"I don't get it, guys. Why are we shopping at a time like this? Seems like a wasted trip to Underworld to me." Issei and crew decided it was time to do a little sightseeing in the big L. With the tournament just a week away Issei needed his mind off the competition, whether he knew it or not, and Rias and Sirzechs needed a break from the week prior. Akeno just needed new boots.
"Well, Issei, if you'd learn to enjoy yourself like a normal person, you might not have to be such a pervert," Rias teased.
"Oh, come on! That's the worst excuse I've ever heard... Plus, you like it."
"Say something, Issei?" Issei's shoulders told the whole mall just how much he'd given up there.
"Whatever, I'm still gonna be harem King one day. You just watch!" This time both Rias and Sirzechs had to laugh.
"He sure is determined, isn't he?" Said Lucifer.
"Oh, you have no idea. Last night he--"
"AHH--WHOA whoa whoa! That's good... Eheh." Issei's face told the whole mall he was the red dragon emperor.
"Oh~ I think we've embarrassed him, you guys, look," said Akeno giggling. "Wow, Issei, you never blush like that anymore... I think I miss it."
"I'm sure you do," said Rias with mild annoyance. Now this was finally starting to look like a day off for the crew.
"I don't know guys, I feel like we shouldn't be here goofing off." Issei's senses were right.
"Oh? Then what would the Red Dragon do?" Sirzechs teased.
"Well, don't you have a lot of work to do?" Sirzechs sighed at this.
"...Perhaps we should drop you off at the hotel?"
"AH... I mean, I'm good." The Welsh Dragon laughed nervously. "I really hate that place though, you know... Is there any other place I can stay?" SIrzechs look to Rias.
"Oh, fine!" She said rolling her eyes. "He can stay at the estate for a while. Issei was beaming as the group headed out of the crowded mall. He would also be lying if didn't want to motorboat Grafia's magnificent melons. emotion_awesome
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
The next day was definitely a shopping day. Janus, as always, was way ahead of quota, and needed to spend some quality time with her biffles the manikins in Lilith's mall. There was just so much to do here, how could she not get lost in though? That was the idea anyway. Tomorrow she would assault Melanie's quota, in protest of course, but as it was now it was still the GoD's time, and she'd be damned if she let this go to waste on such pitiful thoughts of the mortal variety; although she thought those were the most entertaining ones in their small ways.
If you were to see her now it would be fairly obvious she was no ordinary girl, despite how she tried to hide it. A few millennia of taking care of yourself first tends to do that to a girl: skin coated in late-night talks over coffee, eyes lit atwinkle with practiced white lies, hair pouring rainy day dance sessions in streets on five continents; was the way she walked any less magnificent? Honestly, it looked like a model was trying to pitch her services to the store.
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:34 pm
Corvo Bianco
Everyone needed to shop, even a Seraphim demon like Lucielle. Granted she hadn't been seen in the underworld for a good amount of time as she had been int he mortal realm getting her head back together. When she had returned she had come to realize she only had one last poncho left that was actually decent to wear. Which meant a trip to the mall was needed, else she be stuck wearing her armor all the time just to stay decent.
The large snake like being had been slithering along glancing at the stores in thought; a lot of the outfits did look nice that she saw. Alas, none were quite in her size or met the demands of her flexible frame. Just as she spotted the store she usually went to, something else had caught her eye. Her red eyes soon focused on one of the more humanlike demons walking about; and she was quite the looker. Her forked tongue absently flicked out between her lips as she started to glide along the ground. In silence to most, but for the hearing Janus had she was probably the only being who could hear her approaching.
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
If she couldn't be sensed by her spirit energy, which seemed to struggle, having a feeling of--what was it?--yearning? she could be heard ever so faintly whipping air into frenzies so subtly. That was the type of image Janus' brain would rearrange as she heard what she needed to hear--or whatever--from the Seraphim. That slink, the supple scraping of scales on equally oiled flooring, it was a different layout of placement from the decidedly more temporal echolocation of placing a biped's footsteps. Janus decided to check this out. Holding up a shirt over her slender frame and turning to the admirer she said, "What do you think? I don't know about this fabric..." Of course it was all she knew, but this creature mightn't know Janus was blind yet.
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:25 pm
Corvo Bianco
Janus had an advantage over her in a way, being that Lucielle had never met a blind person before and simply couldn't tell just by her eyes. Although when she turned around she had noticed how cloudy they were compared to a normal pair. Demons did have some strange and unique eyes at times however. Her own gaze shifted to the shirt in her question. She smiled and looked back to those unseeing eyes. "I think it looks nice." She nodded as Janus would find her voice coming from a bit higher up than she had maybe been expecting. "Although if you're looking for something softer I think the shirt next to it might be a bit better."
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
"Oh, yeah?" Janus tilted her head up slowly, giving it away, upon hearing Lucielle's voice from way up there. She was now painting an auricular picture of the Seraphim in her head. Every breath was working to help her heart, those two in turn filling out her body; indeed every organism was a sub-symphony to accompany the greater composition all around.
