<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Burdensome Bracelet and the Descendant's Deal</strong></span></div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a5/4a/d0/a54ad0c78fe6f6ed9893fe8a6eb846e1.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Date Toshiro | Date Marceline<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 11:30AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>City Streets<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Kyless, Ryusei | Mentions: Mallory<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong><br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Toshiro is currently wearing a cream colored graphic t-shirt (https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2292/0133/products/B_wander_640x.jpg?v=1571609586), dark cerulean cargo shorts and running shoes, a Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' insignia ball cap, and a pair of over-ear headphones with a stark white frame around his neck. A canvas messenger bag is slung over his shoulder, its surface almost entirely consisting of patches and buttons from an assortment of cartoons, movies, bands, and video games. | Marceline is wearing a red nylon collar with a black nickel bell that contrasts vividly with her bright immaculately kept white fur.<br/><hr/>Following both Ryusei and Kyless across the portal's threshold, Toshiro couldn't help but take a moment to marvel at the sight of the pristine walls and the feel of the ideal temperature that always radiated throughout Kyless' cell. “So cool...” Toshiro whispered to himself as he crossed the room in a few long strides towards the collections of medical examination equipment he had summoned from beneath the floor of Kyless' cell prior to their journey there. Patting the sterile gray padding that covered a small examination table that now stood in the room opposite from the doors, Toshiro instructed Kyless with gentle calm, “Please take a seat Kyless, I just need to check a few things and then I can get the bracelet off of... you.” Noticing that Kyless had already made herself comfortable on her mattress, Toshiro nodded before adding, “That works too.” Nearly every fiber of Toshiro's being screamed at him to immediately remove the bracelet, but he knew that being overly eager to relieve her of her discomfort would cost them valuable data that could benefit both Kyless and the members of SOPHE in the long run.<br/><br/>Ordinarily evaluating the vital and arcane health of a demon would fall to Mallory both for the sake of sparing Toshiro's time and due to the unfortunate fact that SOPHE's head of research, while brilliant in the fields of evaluating and treating maladies both mundane or otherwise, was usually somewhat abysmal on the topic of bedside manner. Carefully Toshiro lifted a pair of copper bangles from a machine with what nobody would argue was an antique appearance, it's interface made up of rows of unlabeled iron switches and knob rather than more modern touch or key pad oriented interfaces, it's only display a small iron arrow behind a half circle pane of glass residing in front of a diagram written out in the Persian alphabet. “You'll need to slide one of these on to your free wrist, and hold the second in your other hand.” Kyless would be familiar with the bangles and the ancient runic inscriptions that ran along along the yellowed ivory bands that ran the length of the bangles' inner and outer circumferences, as at this point as Mallory would have put them on Kyless many times in the past to obtain readings on the magic flowing through the trickster's body<br/><br/>“Ryusei I'm going to need to check her eyes, ears, and throat, keep an eye on the arcanometer... that thing. We want that arm to rise up and stay roughly in the 10:00 to 11:00 o'clock position. Take note of how it changes when she sneezes. Don't touch the knobs, and don't even look at the switches.” Stepping away from the device so that Ryusei could get a clear vision of the display, Toshiro began to examine Kyless' with exceeding care, but also with a level of quickness and efficiency born of having done similar examinations countless times over. Again reminding himself that patients enjoyed conversation to distract them from what they might consider somewhat invasive examinations, Toshiro reassured his patient passively as he pressed a depressor against Kyless' tongue to get a better view of her throat, “It's alright that you forgot to share this time. There's no rule that you have to, it's just something that people like when you do.” Leaning away from her, he tossed the depressor into a silver cylinder which vanished into a pneumatic tube before being automatically replaced by another identical cylinder.<br/><br/>While Toshiro might not be the most adept at making small talk in the midst of his work, it was exceedingly easy for him to indulge his curiosity while conducting tasks that had been solidified in muscle memory. “I am a bit confused by a few things though.” Toshiro remarked offhandedly as he stared into Kyless' ear with an otoscope. “This dress, and it is a very nice dress, you said Kyless picked it out herself?” Returning to the console of medical instruments, Toshiro returned the small device after tossing the tip of it into the newest silver sample cylinder only for it to follow the first and be replaced by the third. Typing up his notes on to his tablet he mused idly, “But Kyless, you said Ryusei found it for you. I'm guessing you mean he took you to the store where you found it.” Turning his gaze up towards Kyless slowly he added with a smile and genuine enthusiasm, “Like I said, whoever picked it out had a good eye. Where did you get it? I'd love one of my own. Although the way she smells... I'm guessing she got perfume samples? Well it smells like she must have tried them all on.”