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"I don't think ******** you is a very good idea right now." Candace replied with clear amusement, watching him get up and storm over the tiles with no problem. She grinned. "Very good. I'll give you a minute to catch your breath."

She took out her phone to check if she had any messages, staring at how flooded it was. Good lord, people talked a lot. Candace was scrolling through the messages she'd missed when she heard Ro's question. She blinked, looking down at the boy. "I don't think so. You just got, uh, lucky? She enjoys making deathsweeper programs..maybe a little too much." She chuckled, pocketing her phone and reaching down to help Ro up.

"Come on, let's get moving." Waiting until he was standing again, Candace made the final climb up to the top of the tower. What she saw had her laughing. Her princess was tall, blonde, and very pretty. She didn't look entirely thrilled to be a princess but she was diplomatically pleasant at least.

"Ro, this is Clarice...or rather Clarice's princess golem. Pretty, huh?" She chuckled, stepping up to the golem and checking out the locks in her shackles. "Now, here, you pick the locks...if you do it wrong they explode. Don't let them explode."

"Clarice is very good at what she does. Right, Clarice?" The golem smiled, holding her hand out for the other shackle to be unlocked.

"Don't mess up." She said gently, though she watched Candace work intently. Candace snorted.

"You are good at making traps. Me? I'm getting good at disabling them." She grinned up at the golem, wishing she could show the real Clarice how far along she'd come since the woman had left. She wished she knew when she'd be back. She did miss being able to just drop in her office and enjoy her company. "And, yeah, she's really pretty. She's very kind, and helpful. Oh and uh..yeah sorry. Um, just take it from my bag it's okay." The bag strapped to her thigh. Yes. "It's the first pocket. I grabbed one for you to use. Be careful with it, I need to return these after until I can get my own permanent set from Aria~." She waited, suddenly jumping and looking up as Ro screamed about touching his chest.

Touching...whose..

...Oh. My. God.

Candace started laughing all over again. And then Rep started singing. Candace could hardly breathe she was laughing so hard, the shackle popping open with a quiet click while Candace reached for her phone. Not only did she take pictures? She recorded the ******** singing.

The Clarice golem looked to Rep, smiling cheerfully and stepping toward Candace. "Some day my prince will come," She sang, looking eager. Candace blinked. The princess pouted, gesturing toward Candace.

...Oh..oh god.

"C-Clarice I don't si--" She pouted more.

"Some day we'll met again," Clarice sounded more encouraging this time, with a face that clearly said if you don't sing with me I will be the saddest princess.

Candace swallowed hard, backing away from Clarice. Her cheeks flushed with embarrassment as she glanced Ro's way, her eyes darted back to the Clarice golem. "A...and away..to his castle we'll go...?" Her voice was quiet, it lacked a whole lot of confidence as well. The golem didn't seem to care. Candace was singing with her! The had the happiest smile on her face as she gave Candace a tight hug. A tight hug that nearly crushed her.

This was definitely a golem designed after Clarice. Oh god.

"To be happy~"

"F-forever..I..I knoooow..ClariceIcan'tbreatheohgodClaricebreathingcan'tohgod--" The golem loosened her hug, still smiling. Candace breathed deeply. Thank god. "O-okay. Next...next we have to get them back to the bottom. Is Princess Rep free?" Candace settled an arm around the golem's waist, holding her comfortably against her. "My last princess was Robert. He wasn't quite as enthused about being a princess." She shrugged, watching Ro work.

Candace snorted. "Because Rep. You should've seen how he dressed the day he was turned into a woman." Take that, you little b***h.

She was going to regret saying that.

Maybe.

..Okay no she was going to get a huge ******** kick out of it if Ro mentioned it to Rep, because she knew all he'd have to do was say her name and Rep would take his rage out on her instead of Ro. Or she hoped so, anyway.

"Hell no, I'm not trading. Clarice is mine, okay." Candace pouted. She wanted to hug the real Clarice again. "I've never seen her as a princess before. If I was stronger I'd carry her the way she carried me once but..hm...piggyback, princess? Are you okay with that?" The princess smiled.

