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As if to patronize her, Ibara restrained her attack, bitter-sweetly increasing the pressure until Sabitsuki collapsed before her onto one knee. She grinned wildly continuing to push down little by little more onto her. "I can't be angrier at someone I despise to the limit already~" Ibara responded,"You can't hate someone when you already have your entire life." The pressure increased, pushing even more onto Sabitsuki's meager defense. The hornless oni laughed ,"It is so ironic to see myself. My weaker self. The one who can't talk or think of herself. The one that holds me back every minute of my life." Once more she smirked down at Sabitsuki,"Crushing you is no harder than forgetting all my troubles when I am like this, Sabitsuki. Thanks for making me realize that~!!"

When the crazed oni was about to crush Sabitsuki, there was a spurt of blood from her midriff, and looking down not only could she see some of it was onto Sabitsuki from the angle, but that the prongs of a pitchfork ha impaled her. Ibara clenched her teeth her strength faltering and weakening in Sabitsuki's grip. "Coming into my shrine for work is one thing..." the prongs wrenched a bit deeper, making Ibara gasp up a bit of blood,"Coming here to threaten my servant and my guest.... That. Is a matter I need to tend to."

The oni was pulled up and around, Fuzen used their momentum to swap places, and while the oni impacted the floor she was airborne. The demoness raised a hand,"Demonic Veil." The blackened shield appeared as usual, but this time she lashed down,sending the shield downward an hitting Ibara, sucessfully breaking her spellcard and maybe her will. Fuzen landed infront of Sabitsuki, leaning her pitchfork on her shoulder,"Be a dear and stay in the floor. You have really gotten me in a bad mood, Miss Hinarasu."

Ibara was curled up on her side cradling her wounds and panting raggedly. "Katrina, why don't you help your friend up while I finish this rebellious beast?" She moved the pitchfork once more pointing it at the hurt oni that was now utterly defenseless as the weapon ignited in the malicious black energy she tended to command."This should only take a single blow."
"Y-yes! Of course, Master Fuzen!" Katrina nodded a couple times and hurried to Sabitsuki,"Are you okay...?

"Sabitsuki---?!" Katrina spun to look as the mirror youkai ran past her, stopping only when she had her arms around the oni,What are you thinking...? She just hurt you-- look at your shoulder!!" There was both anger and jealously boiling out of her, and she could hardlly contain herself. Fuzen on the other hand was calm with her pitchfork pointed at Ibara.

The oni was limp in Sabitsuki's arms. Though she had an arm under her holding most of her weight, her arm quivered under her as she braced herself against Sabitsuki pooling her blood around her. Ibara didn't seme capable of standing on her own at this point. "....So I suppose I can't kill her, if you want to deal with her... It'll probably save me time and effort." Like that the pitchfork evaporated once more,"Katrina maybe you should tend to Sabitsuki's scrapes, it seems she has reopened her wound. As for the oni..." Fuzen flipped her hair over her shoulder,"Do with her as Sabitsuki wishes, I do not trust your desires won't cause me mild inconveniences with Yochi~"
"But, Master!"
"Amaterasu~~~~"
Katrina cringed and hanged her head grumbling this or that. "Now then, Sabitsuki, what do you want to do with this oni, if I cannot end her life here right now for her erroneous behavior~?"

"Alright~" Fuzen raised a palm and a sort of black pool raised to the left of Sabitsuki, rippling and letting eight-bit like squares going up in the air. "That portal should take you to the Field of Flowers, if the place Yochi told me is right~"

The two dwellers of Mara's shrine watched as Sabitsuki shifted and had the oni rest on her knees. Ibara helplessly grasped at her midriff trying to stop the violent bleeding. Not only had Fuzen made three knew wounds, but had reopened the wounds Yochi had made and somewhat healed while the oni rested outside. Now, Ibara was taking laborious breaths, gulping only a little more as Sabitsuki brushed her bangs out of her face. Her blue eyes seemed distant and glazed.

The temptress turned to leave,"You might want to hurry; it seems the oni is bleeding out~" She flipped her hair over her shoulder, striding into the room on the otherside of the altar, opposite of Katrina's. As Fuzen left, she hummed a light tune to herself before disappearing into her dark room. Katrina was silent, spitefully glancing at Sabitsuki cradle the bartender, and she started to turn around to walk away into her own room, silently.

Katrina stopped looking back at Mirror youkai with skeptic eyes, a bit of spite seething through her self restrain. Her eyes drifted past the small girl's shoulder to the paling oni as her grip weakened on her own wound as she begun to slip into unconciousness. The demon seemed to think about it and look into Sabitsuki's face. A pause or two and the ex-gypsy swallowed her pride.

She moved and carefully, much to her spite, collected Ibara in her arms. Given that she was not injured such feat was not hard to believe, even if she was a bit cumbersome under Ibara's size and weight. "Come on. The less I spend in the place of that witch, the better," the demon hissed walking towards the portal her master had open, alluding to her awful relation with Yuuka. "The faster we get this thing to her owner the faster I get to come back."

The seven sin youkai stepped into the portal, expectin to be followed by Sabitsuki.

---Should the Mirror Youkai follow, the three would find each other among the sunflower of the Garden of the Sun a the blink of an eye. Katrina grimaced at the sun and the sting it brought to her pale skin. She wanted to be underground already.

