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[Enters from the Arashi Mountain Hotel with Xenon]

Chachamaru slowly lands as she used her rockets to get her there a lot faster. She had carried Xenon most of the way. The total run had only been a few minutes top. She surveyed the area and looked for Satomi.

((Sorry was in a rush so post is a little sloppy Gomenasai *bows*))

Satomi had actually offered to make a pactio, out of her own free will. This action seemed a little unlike Satomi, but it didn't really matter much to him. Standing more off to the sidelines, Sosuke looked around the area, looking at all the people present. A few familiar faces, but most of them were unfamiliar to Sosuke, but he could tell they were students. Did Satomi even know how a pactio worked, or did she think it was just something cool to do, and you can just get the benefits without doing something in return?

Sosuke eyebrows twitched when he felt the vibrate of his cellphone in his pocket, signifying that there was a text. Taking it out of his pocket, Sosuke flipped it open. It was a nice, sleek flip phone, very simple, and wafer-thin. Reading the message, Sosuke began to text back. 'Hana-kun, I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier about what happened. I thought it would've been best if you didn't know. Anyway, I don't think Satomi-chan had been herself lately. Something's wrong, but when I apologized this morning, she accepted it, but maybe you did something other than what happened last night to offend her.' Sosuke replied, flipping his cellphone shut again, and slipping it back into his pocket.

[Xenon arrives with Chachamaru]

It didn't take long for Xenon to locate Satomi with her fellow robot. But... Something didn't make sense. Why did Chachamaru bring along that gun? Nothing around here seemed particularly dangerous around here. She did notice the skeletal throne upon which the tiny teacher of 2-B sat, as well as her skeletal friends and the huge 'thing' that had tried to chop Satomi in half earlier today; but she didn't really find anything about them too strange.

She had a policy of 'everything has a logical explanation' as far as strange sights go, so she believed there would be some sort of simple answer; like the skeletons were robots themselves or something. She hadn't seen Satomi's attempted Pactio; and even the magic circle didn't really bother her; there was probably a very mundane, natural reason for it, and the wind it seemed to cause. She simply remained silent, standing at the edge of the group; not wanting to interrupt as it seemed Satomi was busy right now. She'd be a good robot and wait until someone spoke to her, first.

Cassandra let out a light chuckle at Satomi's attempt at the pactio; knowing already that she'd done it wrong. "Good work, Satomi. Your codename for this mission is now officially 'Ausfallmeister'." 'Ausfaullmeister', of course, meaning 'Failure master'. She raised an eyebrow as Xenon and Chachamaru arrived, rolling her eyes. She hated robots, golems... Heck, anything without flesh, or that simulated flesh was generally not worth bothering with as far as she was concerned. "Oh, toll, die Roboter sind angekommen..." She muttered, her voice practically dripping with sarcasm - even without knowing German, you could tell she was being sarcastic.

A grin spread across her face and she leaned forward in her throne, resting on one of the arm rests and chuckling. "Hey, Springfield. Why don't you form a pactio with the mechanical misses over there while you're handing them out like Skittles?" Not actually making a suggestion, of course - she just wanted to have a little dig at him and implant a little guilt. The chuckle evolved into a full laugh and she leaned back into her chair, shaking her head. "Or Grundy? Go on. Who knows? You might even like it." At this point, she was barely able to contain her laughter, and just slumped over the right-hand arm rest, just laughing at the very concept.

"Wroooong!" Chamo crosses his arms in an X and shakes his head, calling out that she had done it improperly. "You gotta kiss him on the -lips-, Satomi-ane-san, the lips!" He points to his mouth then, before pointing back at Negi. "Try again!"

Meanwhile, Negi catches the failed pactio card, ignoring Cassandra as he looks at it. Huh. Oh well... if Satomi was going to try again, it wasn't the time to hold the card of a failed attempt. He readies himself, aga, for the kiss, having gone through the first preparation for naught. It didn't help any that Satomi just happened to be dressed up and more attractive than she'd normally be. If her heart was racing, well, heh, so was his.

