<Nocturnal Harmonia>

Both parties agreed that it would take time to address their potential similarities. In truth, Ren would have an easier time talking about things he wasn't interested in. That list was incredibly short, but it was always possible to find some common interests of a higher caliber than simple 'yes' or 'no' scenarios. "I wouldn't recommend leaving, actually. CCTV is a pretty big feature here. It'd be hard to go completely unseen without a Skill for it," he warned for general purposes. Either way, it seemed Miko would be joining him in a trip up the stairs. The notion of this lockdown being fortunate was something he'd agree with, if only for the peepshow he'd already stolen. Little did he know, things would only get better some time after they reached a landing into the upstairs room. The room itself was hardly lived in, featuring a bunch of clutter either packed a way or not yet unpacked. The only truly usable things were an open box of male clothes, an old television atop a table, and a futon. "It's not much of a room, but it's where I stay... sort of."

Tae was not on the same page as Yugi. She seemed to disagree with his logic on an almost fundamental level in this case. Well, he couldn't blame someone who didn't have the same mental image of events he did. Just the same, he couldn't totally discredit her warning. "Maybe it doesn't. But it likely does. From the way things just went, I think there are only a couple of ways it could have been better," he chattered. As they reached the examination room, Yugi took it upon himself to sit atop the bed. Tae wanted this done before he became a non-entity. That wasn't going to happen. "Nothing to worry about. But if you want to get things done on the off-chance something happens, there's a list. Also, details. I can currently add about fifty percent of my overall power to myself. Even more if you want a full consultation the other way around. But that's probably a 'no' for now, so... what's first? Consultate me♥~" he said. All the while, that man working for Makima was questioned about the current problem. He shouldn't have had an issue at all, but... he did have one, and it was absolutely unprecedented. "I hate to say it, but I'm not actually sure what's wrong. That phone he was holding should show up right here, but look! There's just a black dot. No waves going in or coming out, like there isn't anything there. The weird part is that I'm basically using sonar here. I'm getting grid pattern of electronics, chairs, even them. This screen is acting like there isn't even air where that guy's phone should be."

Miko and Ren were going to get to know each other. In doing this, Miko would be learning for the second time what it was like to meet someone with a wide variety of likes and a small list of dislikes. As a person who was presently mostly neutral until she was really interested, it would be nice to have another person to bounce ideas off of, and different ones even than what she was used to. Until then, there was the matter, "CCTV? I wonder who would bother watching something like that..." Miko wondered. If it was the Prime Minister's initiative she'd be especially careful of how she could be seen, but if it was someone else, there would be a bit more freedom to work with. Miko tiptoed up the stairs, she followed him up to the room, which she found to be a bit empty. As a person who made their bedroom their personal safe haven. All was well, but her eyes eventually zoomed in on a very cluttered desk. "You stay here sort of? Didn't think to make it your own?" Miko couldn't help but wonder as she tried and failed to keep her eyes off the cluttered desk. 'Sou ka, he doesn't feel like he belongs here. This arrangement is new or not one chosen by him or Sakura-san given how he seems to be. More information but I weirdly want to help, would that be pushy?' Miko couldn't help but wonder.

At the same time, Yugi claimed there were only a couple of ways that his conversation could ahave gone better. Tae would disagree but perhaps she was a bit too old to hold on to the kind of naivety which would allow her to feel so optimistic. She wouldn't comment though, it wasn't in her nature to ruin the happiness of kids. "Whatever you say, but careful..." that was it, all the warning she would give. Beyond that warning there was a certain moment taking place as the boy made his way to examination room one. He claimed that he could make himself fifty percent stronger. "Yeah, not accepting a proposition from you. However, I will take some measurements and ask some basic questions, And then ask a different question. You said you can do some specific things, if I wanted to check the amount and progress could you add the amount of strength I wanted you to add to make it measurable?" she asked earnestly. At the same time, Makima was busy hearing something odd. The boy's phone wasn't something which could be seen electronically. it implied it was magical in nature but... that was something Makima was sure she would have known about aside from a single persons instance. There was also the matter of the youth of a person in question. He had to have an accomplice, even a big brained child was still a child. And even the best of the best needed an accomplice or two... someone to make up the difference. "Kaito, search for another black spot within the radius of any other Hunter's phones." she stated.