Katrina looked as Sabitsuki walked up and ahead of her speaking of how the she could sense the moon and sun despite being deep underground. While the demoness did find it interensting, her bitter face in response to her current position over shadowed any of her curiousity. Additionally, remembering the distinct lack of her cloak, her wings. A century ago, her wings had caught the attention of the monks that took her deity away, and the only assurance at this point was that no one ever roamed into the Garden of the Sun; albeit, her wings tucked tigthly against her back as the sinful youkai followed Sabitsuki.

Feeling the tension and Sabitsuki's attempt to lessen the rigid air, Katrina spoke up as they walk. "Long ago, when I was still human, I bumped into Yuuka. She helped me and gave me money for a meager job while she was out shopping. Kazami adviced that I go visit the youkai I now know was named Byakuren Hijiri," The demoness's eyes pierced ahead as she retold the tale stiffly,"I ... I never did find that Youkai. I was always busy living through another day of abuse... Maybe, If I had looked for her.... maybe It wouldn't have turned out so badly for me."

"I never did blame Yuuka for what happened to me, or... much of anyone, but While I was still deep in my hate for humanity, I despised anyone that interacted with me,"she continued, shifting the heavy oni in her arms,"When she came to my shrine and destroyed it and put every single of my mistakes before me, I went mad. I had no way to defeat her experience, despite my potential energy, but I swore she would regret the day she put that thorn into my chest years ago."

Katrina grunted a bit as she could spot the mansion once more,"I don't know why she hated me so much to begin with. Its not like my mistakes were something I could correct. If I was hopeless she should have left me alone instead of attack me in my own home! ... And even if I did attack her first, which May Have been the case, she claimed such superiority; why did she not restrain herself?" The demoness continued to walk,"I have reasons to hate her. Why she hates me so ... wholesomely, avoids my understanding."

The Seven Sin Youkai had an iron grip on her usually oppressive energy that could crush those around her into pure instinctual action. That was courtesy of her goddess, Fuzen-mara, who had spent most of her free time tempering the representative of her shrine. Afterall, Katrina was the face of Mara's Shrine, just as any Shrine Maiden. If the Dark-miko wasn't presentable no faith would come her way!

"Is that it uh? I am impulsive and young?" The demoness couldn't hide her annoyance at the comment, but she knew it was true; Yuuka had made it very clear during their encounter so long ago. Katrina sullenly listened, wishing she could understand what Yuuka's past mistakes meant to her, and why would the gardener concern herserlf with the younger-youkai. "Even if she was lashing out at 'Livid' or 'Katrina' she was lashing out. Its not much of my fault that she was a full on slaugther house in her youth, and I don't want no help. She didn't have to help me to begin with-!"

She was boiling into a rant judging from the movement of her wings, but that ceased after some small fidgets. The demoness looked down at the oni in her arms that looked a ghastly white,"I am... not saying I didn't appreciate her hand when I found her in the village so long ago. I did. I really did, but ... She had no need to take her frustratioms out on my home. I understand me. I am an actual demon, like she was, but Mara's Shrine had to fault in her failures or whatever." The Seven Sin Youkai ushered into useless mummbles as Sabitsuki commented this or that or was quiet.

A voice interrupted them, and Katrina tensed. Her own red eyes (though on of hers was shielded as usual) Met Yuuka's crimson glare. Wanting to be out as soon as possible, the demoness grimly walked up and held Ibara out for Yuuka to take roughly. The oni was breathing shallowly, still resting a weak hand on her wound; thankfully for her sake, she was unconcious at this point. "Here, take your things."

As soon as Ibara was taken by the Gardener, Katrina turned and staid behind Sabitsuki as both spoke, it wasn't until Yuuka reacknowledge her that Katrina spoke once more,"We have no need for you money, Miss Kazami, a donation would be too much for a task that had to be done anyway." The demoness stretched a wing idly,"But... as presentative of Mara's Shrine, I have to thank you for your kindness."

"At least it is obvious I did absolutely nothing to the oaf, and I did my best to have no one harmed while in my home, even if that failed completly," The demoness nodded at the hornless oni that nestled instinctibly towards Yuuka's warmth as if knowing of the comfort holding her. "Master Fuzen-Mara would have scolded me if I had let her blood stain the floors as well with the ill rumours a dead oni would have brought our already dark shrine." She shrugged absently,faking disintrest,"If she dies in your home, at least it won't plague Fuzen-sama."

"Suffice to say,my thanks still stand, Miss Kazami," Forcing herself, Katrina gave a small, humble bow to Yuuka, doing a decent job to hide the wrath she boiled with deep down within. She was more happy to avoid Yuuka's wrath than face its full blow after such long day's length. It wasn't till Yuuka turned and left with Ibara That the Seven Sin Youkai gave a grunt of a sigh, her sings relaxing. She wasn't dying today it seemed.

The grasp around her hand startled her, causing her wings to almost flare, but when Katrina's eyes saw Sabitsuki's hand around hers, the demoness relaxed, if a bit awkwardly. "Yeah.... Let's do that. Ibara is Yuuka's problem for now," Livid nodded, turning to lead the way back to the still rippling portal that her master had create.

The Flowers of the surface where so rare and bright. The demoness remembered why she belonged among the dark blood red flowers of her shrine all to clearly. Even if Sabitsuki chose to enter the flower of those red murderous flowers, she could escape; Katrina knew she was forever bound to the ill and atrocious monstrosities, just as she was bound to Mara's shrine, whose Shelter she thirsted for.