Neo simply snickered heartily when the blonde clerk asked him about Rattus and Yukina's romantic history.<br/><br/>"Shit, I was waitin' for someone to ask about this, ya' know?" he said to her in an amused way, as they began to delve deeper into the subject at hand. "Yeah, Yukina's got the hots for Ratt but to make tha long-ass story short, she broke it to him already and got turned down faster than ya' can say 'dumbass' or 'frigid' or shit like that. Jappy met him in the '70s, told him how she feels, straight dope, and got a cold-assed 'no' answer somew'ere in '85, shut 'er ass inside 'er room for a week after, then felt fine and kept trailin' his ass for 30 years now. But both of them are retards anyway, she ain't changin' how she feels about 'im after all these years and he's still not catchin' up to the idea of havin' a GF, at least just fo' him to look less like a tight-assed shitwad." He paused, still looking for anything in the tome that can give them a lead. He then shook his head, saying "I pity thos' silly dipshits."<br/><br/>The two of them where alone in the store room as they scanned over the contents of the grimoire for any clues about the curse of Seattle. The alchemist did see some of those much-needed clues written on them, learning about the whole story behind the curse during the process. On the other hand, Neo did notice something peculiar with Lexi's behavior during the whole research session: She was avoiding any physical contact with him and her breathing was quicker than usual. Neo knew this was a sign that she has not gotten over their last sexual contact this morning, and the blonde man's already huge ego grew a bit bigger upon taking notice of Lexi's minutely strange reactions to his presence. But upon taking notice of that, Neo's ego wasn't the only thing that was inflating. Specifically, these observations also elicited an anatomical reaction from him, which was not obvious to the naked eye.<br/><br/>Neo wryly smiled at this for a second, then pretended to have full focus on the research assigned to them. The texts of the tome were examined and noted, an ancient manuscript was reviewed, and key observations were marked with register tape. But nevertheless, Neo still had his hard-on.<br/><br/>And then, the skies began to cloud themselves as it began to rain on the whole city which was a drizzle at first, but then grew to become a proper example of a rain. And then, a thunder was heard from the sky and then the electricity suddenly went out, marking the start of a power outage.<br/><br/>When Lexi complained about the outage, she walked out of the counter and stretched her back. This inadvertently made her big breasts more noticeable to Neo, in which he bit his lip with excitement, making it harder for him to control his urges. When she asked about the progress of their whole research during the whole five hours, he began to explain.<br/><br/>"Well, we can see now how that goddamn cap'n got his ass into this mess and, quite honestly, this is a textbook example of why ya' don't fuck around with black magic and demons. We're damn lucky the cap'n or his goddamn bitch didn't throw away the pact document he made with that one demon he summoned to sell his fuckin' soul to 'cause if he did, we're fucked big time. I really was fuckin' expecting that his pact doc would be like Urbain Grandier's with all the sigs and backward Latin and shit like that, but this was actually more swell than what I expected."<br/><br/>He then turned the pages until he found the one he was looking for, and pointed at it. "Here, we see proper Latin written as if it doesn't care who reads it or doesn't fuck around, but I don't speak Latin 'cause fuck Latin so we need some nerd to translate it for us. And, unlike the signatures at Urbain Grandier's, this one has sigils that are styled after the ones in Ars Goetia except these dipshits didn't leave their names on it 'gain, as if these demons are sayin' that they'll act like assholes and we can't do shit about it. But..." He then turned to another page and said, "...You can see that none of those fuckin' sigils in the pact doc match the sigil where the Gehenna message was written on, which means it's a different goddamned demon. So yeah." Neo explained the whole observation in such a way that combined the seriousness of an academic student and the acerbity of someone who didn't want to be involved in the whole situation. This manner of speaking effectively masked Neo's sexual arousal.<br/><br/>However, Neo was also aware of the whole atmosphere that him and Lexi were occupying during that time. They were alone with each other; no other person entered the establishment; it was raining heavily outside; and there was a power outage in the whole city. Neo was very aware how much the whole environment tempted him sexually, and he was a man who frequently followed his base instincts. And so, he had an idea.<br/><br/>He then went out the store counter and turned the book around to face outward the counter, which allowed for anyone outside it to read the tome properly. Neo secretly grabbed a roll of Scotch tape while he was going out of the counter. He then examined more of the tome's pages in a resenting manner, before landing on a page was marked with register paper by Lexi. He then pointed at it and said, "And yeah, look at this goddamned page. It tells us the names of the Ars Goetia demons that the cap'n dealt with, which mean it was their sigils on the pact doc. I mean, come here and take a close goddamned look at them."