there was a bit more to her idea of being bad at socializing. "Ah... my face is one thing, but I am bad at socializing for different reasons. It's a bit embarrassing actually, I'll explain later..." she said softly. There was a bit of complication in the life of Ashikaga Kimiko at least when it came to her peers.

Moving right along, she was willing to put off explaining her own weirdness to learn more about the lad. He seemed to be deep in thought for a moment or two before he went about explaining his logic behind living in this space. According to the lad it started out as a rejection of his lavish lifestyle. He claimed that he'd planned to go back eventually but he'd run into issues with his dad. Apparently while his sister was sick he left her within that home for her own health and hung out in this space for gaming. Within seconds though her eyes widened and many of the things she'd witnessed made sense. His younger sister Yumi had died in this world, and he didn't know how she was alive in the other one. He couldn't bring himself to go back or deal with that after it happened. He'd apparently not even been in the house in months. Kimiko felt strangely about this information. So many things made sense, but many didn't. Timing is strange in this world by comparison, and she knew that now. She'd share that information with him shortly, but right now, she needed to do something else. She felt the need to comfort this lad, she didn't know what to say to him, and she couldn't really commiserate. She'd experienced some strange instances in her life, but they were a bit different. Here and now, she opened her arms and wrapped them around the lad before her, there was only one thing she could say, "Yugi... you don't have to say anymore if you don't want to, that's a lot." She couldn't apologize that didn't feel right, she could only try to be here for the lad while he expressed himself. She'd hear him out while her arms were wrapped around him, if he wanted to share more.

[Bloodedge]

There was another reason Kimiko considered herself bad at socializing. Yugi gave this a moment of consideration, and he supposed that was an understandable notion. It couldn't have ever been a matter of her expression driving people off, but more to do with those who would approach one of her stature regardless of their visage. "Sou ka. Well... that's their fault, isn't it? Don't say you're bad at socializing because of who comes your way, or how you deal with them when they're not the types of people you should be around."

Perhaps Yugi said more than he normally would have. In only a minute, he had just about given away the entire story of his life. Of course, the 'darker' parts of his own past were left out, but that which had been the worst to deal with was something he simply blurted out because it was on his mind from everything else he'd said. Interestingly enough, Kimiko decided to offer him comfort in the wake of this regurgitation. As he felt the sensation of her arms wrapping around him, his movements paused aside from the sudden widening of his eyes. He didn't actually need comforting, but he also couldn't bring himself to reject her embrace at all. He simply took it... differently than it was perhaps intended. "Iia, iia. Don't get me wrong; I'm not really bummed out about it anymore. I couldn't be anything but relieved that she's still around somewhere, even if it is in another reality. Right now though, besides that world being like some crazy dream come to life, she makes me really want to go back. Even when we're jumping down each other's throats, I'm kind of happy about it." Yugi offered this simple explanation while meaning every word from the bottom of his heart. There was one more thing he needed to address, though. He'd said so much to the contrary of Kimiko's current actions, but... that, itself, was something he needed to contradict with an additional clause. "Don't let that stop you, though. It still feels... nice," he concluded as his free hand rested atop the raven-haired girl's arm, almost as if to hold it against himself.

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Yugi was once again filling in the blanks of Kimiko's missing speech. Her eyes widened slightly at his words. Of course, he was quite right, it wasn't really her fault that she thought herself bad at socializing. It was incredibly hard to trust the intentions of other people, and those who approached her in general didn't have anything good to offer her. She'd adopted a certain level of distance from others because of her misaligned interactions, and as such she didn't appear to ever have any friends. She couldn't properly express it in the moment but she wanted to thank him.

Ah, but that was an aside, as she offered him the only comfort she knew to give him. He went on to speak more. Apparently he wasn't really sad about his sister's death anymore and overall he was just happy that she was alive somewhere. That was quite encouraging, so it seemed Kimiko's embrace might have been considered a bit misplaced. That being said, as he went on he claimed that she shouldn't let his being okay stop her. A warm hand met her arm and when it did it made warm tingles travel up her arm. "Hai hai, I think it's pretty nice too. Though I did it for you..." the girl mentioned softly. She held him this way and spoke on what he'd said a bit more as well as giving him a bit more information, as she knew he was also trying to conquer the problems of the two versions of the world. "I found out something interesting when I was... looking for you. Kitera Ume is still here and she'd never heard of AoE," she said with a small smirk on her face. "She said when we met her that one of her patients mentioned it, and it was me. I'm the one who told her, yesterday actually..." she summarized. This was quite strange but obviously there was some time travel or at least some kind of time based paradox involved with their travel between worlds.

[Bloodedge]

"It doesn't matter the reason," he said with certainty. Contact had been initiated, and Yugi strangely found himself welcoming it. Given the likelihood of that happening with anyone and him finding it acceptable, he could do nothing but desire its continuation. As such, his hand remained in place atop Kimiko's forearm. In the meantime, Kimiko explained that she'd been in contact with Kitera Ume, who seemed as if she'd yet to become the Avatar they already knew as Kuroka. Moreover, Kimiko pinned herself as the one who managed to introduce that woman to the game that transported her across realities. He knew time was askew between worlds, but this was something outright ridiculous! "... Fuck," he said, seeming upset by a sudden realization. "And I was calling that one chick crazy because she was bringing up time travel for the reason behind there being two worlds. Well... she's still crazy. They're all crazy."

Now that he mentioned it, Yugi had information to share with Kimiko as well. His previous day had been one hell of an experience, and he wondered if she'd been through anything similar. "Speaking of the crazy people, should I assume you've also been bombarded by psychos since coming back here? I had a cult of people from AoE hold me at gunpoint to make me their leader yesterday. They called me an important part of their movement after going to one world and back to my own, and wanted me to participate in a Holy Grail War. That girl sounded like an idiot for believing this world was just the 'wrong' version of theirs, so I told them to shove it. Then... I wound up getting a servant after I returned your message. That one called me the Witch of Wrath, and... she might have actually been right."

[Apollymi]

Apparently it didn't matter the reason such contact was initiated. Kimiko found herself strangely comfortable in this lad's presence and never really this comfortable in anyone else's. Given this she enjoyed the time they spent in close proximity of each other, but she'd discovered this a long time ago in their adventure. She enjoyed their closeness even as she settled into this embrace and felt no strain having her arms wrapped around this lad in such a fashion. After revealing the information she had about the current existence of one Kitera Ume, it seemed Yugi had come to some sort of conclusion. He did so in his usual manner by muttering a swear of understanding. He then brought up crazy people and time travel which made Kimiko's eyes go wide. "REALLY?!" she uttered excitedly.

Only soon after did she find out that the lad had been dealing with some strange interactions. According to him he'd had run ins with two different groups from AoE who wanted to claim him as their leader. One group held him at gunpoint, claiming he was important to their movement. And the only a singular person became his servant while referencing him as the Witch of Wrath. "Sou ka," she said in understanding of his situation. As she gained comfort in the moment she had a similar yet slightly different tale of her own to tell. "Oh, well, I was held at gunpoint, in my own house by the cops after a shower because apparently I was reported missing," she mentioned with a shake of her head. "I was taken into the station only to be randomly confronted by some man who claimed to know me, and my other faces. He thought you and I were similar enough that one of us should have been what he was looking for, but I got the feeling he doesn't like you very much," she explained of the situation. "That same man apparently thought I might have been the Witch of Pride, but after talking to me for a few seconds changed his mind. He was also absolutely psychotic and way too much emotion for my liking. He determined I was the Witch of Greed instead, which I find more suitable in general. And then claimed he'd win both worlds for me, in the Holy Grail War, as I stated I wouldn't sacrifice one for the other even if it was an option," she explained the rest with a gentle sigh. "It was a whole fucking ordeal, and all I wanted was to find you. That dude did have some strange powers though and I am pretty sure I have a practical version of them given what happened with that pizza guy. I haven't had much time to test it out figuring out what transferred from that world to this one." The whole of her story now done she sighed. None of that really mattered to her now though, she had the lad she was looking for all other problems could be solved at her leisure.

[Bloodedge]

The excited utterance of Kimiko essentially confirmed her going through a similar experience to his own. If that wasn't enough, he was soon to be on the receiving end of an explanation to further effect. She had also been bombarded, not only by that strange set of cults, but by the police as well. When comparing their lifestyles, it made sense that a few days would be reason for police involvement in her case. The same could have been said by Yugi himself a matter of years ago, but there was no one to report him missing at present. Regardless of all that, they had both ended their eventful days on a similar note. She, too, dealt with one crazed individual seeking to pledge themselves to a Witch. Given the amount of sudden dedication mentioned of this person, Yugi imagined it was another of those Archbishops, like the one he'd encountered. All the time-related trickery in this description led Yugi to believe they would be encountering the earlier form of at least one Archbishop in their future, and that was... at least satisfying confirmation that they would indeed be travelling to the other world again. "So we both got approached by people looking for Pride, and both got pinned as a completely different sin. I was wondering what you did to throw that guy into the fountain and have it be such a loud thing, but that pretty much tells me the little tests I've done were best done with the restraint I used."

Perhaps what that purple-haired woman said was right. Maybe he would participate in their little 'competition' eventually, and maybe Kimiko would as well. Since it seemed they each had an official following consisting of a single member, perhaps they would be joining one another for an entirely new cause. "I'm not very big on the idea of being a Witch, honestly. What do you think, though? If those groups fight against each other for this world's Holy Grail, who knows what could happen? We could always just... take matters into our own hands, and do some of that good old constructive shit~"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko was a bit relieved to know that she wasn't the only one experiencing such strangeness upon her return. After speaking to the lad so recently about his past, she understood that it was unlikely that any would have noticed he was missing. At the same time she knew her own parents were on vacation so there were a very limited number of people who would have noticed she was gone as well. Whatever the case, she was at least satisfied that they were both not pride. This led to another line of thought about being related to Greed and what such a thing would actually mean for her long term. Were their draw backs to abusing such power? Did it have further uses she hadn't yet seen or discovered? She wasn't exactly keen to try and have a conversation with Regulus to find out exactly what that would mean... especially given his apparent obsession with making her one of his wives. Perhaps instead she could use her own brain power and Yugi's to come up with a working idea about the nature of her powers?

"Hm, I need to figure out if I have any negatives to using whatever power I manifest. Based on all information I've gotten I need to figure out if I have negatives to deal with and mediate them," she thought to herself. Based on what she had it was a bit sketchy. That being said, she was still on the same page as the lad she was with. They could technically do something about this potential problem. "I am not completely sold on being a Witch either, that sounds strange. But, I'd rather have control of all of these situations then leave them in the hands of people who are obviously unstable. Besides... with you around it'll be fun~" she said giving the lad a gentle squeeze as she considered their options. "So now... I have to figure out what Greed as a power entails and how to use it. I would rather not talk to that guy again if I can avoid it. He reminds me of those guys I'd rather not deal with, so I guess I can use what that dude said already, the information you have from your testing, and piece it together for a working theory~"

[Bloodedge]

Thinking of how their abilities worked here in their home world would always be something worthwhile. It may have been odd that they chose to do so while touching in such a way, but Yugi didn't give it so much as a second thought. He even continued working toward the end of his pizza slice while Kimiko spoke her piece. She had a very interesting plan in mind─ one that was similar enough to his own mindset that he nearly laughed with a mouthful of food. "Negatives, huh?" he spoke between chews. He had nothing else to say until the entirety of his crust was gone, but Kimiko did. She was also opposed to the idea of being whatever Witches were to those cultists, and she also wanted to know the extent of her powers without having to deal with the cultists themselves... or at least the one connected directly to her. Yugi could commiserate with most of these points, even though he didn't particularly mind his own follower so long as she could avoid fits of overexpressing herself the way he'd seen.

"I guess that settles it, then. We band together and finish figuring out what we're capable of, and we show those freaky cult guys what team play looks like at its finest! If it's avoiding negatives you find yourself having to do, pretty much all of my research has been feeding into some weird Yin and Yang philosophy, so I think I can help out if necessary there," he said confidently, thinking only after a slight topic shift that there was one more clause in the overall plan. "Oh, and we make sure you don't have to deal with the apparently creepy guy. That one's just as important, since I'm..." He paused. Interestingly enough, Yugi found himself repeatedly failing to mentally acknowledge the relationship they had officially entered. He had some sort of obligation now, right? Even so, admitting to the status shared between the two of them managed to shock him into speechlessness every time. . .

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Yugi found something that Kimiko had said funny. Still as she stayed in her embrace she found herself thinking over this entire thing. Strangely enough she also didn't have a problem with the way they were talking and how they were while they did it. She enjoyed being close to this lad, even as he finished his own meal and she spoke of learning the depths of her own powers. "Hai, I wouldn't want to experience some backlash from a greed based ability, especially since it'd be heavily weighted by the exchange. That weird Archbishop can stop time for large areas and destroy stuff from a distance. I don't really want to be able to do something like that and have it cost me more than I am willing to give for it," she mentioned thinking it through lightly. Soon after he finished his food, he did have something to say. It seemed he was alright with the start of her plan and aimed for the pair of them to combine their skills and take this Holy Grail War with their epic (and already proven) teamwork.

"Yosh! We can pretty easily do most things... I have faith in our combined efforts~" she chimed happily. It seemed beyond this point, he had information to share about some sort of exchange happening that he'd discovered during his own experiments. Before she could comment on this though the lad in her arms claimed it was also important to keep her away from her creepy Archbishop. A look of curiosity crossed this raven haired lass' face as she looked at him after he managed to sheepishly avoid mentioning the current nature of their relationship. After all they'd been through she found his inability to speak on this rather strange. That being said, given everything she'd seen of him in this form and his other ones, she was pretty sure he had some underlying insecurities. As the sort of person she was, it wasn't within her nature for her to allow him to feel out of sorts about this. She shifted herself gently so that she was in his lap with her legs on either side of his. She placed both of her hands around his face looking at him rather directly in the moment. "My boyfriend." She said finishing his lingering statement. "You're my boyfriend and I'm your girlfriend. And you can look after me as you wish... if that's still what you want." she stated very clearly, she could absolve him of any obligation he thought he had. She wanted him but he only had to do so much as he wanted to do for her, she only expected him to be himself. "I like you, and you're very precious to me, so I won't let you go..." she continued to hold him as such and watched the lad's face with a certain amount of possessiveness. "Is that alright, Yugi?" she questioned with softness in her eyes. She was looking to make certain once he officially accepted this she would have him as she pleased and would allow him the same but... she needed him to understand that she wanted him and him alone.

[Bloodedge]

Kimiko wanted to avoid the repercussions, but Kou wondered what said consequences would even be when a power such as stopping time was in use. There was magic which stopped time in the other world, but it had no major costs to speak of aside from one's own mana. That... wasn't a particularly greedy thing to do, though. Stopping time? It didn't lay claim to anything. Of the seven sins, he could think of four which may have had similar abilities to one another. Greed, Gluttony, Lust, and Envy were all more material than the other three, and could all be related to 'taking' things in some way. Perhaps this Archbishop's assault was related to the ability of theft, much like... ah, yes! "You have that Snatch skill as your first Avatar, yeah? Maybe it's more like that. When I was thinking about manifesting Wrath, I compared it to my Full Counter skill. Maybe that guy's not stopping time and destroying things at range, but instead claiming principles that extend even to time itself. I mean... it sounds logical to me."

Boyfriend. Indeed, that was the word he found so impossible to speak into existence. The reality of it all never made sense to the lad, as the situation itself still didn't fully make sense. He wasn't going to step down, clearly, but total acceptance and acknowledgement within his own head was another matter entirely. There was, of course, no way to even have a second thoughts when Kimiko decided to straddle his lap and take hold of his face for the most intense and extended eye contact he'd ever experienced. He met this gaze, hearing every word spoken by the black-haired girl, taking special note of the clause that she wasn't letting him go. What could he do with that information? Well... he laughed, just slightly. "They thought you were Pride when you say things like that?" he asked. It took a truly greedy individual to brazenly make a statement like that, he thought. "You're sure then? A hundred percent? My Avatars do a lot of heavy lifting on my part, you know? I really am just a perverted shut-in. I'm not exactly different from regular guys; most times I'll look at you and actually just be fantasizing something people shouldn't ever say out loud. It... gets pretty disturbing, really."

[Apollymi]

It seemed that discussion between these two people would indeed lead to a more logical understanding of everything that happened in the lass' encounter with the Archbishop of Greed. Yugi came to the conclusion that the man likely had a theft type ability, one which applied even to the principles of time. That did make sense, if he was greedy he was likely taking something and that would be a rather advanced method of taking something. She'd begin processing that line of thought comparing that to her own skills and thinking of potential drawbacks. But that wasn't something she'd express for a few moments yet. And it seemed it wouldn't matter for now.

Right at the moment she was sitting within this lad's lap holding his face. It seemed once again she'd said something to make him laugh. No, that wasn't right, he found funny the idea that someone had mistaken the kind of person she was with such a great amount of disconnect. Kimiko could think of a couple of reasons for this, the most likely being the weird way that these Archbishops seemed to equate Pride to Leadership. "It's an easy mistake to make, I only say things like this to you..." she said in a slightly teasing tone. Hm, she really was prone to this flirty behavior. Whatever the case, the lad wanted to be sure. Was she sure about him? Well, that wouldn't take any real thought. No hesitation was necessary, "Hai, one hundred percent sure. I trust you. You're mine." she said with a gentle nod of her head. Apparently he didn't think himself different from other guys, he claimed he was simply a perverted shut-in. So was she, though as a girl this was much deeper within her personality. He was constantly thinking things about her that he shouldn't say aloud? A wide grin spread across her face, "I am not expecting you to be a saint. And everyone's Avatars do heavy lifting, mine do as well. If you're always thinking dirty things about me, as long as they're only about me... then I don't mind. In fact, that is a bonus," she said while studying this lad's face. This girl was truly greedy. She wanted his undivided attention, even that which was unappealing for public consumption. There was no dishonesty in this lass, she truly didn't care if this lad harbored a great number of perversions he aimed at her. She felt in this moment as if this lad was forgetting how very forward she was in situations surrounding him. And how many such situations were started by her and their shared interests...

[Bloodedge]

The fact that Kimiko only said such things to him didn't mean much at all to Yugi. At least, this was the case when he considered her greed. "No way," he spoke. "You being Greed should be obvious to anyone who knows of the concept, while also knowing even the first thing about you. Probably the most privileged girl in the world wants to earn her own keep? Instead of inheriting the company like any normal person would, she works a subdivision with its own purpose, which I can only assume is a thing being done for the sake of taking the remainder by merit alone. She does everything without handouts, claiming things in a way that they could never be looked at as if they could belong to another person. That's greed; don't you think?"

She claimed she trusted him. She claimed 100% certainty in her decision. She claimed that she didn't expect him to be a saint, and that his unsavory thoughts were a bonus if they were implicitly directed toward her. Yugi wasn't sure how those conclusions could be reached before she truly knew. Did she know anything beyond the surface? He was quite certain there were things he considered appealing that most would shun when first hearing about them. What were the chances? "Isn't that a bit much to assume? I mean... it's not like I draw the line right after the basic stuff you see in any random hentai. I've already visualized the creepy shit that shows up in my tag lists. Extreme ahegao, inhuman parts, marking, public, dubcon, somnophilia, mind control and break, even intercrural and... breeding and shit! I'm basically a hentai ugly bastard, but like... not fat. You're saying that's something worth a hundred percent?" he ranted, backtracking for a moment thereafter to address something rather important. "Wait, I said shit... but not like, shit shit. That's a big, hard, hell no... but basically the only 'no' from me."

[Apollymi]

According to this lad there was no way people didn't realize she was inherently greedy. She found herself still looking in his face and processing what he said about her obvious greedy qualities. In the moment though, her eyes widened, she wasn't aware that people outside of those who worked for her would understand at all what she was trying to do. Even if he wasn't completely right he was close enough that she was shocked at least by what he said, "Sou ka, I didn't expect anyone else to really get that. Well, I suppose you are most likely to understand me in general, but that is just another positive," the girl mentioned. If she tallied up this lad and his mental abilities as well as his understanding he only became more appealing to her, not less. "And I am planning a hostile take over. That is what my subdivision is for, usurping the company..." she said. This was probably the most extreme form of taking something with ones own hands, but it wasn't like she had anything to hide from Yugi in the slightest. She wished for him to know and understand her so she found herself sharing information with him rather easily.

Still she was watching him, what would his reaction be? The lad before her seemed to go into great detail about a list of kinks. She had at least was able to gain more of an understanding of the lad. He claimed that he didn't draw the line at the basic things which were on the list of the average hentai. The words he used were not completely unfamiliar to her. In fact, if she wasn't sure he'd never been in her house, she might have thought he'd been reading her internet history. Poor lad, he apparently thought himself alone in his degeneracy. It was almost like he didn't remember what their interactions were actually like when they spent prolonged time alone recently. So was this something worth one hundred percent? Yes... though there was one thing worth addressing but... "Ahahahaha~" she couldn't stop the laugh that happened. His follow up about his hard no being literal crap was something she could agree with. So, she had something to say. "You aren't ugly or fat, those would have been hard noes for me. I am probably a little bit shallow but visuals are still necessary," she said with a soft chuckle. "So... yes, still worth one hundred percent. And we share the same hard no, so everything else is on the table." She mentioned, perhaps it wasn't initially obvious how far one with a greedy nature could potentially go, but she was much less restricted overall than many. And she meant everything she said, she still wanted him in spite of his degeneracy and wouldn't be adverse to trying any of the things he mentioned. She shared many of his fantasies and would prefer to share those experiences with him, over literally anyone else.

[Bloodedge]

"It's not a very hard case to crack. All those people who flock to you... you'd think at least some of them would look into the situation they're approaching, if only to have something to work with," Yugi said, understanding from his own perspective that it didn't take much brainpower at all to reach the conclusions he did. He did always have a habit of overestimating the minds of others, only to be let down by their results in the end. This was such a case once more. "I'm sure that'll work out for you. You're resourceful enough."

The lad offered up the list of his degenerate traits, expecting it to be a deterrent to some extent. Due to his mindset, he was in for a bit of a shock after Kimiko laughed in the wake of his clarification. Her certainty didn't drop even a single percentage, according to her response, and apparently the one thing he outright rejected was the same thing Kimiko herself was opposed to. Without a doubt, this was the most outlandish thing he'd ever heard. He could always assume there were people out in the world into this thing or that, but certainly not the idea of them all, right? Apparently, that was wrong. "Sou ka. Well... that's weird. I'm not sure what to say about that, besides... well... that's weird. Honestly, I'm not even sure what I expected at this point."

[Apollymi]

Yugi was speaking about the situation surrounding Kimiko logically. It would have made a great deal of sense if people were even remotely considerate of how she acted and her potential situation. But people weren't reasonable, not by a long shot... at least not very often. "You give others a lot of credit. And they don't know me... very few people do, fewer than that actually understand. So they wouldn't get me," she said softly. Still she was quite happy that he understood her motivations. It was refreshing to find someone who wanted nothing from her but also understood what she was after. Her goals were often misconstrued, and she had no doubt she likely seemed like every other spoiled brat in her position. But that simply wasn't the case, she did indeed wish to earn what was hers and take for herself every victory attributed to her. Strangely, the lad seemed to have no problem with these goals and even claimed that she was resourceful enough that she'd likely achieve them. Her eyes widened at this mention and her face flushed. Though she'd been very aggressive in the moments before this, she'd immediately softened quite a bit at this boy's faith in her. It was so novel for someone to believe in her so honestly, she was often at a loss as to how to feel about it on a deeper level. "I'll take that as a compliment, still it's a little embarrassing... I don't know at all how to respond," the lass managed.

Still, though he had faith in her, and was quite understanding of her... it seemed he'd missed some of her nuances. That didn't really matter to her in the moment though. He understood what was important about her, if he was too blind to fully understand what their likeness meant initially she had no problem explaining it. "I have said on several occasions that I am weird. So, I don't really see a problem with it as long as it isn't seen as a negative it is a positive," she said with an amount of sincerity in her eyes that plead her case. She was truly alright with the things this lad was into as far as his degeneracy was concerned. And given her general like of him, she had every intention of exploring these avenues with him. She was still a little pushy, more than a little greedy, as such only a single thing could be said. "So? We are weird, as a couple, right, Yugi?"

[Bloodedge]

True enough, he tended to give others too much credit. It was something he'd done since childhood, and always wound up being a cause for disappointment. When he abandoned those expectations, though, he had nothing. Game after game, he played with no expectations of others, and it only made him a loner. If he went about giving the same chances to all that he gave to the puzzle club, however, perhaps there was a happy middle to be located. It didn't particularly matter, though. In all honesty, the time he'd spent around Kimiko in her various forms left him without the need to even think about such matters. Their adventures and conversations were always such fun, he was often without a single worry for the world outside the moment. It was actually moments such as this which grounded him in a way─ such as Kimiko's current state of embarrassment which seemed to rival how he'd been on multiple occasions by her whims. "Embarrassing, huh?" he questioned as the slightest quantity of smugness developed in his facial expression. "I was wondering when it'd be my turn to properly jump on this end of that equation. Feels good~"

Kimiko did, in fact, refer to herself as 'weird' on multiple occasions. Weird was honestly a bit of an understatement, but Yugi himself couldn't say a thing; he was no different. She was pushy, greedy, and passively off-putting. In the meantime, he was pushy, impatient, and actively off-putting. What a pair they made indeed. There was no better assertation than Kimiko's conclusion. Together, the two of them made a weird couple that stood apart from all others in the most unexpected ways, but never truly stood apart when compared to one another. If they'd never met under the circumstances they did, there was a very real chance of him accepting her as a friendly rival. Perhaps they were rivals regardless, in an odd way. "You know what? Yeah. You're weird, I'm weird... What better thing could we be paired up?"

[Apollymi]

Embarrassing didn't quite cover how Kimiko currently felt. Her face was still quite red and a bit tingly. This form of acknowledgement was so strange to her, but it also felt really right. She enjoyed this more than she could have explained and would have done anything to keep feeling this way. But that was essentially just her relationship with this lad in any of his forms. She felt comfortable around him and enjoyed the things he said to her. She felt like she could be exactly herself and it wasn't a problem. He understood her and because of this, she found herself desiring nothing more than his attention, and affection, even when she wasn't properly sure how to vocalize it. "Hai, very embarrassing..." she said with a gentle pout on her face. The smug look of satisfaction on this lad's face was also something she enjoyed. From her current angle she looked at all the details of this face and absorbed it committing it to her memory. She moved her hands poking his cheeks with her index fingers and continuing to pout. "Hmm, it seems like you're doing it on purpose, when you look this smug about it~" she said though it was in good fun. "But if it feels good, do what you want." she finished with a scoff turning her nose up while trying her hardest to give her face time to return to a more normal coloration.

Still she waited, was he keen to accept her and in turn them as a couple regardless of their world? Well, the short answer was yes?! A wide grin spread across the girls' face in the moment. They really were a lot alike, but where they differed wasn't negative at all. In fact, there was a lot of fun to be had with the minor differences between their personalities. What more could they be as a pair? "World conquering, game dominating, partners!~" she said with sarcasm but there was quite a bit of truth in that. She could see herself having fun doing a great many things, so long as this lad was involved. In fact, she saw the fun in a lot of things just being around this lad. Besides that she was more than a little attracted to him, having access to him in such a way was well worth it. She nearly squealed with the idea of it all as she settled into his lap. What a comfortable place this was, she never wanted to sit anywhere else. Her arms around him this way, she spoke softly to him. "Alright, you've agreed. You're all mine~" she stated, her covetousness satisfied in a way it hadn't been in quite a long time. "And I'm all yours~" she mentioned before she brought her lips towards his, they'd been about to kiss when she'd last seen him, and in the moment she decided she wanted this one. She aimed to press her lips into his sealing their deal.

[Bloodedge]

"I'll bet," he chimed, hardly resisting the urge to laugh at Kimiko's expense. It may have seemed like he spurred on this embarrassment of his own volition, but as a matter of fact, it was a total accident. Of course, that only made the experience that much better. "Nope! Lucky accident. I'll just hope that isn't one of my powers here; I'd much rather have wound up with that weird Takumi perv power," he said, pausing thereafter to consider a previous moment in which they had a similar conversation. "Huh. Deja vu."

Conquering worlds and games alike was such a pipe dream, but Yugi couldn't even question the statement. Given what they'd done thus far, he could even visualize the pair of them lording over the other world. From the way things seemed when they departed even, it seemed the Nexus agreed. He'd never gotten over the way they were addressed... as its masters. The Nexus itself had spoken to them the way their shared mount did, strangely enough. Great and strange things were ahead of them, but that didn't even matter so long as they were on the same page. Speaking of being on the same page, they had reached an official agreement as it seemed. Yugi was probably a bit possessive, so the clauses presented to solidify this were no issue to him. The proper sealing came in the form of a kiss beyond the words, though. Yugi also recalled that they were aiming for this precise moment before the Nexus took them. As such, the moment their lips touched was the moment he actively sought additional contact. He took hold of the lass in his lap, as his own lips returned the press against Kimiko's. Oddly enough, he felt that same burning sensation within his chest that he previously felt when Akashi was on the rise. Perhaps it was the same, or... perhaps it was something different?