Before they reached his 'bedroom' if it could be called that, Miko was ready to question the person who'd check CCTV. Ren was a suspicious enough individual that he didn't encounter any real issues, but he knew what the dangers were. "The Hunters Association. They have a knack for catching humans who go out during these," he answered. Shortly afterwards, they were entering the room, all for Miko to ask something else. Had he ever thought of making this room his own? Well... "It's a temporary arrangement. I only really spend nights and free days here," he said, looking around aimlessly. "I might do something about it eventually. It's no bother."

Meanwhile... "This is careful. There are a thousand other things I could have said and done. A puzzle only makes sense when you've seen enough of the pieces put together. I work a little differently," Yugi said with an eerie amount of confidence. Of course, most of his confidence was simply the present moment bleeding through. Tae claimed she wouldn't be accepting a proposition from him. Based on what he'd seen of the System and its routes thus far, Yugi had a single amendment to make. "Yet." Surely the System wouldn't give him a route that couldn't be completed. That starting 5% hadn't dropped at all either, but he shifted his gaze toward a materializing System screen to see where it was now. All the while, Tae was explaining her process and asking a question for confirmation. "To an extent, yeah. Let's say I'm currently working with a strength level of... 117 overall. If you imagine that, we'll say I've got about 50 to spare for whatever purpose I want. Good enough control?" he asked, already tugging his shirt from the bottom. At the same time, that man apparently named Kaito was following orders as always. Makima wanted a search for similar black spots around other Hunters' devices, so he was doing exactly that. "Checking now. I'll run a single pulse from every one in the area for starters. From up here, the check will have to be manual. It'll probably take... oh..." Kaito paused there, already having a very similar phenomenon in sight. "There. It's in the same neighborhood right now, in striking distance of... Hunter Amamiya Ren. A-rank, low-profile. Do you want me to patch it through?"

The bedroom of Amamiya Ren, was one which Miko found to be a bit empty. Of course, he had several answers to her questions, in the moment, he claimed that there was the Hunter's Association problems. Rather that they were the ones who would be watching the cameras. "Oh? Like the scary hot-voice lady who makes S-ranks go handle Dungeon Breaks?" Miko posited pretty directly. Well, she would, that was the reason she wasn't currently a puddle on top of a table like some weird sacrificial lamb. What was more the lad claimed he only spent nights and free days within this space. The arrangement only temporary. He'd make something of it eventually but it was no bother. Miko looked at the lad and felt something odd, "Well, while we talk do you mind if I do a thing?" she asked the young man whose room she currently occupied. She allowed her bag to sit by his door but she mostly wanted to clean off that desk.

"You're treating a psychologically imbalanced adult as a puzzle?" Tae couldn't help herself. That was the kind of attitude that she expected from a fully adult psychologist not a teenager, even a clever one. Whatever the case, Tae decided she definitely wouldn't be accepting propositions from this lad, and he claimed, 'Yet.'. "It's good to have dreams... even if they are someone else's nightmares," Moving on from this moment, there was something else, the lad explaining how his 'strength' could be quantified. "Sou ka, that's like a game mechanic then huh? I can understand that. Normal questions that are probably weird but... Do you have any senses that feel like more than they were before? Is that included in what you can change about yourself?" she questioned. As for Makima she was rather pleasantly surprised to find her hunch leading her down the right path, "Oh, that's a reasonable opening. Now did you leave it on purpose or did you assume no one would look?" Makima mused mostly to herself, but in a technical way to the lad who'd brattily challenged her. What was more that other phone was near one Amamiya Ren, described as low-profile. "One of the avoidant ones? Then it probably isn't him, okay. Give me camera feeds, I want to see if my thoughts are correct." Makima said calmly. Too many coincidences, didn't add up... no there had to be an existing connection and she'd be fully figuring it out.

