<Nocturnal Harmonia>

"Aggressive head pats?" Ren questioned initially, only to give it further thought and figure out what she meant. "Sou ka. Yeah, that would probably be good from both sides," he decided. Mention of boob hats led to Miko mentioning how she had one earlier today. Ren was quite envious of that. "Lucky. I've only had that while sitting down," he admitted, lamenting his own tallness. The 'installation' of verbal filters was a problem Ren knew well. At this point, his entire life was one big filter for his true thoughts, hence the silent protagonist approach in part. Either way, it was time for Miko to seat herself in his lap. Her question was indeed about the side she would sit on, and without a single reprehension... she announced her destination was right on top of his dick. The way she said that had a strong implication. While she made her way over, Ren moved with the intention of unbuttoning and unzipping his trousers... but by the time he straightened his left leg, Miko was already planting herself atop the bulge over his thigh. One surprise immediately followed another, but Ren couldn't complain either way. "... Oh─"

Tae would be keeping in mind the benefits of fooling around a bit. Of course she would; proper research would always be done by her type. Even if she were asexual, Yugi figured improving her ability to heal others by having sex would be something she did actively, provided results were assured. "I know you will. And you wouldn't have to worry about her either, I don't think. She can't keep me under heel as easily as she'd like. If you had me, she'd have a win by proxy. Besides, she'd definitely know what you were up to; I'm sure of that," he retorted with relative ease. On the topic of his ability to heal, Tae presumed it connected to his method of strengthening. She was definitely on the right track. Before doing anything else, Yugi retrieved a potion from inventory and held it between the doctor and himself. "It's these. They'll work as long as I'm not in the red, so to speak. Same goes for anyone else who needs one," he said while shaking the potion bottle. For his stats, Tae spoke of Strength and Perception as viable targets, further advising Endurance because intercourse with S-ranks had notably claimed some lives in this world. "Status," he whispered. Yugi would dump ten points into each of those three stats while addressing another matter. "S-ranks, huh? How much to survive against you? There's no other S-rank I've got my eye on right now," he said. With that, the stat allocation was done. Tae would be able to see the advancement of his musculature in real time, rapid though the shift was. Overall, Yugi would seem as if he'd spent another six months in a rough gym.

At the same time, Kaito was parking the car outside of Leblanc. Once he and Makima were still, she asked if he could get a better look inside. He'd been around long enough to know that wasn't really a question. Makima asking someone if they could do something was generally accepted as a gentle demand to do what she was asking about. He picked up a laptop from the backseat, using it to immediately tap into CCTV in the immediate area. He looked between the screen and the café for several moments before reaching a conclusion. "I have visual, but no one is in sight downstairs. Looking again... Amamiya Ren's device and that blank spot are upstairs. No camera has a line of sight there."

Miko called the act of fellatio from her standing perspective with hair gripping and face fucking... aggressive head pats. Such a thing wasn't likely to make sense outside of her own head but the lad sitting with her was one who seemed to get it after only a moment of thought. "Sou ka, I didn't expect anyone to understand that without being part of it first♪~" she chirped happily. From what she understood it was definitely enjoyable from both sides. What was more, boob hats done from the perspective of standing were things not given to this particular young man. Miko could understand that, he was quite tall, but he did have the sitting ones. "Hm, the sitting ones are nice too. Especially with the extra leaning," Miko decided knowing what she liked to receive and also figuring out what she could give. Ah speaking of giving, Miko was direct as she always would be, but maybe taken with way more excitement than normal people gave. She found as she tried to sit in this young man's lap and found him almost anticipatorily trying to remove his pants. "Waaah♪~ You're really excitable Amamiya-kun♪~" she made that little noise while getting a feel for his cock and becoming quite enthused by the bulge itself. 'I haven't missed yet♪!~' Miko thought happily. "Still, if you pulled it out now, I'd lose track of everything else for a while... and I'm trying to show you mine, since you showed me yours~" she said cheerfully. She would be allowing him to search that huge list of hers, while she happily occupied his personal space, as she quite enjoyed doing in general.