[Apollymi]

A casual roll of Kimiko's eyes happened when this young man teased her further. She couldn't even try to be upset properly, given she was presently in one of the best moods she'd been in since returning to her home world. He claimed this entire situation was just a happy accident which made her chuckle. "That doesn't mean you aren't enjoying it..." she said though she had to admit as well that this conversation seemed a bit familiar. "Huh, I guess we did have a conversation like this before..." she mused. Takumi's perv power was a very interesting concept. She could imagine the amount of jealousy such a thing would give her, as she definitely wasn't the type to share what was hers.

Of course none of this mattered at all in the long run. She'd aimed to press her lips into Yugi's and found herself comfortable in the moment. She might have wondered if she was a bit too possessive, but that was something to question a little later. Right at the moment, she sank into this kiss which was met by the lad whose lap she currently occupied. She found herself being held in a way she appreciated and unconsciously wiggled her hips just a bit. She intrinsically aimed for a closer feeling, they'd been in the middle of such a thing and she was compelled to aim for something similar now. But was that too far? Maybe. Did she care? Maybe not... Her lips became warm and any coloration her face had lost was returned with a vengeance. It was in her nature to take as much as she could, and at present she couldn't really find a proper reason in her head to deny at least a little more. Kimiko in her typical fashion found herself licking the lad's bottom lip trying to gain entry into his mouth.

[Bloodedge]

Was he enjoying it regardless? Of course he was! In fact, there were few things Yugi found himself enjoying more than seeing the flustered face of Ashikaga Kimiko. Of the things that would rate higher on the list, the current predicament happened to be one. Years ago, he would have laughed in the face of anyone who claimed the mouth of another would be a point of satisfaction for him. He would have even done as much to someone who said such a thing to him just a few months ago, yet here he was, responding to the impact of lips against his own with puckering and hands which grasped at the girl in his lap. She began to move in his lap, just a bit of hip shifting which enticed the lad as he felt the effects of building adrenaline. Mentally, he was calm as ever... but physically, his heart was beginning to pound.

In addition to the movements of Kimiko's body, Yugi felt the sensation of her tongue rubbing against his bottom lip. It was such a demanding gesture from her, but one he simply couldn't resist. Alas, she would not find immediate entry. Instead, that moving tongue was met by Yugi's own oral muscle which erupted from his mouth. Two tongues met in the space between their owners' lips. This only wound up slightly different from former experiences, but proved to be an interesting sensation nonetheless. Firstly, there was the fact that these bodies were their own, not simply Avatars they inhabited. Secondly... there was something different about the moment in which their lips would separate while tongues maintained the gesture of rubbing against one another.

[Apollymi]

If given the opportunity Kimiko might have stopped to think she was being a bit pushy. In the moment though she couldn't help but enjoy the attention she was currently being provided. Specifically, as their mouths were touching in such a way, she found herself able to fully immerse in the experience. Her mind was buzzing with the potentials of what was taking place here and blood was rushing around her head enough that she could practically hear it. But what did this truly mean as she aimed for progress? She was soon to find out.

In the case of Yugi, it seemed he wasn't keen to simply open his mouth to her advances. Instead another new experience was taking place here and now. His tongue met her own in the space outside of their mouths. She'd find herself panting as their tongues wrestled in warm sticky wetness between their mouths out in the open air. This was a very interesting sensation, she couldn't quite place it at all. It was sensual, and exotic but also something else... She couldn't be sure but it was a given that she enjoyed it. Her breath escaped as small bursts and there was an added bit of heat as each stroke of her tongue was met by another. Kimiko's heart beat had reached a decently high speed as well. What was this build up? She couldn't really tell, but she was certain stopping wasn't really an option. Her face definitely felt hot, even so, she couldn't bring herself to stop. Those hands which had clasped his face slipped around his head, she easily find them tracing along his scalp, buried in the roots as she tugged gently. This kiss was becoming something even more demanding, but she couldn't quite rest. They had their own bodies, their own wills. Surely he'd stop her if she went too far... or demanded too much.

[Bloodedge]

'Too much' was certainly not a concept that entered the mind of Yugi. At this point, if there was further exploration to be done, he was quite interested in taking the necessary steps. Kimiko's breath was met by Yugi's own exhales. Somehow, the simple act of breathing in each other's faces was arousing to the lad. Even more intense was that tugging sensation he felt through his scalp, which prompted him into the immediate action of assaulting Kimiko's mouth with his own. At this point, simple tongue lashings just weren't enough. The breaths escaping Yugi were soon doing so only during brief moments in which his lips separated from Kimiko's; there was clearly no 'stopping' on his mind at all.

Ah, but the young were foolish. He wasn't at all prepared for a meeting of this nature, and fate would perhaps see to it that he had a revelation soon enough. How soon? Well, not quite yet. The lad was currently becoming far too immersed in ongoing activities to think rationally. His mouth, hands and hips all had minds of their own. He could hardly keep his hands from gliding along Kimiko's sides until they landed on the young woman's posterior. In unison with this, it seemed his hips were beginning to shift in a pseudo-thrusting manner beneath the lass, and of no conscious effort of Yugi's. . .

[Apollymi]

The young were indeed foolish, but Kimiko was also far too busy enjoying herself to think through the potentials of this situation. She hadn't prepared at all for any outcome other than meeting this lad, perhaps a bit of foresight might have helped? Instead she was busy with her hands buried within his hair while he attacked her mouth more readily. She liked this, strangely something about this entire situation was beyond arousing. Heated breaths shared between faces as lips and tongues clashed hungrily... who could really say no to that? The answer was of course, not Ashikaga Kimiko. No, instead her actions seemed to cause more reactions, which in turn led to more from her.

The most recent development in their current situation was the pseudo-thrusting motion of this lad as his hands found their place on her rear. How would her body respond to this? By triggering her hips incentive to grind against the lad's lap. Such an indirect motion led to a distinct trickle of feeling straight up the lass' spine. It made her mind wander to strange places, what would such a thing feel like naked? Was this friction something to be maintained? Would a shift in sensation lead to something else instead? Oh the possibilities were endless, even so she couldn't really stop herself in the present moment.

[Bloodedge]

There was a strange harmony occurring within the body of Yugi. He could feel the thump of his heartbeat, followed immediately by a throb in his groin. There was no stopping his physical response to the lass' movements in his lap, but it seemed the existence of said reaction only served the purpose of causing her to move with greater purpose. Such, in turn, enhanced Yugi's physical response both consciously and subconsciously. Within all those possibilities for ongoing events, there was a single recurring fact: they were progressing toward something they had been slowly working their way toward over their time spent together in that other world. As Yugi pushed against the strangely painful, yet simultaneously just as pleasurable sensation of his manhood reaching utmost firmness within the confines of his breeches, he understood the moment was hastily encroaching upon them.

When would either of them realize the issue? Not just yet, it seemed. These two were clearly content to indulge in one another without so much as a thought given to hazards and repercussions, and that... was fine for the moment. Yugi had known for some time that they were progressing toward something obvious even to him, but since the moment they solidified this blooming relationship, there had been nothing but interruptions to whatever progress they could have made otherwise. As such, there was hardly a speck of reprehension left in the lad─ as of yet, at least.

[Apollymi]

As Yugi experienced his own sort of harmony, Kimiko found euphoria. Every gentle movement of her hips caused a small tingle to explode at her core. Such was exactly the sort of feeling she'd been searching for, and exactly the type of thing she enjoyed. A light sigh escaped her as such movements gained more and more purpose. There was a strange amount of friction found between these two bodies, and beyond that an even stranger amount of matching. How long had they been traveling together and building up to this sort of thing? Approximately six months. They'd spent so long traveling, gathering friends, enjoying each others company... they were steadily moving towards a very specific goal. Each time they were alone, they seemed to be moving closer and closer to a specific kind of meeting. Ah, but they had the added distraction of always being interrupted on the other world. Each time they were alone together, there was someone to say something. Something new to do, some goal to reach... But what happened when the joining of these two bodies were the only goal they had before them?

Well the most obvious answer was that they managed to lose track of everything else. "Oooh~" that small moan escaped this girl's lips between kisses. Her voice being her own sounded quite strange to her in the moment. Was this something to actually do? Her own face, her own body, experiencing this lad in a manner so direct she could feel the throbbing of his manhood through his pants against her undercarriage. This was a new kind of pleasure... or pain? Maybe those two things weren't directly separate? She slid forward her chest pressing against his, and felt her heartbeat quicken, one hand traveling from being buried within his hair down his body. Her fingertips tracing along his exposed flesh, as if she wished to absorb him in this way, all the while the girl absently made her way down his body. She was very obviously moving this way, but it wasn't really a conscious thought of hers, it was simply the progress such a thing demanded. When would she realize such progress couldn't be made as readily here as it was in the other world?

[Bloodedge]

Foolish, foolish teens. Perhaps Yugi hadn't considered the consequences of what they were doing, simply because he had been considering these actions for so long now. As Kou, he was a Witcher, and therefore sterile. Giyu likely wouldn't have progressed to such an extent, and Akashi simply didn't care what the end result was, so long as he completed the 'dance' he sought since being incarnated. Yugi, however... was simply human; the same could be said of Kimiko. No one warned the shut-in teen male that contraceptives may have randomly become a necessity in his life, so he surely wasn't going to have any just sitting around.

Maybe there was another answer. Either way, the thought finally reached his mind after he heard Kimiko's voice, and felt her hands trailing along the bare portion of his torso while she shifted downward. He felt as if he had reached a nearly-drunken state already, perhaps solely due to the adrenaline that had been building within him all along. While her hands moved down, his hands moved up, slipping beneath her top and rubbing along the flesh of her sides. Labored breaths escaped him, and these advances continued uninterrupted even while he realized the single fact that could very well put an end to the ongoing scenario. "So... are you on, like, a pill or something?"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko was a singularly focused individual. As such, she rarely considered the true consequences of any actions she took past whatever goal she had in mind. This was at least partly the reason she chose the sort of people to work for her that she did, because her nature made her a bit short sighted. In the case of her Avatars and potential consequences most didn't seem to care very much, the Dragonoid Tatsuki was the type to control whatever the outcome of any event was, she likely wouldn't allow herself to be impregnated unless it was her wish. Miki due to her path in life likely couldn't hold on to life in any meaningful way without extras being necessary so she was also fine for any sort of activity. And Tamamo, given her personality would have enjoyed the idea of being impregnated so, that wasn't a line of thought even possessed by the fox. As a human, Kimiko didn't like people and never expected to reach such an interval in her life, she didn't carry contraceptives on her person nor had she ever purchased any, but... she was a well looked after girl, with access to the best medical treatment money could buy.

Soon enough Kimiko felt the warmth of this lad's hands against the bare flesh of her sides. What an enticing feeling. She nearly squealed enjoying the pleasure of it all. Her own hand's progress wasn't impeded at all, either. It would find its way to his belt line where it stopped moving downward as it came to rest against his erection. Would this actually be happening? Would they be finding out something interesting today? Well, yes and no. She had no problem answering his question, but it would come with extra thought which made this seem like something which shouldn't be happening as immediately as they would like. Still she didn't stop herself, her lips trailed down from his kissing the left side of his neck as she spoke of her own take on this potential problem... though her words were a bit labored. "Technically the answer to that is yes. But..." there was always a but in these situations. "I was gone for three days... I have to catch up before that could be trusted," she mentioned. Much to her chagrin it wasn't just the other world blocking her attempts at sex, but this one as well. Granted she could take a single extra pill per day with her regular ones and be caught up in three days. Hormone blockers were only as useful as their timely dosages. She wasn't necessarily keen to end up pregnant, though not for traditional reasons. She didn't worry about being able to take care of a kid, nor the stress of having one. What she worried for in this instance was only potentially impeding her fun, or getting knocked up too early in their relationship for them to enjoy themselves properly. She didn't want to become one of those young people who gave up everything reasonable because she lacked foresight with her potential decisions. Besides, there were several optional kinks she couldn't know if she had until they could fully explore all avenues of such fun.

[Bloodedge]

Yes was the answer Yugi was given... but, so was no. How strange. For just a second, he was excited to progress without hesitation─ especially considering the fact that Kimiko hadn't paused her own advancements when answering the way she did. If she wasn't going to stop, it would have been quite rude for him to do so. His hands continued trailing up onto her ribcage, and his arms extended enough to lift her shirt just as far. If there was progress of any sort to be made, he was going to expose something. Her abdomen would suffice for a few moments, at least.

"Sou ka," he said through a single pant─ the result of feeling the lass' lips against his neck, and hand against his manhood. Yugi leaned his own head forward, burying his face in her neck as well. Lips smacked against the flesh of Kimiko's neck thrice before Yugi even spoke the remainder of his thoughts. "That's not good," was all he could say. The rational side of his brain was saying to stop all progression then and there, but... surely there was no harm in how things were presently, right? The only danger lay in achieving what one would consider the ultimate goal, but not at all in the journey itself. "Suman. I don't really have endless stamina, or weird dick vacuums or anything."

[Apollymi]

Her answer to his question seemed to cause some kind of strange reaction. He'd panted when her lips met the side of his neck, progress was still being made. They didn't really want to stop, that much was obvious, being the type of person she was, Kimiko never wanted to stop any activity she started of her own volition. Yugi's lips making contact with the side of her neck only seemed to spur on the wiggling of her hips. Her breath hitched for just a moment as she flicked her tongue over his neck. "Hm, it's really not~" she said acknowledging that their lack of ability to currently complete the act they were aimed towards was quite strange. Still the lad went on to apologize, bringing up a few mentions from her browsing of certain series which made her giggle just a tad. She was still amused even as her hand began to move and her abdomen was fondled. "Iie, I'm not really upset or anything. I am not a very patient person... I don't like stopping things I start, and breaking now would annoy me a bit," she mused, she was actually quite greedy and spoiled. Kimiko would rather have her way than let something as simple as a lack of contraception interrupt her good time. "So, how about we take this the long way around?" she asked him innocently, while that hand of hers stroked his manhood through his pants. "We have a little fun now, and make sure to prepare for later... the journey is supposed to be fun too, right Yugi?" she asked, as she pecked his lips again. There was a strange light in her eyes, and to be technical she desired all of him, waiting just a little longer for the ultimate finish wasn't so much a problem, as long as she got something to hold her over. All take with no negatives was the best way for such a thing to play out in her own mind, so long as when they fully committed they weren't interrupted. Would she rather be having sex? Yes! But she was also a degenerate and knew there were many things that existed between innocence and penetration. They could retain the sentiment of their exploration of each other, holding off on proper copulation until the timing was right... And until then they could have a bit of fun, learning their original bodies.

[Bloodedge]

Time and time again, Yugi was made to realize that he had no clue what to expect from Ashikaga Kimiko. Even presently, he wondered what her take on the present situation would be. Would she rather them stop? Perhaps they would continue without worry by her design? Well, the true answer was... something between the two. While Yugi busied his tongue by trailing it along Kimiko's neck and shoulder, she voiced that they would neither advance nor retreat, in a manner of speaking. Ah yes, the long route. They could refrain from taking the path ahead, and they could refrain from returning to their starting point. Where they were presently was a wonderful area to explore, and they were so, so very far from seeing all it had to offer.

All in all, one could say there was a balance to be achieved. The pair could satisfy themselves and each other, and do so without creating unnecessary complications down the line. In doing so, they would surely also grow as a unit. It was the perfect idea when all aspects were considered in such a way. Perhaps Yugi could even overcome the burning desire he had within himself to ignore the lack of contraceptives entirely; that would probably be for the best. Either way, there had to be something specific going on here. Yugi decided to cease his advancement of any disrobing or the like, choosing instead to figure out what was going on in Kimiko's mind as his face rubbed against her neck. "No complaints from me. Got anything in mind?" he asked. Of course, he had various things floating around in his own head as well... but there were so many options, he hadn't a single clue where to start. "I think I blurted out my whole life story in that list earlier. What's in your head?"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko was a rather strange girl, and only ever really stopped any situation out of necessity. Knowing that the lad was as interested in their shared activity as she was, she barely saw room to care about anything else. Right here and now, she preferred nothing be lost and it seemed that Yugi was alright with her proposal. His tongue traveling along her neck brought pause to the lass as her eyes widened before fluttering to a close. She fought the desire to wiggle away from the added sensation. Even so, her face gained extra redness and there was an additional thump in her chest, what a strange amount of sensation this caused her. It seemed to travel directly to her core causing the involuntary shift in her hips.

It only became more obvious over the next few seconds how sensitive the girl found her own neck as the lad buried his face there and questioned what ideas she had in mind. "A---um~ more than I'd like to admit," was her general answer to what was on her mind. She opened her eyes, thinking about all of the potential options she saw within her head. Life would be much easier if such things didn't require extra communication, the things on this lass' mind were rather embarrassing when she needed to express them. Ah, but Yugi was quite right, he'd basically thrown his entire kink list on the table a few moments before this one, it should mean nothing to share what was flowing through her mind. "Well, I kind of like the idea of sitting in your lap like this most of my clothes still but like half off. That sounds pretty good actually especially with you rubbing on my neck like this, with this..." she paused giving a gentle squeeze to his manhood. "Between my thighs, that seems like it would be fun. But I chose lingerie based on the idea it might be seen but I didn't think about it too much so it might be like unwrapping a present right? So, I considered I could also show you how I do this for me~" she mentioned but she wasn't really done yet. Because she'd be lying if she said that was all she thought of. "But I also considered continuing from here, maybe topless and just gyrating in your lap until I was satisfied but that also seemed a bit too selfish," she mentioned. "Ah but make-outs have advancements too, and I still owe you a favor..." she paused choosing to flick his ear with the tip of her tongue... "And I'd still like to try that too... but there are so many choices I can't be decisive. I always want everything," she mentioned softly. "Hm, I probably shouldn't have said all of that... way too much," she accidentally said aloud, as she normally kept such extra thoughts inside of her own head, she had a hard time stopping even the end of her thought pattern. This was of course, just what she wanted right just now. She also wanted to have sex, to explore that as fully as she could, would she like the idea of breeding? Would she enjoy the feeling of being filled? Was she the type to be demanding in the moment? Would she want him to talk to and spoil her a bit? She wasn't at all sure, and not knowing made her want to find out, through experience. But right now she considered a form of fellatio, some heavy petting, potentially stripping and putting on a show for the lad all potentials for the day.

[Bloodedge]

At long last, it was Yugi's time to discover the goings-on in Kimiko's mind. How far did her active degeneracy go? For starters, it seemed there was quite a bit on her mind in regards to current events, and she clearly thought it was all quite embarrassing to share. That was a sensation Yugi knew well by now. Regardless, Kimiko went on to spill the proverbial beans on... well, everything. He listened intently, his eyes widening due to both her speech's content, and the sudden squeezing of his manhood. The things she said all sounded like they were taken directly from the mind of Yugi. Midway through her explanation, there were swirls in his eyes. How could one choose between options, when all were so very appealing? Such was the problem of a degenerate. Even the idea she had, which she claimed seemed a bit selfish, sounded ideal to the lad. From what he understood, it would even serve the purpose of being mutually pleasurable. "I─... wow," he murmured.

Kimiko claimed what she said was way too much, but Yugi couldn't have disagreed more with that notion. He shook his head, and took the moments between her speech and his own to lap at her neck once more─ it seemed to have been a decent use of his tongue earlier. Only after licking a line from her shoulder to the space just under her earlobe, did he bother speaking again. "I don't think it's too much," he said. If the increase to his manhood's frequency of pulsations wasn't enough to prove his point, he would explain further. "I'd say if there's something we both want to do, we should do it. Like I said, all that stuff's pretty much on my list, so why waste brainpower choosing?"

[Apollymi]

Was there any blood left in Kimiko's body which didn't currently reside within her face? The answer was yes, but she was barely aware of its existence. In fact, she only managed to feel more embarrassed after speaking so frankly about the things she'd desired out of this encounter. This feeling of initial anxiety didn't ease when all the lad had in response to say was 'wow'. The lass had a whole host of feelings about that. She'd surprised a man with the things in her head. She definitely shouldn't have shared that much. It really was a problem to be as much of a degenerate as she....

There was a pause in her mental tirade as the lad's tongue once again made contact with her neck. She shifted just a little moving her hand as she did and feeling various pulses in his manhood as well. What could this mean? Well, she was about to find out, even as a gentle sigh passed between her lips, Yugi reached her ear with words she'd never thought she would get to hear. "Really?!" she uttered in abject surprise. She'd claimed to want a lot of things in the last few moments, surely this wasn't just acceptance of her ideas in all their perverse glory? Apparently the answer was yes... Shock crossed over the lass' face. She expected to some extent only one of two possible reactions, and neither involved this level of general acceptance. Yugi claimed it wasn't worth trying to decide between ideas and that they could simply do all of them. Did he have any idea what something like that would mean to her? "I mean... I'll take all of that, if you're sure... But you can't back out~" she teased aiming to look smug but feeling like she just came out looking embarrassed. She was still a bit anxious, but she felt through his words something much deeper. There was so much feeling in offering her something like this. So much care, in letting her be the truest form of herself... she really couldn't say no, or even back out a little bit. "I am really happy..." she mentioned as she leaned into the lad once more. She aimed to kiss his lips again. This time was much softer and with some idea of the kinds of things they would be doing, she didn't worry so much when her hips shifted gently against his manhood. Her breaths would soon enough become labored but she wouldn't bring herself to stop what she intended to be a gentle exploration of the lad's mouth.

[Bloodedge]

It seemed his reaction was taken with a great deal of surprise. He'd been just as shocked when she spoke her intentions initially, and to see such a reaction on Kimiko's face after his confirmation was given, was... odd. It was still, however, a rather attractive expression on the raven-haired girl's face, and it seemed the embarrassment was there to stay. She may have intended for it to appear as an expression of smugness, but that certainly wasn't happening. Of course, she would be receiving a smug expression in response to her attempt, as Yugi knew he'd managed to produce another favorable reaction this day. "I wouldn't say all that if I planned on backing out. You said you could show me your world or something like that, right? The one inside your head counts... I think~" he quipped. He truly had no intention of stepping down, even if Kimiko chose to go above and beyond the current agreement. He was, after all, just a horny teen at the end of the day.

Neither party would be without a spurt of happiness as they reached their agreement. Yugi was less apt to voice his own satisfaction, but his lips were upturned by the time they were met by Kimiko's. There was a medley of sensation occurring as a result of this oddly soft approach, between the carnal arousal brought about by their hips' movements, and the innocent intimacy passing betwixt their lips. It was almost as if one action flavored the other for a spell, at least in Yugi's eyes. The grinding motions somehow made the kiss seem more desirous, while the kiss made the grinding feel more... pure, more lighthearted even. Could he complain? Not at all, but Kimiko's earlier mention of lingerie had him curious... so of course, he was going to continue lifting her shirt with the intention of seeing for himself rather soon.

[Apollymi]

Yugi thought to mention that he had no intention of backing out, and Kimiko couldn't have been happier about it. It seemed she wouldn't be allowed the level of smugness she wished, and was able to witness a similar amount of smug on the face of the lad before her. Whatever the case, she'd find herself meeting lips upturned as she began that rather gentle kiss. But obviously her own actions wouldn't remain quite so innocent for long. Each movement of her hips brought a smaller sound from the lass, and eventually her hips seemed to find a rhythm all their own. At the same time, Yugi made his move as well, apparently interested on what was going on beneath her clothing he aimed to lift her shirt further up than before.

As they continued to kiss a bit of smugness would remain present, even so she'd help him out a bit by breaking their kiss if but for a moment to rid herself of her shirt. Doing so would reveal what lay beneath, a crimson colored silk bra trimmed in black lace with thin straps and a tiny bow in black tucked between her breasts. Her underwear matched in similar fashion though the silk and lace were a thong which revealed the fleshier parts of her bottom. She'd chosen these with the lad in mind and wished to know his opinion on them. Still her hips hadn't stopped moving at all and she found herself leaned back just a bit awaiting appraisal, "Hm, this set is one of my favorites..." she mentioned while biting her bottom lip. She'd considered what kind of fun she could have with this lad, and was overall rather keen to know what he thought of her choices. Hell, she would have modeled her entire collection if she thought he would enjoy it.

[Bloodedge]

Little did Yugi know, his attempt to unveil Kimiko to the world within his abode was met not only by the girl's assistance, but also by... something quite fancy to look at. He hadn't even given prior consideration to the fact that Kimiko's richness would surely translate to the clothes she wore under the normally visible layers, but he had to admit that it was a pleasant thing to learn about actively. As far as he could tell, it seemed the lass was keen to let such articles be observed on her person as well. Was she some sort of exhibitionist? No, that term wasn't quite right... but something along the way had to be accurate.

The 'set' was one of her favorites, she claimed. He hadn't seen the matching underwear, but he could draw assumptions based on what the lass said. He, too, had an opinion about the amount he could see thus far, and he intended to offer it. After all, he'd already experienced a lowering ─ and widening ─ of his eyes when Kimiko's shirt was discarded. "Well, I don't blame you for that. Gotta say, I'm a fan too," he stated as his eyes and hands traversed the exposed flesh at the front of Kimiko's torso. Soon enough, some instinct demanded that his tongue receive use once more─ this time along her recently-bared sternum. "Suman, suman; I've got nothing showy to match it~"

[Apollymi]

Exhibitionist might have been a bit too harsh a word, but it wasn't too far off. She enjoyed the idea of being looked at and appreciated in all of her forms. Perhaps one day she'd know the proper definition of this sort of thing, but for now she was content. He was looking her over and he seemed to like what he saw, so far as she could tell by the widening of his eyes. She'd receive confirmation of this by the lad's own words and find herself uniquely satisfied by the experience. He was a fan of the appearance huh, well she'd have to be sure to keep that in mind. "Umhm~ That's good... I was hoping you'd like them~" she managed as his tongue met her exposed sternum. There was a strange shift as the necklace with the large ruby shifted just a bit as well, she'd almost forgotten about it except for the coolness of its chain as she shifted just a tad.

A giggle came from the lass as Yugi apologized for not having anything to match her showiness. "Iie, sounds like I get to go shopping which is never something to be upset about~" she said happily. It was rare indeed for her to shop for men's clothes and she truly enjoyed doing things for the lad. If he wished to match her in anyway, she'd make sure he could, especially when it came to things she could provide for him materially. At the same time she shifted her hips forward and backward while one hand came to rest once again against his manhood and she found herself rubbing him gently.

[Bloodedge]

If she was hoping he'd enjoy the articles she donned, Yugi wondered exactly how long Kimiko had been planning this moment. Did she slip into these when she decided to take his invitation? That would have been a bit strange if she didn't fully know what to expect upon her arrival, but it didn't matter at present. More importantly, his comment about having nothing to match her effort was taken by the lass as an excuse for her to go shopping. He wasn't sure why she would bother even considering such an idea as shopping for his undergarments. Was that something couples did? Maybe.

"Thinking of grabbing me a couple of fancy bras? I guess I could give it a shot," he said in jest, apparently comfortable enough to joke in the midst of near-copulation. His tongue lashed out again, finishing its trail up Kimiko's sternum before gliding along the length of her collarbone. All the while, his hands were shifting about after making their way up Kimiko's lower torso. In spite of the progress they'd made physically with one another thus far today, he'd yet to begin fondling her breasts. That simply wouldn't do, so he took both into his hands right then and there. He, too, had a bit of rubbing to do. "So... You said everything, but what's first? I'm all ears," he spoke.

[Apollymi]

When had Kimiko decided to pick underwear based on the idea she might have been seen? Well... the answer to that was simply as soon as she entertained the idea that the man with her would be seeing her in them, so basically since her second shower. Regardless, shopping was indeed a couples activity regardless of the item being purchased. In the case of getting the lad undergarments it was just an extra excuse for them to be alone together in a semi-public setting. That would of course leave them open to a bit of public degeneracy, but that didn't matter at present, they had private degeneracy to get to. Still she found it quite comforting that the lad was relaxed enough in the moment to joke with her as she'd come to know he would. A bit of a scoff came from her nonetheless as she found herself responding in kind. "Yes, of course. There are great options for someone with your build~" she mused sarcastically. He was game though, she'd bring up this agreement later.