Based on Miko's response to his note about the Hunters Association, Ren could assume that detective had recently been caught between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. The woman she spoke of was undoubtedly the same one all Hunters knew about, at least from the stories. "Hai. Shido-kaichou," he confirmed. Ren was then moving toward the futon by the singular window, where he intended to sit... until Miko asked if he minded her 'doing a thing' while they chatted. He wasn't sure why she even thought to bother with this room, but he knew a couple of eccentric types with their obsessive-compulsive reactions. "If you really want to, I guess it's fine," he decided. "But won't you just get dirty again? You just showered."

Yugi would easily treat a psychologically imbalanced adult woman as a puzzle. In fact, "Everyone's a puzzle. Some just have more pieces than others," he believed. Preemptively-rejected advances aside, Tae implied his 'dream' could be the nightmare of another, perhaps herself. "There are people who might take an interest in a wet nightmare. Perspective is important and irrelevant," he suggested before that shirt was pulled overhead, carefully enough to avoid displacing the hood magically casting shadows over his face. Tae's questioning began with the topic of his senses, and indeed he had one that was becoming more and more potent over time. "Sight. I always had pretty strong eyes, but a little mana lets me see a lot more. I'll probably end up with Sharingan or something. Oh, and yeah, think of it like a game. That's what I've been doing," he answered and specified. All the while, Kaito was questioned again... or at least he thought he was, until he realized Makima was instead questioning her current target. "I can't imagine a person who even knows what this is. It's like these things came out of a Dungeon... and I don't mean like they were made from the loot; I mean like they're straight out of a Dungeon," Kaito claimed. Makima demanded a camera feed, so he started another hacking attempt. "On it. Let's see... Leblanc café. Good cozy spot; I hear it's got killer curry and coffee. Weird as combo. Cameras confirmed. Should be live to your second screen here in a few seconds," Kaito assured while attempting to tap the system.

'Shidou-kaichou' was apparently the woman in charge of the Hunter's Association. By what Miko heard of her, she was the type A, need to be in control of a situation sort. Hunters appearing like they had, was likely an interesting change, and she probably awakened powers which were similar to her own personality. Miko wouldn't have been surprised to learn that woman's powers allowed her more control, and with that in mind she would easily continue on her own thought processes. Whatever the case, Miko was given permission to go about her desire to fix the clutter of his bedroom. Upon hearing him comment on her potential for getting dirty after showering. "Hm, I know where the shower is now... I'd take no issue with another one. But... I have another thing, a little secret, Veil." she quietly murmured as her whole body shimmered with a layer of protective light. If one could witness it, it would seem like a layer of protective and shifting light across her person and would help her avoid getting dirty or having her status change for a few moments while she busied herself. "Don't let me stop you from talking though," Miko muttered as she leaned over the desk and began organizing things. All the while her bottom was in steady swaying and bouncing motion as she happily organized, tools, boxes and documents, slowly but surely revealing the workspace beneath the clutter.

