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Reine noticed Adeline's departure, and whimsically decided to follow her into - well, look at that? - the kitchen.

She watched as the lunch meat was placed in front of her, and she looked at the meat, looked up at Adeline, looked back down at the meat, looked back up at Addy, and gave the girl a blatant "you-can't-be-serious" meow.

At the woman's words, she gave a soft sneeze, her head jerking with the movement.

Stepping over the untouched food, she went over to Adeline and purred loudly, rubbing herself up against the female's legs before drifting out of the kitchen and following the smell of steel towards Chris' room, hearing Adeline leave the kitchen as well.

She was just about to peek into the room through the nearly-closed door when he spoke, and she purred in amusement, slipping into the room.

"Do you really think it wise to invite an evil spirit so willingly into your private spaces?" She asked him in amusement as she hopped onto the bed beside him, padding over to put her forelegs on his lap and push herself upwards, rubbing the top of her head into the bottom of his jaw with a satisfied purr. "Well, isn't this perfect?" Giving the room a once-over with her keen feline eyes, she curled up into his lap, settling her jaw on his leg and tucking her feet beneath her, the purring ever present. "I get a human doll, a Sinner toy, and free food all in one. This is just too good of an opportunity to pass up." She twisted until she was on her back in his lap, and pawed at his jawbone playfully. "C'mon, little Sinner. I'm too cute to just ignore."

Reine hissed as she tumbled off him, twisting to land on her feet as she snapped at him in irritation, sharp teeth gleaming.

Snorting lightly, she began to clean herself, licking the back of her paw and rubbing behind her ears.

"Only on weekends," she quipped in amusement, her tail curling. Then she paused in her ministrations and jumped off the bed, landing lightly on the carpet. "Well, think of it like this..." She padded onto the porch after him, jumping onto the wide brim of a stone lawn gnome's hat and settling there. "In a way, I'm actually protecting that little friend of yours." She snickered lightly. "She's clean, isn't she? A normal, 'innocent' little human. Optimistic, cute, cuddly. Like a fresh new doll." She gazed up at Chris smugly. "She's exactly the type of human that Corrupters look for. In fact, she's prime rib in the shop of fresh human flesh. Do you know how many Corrupters would fight to the death for the chance to stain her black?" She nonchalantly began to lick her paw. "But no Corrupter will come close once they sense a powerful demon such as I. As long as my scent's on your petty human playtoy, no demon is going to touch her." She purred in satisfaction. "So in being here, I'm protecting her in ways that you can't. You're welcome."

Reine rolled her eyes.

"You should," she replied, flicking an ear as she gave him a sharp look. "I'm not the type to stab others in the back."

Then the conversation with Adeline unfolded, and Reine's ears flicked back in forth in interest as she watched Chris leave the room. After a moment, she followed.

Oh, a name. Hmm. Reine wondered what Chris would come up with. Probably something stupid that was meant to annoy her.

Even if it did, Reine wouldn't let on that she didn't like it. In fact, out of stubbornness, she would probably claim to love it.

Please, please let the female have a good imagination.

Trailing into the garage after them, she sat in front of Adeline and meowed pointedly, raising a foreleg to paw at Adeline's leg for attention.

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Asmodeus didn't answer Lianne, his attention not even on the Corrupter, but instead on the city they watched over. His arms were crossed, his wings wrapped around him as they gleamed with a curious moistness beneath the morning sun.

His mind was with his other partners, the ones he actually cared about. He didn't see why Control thought it necessary to add a fourth to the already-perfect team, and a female at that. Sure, she was a pretty good fighter, but Icarus could pound her into the ground. When he got off his lazy a** and actually tried.

He was never interested in what his partners did, really. As long as they did exactly what they were told at all times, and were there when they found Crows, Icarus didn't really give a ********.

And thus, neither did Asmodeus. He wondered if Lianne realized she was talking to herself.

Reine would've scowled if she could. Djinn? Seriously? She wasn't a genie, or a demon quite fond of bending the laws of physics. Was the girl retarded? Besides, it sounded like a boy's name.

She shook her head- as if fighting off an itch or a sneeze. She had liked Razi and Acantha better- she had always been a fan of the Greek culture.

Wow, Adeline was stupider than Chris when it came to names. How surprising. Then again, go figure.

Then her fur stood on end as the energy of the car died, and she had to fight down a hiss, her claws digging into the jacket Chris had so wisely brought.

She recognized those two forms on the roof. Well, at least one of them. Who was the girl?

Leaping off Chris' lap, she ducked into the footwell of the backseat, curling up in a corner and making sure her energy was masked. The cat-form helped create a barrier - if she had been in a demonic form it would've made it easier to spot her - because of the earthly DNA she had to involk to change into the feline. She wasn't completely Lucifa the demon, she was also Reine the stray cat, the two mixing together and the energies pooling, diluting each other.

Growling softly beneath her breath, she pressed low to the floor, the fur on her spine rising. Not them. Not here. Not now.

Reine was hiding in Chris' jacket, barely daring to breathe as he conversed with the Controller, and she gave him mental props for the incredibly steady voice.

After all, he wasn't what that new Controller wanted. Reine had never heard this Controller's voice before. A female. A stubborn one. Headstrong. Cocksure. Except she was a woman. Why did the male-trio feel the need to introduce a new member? Distracted for a moment, she pondered this as she rested, snug in Chris' inside pocket. From what she had heard, the A-class team of Controllers were as perfect as they could get- aside from the S-class team. Was one of the others sick? Dying? Dead? But she would've heard about it by now. Unless it happened incredibly recently- like the day before. But not even Control would've been able to find a suitable replacement so soon. No, nothing had happened to the other three. They were still there. Alive and well.

Reine knew them very well. She had fought one, Icarus, before Control had picked him up. The other two she had watched only from a distance, after Icarus had been made captain of the A-class team.

They, of course, knew her even better, having read the reports Control was able to give them. They no doubt hated her- loathed her for killing so many of their kin.

Che. Their fault for siding with Control in the first place. They knew the risks when they joined, the buffoons.

Then she was drawn back into the present by the sound of skull cracking into pieces. Blinking, she peeked her head out just as Chris was tugged outside to the empty back lot behind the store.

Her nose didn't lie.

Another Sinner!

She growled beneath her breath and ducked back beneath Chris' jacket as Lianne stopped them short.

Not even two of them stand a chance against a Controller! They're still human after all, Sinner or not!

She shifted just a little bit.

Gotta get this away from them!

No, she didn't care about the two Sinners. Well, she liked Chris as a play toy, and she liked his female friend like she would a doll. A fresh, innocent doll.

Besides, free food. You couldn't beat that, man.

Shifting, she ordered her cat body to shrink down into that of a dwarf kitten, able to hide better beneath the massive leather jacket as her scent became barely noticeable.

Crawling out of the pocket, she used her tiny claws to catch the inner fibers of the jacket, and crawled around to the back of the jacket before releasing her hold, falling down to the ground behind Chris and remaining unseen due to one of his legs.

"That isn't the question you should be asking."

The real question is how long you think you can stay alive!

Then she squeezed between them and dashed cutely over to Lianne, leaping up into the air and changing midair into her massive blue tiger form, jaw open with fangs flashing and claws extended.

"PEEKABOO!"

Roaring, she slammed headlong into Lianne.

((Woo battle!))