For now, he continued to explore her exposed flesh with his tongue and even move on to molesting her chest more direction. This caused a sharp intake of her breath before she could even begin answering. "Umm, how about we get you out your pants first~" she commented absently. She still hadn't quite said enough but several of her ideas involved the ability to initiate more direct contact, and presently his own clothes were way more of a barrier than hers. As she rubbed along his manhood her hand took a minor detour, lifting up to gently move his zipper down after undoing the button at his waist. She'd lift herself gently to allow this lad the freedom to remove his pants, which would give her access to both changing her position and being in more direct contact with his lower half once he returned to the same position. If all went according to plan, when she next lowered herself into his lap, she would be able to feel him a bit more directly against her undercarriage.

[Bloodedge]

"Hoho~ I can't wait to see what they're like. I never would have expected anyone to sell something that fits my giant rack," he quipped once more. Oh, the fun they'd have when their degeneracy went public, when Yugi was already managing to be this much of himself in a private setting with the girl he was attracted to. One would have expected a much slower progression, but... they had been in each other's company for half a year already.

Now then, first on the agenda was to do something about Yugi's pants. In all honesty, he'd forgotten he even had any on. Everything he felt thus far was deceiving in a strange way, perhaps due to his human body. If he gave it proper thought, it made sense; Kou was a Witcher, and a half-Celestial before that... and Akashi was a Dragon. Could those things really have made such a difference? What was this going to feel like when his pants were off?! Well, he'd be finding out soon. Kimiko took the liberty of lowering his zipper and lifting herself to provide a bit of wiggle room. Naturally, he wouldn't be waiting another moment before pinning one pants leg under the heel of his foot, then shimmying his way out of those pesky cargos until they were past his ankles. All of this was done simply so his hands could remain on Kimiko, even as she lowered herself again.

[Apollymi]

Another giggle escaped the raven haired lass within this lad's lap. She had no real clue why she found this funny but she truly did. This lad was a lot of fun, and she felt so relaxed in his presence. This was likely due to the fact, that they'd already gotten to know each other quite well in the more than six months they'd been traveling together. Or perhaps it was for some other reason, it didn't matter so specifically because right now they could be happy basking in each others prescence. She could only wonder what this would eventually translate to? Would people other than herself get to see what this lad was truly like? Well that was a curiosity she'd leave for later.

Right now, she found herself lowering back down into the lad's lap. He'd gone through a lot of trouble to not have to properly separate from her while he took off his pants. She couldn't help but find this strange but, she enjoyed it nonetheless. For some strange reason his hands on her person felt quite right and beyond that she was more than acutely aware of the sensations they provided her. Perhaps this was related to the current state of her body as her own human one? Whatever the case, she was made aware of something else, when her undercarriage made contact with his lap and that was the ever present pulsing sensation of his manhood which once again garnered an extra movement of her hips. This movement sent a shock up her body which left a moan to fall from between her lips, it also answered her earlier question about leaving friction. "Oooh~" This was something she was going to enjoy quite a bit more than she'd realized. Even so she had no intention of stopping herself as that one gentle movement led to more in a slow rhythm, the slow rocking of her hips would soon enough be partnered with her lips once more pressed against Yugi's.

[Bloodedge]

Just as Yugi anticipated a few moments beforehand, there was a certain danger to his pants being discarded when Kimiko returned to his lap. By the time her hips began rocking again, their genitalia rubbing against one another put a quick end to the throbbing of Yugi's member... by resulting in a single throb which refused to recede. Only the lacy fabric of Kimiko's undergarments served as a true barrier between the pair passing a threshold neither could ever return from, and Yugi was having a surprisingly hard time trying to silence his brain. 'Remove the only obstacle,' his instincts chanted. Never in the lad's life had he had such difficulty trying not to do something, and he knew it was only going to get worse in the near future. Gulping down his own saliva, he did his best to steel himself against... temptation, as it were.

"Alright..." He paused, experiencing the sensation of his breath hitching within his throat for a moment. "Buying a box next time I go anywhere," he concluded. Never did he expect to have such a dire need for even a single condom. The goings-on would be doing just as much damage to his mental state as it did a service to how he felt physically. If he could go back on the situation, though, he would undoubtedly relive it just as he was experiencing it now. Perhaps this session of 'dry-humping' as it was called, could serve as its own form of preparation to make true events less overwhelming than he imagined they would be. . .

[Apollymi]

Yugi wasn't the only one experiencing a bit of a problem with his instincts. As it stood, each movement of Kimiko's hips caused a strange jolt up her spine starting from the core of her body. Not only that but the hardness of his member, the friction caused by the fabric and the twitching of her nether were all contributing to a building problem. Everything about what she was doing, was torturous to her, but watching the lad below her struggle just a little as he tried to speak was enough to make it worthwhile. Still it was hard for her to rationalize keeping all this fabric between them. It would feel better if they were naked, oh but that would be very dangerous. She knew it even as her panties moistened at the idea of it. Worse yet Yugi was speaking and she just barely caught it. Still she didn't let her movements falter, instead leaning down to gently flick her tongue over his lips. Still those movements of her hips never gained speed, she was doing this on purpose, chasing the slow building pressure beneath her waist.

"Hm, yeah. Definitely on the list... this is amazing, but it's also torture for me too," she mused quietly. A soft breath escaped her as she flicked her tongue down his neck ever presently moving. She did mean that as well, it was quite problematic for her, since each movement was causing a jolt of sensation through her body and the wetter her panties got the easier they moved and the more she felt. It was an enticing feeling which made her concentrate on each and every movement to avoid doing something which might put them both in a negative position. While also fighting against her mind telling her she should move faster and remove that which blocked everything between them.

[Bloodedge]

Hearing that he wasn't the only one experiencing an undue amount of torture via this interaction, Yugi felt relief. Sadly, this did nothing to quell the seeking of his loins, nor the incomprehensible power his libido aimed to exercise over him. Either he was at the precipice of some sphere in Heaven, or a circle of Hell, and he couldn't tell which would be entered if things progressed any further. How did people actually deal with this sort of feeling on a daily basis? Were the people who claimed they did just liars? Yugi never expected the amount of ridiculousness found in the media he observed, but his poor, virgin mind could hardly fathom even normalcy at this point!

It felt as if movements were becoming easier... and they were. Moisture produced by the loins of Kimiko reduced friction between them, yet simultaneously provided something more reminiscent of penetration as far as Yugi's imagination gathered. One simple shift, and they would be in a very different situation. Yugi's mind even tried to convince him that it would be a good idea, to shift his hips to one side or another, as if to bypass the girl's undergarments and enter her. Those thoughts needed silencing. The only thing he had to distract himself with, was aggression. As his tongue traced its way along Kimiko's neck, he made the decision to sink his teeth into her nape instead. All the while, his hands were grasping her hips quite firmly, fingers sinking deeper and deeper into the softest flesh he found. Did it work? Time would soon tell.

[Apollymi]

How similar these two were. A couple of virgins trying to navigate something which was supposed to feel normal and instead wound up wondering how it ever felt normal. 'Ugh... this is way too much,' the lass thought as she kept up those slow paced movements. They were drops in an ever filling bucket, so smooth, so slow and each with an accompanying pulse. Her body in its present empty state thought only of filling, of shifting of causing them a grand problem in the long term but satisfying the need for sensation in the short term. Her fingers clinched in the moment immediately to the left and right of this lad's body. If she thought for too long, she might end up changing her pace which would be so good, and yet so bad as well. What she needed was a distraction and she was about to receive one.

As Yugi licked along her neck she found herself concentrating on the feeling of his mouth instead. This would only serve to confuse her senses quite a bit when the lad bit down on the nape of her neck. "Ah, I'm cumming!~" she moaned her body tensing in the moment. She felt her sex practically vibrate within as she that ever filling bucket overflowed. Her movements remained even as fingers dug into her flesh. How strange. She never really considered that she might like such pain, but in the moment the extra sensation was exactly what she needed as her hips kept the feeling of her flourish fresh within her body as tingles spread from the tips of her ears down to her toes. "Fuck that's good!~" the sentence fell from her mouth without her preapproved thoughts, even so, she couldn't deny such a thing would be worth adding to her list of acknowledged kinks, biting was definitely something she enjoyed. What could that have felt like while his manhood was within her? Would it have been better to finish around something firm? Would that warm feeling last longer in such a case? She could only wonder about these things as her hips slowed finally lifting off his body so she could reach between them and molest him a bit more directly. "Yugi~, you ever get the feeling we are playing with fire?" she asked of the lad as she rather directly aimed to work him out of his boxers and flick her index finger gently over the tip of his manhood. What else did she have planned? Well only time would tell.

[Bloodedge]

As for the question of whether Yugi's plan would work or not, the answer was a resounding... no. His biting and gripping did accomplish something, but it wasn't at all a reduction of the situation he was in. It was, however, an end of sorts─ specifically Kimiko's. With all said and done, Yugi was worse off than he had been a few moments prior, and yet again, things could only get worse from there. The lad's teeth never left his partner's neck. Considering the state he was in mentally, her orgasm functioned neither as a deterrent, nor as a cause for progression; his only answer was to stay as he was. If nothing else, his method functioned as some sort of distraction.

Alas, fate would have it that he saw no reprieve for long. He'd finally found a point at which to remain stagnant, but Kimiko took it upon herself to further things. Up she went, and he thought for just a moment that things would end with her rise. They wouldn't. With a single question offered, she freed the lad of his undergarments. What was he to think of that query? Did she mean to fully disrobe them both, abandoning all concept of contraception? Yugi certainly thought so for a moment, and for that same moment, he was oddly excited and... somewhat anxious. "Well... yeah, I think─" he said, ironically knowing the feeling she referenced at this very second. As far as he knew, his attempt to distract himself had flipped some sort of switch in the lass' mind. She could have decided after a single flourish that she didn't care about future consequences. His fate was, quite literally, in the hand of Ashikaga Kimiko. What an interesting time it was to be incapable of figuring someone out. "Uh... why do you ask?"

[Apollymi]

The first answer to Kimiko's question hadn't been what she thought it would be. Perhaps she'd distracted him? Maybe it was the case that he was just done with that as it was, and there was more on the horizon. She found herself looking at the lad's face, and considered it once more. That wasn't quite right, though... Aiba Yugi in his other faces was a man who thought more than he likely should. In this particular instance, she wondered if she was simply a lot harder to interpret than she thought of herself. After flicking over the tip of him, she allowed her hand to slide down his length and smiled into the lad's face. She'd kiss the left side of his face after he finally answered her inquiry with another question. She'd promised him to share with him the things she'd not been able to share with anyone else. She'd shown him parts of herself she'd kept deeply private well below her public persona. "I just find my mind wandering to all sorts of strange places..." she stated clearly as another press of her lips would have her trail down his neck. "It doesn't help me at all that I think you're really cute while you're thinking~" she mused, still stroking his manhood. Yet another kiss would happen near the lad's collar bone and would be immediately followed by a gentle flicker of her tongue.

She'd seen his expression many times since they'd known each other. She knew when the lad was working through something he couldn't make heads or tails of, and right just now he was doing exactly that. Still she kept an eye on him as she moved progressively further down his body. Had he noticed yet? Would he be surprised by her next action? Well, there was only one real way to find out. She found herself soon enough at level with his manhood and had not the slightest bit of hesitation in flicking her tongue over it next. Strangely it tasted it like, skin, well that was definitely better than the potential alternatives, and so she'd swirl her tongue around the tip and wait for some sort of reaction before moving on.

[Bloodedge]

Yugi would never have even managed to realize one simple fact: Kimiko understood when his mind was at work the way it was now. She had been the one thing he found himself incapable of figuring out for half a year now, and in reality, she surely knew at least part of that reality─ the part where he couldn't simply know what she had in mind. Whatever the case, he remained at the girl's mercy while she held the most crucial part of his physical self in her hand. Lips pressed against his face, and continued making contact with his flesh while making their way... south.

Ah. That was her plan, then. Kimiko's movements combined with her words to paint the full picture of her intentions, and all became rather clear to Yugi. As a matter of fact, this was just another thing on the list she'd given mere minutes ago. "Strange places, huh?" he asked in rhetoric. What was he to do when she spoke of him being 'cute' while thinking, though? Well... there was nothing to do consciously, but that didn't stop the blood flooding his face as a result. "I─"

What did he intend to say? None could know, and that demographic included Yugi himself. There was... a sudden loss of everything he thought, everything he was, the moment he felt the warm, moist tongue of Kimiko gracing the tip of his manhood with its touch. Things wouldn't stop there; not for long enough to allow him another moment of thought. That same tongue swirled around the head of his phallus, wetting the tip and seeming as if it intended to rouse his soul from one of few orifices on his body. Briefly, just briefly, he couldn't see. That was probably due to the fact that his eyes were either lidded, or somewhere in the back of his head at the time. Once more, the young male wondered how normal humans dealt with this sort of thing on a daily basis. "Uh─" was all he could say. Perhaps that simple utterance wasn't even a conscious effort of Yugi's, but the subconscious allowance of his lungs to compress after a sharp intake of air. Yes, that was probably what happened; Yugi himself hardly had the consciousness to say for certain.

[Apollymi]

This lad's face had turned a brilliant shade of red, after she'd called him cute. Before that moment he'd been trying to question the places her mind went, but it seemed he'd caught on enough by now. Now she got to bask in the redness of his face as her eyes flickered up to his face. He really didn't understand how much she enjoyed him, and in this moment that feeling only seemed to grow. The flicker of her tongue over the tip of his manhood and elicited a new response from the lad. He'd lost his thoughts so completely he'd not even managed to finish his sentence. What did he plan on saying in such a moment? She couldn't know, perhaps she'd express her curiosity about this in a moment or two. After swirling her tongue around the tip of him and hearing his exhale which was almost an utterance, she moved on, allowing her tongue to trail down the length of him with that warm wet feeling. She was trying desperately not to overload his senses, but she also enjoyed teasing him a bit more than she would realize.

"Yugi~ I don't know what to make of this silence~" she teased in a manner which gave her a strange amount of de ja vu. Perhaps she'd said something similar before. Whatever the case her tongue took broad strokes around his manhood and she absently found herself with a finger rubbing against her own undergarments and feeling the wetness there. She'd spark her own feelings once more, but still enjoy what she was doing. "You'll have to give me a bit more feedback or I'll have to start making assumptions~" she mentioned flicking her tongue over the opening at the top of his manhood with the very tip of her tongue. Whether he answered or not, she'd take more, closing her mouth around the tip of him and moving her head down to the point of her comfort. She'd digested enough pornographic media to have some idea of things to avoid, but that being said this was most likely to end as practice for her. And she'd undertake it diligently looking towards the lad's face with those startling red eyes of hers as she sought feedback and sucked in her cheeks to further apply pressure as she moved her tongue around within her mouth.

[Bloodedge]

Silence? Was he silent? Oh dear; he was almost certain he'd said something in the past few moments. Maybe he'd at least managed something, even if it didn't reach conclusion? No. There was nothing escaping him but an utterance that didn't resemble a word at all, and that would only continue as Kimiko's tongue moved about his phallus more adeptly than in moments prior. Perhaps Kimiko would have to start making assumptions; he certainly made one of his own. If there was ever a question as to how much degenerate media the girl ingested, it became clear here and now that it rivaled his own quantity, at the very least. The descent and halt without a reaction─ was it a sign of practice? If so, it was practiced well.

These were the thoughts passing through Yugi's mind, but none made it to the surface for quite some time. He could at least see now, and what a sight he had when the ability came to him. Compressed cheeks, a crimson gaze locked onto his face, and all he could manage in return was an agape maw paired with eyes that wandered all over the visage of Kimiko. "I uh... yeah!" Smoothness at its finest. Yugi understood his answer was a bit lacking, but the cloud surrounding his brain disagreed. Still, he managed a bit more in the end. "Well... if you're gonna assume, assume something good. And... keep going─"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko lived the life of a degenerate shut-in with no one to talk to and no potential outlets for her lusts. As such in her life before she'd taken up several bad habits, the least of which was masturbation at a frequency most would consider excessive. The second of her hobbies aside from gaming and running the financial world, was testing theories about the viability of certain sexual acts. Though she'd not gotten bold enough to use certain kinds of sex toys on herself, she'd taken to testing her limits in ways which she could while alone. One of her favorites to do was test her gag reflex. She'd done a great deal of research on the subject online, and knew the tricks necessary to subdue her gag reflex. Excellent posture and her upbringing had actually set her up pretty nicely for this particular experience. How far could she push it, with the real thing to experiment on? Well, she was about to find out.

As she looked up at Yugi she found the lad would make at least one moment of eye contact. Strange though it was from this angle he was very much himself. His lack of smoothness apparent to her even in a moment like this. She didn't really mind that though. She found it rather endearing that he wasn't a super-smooth womanizer type. It was refreshing that he wasn't always trying to actively seduce her, and instead what she got from him was a raw and honest effort. Her head moved forward quite a bit more and she managed almost to swallow down his length completely, though it was troublesome to push past her desire to gag completely. Such a feeling came with a slurping gurgling sound as she stroked him with her tongue to remove him from her mouth. The movement of her throat couldn't have been missed perhaps this was the next thing to practice with a live target? All the while, she gently stroked her own panties with her other hand seeming to take great amusement from the lad's words. "Hm, that's pretty honest..." she teased, to give her jaw just a little time to rest, she licked along the shaft of him, making sure her tongue took contact with the entirety of the surface. She found herself enjoying this position in more ways that one, perhaps she was truly more of a degenerate than she'd given herself credit for? "Um~" she almost moaned given her own activities. "When you say it like that, I have no choice but to try my best~" she mentioned as she laid a gentle kiss upon the tip of him. "Do let me know how theory translates to practice though~" she said offering the lad a wink before returning her mouth in earnest. This time she take to move her head back and forth down his shaft, while sweeping with her tongue. Her breaths and mumbled moans passing over his skin, making noises that should have embarrassed her fully but she was far too into the activity to care. She aimed for a certain balance between these movements and making sure her mouth wasn't too full of liquid while also making sure his manhood was coated in warm moisture. It was an interesting thing to balance but she'd continue at it, finding it more and more alright over time to allow herself to take him deeper and deeper into her mouth. She was working towards a new goal and perhaps she'd reach it today.

[Bloodedge]

Kindred spirits, these two were. In Yugi's case as well, masturbation was a tool used even as an answer to simple boredom. With that, came an excessive amount of research as well, even beyond merely consuming pornographic media. Though he'd never be one to admit it, he'd even resorted to using a fruit or two as test dummies to develop some oral technique... just in case.

If someone told him years ago that his lack of 'smoothness' could ever be taken as a positive, Yugi would have been less of a shut-in. Of course, being less of a shut-in would have also kept him from this very moment; he'd have been worse off as a result. Since his general demeanor got him here, he'd be thankful for it as more of his length disappeared with the applied suction of Kimiko. The way her face looked in the meantime, the slurping noises that came from the moisture of her moving mouth, the feeling of her tongue when it took the show, and the... mention that she'd have to try her best? What? To think she wasn't functioning at maximum capacity already was a bit frightening for the lad. "Hai. I'll try to let you─" Hesitation came again as Kimiko's efforts returned fully. True enough, there was a more impressive effort to follow her earlier motions, and Yugi was forced into a silence-heralding gasp as a result. "─know!"

Finally managing to complete at least a single sentence, in spite of the struggle it took, he fell back into virtual silence─ aside from the heavy breathing and occasional moan. It was strange; so many sources implied that he would have been in a position of power in this moment, but that was very much not the case at all. The young male was vulnerable, entirely at the mercy of the other teen. He was enslaved by her whims, sealed behind whatever goal she intended to reach. Somehow, being in such a position was exhilarating. If he couldn't presently feel his sack contracting, and if he wasn't acutely aware of what such a thing meant for him in the long-run, he would have let himself imagine enjoying the sensation without end.

[Apollymi]

This pair of teens were indeed similar beyond normal means. They shared degeneracy, ability and solitude. Though at least one of those was abandoned once they got to know each other. In the meantime, Kimiko found her teasing of this lad led to some rather interesting reactions from him. He made himself capable of speech by the time she started back in on his manhood and she took his words to heart. He really was cute while he was trying his best, and she really felt powerful in moments where she had complete control over his body. Each movement of her head and tongue brought her further and further up the length of his manhood. Closer and closer to her goal. The slurping and gurgling noises she made only seemed to increase over time as her tongue worked in her mouth. She was also acutely aware of the movement of the lad's sac given her close proximity. It was such an interesting thing to behold as someone who didn't have such body parts.

Of course, her research into such things gave light to what such a reaction should mean. As such, she kept an eye on this development it seemed it was finally time for her to try something she'd been putting off for quite a bit of time. Through their clandestine interactions in the other world, several occasions saw this lass come in contact with the lad's reproductive fluids. Now, it could be said that she was enough of a degenerate that she wished to know this lad as fully as possible, and tasting this essence was on this list of things. But... she was also a bit reprehensive about showing such a side of herself to anyone. When she was younger, people had been more than a bit freaked out by the nature of her personality, she wouldn't want to scare off the only boy she liked by being too much initially? Besides, she had the idea that doing something like this should be a moment undertaken in the most direct of manners. Still before this she managed with the moving of her fingers and the movement of her head to eventually moan just a tad and reach that unspoken goal of hers. And this was, to swallow this lad's manhood completely. Her last head movement and the relaxation of her body and throat caused the lad to slip down the proveribal hatch and ended with the tip of her nose pressed gently against his abdomen. How interesting this position was, she literally had so much of him within her at his point, she couldn't see it anymore, it belonged to her in such a way, she felt as if it could belong to no one else. A gentle swallowing motion occurred as her mouth began to fill, she could breathe past this, but her goal had been reached. It was time to pull back and make sure she got to taste what this lad had to offer, but she wouldn't do so, without making sure he understood the victory in her eyes, her feeling of elation and that subtle hint of desire that she could only get from feelings of control.

[Bloodedge]

How could one avoid the gasps and moans? Every time Yugi became conscious of his own utterances, he knew nothing shy of embarrassment. In every subsequent moment, however, he knew... nothing. The boy's mind would repeatedly become clouded, then blank as soon as Kimiko's head moved again. As much as he wanted to look away and conceal his own expression of bliss, he couldn't keep himself from watching the lass' face. A strong, tingling sensation was constantly rising and falling within his loins. This occasionally resulted in Yugi's eyes shutting tightly, until...

What was the girl's goal? Well, there were a couple of them, albeit only one that would reach fruition immediately. He'd been noticing an increase of depth with nearly every downward movement of her head, but while his eyes were closed, he felt something... quite different. There was an addition of pressure that clearly didn't come as a result of lip or tongue. This was... throat? Confirmation would come naturally, as the sensation alone caused Yugi's eyes to both open, and widen. There, he saw it happening─ the moment in which Kimiko's nose tapped his pelvis. He'd let himself fall under the assumption that this was hardly something easily accomplished by normal people, yet here he was experiencing it first-hand. She even seemed pleased to have done such a thing! If nothing else, Yugi could give consideration to one thing...

He'd won. For himself, for men everywhere, for the culture of degenerates, he had claimed the ultimate victory. This girl, Kimiko, never showed an ounce of promiscuity. She couldn't be considered some sultry harlot, yet she proved herself to be just as lewd as any man he'd ever met. Physically, this combination of matters made him move as if he nearly intended a retreat, even though instinct almost demanded that he thrust forward instead. The end result, of course, was a simple jerk to no particular end. "Woah woah! I'm not complaining, but... that's a pretty dangerous move there─"

[Apollymi]

Triumphant. That was how Kimiko felt in a moment like this. The lad before her, even seemed to be apt to flee her attentions, not that she'd let such a thing happen. Regardless having reached this goal she witnessed the look on Yugi's face, which seemed to be some mix of surprise and confusion. He really was cute, he'd looked so embarrassed for such a long amount of time, he made noises and spoke very little leading up to this moment. Actually, she was quite enamored by everything this lad did, he seemed so genuinely surprised by her actions. Perhaps at some point, she'd question this properly... but right at the moment there was something else to be done. She began the slow withdrawal down his manhood as he spoke on the dangerous nature of her most recent skill.

Though she did remove him from her mouth and throat, she'd continued to assault his manhood with her tongue on the way out, after all she had every intention of doing something else here. Only one of her current desires had been met, and she surely wasn't about to stop before she had everything she'd come for. After practically waggling her tongue down his manhood and with it free of her mouth for the first time in a couple of moments, the lass managed to speak. "Oh? Well if you aren't complaining, I'll do what I want~" was the lass' retort. Of course, she'd only been trying to see if she could, and to see what kind of reactions she could get from the lad. If nothing else, she was shown that the sort of goal she had was exactly the sort of thing she should be going for. With this in mind she continued flicking her tongue gently over his tip and back and forth, while eyeing this lad once again. She really enjoyed looking at his face, she couldn't deny this at all. She did have a final goal in this, one which would need the lad to see release for her to experience properly, to avoid any complications and withdrawals that would keep her from what she desired, she'd speak on this as well... "And, when I said I wanted everything... I meant a proper taste as well~" she mentioned in the most casual fashion as her mouth closed around the tip of him for a brief moment before she withdrew. "Make sure you don't hold back, okay?" she asked before she went back to her work in earnest. Something about being the way she was in this particular situation let her find a great deal of happiness. Even as her hand stroked against her core, the tingles she felt in earnest were worth chasing on their own but not without the lad's release which she came for. In this instance, she moved her head back and forth down his manhood finding a pace and watching for the cues necessary to know when she'd be in for her next goal. She hadn't really thought over what she was going to say in this situation, so she wondered if she'd managed to surprise him again, she'd keep an open eye and ear for the results, but mostly she realized she was quite lucky to have found someone who accepted her so fully.

[Bloodedge]

Without question, this entire situation was absolutely ridiculous on several levels. Little did Yugi know, it was once again going to get worse. He wasn't complaining about Kimiko's application of discovered technique, and she took that as an excuse to do as she pleased. Naturally, he couldn't say a negative thing about that either; that decision had her rising above and beyond any expectation thus far. Between gasps and sudden influxes of blood overfilling his manhood, he was hardly surviving already... and nothing stopped; only further progress was made by the lass. Even after removing him from the confines of her mouth, Kimiko refused to let up, keeping her tongue at work during the interim. She had words to share, as well─ words that repeated in Yugi's mind, time and time again after they were spoken.

She wanted... what? Impossible! Those were words of experience, even words that somehow dictated some amount of ownership. Greed was certainly the proper moniker for this girl. The request that he not 'hold back' after such a statement was... not exactly a request by the time it registered in Yugi's mind. At this point, his mind was officially as flooded as his testicles With both physical and psychological arousal at play to such an extent, all at once, he lost whatever resistance he had left. Would he gasp again? A moan, perhaps? No; not this time. A sharp inhale was made through gritted teeth, only to be followed by something akin to a yelp. His reflexes demanded that he pull back, but he was already against the wall with no room for any form of retreat.

This was happening here and now, and apparently per the choice of Kimiko herself. Without a moment to spare, one could only hope Kimiko came prepared. Yugi's otherwise excessive masturbation hadn't even been a matter of consideration over the past few days, and the girl purposely set herself up to be on the receiving end of what had simply been building up within. Just after Yugi's abrupt utterance, came a bountiful release capable of traveling a few feet if unimpeded. In fact, the lad could have used this expulsion to paint a small canvas, but... that didn't seem to be the case. Luckily, he would also be able to check Kimiko's reaction, as he managed to keep a single eye open throughout the intensity of his own ejaculation.

[Apollymi]

Ridiculous was indeed a good way to describe this situation. Kimiko herself thought her own actions and the general acceptance of them in the moment to be completely outlandish. That being said, she'd already mentioned that she was this way, it was hardly a time to hold back her own motivations at this point. She'd declared ownership of this lad and wanted all of him and apparently would take it, piece by piece if she had to. Speaking of piece, she was receiving something almost instantly after her most recent request. The lad's body and face seemed to undergo a drastic change, it seemed she'd be receiving exactly what she asked for within seconds.

'If this happens just because I asked, I wonder what would happen if I demanded?' the girl wondered but she didn't have much extra time to consider. This room was small, and though his bodily reaction seemed to want to back away, the yelp that came from him was down right adorable. What came next, wasn't quite adorable and she didn't immediately have any way to describe it. Oh, but it was quite the new experience...

Her mouth filled, in an almost instant sort of way. Now most would have backed away from such a sensation, but perhaps greedy was truly the right way to describe the lass, because she didn't do that at all. Her lips clamped down just a bit and the smallest splurts seemed to escape her. What a strange taste this was filling her mouth right now. It was salty and a bit bitter, but strangely not the worst thing she'd tasted. In fact, her eyes lit up with some strange emotion as she waited just a moment before pulling back. She was relatively certain that most if not all of what had appeared was within the confines of her mouth which she opened to be sure. This really was weird, but never one to back away from something new which belonged to her, she swallowed. A singular large gulp which moved even her throat, and in that moment there was a light in her eyes. This time of recognition, that sensation was familiar to her, but not for any particular reason. She suddenly had a very unique understanding of a certain food she'd eaten before and its supposed categorization as an 'aphrodisiac'. "Sugoi, that's like swallowing raw oysters..." she mentioned as the general comparison. It was a strange thing to say but definitely how she related it. Ah, but there was more, something a little more sensual and teasing. "I don't hate it at all~" she said as she licked her own reddened lips gently, and a blush spread across her face. Maybe she shouldn't have shared that last part.