"Sou ka, one of those..." Tae said. There were people who saw others in various inhuman ways. Some saw everything as puzzles, some saw it as transactional business portions, some saw humans as dogs and dolls. Tae herself was far from such a mindset but she also knew that those types were moving the world in ways others could not. At the same time, Tae, was watching as the boy removed his shirt, between her two fingers, she spawned soemthing like a mana-based magnifier, which she used to look at his form and take his measurements and check his muscular density. One could say her eye sight was enhanced by this method, but it was much easier to say that she was simply making sense of the kinds of information eyes normally absorbed by applying numbers to it. Such is why her understanding of him was so specific. "Sou ka," she said about his sight, she took a note and leaned forward looking into his shadowed face, directly at his eyes the same way she'd been looking before. "Careful about Mana use with your eyes before increasing whatever stats help with perception or mental acuity. You could potentially fry your brain by pushing it too hard," she made some hypothesis, and moved on. Just the same a different set would soon be moving on. "Assuming you have a different set of criteria to deal with, let me tell you how we measure Hunters and you can tell me if I need to make some changes in my understanding; STRENTH, DURABILITY, SPEED, MANA, SENSES, are the physical attributes, CLASS SKILL is for the technique of specific ranking, Those are ranked from E to S by the way no number metrics but I could probably make a few estimations if it would be easier to convert them," Tae mentioned knowing how she would be measuring. Makima was busy exploring the variables of her day. Apparently those phones looked as if they'd come out of a Dungeon, there was an easy way to test that. "Is that so, well... that'd be quite the boon in some specific instances," she mused. One which would require a bit of extra work but with two individuals who seemed close to awakening anyway, keeping tabs or getting their actual phone numbers likely wouldn't be too difficult. Or would it? She'd told that young man to patch her into Leblanc's cameras, that shouldn't have been a difficult ask at all, especially not given what he had to say about the place. As that man confirmed the cameras an alert would pop up for the girl still awaiting sushi. "Oh? It'll be a cold day in hell before something that simple peeks in on Oji-san," she said as she sat up, and began rapidly typing after switching the screen. She was still watching the cafe, and wanted to know about Ren but that could wait while she did some real work. What Kaito would be receiving back was a dancing image of a sheet covered being with large eyes painted on it. 'The protection of Medjed extends far and wide. There is no place for you here! Begone or face the consequences!' A mocking mesage from one hacker to another.

Amamiya Ren would soon be witnessing something very strange, very... questionable. Miko, or Misaki as he knew her, had a secret: a magical barrier of some nature. When she activated it, Ren quirked a brow. "Didn't you say you weren't an Awakener?" he questioned. Obviously there was no shortage of secrets in either of their stories, but this one had been very forthcoming with information to have something like that hidden this entire time. She'd be using that unusual veil to clean off a desk, her rear taking on an interesting pattern of movement all the while. Naturally, Ren was watching intently... but she wanted him to keep talking? There wasn't much coming to mind at the time. "What do you want to know?"

It seemed Tae had dealt with Yugi's type at some point in her life. That came as no surprise. Moving on to the use of his ocular ability, the doctor offered a suggestion that he avoid overuse before advancing his Perception. There was reason to assume some Hunters had issues with such abilities. Actually, he'd seen that blonde girl with her eyes covered recently. She didn't have any issues, or even glasses as he recalled from a passing encounter in the past. Perhaps that was one such case? "Noted. I've been trying to avoid it since the first bleeding feeling anyway," he said, content to take the doctor's advice without any sass. Tae would go on to explain how Hunters' physical abilities were measured. Much like their general ranking system, they had letter rankings for attributes as well. "Pretty basic stuff until you get to the Class Skill part. Strength, Endurance, Agility, Intelligence, Perception. That's how I would be classified. For right now, Perception is the lowest, but that's more of an 'I need the physical parts right here and now' thing. I'll see it handled," he explained. At the same time, Kaito was failing to imagine how two devices like that phone could exist, and how anyone besides high-ranking registered Hunters could discover them. "More than useful, but it's still a phone, right? They can't just be picked up in a Dungeon... but I can't think of anyone who would make something like that without everyone knowing. Maybe Capsule Corp, but that'd just be the hardware. Anyway, you should be seeing..." Once again, Kaito paused mid-sentence. Why this time? What should have been a video feed inside Leblanc from a successful hack, was instead taunted by familiar imagery he would have never expected to see in this moment. "Fuck! What do they want to keep me out for?!" he exclaimed, nearly punching the laptop in front of him. "I can't. Medjed must be working with these people, and I can't hang with Medjed. I even tried getting into their group twice, but... rumor says finding their members is the application. Obviously that didn't work. I could try scanning for a moving camera nearby, or maybe snag a drone and check the windows?"

