<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Fuchsia Fox and an Artifact Absent</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/rrbvOfC.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Nerissa<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>December 26th, 2018 |<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>The Pawnhouse Zaisan<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Toshiro<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong><br/><strong>WEARING:</strong><br/><br/><hr/><br/>“It is cruel?” Nerissa pursed her lips and looked like she was sulking because of Toshiro’s words. The girl wrapped her fingers around a hot tea cup, enjoying from its warmth. He just kept saying things like that… “You are like that… from everywhere?” the fox demon asked quietly when the man showed her his arm. Judging from the way Toshiro moved Nerissa had guessed already that he was in lots of pain, but even so she hadn’t guessed it was this bad. “You should be home resting. That’s… I’m sorry.” No wonder Toshiro had a grudge at Rina. It felt like a cold weight settled around her heart. Rina had gone that far… she could have killed the poor human! Toshiro was right. She would end up in trouble if she kept doing things like this! Nerissa wanted to help Toshiro, but she didn’t know how to ease his pain and that made her feel frustrated with her own helplessness.<br/><br/>The demoness wanted to remind Toshiro that Albion owed her already a favor or two, and he hadn’t given such terms or even asked questions. On the other hand, Albion didn’t believe that she had beat him inches away from his life, just for fun. So there was that too… Nerissa stood up and took the offered hand. “I don’t use that kind of magic. I don’t burn you or anything like that. This is all based on trust, and I will trust in your word and that you will honor it when the time comes. If it comes. So… We have a deal Toshiro” Nerissa gave his hand a small shake, fearing she might hurt him if she shook his hand like it was supposed to be done when sealing deals.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Usually Nerissa wouldn’t have minded that Toshiro leaned that close, but he was in such a unstable state right now that it made her nervous. “W-what? Toshiro, let’s take a moment to think about this.” Nera said as she scampered after the human. Dammit, he had long legs! “You need rest, at your home. That’s what you need. I’m sure you have pumped yourself full enough drugs as you are now. Toshiro, Toshiro, please wait… let’s think about this for a moment!” The fox demon begged and grabbed his sleeve. Nerissa was worried that he would just barge in the pawnshop in desperate attempt of getting the statue back.<br/><br/>“You can’t go there in broad daylight and do such a bold robbery. We don’t know if the statue is there and we don’t know how many people are in there. There can be more at the back of the store. We don’t know what they have there… This isn’t worth dying, is it? And if you go there guns blazing, others will die. Do you really want to do that? I mean… I’m sure they do some shady business, but are you ready to kill them to get the statue back?” Considering that the demon had basically been ready to buy Toshiro, Nera was sure there was some shady business going on, but that wasn't the main point here now. “Do you know how to use guns? We aren’t fighters Toshiro. These kind of situations are left to those more capable for a reason.”<br/><br/>Nerissa sighed and hung her head. What a mess… A soft beep told that she had unlocked the car. “I… thought that something like this might happen, so I brought something small. I will show them to you, but… please, let’s try to come up with something else. We could wait for a nightfall and when everyone has gone home we could break in there and steal the statue. No one needs to get hurt.”<br/><br/>After saying that no one needs to get hurt the fox demon opened back of her car and pulled a black cover from the top of cases, placed in there. “I thought that… something might happen, so I brought something with me.” Nerissa explained and opened two boxes, which each had four small glass grenades inside them. Four green and four black ones. The girl explained to Toshiro what they were. The green ones were vine grenades, that would release tendrils to hold still anyone who was near them for about two minutes. The black ones were darkness grenades. They would make a completely dark area when exploding. Inside that area not even one with a night vision couldn’t see a thing. Sunlight, light from lamps or other sources became meaningless inside the darkness. It wouldn’t have any effect to the darkness. That would last about two minutes too.<br/><br/>The fox had some more traditional weapons in her possession in addition to the quite harmless grenades. A 45. HK (https://i.imgur.com/MU3dVtA.jpg) and . Like the pistols weren’t enough for one small fox, she had brought [url=https://i.imgur.com/1fRIRA0.jpg]an IC-45 AR 15 assault rifle (https://i.imgur.com/MU3dVtA.jpg9mm Sig Sauer[/url) too. Ammunition for the guns was in a bag placed near them. “I hope there is no need for these. Let’s try to get this done without a lethal force. You know how this works?” Nera asked as she pulled a telescope baton out of a bag. It was larger than an average baton and when she snapped it open it became clear why. It was a stunner baton. When she pushed a button at the handle it started buzzing aggressively and lit up from the strong electric currency.<br/>