"Okay~!" She sang, climbing daintily onto the woman's back and holding herself up with Candace's help. This might be a little harder but well...Candace wasn't much of a Moon anyway. She'd just have to be careful. "Juuuuust whistle while you work~." Candace blinked.

"I'm not very good at whistling tunes. Can I hum?" Clarice nodded. Candace smiled and hummed the tune, cheerfully bobbing and swaying to the music in their heads while she waited for Ro to get situated with his...princess.

She snorted again. "Just whistle while you work~." Clarice began again, smiling as Candace happily hummed. "And cheerfully together we can tidy up the place~."

Candace headed down the stairs. "Watch yourself, we're going to be attacked. Defend yourself and your princess and make sure sh--er...he doesn't get hurt. So hum a merry tune~." Clarice hummed along, giggling as Candace playfully bounced her while they made their way down the stairs.

"It won't take long,"

"When there's a song,"

"To help you set your pace!" This was..actually pretty fun! But she'd kill anyone who tried to call her out on this.

((Defending for 10!))

<< You know you have to defend him so get on with chop chop. >>

The hunter sighed lowerinf Sylvia watching as Candace moved on a head. He wasn't going to be able to carry Rep so he had to rely on the disgruntled golems willingness to follow. Moving towards the steps he looked back, Rep only shrugged and shuffled along looking perpetually irritated, not about his dress but that Ro was the one saving him.

"I think my Golem hates me Candace..."

"When hearts are high the time will fly~." Clarice sang happily, smiling up at the grumpy Rep golem. Sing, Rep! Sing! Candace was laughing again.

"This is the best tower run ever oh my gooood." Candace couldn't wait to show Rep what a beautiful princess he was.

And then Rep was singing again. Badly. "So whistle while you work~!"

((Defending for 10!))

Rep golem looked at Clarice golem and made a look of strong disgust before following after Roland again, arms crossed and grumbling the whole way.

"For you! I got kicked in the balls!" Rep golem laughed at this. They had his programing down pretty well. Humiliate mist hunter about not being a MAN? Done. Laughing at someone getting kicked in the balls? Check. It was the best Rep golem you could ask for short of calling Candace a b***h.

Shuffling down the stairs he moved onto the final room and the door out of the tower.

Did Ro just say something? Candace was gently setting Clarice down to stand on her own two feet again while they waited by the door, looking back at Ro with curiosity. She watched the scythe like a cat and a laser pointer, eyes widening at the sight. Whoaaa! Cool! She winced and rubbed at one of her ears a bit when she heard the screech. Oww! Luckily it didn't seem to last long, but at least it had Ro reaching them. The door was opened once they were both ready and Candace ushered Ro and his golem out, following after with her own princess.

Annnnnd then the Rep princess grabbed Ro. Candace laughed and took out her phone once more, taking a few more pictures of the Rep golem. They didn't have much time before these golems were deactivated. "You did about as well as I did the first time I did this tower, and I was an intermediate at the time." Candace began with a smile, giving her princess a tight hug.

"Thank you, Candace~!" The princess cheered with the biggest grin on her face.

"That was fun! Maybe I'll sing with you again, okay?" The golem nodded, clinging to Candace until her lifespan hit its limit and she crumbled to pieces. Ugh. It was creepy when it had the face of someone you knew. Though watching the golem fall apart was not as creepy as watching Doctor H snap the neck of a golem with Clarice's face with his bare hands. That was disturbing...though the reactions of the other trainees had been hilarious.

"Aria's big on us being able to survive anything thrown at us, but that's something that takes teaching. Unfortunately the only scythe wielder I know other than you...probably won't teach you jack s**t other than how to hate yourself and want to die because you suck and you'll never amount to anything and everything you do is wrong and weak and pathetic." Candace rolled her eyes at that. "Get used to being more aware of your surroundings, it'll help you avoid hits like back in the second level of the tower. How're you doing after that, by the way?"