Amamiya Ren was a lad full of secrets. Miko in talking to him, realized that he was quiet and without any real negatives applied. She gave a little to get a little in return. Of course, her giving a little would be her showing that she could in fact use a bit of magic. This would cause questions but as she was cleaning she didn't really mind answering them. "I'm a bit complicated. I can use a couple of magical things, my hearing was a bit crazy even before everything else, and a couple of other oddities appeared around me. But... as far as Awakeners are concerned, I'm not sure I count as one," Miko explained carefully. If one had to assign an understanding to her, she was off the grid, so to speak. As she went through things she tucked things into drawers organized papers by date and alphabetical information and put like objects together. What did Miko want to know? "Do you have a bucket list?" she questioned, well, that was always a good opener, she could get to know the start of things by knowing exactly how much he thought about the sexual types of activities.

At the same time, Tae was beginning to understand the difference between this lad's physiology and that of the 'Standard Hunter'. Her advice about his eyes was taken and that was good the feeling he described was about standard for ocular prowess when it popped up. "I've examined a few people with ocular prowess, that feeling is pretty normal when strain is introduced. Also watch out for headaches that seem to give sensation right between or behind the eyes," she gave those general warnings. "Yeah, the Class Skills can make or break certain kinds of people. A poor class skill could make you practically useless in your class or it could raise you up a bit even if some of your other parameters are lack luster. That conversion is pretty easy to do, I assume that, Endurance replaces Durability, Agility replaces Speed, Intelligence is replacing Mana and Perception replaces Senses. Your understanding of self is likely more precise, but I'll run mine based on 'Hunter' standard and then see the differences," Tae said as she continued writing down a bit of information. Her current understanding of this lad's body and the like had her with some specific understandings. After her observations a single finger was raised with a small light ball of energy on it, it was teal in color and she used her index finger to hold it up in front of his face. "Follow my finger with your eyes," she explained. Only for her hand to move. Up, down, right, left, figure eight, diagonal, and then in a cross. She was timing eye movements and the like. At the same time, Makima was getting more and more surprises than a single day could make her handle. A phone was only as useful as the networks it could access, even Capsule Corp would only have made the hardware, and not been able to do anything about the software. "There are a few possibilities. He wouldn't have shown it, if it wasn't actively in use..." she explained knowing how people like that thought. He was baiting her, so showing her something that didn't work just for show wouldn't have been in his thought process. While she waited for a visual on Leblanc's she was confronted by another wall, Medjed apparently didn't want anyone looking in. "Privacy could be it. Considering..." Makima's brain was processing all the information she had for that area earlier. There was only one thing to do now, that Kaito was cut out of direct observation. "Do that if you can do it on the move. We're going over there..." she said seemingly deadpan. She didn't often leave her office but she didn't like having so many questions at one time.

One secret was revealed, but there was more to it than someone like Ren could assume. Miko had some sort of magical ability, but she didn't consider herself an Awakener. Things kept getting stranger. He had no room to question the girl, nor was he likely to understand where she was coming from in this case. Besides, Ren was content to keep watching her ass while she cleared that desk. Miko eventually asked if he had a bucket list. Technically, his answer should be an affirmative one. On the other hand, there were caveats to all things... and this was no exception. "No. I wouldn't be able to keep track of one if I did. Do you have one?" he wondered in return. Ever the reactive type in social situations, Ren was content to just turn Miko's questions the other way around.