Meanwhile, there was a casual conversation going on between Tae and her newest patient/experimental subject. "Well, she knows what everyone is up to, that's kind of her thing~" was all Tae had to say about any of that. He might not see that woman as a problem, but Tae knew a certain set of truths, which was, that woman was more of a problem if she couldn't control something than she was if she could. Soon enough though, something else was attracting her attention, the appearance of a potion bottle and the idea that something like that could be used to bring the lad's health up from it. "Where did you get that?" an immediate question of pure scientific interest and curiosity, she reached for, it, she needed to study it, run it through several processes and find how how it was made. As for his question she could answer that while trying and perhaps failing to do what she wanted, "S-ranks become basically inhuman. Well, all people with Mana in their bodies are less human than those without. The difference in strength alone makes it so that even an E-rank is almost impossible to hurt with regular weapons, if that clears it up," she explained briefly the difference in physicality. "As for myself... my physical parameters are mostly average, except for my Endurance. Everything else, including my Class Skill are rated S... so if you don't want to be seriously injured you'd need to be within a couple of ranks or be prepared to take serious damage," she explained gently.

Meanwhile, Makima was asking questions and having them intepreted as 'gentle orders' that was probably the right way to do things. She didn't like waiting or excuses. Beyond that Kaito was indeed capable enough to look into the store from some close, but not get eyes on the lad upstairs and his guest. "Sou ka, well... if no one else is there, we're going in. Unlock the door," she said getting out of the car and going to stand by the entrance. She'd be approaching the pair inside directly not waiting for them to prepare or anything of the sort.

Sadly, Ren had misinterpreted Miko's intention of sitting on his dick. He'd taken it either more literally or less, depending on one's outlook... but he definitely hoped she meant sitting with it inside her. Alas, that was not the case. She called him excitable. Was he? Well, yes... but if he had to comment, Ren would say he was just being dumb. "I uh... misread a sign," he admitted. According to the lass herself, removing his cock would mean she'd lose track of all other things. Ren didn't envision a negative in that. "Would that be bad?" he asked. That screen of hers was visible, and he was looking at it... but he was also already throbbing beneath her with unrivaled ferocity. "Well I've already seen you showering," he said as if alluding to another point of fairness. Ah, but there was something else: a reason to pause. Something overwhelmingly powerful was in the area, and it was only getting closer by the moment. In actuality, Kaito was already picking the lock downstairs, stepping aside to let that oppressive presence into Leblanc. By then, Ren was stunned silent and motionless. "Uh... was the detective coming back?"

Tae reinforced the idea that Shido Makima knew of everyone's dealings. That sort of person was another type Yugi needed access to. "What are the chances she's irrationally hot? Like, let's say you're a ten ─ which is lowballing by the way. Where would she be?" he wondered as a point of genuine curiosity. If the System gave him a route for that woman, he'd take it in a heartbeat... but there was only so much pretending Yugi could do. For instance, his response to Tae's question about that materialized potion was technically just the truth played off as a joke. "Magic shop~" he said. Yugi would let her take that potion as she wished... but he knew the end result. She could claim it, but shortly after leaving his hand, it would vanish. "Yeah, that's how that works. It'll change eventually, but there's no way to force it," he explained loosely. Past that, Yugi learned something else. Even an E-rank Hunter couldn't be harmed by conventional means. With that being the case, and knowing what Miko had been up to with a very active S-rank Hunter, he didn't fear interacting with this woman. Her raw power was terrifying to rationalize, but he'd also felt worse... once. "Understood. I can handle you right now," he said confidently. "So, next test? I'm guessing you still need reason to believe. Or should I just whip it out right now?"

Ren had misinterpreted what Miko said, but she didn't take it badly. No, she had every intention of pursuing that sort of thing, she simply thought to take a bit more time with it than normal. "Iia, that interpretation wasn't wrong, just... mistimed♪~" Miko decided. It was obvious, they were planning some sort of sexual activity they might as well both be as honest and open as possible. As for the badness of Miko losing track of everything else, "Well, not bad... I always enjoy what's happening when I hyper-fixate, but I might not be able to say much for a while♪~" Miko flirted logically. Her own desires would have her mouth filled first and foremost and everything else following her other desires. Beyond that he'd seen her showering and she could feel his cock throbbing beneath her, she shifted on top of it, rolling her hips comfortably along its stiffness. "You did see me showering, I suppose it would only be fair if I saw..." Miko paused her thought processes. There was a sound, almost imperceptible, like a gentle clicking. But not like a key turning in a lock.... "Someone's here," she murmured softly. Was it the detective? "Iia, he was off to work on the orders he was given. He forgot it because of them," Miko asserted. Of course, she could hear it now, the measured footsteps of the woman's heels clicking against the floor. As she looked around a resturant that was closed but seemed to have been cleaned up for the night. Except for the one cellphone on the counter with the little note in neat handwriting. "Sou ka, he really did forget it..." Makima uttered as she continued walking straight towards the back. The oppressive weight of her presence slowly but surely ascending the steps. "Uhh... she's definitely coming up the stairs." Miko mentioned, knowing by the sound of footsteps and voice that it was a woman headed up to see them. Actually, she'd heard that voice before too, on that same phone call.