[Bloodedge]

Yugi could not have been more thankful for his ability to keep one eye open, considering what he was able to witness as a result. Panting away, he watched the mouth of Kimiko open while his reproductive fluid remained within. Was this something she did on purpose? Well, whether it was or not, his brows elevated while he stared with mouth agape. Apparently, they were also skipping what one would call the 'spitting' phase, as Kimiko decided to fully consume that which erupted from his phallus. How ridiculous; he could even see the movement of her throat when she did so, and the look in her eyes was one resembling satisfaction! 'Holy─ am I dead? Was that whole world just some pre-death dream?' Surely his ridiculous train of thought had to be accurate. He'd managed to get into Heaven, or whatever equivalent there was, and there was no better answer. How else would he have access to this?

Almost shamefully, the natural process of things seemed to reverse for Yugi. The claim of Kimiko 'not hating' what she'd done was so pointed, it became another reason for arousal. As such, his dying erection throbbed anew. Nervous laughter escaped him, but he wasn't presently being stimulated beyond words. "Eheh... Well, that's good. I guess having a shit diet isn't so bad for that after all," he quipped, choosing to move on to the matter of... oysters? "Raw oysters? Never touched anything like it. If that's what oysters are like, though... I think I'll pass~"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko was fairly satisfied by her work this day. She felt empowered and pleased and beyond that she continued watching this lad. The reaction of his body led her to believe that he was likely enjoying watching her devour what he gave her. That was interesting to know. Still she found herself slightly desirous but willing to move along, lest she become too distracted by what she enjoyed and decided to not wait out her hormones or condoms. A cheeky smile appeared on her face and she managed to look more or less amused. Apparently his bad diet by his own words was a saving grace in this case. She had to agree, not being forced to eat weird things had to be a great bonus. "Yeah, I've eaten a lot of weird stuff before..." she said frowning and thinking about what meals were like with her mother forcing her to try new things and her father sneaking her more child appropriate options. Moving right along it seemed that raw oysters weren't on Yugi's choice of list, perhaps she should explain what she meant so he wouldn't get the wrong idea. She moved herself so she was beside him on the futon instead and seated comfortably even in her half-nude state. "Iie, oysters are pretty good. The comparison is for the texture," she said in an off-handed manner. Of course, she realized this might not make it sound more appealing but it was the truth. Actually, she began to wonder if the act of swallowing such a thing was why they were called an aphrodisiac in the first place. She supposed that it could work rather strangely, being related to the action instead of being related to the taste itself.

They could technically stop now, she could do more but she was pleased enough. Still she couldn't let go of what she was seeing right at the moment so she shot him a wink. Moving on from all of this, what would they do? Did they have plans? Would they be going somewhere? She still needed to go home eventually but they could hang out for a while perhaps. What could she say next? How did one move on from sexual exploration to daily life? This was much less awkward when they were in the other world with preordained amounts of things to do. She realized in this moment if they spent a lot of time here, she'd get bored eventually. "So then, what do we do next?" she asked of the lad with her she was content to do what he liked for a while since she'd invaded his space and taken over his time so much. What would a day in the life of this shut-in entail? She knew from his previous words that he spent lazy days very different from her.

[Bloodedge]

Never would he be able to imagine what classified as 'weird stuff' to one such as Kimiko, aside from the obvious presence of raw oysters in her diet. To say the texture was what she found comparable, was an oddity in and of itself. "Yeah, still gonna be a solid no from me," he decided. The sort of texture he imagined from that was disgusting as a thought; he could only imagine it being an acquired preference. Alas, it wasn't one he intended to acquire either; he was satisfied with his pizza, ramen, burgers, and other such junk foods.

Now then, what would they be doing next? Kimiko decided to question this after seating herself beside him, and if he were to be honest... he hadn't a clue. Before receiving that phone call and the confirmation that Kimiko had located him, he had only planned on gaming the night away. If she was to offer more of her time in this box they currently inhabited, though... Ah, yes! Yugi sprung to life with an idea that should have struck him long before it did! "Well~" he began, hopping over to his computer. Erect manhood aside, this was a thrill he was quite interested to experience. "You've got the wealth to setup VR in AoE, so I might have something new for you to check out. Can you even imagine couch co-op on a PC?"

[Apollymi]

"Alright no oyster bars, got it~" she said with the general amount of smug she seemed to possess at all time. The lad had his preferences and she had no problem with that in the slightest. Oysters were quite an acquired taste after all, she didn't like them when she was younger, but she'd been having less of a problem with them as she'd gotten older. She assumed now this had something to do with her perverse nature, but that really didn't need extra delving into in the moment.

Moving along from that, when asked what the lad would like to do, he seemed to give it a bit of thought before springing to life in a manner most excited. Kimiko observed this with a smile on her face, Yugi was truly quite excitable as an individual. She found this to be an interesting part of him and beyond that she found his happiness in such moments adorable. Even with his manhood exposed for her to see and he seemed to have gained focus on his PC? What was he saying now, there was a function similar to couch co-op that they could take up while playing a game. Her brows came together in obvious confusion. She'd heard of this elusive practice of gaming with others in the same room and even on the same console, but could never imagine it. She didn't have friends like that after all, and beyond all of that, she couldn't really imagine how such a step up would work on a PC. She'd been the type of gamer who had everything she wished for, every console and type of gaming apparatus, but the idea of sharing something as common as a PC was strange to her. "Sou ka, that does sound like a pretty new experience. How does one co-op on one PC?" she asked this with a raised brow while moving herself towards his computer. She was about to be in for quite the culture shock. But experiences were things she wanted, she wasn't judgmental in the slightest only spoiled to the point of rottenness.

[Bloodedge]

No oysters would pass the lips of Yugi; this much was agreed upon. More importantly, Kimiko showcased her lack of experience in specific cooperative gaming experiences, bringing a wide grin to Yugi's face. He was quick to log in to his computer, which had its sounds activate only after exiting rest mode. As a result, a peculiar song began to play. On his screen was one Akaru Chiyo of the series Air Gear, arms elevated and hips swaying in an almost provocative manner as the song played. Yugi seemed somewhat taken aback by this, and for multiple reasons at that. "Shit! I missed my alarm for the new release. Oh well; it should already be downloading," he said regarding a new title he'd been waiting on for some time. Of course, the alarm had also shocked him due to the obvious reason he had it in place. Well... it had been seen now, and there was no undoing that.

Once he'd dealt with the alarm and confirmed his active, albeit slow-moving download of another game, Yugi initiated a game featuring four cartoon-like knights with armors in varying colors. "It's pretty simple, actually. It might be a bit tight, but... I'm sure we're fine with that," he began to explain. "One of us takes the go-to movement keys and the space bar, and the other uses directional keys and right shift. Space and shift are for attacks. This game is called Castle Crashers, and supports up to four people online... but just two of us can play like this. I tried it solo, and it was pretty boring. In spite of that, I think it'd be pretty fun shenanigan's with someone else on."

[Apollymi]

No oysters, well there were plenty of other fun things to have for the lad. She was more reliant on his food tastes than he was on hers. Regardless, some different sort of tastes were about to make themselves clear. Yugi logged into his computer and an interesting sight popped up in the eyes of Kimiko. One, obviously Akaru Chiyo doing a dance which was popular on the short video challenge sites. She took in this video and had a few stray thoughts, the first of which was related directly to the idea she had about making demands earlier. The other was related directly to her desires, she never truly thought of herself as a jealous person, but with this lad she felt something strange. Perhaps it wasn't jealousy at all, she didn't care what he saw, but she'd prefer to be the person on his mind all the time. Hm, she could probably get away with that, but should she tell him her intentions or surprise him with them? She cut her eyes towards the lad and decided she'd surprise him instead... "Which new release?" she wondered, she had a couple of downloads prepared herself, and she wondered if there was something they might want to play together.

Moving along, there was the matter of this game he wanted to play. "Castle Crashers, huh? Alright I can work with that, and of course, I don't mind being close to you~" there was another matter which struck her curiosity and that was the size of this computer screen. Did she mention this? Maybe it was rude, she wasn't quite sure. She hadn't seen a computer screen this small in someone's personal gaming set up ever. Even her work computer had a 30 inch HD screen, her home one was bigger. "So how are we cozying up for co-op?" she asked of the lad, content to let him figure out how they were going to sit together and play with access to his keyboard.

[Bloodedge]

Kimiko could have said a great many things after witnessing his computer's alarm, but she had nothing to say about it. How strange; he would have expected some sort of reaction, just as she'd given when seeing his... figures. Instead of commentary about the alarm, she did question the new release he'd set it for. Now, that was something worth being excited about. "Only the most exciting title of the year so far," he said cheekily, certain she knew what he was referring to. Given their shared tastes in games, anime and manga, he had every reason to believe that she, too, was excited for the release of the newest Kingdom Hearts installment. "At this point, the remake should be able to catch up to the original series pretty soon. Maybe they'll even ride the popularity train and actually release a new Final Fantasy─"

Simple pipe dreams, but one had to be excited about something. Moving on, there was one rather clear issue with the idea of their cooperative gaming experience of the day. How would they actually set things up? He had only a single chair in front of his computer, so a bit of improvisation would be necessary. "Uh... right. Shit. I didn't think about the fact that I don't really have a good setup for that kind of thing, and the couch is too short to reach the desk." Perhaps it would have been best if he saved a bit of his excitement for after the idea was complete and functional. Too little, too late─ though he did have some semblance of a solution. "Hmm. Well, it would only be the 'good host' thing to say you can have the chair. I'll take a knee next to you, and we can play~"

[Apollymi]

It seemed that though he might have been curious about his reaction, he seemed to only gain excitement about the title he'd been waiting to download. His cheeky commentary let her know which title it was and her own eyes sparkled quite a bit at the idea. In fact she let out an audible squeal at the mention, "Squeeee~ I know right! I have been waiting like half my life for this. I'm too excited. Actually, that's gonna make for some pretty good night gaming~" she mentioned fairly excited about the download of the most recent Kingdom Hearts title. "Oh but they are never releasing another Final Fantasy..." she said with her same general sarcasm. It was quite interesting the amount of things this pair had in common and their general love of gaming would likely take them far. Even if they couldn't play that title together, they could enjoy it in each others company... though that was an idea for later.

Right just now, there was on the table a particular game and a setup to take care of. According to Yugi, he hadn't thought through all of the placement involved in the situation. He was quite right, the setup of this place wasn't necessarily the greatest for co-op as an experience. He claimed that the most appropriate thing to do, would be for her to take the chair and him to kneel beside her on the side he was taking. That simply wouldn't do. A chuckle escaped her, "Second option. You sit in the chair, I sit in your lap... no one has to be uncomfortable~" She seemed very certain of this, but it was the most logical conclusion to the lass, and besides everything else, she was more or less happier to be near him and then they could both reach controls without any problem which was better. Sure, they'd be fairly intimate during the ordeal, but that was hardly anything they couldn't be happy about at this point.

[Bloodedge]

"It will! Actually, if they decide to announce co-op capabilities... even better. I think I might be really interested in two-man sessions, considering what we've already been through," the lad surmised. In that other world, they had gone through multiple adventures with their lives on the line, and both seemed to enjoy those moments thoroughly. In simple video games, surely they would also find great entertainment. "You're right, though. I sometimes wonder if Final Fantasy was even real from the beginning."

For a moment, Yugi thought he was actually onto something reasonable with his setup idea. Alas, Kimiko had a better one to offer almost immediately. Shocked by how brazenly she'd suggested such a thing, he stared at the lass, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. "Just casually gonna throw that out there, huh?" he questioned. Only a moment later, he chuckled lightly. "Alright; can't argue that being a fair trade. No complaint if my lap sucks as a seat, yeah?" With that said, Yugi pulled out his chair, rotating it until he was able to seat himself. After doing so, he remained at this angle to allow Kimiko ample space to claim her seat of choice. Perhaps he'd simply let himself forget that neither of them had done anything by way of applying clothing to themselves. . .

[Apollymi]

Yugi showed an excitement equal to her own. He claimed he might actually enjoy two man gaming sessions and spoke on the possibilities of something like that in the game they were discussing. Actually, when Kimiko thought of it, she would also quite enjoy such a thing. After all they'd done together, the thought of something as simple as spending time with the lad and enjoying a gaming session they could wreck together was exciting. "That really would be entertaining I think... we could enjoy something like that together regardless..." the lass said knowing that she'd find more comfort with him around than without him. In any case, his words about Final Fantasy wouldn't go unanswered either, more sarcasm and more salty humor, lest she despair over that as well. "Fantasy is right there in the name. We obviously imagined the whole thing. Definitely isn't real..." she mused with a sarcastic grin spreading across her face.

And then there was her gaming suggestion for right now, and it was received strangely. A look of absolute shock seemed to pass over Yugi's face, as if her suggestion was outlandish. In Kimiko's own mind, offering such a thing so casually was exactly the right thing to do. She'd spent a great amount of time occupying the lad's lap, whether he was aware of this or not, wasn't really important. She felt completely comfortable around him and gave no thought to anything like propriety when they were together. "Well yeah, it's a pretty casual thing..." she said as if it was the most normal offer in the world. Granted she had a skewed view of such things, she knew this would provide her the utmost comfort. Perhaps she was too much the pervert though. She hadn't given any thought at all to the fact that neither of them had redressed. Of course, when it came to gaming, Kimiko held the odd habit of sitting around in her underwear at best anyways, so it wasn't as if her current state of dress felt awkward for her. She'd already spent so much time in this boy's company she didn't register his nudity as something to be frightened of in the least. So, when he took his own seat and claimed she simply couldn't complain if she didn't like it, she took hers as well, setting her hips against him and allowing the softness of her body to rest against his. If he happened to still be erect she'd shift slightly enough to allow his manhood place between her thighs and peck him gently on the cheek as if amused. "No worries, I enjoy this seat. And I only offer fair trades..." she mused. At this time she was more than ready to begin and they could play this new game together and enjoy their mostly nude bonding time.

[Bloodedge]

True enough, these two could undoubtedly find entertainment even while having single-player experiences in each other's company. Still, there was a certain additional appeal to the idea of actual cooperative games. Though... he could also see an extra feature of single-player titles that would allow for enjoyment between the two, but that was entirely unrelated to gaming. "I mean, you're right and all... I'd never abandon a good solo title, but the idea of co-op with someone who isn't just looking to be carried is... kinda refreshing, to be honest." This was about as accurate as he could be when speaking his mind. Well, that is... until there was additional 'accuracy' involving the game they were both apparently waiting desperately for. "Good point; it's just been a dream this entire time. That beta? Just a weird moment of the collective consciousness imagining what paradise would be like," he mused, scoffing intermittently throughout the clause.

Ah, but speaking of the thought he had about their potential shared solo gaming experiences, it would come to light in a strange way as Kimiko claimed her 'seat' in his lap. The simple fact was, he did remain erect, which of course had to result in said erection being clasped between surprisingly ample thighs. Just like that, he was right back to throbbing as Kimiko's lips met his cheek. His breath caught in his throat, which he cleared before attempting to focus on the screen. "Right. Yeah... glad you like the chair," he spoke through a voice that cracked a few times throughout the statement. "So uh─ Poison, Electricity, Ice, or Fire?"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko simply nodded at the lad's clauses. She too, would never really abandon a good solo game, she enjoyed the story aspects and collecting new things too much to agree to something like that. Even so, she could think of many ways for them to have fun while playing solo. It was a given that her own set up would allow for two people to play solo games on two different screens but... there were other things that could be done while not playing that she imagined would be just as fun. Regardless of this, she verbally agreed to his assertion. "Hai hai, I would also enjoy the ability to play cooperatively without it being a pain. Either a room full of actual girls which is pretty hard to come by and if there are only girls, full of girl level cattiness or a room full of guys which is a problem and a half. A happy two player co-op sounds lovely~" she mentioned. Actually there was a game she'd played briefly that she might actually enjoy if another person was involved, perhaps she'd bring it up sometime later. Moving along, there was much banter about the lost Final Fantasy title, which would only come with a healthy chuckle. "Sounds like a collective stress induced fever dream to me~" she added with all of the sarcasm her person could muster.

Oh but there was the fact that they were soon enough sitting together in this chair. She found her seat of choice to be exactly what she wished, a gentle bit of throbbing occurred between the softness of her thighs. Such a thing also came with strange reactions from the lad, as if he was working kind of hard to concentrate. His staggered initial breathing made her chuckle, 'Kawaii!~ He's so cute!~' her mind was really active in the moment. "Hm, of course~" she said about the 'chair'. Soon enough he managed to move on, so she was asked a strange question about the kind of knight she'd prefer using. Her eyes still hadn't shifted to the screen, she didn't need to look to know what her choice was, "Poison~" she said before finally looking towards the screen. The feeling of this lad's manhood between her thighs caused her to tense her thighs gently. Oh this was going to be just as dangerous as things she did on purpose. Perhaps, she really did enjoy teasing this lad, she couldn't really help it the first time.

[Bloodedge]

"I dunno; I imagine the opposite way would be pretty reasonable. I feel like being one guy in a group of girl gamers would be way better than... well, being surrounded by testosterone and 'look how much bigger my numbers are' and shit." Yugi had been in his fair share of 'cooperative' experiences over the years, and none of them were more annoying than when he was surrounded by male gamers and the types of egos which normally came with them. Of course, any attempts he would have made to join the party of female gamers would have been foiled preemptively by those same males. Ah well.

Moving on─ or at least, attempting to, Yugi's hand was at work making selections for their game. Kimiko spoke her desire of playing the 'Poison' knight without so much as a glance at the screen, so he quickly assigned it to her before his every movement halted. Well, it wasn't every movement; his manhood pulsed in response to the abrupt shift of legs around it, effectively freezing the rest of him. It took a couple of moments for the lad to regain his composure, but he already thought his gameplay would suffer soon enough... though that was alright. "Hai. Poison it is. You'll be starting with the Thin Sword. I'll take... the ridiculously-colored Electricity. I'm trying to unlock that Skeleton dude, so I'll put up with the Mace for now. All good?" he asked, more than prepared to begin the game at a moment's notice. If she said yes, the session would begin right away.

[Apollymi]

"Hm, more reasonable... Yes. Still annoying, also yes but maybe its because groups of girls don't like strategy. So, a whole group of girl's can't decide anything, but it's fine for stuff like Minecraft~" she mentioned happily. She'd had a pretty decent time playing in groups of girls online in games that didn't necessarily require true strategy. Alas she'd never really gotten around to playing that much with other people, it simply didn't often fit with her life style.

Whatever the case, they were soon to be moving along to something more interesting. In this case, he was choosing the Knight he wanted as well, though he paused a bit giving the girl more to appreciate. She should probably stop doing this sort of thing... she was likely seeming like some kind of sadist. Maybe there was a softer word that covered better what was? She was thrilled to have the ability to cause this lad distraction, but it wasn't something she strictly enjoyed in terms of being mean or anything like that. Still he'd managed to recover, fairly easily, so she supposed she could try not to cause him too much trouble. Apparently her little knight came with a sword of some sort. Though she was more prone to playing archers she didn't know much about this game and wasn't really bad at playing anything in particular. Besides, poison usually lead her down paths she liked when it was offered. Still there was much to say, especially about the color choices of the game designers. "Sou ka... I thought maybe you'd just clicked the wrong one. But they really didn't just make fire red, seems a bit wasteful~" she mused. Any other color could have been that but she supposed she couldn't argue with artists like that. "Hai hai, let's start." she said her fingers taking up their proper place on the keyboard where she needed them as she shifted her body forward just a bit. She was more than prepared for this, new kind of fun.

[Bloodedge]

The following day... was yet another school day Aiba Yugi would not be attending. He'd been awake in the wee hours of the night, gaming as usual. Most of the time he spent doing so, he was still in the company of Kimiko. Quite a few dangerous moments were behind him now, but care had to be taken. Over the course of last night's gaming session, Yugi saw multiple moments which almost led down the path leading to some weird, interdimensional pregnancy scare; that wouldn't be good. Well, he couldn't exactly think that, could he? He could only imagine the process being magnificent, even while the results could have been something catastrophic to the world itself. Would that have been worth it? Yugi found himself wondering that from the moment Kimiko left the box he lived in, to the current moment of his waking for the day.

The time was about 11 in the morning when Yugi rolled off his couch, which remained stained with the scent of Kimiko. If he was to think the previous day had been a dream, there was no way to do so upon taking those first breaths of the morning. How had they even parted? His mind was hazy; he could hardly rationalize left from right. School was hardly a matter of consideration, and even without seeing the time himself, the lad was certain he hadn't woken up in time to go even if he wanted to. "Fuck," he muttered while sitting up on the floor, making every effort to rub the sleepiness away through his face.

[Apollymi]

The following day was indeed a school day, and what would be the fate of Ashikaga Kimiko this day? Like all others she was sitting in class, listening to a teacher drone on about some random thing or another. An image of perfection, as a school idol should be, she was actively taking notes like a good student should, but her mind was far away from this room or these activities. No, she was thinking about the day prior, when she'd left school and gone on to spend an entire evening in the company of Aiba Yugi. He could be here in class with her now... he could be helping keep her entertained, but alas, school wasn't somewhere he liked being. Maybe she could talk him into it... that would be good. Imagine the amount of fun they could have together? She thought it over and managed to look a bit less surly than normal. Though her annoyance at the lack of his presence was likely still radiating off her person in an impressive aura. If yesterday was anything, it was telling of the sort of days they could have together, and thus causing her tension that she likely wouldn't have known otherwise.

Gaming and incidental make-out sessions were all fair. Moments of danger and several orgasms were all part of the day. By the time they'd had their last of such an experience the previous night, he'd all but fallen asleep. It really was a shame she couldn't have stayed longer, but by the time she would have gotten around to mentioning that she had to go, he was comfortably sleeping beside her. Passed out with a look of supreme relaxation. She saw his face and couldn't wake him, so... she'd kissed him and gotten dressed. She'd locked his place up behind her and let herself out, but not without leaving him a kind message. Whenever he woke, she figured he'd check his computer and find the open note in his notepad app from her.


Yugi,

I didn't want the cops called on me again, so I headed home after you fell asleep. You were too cute and I didn't want to wake you. I couldn't find your phone so I left this message here. I have to work for a bit tomorrow but... we could hang out some more after, if you want. Here's my number. Text me, if that doesn't work for you...

Kimi

And then the bell rang and class was dismissed. Kimiko closed up her notebook and books making her way out of the classroom with a swiftness that was carried on by her particular logics. She was headed out of school now, it was time for lunch and she had half days now. Instead of bothering to stick around and eat with the others, she was headed for her office building. She would carry on her business activities with the goal in mind of finishing so that she could get back to what truly interested her now: Yugi.

[Bloodedge]

It strangely took about twenty minutes for him to do so, but Yugi eventually managed to compose himself. What time was it? Where the hell did he throw his clock this time? Ah, it was still near his computer... which had been left on since the previous night. Stumbling his way over, he checked to realize it was nearly noon, and thought to inspect his computer for any game he'd left running after all that random debauchery the previous night. "Ugh. I never wanted coffee so bad in my life," he said, almost as if he expected there to be a listener. Actually... was there someone to hear his words? Yugi became alert, scanning the room for the lass he'd spent almost the entire previous day with. There were no signs of her; could she have been in the bathroom? "Oi!" he called out.

No answer came after a few seconds. With that, he assumed Kimiko was no longer within this little box of a home he had. That was fine. She probably had school and life obligations to deal with, so he couldn't have expected her to remain overnight. If that were the case, though... it would've been quite nice, he thought. With his sudden coffee-related craving, he was in the midst of wondering if she'd fancy a cup. She probably would. Moving on though, a quick inspection of the computer let him see the open note left behind on his screen. Ah, that explained his current situation. He'd managed to pass out in the night, so she took her leave to start her next day properly. Sadly though, there was a phone number attached to the note. His phone... oh. Well, there certainly wouldn't be any texting done. More importantly, Yugi was finally realizing the repercussions of his earlier actions. "Fuck! I can't afford a new phone!" he exclaimed, head in his hands while grinding his teeth. He should really stop reacting to things in the spur of a moment, but it was too late to dwell on that now. He didn't really need a phone anyway. He didn't have 'friends' to keep in contact with, and Kimiko seemed more than capable when it came to locating him whenever necessary. Luckily, her instruction to send a text wasn't for the sake of confirming a meeting between them. Kimi's plan was to meet with him, and it seemed she intended to do so as long as he didn't have reason to cancel. That was so... her. "Huh. Wonder when I should be expecting that. How long does a teen business tycoon spend at work?" he wondered aloud.

Now that he thought about it, Yugi was further curious about his situation. It was such a random thought, but... the previous day had left him thinking about a lot of things. As such, he sat at his computer and leaned back, looking into the ceiling and speaking to ears he wasn't sure were there. "Oi! You still keeping my place bugged?"

[Apollymi]

Within a certain amount of time, Ashikaga Kimiko found herself back within her own personal office in the Ashikaga Consulting Agency's Headquarters. She was now sitting down, relaxed as she ever was, with a fresh cup of coffee in hand and her phone placed on the table in front of her. She was staring between three separate computer screens doing various basic tasks for the upkeep of business operations. Trades were made, final copies of contracts were finalized and sent to clients for review, payroll was taken care of... all was well. She watched the ever shifting stock markets of world business fluctuate and her own accounts rise as a matter of course. Strangely, not much had happened to anything during her recent little vacation and business would continue as usual. Oh, but some contingencies would have to be made. She'd have to make sure at least basic things could be settled whether she was present or not, especially if she was to end up back in the otherworld for an unforeseen amount of time. She began work on a set of protocols for making sure payments were made to her staff in the case of her absence, and also that the proper people were notified of her 'activities' should she disappear again. Much like the Kaiba Corp method, she'd simply have herself listed as on 'vacation' should she fail to log in for a certain number of days.

Such things took only a short amount of time for the girl to work out. How long did a young business tycoon spend at the office? On a typical day when she had nothing better to do, she was in her office from about 11:30 am until about 6 pm. Of course, she was only supposed to be at work until 4 pm at the latest but such things never stopped her before. Ah, but right now, she had better things to do. She wanted to spend as much time with Yugi as she could manage in her regular day before talking him into going to school. As such she'd be done without dragging anything out by about 2pm. No stopping to watch streams from halfway around the world. No playing with the stock market aside from her quick trades. No interests that weren't her specific target. All done she was, and now there were only a few things left to do. She needed to speak with her Human Resources Administrator, mostly to tell him a name she wished to be interviewed should he happen to find his way there, and partly because she was still in need of contraceptives. Oh... well that was two birds with one stone... or maybe three. She also wished to test some of her more latent abilities, if any of those carried over, she could have a pretty reasonable time being a rogue type of individual in her actual life. So, she'd take a casual stroll towards his office aiming to slip in outside of the corner of his eye. She'd tap the door with a knuckle to draw attention upward, before slipping further into the room. Only to settle to his right and stare into his open computer screen. She wanted to know what he was doing right just now after all...

[Bloodedge]

Once again, Yugi offered words that received no answer whatsoever. This time, it was a positive. He'd almost expected a message to appear on his computer after yelling that final time, but it was refreshing to see no such thing. He could rest easy. About now would be a great time for some casual self-exploration to work himself up for the day, though Yugi felt no such inclinations after the number of expulsions he experienced the previous night. What was the real experience going to be like, he wondered. Well... he'd find out soon enough, and that was the most strangely exciting thing he'd ever considered. If a meeting with Kimiko was a certainty later in his day, he thought it best to get himself cleaned up while it was fresh on his mind. As such, Yugi lazed about and gamed for only a few hours or so before heading off to the shower.

Meanwhile, Kimiko was busy progressing the day. School and were bypassed in the simplest manner, and onward she went to the Human Resources Administrator's office. Long, orange locks were easily visible over the back of a wheeled chair at the administrator's desk. Was he privy to the arrival of Kimiko, his boss by all accounts? No... no he wasn't. Had he been aware, perhaps he would have ceased the action of perusing a popular website full of pornographic drawings. In particular, he was viewing a page filled with incredibly lewd art of one Tamamura Tamao from the series Bleach. Oh, she was drawn in all sorts of wild positions, sometimes even restrained and looking none too pleased about it. Just as he was really immersing himself in his scrolling, clicking and saving, there was a sound not coming from his mouse. Was that... knocking of some sort? It certainly was, and that wouldn't be all. Once his attention was brought away from the monitor, he saw the last face he expected at this particular time. "GAH! Ashikaga-chan, what brings you to my office this fine evening?!" He stumbled over his words, laughing nervously and frantically clicking away the active window on his screen. Alas... it was to no avail. To keep his progress on every page, he'd been opening every image in a new window and moving forward from there. With all his clicking, all he managed to do was create a slideshow of that pink-haired anime character being ploughed ten ways to Sunday in a single scene.