Yep. She didn't know. She had thought it would just be a kiss anywhere on the face, huh? Jeez... Regan shakes her head, guessing Satomi would try and back out of it now. Of course, she wouldn't allow that... Satomi had agreed to a pact with Negi, now it was time to be true to her word. Poor Negi looks like his head might explode, though... cute. "You, Ermine. Shut up while they go to kiss, would ya?" Regan looks at the creature, folding her arms. Cirus should really work on his ability to talk as an animal, now that she thinks about it.

The Elder had taken the curtosy to heal Mana's arm and wrist since Negi allowed him to, effortlessley feeling that he could do this as he gently took up Mana's hand. He was diligent, his smile warm and calming while he uttered a small phrase, incoherent to make out or understand as a faint, pale light of yellow and white encircled Mana's hand and wrist. The light seemed to soak into her skin like a plant absorbed water, and within only seconds, she would find that the pain had practically melted away, her injuries completely gone as she would recover completely from her wound.

"As small as that was, it seemed quite concentrated, nearly broken. What did a student like yourself do to cause such an injury?" The Elder inquired without sounding like he was prying. He simply wanted to know how someone who was still in junior high recieved a wound that seemed so painful.

As he said this, he was certain to watch the pactio, and silently he gave a brief, bemused chuckle at how niave the two were, seeing the botch card appear from the little 'accident'. But he wasn't rude, nor did he stare as he held back his laugh and looked back at Mana, not wanting to interfere with business that was not of his own. Though, they would need to go soon enough, time was of the essence.


"What.. What the Heck is this?!?" Satomi held the card after anxiously taking it from Negi's hand, looking at the crudely drawn, chibi-like version of herself on it. Was this some kind of joke...? It was practically an insult in the way it was made, labeling her eccentric, and making her forehead so large, (Though, that part was kinda true, she was just in denial about it) ..was this really a pactio card?? Then she heard what Cassandra had said, causing her to quickly cast a slight glare at the vampire as she pointed out how Satomi made such a fool of herself, followed by that Ermine mentioning it too.

At first, she had turned quite red from the embarresment of her mistake, having never been told just how the pactio was really performed. But then, when Chamo had explained it, she had blushed even brighter, showing a shyer side of herself that the rest of the class had never seen before. "I-I can't do that! H-He's the teacher, a-are you kidding? No way, forget it, I'm not doing that!" Nervously protesting against it, not wanting to spoil her first kiss on the child teacher, she had absolutely refused to go along with it. Instead, she pocketed the botch card before turning away, utterly humiliated as she stepped away, feeling incredably embarresed that so many people had to see that. If it was just a little peck, then it didn't bother her much, but a full kiss on the lips?? No-no-no, it just won't do, she wouldn't, she couldn't, and they were not going to force her.

"I-I'm sorry, forget all this, l-let's just get back to the rescue mission... I'll help without forming a pactio.." She said shyly, looking down and practically having her back face the others now as she felt like she had just made a total fool of herself. Even worse, having Kazumi there made her know that she would never hear the end of this...

"Y-Your not helping!!" Satomi gave a brief outburst, red as a cherry now from being so embarresed in front of everyone, especially after Regan's comment. She never really got this flustered, but after being told the true way to form a pactio and Regan not helping at all even if she thought she was, Satomi felt like she couldn't have been any more humiliated right now than she ever had been in her whole life.

She looked for something, anything to change the subject or get the attention on something else, and it was then that she noticed Chachamaru and Xenon. Without saying anything else, still too embarresed to even make eye contact with anyone else, she approached the two androids, hoping Chachamaru brought what she requested. She took note of the heavy weaponry she had brought too, and barely managed a smile at this despite how red she was right now.

Checking his cellphone for another time, Sosuke read it over, and flipped it closed. He'd tell her, when they were done with this whole thing. It was actually quite amusing to see Satomi do a pactio incorrectly, but that was Satomi for you. After Satomi had approached Chachamaru and Xenon, Sosuke didn't bother to join her over there. She was probably too embarrassed, but Sosuke really wanted to see what the botch card looked like. Oh well. Maybe later.