<br/><br/>As he waited for an answer, Toshiro wrapped a tan elastic band over the upper arm that didn't currently sport his bracelet before spreading a small quantity of lemongrass and lavender scented purple gel over the inside of her elbow. “I'm going to take a bit of your blood again just to make sure everything is alright. It's going to hurt a little bit like usual, but I'll just need you to hold still for a little while.” Kyless could feel a small pinch as the drawing process began, and now finding himself with an idle moment, Toshiro sat on the floor beside Kyless and looked from her to Ryusei. “By lucidity I mean... like... how sharp does she seem? She's usually really good at noticing things and very energetic. Has this changed at all since Mal... so you both say she left Kyless with you?”<br/><br/>Turning back towards Kyless, Toshiro lowered his gaze somewhat and spoke in a deeply apologetic tone, “You did good Kyless, it wasn't your fault you couldn't do what I asked you to do. It was Dr. Minato's... Mallory's, fault for leaving you, and more than that it was my fault for trusting her to be responsible enough to keep you company.” Bowing his head in apology, he tilted his head upwards to regard her once again with a sad smile, a difficult task to commit to with a solemn expression as Kiki was busily searching for something around her mattress, before continuing, “But her letting Ryusei be with you might not have been the worst thing, you got pears and a pretty dress out of it after all. Not to mention the company of one of the most reliable people I know.” Toshiro couldn't speak to how socially pleasant that company might be as he hadn't had much of an opportunity to interact with Ryusei outside of a professional capacity, but it was fairly apparent from both the pair's body language and words that they at least enjoyed each others' presence.<br/><br/>Kyless had been on the right track in searching for the ever obscure Marceline within the confines of the trickster's barren mattress, it's white value often provided a perfect camouflage for the cat's all encompassing bright white fur, and Kyless had found her guest well blended into the bed's soft surface more than once. However with the presence of a new non Marceline entity within the confines of the cat's lair over which Kyless was granted stewardship, the feline had found it necessary to be somewhat more discreet, although not to such a degree as to break the rules of the game between herself and Kyless. It was impossible to tell whether it was out of concern for Kyless as the trickster groaned into her mattress or a desire for attention that overcame the cat's apprehension towards Ryusei, however as soon as Toshiro turned his attention towards carefully placing the now full vial of blood into the third sample cylinder, the luxuriously long furred feline made herself known. Stepping slowly with a series of stretches punctuating every few strides, Marceline nonchalantly traipsed out of the ill defined reflection of the mattress in the nearest glass wall with an ease that suggested there had been no impediment to her advance at all. Then with a final bound up on to the mattress, the cat lightly swatted at the bells hanging from Kyless' horns, in what one could only assume was a show of dominance.<em>Jingle Jingle.</em><br/><br/>At the same time as this game of keen intellects was taking place, Ryusei could see that the arrow on the arcanometer began to slowly drop from the 11:00 o'clock position down to the 9:00 o'clock position, and on hitting such a low point, Kyless would almost invariably sneeze. Then with each sneeze the arrow would return to just shy of it's previous high point. While the machine's purpose hadn't been explained beyond what meaning could be garnered from its title, it was obvious that were the trend displayed to continue, the hand on the display would eventually lie dormant at the left side of the half circle read out.<br/><br/>Toshiro however was too busy pressing his thumb to the small chibi styled representation of himself on the side of the bracelet, an action that was rewarded first with a series of rapidly blinking lights and a somewhat abrasive musical chime before the bracelet opened up along the hinge. From the experiments he'd run in the past, Toshiro knew that the dampening effect of the bracelet would vanish almost immediately once he'd removed it from Kyless and placed it on the examination seat at the other end of the room. Turning back to Kyless with a friendly smile he asked with notable apprehension, “Now that we've got that off, tell me how you're day's been, and as soon as you start feeling any different tell me how.” Turning back towards Ryusei with a less friendly look of expectation he added, “How were the readings Ryusei? Tell me what the arrow did.”