Meanwhile, Tae would be surprised. Mostly by the lad's lack of knowledge in this moment. He questioned the hotness of one Shido Makima. And in turn Tae's eyes widened because she was just aghast that it was possible someone didn't know who that woman was or what she looked like. "First of all... she might be one of the most attractive adult women on the entire planet. 15 outta 10 easy," she said firmly. "Second of all, where have you been for the last year that you don't know who she is?" she questioned directly. There was no way a Japanese citizen shouldn't have been able to identify that woman at random. Meanwhile, that potion would be disappearing form her hand, pretty much as soon as the lad let go of it. "Fuck! What kind of bullshit is that!" she exclaimed. It was frustrating at best. What kind of world gave access to a magical item shop to a kid who was just trying to convince adult women to have sex with him? "Ugh, stupid. That's stupid." she said immediately, seeming to be slightly annoyed. Whatever the case, she added a proverbial drop in her bucket of nonsense. Whatever the case, this lad thought he was capable of taking her, she scoffed at his audacity. "If you've finished alotting your stats... I'll run a second test. I don't need to see your dick or anything... keep your pants on," she said while shaking her head. She was content to run the same set of tests from before and record any changes or lack there of, for the sake of seeing if his baseline actually changed. As such her finger went up, a little glowing ball of mana at the tip of it, and she began the eye test once more. This time, down, up, right, left, inverse figure eight, cross, circle.... intent to follow the movement of his eyes and observe.

Ren hadn't made a mistake; he'd just been a little early. From the sound of things, sex was precisely what Miko intended to pursue. She didn't mind the idea of abandoning everything else to dive right in, but her ability to speak would be lost for some time. Was that an implication of her wanting to be wrecked? Or was there perhaps another devious meaning to take from that? Time would tell... but first, interruption. Something incredibly powerful and undoubtedly S-rank was close ─ very close. According to Miko, it wasn't likely to be Detective Akechi. Whoever or whatever it was, they were coming. Even Ren could hear the click of heels on hardwood floor when they neared and climbed the stairs. A woman that strong? He only knew of a few who could be anywhere near here. "I can't fight that," was all he could say. In truth, Ren wouldn't have even been able to fight the male walking behind that presence ─ not that he could be sensed past the overwhelming might leading the way.

Meanwhile, Yugi was hearing claims about that very same imposing woman. 15/10 was the rating Tae gave her, calling the chairwoman one of the most attractive adult women in the world. The name Shido didn't ring a bell for Yugi, though. Regardless, her relevance was only noted over the past year ─ a year he'd been missing. Where had he been to not know who Shido Makima was? "On a date. A longer date than what it felt like," he answered simply. Ah, but he now knew Makima was a very attractive individual. Surely the System wouldn't be such a prick that it kept that route from him, right? Well, it was enough of one to keep him from passing items to those he hadn't bonded with to a certain extent ─ something Tae was very dissatisfied by. "It's so fucking dumb, right?! Like I can't even decide who I give my own shit to. I paid my own hard-earned, imaginary money for that shit!" he complained right alongside the doctor. Oh well. It was time for the second test. Tae would begin with another ball of mana on her finger. Yugi readied himself to follow along, albeit with some very noteworthy differences now. For starters, the incidental mana that would flow into his eyes was less than before. Beyond that... down, up, left... his eyes moved to follow along perfectly, until they shifted right just a tiny bit ahead of her perspective's left movement. By the time she performed that figure eight, his eyes were already completing it and moving into the cross, only to complete an inverse circle just before her cross was finished. He'd already seen the movements, just a fraction of a second before they were made. When the his eyes stopped moving, he managed to see that last maneuver twice ─ the second time when Tae actually performed it. "Huh. Did you do a weird, or was that me frying my brain?"

Miko and Ren were well on their way to a sexual encounter. It would have been Miko's third or fourth on the rolling day so far, but that wasn't really an issue she bothered herself considering. No, she was far too busy worrying about the two bodies coming up the stairs. One of them almost seemed insignificant by comparison but it was still two people breaking into a cafe to harass people they shouldn't have even known were there. "I won't fight that, but there is always another option," Miko claimed. There were scary things. Things that she'd been encouraged to run from, but this didn't sound like that sort of problem. No, it wasn't innately unsettling in the same way, so she would take the lesser known third option. No fighting, no running, by the time Makima crossed the threshold the door, Miko's hands were up in the air as she continued to occupy Ren's lap. With a little squeak she uttered words that likely would only make sense in an odd way. "Chii♪~ I surrender♪~" she offered immediately, in the same way a child found breaking a rule tended to abdicate themselves of punishment. "Oh? That's new," Shido Makima said watching as the small girl whose voice she definitely recognized occupied the lap of a different male individual. The red haired woman had her hair in a messy braid. She wore a skintight black pencil skirt and thigh highs in addition to a suit jacket. Her eyes were golden in color and she seemed almost oppressively ringed.