[Apollymi]

Ah, Kimiko's initial presence had gone undetected. Much to her expectation, knocking had let her become an obvious point of interest. Still, she couldn't really tell if he didn't know she was there because she was trying to do the rogue thing, or if she could have successfully crept up on him, just because of what he was doing in the moments prior to her arrival. What would Kimiko find by the time she made it to the point of looking over his shoulder while he nervously clicked away. "Hoh?" that was all she could say. As dozens of images of Tamamura Tamao being given all kinds of rod were shifting over his screen. Oh, the gloriousness that was the mask of Kimiko's calm face was here but something about her still gave off a stifling bit of pressure and foreboding. This orange haired man was much older than her, even so... she was his boss and she'd just caught him doing something quite unfitting of a man in charge of her human resources department. Perhaps a sense of dread would settle upon this man, though that likely would have happened regardless considering what he'd been caught doing. All the while behind that mask of a smile she had several thoughts completely unrelated to the actual contents of his screen. 'I really knocked and everything, how did he not manage to clear his screen in time? I can't even use him as a proper test of my skills at this point... what a shame,' she thought, that strange smile still on her face. The one that didn't quite reach her eyes with its happiness.

"Gojo Satoru," she said just this for a moment or two though her eyes hadn't yet left his screen. He did have reasonable tastes, Tamao was a great looking Captain at least. "A name that I thought might eventually be crossing your desk. I find him amiable and good at his job... if he comes by offer him the open position of Internal Security Coordinator," she explained what she actually had come here for, such was her way of dealing with such things. But she was also still very much herself and still intended to extort. "Still, I didn't really imagine my Human Resources Administrator would be browsing Rule34 during work hours, nor that he wouldn't have the sense to use the home screen function key," she said in a slightly snarky manner. Her silence on this matter would be bought, but she'd give him a moment or two to sweat over what she'd just seen while wondering about her actual reaction.

[Bloodedge]

Was he sweating? He had to be sweating. It felt like he was sweating, but he didn't even have it in him to confirm. Not only had Kimiko seen his screen; she was staring right into it. That was his job, wasn't it? No, that couldn't be the case; he could easily explain himself! All important matters of the day were handled ages ago, so surely he was allowed a bit of leisure. Yes, perhaps he could have chosen something a bit more important, but could his gamer nerd of a boss really take his decision out on him that severely? Well... maybe.

In the midst of his early rambling, a single word was spoken. That shut him up rather easily. Who the hell was Gojo Satoru? After a few moments of silence, it was made apparent that this was the name of a new prospect Kimiko had her eyes on. How she was so casually glancing over his observation of hentai, he didn't understand, but at least he could carry on with his job henceforth. "Gojo? That name sounds familiar," he commented. He would certainly keep his eyes and ears open for such a name, especially if they could fill an important job like the one she brought up. "I'll be on the lookout, though that's a name I've never heard you bring up before. I'm guessing we've had no prior dealings with this Gojo Satoru."

Ah, and there it was. After all that, Kimiko finally addressed what she'd caught him doing upon her arrival to his office. What could he even say? He wasn't jerking off or anything, so it couldn't be that big a deal. But... wait. There was one colossal issue here, and though it took the male a few moments to figure out, his eyes widened with clarity before his repeatedly-opening mouth finally produced words. "W-well I uh... All my work was done for the day until you showed up, so I thought I'd see what was new while no one was looking. You just caught me off-guard, so I freaked out a bit. That's the honest truth. But... why do you know about Rule 34?"

[Apollymi]

He was definitely sweating. Kimiko saw the little beads clearly on his forehead, from the corner of her eye, as she stared at the images crossing his computer screen. 'There are a lot of fantasies about topping a woman who would definitely castrate someone...' she noted while looking at the screen. Still, he was earning points here, even as she stared with no real interest or disinterest crossing her visage, he eventually managed to choke out some words regarding the man whose name she'd mentioned. "Gojo Satoru is a young Detective currently. He was at my house the other day, investigating my being 'missing'. But I'd find him more useful here... he's a bit too kind to remain in such a force for very long," she said of that particular young man. He'd definitely fit into the position she recommended without fail. She never picked wrong at all. Even now, with her Human Resources Administrator sweating bullets about being found searching hentai, she had nothing but the utmost faith in him to complete his job duties to the highest order of his ability. It was simply her nature to dangle such things over him to get what she required out of him. In truth she had little to no care about what he did to amuse himself so long as he completed his work in a timely manner. Such a thing was about to become known.

"Oh? So this was just for random leisure then... sou ka." she said still smiling. She hadn't been able to use him for a test of her rogue skills, but she wondered. She'd crossed paths with a certain young woman when she'd first entered the building. She knew for a fact that this young man was carrying on a bit of a tryst with her. In general, such things could have been considered against fraternization policies, but Kimiko had written those for very specific instances and not for keeping people from experiencing each other, in a manner of speaking. She moved her hand and felt the pull of that magic so very entwined in her soul. Ah, he had a condom on his person. How very specific. That smile became something demonic. "Why do I know the name of a website that's written on top of every still closing image window scrolling across your screen I wonder~" she asked in that rhetorical yet snarky manner. Of course, it was probably obvious why she knew of the site, it was one of her own most visited, but she hadn't ever been caught scrolling at work. Kimiko wouldn't be admitting to perusing the site to one of her workers, but she wouldn't judge him for his choice. As far as hentai was concerned, at least he was looking at some interesting stuff. Besides, she had more sense than to be upset over something so simple. Perhaps he'd be sure to take her advice and roll back to his home screen next time. "A condom," She held her hand out, expecting to be given what she asked for, though Romani was an interesting man, he might feign ignorance for a bit. She was prepared for that as well.

[Bloodedge]

"Missing, eh? Don't tell me this 'missing' case is something that's going to make its way back to me. What, did you spend an extra hour at an arcade all the way in Shinjuku?" the male questioned. Surely there wasn't much legitimacy to claims of Kimiko being missing, especially considering the fact that she was here and in prime form now. "And they sent a detective after you? Did you scare him out of his job or something? You tend to have that effect on people."

Indeed, his hentai observation was mere leisure. Actually, he was signed into his account on the aforementioned website, saving things for later use. He may have even been getting himself riled up in preparation for a future meeting with a pink-haired woman within this very building. Ah, but that wasn't something he'd mention so casually... if at all. As for how Kimiko knew of the website he was browsing, she decided to point out the fact that its URL remained visible. That couldn't be all there was to it; one didn't simply understand Rule 34 from a simple glance. At least, one couldn't speak of it so casually their first time seeing it. She wasn't going to admit to anything properly though, so it was best he drop it there. Besides... there was something more important being brought up. A condom, she said with an extended hand. She wanted him to... hand her a condom? No way did she know he had some on his person, right? "EH!?!" was his immediate reaction. Interestingly enough, his response wasn't necessarily disputing the fact that he had what she was looking for. No, his mind had gone elsewhere. "Uh. Ashikaga-chan, I'm flattered, but you are my boss. I couldn't call myself the anything of human resources if I let you fall to that sort of favoritism."

[Apollymi]

He didn't want to be told her being 'missing' was something that would make its way back to him. "It isn't very likely, unless someone plans to ask you what I do with my spare time..." she said in a seemingly honest way. Had she simply stayed an extra hour in an arcade? The truth of her 'missing' status was something she could only truly share with one other person, presently. And too bad for Romani that person wasn't him. "You never know with me. I do on occasion get really drawn into a game~" oh that was snarky and a bit telling. Well, her employees never really questioned her beyond her general words, though Romani was more likely to do so than any one else. That smile of hers never slipped, but a case in point was being made, as Romani questioned why this detective might eventually find himself here. "Yes, apparently I might be some sort of criminal mastermind. Obviously, I am not just a teen gamer having a bit of fun..." she said with a casual roll of her eyes. "I doubt I've done anything scary. I don't think I've been scary. I'm the same as I always am..." she said that sentence and she was still smiling at this man as if she had all the secrets of his life. In this case, she did, but that wasn't really the point.

Oh but she truly was a bit scary. How scary, this raven haired lass was still smiling with her hand out. She moved her index finger and knew that this condom of choice could be found in the man's lab coat pocket. Ah, but he managed to be surprised, not that she was asking for it. But he went on a spiel about how he couldn't do such a thing with her, she was his boss and all of that. "I wish I could wake up in the morning with your confidence, Romani..." stated Kimiko. "I'm not propositioning you," even though Kimiko was still smiling that sentence came out like a dagger. "I want you to give me the condom in your front pocket," she said that same smile still present on her face. "Of course in exchange, I'll forget all about this strange delusion of grandeur, and Fujita Harumi whom you're actually fraternizing with in the breakroom most recently, and all that viewing of Rule34..." Oh yes, full demonic smile and imposing attitude. It was never really an option, he was going to hand over that condom whether he was keeping it for himself or not. She needed at least one for her planned activities this afternoon, and didn't want to stop by a store while unaccompanied.

[Bloodedge]

Who would bother asking what Ashikaga Kimiko did in her spare time? Romani had been working in this facility for quite some time, and he'd never heard of it as anything more than passing curiosity. No one had the nerve to actually pry. "Not happening then. Understood," he said. Kimiko's comment about getting drawn into a game came off a bit pointed, but nothing too out of the ordinary. After all, who would ever stop to think that a video game resulted in her being sucked into another dimension or something of the sort? Not this one. He didn't even care to wonder why she would be labeled a criminal mastermind, or anything other than what she really was... which happened to be what she seemed to be claiming she wasn't. "Please. You walk around with dragon fangs in a teen superstar's mouth, and you act like you think that's normal. Grown men wet themselves over less."

Undue confidence, he had. It was not interest in him which caused Kimiko's demand. That was good, though perhaps she could've phrased it a bit more gently. "Ouch. There goes all that alleged ego," he snipped. After hearing something like that, he'd likely be questioning his own worth in the mirror later. Romani elevated for just a few moments, only to be sent crashing down into a trench in the ocean floor. What a shame. Worse yet, Ashikaga Kimiko knew far too much about his private escapades. Maybe she gained some information from Fujita Harumi during the young woman's exodus─ that wasn't too long before Kimiko's arrival, so surely they passed one another. No, that wasn't right. This information was spewed with the confidence of someone who had always known. As for the condom in his pocket, though... surely she wasn't asking for it just to get it away from him. If she were, she could have put a stop to this fraternization a few months ago when it all started. Did she plan to use it? That had to be it.

"Yare yare," he sighed. What was the world coming to? Frankly, he didn't envy whatever person this girl was strong-arming into having sex with her. That lad would never be the same again, for better or worse. "No," he said bluntly, arms crossed as easily as his right leg crossed over his left. Romani's chair spun until he faced Kimiko, separated from his desk quite a bit during the shift. Somehow, he managed to wear a stern expression. "First time? Advice. Never take a condom that came out of someone's pocket." He wasn't going to deter her actions. It wasn't his business what she got up to, and he wasn't being paid to care about anything that didn't endanger her and the staff of this corporation. Even so, he did seem to have some concern to spare for Kimiko's personal decisions. She would not be given the condom she demanded, but a tilt of his head gestured toward the top drawer of his desk. There, one could find a box of three male contraceptives. "Those come in sizes too, you know? Those are large."

[Apollymi]

Was he going to be questioned about her activities? Probably not. Even if he was, it wasn't like he could tell them anything they wouldn't already know. Ashikaga Kimiko was an enigma and she realized this, even when she was being straight forward many didn't understand her nature at all. Surprisingly enough the man known as Romani Archman was a bit closer to the truth of her than he would ever realize. Still that smile of hers never broke at all, this man was at least a bit more amusing than she remembered. It was strange but she could say she missed interacting with him a bit in the six months she was gone. "Of course I am normal. This is all I have ever been... there is no reason to assume I am the strange one here. Grown men reduced to tears by friendly conversation are the ones to question~" she said as if she had no idea at all she was frightening to anyone.

Still all the ego she'd said he had seemed to disappear with her statement. Perhaps he shouldn't have assumed she was after him, but she didn't expect her words to be taken in such a fashion. Perhaps she'd crushed his ego a bit, but she couldn't have him getting the wrong impression of her. She enjoyed his presence in her business. She liked him as an employee, but she had no romantic interest in him. He didn't even hit her radar though he was swooned over as attractive by the general female populace of her company. What was more Kimiko was confronted by something strange, this man before her told her no. Her left brow rose as he backed away from his desk and turned to face her, but unlike many in her situation she gave pause to hear him out. Kimiko wasn't a brat after all... regardless of how the general population saw her, and she was always willing to hear out a trusted employee.

Oh? Advice? Well she didn't really need that. She would have taken the one out of his pocket simply because she knew given his habits it hadn't been there very long. Still, it was rather strange that he felt the need to look after her at all. Such things were strange to her, but her time away had led her to be a bit more understanding of such gestures from people. Ah he even chose to advise her about the sizing of condoms. She was of course already aware of this, and had already sized this particular appendage and thus had chosen her target on purpose. That smile on her face remained the entire time but it softened just a bit around the edges as she faced him and looked into that desk drawer of his and took note of a box of three condoms in the size she would have looked for. "Sou ka..." she said though that wasn't all she had to say. "You know Romani, not many people would look me in my eye and tell me no after I made a demand of any sort," she mentioned as she stared at him. "I'm glad to see, I didn't choose badly. You're a good man, Romani..." she said reaching out to pat the man on the head thrice. Still she reached into that drawer and grabbed the box of condoms and turned on her heels to go. "A returned bit of advice? Delete your browser history before Tomoko sees and map yourself a work screen to one of your function keys, and keep it in your pants till you're off the clock. I might actually have to do something if someone else tells me about it," she said in passing. "Oh, and thanks..." And just like that Kimiko exited this man's office.

[Bloodedge]

"No reason for you to assume that, yes. The face you wear never exactly says 'friendly' when you're upholding conversation, Ashikaga-chan. Trust me; I play councilor more often than I thought I would in this field of work." Kimiko could argue being anything but strange all she liked, but the truth of the matter always was: she was an outlier in normal society. Those who couldn't catch on to the lie of a smile she wore, and even those that could without seeing the true intentions beneath it, were all sorted into a pool of lesser beings left to combat the absolute power they were up against by Kimiko's position and known skills alone. No way could she truly comprehend the difference in status from the other side, when she most often knew nothing of being lesser than the person sitting across from her.

If nothing else, perhaps Romani could salvage his sense of self over time after that crushing blow to the gonads. Well... she didn't start her response with something like ew, so at least his good looks weren't brought into question. Whatever the case, his stance was effectively broken. Arms uncrossed, one hand taking a pen from his coat pocket to tap the writing device against the arm of his chair repeatedly. One leg remained crossed over the other, but his elevated foot was repeatedly swaying to and fro.

Not many people would tell her no? Of course not! Such a thing only fed into his earlier claims, though most of his point went without saying. As Kimiko went about retrieving the condoms from his drawer, she claimed he was a good man. 'Baka. Don't have the nerve to tell me that while I'm grieving my own ego,' he thought. "It is part of my job to make sure no one is doing things that would affect the mental and physical wellbeing of themselves and others. Your personal life is no exception to that, Ashikaga-chan. I'll wipe my history and all, but that'll never be enough to stop Tom-Tom anyway. Have fun~"

[Apollymi]

According to Romani her face didn't say 'friendly' while she was speaking to people. It was good to have confirmation of that... in her adventures in the other world, Kimiko had been left to wonder if truly she was misunderstanding the way her face and actions were normally interpreted. This only solidified one thing for her... the weakness of the general population and her desire to possess that which didn't buckle in the face of her ambitions. "Is that so? I do aim to look friendly more often than not... you must be really good at your job if all that is true and I still manage to have a staff," she commented absently. In truth, Romani was one of the most trustworthy individuals she'd ever come across. When she'd found him, in her young age, he'd not faltered, even before the time of fake smiles and the words 'fuck off' hidden behind that large smile of hers. Romani was truly a good man.

Still the lass known as Ashikaga Kimiko didn't feel bad about effectively crushing his ego. She wasn't at all romantically interested him... even in a passing sort of way. According to him after this, he wasn't good, he was merely doing his job. Even his interference in her personal life was apparently something done to keep her workforce productive. "Oh? What an open interpretation of your job duties," she said with a cheeky smirk. "Though I do appreciate the effort," Of course, he'd take her advice and clear his history but claimed that wouldn't keep a certain invasive individual from knowing what he'd done. "Yes, Tomoko does know far too much about all of our computer activities, but it will keep her from telling you to do it. One embarrassing conversation avoided is worth it. I'm off for the day, keep up the good work. Ja ne.~" she said, knowing she'd had the same conversation with the lass the day prior to this one about her own internet history. In truth there was no more embarrassing conversation to have than that one, even for Kimiko who managed not to feel the slightest hint of embarrassment outside of a few choice situations. Her lack of such things was more than obvious by the end of this conversation.

Work was all finished for the day, a quick conversation with Romani and by 2:45 the lass had stopped by her office, and gotten ready to leave again. A quick trip to her private bathroom, teeth brushed and minty fresh, checked her general look as well. Pink designer hoodie on, large glaring sunglasses as well. And she routed herself the best route to her chosen destination. Assuming nothing needed her attention, and armed with contraceptives and a good attitude, she left out the office building through a side door on the bottom floor. She was already walking... headed to the meeting she'd wanted since the moment she'd returned home the night before. 'Yugi! I hope you're up by now~' she mused a real smile slipping over her face as she looked forward to something worth doing this afternoon.

[Bloodedge]

She aimed to look friendly, did she? Well, she failed miserably. She had no idea exactly how good at his job Romani was, nor how many times he had to deal with the worries of other workers. Luckily, he wouldn't take another job if it was offered to him, even if there was somehow higher pay in doing so. This place had become something like a family over time, and that hadn't been very much time at all, in fact. "Always willing to accept more benefits, Boss," he said ever so casually. As it seemed their time was coming to an end here, Romani turned his chair again. He'd be returning to a more casual exploration of the internet, albeit not Rule 34 or any such thing this time, and only after leaving himself a note regarding one Gojo Satoru. What sort of person was this detective, he wondered. Judging by what Kimiko had to say, he'd certainly find out sooner or later.

An audible farewell met the silent reaction of a wave as Romani jotted down his note. He didn't care about conversations with Tomoko about his leisure activities, nor did he care about Kimiko knowing so long as there wasn't any misunderstanding about his approach. With all that mess behind him, he now only had to figure out his next activity of the day.

While Kimiko made her way out of the office, she wasn't as alone as she should have been. Only two days ago, records of her arrest disappeared from the police station, along with the girl herself. The order for her arrest, however, hadn't gone anywhere─ nor did the knowledge that she'd been brought in. What had the result of this little mishap been? A separate order delivered directly to Gojo Satoru himself. It was demanded that he keep tabs on Ashikaga Kimiko, seeking all forms of information regarding her day-to-day dealings. Why? One poor detective didn't know, but he could only do his job. A white Mazda SUV with dark tinted windows casually rolled down the street, several car lengths behind the lass as she moved toward a location other officers saw her leaving the previous day. "Yare yare. I'm too early in my career to be dealing with this sort of thing," he commented absently from within the vehicle.

[Apollymi]

Strangely, more than most would ever realize, Kimiko was aware that her countenance wasn't very friendly, even while she was smiling. She was also acutely aware of the usefulness of a person such as Romani Archman in her staff. Her ability to retain staff, aside from paying them salaries which far exceeded industry standards, circled around a few key pieces of her main team. Though Kimiko was herself a young, motivated individual... she kept around herself young, affable, hard-working extras who were better at dealing with... people on a case by case basis. By doing this, a community was built around her, even though she felt herself to be little part of it. The young lass took solace in that, knowing that ones such as Romani were gateways to her dreams and key components in helping her achieve her desires. He'd take his payment for his extra work in benefits... she was far ahead of him in that case. Knowing she would be torturing him a bit today, she'd already arranged for a bit of a pay bonus, not just to him, but her entire immediate team. She was gone for three days and nothing was amiss when she returned, by her own standards... they deserved it.

Besides with the aspects of her work properly taken care of, Kimiko could focus properly on the thing which would make her happiest. And that thing currently was Aiba Yugi. She walked casually towards that little box home of his, all the while with a tingling feeling across the back of her neck. 'Am I being followed... again?' she wondered as she walked into an appropriate crosswalk. Taking such an action would lead to her being able to scan the streets, taking notice of a particular make and model of car she was familiar with belonging to the police force. 'Oh... that makes sense.' Kimiko was a lass who was raised to take note of where people who could help her were located, even when they were in plain clothes. She might have used this information when her life was in danger when she was a child, but as a teen she'd taken note of such things and routinely used it to skip out on her protective details. Ah, but it was probably for the best if she didn't get too worked up over such a thing right now... the cops knowing where she was all day and all night could only work to alibi her for whatever crimes they thought she was committing. Oh well, that was something to consider for another time, instead she found herself standing in front of the box and knocking on the door, like a normal human being. Waiting for the arrival of the one she'd come looking for. She had all the confidence in the world right now, her breath smelled nice, she looked nice... she'd picked out a fresh and cute set of underwear, she was armed with a box of condoms and a sense of freedom, all was right in her world right now.

[Bloodedge]

Why did it have to be him on these miserable jobs? Since the day he joined and became a high-ranking officer, he'd been 'put in charge' of jobs that left him in the worst situations. Here he was now, forced to stalk a billionaire teenage girl who'd done nothing more than disappear for a few days. Where even was the case?! He'd done nothing today thus far, other than hang around at a distance while this girl attended school, went to work... and generally just did things teenagers in her position would be expected to do. "This isn't even the sort of job rookies should be on. I should just tear down the whole system," the young man heaved. This girl was no one's enemy, unless perhaps they made themselves enemies of hers first. There was no point in following her around, unless whatever culprit they were truly looking for happened to throw themselves in the fray to actually abduct her. Would that be happening today? No. Kimiko moved with purpose, until Gojo Satoru stopped on the side of the street near... a storage crate? Well, that would normally be suspicious, but it was very obviously placed on the property of an affluent-looking house. Ah, it must've been someone's hangout spot─ he always wanted one of those for himself.

True enough, a young man with shaggy black hair opened the door to that box soon after it was knocked upon. Oh. This was that sort of meeting, was it? No wonder Ashikaga Kimiko seemed so pleased as she traversed the streets of Shibuya. He really didn't need to be here, and immediately after seeing that Kimiko was meeting with a boy, he reported to his superior. "Sir. I'm dropping the case of Ashikaga Kimiko. She's done nothing but school and work all day, and now it seems she's just meeting with a boy. She isn't the one we should be investigating for this," he insisted, much to the chagrin of the man he was speaking to. Apparently, the location he'd stopped at only made matters more suspicious, being the former residence of the detestable previous Prime Minister. "Sir, these are two teenagers meeting in an obvious 'man cave' next to the house. Given how they look, I think it's pretty obvious they're just─" Interrupted at a moment's notice, Gojo was. Of course the person on the other end of the line wasn't trying to hear any of that. He wouldn't be allowed to simply drop the case, nor would he be allowed to argue against staying on it. An audible sigh escaped the male prior to his response. "Yes sir. Understood," he said, offering his final words while ending communications.

Meanwhile, the lad who answered the door was not at all surprised to discover who the knocker was. He didn't expect anyone other than Kimiko, and she did say she would be meeting with him today. "Yo," he said, a smile on his face that he strangely couldn't control. It was a bit awkward-looking, almost nerve-induced, though it mostly looked as such because he was trying not to be such a dweeb. An epic failure, it most certainly was. Right... more than just 'yo' was probably standard for such a meeting, huh? "Uh... No half-dead pizza guy this time? I'm really gonna need something epic to happen before I open the door, or there's gonna be too much focus on how bad I am at saying hello─"

[Apollymi]

While she was being reported on to a superior officer, Kimiko was happily meeting with the boy of her choice. She smiled brightly as the door opened and shown the shaggy haired male with an obvious smile on his face. Oh, he wasn't playing at being normal now was he? The raven haired lass smiled up at him, though in a manner admittedly different from how she smiled at everyone else. She was well and truly happy to be in his presence. "Of course there's no half-dead pizza guy, Yugi. I wouldn't have to do anything like that today.... I'm being followed by the cops instead~" she said as if it was literally the most amusing thing to happen to her.

In a moment like this the obvious height different between this pair would be a bit upsetting to her. In the other world, she was constantly floating along on a pillow or seated within his very lap so her access to him was a bit easier to gain. Right just now, she wished to greet him happily so she motioned his taller self down to her level, with a beckoning index finger. "You shouldn't worry so much about your greeting, though... I still think it's cute~" she mentioned. If her previous desire was met properly she'd simply aim to press her lips against his in a chaste brief meeting. "Tadaima, Yugi. Let me in?~" Oh she couldn't resist that slight bit of teasing, but she hadn't been so happy all day. She really did need to convince this lad to go to school so she could have someone to converse with throughout the day. What was more, her last statement was a question, but it was rather obvious she didn't intend to take no for an answer at all. Ashikaga Kimiko treasured this lad, and wanted to spend more time with him... she'd have this desire met here and now.

[Bloodedge]

No brutalized pizza guy was anywhere to be seen, but according to Kimiko, she was instead being followed by the cops. Yugi stared, intermittent blinks consuming his visage as if he wasn't sure whether this was meant to be believed or not. Jokes were always possible, but he didn't think she was lying at all... especially considering her tale of the previous day. "Huh. Just a fun life on both sides of the weird ass world then?" he quipped, his tone strangely bland when doing so.

The difference in height between them had never been missed by Yugi. There was a time several months ago, particularly in Dwargon, when he first became incredibly curious about the lass... when he finally realized who that face belonged to. During that time, he'd spent a great deal of time staring at her, which he always found himself looking down to do. Such was only normal considering the average height difference between genders, but it was always worth noting when the difference wasn't made up for by positioning or magical floating. Now though, it came to his attention because he was being beckoned down toward her face. Seriously? She was being followed by the cops, meaning eyes were undoubtedly on her at the time, and she wanted to kiss him before even entering the room? Astounding as it was in reality, there was only one thing to be done in the face of such madness. Yugi pressed an arm against the doorframe, reducing his posture to a slouch to reach Kimiko's level. Lips pressed against each other, but it was no more than a fleeting peck before Kimiko spoke again. Ah, right... she wanted to be let in. Strangely though, she spoke as if she were returning to where she belonged. Well... maybe that was more exciting than strange as an idea. That awkward air finally lifted, freeing the smirk he wore of its influence to allow something a bit more natural. "Okaeri. C'mon. No point giving cops too much of a show, right?" the lad asked, shifting to one side of the open door to allow room for entry.

[Apollymi]

"It really is..." she said about her current predicament. It was obvious that she had no real fear of this apparent police presence. What were they going to do? Arrest her for having a boyfriend, going to school and working a job part-time? She was hardly abnormal in her day to day activities, if one didn't think too hard about what her part-time job entailed. More importantly than her police detail, was Kimiko getting what she wanted in this moment, in a strangely wholesome way. Yugi, leaned his arm against the doorframe and slouched down to present his face to her. Yes, she was being watched by the cops but she wouldn't stop herself from enjoying the lad she was trying to enjoy. That brief kiss made her smile grow wider and soon after, Yugi's seemed to become something less forced and more genuine. To Kimiko nothing could have been more awe inspiring than this.

Or so she thought...

She'd greeted him as if she belonged in this place. She made such assumptions of her placement all the time, but... Yugi acknowledging her as such by his response, made her cheeks redden slightly. She really didn't know what to make of her own reaction, but slid into the microhome when he moved aside. She managed to say something lighter than her face would have let on in the moment. "Yeah, besides... if the one tailing me, is the one I assume it is... He's done nothing to earn anything but an easy shift from me," she concluded. She did wish for it to be on record that she was doing nothing out of the ordinary, but she didn't have to do anything particularly outlandish in front of one Gojo Satoru. She wished to employ him after all, she might as well put her best foot forward from this point onwards. Perhaps, seeing her as somewhat normal would help her cause when it came to him? Since apparently she was still unnerving enough to cause problems for Romani in the number of people he had to deal with.

Inside of the crate, she'd make herself comfortable immediately, removing her shoes, sunglasses, and hoodie without much hesitation and seating herself properly on his couch. She seemed so very at home in this place she didn't seem to bother much with anything other than achieving a relaxed state. Here and now she'd seem the most relaxed she'd been all day as she stared towards Yugi with that same happy smile on her face.