Yugi would be learning about ocular abilities and how they manifested in Hunters. His symptoms were similar, making him wonder where any divergence may have been... if any existed in such specific instances. Whatever the case, it seemed the major difference-maker for a Hunter could easily be the quality of Class Skill they possessed. Yugi had seen that sort of thing first-hand. If not for their ability to work around the few Skills they had, he and Miko probably would have died a few times over in that training realm. "Those conversions should work. There are some notable changes certain stats make for me though. For example, and for completely scientific purposes, I can make my dick bigger," he explained simply. With Tae's instruction to follow that dot of mana at her fingertip with his eyes, Yugi focused. Up, down, left, right, reverse figure eight, diagonal, then cross. The shift was easy enough; he didn't even need mana to follow something like that initially. By the time of that figure eight, however, he was subconsciously applying a small amount. In the end, his eyes were perfectly tracing that little sphere of energy... even though there were a couple of hiccups due to Tae's cleavage appearing in his periphery and becoming the focal point he'd rather keep. "Not exactly making it easy," he complaint lightly. Meanwhile, Kaito was surprisingly told he and Makima would be going out to inspect the current situation directly. So rarely did the chairwoman leave the premises, he didn't initially process the demand. "It'd be pretty difficult on the move, but it's not like I... eh?!" Surprise took him in a single moment, but it wasn't like Kaito could afford to remain shocked. No, it was his job to get a move on. "Hai. I'll pull the car around," he said, making his way toward the exit without wasting any further time. One didn't waste time around Shido Makima.

Miko was the type to bond with others as she could. If it seemed odd that she was willing to share her secrets with someone she'd just met, she'd raise the idea that she had a pretty good feeling about him, the words of the System aside. As Miko cleaned her hips swayed, she reached over the desk and was leaned over it almost completely while she organized things that couldn't be seen without the lean. Still, she could hear the lad speaking he couldn't claim to have a bucket list, as he couldn't keep track of it. "Chii♪~ I get it. I don't necessarily have a bucket list. I add things to a box when I can't immediately do them and it will open when the time is right. But I have a lot fewer absolutely not things applied to my logic than most would find acceptable," Miko claimed as her bottom wiggled in the air, showing that little pink thong in flashes while she continued to clean and move things around behind the desk. "If you don't have a bucket list then what's a no from you?" she wondered earnestly. She'd told the lad she wouldn't dive into his personal life too much but if they were to have any real fun together a bit of light discussion might be worth having.

Meanwhile, Yugi was receiving world building information from more neutral sources. Tae had the information from a medical perspective. It was numbers, quality ratings and a more concrete way of thinking about natural advancement. In this case, her comparison seemed to work for the lad, who did have something else to say, he could also make his dick larger. "Of course you can... that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do with magical know-how," she said with pure sarcasm in her voice. Of course, there was a more formal way to address these things, "Still, there is a pretty good chance that the Awakening process often changes several things about the body while it is enhanced by mana. Quite a few such differences exist. Though I wouldn't expect any real changes in sexual characteristics from anything less than a B-rank, maybe even an A-rank," she mused by understanding. At the same time she was tracking his eyes, she knew what he was looking at in the gentle moments of hesitation, but nothing about his sight seemed wrong. She could also seen the subconscious use of mana, as she watched him. "Sou sou, your vision is indeed being enhanced by mana. You aren't doing it actively but I have a pretty acute feeling for mana in general so I can say you're expelling a bit through your eyes while you do that," Tae mentioned. By the end of it, she was finishing up her notes and making her own comparisons. "Checking reflexes," she murmured. That same dot of mana would be tapped against his shoulder, then elbow then wrist, as she measured the ticks of muscle fibers beneath the skin.

Strength: C+
Durability: C-
Speed : ???
Mana: ???
Senses: D

All the while, Makima was on the move. She realized she didn't often go out of her own accord. But there were some things she needed to see for herself. And setting eyes upon the mouthy brainy teen and his accomplice were worth doing regardless of any other circumstances. She wouldn't be ignored, nor would she allow them to wander off to incidentally become something to be used against her. These were things not allowed to happen on Makima's watch.