"Hmmm..." Janus thumbed the fabric of the top next to what she had. "It's good, but I don't think it'll breathe well." She smiled at Lucielle. "Here, feel. It's something you have to learn." If it wasn't obvious before it would be now.
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:25 pm
Corvo Bianco
She was a little slow to the realization but it had soon hit her especially in the way she looked at her, but Janus wasn't actually looking. "Oh." She said in her revelation before reaching a hand out to feel the fabric; pretending that was why she said oh like that. "I suppose you're right. I don't usually worry to much about what I wear needing to breath myself though. I don't wear much." She smirked knowing this woman had no idea that she was only sporting a poncho. It very well in covering her, but not so much from below. "Anything you're feeling out for specifically? I could help."
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
"No, I wouldn't imagine you would." Janus couldn't help giggle a little. By now she'd made out a perfectly rendered image of her Seraphim shape. A finger went to her chin.
"I suppose I don't know what I'm looking for right now," she mused, "but that's the fun of shopping, isn't it? You never know what you'll find." She crumpled her shirt a little, seeming to be embarrassed about something. "I'm sorry, I have to ask, you belong to a house, don't you? Getting caught in the mall would be horrible~!" At this point Janus nonchalantly fiddled with the bottom of Lucielle's pancho. At the same time she was fingering some other shirt on the rack next to her. She found she liked the sound of Lucielle's voice. It was very confident, and if nothing else Janus found she could respect that.
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:14 pm
Corvo Bianco
Lucielle smiled at hearing her giggle, already enjoying the others company. "Yes that is very true. There often can be a pleasant surprise." She watched her for a moment in noticing how she was acting; while her cheeks got just a little flushed as she was playing with her poncho. "I do belong to one, yes." She admitted and glanced to the side; getting a feeling that this encounter may go sour now. "And since you're asking that means you're in one too."
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
Heart rate's up; I didn't think that was such a touchy question... Looks like it's true, that you really don't know what you'll find in the mall. This is fun!
"Oh, hang on... I didn't mean to make you nervous." Janus backed up from the Seraphim's gracefully cobra-esque curves to stand divided by her shadow. She looked up with those smokey pools she called eyes.
"Even if you aren't from a house... That'd be ok; what I mean by that is you seem very--I don't know--poised?" She put a hand to her chin. "But that's not all. It's poise, sure, but it's forced. You're like a good dog being held in place by a chain; and even though you're trustworthy, the one's who feed you still 'aren't taking any chances.'" She could hear these things as facts in the way Lucielle carried herself, but when it all left her mouth there was a certain sting; having full sight of things on one side of the filter was an immortal problem as well.
"I'm sorry," she said fiddling with her top semi-embarrassed, "that's not really my call to make."
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:18 pm
Corvo Bianco
"I'm not nervous, just wary." She frowned to herself a bit disappointed that this may not go as nicely as she had originally hoped. Especially as she had backed away like that. "I am not being held in place by any chain. I can do as I please." Luci had paused as she sensed something was a bit more off now. She slithered closer; her body circling around so her long tail was in front of Janus while her upper body was behind her. Really only leaving one way out of her coils as her hands came to rest on her shoulders. "And what about you? You were looking to recruit me if I wasn't, or were you looking for something else if I was?"
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
"Oh, man..." Janus had a bit of inner monologue here: There are just sometimes when I wish this quota thing didn't run me into all these--these things. But at least this one's a tad smarter than the others I've seen today. Maybe that'll spice this day up...
"Here I was trying to make sure you weren't going to try bringing me into your house!" She said with a chuckle. "I mean, I wouldn't blame you. Not with all the houses forming and trying to be ready for the next tournament. But still..." Janus looked away, only to get a sweeping sonograph of the situation she was in.
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Domina Mortem
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 5:26 pm
Corvo Bianco
"I don't normally do recruiting for the house." She looked her over in thought before sliding away. Briefly closing her off within her coils completely but soon she was back in front of her. Her tail brushing along her legs as she no longer had her surrounded. "But I should probably let you go. I imagine you'd like to continue your shopping."
Abilities on: Rook Blind (f): Janus is blind as a bat, but luckily has their hearing on a demonic scale. Creature of the Night+: Plus illusory magic and hypnosis.
Inventory: Phone {currently texting: }
Health: max Energy: max
Janus was about to let her go, but there was something about this serpent, the way she held herself above everyone, that really stood out for her. "No, I really just came here to kill some time," said the GoD shrugging. "But I'm really sorry to hear that... You seem pretty capable to me." Something of a smirk appeared on Janus' face as she said this.
"You said you don't worry about clothes so much, and you aren't recruiting... Can I ask what you're doing here, then?" The same question could've been asked of Janus, but it seemed as though Janus knew this too and was making a sort of game of this interaction.