[Bloodedge]

"I'll bet," Yugi said as his eyes scanned the outside area, taking note of an unfamiliar SUV parked across the street, obviously tucked away just enough to leave a line of sight toward their current location. With windows that dark, it was easy to surmise that such a vehicle belonged to the police Kimiko mentioned. How long would they be sitting outside his house, he wondered. Well, if they were thinking to listen in, they would hear something very much not what they were looking for. They might even be traumatized, considering how the previous day had gone for these two.

As Kimiko entered, she commented on her assumption regarding this particular officer. So then, the one in charge of pursuing her was just someone following orders for the sake of following orders? If that were the case, there probably wouldn't be any listening; they probably understood that there was nothing amiss... in a terrestrial sense, at least. "He's not going to make it then," Yugi spoke while carefully closing and locking the door. By the time he turned around, Kimiko was already seated on his couch, sans shoes, glasses and hoodie. That was much quicker comfort than he expected, but it was good to see. Witnessing the lass sitting there, happy as if she'd recently escaped from an annoying business meeting to return to her own home and relax... it was somewhat cathartic. Yugi could do nothing but lean against the door, arms crossed and brow lifted as he gazed into that bright smile. "Followed by the cops, and you're happy. You definitely had your coffee today, didn't you? I should probably feel like I'm the guest here. Mind giving me a tour of your box?" he joked.

[Apollymi]

Unfamiliar police vehicle outside, two teens inside, all the casualness in the world in a single girl's visage. She was well and truly relaxed within this space, Kimiko had been doing 'normal' things all day, and besides her little test of abilities she was mostly bored and waiting to get to this point. Within this space created by Aiba Yugi for the pair of them, Kimiko found herself in a constant state of smiling happiness. His words about the young detective were not wrong at all, he surely wouldn't last very long on the force given the sorts of tasks he was currently being handed. "You're right. He definitely won't remain a cop for very long at all. Whether he gets out ahead of it or not, though... that will be the question. I hope he does... I have a job in mind for him," she said as if she was casually commenting upon the weather and not the livelihood and potential future of an entire human being, older than she was.

His following commentary made the lass keep her gaze upon him, even as she further situated herself. He was standing arms crossed, leaned against his door. He stared into her smile and made a few playful observations. She was being followed by the cops, and she was happy. It was apparently obvious she'd had her morning coffee and... he made the joking claim he should get a tour of her box. How very pointed. "Of course I had my morning coffee, Yugi. Once at breakfast and then again when I got to work. How did you sleep?" she explained and questioned, though coffee alone was hardly a reason for her good mood. "Why should you feel like a guest? This space is yours... I'm just happy to be in it..." she said cutting her eyes in his direction. "Not that I wouldn't happily oblige giving you a tour of my box. And you could definitely make yourself at home there as well~" she mentioned playfully. Her posture on this couch was absolutely perfect, but still those legs of hers were crossed at the knee and her hands clasped within her lap. Though that last bit would only occur after she sat a box of condoms on the top of the desk beside her, as if she hadn't done a single thing.

[Bloodedge]

"Of course you do. I'm guessing he was an early encounter the other day, maybe went super easy on that random abduction? Probably young, getting overly hazed by frightened older superiors, you know... the works." Yugi's observation was spot-on, as it tended to be. Either way, it didn't seem to be a topic of legitimate interest for the lad beyond putting the proverbial puzzle pieces together. Kimiko had the vast majority of his attention simply by virtue of being in this room and so brazenly comfortable, and... well, she was going to be the primary source of his focus anyway.

She did have her morning coffee; two cups, in fact. That had never been much of a real question, as opposed to a personal jab at the way he'd woken up. Still, it was something notable for future reference. "Two? I figured you were a coffee person, what with how you tend to wake up and all. I slept... amazingly, I think, though I woke up like shit. I wonder if I had interdimensional jetlag or something─" he commented. Kimiko proceeded to make herself even more comfortable, nonchalantly offering a tour of her 'box' in a very leading way... while also producing a box of contraceptives to place atop his couch-side table. Oh. She really was planning that, huh? Yugi's eyes widened , his brow lifted, and his mouth hung agape just slightly. Was this because of her statement, or because of the suddenly-revealed condom box? The answer was, in fact, both. "I meant─ uh... well..." Once again, Yugi had been rendered dumbfounded. It was only natural by now for Kimiko to accomplish as much, but with a quick clearing of this throat, he somehow bypassed the shock. "Yeah? I mean, that's a pretty strong statement to make. You're sure you didn't forget that sick list of shit I gave yesterday, right? 'Cause I'm still into all that stuff."

[Apollymi]

As usual, Yugi's understanding of a situation with barely any information was spot on. Kimiko had come to such conclusions herself just knowing how business dynamics. "Hoh? That one didn't even involve a thinking face, Yugi. You're in top form already~" she said with a knowing smirk crossing her face. Leave it to the lad who obsessed over puzzles to be able to piece together the simple matter of the Prodigy Cop and the very bad set of circumstances he was being handed for literally no reason. Kimiko herself was only able to figure it out because hazing and senior members of staff were pretty common problems to be dealt with in business situations. She considered them only second to nepotism as something that spelled doom for a workplace.

Moving on from that point of only passing interest, Kimiko's ears were accosted by some more commentary. Apparently, it wasn't much of a surprise to her boyfriend that she was a coffee person. In answer to the actual question she'd asked him, he'd slept amazingly but woken up horribly. That tended to happen to her a lot as well. "I'm glad you slept well, though interdimensional jetlag sounds like a bit of a problem. I'm not sure if it would be better or worse for waking... given all that we already know about my waking habits~" she mused acknowledging all that the lad said. She couldn't help but be amused and pleased. She was happy that he knew so much about her, and he could figure it out, and that he wasn't just intimidated by her being... at least not all the time.

Nothing would make this more clear than his reaction to her proposition. Said proposition came complete with a box of condoms set upon a table. As Kimiko got more comfortable in this space she flipped one of those long pigtails over her shoulder in an unconscious sort of way. She watched with a hint of deviousness in those eyes of hers as he processed what was happening here, and then got to see that which she adored, the lack of smooth response from the lad in front of her. He seemed shocked by the occurance and stumbled through his initial reaction. Ah, but that recovery and earnestness were at least partly the reason the lass had taken a liking to the boy before her. Oh and it came with affirmation, no questioning of her motives or lack of understanding about what was offered. How could she like anyone else? "It's just a statement, but also the truth. I haven't forgotten a single thing you've given me, Yugi~" she said about his list, which she was mentally equating to a kink list. "You can always give me more, you know? I'll take everything from you~" she mentioned being rather direct. "Oh, but we do only have three condoms, we'll have to take that list section by section, but I'm sure we'll be able to make even that interesting~"

[Bloodedge]

Was he in top form? Hardly. He'd been out of it for most of the day so far, only recently managing to properly collect himself. His brain was all over the place as a result, but such moments let him easily reach conclusions of this caliber. "Don't go saying that. I'll think I'm starting to lose my touch~" he said with the slightest hint of arrogance. As their discussion progressed, he finally moved away from the door, taking steps toward the couch occupied by Kimiko. True enough, her sleeping habits were known. If anyone was likely to wake up in such terrible shape, it was Ashikaga Kimiko, at least based on her time spent in the other world. "You seemed to wake up alright when the ship was crashing. Or do I get to take credit for that? I like taking credit for stuff~"

Upon reaching the couch, Yugi seated himself next to the lass. Kimiko went on to explain that she remembered everything he'd given her. What an interesting way to phrase a statement. It wasn't as if he'd 'given' her many things, and information was something with a slightly different connotation. Oh well; he could count it as something, he supposed. Given the claim that he could always give more, and that she'd take 'everything' from him, well... there wasn't much to be said about something so blatant. "Everything, huh? That's a lot, and there isn't a single wholesome thing coming to mind when you say it like that," he declared truthfully. They had only three condoms in that box, though. That would more than suffice for a first experience in both of their cases, but... perhaps it wouldn't at all, considering the debauchery they both seemed keen to get into. Yugi rested his chin against his palm, giving a startling amount of consideration to the options ahead of them. "Only three? I mean, three is a lot, right? If I can uh... well... survive through each one long enough, wouldn't that be a pretty long time? Maybe I can use Kurama Dick Magic. If not though, I'm honestly not even sure what's higher on my list than everything else. I could solve a million piece jigsaw in no time at all, but I can't even try listing things I want in descending order. Unless you've got some hard favorites in your own list, I'm just kinda winging it already─"

[Apollymi]

Yugi claimed to think he was losing his touch, Kimiko couldn't have disagreed more. Whether he just woke up or had been up for literal hours... he was still the clever lad she'd come to know and covet. Still his words held a hint of teasing, there was the lightest arrogance behind his eyes at his own words, it made something of a smug grin on her face. "That face doesn't say you think you lost anything at all, Yugi." Kimiko said. There was a certain amount of intensity which was always present in her person, but in moments like these it was given in a manner which was more obviously playful. What was more, the lad's follow up sentence about her sleeping habits or the singular time she was noted as having good waking habits, was something which denoted an arrogance she'd only properly seen in one of his forms. "Yes. That was definitely your doing. I slept really well that night..." she admitted, though both of them had been feigning sleep during their shared escapade. That first night they'd spent together on the ship... exploring gently each other and their perversions. The first time, she'd properly shown anyone who she was... that was a relaxing night. It was also a night which further cemented the idea of him being absolutely perfect for her in her own mind.

Kimiko's eyes remained on the lad as he finally came to join her on the couch. He sat beside her and her body relaxed more, she wiggled herself closer still, until her body was pressed into his side. How... passively demanding. He made the claim that the words that passed her lips most recently hadn't put a single wholesome thought in his mind, and a grin most devious appeared on her own face. "Since wholesome wasn't really what I was going for, we're on the same page. I'm sure there's some wholesome in there somewhere... but we can just save that for later~" she mentioned having no problem compartmentalizing her own desires in those broader categories. Though he was about to mention something else she did have a problem with and that was, properly choosing how to use those three condoms they had access to for their first time experience. "Three is a lot... it's also finite. Though any extra magic would be fun... I don't mind the normal experience either..." she said a smug grin coming to her face.

"I want everything... and when you want everything choosing is difficult," she mentioned. Did she have favorites? Well not really, her own hentai consumption made it difficult for her to choose any one thing she liked... well aside from some small specific things. So perhaps they could find their way... the same way they always did. "Nothing wrong with winging it... my only hard favorite, is you." she mentioned shifting ever so gently to place herself straddling him facing him from within the comfort of his lap. Well, this exact placement within his lap was among her favorite things. She'd sit here while she considered her options properly.

[Bloodedge]

True, Yugi's expression didn't lend much to his claim, though that didn't discredit the accuracy of it in his own mind. That solution had been a simple one, hardly worth much thought. Still, he wasn't going to go around turning away compliments from the lass. A bit of ego swelling never hurt anyone... much. Such matters continued as he could indeed take blame for the sleep of (at the time) Miki during that skyward boat ride. All things considered, it was a fun night. From pretending to be asleep, to wondering if the other was pretending as well, to not caring either way. The pair had gotten over an otherwise awkward hump of an obstacle as a result, and perhaps, such a thing was what landed them 'here' in the long-run.

The moment he seated himself, Kimiko was upon him. She pressed against his side into an arm left bare by the fact that he wore only a vest for a top. His arm shifted thereafter to allow a bit of space, but that wouldn't matter soon enough. Not long after admitting to having nothing 'wholesome' in mind with her earlier speech, Kimiko was going on about wanting everything... and making it very obvious that she intended to have everything. Of course, her declaration was accompanied by the straddling of Yugi's lap... which could only result in the subsequent rousing of his loins over a matter of moments. There was no helping it; Yugi was an easily excited lad at this point. After all, how could he be anything else while harboring such anticipation? "Anyone ever tell you, you're really greedy?" he asked with a lighthearted tone and grin. Giving more consideration to his list, Yugi found himself reaching up to take two tufts of Kimiko's hair, pulling in a way that briefly mimicked animal ears. "Well... I guess it's easier than I'm giving it credit for. Some of the stuff I have in mind isn't even possible in this world. If it were... Well, as long as all your faces stay the same, that's not sus behavior, right?" he asked, thinking specifically of what was likely the most promiscuous Avatar Kimiko possessed. With that thought passing though, Yugi figured it was worthwhile to ─ abashedly ─ explain his previous claim. "Uh... I should probably admit that most of that thought had to do with jizzing on your face. That... makes it sus, huh?"

[Apollymi]

Yugi might have thought his thought pattern was simple enough, and maybe it was for him and people like him. That being said not many people could understand the potential pitfalls of being a young up-and-comer stuck in a world of old time thinkers. Kimiko only understood it herself from experience, such experiences led her to seek out people in similar situations to her own, though most were still apparently intimidated by her presence. Given that last little factoid, Kimiko was happy that they'd managed to get beyond any awkwardness between them.

So, she was less than surprised when she pressed herself against him and he moved to accommodate her presence. Beyond that point, by the time she inhabited his lap, he was accepting of that as well, in body and spirit. His hands went to move her hair around while he looked in her face, he asked her then a strange question which made the grin on her face widen. "Only you." Kimiko said seeming to take such a thing as a compliment. Actually there wasn't much that came out of this lad's mouth when aimed at her that didn't sound like a compliment. He rearranged her hair for a moment in a manner which made her believe he might have really enjoyed the animal ears she'd possessed in one of her other forms. As for his question, she had a different sort of answer and it came with playful smugness. Though she wouldn't immediately get to explain as he shyly explained exactly what his thought was. Oh, that playful smugness wasn't going anywhere. "My face is mine, but I don't mind sharing it with you," she responded in a manner that was likely not quite direct enough, so she clarified. "I'm fine with anything that happens between different versions of myself and your selves. As long as it's only between us... So what you want isn't really sus," she said with a nod. She wondered if he realized how honest she was being about wanting only him. Perhaps it would eventually make enough sense. "Besides... I doubt I'll dislike it. I like what you give me~" she explained of herself. Only to think about it afterwards and realize her claims were likely exactly the sort of greedy the lad was previously talking about. "Wait, was that greedy?" she questioned. There was the fact that his wanting to finish on her face didn't necessarily solve their condom issue, but... a starting point was a starting point.

[Bloodedge]

Only him, she said. Carrying on though, Kimiko claimed that her face was unchanging, but on offer for him. Did that first part truly hold, though? She did wear the same visage across multiple Avatars, though the expression changed slightly between them. She wasn't concerned about what happened between her various selves, and in saying that, she once again presented an order of monogamy. Yugi wondered if there was a reason that kept coming up, but now was hardly the time to address it. "Sou ka. As long as the face stays. I like it," he stated.

Perhaps the strangest thing that could possibly be said, and the last thing Yugi would have expected to hear in his life, was doubtfulness of a distaste for... a facial. How many times could he be dumbfounded by the words of a single person? Not enough, apparently. "You've got to be joking," he said. There was no way she could fancy such a thing just because it was coming from him. Or... was that some reference to the sensation of it all, based on the previous day's experience? Whatever the case, the greediness of it was brought into question. With that being the case, there was clarity. So then, perhaps this too, was a matter of greed. As he finally released the lass' hair, his hands rested on either side of her face while his eyes inspected it. How interesting it was that it sometimes looked so very different, yet exactly the same. "Well it wasn't greedy... and then it was. It all kinda depends on why you're alright with the gross thing I just suggested. Is it like the reverse of the dog and tree thing?"

[Apollymi]

It seemed that several things were coming together. According to Yugi, as long as her face stayed, he liked it. What an interesting bit of confirmation. A light blush crossed the girl's face. Though she expected him to say something... that was quite beyond her expectations. "Well, as long as you like it..." she managed seemingly the slightest bit abashed. Many people found her off-putting in someway, so his blatant acceptance of the base form of her face was something that created a point of softness in her. The contrast between this lass from moment to moment was strange. In one moment she could be absolutely dominating in another she could feel a bit soft.

Oh? But he was surprised again. At this point it was more shocking that he was surprised by something she said, considering the types of things she often said in general. "I'm really not joking..." she said with a gentle nod of her head. At the same time the lad's hands shifted from her hair to the sides of her face. Kimiko's heartbeat sped up in the moment, why was he looking at her like that? Did she say too much... was she being really weird to the one person she really didn't want to think she was weird? Oh. It didn't seem to be that. Her anxiety was eased quite a bit just by his continued conversation. It wasn't apparently greedy and then it was... apparently the classification of greed in this case, depended on why she agreed to be the target of the facial he suggested. She didn't really have to think too hard about why she agreed but, something about the discussion of it still felt slightly embarrassing. "I don't really think it's gross. I mean I've already had it in my mouth so... the line there is a bit thin to start with..." she explained while seeming just a little bit antsy. "Besides, if it's my face, my mouth and my body accepting, then it's just another part of you, that I get to claim for me," she said that and her eyes shifted. They gained that imposing little glow, it was definitely a greedy thing. But more so than that... she wanted him as much as she could have him within her own tolerance. Besides, she treasured and wanted to share everything with him, not just things she wanted, but things he wanted as well. Everything, and she was a bit of a pervert.

[Bloodedge]

"I always like it," Yugi said, continuing to talk in spite of the reddening to Kimiko's face. Actually, it was very likely that he kept speaking because of that tint. "Always did, really. Always seemed out of my league, but it's too late to think about that sort of shit now. Even if everything else changes, I think you should keep it." As he spoke, Yugi was periodically using his grasp of Kimiko's face to tilt her head, each time tilting his own in the opposite direction. He seemed to almost be studying her facial features, and was in fact visualizing the other versions of herself─ only having to imagine different hair styles and colors surrounding that same softened expression. "You're always so stoic, and then you're not. It's really satisfying," he observed.

Kimiko wasn't joking, and she didn't think it was a gross suggestion at all. She did have a point; something received in one's mouth could hardly be a problem on one's face instead. While that was logical and all, there was still a strange tingle in the back of Yugi's mind about the whole thing. Maybe it was the simple fact that he'd been the one to bring it up? That could have been it. "Hmm. I guess you're right," he said, stopping to consider her final words. Another part of him to lay claim to, was it? There was no arguing against greed for Kimiko; everything she said only fed into the truth of things. "So yes, greedy. That's fine. If I've got it, you're free to claim it. I... feel like I've said that before." Had Yugi actually said such a thing before? He actually had, though he strangely couldn't be sure if he'd even said it as himself. Regardless, the words were his own. The truth surely couldn't be questioned, especially if one were to take note of the state his groin was in. Ah yes, there had been gradual growth since the moment Kimiko occupied his lap, and it had now come to an end. As her body weighed down upon his groin, the latter throbbed as if trying to free itself from crushing.

[Apollymi]

Yugi lacked smoothness. This much was obvious, even to Kimiko. Even so, it seemed that he knew innately exactly the sort of things to say to her to make her fluster which was a talent, if she'd ever seen one. He made the claim that he always liked her face and that was surprising. "Well, I-ah..." she was trying and failing to say something right at the moment. It was her general understanding that she was more than conventionally attractive, but something about her countenance with her demeanor, in general was scary. Most would pay compliments but back away after a second or two of consideration. But here Yugi was gently studying her face while claiming to have always enjoyed it, even when he thought she was out of his league. What a strange idea... well maybe not. It is easy to consider someone might not be interested in you if you've never had a conversation before. Easier even after that given the wide breadth she gave the general public and the supposed status gap between her and those considered 'normal'. Still his words kept coming and the color of her face seemed to be in contention with that of her eyes after a while. He claimed that even if everything else changed she should keep her face... that was likely to get internalized somewhere. After all, if the person she adored, enjoyed her resting visage... it literally didn't matter what anyone else thought of it. "Hmpf," she finally managed seeming to gain some ability to react. "You're pretty much stuck with it now, you know? After saying something like that... I'll never actually change it," she stated. Even while knowing it was an option she knew she'd never change her face if the lad liked it so much. Small details aside that face would remain unchanged for eternity, for him to look upon in all its variations with satisfaction.

Moreover a state of comfort was reached which left the lass pressed against the lad's now throbbing erection beneath her person. It was quite interesting how strangely their interactions seemed to shift between things which were wholesome and things which were... well not. Right at the moment it seemed that Yugi gained some understanding of her claim to his person and her agreement to receive the facial he desired to give her. Logical sense was made by her and followed up by him. And... a thump of her own heartbeat within her chest. She was apparently being greedy, but he was fine with that, if he was in possession of something she could have it. "You have said it before to a different me," she said softly. "We are pretty similar in that regard, our Avatars don't seem to stray much outside of the realm of who we are at base. That's nice to know~" she said happy with the confirmation that every version of this lad seemed as sure about her as his dragon did originally. This of course included his current self, she wiggled her hips against him taking her own first steps towards proper arousal as she pushed her body forward just a bit. "Still, you have no idea... I don't know when to quit. I won't stop taking if you offer it so freely, Yugi~" she mused. She'd aim to kiss him now, having some idea of what he wished to do, they could move forward a bit in the start of today's debauchery.

[Bloodedge]

"You ah~?" Yugi questioned, seeming to have delved into something of a teasing demeanor. There was no resisting it when the opportunity presented itself. Something about seeing that brilliant shade of red upon Kimiko's face gave him reason to believe this was all more than some fleeting interest, or a confused sort of friendship veering off in what would eventually be proven as the wrong direction. Reality was here, it was infatuation, adoration, and in many moments... it was arousal. While Yugi was watching the pool of blood rushing beneath her cheeks, Kimiko was stating that her face may never change after such a declaration as the one he'd made. "Is that all it takes? I'll say it again then. Keep it; it's my favorite." Perhaps Yugi should have been a bit more bashful about that. In another form, he would have been. Kou likely would have said something along those lines accidentally before shriveling up, while one like Akashi would have been far more blunt with a quicker delivery as well. Yugi himself, in his natural state... always fell somewhere between.

He did say those words, of course. That made sense, as another version of himself speaking to another version of Kimiko. Still, it was somewhat surprising to think of the similarities between his forms. It all felt so foreign sometimes, while other times felt like no change at all. He'd been wondering how such things affected Kimiko as well. "I was pretty curious about that before. There's not a lot of Miki in you since we showed up here, but I can see a bit. Mostly, you've been more like... well... Tamamo," he said. Frankly, it was times like these that made him think of that Avatar anyway. Maybe it wasn't so much how Kimiko was behaving in relation to that Avatar, but instead... that Avatar just being this fragment of Kimiko taking the form of her own person while focusing on him. "I don't care if you don't know when to quit. I think one of you offered all of yourselves to all of my selves─" As these words were spoken, the approach of Kimi's face was noted and met by his own. Lips locked, and the hands against her face shifted to wrap around the back of her neck and head, fingers laced betwixt raven locks. Kimiko had already started shifting in his lap, and his hips were moving to match. Alas, only a few lip smacks would occur prior to Yugi's retreat; something needed saying before he lost the point. "You're not the lying type of businessperson. Fair trade partnership; show me my office~"

[Apollymi]

Not only was he good at causing her to fluster, he was also content to tease her. What a world she lived in, one in which anyone thought to tease... her! Ah, but Kimiko wasn't actually upset about this, in fact... nothing gave her more satisfaction than the idea that someone could appreciate her for exactly what she was, such an idea is where her interest in the Geno Killer started and how it evolved. Even before she knew him, when she was simply playing games with him indirectly, she was enjoying an even exchange. A fairness... she could find nowhere else. Of course, this made every interaction something she could look forward to, not just some fleeting ideal or confusion of friendship. That hint of cockiness and teasing remained even after she managed her own response. It was glorious, "You don't have to tell me that... I'll keep everything I want," she said her face becoming playfully terse. In truth, she didn't really enjoy being embarrassed at all, but people also didn't joke with her in this way. She felt at ease in Yugi's presence, so if he could bring this part of her out of her stoic shell, she'd happily inhabit this body of hers.

It seemed that Yugi retained some curiosity about the differences between their base selves and their avatars. He claimed he saw little of Miki in her and claimed to see more of Tamamo instead. A chuckle escaped Kimiko in this moment because she understood the difference but only because of words shared by someone else before. "Tsu-chan said it best. Miki is Kimi-lite... while I am her I feel like I am more able to show what I am trying to... to other people. I think I have more success with that in the other world because she isn't as naturally intimidating as I am," she surmised of the difference between her general Avatar and her actual self. "Tamamo is more like what I am like inside my own head... specifically while thinking about you. That kind of feeling, those kinds of thoughts made it easy for her to merge with me..." she clarified. She wasn't sure he'd ever really understand the amount of desire she possessed when it came to him. Nor could she really explain her desires surrounding him aside from wanting to possess him.

Or maybe he did. He made the claim that one of her had offered all of her selves to him. This was quite true. He mentioned this only after making a statement which accepted her lack of ability to halt given her own desires. She kissed him and his hands shifted about her head, being buried within her locks and her shifting hips were met by his own. Ah, but that kiss would be cut short, as he still had more to say. Ever impatient she pouted lightly but heard his words causing her eyes to widen. His claims were strangely telling causing some sort of arrhythmia in her heart, there was acceptance, a clear light of understanding and something else she couldn't quite name yet. As such her response would be simple. "Hai hai~" That would come along with the loosening of the tie of her uniform which she opened over her own chest. She popped loose the buttons of her top as she sat in his lap, taking casual glances at his face. As she did this, beneath the shirt was revealed something which looked to be a large high quality ruby attached to a short golden chain around her neck, which pulsed just a tad with some unknown magic. Beyond this she undid the zipper at the top of her skirt so it slid loose around her hips. Her chosen undergarments of the day. A black lace bra and panty set. The bra was noted with a golden clasp in the middle which she'd leave for him to open if he chose. Ah, and the underwear were but mere strings of a black lace thong held together at the side by tiny little bows which she'd tied herself and could easily be pulled apart. Basically the lass had been wrapped like a present for his consumption.

[Bloodedge]

Kimiko declared that she'd keep everything she wanted, and that statement was so very... her. Yugi had an urge to laugh, but he refrained from doing so. There were implications to be taken from that, weren't there? She said she wanted him, so he'd take that as yet another showing of her ultimate desire. Naturally, there was another quip to be added. "I'll give you something to keep if you say you want it," he said. Yugi was internally driven a bit wild by the simple showing of this girl's desire. To him, it was something foreign and scientifically impossible─ yet oh so blaringly obvious right in front of him. Kou refused to see it, but Yugi had no choice other than to accept it the day they 'officially' met.

Miki was undoubtedly a more digestible version of the powerhouse known as Ashikaga Kimiko. Even without knowing her in this world previously, it was always obvious that she freely embodied the unapproachable identity she'd been given by fate itself. Not now, though─ not around him. In his presence, she always seemed like such a normal person; he saw not the 'friendless' business tycoon, but someone who should have been popular without all the extra nonsense. He also saw... the underlying visage of Tamamo, the flirty and devious entity locked within and... apparently taking his reservation. Every time that thought crossed his mind, there was a strange sensation accompanying it. Obviously arousal could be blamed, but there was something else even deeper within─ something that could almost be attributed to strange feelings from the other world. Was one of his Avatars acting up inside again? Maybe, but he couldn't spare the concern for it now.

Acceptance and progression would occur right in front of the lad, or rather... on top of him. He did tell her to show him to his office, and with that came the removal of Kimiko's tie, the unfastening of shirt buttons, and the loosening of a skirt. Kimiko may have been glancing at his face periodically, but... well, hopefully she wasn't seeking any eye contact, because it wouldn't be happening. Yugi's gaze lowered and never rose, taking in every inch of flesh being freshly exposed and accentuated by even more fancy undergarments... and... a pendant? That piece looked like any immaculate jewel to be expected of someone rich, but Yugi felt strangely when watching it fall just into the cleavage he was staring at. "That's..." he said as his eyes locked onto the ruby. Sadly, he couldn't figure out what he was more interested in watching. The ruby caught his eye, yes, but his gaze quickly bounced around Kimiko's half-dressed body as his manhood demanded release from its confines in favor of a new home.

[Apollymi]

Kimiko's statements were uniquely her own, but of course, they seemed to be taken in stride by Yugi. It was always refreshing for the lass to not have to spend extra time explaining herself, nor worrying about the perception of the things she said. Of course, it went a bit further than that, because the lad whose lap she occupied was also able and willing to exchange such quips with her. He'd give her something to keep, huh? Was this banter? This seemed like banter... Did she like this? "Promise?" Yep, definitely banter. It wasn't even an option that she didn't want something he offered her. That much was already clear by her own assertions. If anything the only thing that would keep her from him was his disinterest in her. And that didn't seem to be coming any time soon.