Meanwhile, Yugi and Tae were still discussing that same woman who was making an appearance relatively close by. It was interesting in the moment to hear that anyone simply didn't know who she was. The lad's explanation for why he didn't know the look of one Shido Makima was simply, he'd been on a date, that lasted longer than anticipated. "Uh-huh, that doesn't really explain it unless it was on another planet, but given what life is like right now, I'll just assume it was... and mentally move past it. Mostly," she claimed her hands thrown up in the air. This boy had shown her things she found to be utterly ridiculous. Beyond that, it seemed that both individuals lamented his inability to give the item she sought to study. It was dumb that if he'd paid for it himself he couldn't give it away. "Yeah, that's kinda crazy to be honest," she commiserated but there seemed to be a method to getting her to what she wanted, it's requirements were questionable though. Still, what of the test? It would appear that those movements of her finger weren't being followed. That should have been a problem, but it seemed that his eyes were moving before her finger did instead. "Sugei!~" she was enthused. That was a crazy thing to witness, the increase in his ocular ability was ridiculous to say the least, and it'd definitely surpassed his previous version, without strain, increasing the amount of mana expended and increased efficacy. That percentage bar, likely shot up a full seven percent simply because she maintained a certain greater interest alone.

Ren couldn't fight whatever was ascending those stairs. He couldn't even think about fighting it, given the amount of mana and passive menace he could feel. In fact... he doubted using his Skill to disappear would accomplish anything. According to Miko however, there was another method ─ one she wouldn't share until she utilized it. When the presence made itself clear as the well-known Shido Makima, Miko... surrendered. What an interesting tactic ─ one that didn't seem to be failing at least. Besides that, Ren would surrender to the redhead anytime she desired it. "We surrender!" he added. Kaito stood behind Makima, stepping out just slightly to her left and raising a brow. "Probably could have just called the café at this rate. They'd have turned themselves in. Anyway, is this the part where you boss them around? I think they're waiting for that part."

The entire situation Yugi and Miko had gone through didn't make sense. Tae presented the idea of them being on another planet as the only viable explanation, to which Yugi could only shrug. "It might have been. That's what I assumed too," he stated. The craziness of the System's rules notwithstanding, he did have a desire to pass along that potion. Unrealistic as it was, there was the slightest hope that potions wouldn't have that same restriction applied... but alas, it wasn't to be. "For what it's worth, I was hoping potions would work differently. I'm sure you could get a lot from one of those. One day," he said, carrying a tinge of actual remorse. When the second test ended, Yugi couldn't be sure if that was an advancement or a problem. Everything felt fine, but that tended to be the case after he applied stat points anyway. Tae's reaction made it seem positive overall. 'Actual Sharingan? No way!' Yugi thought. Better still, Tae's Intimacy rating was now reading 17%. "Sou desu ka. You're really interested in that, huh?"

Miko immediately surrendered if only because neither she nor the man she was with could do anything about the coming threat. It would seem that upon realizing that Miko was going to surrender, then he was goin to do the same thing. "Tehehe♪~" Miko chuckled only to remember the situation was serious. She heard another voice soon after, and a red haired male stepped in as well, drawing her eye. 'I'd only turn myself in if I did something wrong,' Miko thought absently. "Come now, Kaito I don't just boss people around," Makima stated but Miko was already shaking her head her eyes shifting between Makima and apparently Kaito. She didn't believe that to be true. "Anyway, I have questions and I require answers," Makima stated while looking at the pair with their hands up in the air. "You can both put your hands down, I don't intend to hurt either of you. Amamiya Ren have you been staying out of trouble?" she asked the lad whom she knew to have a criminal record.

