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Late at night in Destiny City, Telesto had begun to have a repetitive act. They would lurk along rooftops and overhangs on the city, watching for youma that crossed paths and were on the hunt. They would track youma to a hunting ground and pounce on them before the youma could capture a victim. It was a strange method for someone belonging to a chaos faction of their own, but it was their method. The problem was that it also, for all appearances, looked like a member of the Dark Mirror Court was working with a youma for easy victims to drain from, right up until the last moment, which was easy to miss.

Just like all those previous nights, Telesto found themself lurking atop the roof of a bank in the city, perched over an alleyway and watching. Below, a youma scurried along the shadows of the wall; some snake-ostrich chimera of a creature. Telesto was focused down below, their eyes fixed on the creature and watching carefully, but largely unaware of their surroundings at the moment. Outside of the alleyway, some foot traffic continued on by, light but perhaps heavy enough for a hunting ground.

Telesto's head snapped up as the voice spoke, focus on the youma broken as their gaze fell over Kemi. The sight of a tail and wings on the head took a moment to settle in, keeping them silent at first. It was definitely something to process, Alexander had certainly never seen it and the vague sensation of what would've been memories if not for the mirrorcoat didn't help from Telesto's perspective.

"I am... a senshi?" Telesto answered finally, heading tilting slightly to the side. "I do not know how to answer that second one, especially given the one asking."

They spared a brief glance over the side of the building again, nodding gently to themself as the youma was still in its prowling position.

"Are you also hunting?" They asked slowly to Kemi.

Telesto looks at her quizzically, glancing back down the building and gesturing with a hand towards it. "I am hunting the youma," they begin to answer, slowing their words as the rest of her statement comes in. They glance at their hand for a moment, a long moment of silence moving between the two as they seems to just stare at their hand. Something playing in their mind, rolling over with her words.

"I am of Chaos, yes, but I am not of the Chaos that has created this... abomination. I can not control it, but I do plan to destroy it. Ideally after it has returned to a master, if it has one, to destroy them as well."

They glance back to Kemi, head tilting to the side slightly. "You may join me, if you wish, but it will require some... tweaking of your code, I believe."

"You are being ridic-" They began to say, but the sudden use of magic silenced the remaining words. They were being turned against by this stranger, and when there was a monster around! A hand moved to cover their mouth, but unbeknownst to them, it was too late.

The mist surrounded them, the illusion falling over their senses as the magic took hold. They were no longer on a rooftop hunting youma, they were.... Somewhere... They had returned somewhere, and they were happy for it. They had finally returned to... here, and they had finally been rid of.... something.... someone? The sensation was odd. The magic of the sphere mixing with the mirrorcoat over their seed, denying them the complete memory of what they had always wanted, but allowing the emotions still. They stood over a field of people, cheering in celebration at their... victory? Maybe it was that.

They stood up from their sitting post, fists pumping into the air as they let out a victorious scream! A battle cry of a war won and well fought, a salute to the end of a conflict, the welcoming of peace. Their throat rang with the celebration of that false illusion, trapped and immersed within the magic.

Someone randomly screaming at night wasn't such an odd thing in the city, but it struck a cord with one creature at least. Down below, the youma suddenly looked upwards, thin eyes narrowing down towards the now more visible person. With what best passed for a smile on an ostrich spread across its face as it began slithering up the building.

Telesto's revelry was cut short as they felt the contact of being shoved off a building, gravity swiftly taking over for a moment before the smashing contact with the youma. Both Telesto and youma tumbled down, crashing into one another and to the alleyway below; a few trashcans and fire escapes damaged in their wake.

It took the youma a moment, getting its bearings back and figuring out what had happened. There should be prey about, it was sure. The problem was it hadn't taken Telesto that long to get back at it. Before the youma could raise a chimeric wing, an open palm slammed against the creature, driving it back into the ground. Cold as it may have been, Kemi had already been correct in that the youma could be destroyed.

Telesto glanced up as Kemi sailed away, foot driving a kick into the youma as it sought to get a bite in. "The youth are so rude these days..."

The youma was having less thoughts of Kemi's manners and more thoughts of getting away from this senshi. The senshi who ran may be the easier prey. It at least hoped that was the case. It made a lunging attack at Telesto, who dodged it, but rather than follow up with another strike, the youma continued onwards. Onwards and away from this guy, and after her!

Kemi's travel away from the Chaos proved short lived, as another leap across buildings wound up with the snake-ostrich leaping up from below, open beak-jaw hurtling up towards her!