If anything this only became more obvious as she opened up her clothing and presented herself to the lad. It seemed his eyes hadn't been removed from her person, though she sought not eye contact just confirmation that he was looking. If the throbbing of his manhood was any indication he did indeed at least liked what he saw. What was more only a single word escaped him... "An incomplete thought~" she teased as it seemed he couldn't really decide what he was going to say. Perhaps she couldn't blame him, and she fully planned to make it just a bit worse. Kimiko lifted herself gently to begin fiddling with his pants, such an action would cause that open skirt to sip further away from her waist revealing more of her skin. Whatever this lad wished to focus on, he would be more than free to, as she leaned in to kiss his neck and speak to him directly. "You're going to end up overdressed for this meeting, Yugi~" she whispered to nudge him along just a bit.

[Bloodedge]

How strange. Later on, Yugi would have to remind himself to address the presence of that Artifact in this world. Having some amount of power here was one thing, but it was a completely different matter to manifest something created by Kou in a separate reality to their own. That thing even had a reality of its own within it, but... that could be important any time but now.

Oh. He didn't finish his sentence. Where was he? Right, something about a promise. "Definitely," he said in regards to keeping his word, fully invested in the observation of unveiling flesh. Moreover, another shift by Kimiko gave his groin a fair bit of breathing room. It seemed, however, that she would only begin grabbing at his breeches. To the notion of him being rendered overdressed, he had only one thing to say. "Oh? I was waiting for you to say you wanted something. It's kinda hot when you ask for things like you're not taking 'no' for an answer, y'know?" Regardless of his implications, Yugi was already making use of the extra space to lift his hips from the couch. Only one hand took hold of his own trousers, which fit loosely enough to simply be pulled away as they were. The other hand, however, pinched the bow of Kimiko's undergarments between two fingers and pulled away. At this point, it hardly mattered to him if he was only the second one to be free of clothes; he only found himself wanted to see more of the wealthy idol's figure. "Besides, it ah─" A quick pause occurred due to the press of lips against his neck─ something he strangely didn't anticipate despite current proximity. "─almost looks like you're trying to have a race toward nudity. If you're challenging me, I need to know what the winner gets first~"

[Apollymi]

A response came eventually, Yugi agreed to the promise. That was good, she couldn't really have him turning her down at this junction. "Good~" she chimed exceedingly happy. Of course, it was always good when someone showed enough backbone to tell her off, but she didn't wish this from this lad. Instead she wished to possess him and she wished for him to agree to that possession. Oh, more banter was incoming as well, he claimed he was waiting for her to tell him she wanted something. He made the claim that it was hot to be told such a thing as if she wasn't taking no for an answer. A slight blush came to her face at this utterance, but she was in too far to back down now. "H'oh?" she chimed as if surprised by the revelation. He made a separate claim that if he was being challenged he needed to know what he'd get for winning first. "That's good to know. I'll keep a challenge in mind for later~" she mused lightly. She didn't really wish to challenge him here and now she simply wanted him naked or close to it, so she could take for herself that which she came for.

He'd moved enough to pull away his pants, should he reveal himself as such she'd settle back into his lap as he pulled the strings of her underwear. Her index finger would flicker over the tip of his manhood, "I want this..." she said as her hand slid down just a bit and her eyes flickered over to the box of condoms, while using her unoccupied hand to tap the table with said box atop it. "In one of these..." she mentioned while pressing her lips against the side of his neck again. "To be the first thing inside me," This was a request but more of a demand. She pulled back from his neck in the moment to look at him directly to further express this, but she'd follow it up like it was a question. "Give me that... Yugi~" she requested of him. He could finish as he wanted a bit later, but she intended to have him in this seated position. Strangely she had no qualms with the idea that she would be the one both giving and taking virginity in this manner.

[Bloodedge]

"Noted," said Yugi, knowing now that Kimiko would definitely return with some sort of debauchery-related challenge at a later time. Just like many of the thoughts he'd pushed off today, there were some things not worth wasting time and effort on now. Two people inhabited this box of a home, and both had a primary objective this day. Kimiko, of course, was simply more forward in her expression of said objective; such was always the case.

She was quick to take his earlier mention, it seemed. He did fancy her attitude when she let loose just a taste of the seasoned businessperson behind the face of a teenage girl. Though it was odd to see such a thing in a sexual manner, he'd have to admit seeing most things sexually in the right light. Half the girl's panties were loosed, and Yugi's tool was now exposed. With that being the case, Kimiko's forefinger touched the tip of Yugi's member while she did just what he'd been hoping she'd do. Of course, it was also a fact that Yugi's groin throbbed in response to even a simple touch from the lass. His attention was drawn on contact, leaving his eyes following her finger as a strand of preejaculate bridged it to his tip post-departure. Indeed, the condoms were an absolute necessity at this point; Yugi feared his ability to last more than a few moments otherwise.

The 'first' thing inside her, she demanded. Interesting. She seemed apt to skip ahead of foreplay or beating around the bush of any sort, and frankly... Yugi couldn't complain in his own situation. Wide eyes remained on Kimiko's form as he reached out to claim the condom box, tearing into it to retrieve a single packaged contraceptive. "Say less~" he said excitedly. Ever the impatient one himself, he reached out to claim the other bow keeping Kimiko's underwear in place. As for the condom, he held the wrapper between his teeth to rip it open, using his only free hand thereafter to sheathe his member within. He didn't have to use a single hand, but the other was quite busy moving from Kimiko's loosened panties to the golden clasp of her bra. Access was one thing, but it meant nothing without the visual to go along with it. And, as for the visual itself, Yugi's eyes demanded the full package.

[Apollymi]

These two shared certain similarities in personality. Their love of debauchery, their lack of patience and interest in each other were among them. He was quite correct in this thoughts though she did have a singular track in her mind and no other paths were currently worth following to the lass. The fact that she knew she still had her 'Snatch' ability. Lost. The idea that her Rogue skills likely worked at least a bit. Disappeared. In fact all was lost but her desire for this lad, and the outward showing of his desire to acquiesce to her wishes gave her a gentle throbbing within herself. As her panties began falling away, one thing was absolutely clear. Even without any outward foreplay the lass wasn't unprepared for penetration. In fact, one could say the moment she knew it was properly possible her mind began to flood with ideas and that did quite a lot for her when combined with her relaxation upon reaching this place.

Yugi's own reactions to her words, also helped her out quite a bit and made her smile. While her finger traced over the tip of his manhood, there was a certain excitement to be taken from the sticky wetness she found there. She pulled her hand back to allow him the room to sheathe himself and licked that gentle wetness away from her finger like one who was tasting a meal for the first time. She'd lick her lips after, strangely she truly didn't have a problem with the taste of him, though it wasn't something conventionally tasty she definitely couldn't hate it. The other side of her panties came undone and they fell away in their already dampened state as the lad covered his manhood as well. All clear to begin he reached up and her breasts came spilling out of her bra from the lack of tension though she didn't bother to completely remove it or her shirt just yet. She truly had something specific in mind and with it ready for use she'd begin. "Eyes up, Yugi~" she mentioned as she took hold of him again. This time lining his manhood up with her nether she began the gentle sink with gravity along for the ride. "You don't want to miss it," she mentioned with a cheeky smirk. Her face shifted to one of absolute happiness as she aimed to claim that which was hers, the smile on her face and lightness in her eyes would only be tainted just a bit by her desire for this exact moment.

Now something torturous was coming. This condom was lubricated, her nether was lubricated and Yugi sat at the opening as her body used its own weight and gravity to gently lower itself. A soft breath escaped her as the head of him slipped past this entrance with a certain tightness that led to the gentlest of moans. The face of Ashikaga Kimiko was normally a stoic mask of bland intimitation, but right at the moment it was morphed into one of bliss and happiness. Even as her eyes closed gently, her cheeks reddened and she opened her mouth to let out another breath. This was ever so slightly painful but the sensation of filling seemed to shift it into something she'd like. She had a hand on his shoulder as she lowered herself but eventually this would simply be both her arms wrapped around him as she came to a halt with the lad buried fully within her person and her body tightening around him. This truly was nothing she'd ever felt before... this sensation was strange but not unpleasant, she definitely needed a moment or two to adjust to it... that was certain.

[Bloodedge]

The time of awakening was upon one Aiba Yugi. The stuff of legend, an epic tale that he could never call himself an adventurer without. That latex coat slipped over his groin signaled a rite of passage, an evolution from boy to man... and it was essentially being demanded of him. No, it wasn't just a demand; it was happening unless he spoke to the contrary. Would he be doing that? Absolutely not. Even if he entertained such a thought for a moment, it would have disappeared the moment Kimiko's finger made contact with her tongue. Well, that definitely proved her earlier point without fail... among other things.

Now then, where was he to look? Options were aplenty, and many movements repeatedly pulled his attention from other areas of the lass. Most recently, his gaze fell upon those descending, dampened undergarments. Even that couldn't last long, sadly. Just as he was becoming excited by what he could see, something else stole his attention. This time, the culprit was none other than Kimiko's breasts breaking free of their confines with a bounce that wasn't too subtle at all. The action itself was one thing, but more imperative was the fact that Kimiko's hands reached out to him instead of the clothes she could have finished removing. Did he, or one of his previous selves, mention having an eye for the disheveled look? Maybe he did, or maybe Kimiko's lack of patience was another sort of blessing entirely today. Maybe he would never know after losing his mind momentarily.

Eyes up, she said. What was he to be looking at? Her face? Well, that was the recent topic of conversation, so that made sense. Whatever he didn't want to miss was going to be─... oh. The moment he took in the visual of Kimiko's face, he could feel it. The tip of his manhood was being engulfed slowly, squeezed as it became buried over time within the lass' body. Yugi's breath caught in his throat, escaping in a long, strained exhale as wide eyes took in the most unusual visage. Good of her to bring attention to it, he thought. Even as tension overtook his body, he couldn't look away. He could, however, give purpose to that tension by grabbing onto the girl's hips, almost as if he were doing so for the sake of grounding himself. His mouth opened once more to speak. It was natural to comment, right? Well, he had one... somewhere. What passed his lips though, was simply... "Ah─"

[Apollymi]

Was sex greedy? Inherently, it shouldn't have been... even so, Kimiko felt like it was. She thought herself taking everything from him... claiming it for herself in a manner only she could. She felt innately satisfied by this action, better than any of her individual victories. Every centimeter of descent upon his manhood was one she took for herself. Yugi, did all that was necessary of him, he watched her descent, her victory... as she requested, though not without taking in the look she presented him with. Clothes half on, seemingly in a rush, was something she enjoyed of herself. If only because she was so normally well put together it was somewhat freeing to not be worried about the status of her person. Though, that selfish reason alone wasn't all there was to the decision to abandon full removal of her clothing. Though Yugi had never mentioned liking this messy look... the Avatar known as Kou had regained the rigidity of his manhood immediately while taking in the half-dressed visage of her kitsune self. It wasn't as if she could forget something he so obviously enjoyed, no matter what face she wore.

Ah but she was still being greedy. She was taking from him right now in ways she hadn't known possible. That exhaled breath, those widened eyes, his immediate attention. All of these were things that Ashikaga Kimiko claimed for herself with her own actions. Not to mention his manhood, sheathed within a condom, enveloped by her womanhood as she slowly but surely came to settle with him completely buried within herself. Her arms wrapped around his shoulders, she let out the lightest of moans as his firm hands came to rest against her hips. The sensation of it alone was far beyond the norm for her, she could practically feel tingles across her skin as she heard his utterance that wasn't really words. Surprisingly enough the normally talkative lass, too a moment before she had anything to say, but when she did finally speak it was against the left side of Yugi's face as her hips shifted her so gently forward in a tiny little rocking motion which sent an immediate jolt of sensation all the way through her body, causing a small moan to be the start of her sentence. "Hmphf~ Speechless again, Yugi?" she questioned him as her hips rocked again... another jolt of sensation let her know that feeling would be worth chasing, and it would be the start of something she enjoyed far more than she'd likely ever explain. "I wonder if I claimed your words too~" she mused lightly. Ah, that rocking motion would continue with him holding on to her hips the way he was... as she found it easier and easier to begin moving properly now that the adjustment period was over. She'd have no idea if this did anything for him... so he'd definitely have to speak eventually.

[Bloodedge]

It was all over now. Myths and assumptions aside, the poor lad known as Aiba Yugi truly felt as if he'd crossed a threshold from which there was no return. If he could be locked in this moment for eternity, he'd probably mind it about as much as he minded being trapped in the other world where they 'met' officially. Ah, what if he could have both? If they could both easily return to that other world, change forms as they pleased and do all sorts of experimenting... that would be lovely. Oh, and what if their different forms each still classified as totally inexperienced? Unrealistic as that was, the thought was pleasant. Even now, that half-dressed state Kimiko was in granted him imaginings of her Avatars' ensembles receiving the same treatment... and a memory of one specific Avatar being in a vaguely similar situation to the present. That was a memory he'd be keeping for a long time, and this would be held even longer.

Infinitely interesting was the fact that Kimiko seemed to relish in this moment, and that seemed attributed to more than the act itself. Was there something else on her mind perhaps? Surely there was. As he stared into her face, she observed his. The girl seemed pleased simply because he was so obviously satisfied by her descent, and lo... she decided to prod the subject by pointing out his lack of speech. Right, what was he trying to say again? It was all but lost, and then... Yugi suffered the realization that she'd already started moving in his lap. "Hngh─I uh─ well..." Somewhere in that head of Yugi's, there was something smooth, something sensual, something that would drive the lass grinding in his lap wild in only a few words. No. No, that wasn't in his head at all─ maybe one of his Avatars could manage such a thing. In Yugi's poor deviant, yet virgin mind however, there was only a mighty emptiness caused by sensory overload. Most of what he had to offer was just... breath; breath which left his maw instead of words, creeping its way through the air toward the face of Kimiko. Eventually though, he managed as he always would at some point. "Words. Yeah. Got those. This is... uh... sex. I think I'm dead. Am I dead?"

[Apollymi]

That gentle rocking motion of Kimiko's hips had already begun and after that initial jolt of sensation... there was nothing to stop her from continuing to chase the feeling. Oh, but there were other thoughts in her mind, though they were all intertwined with their current activity. This was great! This closeness, her victory, this lad beneath her... holding on to her, watching her. There was nothing about it she could complain about. Nothing happening she would ever find herself complaining about. The only thing that could have made it better is if it wasn't limited to just this instance. Why should she only be able to claim this man once? Why would this first time be the only first time? Maybe it didn't have to be that way? The other world, the other faces.... all the different ways they could find themselves entangled, all of their different faces interacting with each other.... the spiciest variety life could ever offer. How many different ways they could indulge, how many different faces could she claim with each of her own? The endless possibilities made such a thought divine and surely didn't hinder her current progress. No... it created or rather exacerbated her own desires, if something like that were possible, she could literally have everything.

Speaking of everything, her ideal of that was below her, apparently speechless. She stared at him as she moved, watching as the rocking motions of her hips seemed to hinder him in some way. She imagined the reactions of his other faces from this angle, and couldn't help but smile at him. She found this one to be perfectly in the middle... He wasn't inherently smooth as being. Sure one of his faces would have pulled it off while being a bit domineering about it. But another of his faces might have actually died from this level of exposure. He was breathing directly into her face, trying to build up to speaking properly, how nice. How very warm... he really was kind to her. Regardless of the response, Kimiko could be nothing but pleased, because of the genuine parts of his personality which showed in such moments. Oh... here he was, questioning his death, she leaned into him while beginning to gently raise and lower her own hips. She found by this method she could stir herself using him as the tool to that end... while she did this she pressed her lips against his neck before running her tongue up towards his earlobe. "Oooh~ I haven't stolen those words yet... I'll work on it~" she mused not being able to stop the moan from slipping between her lips. Her warm breath spreading across his neck and ear as she shared the sensations he'd so recently granted her. "And no, Yugi, you aren't dead. We've got so much more to do.... I won't allow you to escape me so easily~" Was that flirting? She hoped so... she aimed for flirting but wondered if that instead came out intimidating. Oh well... it was the truth at least, and it gave her pleasure to share the thought. That was enough for her, and as she kept moving she found the rhythm that was soon enough building up for her. Something glorious was just around the corner and she could feel it.

[Bloodedge]

Two minds traversed the same path, neither knowing what only their unified thoughts could accomplish. One day, all would become clear, but there was only one form of clarity was coming today. The 'everything' would have to settle for only beginning as Yugi occupied his own couch, and Kimiko occupied his lap instead. For some strange reason, he felt as if they should have found a hot spring or a large bathtub for this. Maybe that was just a craving; it could also be saved for later. Why though, was it a small source of annoyance that they weren't doing such a thing?

It wasn't exactly true that the words hadn't been taken from Yugi's mind and mouth. Realistically, whatever he first had to say was long gone, and he'd only managed to find something else in the moment. Even then, it was hardly what any sensible mind state of Yugi's would have allowed to leave his mouth. Alas, the sense had been taken straight out of his brain as well. There was also the matter that Kimiko seemingly wanted to leave him speechless. That made sense; he would have relished in the same thing if it were the other way around. He wasn't being permitted death, though... but what could this be called otherwise? "You're sure? Feels more like an isekai than waking up in a tavern as Kou─" he said. Breathless once more by the kissing and licking against his neck, another thought was lost. As if it wasn't bad enough that he could feel his soul, the essence of life, and all things unperceivable in the universe through his groin. Holding onto the lass did nothing to stop a descent into madness, but it did give a diversion to his sense of touch. "Don't get me wrong though. If I actually die, just keep going. Pretty sure I'll come back eventually~" Ah, there was just a bit of smooth banter in him yet, managed even while his manhood was in danger of exploding from pulsation alone. He wasn't out for the count just yet; there was far too much to experience. As such, his hands slid their way up to Kimiko's ribcage, gripping there as he pressed his face into her chest. Her breasts had been rising and falling for some time now, so it was only a matter of time before he couldn't keep his mouth away any longer. Yugi attacked like some starving infant certain there was a source of sustenance to be found through the lass' nipple. He knew there wasn't, of course, but the way he was sucking from the beginning would beg to differ. In actuality, poor Yugi just needed yet another distraction, lest this event be brought to an end prematurely.

[Apollymi]

A bath would be nice... but unlike Yugi, Kimiko had every bit of knowledge why that was something her mind. They'd made a deal... such a thing was to be included in that deal. Oh well, Kimiko also knew there was no real time constraint so they could fulfil that particular aspect at any other time they felt like it. And that was likely for the best, considering that she found herself far too engrossed in their current activities.

Her hips continued to move in Yugi's lap and she pushed herself closer and closer to a specific kind of feeling. The tingles in her body didn't go anywhere, and more over she got a few extra points of satisfaction from the pauses caused by her actions towards his neck. He'd made the claim that this felt more like an isekai than waking up in the tavern as his other self. "Really?" she asked in that lightly snarky manner she tended to address people in. Of course, this went on to be added to, he claimed that even if he died she should keep going and he'd come back eventually. A look of shock crossed over her face as she heard those words. What a surprisingly smooth bit of conversation, how outrageously flirty for him. "Well... if you want, I won't stop..." she managed. Something in her softened in that moment. Yugi was strangely capable of doing that sort of thing to her. Even as she pushed herself closer as the rocking of her hips continued, she couldn't help at all what she was doing. And it was about to get worse. Yugi's face would soon be found planted in her bosom. Lips found the peaks of her breasts and began to suck at them with an enthusiasm she didn't know could be found in this world. What a sudden amount of stimulation, Kimiko found herself unable to complete more lofty movements. In fact, the extra sensation caused her to moan and she shifted her hips to a more gentle rocking sensation. All of it came with an infinite squeeze within her person, a gentle pulse as she found herself rather close to the edge. "Yugi~ I'm really close..." she managed in that ever so soft whisper. A few seconds later her hips would come to a halt as her nether tightened and her body felt that spill of tingles all around, and extra fluid directly from her core. Her mind went numb for a second and she blinked and felt she'd lost consciousness, if only for a second. Yes. This was it. Definitely way better than anything she'd managed on her own and enjoyable as everything in this lad's presence. She held him a bit tighter and aimed to catch her breath.

[Bloodedge]

In response to his sudden burst of reasonable banter, Kimiko claimed she wouldn't be stopping if it was his desire. Excellent. Concentration was keeping him in the proverbial race against time and feeling, but any sort of halt would be a shame. Alas, Kimiko was many things... and it seemed that included being something of a liar, at least here and now. After announcing her 'closeness' to the lad, she went on to cease her movements. Well, such was the case for her external movements, at least. Within, Yugi received the watered-down sensation of her tightening and oscillating walls through the barrier between them. That final movement was far slicker as it were, but it was final nonetheless─ aside from her physical hold of him.

What was he to do about this, though? She claimed she wouldn't stop, yet she did. Didn't her proclamation count as an agreement? To stop just after was almost a sin. Somewhat baffled, Yugi stared into the girl's face. Unbeknownst to him, his eyes briefly adopted an amber hue prior to the words he would offer. "H'oh? I thought you said you wouldn't stop. Don't tell me one round is enough to have you breaking promises~" he teased. In that moment, Yugi seemed to have undergone a full change in demeanor─ almost as if he were changing Avatars. Had something come to the surface for mere moments? Perhaps, but it didn't appear to be going anywhere either. While she made an effort to recover, Yugi's hand rose to Kimiko's cheek. He would shift her face toward his own, staring her down with a strangely cheeky grin. "There are legal repercussions to broken promises, you know? And you've already got the cops on you~"

[Apollymi]

The banter hadn't escaped her notice either, beyond all of that, Yugi seemed to have shifted his demeanor quite a bit. More teasing came from the lad as she recovered from her most recent finish, she looked only slightly abashed. It wasn't as if she was finished at all. A slight pinkening of her cheeks occurred but there was a gentle shifting in her body moved on. "Broken promise?! I know what I said... but that was about you... I've got less to do with the outcomes related to me," she managed as her face was turned. "Besides, you claimed to like credit. Take credit for that too~" she made this exclamation in a manner which could have been considered huffy and might have been if the lad weren't still buried within her causing her to slightly move. She was recovering and while she had said she wouldn't stop moving, that'd been specifically in reference to his potential 'death' not her own.

Oh, but what was this? The eyes of Yugi when she met them now had taken on quite a different hue. That was kind of interesting. Such a thing was only seen before in moments where he was about to shift Avatars. Hm... such a thing likely wasn't possible here was it? So what was this new color? It didn't belong to any Avatar she knew of, she'd seen all of those and remembered all the hues they came in. 'Those eyes... whose are they?' she wondered briefly. Hm, was it even really worth considering given their current positioning and banter? Well... no. No, it wasn't. She'd lock those thoughts away for later along with having the idea that she enjoyed the color she was looking at in his face. Right now there was the matter of the broken promises and their potential legal consequences. He even went on to cheekily mention her current situation. "Hoh? I do wonder what you have in store for me then... maybe I didn't know about the consequences. I don't remember it appearing in the terms and conditions..." she mentioned so very casually, her hips beginning to shift again. She was enjoying herself once more and rather suddenly had no idea what was going to happen next, but she was looking forward to it. "So, are you planning to turn me over to the cops... Yugi?" she asked of the lad looking curiously cheeky.

[Bloodedge]

In response to his claim of broken promises and repercussions, there was an argument brought up. Was she implying that there wasn't an agreement neglected? Madness. Sure, it was mere banter occurring between them, but Yugi had a compulsion he couldn't explain. Whatever it was, told him she had to somehow pay for breaking terms. How would he go about that, though? "Iie, iie. You said 'if you want, I won't stop.' That was your end of the bargain, and you stopped~" he teased further, his finger trailing along Kimiko's cheek as her hips became mobile again. "Ignorance of the consequences is no excuse, Kimi~"

What to do, what to do? Surely nothing could be serious enough for him to turn the lass over to the cops, even if he happened to take real offense to her actions. There were multiple potential answers to her curiosity, but only one worth giving in the state Yugi found himself in. The restoration of her hips' movements would have to be ceased soon enough, he thought. There were other things to be done. "I can't do that, can I? I went and made myself a knight, and you know... honor and all that shit. The promise was between us, so if you broke it, I have to make sure you're held responsible. So..." While he spoke, Yugi reached an ultimate conclusion. Repentance would come in a single form, and it would be decided based on the original conditions of a haphazard promise. They were here to have fun, so of course, fun would remain... albeit not the way Kimiko had been chasing it─ not exactly. "I also have to get something I want. Your punishment should be... losing control of the situation, and made to understand what not stopping means." What was he saying? Yugi couldn't hold himself to such a thing, but he had all the confidence in the world while he spoke. In his mind, he would take the reins and stop only when requested to do so, but... that obviously wasn't possible. Even so, the words left his mouth with utmost certainty. He wasn't even done with that. "That could have stopped my progress too, so I am willing to propose that you can't call me Yugi as a result. You'll have to pick something else~" he continued, feeling as if such a discussion had occurred between them previously. Ah... it had, as a matter of fact.

[Apollymi]

What an interesting battle was taking place now between these two teens. Though she'd started moving once more, Kimiko was being teased in a manner that didn't imply a single bit of mercy. Yugi for his part in this even repeated her words to her, claiming that was her part of the bargain. Were they ignoring the fact that he made no confirmation of his desire in that moment? Ah, yes... that was it, an excellent point. And she was about to make it, but...

Blinking. His finger was trailing around her face and he'd just said her name and she was blinking. "Oh, that isn't fair. I definitely had a point to make...." she scoffed. She wasn't upset in the slightest but him randomly uttering her name like that definitely changed her entire demeanor without question. It was really fair, the only one who called her name like that was Akashi, it was almost treason to say her name so casually. She truly didn't mind it though... actually she wanted to hear it again, so she'd listen intently as he claimed that by his own knightly indulgence anything between them including her punishment was apparently just between them. That was nice to know... so how would she be punished in this case... a loss of control? 'I'd like to argue but that's actually pretty good, as a punishment for someone like me,' Kimiko thought of this current level of proposition. This could be fun and they could have quite a good time within the newly described confines of Yugi's punishment. She couldn't call him Yugi for the duration?

Oh? He was remembering that? And a lot of things apparently, all while bearing eyes she'd never seen before? Oh well.... that didn't matter. Kimiko was a girl of varied tastes and also, no shame. In fact, such a moment as this would give her more freedom that it would take away from her. Besides all of that she'd like to understand what he meant by no stopping and who was she to stand in the way of her own education? "Ooh? I get the weirdest feeling of deja vu talking to you~" she mentioned with a cheeky little smirk coming to her face. Though she was the one in 'trouble' right now, she still felt nothing less than absolutely victorious. "As you like," she mentioned being willing to give into this desire without too many qualms. A statement would be whispered, which would in this case fork over control and express that which Kimiko chose to call Yugi in a moment like this, "Punish me, Daddy!~"

[Bloodedge]

"Did you? You're free to make it," Yugi said, fully knowing the girl's point was all but lost to the ether by now. Whatever caused his initial shift in demeanor had opened a gate, and with Kimiko functioning as an apt enabler, Yugi went on to develop previously unseen confidence in his approach. If nothing else, he felt a bit... smug at the moment. Gears began to turn in Kimiko's head, while Yugi's mental state traveled a path with a singular foreseeable end. She spoke of deja vu; he knew the feeling. He was experiencing the phenomenon, both with purpose and without, as some things seeming familiar were certainly never truly experienced before. Why then, did he feel as if this matter of arrangements had occurred many times between them? Oh well; it wasn't important.

What was important? A few simple matters, of course. Kimiko accepted the terms of penalty, including the additive involving use of his name. She went on to choose another form of address, and with a whisper, made use of it immediately. Oh, what a choice. Of all the options, it was arguable that she'd chosen one of the most thrilling titles while using it in the most exciting phrase ever uttered in Yugi's ear. Given the lad's current mentality, there was another thing to take from her statement. "The way you say that, makes it sound like another contract worth signing~" he spoke. Yugi's arm hooked around the girl's lower back. It was his full intention to push Kimiko back until she leaned toward the floor, all while Yugi and her lower half remained upon the couch. "But I'm guessing... you knew that already─"

[Apollymi]

Another scoff escaped the girl. This lad was being smug... such things usually annoyed her about people. Smug men were annoying in more ways than one, and thought themselves to be better than they usually were. In this case though, Kimiko could do nothing but like this level of smug on Yugi's face. Why? Well, he lived up to and beyond expectations, so she couldn't bring herself to do anything but enjoy it. Who else could even look at her smugly with the chance of actually living up to her expectations? The options were few and the one who'd proven himself to actually keep this level of intensity was right in front of her, buried inside of her... giving her everything she wanted. How could she do anything but accept and be accepted?

