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Mitsu had still managed to spend a great deal of time in the dorms instead of out and about. Perhaps she was just tired but she hadn't felt very sociable lately. Instead she waited around in Shun's room for his return, playing with Milo and wondering how Ziggy was doing.

Rolling over on the floor she lifted the white foxfire up and held him high, his little feet flailing happily. "Do you think she's happy, Milo?" In response the foxfire yipped happily and Mitsu brought him close to cuddle. "Yeah, you're probably right."

Tilting her head up she looked at the clock she had brought over and saw that it was getting pretty late. Where was Shun anyway? The reaper had been gone quite a bit since they had gotten back doing part time work. It just felt odd with him gone so long. Lonely even.

Sighing Mitsu gave Milo another pat before rolling on her side and letting the foxfire bound away. She laid there for a while longer watching the little poof proceed to battle a sock when she heard footsteps coming down the hall. Instantly she sat up, her ears perked high and her tail wagging. Mitsu was on her way to the door when Shun came in and moved passed her on his way to the bed where he flopped down.

Lowering her hands from the hug she had wanted Mitsu gazed after Shun, following him to the bed where she carefully took a seat. "Are you okay?" She looked him over carefully, her nose picking up a familiar metallic smell. "I...is that blood? Why do you smell like blood?" Her voice sounded worried, her hand reaching to touch his shoulder.

At first Mitsu listened intently, though she wasn't sure the importance of this supposed power or why it would have drawn Shun in. The mention of Hunters had her paling, her eyes growing wide and the mention of killing them didn't fair her much better. After that it was one turn after the next and Mitsu couldn't make much sense of it. Crowns, visions, horseman.

"W....what?" She looked a little dazed, pulling her hand back so that she could place it against her head like she was trying to keep all this new information from escaping back out of her skull. It was too much to process though and Mitsu felt her mind reeling as she tried to piece it together. "L-let's start at the beginning." She said meekly.

"What about this thing with Medea?" Maybe if they went over the story bit by bit she could process what Shun had told her. She could worry about the killing of hunters when it came to it.

Mitsu's brows furrowed a little more, concern filling her as Shun explained a little better. She knew that Shun respected the horseman but she wasn't entirely sure she trusted them. From the different things she had experienced and heard she was afraid the horseman were only going to use them as expendable tools for their own gain. Another thing that bothered her was this power Shun mentioned. She had never really known him to be power hungry before.

"Why....did you want this power?" Mitsu asked. The fact that Medea had taken them through a portal to a hunter outpost only seemed to worry Mitsu more and confirm her shaky feeling that they were being used. It concerned her further to know that some of her other friends had been there. How many had been roped into this? "I...I don't know that I trust the horseman, Shun." At one point she might have but with the visions she had seen herself and hearing about what others had experienced it just wasn't working in their favor.

Mitsu's eyes widened as Shun took on a darker tone. He wasn't just talking about crushing hunters...he was talking about anyone and that scared her. This wasn't the Shun she knew. Something more happened but she wasn't sure what it was.

"I...I just don't understand the need for it." Mitsu said hesitantly placing a hand back on his shoulder. "You do fine without it." Mitsu would have to check on Xiu too. The thought that whatever she had was warping her didn't settle well with her. What had been going on while she stayed hidden away in this room? Her heart sank a little feeling like she had abandoned her friends when they might have needed her the most.

"And just because Medea is more trustworthy than a hunter doesn't mean you need to follow her." It wasn't hard to be more trustworthy than a Hunter in Mitsu's mind but even though they had hurt her in a way she would never forget she didn't want to be pitted against them, at least not on anyone else's terms.

"Y...you were going to follow her?" Mitsu's voice was barely a whisper, fear gripping her badly when she realized Shun was being pulled in. Was it all Medea's doing that was causing this odd behavior? This change she was seeing in Shun was unsettling. "A..and what do you mean again? Was it...."

Her eyes widened briefly again as she crawled onto the bed and pushed the hair away from the back of his neck to look at the mark he now bore. "S..Shun." Her voice was shaky now and filled with fear. "This scares me." It scared her like nothing else because her visions of her losing him in some way only intensified.

Just as Mitsu thought it had to do with the mark she had seen before. The mark Shun had gotten doing what he felt had to be done. It was disheartening to know he had tried so hard to find her and it wasn't her that he had brought home. How much would he have sacrificed on Candace's account?

"I'm sorry....I caused you so much trouble." She said softly, touching the mark on his neck one last time before pulling away. As Shun tilted his head back to look at her Mitsu looked into his eyes with a sad gaze before she looked away. Was she only holding him back now? It still worried her about Xiu but was this what Shun truly wanted?

"J...just promise me you won't do anything that will change who you are. I don't want you to be used or...controlled." And she was worried that was what it was coming to. "A-and about the hunters...." This was probably the part she didn't want to hear. More of them had been killed? It was a strange entanglement of emotions that ranged from fear to relief.

His hand had taken hers and she squeezed it lightly, looking up at Shun again as he spoke. It was reassuring that he felt so strongly for her but at the same time it worried her. Someday she could very well be used against him and maybe that's what she should really be afraid of. For now she smiled softly, knowing that he truly loved her and she felt the same way for him.

"Y...You want to work with your father again?" Oddly, in Mitsu's mind, it was the lesser of two evils. She probably shouldn't have thought that way, Kaitou wasn't a very nice man and not someone she wanted Shun to deal with but in the same right...he was his father. "Just...promise you'll be careful and I promise I won't resent you." Worrying about him was another matter. She would always worry.

The next thing Shun said had her brows furrowing again. Shun spoke so casually about killing the hunters and that also scared her. A part of her hated them but another part saw them as misguided humans. There were a few that knew what they were doing and she might even enjoy seeing them perish but this path that Shun was choosing to walk down was frightening and while she was willing to follow him she couldn't say it wasn't without hesitance. Humans weren't like them after all, they only got one chance to live. The day she watched Stacey die would always haunt her, no matter how much she hated the lot of them.

"I..I feel like I've missed a lot by staying here..." She finally said bringing her knees up to her chest on the bed. "Like I've abandoned everyone..."