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The echo of shoes on pavement had Alphard darting after a negaverse agent. Finding them just post energy draining, he'd arrived just a hair to late or just in time. But either way the senshi of night wasn't about to let an agent of chaos get away without at least a proper send off. An attempt to chase them from Alphard's usual stomping grounds.

He was supposed to protect people, and even if he was slightly high and feeling rather invincible, he wasn't going to just let some corrupted person run around causing a ruckus. That was his job dang it all. Narrowing the gap by cutting through and alleyway, ALpahrd smiled as he saw the woman he'd been dashing after.
"Hey there. So. Let's cut to the chase. You just uh, let that energy flow on back to it's host and maybe I let you go." Or he'd... what? Call in the police? Heck, he wasn't sure but that sounded cool right?

"I'd hate to beat you up." Lies.

Shoulders fell to a slump at the woman's reply. It was stuff like this that made being a senshi hard. He wasn't very good at the whole 'fight and save the day' thing. Plus after the rift he was not entirely comfortable with how okay some say killing and death, on both sides no less.

Alphard really didn't want to fight but-
A senshi's got to do what a senshi's got to do.

"Yeah well, It's a less a say and more a demand you know? You don't and we've got to get physical. But lets be real. I'd probably win, we'd both be sore and hurt so lets cut the middle man and just solve it peacefully." He got closer.

"Besides, what do senshi need to steal energy for? If your boss is so weak to need kids to do their dirty work that kinda says something about them."

Had Alphard known what she was thinking, he'd have probably agreed with her on some level. He could maybe be convinced of joining if talked into it well enough. As it was however, he was trying his best to fulfill his duty as a senshi.

Even the parts he rather disliked.

"If I was cocky, I'd be asking you on a date and thinking that I could romance you away from the negaverse. All very James Bond you know?" Looking around, it seemed like no one else was about, which was good. No one for him to aorry about in a cross fire. No cars or traffic being so late, no cops- also no backup. So maybe not ideal for starting a fight but close enough to it. He was the senshi of the night. He could do this.

A deep breath he put on his game face. He had to get serious about this.

"Gotta disagree miss. Stuff a negaverse lady does is all about my business." A slow start that rolled into a run, he aimed the punch at her solar plexus. He regret it immediately- he really was not comfortable with being serious about this whole senshi gig.

The slap made him reel back both from it and the fact that he'd hit her. He'd hit a woman and Alphard felt awash with the sudden onset of guilt from the action. It was pretty low of him, and he wondered why being a senshi he had to fight. Heck, he agreed with her. Flirting seemed a heck of a lot better and more fun than fighting.

But he couldn't get the fight out of his head. The bodies, the blood the everything from the battle.

"Sorry." He wished they could have flirted. But-

"I mean, we could go out, but the whole likely to kill me deal isn't a big turn on for me. I like living." He opened his palm towards her.

"But then I also don't like that dark, yet that's what I do."

"Veil of Twilight."

While she couldn't see him, he could see her. And he was not one to stick around and fight a woman who was, while seemingly okay with having a good time, still technically an enemy.

"Honestly, you sound like the type I could really like. But- we got jobs. Momma didn't raise a fool, but you heck as sure make a tempting offer miss."

He darted far enough away and around a corner before yelling out-
"Alphard, senshi of the Night." Least he could do was give her a name to chase. Or something.