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Yin moved the hallways, ghosting along doing his best not to really be noticed, and doing a pretty fine job of it. He had finished his last class for the day and had nothing until his arrangement to meet Alexander in the library that evening for a study session. Being so far behind in just about all of his classes was not a good feeling, and while studying helped he was still woefully far behind.

He was trying to decide if he wanted to go to the gymnasium or back to his dorm room when a familiar reaper caught his eye. Rikki? Was that his name? Whatever it was, it was Miss Danny's boil and he had not spoken to him after the events of Christmas. Therefore he had not spoken to him about taking care of Miss Danny.

He approached him, waiting until he was right next to him to speak up. "Good afternoon...Rikki was it?"

"Yǐn Cáng," the mantodae reminded him, a flash of annoyance crossing his face. "I was not expecting to see you. I am afraid that your shirt has been..." he thought back to peeling it off with the layers of skin accompanying it, "...ruined. I have your pants in my dorm room but they are still coated in the shining specks from the mimic creature. I can bring them to you later."

It was a miracle that he had been able to clean the pants as well as he had, but as he had not left them in the entryway of the monster dorms he had been able to remove the skin that clung to them and they were still in one piece. "But that was not why I approached you. I was not the...most polite boil when we first met. I was under a wrong impression and did not know that you were Miss Danny's chosen. I believe I owe you an apology."

That sounded like a waste of clothing to Yin, so he mentally decided to keep them in his closet. Just in case there was an emergency or something of the sort.

But the rest of what the boil said made little to no sense. He did not know the reaper boil very well, but he did not have the same look as he had when he first met him. What he said confirmed that something was wrong. "I...do not understand," the mantodae said slowly. "Of course you are her chosen. The purple-haired boil told me that the two of you were together. Do you mean that she sent you away temporarily?"

The mantodae was confused. "How could it not be temporary? I could see her sending you away but you are her chosen. That is a bond that is not to be broken.

He appeared to be attempting to smile but it looked fake even to Yin. "How did she break you up? And why would I cease worrying if you did something to Miss Danny?" The boil really made extremely little sense at times. It was no wonder he was confused about who had been dating Miss Danny.

Yin could tell the boil was upset but it just did not make sense. "So she says that it is over? You still have a bond. Perhaps at some point she will want you back. Did she order her out of her sight forever or did she just not want to continue being physically close? Many bonds are not physically based."

For a place where genders supposedly did not matter as much the reaper boil seemed to take Miss Danny's word as being fairly final. He kept speaking fairly quickly, trying not to let Rikki shut him up."You do not have to talk about this to me. But I would like to know what you did to cause Miss Danny to say something like this. She is a very friendly ghoul and I do not think she is the type to hold a grudge. She seems much to innocent for that sort of behavior."

"How dare you?" the mantodae all but snarled. "One does not speak to ghouls in such a manner. Especially not the one that they are bonded too." He was tempted to hit the boil, brain flashing with hundreds of potential scenarios to take him down. That particular pressure point on his neck. A knee to the stomach, head or groin. A round-house kick to the face.

But instead he just made fists at his side, tightening them to the point that his claws dug into his flesh and blood began to bead on his palms. "You deserved to have your bond broken. You do not deserve to be in her presence." He took a step back, glowering before he began to visibly relax. "A boil that would do such a thing to a ghoul as nice as Miss Danny," as clueless as she could be "is the lowest type of creature. They are not even worth the energy it would require to hate." He recited this as if it were a fact, voice losing all traces of the venom that he had felt, though the marks of red on his palms betrayed the anger that he concealed.

The boil had a point. He did not know everything about Miss Danny.

But he did know that she was his friend. And that she was nice. And that this boil was neither of those.

So he did what felt right at the moment. He was not about to waste a punch on the spiteful being in front of him. He was not worth it, no matter what high-sounding comments he seemed to have.

He simply backhanded him instead.

Yin had dealt with fighters like this before, fighters that fighters that grew enraged during battle, taunting others into doing what they wanted. And he had fallen for it. Once. He had already let himself just go along with his emotions and had backhanded the boil. But now? It would give him too much satisfaction.

"No." He smiled up at the taller boil, but it was a twisted smile, more of a reason to show his sharpened teeth than anything. "I told you before, you are not worth it." His expression clouded over, and that demented smile fled to be replaced by a cold, flat expression. "But if you even think of hurting Miss Danny again I will make sure that you remember the sensation of your Fear ripping apart as you dissipate. Boil."