Meanwhile, Yugi was not beating the allegations of having spent time on another planet. His own words implied that he thought he might have done such a thing. A look of strange confusion crossed the face of Tae. "That's crazy, but after going in and out of Gates for the last year I am not terribly surprised," she said honestly. Beyond this point she received a rather genuine bit of remorse about not being able to share that potion. "Sou ka, you're still running your own experiments then. I get it. You have to run the tests, don't worry too much about it, but when it's possible I would definitely want one to study," she offered casually. It was always interesting to see normalcy from people like the lad in front of her. As for her interest in his ocular abilities, "Of course. There is a marked improvement in the movement of your eyes. It almost seems predictive in nature and that's ridiculous after the more normal but slightly better human reaction speed of a few moments ago. There is no way you could have naturally improved, nor would it have been something capable of being hidden. It's fascinating!~" she claimed. And in truth the new bodies of hunters always were. She wouldn't just be stopping there, no she was now lookign at the rest of his body, seeing increased muscle mass and extra definition. "Oh, but you also increased in mass about five percent muscle mass, maybe a bit more, it's unprecedented!" she exclaimed.

The pair's surrender would have surely come about at some point or another. For Ren, that would have been the case if only because Makima carried the energy of a real-life dominatrix, and he already had CBT on the brain tonight. According to Makima, she didn't just boss people around. Kaito firmly disagreed, and the pair of teens seemed to be on the same page. Of course, Kaito knew that wasn't an argument worth having. "My mistake. Rumors, you know?" was his only response. The others were told to lower their hands, which Ren did without hesitation. Makima had questions... and the first of them was if he'd been staying out of trouble. Just as before, he wouldn't be very talkative at all. "Mostly."

Moving along from whether Yugi had actually been on another planet or not, Tae came to realize Yugi was still adjusting to certain things as well. Most of the claims he'd made were very recent observations that he couldn't imagine many alternatives to. Whatever the case, the doctor wanted a potion to study whenever it became possible. "At this rate... soon. When the grind starts properly, I'll be able to get more effective potions, with different buffs too. By then, I should be able to drop them straight into your Inventory. Theoretically," he said, giving it a moment of extra thought. "Well... the only part that's theory is the timing," he added in the end. Tae had quite the 'nerd fit' over his ocular development. Yugi was mentally having one of a different variety, and would let his thoughts verbally leak out as well. "Good eyes to Sharingan, Rinnegan next. I'm going for god eyes by year three!" he announced while Tae moved on to observe his musculature. "Oh yeah, that happens. Do I need to keep my dick away still? Because I've got no idea what I'm pulling out next time I do it. The first dump of points doubled it!"

Miko and Ren were both seemingly here to surrender to the greatest power in the room. In this case, the greatest power in the room was also one of the greatest power in the country, as far as the world understood it. In this time, Miko would note the adult man in the room folding immediately to the suggestion of being told off. This alone was enough to support the idea that Makima was built to boss others around, but she also wasn't one to push her luck not when it wasn't necessary. "You shouldn't put stock in rumors, Kaito." Makima said calmly. Beyond that hands were lowered, Miko's into her lap with her phone as the screen turned black. She tried to avoid wiggling too much but there was a dick right beneath her bottom so she'd fidget just the same. At the same time, the silent protagonist returned, with a singular word answer to Makima's question. "That's good to hear. Keep it up... jails aren't really made for Hunters you know?" she said to the lad. "Now, who is your friend here?" Makima asked the lad instead of the girl herself. That was an interesting choice, but it was the kind of interrogation tactic that Miko was familiar enough with that she didn't seem to flinch over it. She also didn't bother with the thought of what kind of trouble Ren could get into... it wasn't a big deal. All the while Makima's eyes had shifted and she was staring into Miko's face. she'd seen a face like that before, it was quite memorable. Different color eyes, a different hair style with a slightly different hair color but the face was quite unremarkably remarkable.

Meanwhile, Tae was once again hearing the lad talk about this current stint in life as if it was a game. 'The grind' was a pretty common thing, said by people who played games that required resource gathering and management. She'd have to ask a few more specific questions going forward. "Inventory? I assume that wouldn't be anything as simple as the mage's ability to store their weapons or Artifacts. Going with the idea that you don't know what I mean, some mages have the ability to use what is essentially Space-Time magic for the purpose of item storage, usually limited but useful just the same," she pointed out. If she got an Inventory space that was properly abuseable that would be rather good too. Her sampling ability could increase by quite the large margin. Even if it didn't work that way, then simply being given items that this lad had access to, would make things quite good. As for the lad's plans for his eyes she could only be amused by his excitement. "Yeah go for it. It's good to have goals but don't push too quickly, eye things can get out of hand..." she mused. As for his meat and him not knowing what it would be when he pulled it out. She gave it some minor consideration. "I'm not a urologist. Though I can't say it isn't a potentially interesting thought process you still probably shouldn't just be offering to whip it out at random," she concluded. Ah but it was a point of curiosity and things that piqued her curiosity kept adding to her Intimacy, in this case, a 3 percent spike would occur.