lethal.

She swiftly took the plate of banana split she carelessly put on the table from the other’s sight. Her grumbling stomach was enough to tell that she wasn’t going to share it to anyone.

“This is mine.”

“They are Unknowns.” Asuha replied simply. “Just like their name, I don’t know and don’t want to know more about them. But more specifically, they’re annoying, and we should exterminate them.”

It’s really a half-baked explanation, and Asuha purposely did that because she lacked effort, as always. The creatures with black body and shiny red lines on their body, in various shapes and sizes, began to come from the black-colored sky. Some shaped like ships, some shaped like planes, some also shaped like humans. There’s also one with the size as huge as building with ten floors.

“We only have to defeat them, and the big boss over there.” She pointed a huge woman-like Unknown, except that it didn’t have the face of woman and its height was ten times taller than average adults.

“Got it? Let’s go.”

It’s not like Asuha particularly cared to the grumpy woman who accompanied her, not really. But, any Magical Girls would be happy for receiving Magical Candies after helping people out. Well, Asuha considered that to be troublesome. However, as long as she got the payoff, she didn’t mind to work out just a little bit.

This time, though, the unhappiness felt somewhat unsettling. Like, there’s something wrong.

After checking the amount of her Magical Candies in her possession, she turned to the other female. “Aren’t you supposed to be happy?”

luxenebris:

“Years?” She retorted. “Does that mean I have to wait for that long? Geez.”

Even though she appeared indifferent at most of the time, this time was different. This matter meant a lot to her, hence her impatience and her effort in finding the answer she had been seeking. Asuha was never been blessed with sheer amount of patience. It’s only because she always had the right word to counter, and to deny.

And there’s a limit of denying too. “There aren’t much of results. It feels like I’ve been doing nothing. I feel like giving up now.”

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izcyoi:

Even after he had told everything, Asuha still couldn’t imagine the system of Gift Game and how it worked particularly. It seemed to be assorted kinds of game with different systems. Indeed, theoretical explanation didn’t help, as everything in practice might not happen as smoothly as the explanation straight out of the book, or the so-called spoken Izayoi’s Starter Guide, as mentioned by him.

“Saying about the risk will make me even more intrigued.” She wouldn’t back off only because of high risk. Even if it risked her life, that still wouldn’t stop her. Asuha had always yearned for challenge. Things had been pretty peaceful after the end of Unknown’s invasion, to the point it drove her sick. She might be a lazy, apathetic girl at most of the time. However, when she’s really in her spirit, she would look for anything that would pump her adrenaline.

“Good. A demonstration of the game is what I’ve been waiting for.” She took out her guns, one with flame bullets and another with ice bullets. “Now, prove it that Gift Game is going to be as fun as you have explained.”

popokki:

Asuha didn’t like for being directly honest. It came up as annoying, disturbing, and uncomfortable for her. Even toward her family, she still purposely showed her feelings in vague implication. She wasn’t a girl who would say thank you, you’ve saved my life out loud. She didn’t like it. Even though she got better over time, the difficulty of expressing her feelings directly still remained.

“Gale, huh?” She tried to keep that name in her mind, remembering it. “I’m Asuha. Nice to meet you.” There was a vague smile blossomed on her face, though it’s just a moment before she looked away, her rarely amiable expression was replaced by the indifference yet again.

When Nimbus stopped his tracks, Asuha was wondering why, but she quickly got the reason. “Huh? So we can’t advance further?” She let out a small sigh. “Officials are so troublesome.”

She hopped from Nimbus’ back, decided to continue her journey on foot. “I haven’t seen any familiar faces, so my family might not be around here. I’ll keep searching, though.”

wearyxsouls:

Asuha only could stare at the other, giving no response when she’s going to take her leave and thus, walking away. Asuha considered that person as suspicious, but her intention was pretty much unknown. Neither their short conversation did help, only adding more questions in her head.

Unfortunately, she was too tired to care about it, despite the fact that she was too tired to shake the conversation away. The redhead then took the opposite way from the suspicious fellow, walking away while couldn’t stop thinking and wondering.

“Strange person...” She mumbled in irritation, rather subconsciously.

yokiina:

“Yeah, yeah.” She responded with a lazy wave of hand, as she made her way to the bench where they keychain was. Presumably, that is. Honestly, Asuha just needed to get this problem out of her system while her energy and effort had been running low. Her steps were slow and steady, but it’s not hard to tell that Asuha seemed to be pretty unmotivated even during walking, for the sake of helping someone.

It didn’t take took long for them to arrive, as Asuha took a quick scan at the bench. It was empty. Nothing was there, including the keychain she assumed to be there.

“It’s not here.” She answered simply, and her stoic expression didn’t alter even for a bit. “Guess you have to buy a new one.”

shatteredcrown:

“Yeah.” Since her brother was probably busy, going somewhere that Asuha could barely care, and she didn’t feel like eating nor playing her phone either, she just went to release shots to some objects as a training. Without harming anyone, of course. She knew her limits well.

“Actually, I’ve considered hunting, but soon I realize that firing animals isn’t just my thing. I’d rather shoot aliens down, but they’d been gone for long.” To Asuha’s relief, and disappointment at the same time. Things had been awfully peaceful, much until Asuha had the need to create little ruckus.

“Oh, really? I think having guns is pretty much normal, for self-defense.”

luxenebris:

“This place is so peaceful, as you know.” Asuha grinned, but her focus didn’t go astray from the game. She kept playing while talking to the seemingly displeased woman. She’s somewhat pretty good at multitasking when she found it necessary.

“I expected myself to be alone, so I can enjoy the time for myself to the fullest.” Which implying that Asuha didn’t expect for a company. “And if I was alone, I could do anything to my heart’s content.”

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wearyxsouls:

She hummed in reply. A little talk didn’t sound bad, she guessed. In this somewhat peculiar--but also ordinary--cafe, they could talk a lot of things, as much as they wanted. Asuha was a little bit curious, noticing Eto’s expression when she looked around the cafe. As if this place seemed to be her...special place, or something?

Well, that was just her guess.

“I prefer to stay here and eat, though. I’m kind of hungry.” And Asuha could be uncharacteristically a glutton when she needed food supplies. “You don’t mind, do you?”