Her mind was more than settled with the ideas of this lad. So her words presented to him were an open invitation and an open interpretation. How would he take this? As a contract worth signing. A grin spread across her face. Of course she considered it so. She was never anything more than truthful. "Of course it is... I wouldn't offer a contract that wasn't worth signing, Daddy~" Oh she was having a great deal of fun with this. She even offered this man a cheeky wink as her body was being bent backwards. The arch in her spine was something very different and that little jewel between her breast rolled with her settling over her shoulder. Oh blood was going to be rushing to her head eventually, but she couldn't well deny that this position was likely to be a good bit of fun. She turned herself over to him in a way which was almost complete. Her own control of her hips wasn't something easily accomplished in such a position so what would Yugi do? Well, she was at his mercy and trusted him completely... so she'd just have to wait and see, and that was sort of exciting.

[Bloodedge]

Of course she knew her words could be taken as yet another arrangement, and of course she would consider it worthwhile to enter. Once more, she decided to call him daddy. Surely it was the fault of many degenerate media sources that she even had such a thing available in her vocabulary for this situation, but was Yugi complaining? Absolutely not. She could say something like that as much as she wanted, and he wouldn't even think of trying to stop her. He even felt compelled to go above and beyond, as if spurned on by something so simple. It was only right that he make an effort toward living up to the name, wasn't it? "Alright then. Here; I'll sign my end~"

There was a small amount of seriousness in Yugi's words. He did intend to 'sign the contract' in a manner of speaking, but this was neither the time nor place for pen and paper. Only one thing would suffice then. As Kimiko was bending backwards, Yugi was leaning forward. It didn't take much time or effort for the lad to hover over her abdomen, his tongue protruding to lick a trail just under her navel. In doing so, there was also the slightest movement of his hips. This was quite the strange position to be in overall, though it was admittedly something of a boon for Yugi. His shaft was angled upward at a sharp angle within Kimiko, leaving the tip of his tool pressed against the frontal wall of her nether. That slight shifting to his hips was continuous from the start, causing not a thrust per se, but instead something of a grind against that internal surface.

[Apollymi]

Did Kimiko consume ridiculous amounts of degenerate media? Yes, so much so that she was almost immune to seeing it in regular situations. Such was proved by her own reactions earlier this day. Even so, she was exactly the sort of person who had no problem with her own actions in relation to her degeneracy so long as the person on the receiving end was happy to be there. Yugi was proving himself to be just that... as far as she understood. Ah, and he was even feeding into it. He claimed he'd sign the contract she'd handed over but they weren't exactly sitting across from each other in a board room. No at the moment she was performing a back bend with his manhood buried in her depths. How would he sign then?

A prodding of her insides, ever so persistently. A grinding of his manhood against her fore from within which caused her to writhe just a bit. She'd almost want to wiggle her hips but it was near impossible to meet such a movement given her current positioning. No, instead she had to endure it, but those motions of his manhood weren't alone. No, she had the warmth of a tongue licking along her exposed abdomen below her navel causing her to squirm under the attention. "Ah... fuck," yeah, that was about all she had. There were supposed to be words in there, but this really was a hard situation for her. Out of control of her body, blood rushing towards her head, her loins wet with a grinding tool at a sharp angle being used to whittle down her resistance. Her mind was on the verge of coming undone. Was this actually a punishment? It couldn't have been in the traditional sense considering how much she was enjoying it. The lad had the exact angle needed to knock against her g-spot. She could feel the ripple through her body at each movement, like a small flourish being started at each movement. Her nether would tighten in response only to relax as soon as she was unstimulated for a moment. Such would cause a sort of gripping exchange between the two, as she was pushed towards a peak she had no control over.

[Bloodedge]

Step one was beginning not in the way Yugi anticipated, but in just the way he would have hoped. He didn't take the time to rationalize the position they were in within his own mind, nor did he know if it would even work. It simply... felt like the appropriate thing to do at the time. In the end, it seemed to function perfectly. Kimiko could squirm, but it didn't seem she had much ability to physically seek her own pleasure. Yugi alone was the key-bearer, just as intended. The constant collapsing of the lass' walls and that rub against the tip of his phallus were mighty, but limited the amount of sensory overload Yugi himself had to deal with. Could he actually pull this off without halt? It seemed possible as long as arousal remained intact. That wasn't going to be a problem either, by the look of things.

And so, Yugi continued his never-ending, yet gradual shifting. Control was his, and the ability to continue undisturbed was in sight. As his tongue reached the end of its trail just below Kimiko's navel, he raised a brow. That singular word of hers was ringing in his ear repeatedly, and he thought to question it. "Come again?" he asked cheekily, his hand rubbing its way up her abdomen as well. "Is that all you've got for me? You're always so much more talkative than that~"

[Apollymi]

How had she even come to be in this position? Kimiko knew it was like a natural progression to their current position, but what did Yugi get from bending her like this and limiting her own movements like this? Well, control. Yeah, she knew what it was to be the one in control, as such she could see the usefulness of limiting the movements of someone else. Even so, this was only a limitation in movement. He was still actively providing her pleasure, not by her own movements but by that gentle grinding sensation against her insides. But there was more, there was also the movement of his tongue up her body and now the movement of a hand across her abdomen. Along with that came teasing speech about her apparent change in demeanor.

"Fuck~" she murmured again. Though this wasn't really her intention. She did normally have much more to say, but between the convulsions she was experiencing internally and the outward stimulus she was receiving from the lad, she could easily say she was coming undone. "Of course it isn't all I have for you..." she mentioned as she tried to gather her thoughts into something more coherent. "But I'm pretty sure it's your fault I don't..." she paused. "Have more to say," that was it. A complete sentence give or take a little break. That gentle prodding against her insides was better than giving yourself a slow solo session. She couldn't properly rationalize liking this so much, but it was without question one of the best feelings she'd been presented with. "If this is the type of punishment I can look forward to, I ah... might have to keep being bad~" she said with just a hint of sassiness.

[Bloodedge]

Yugi could count one successful attempt to coax additional speech out of Kimiko. If that could be kept up, he would easily fall to endless bliss. His fault, was it? Fine; the lad would gladly take credit for that. Interesting though, was the additional break in Kimiko's sentence which presented that notion. "That's a shame. I'm not sure if I like that, or if I'd rather have you saying more than ever. It's tough, y'know?" A rhetorical question offered did nothing to deter his efforts. That hand of his continued exploring the expanses of Kimiko's torso, whether his palm and fingertips touched abdomen, breast, side─ anywhere seemed suitable. His other hand, however, had been idling at her hip for too long. Yugi didn't seem to need it for the sake of keeping the lass afloat, so he left balance in her hands while he brought his thumb around to tease her nub.

The girl spoke of being 'bad' in future, piquing Yugi's interest. Did he enjoy that thought? Yes, it seemed to resonate positively. He'd hoped to make this an enjoyable experience, and now, it seemed success would potentially shape their shared future in a way. What kind of man would Yugi be if he didn't embrace that future right here, right now? "Really? I might like that, y'know? I noticed you had a bit of a bratty streak in you~"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko found herself at the mercy of the lad whose lap she was still occupying, though admittedly in a rather strange position. Right at the moment, she had a hand which was exploring her person. The sensation of fingers traveling over her skin and the sound of his voice assaulting her ears, she could really get used to this. "Hm, well you should figure it out. I..." What was this? There was a pause. What brought a close to what would have been another teasing sentence from Kimiko? The movement of Yugi's hand. Specifically, the one that previously occupied her hip, moved on from there to send a thumb towards her nether. And this appendage would be used to stimulate her body more directly. That gentle rubbing teasing the point which was the peak of her pleasure outside, while he gently battered a similar spot from within. It was divine. And he'd noticed her being a bit of brat and he didn't dislike it. That was nice, it would be a shame if such a thing was a cause of discontent between them. "Careful, Daddy. You might get exactly what you're asking for~" she mentioned of herself. She held herself back an aweful lot. How much of her did he actually want to deal with when she was like she was in her head. Well, there was no time like the present situation to find out.

She could feel her body tense, her back arching more while her body held it's balance against him. Another moan would leave her mouth before she could speak, "Oooh!~ That feels good, Daddy!~" she moaned that sentence alone. "You keep it up and I'll cum..." What an absolute statement of fact. She probably ingested far too much pornographic material in her life. She also had no regular sense of shame or dignity in a moment like this. It seemed within this lad's hands she'd already decided she'd rather be happy and bratty. She could be dignified in her day to day life, but there and now she could be the truest form of herself and she had no intention of hiding it. Speaking of not hiding anything, given the amount of stimulation she was currently receiving Kimiko really would be reaching flourish in a matter of seconds after her most recent speech. That reddened face of hers, along with a body which suddenly rippled with gooseflesh only for all that tension to disappear except where it was at her core. That combination of things made her body react even more vigorously, finishing around his manhood while he stimulated her with his hands was something of a dream for her. She could do nothing but enjoy it.

[Bloodedge]

Oh? He might get exactly what he was looking for, said Kimiko. Well, one couldn't ask for any more than that, could they? "Reckless abandon it is," he quipped as his tongue lashed out against her abdomen once more. He wanted to see that unfiltered side of Ashikaga Kimiko, everything she had to offer just the way it appeared in her head. The way she was addressing him, it was all but impossible to even think of refusing the idea at present.

Kimiko went on to offer a few cheers in favor of his chosen approach. Once more, there was that title Yugi was surprisingly growing fonder and fonder of. It was somewhat empowering, and alone held the ability to further fuel his efforts. Ah, was she nearing her end already? This was all working better than he could have expected, and that... was perfect. "H'oh? Should I stop then?" More teasing passed his lips as his thumb circled that slick bud it located. There seemed to be no time for a proper answer, as Kimiko proceeded to climax within moments of those words being shared. Yugi could feel it in his groin and see it in her face, a smile crossing his lips and a twinkle in his eye as he observed. Still, his teasing inquiry remained. None of his movements stopped for the duration of the lass' experience. Actually, he wondered what would happen if his thumb and hips sped up just a little, bit by bit in the aftermath. Both of these teens had strange streaks about them, and Yugi's would be showing here and now. How interesting it was for a pair of degenerate deviants to meet in such a way. . .

[Apollymi]

Reckless abandon? Yeah, that was fine with Kimiko. As a tongue lashed out at her abdomen again she could do nothing but moan and squirm in pleasure. Yugi was surprisingly good at playing with the sensitivity of her body, and Kimiko couldn't help but fall into this gentle amount of torture. At the present moment, Kimiko was reaching climax with several of her kinks on honest display right in front of this lad. She could do nothing but show more of herself, while she finished around him he teasingly asked her another question. Should he stop? "Oh! No. Daddy, don't stop now. I wanna feel more..." the words left Kimiko's mouth without fail. She didn't want Yugi to stop, she wanted to continue to feel good. She liked being at his mercy as such and had no issue with what he was deciding to do to her body. She was also innately greedy and almost never gave up at a single instance, and definitely wouldn't give up on one being provided by the object of her affections.

Even just now, before her body could completely relax from its most recent flourish, Yugi was acting. An increase of speed was occurring both with his tool and with that thumb rubbing against her nub. Ah, that was great. Much like her early dances with detachable shower heads, an increase in speed was one surefire way to allow her to keep going, seemingly without end. She was practically seizing up within as he did this but she could do nothing but express her approval, in a fairly kinky way, "Yes, Daddy. Just like that... make me cum again," Kimiko was bratty and demanding. Her normal presence in the world was intimidating to all but the absolute strongest of individuals. Here and now though, she was practically modeling clay in the hands of the lad before her wanting to be shaped one crest at a time into the perfect image of the deviant creature she was in her own mind. This pair of people together did some interesting things to each other, and it would seem it would continue for the lass for several moments yet to come... and for the foreseeable future.

[Bloodedge]

Ashikaga Kimiko, since the earliest days of the pair knowing one another, had always presented herself as the one puzzle Aiba Yugi hadn't been capable of solving. So few things surprised him, yet she threw him for a loop more times since stepping into his abode this day, than most things had done over the past year he spent in this world. How much of this side to Kimiko was there? He thought he'd seen the limit for a moment, and then there was more. This certainly wasn't Miki; that version of the girl would have been a flustered mess long before any such words left her mouth. Once more, this was more akin to Tamamo. . . Yes, Tatsuki wasn't an option at all. If anything, he likely would have been reduced to calling that one 'Mommy' instead. Maybe that would also be alright if it ever came to be? Well, now wasn't time for consideration of that.

Just like that, huh? So, the speed-based evolution was a good choice as well. Frankly, Yugi was just winging things at this point. He had nothing but the most degenerate media to base anything on, and none of that seemed truly viable, so he was quite literally doing whatever first came to mind... and saying the same. "Well if you're gonna put it like that, I guess I don't have much choice~" he said. A steady pace was taken with every part of him that moved, bar his tongue which emerged only sporadically between statements thrown back and forth. "I dunno, though... some part of me wonders how long I could edge you for now that we're here like this─"

[Apollymi]

How much depth was there to this aspect of Kimiko? Well, even the degenerate lass herself was a bit unsure. It was a pretty basic part of her personality, it wasn't an obvious part, it wasn't something she shared, but this sort of being was definitely just part of who she was right below the surface. And now, she was finding it rather easily to be this much herself. Yes, she was a business tycoon, school girl, apparently magical existence... but mostly she was just a shut-in pervert gamer with an addiction to her showerhead. Ah, but none of that mattered in the present moments, not when she had someone who seemed to legitimately understand her inner workings at her disposal.

Yugi kept up the pace as requested and Kimiko felt her body pushing closer and closer to the next climax she had on the horizon. That being said a steady pace tended to take a bit longer to get all the way to the finish and as such she had a bit more time to communicate. The only thing that didn't possess that steady pace was his wayward tongue which only popped up between his random speeches. "Hmpf, well..." she gave it a slight bit of consideration. As she worked closer and closer to a certain amount of sensation, Yugi claimed a curiosity about keeping her right at the edge of that aspect of bliss. He wanted something like that did he? That degenerate mind of hers began to work and when it did she didn't have a mental understanding of such. "If that's the punishment Daddy wishes to give, I'll accept it~" she mused like this was all a game to her. And it was in some way. Truly she couldn't see herself disliking such a thing, and he was in the position to try and control such an outcome, so she was willing as a participant. As far as her own mind was concerned, sex should be a mix of both people in every way they felt comfortable presenting themselves. Whether she was being demanding or being commanded in some ways she could find herself enjoying the experience. As such she was fine with whatever method this lad chose and prepared herself for which ever outcome.

[Bloodedge]

Opening one door after another was going to be the way. Every word shared seemed to be peeling back yet another layer, even layers within the layers. Yugi remained attentive, keen to see what lay beneath each barrier. How far he could delve in this single session was up to question, but he would go whatever distance possible. As Kimiko's mind processed what he'd said so recently, he continued observing her face. This side of the girl was so fun to watch, deviousness could not keep away from him. Yugi could feel the squirming state he was reduced to in the form of Kou. With that memory in place even vaguely, how could he possibly avoid a chance to leave Kimiko in a similar state?

She even said she would accept 'punishment' if it was his desire to deliver. This was a game. As a long-term habit of Yugi's, he didn't tend to lose games, almost as if reality itself demanded that he be victorious somehow. In this case, though... one winner did not mean there had to be a loser. Yes, they could both win on the journey, in the end, and in the moments after as well. Yugi chased this double victory with glorious purpose, taking up a pace that was agonizingly slow even to his own senses. There was one thing he needed in this approach, though, and it was to be determined by Kimiko herself. "That's binding, y'know? You'll have to hold up your end to make it work, or I might accidentally go too far~"

[Apollymi]

Oh, they'd both found what they liked to watch in each other, though admittedly in very different places in their day to day lives. Kimiko liked his face while he was thinking, mostly she liked the idea of being able to see when his mind was working. She liked knowing every once in a while that she was the absolute cause of his racing mind. Right now, it seemed he was enjoying pulling back her mental layers to find out what it was she liked beneath the surface of her enjoyment. "Haaaah~"

A deep breath ensued as the lad slowed his pace to deliver the punishment that she was obviously here for. Ah, and what was that, he was talking again. Teasing her without mercy. This truly was a game, no one just spoke to her, the way that Yugi did, it was part of why she liked him. The slowing of his motions made her nether pulse in a different manner. It gave a gentle quiver... "Ah..." she managed but only went on to continue speaking. This was exciting and it was written all over her face. "I know it's binding. Don't worry... I'll do my fair share~ We're partners after all...." she said offering the lad a quick wink. Oh, the bets were being placed and she had no problem. She would continue to squirm just a little as the downshift of pacing began to drive her wild. Her breaths would come in quick bursts but she didn't care. She could be teased without mercy in a situation like this... and she'd enjoy it because it was Yugi doing it.

[Bloodedge]

Partners. Yugi rather enjoyed the sound of that. He still struggled to come to terms with Ashikaga Kimiko being deemed his girlfriend, but... perhaps that was the key. They had always been partners, if nothing else. Yugi would surely have an easier time acknowledging that. Well, that depended on the time and place, he supposed. Here and now, calling Kimiko 'partner' the way he thought would have been demeaning her overall purpose. No, she had to be considered... something more─ something he didn't even have words to portray. Maybe a phrase would come along eventually. . .

Either way, the pair appeared to have another agreement on their hands. That amber glow flashed in Yugi's eyes once more as he mentally registered the exchange taking place here, assuming Kimiko would indeed hold up her end. "Good. I don't even know what I should do if you broke another promise so soon after the first~" he said, truly having no idea whatsoever. Naturally though, such an event would see the same end result as its predecessor: Yugi doing whatever felt appropriate and mutually enjoyable at the time, and claiming it to be some sort of punishment. How would he react to another broken contract, though? Did he actually want to find out? Mentally, he was a little torn. On one hand, he liked how things were playing out already... while on the other hand, he did have a thing for that bratty streak he could see so clearly in the lass. Time would tell what direction was taken in the end, but for now, Yugi kept those steady movements with the sole intention of awaiting one precious moment as it fell upon Kimiko. All he had to do was maintain pace and... wait.

[Apollymi]

Yes, they were partners. And Kimiko could see this very easily. Of course, as far as their current relationship was concerned she was the person with the fewest reservations. Perhaps by being this way she could help him along, she was already letting him undo her by the seams... what could one more thing hurt? She'd fall into the depths of Yugi, in moments like this and enjoy her stay. He wouldn't know what to do if she broke another promise so soon? She didn't think she'd broken the first one properly. "You're tempting me," she mentioned as his slow motions did strange things to her body. "I like watching you think... and you not knowing means you'd have to~" she mentioned with a devious smile crossing her face if only for a moment. Even so, she wouldn't do that just now. Compartmentalize. She could hold that for later, and concentrate now on something else.

Ah, but what something else? Probably the slow moving sensations being offered to her by the lad who occupied both her body and mind presently. It was like dangling off the edge of a cliff. Every once in a while, a slight jerk or rather a burst of feeling would occur but it wasn't quite enough to cause her to fall over the edge. There was no release only building tension, her nether translated this into a tightening sensation, as she squirmed unable to properly move her hips. Even so, Kimiko could find release at a slow and steady pace too. It wasn't as if she hadn't taken a few lonely strolls of her own when she was left alone at home for too long. "Aaaah-haaa, I'm close. I'm... so close just a little more and I'll cum for you, Daddy~" Oh, yes, she might as well tell him properly it was coming. She couldn't really keep it to herself. It was likely he could tell, given the tension in her body and clamping down around his manhood... without interruption maybe she'd find her end.

[Bloodedge]

Frankly, Yugi was all but completely lost as to when and where Kimiko's end would be brought about. There was of course the clenching of his girth within her, as well as the subtleties appearing across the rest of her body... but she was squirming as it was. How was Yugi to tell, then? Easy. Kimiko offered a warning of sorts, keeping her end of the agreement without fail. Here, Yugi was actually wondering if she would do so, after mentioning an interest in his expression of concentration if she made him think up a 'punishment' of any sort. Not this time, it seemed.

Now then, what was Yugi to do? Was this one of those times a 'dom' would reward their 'sub' with the release they desired, or even earned? Maybe it was, or maybe it wasn't. Did any of that matter? Not one bit, according to Yugi. This wasn't a matter of dominance or submission as he saw it, but instead the simplicity of random decisions. A bit of fun in the spur of a moment while they explored one another was a must, so... he'd just go with the flow. Currently, said flow dictated that he explore further, until he could discover what happened when Kimiko couldn't take the anticipation anymore. That was his end of the bargain, after all. "A little more, huh?" he asked. A little more was exactly what he offered thereafter. Only a few additional strokes were delivered before his hips and thumb stopped entirely. At that point, only the tongue upon her lower torso made any movements at all. Sadly, there was nothing he could do against the throbbing of his own erection; strong arousal was something he found impossible to fend off. "Can't have that yet, can we? Does it make me a sadist if I want to see you suffer... just a little bit?~♥"

[Apollymi]

Kimiko felt the building anticipation. She'd even done her part in this particular leg of their journey. She'd managed not to break their most recent agreement, even though she'd given it more than a little bit of consideration and now came the reward. He even acknowledged it with words, so she'd give him the same, such was the depths of their agreement in her mind. "Yes, Daddy~ Just a little more~" she moaned out those words. A few more movements and she'd be there, a bit of thrusting, some extra movements of his fingers, and that tightening within her person reached near its pinnacle. Like a bucket filling with water droplets, like a dam being pushed against by a river... she could feel the start of the overflow... the crack in the wall which would release that delicious pressure. Ah, but it didn't come... a gentle whine of a noise escaped her. Of course, he'd leave her squirming just at the edge of the abyss she quite literally wanted to dive into headlong. "Ah, why not?!" the lass exclaimed in mock outrage. He wondered if it made him a sadist that he wanted to watch her squirm. Of course it did... though admittedly the movements of his tongue against her abdomen made the muscles within it contract just a tad, still stimulating but not enough for the push she wanted.

"Of course it makes you a sadist~" she mentioned. Though her tone implied that this wasn't actually a problem for her. If he wanted to see her suffer a bit, he was definitely creating the situation which would cause it. Ashikaga Kimiko was a young woman in charge of the entire world by most people's standards. She was one of the most well-put together individuals who walked about day to day. And right at the moment, it was being revealed to Aiba Yugi that there was but one thing which could be held over her, and he was the only person capable of doing so, given their arrangement. "I don't really mind that in this case though. Come on, Daddy... don't leave me hanging on forever. We had a deal~" she mentioned while letting out a bit of a sigh. Her body was held right at this point, nipples tight, face flushed, body covered in gooseflesh, and loins practically dripping nectar while gripping at his enclosed manhood. All she wanted at this point, all her body demanded was release. How long would he keep her from reaching it? She was curious... it couldn't be that bad right? Actually the thought of anyone actually trying and having the ability to keep her away from anything was a bit enticing. No one said no to her on a regular basis, and no one could truly challenge her most times... perhaps this was why she was so willing to accept such things from the lad who was now holding her very pleasure within his own hands and at the mercy of his own whims.

[Bloodedge]

After six month of adventuring together in another world, there was one thing Yugi understood─ one thing he paid a great deal of attention to. Such was the case even in hindsight regarding this, their home world. What was it? Ashikaga Kimiko was one who did not know the sensation of being at the bottom of anything. In any normal setting, it was she who dictated the flow. Where then, did she find time to let go of it all? Well, Yugi would take it upon himself to prouce the time and place for exactly that. That was what he could offer. There was nothing material or monetary, nothing fancy, nothing most would consider substantial at all. The only thing he had to offer was himself as part of this partnership between them. In making that offer however, he could at least try to take the edge off day-to-day life.

"We do have a deal," he confirmed. Yugi may have stopped moving, but he didn't intend to stop his treatment of the girl. Such was the reason his tongue remained mobile against her flesh, as his eyes traveled up what remained of her form. "But if I'm a sadist, I might as well go all in, right? You not having control of a situation once is... pretty hot." Ah, more words that would have never been spoken by his most commonly-used Avatar in the other world. It was a bit embarrassing to say, but he couldn't resist in the wake of how open Kimiko herself was being. Yugi did begin moving again, albeit only in short bursts here and there. He was considering a change of pace or position, though nothing was coming to him quite yet. "Just don't think about it too much. Let loose; I'll take care of you. Just suffer and enjoy, while I find out what happens when you've suffered too much~"

[Apollymi]

Well they were in agreement about Kimiko's lack of knowing the bottom of a situation. Rare was it for her to consider she could even be this way, but right at the moment, in this lad's presence she could feel at ease. She'd let the layers of her outer ego fall away at various intervals until there was nothing left between them. Her claim that they had a deal was accompanied by Yugi's agreement and the movement of his tongue against her flesh. Ah, that really was great... but he had more to say?

He claimed if he was a sadist he should go all in, and complimented her in the same breath. Apparently watching her not have control over this situation was attractive? No... he called it hot. That was a bit on the nose for the kinds of words that generally fell from his Avatar's mouths. In the six months she'd known this lad, it was rare for him to be so straight-forward in his like of her. In fact only his Dragonoid had seemed nearly into her initially. Ah, but this was further proof wasn't it? His actual self making a claim here and now was more than she could have expected. She was sort of happy about this current positioning. If she'd been looking at him, she doubted she would have appeared to be anything more than soft and adoring. Though admittedly she saw no problem with that either. He wanted to take care of her, and find out what she was like undone? Well, she wouldn't get in his way. "Well, when you say it like that... I only want to accept it," she mused a cheeky smirk crossing her face. Her body relaxed as much as the tension allowed it. Those occasional bursts of movements enough to elicit some extra sounds for her as she once again inched towards that release. "Fine, I'll leave myself in Daddy's care~" she mentioned. If he wished to look after her... she'd let him. If he wished to hold her at the brink of her own pleasure... she was fine with it. He was the one who understood her and offered her something of value she couldn't give herself. It'd be rude not to accept such a gift.

[Bloodedge]

Those peeling layers were viewed inside and out by Yugi as they curled back. He had a great interest in what was underneath, and that interest only grew with every new discovery. He'd already delved too far into sadism to stop any of his current efforts, but it was all worthwhile if he could gain even deeper understanding of the lass currently beneath him. "H'oh?" he muttered, taking note of Kimiko's reaction to his earlier words. Had his proclamation done something to her? Certainly so. And there it was─ the likeness to the blonde Avatar he knew her to possess. "I knew that you was in there somewhere. Cute," was his commentary of choice.

Ashikaga Kimiko would be accepting his offer, leaving Yugi with the reins in a manner of speaking. Excellent. Her pleasure was his to control, which rendered it a thing for him to provide. That was... something. It wasn't enough; nothing could ever be enough. As such, he'd always be looking for something more, something new, something greater. Yugi had his work cut out for him with that being his intention, but it would be a fun ride all the way. "Keep calling me that, and I'll end up not answering to my own name ever again," he stated. The more Kimiko spoke, the more he found himself growing attached to some of the things she said. Now was the time for Yugi to begin his movements anew, though a slight shift was to occur. Yugi nearly ejected himself from the couch, seeming almost as if he intended to utilize Kimiko's body as a wheelbarrow or something of the sort while his hips began gyrating. He kept hold of her hips while being somewhat crouched himself, leaving the lass with free reign of all other aspects of her own movement... Well, whatever was possible for her anyway. . .

[Apollymi]

Yugi took a deep dive into the person known as Ashikaga Kimiko, and found through his words the softest version of herself. How very surprising it was for such a feature to be brought to the surface by not her own doing. She could feel the blush creeping up on her face as it happened. What was more, this would only gain intensity as the lad before her had actually taken note of this small shift in personality. Of course, it made sense that he would notice such a thing, that particular Avatar had spent the most time in his company. "You would say that... it's not really fair for you to do something like that to me while also teasing me, Daddy~" she moaned that sentence out and playfully pouted. He truly was a bold individual, speaking to her in such a way, calling her cute. Ashikaga Kimiko was a lot of things, but never cute, how did one even react to being called such a thing? In her case, further embarrassment seemed about the most legitimate reaction she could ever have to such attention. Still she didn't hate it. She enjoyed that even after so short a time as six months he knew her so well, that he didn't take her teasing too seriously. She enjoyed what she imagined most people called feeling normal... in the presence of Yugi and would do so at every opportunity he presented her.

With that normal feeling Kimiko could do something she never did in any other aspect of her life. She could surrender and accept his attentions as they were offered. In this case, she all but completely turned over her pleasure to him, and in return she received the information that he enjoyed being called 'daddy' by her. This wasn't a simple matter of here and now, but instead Yugi claimed he'd go about not answering to his own name. He started moving again this time, taking the initiative to shift their positions ever so slightly. In this manner he used her a bit like a wheelbarrow but left her enough freedom to shift her own hips just a bit, which she took without fail. Something about this was exciting, just as much as what he'd most recently said. "Ooh!~ I know what you said, but what I heard was you'll only answer when I call you... and I really like that~" the lass moaned. They were going to have a good time. And the increased motions gave her a new tingling sensation to chase. She could feel it again, building as he pushed himself into her nether from this new angle with a bit more vigor than he'd previously managed.