<div class="floatleft">(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/008/e/7/Emo_Boy_by_Kisuru1994.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Mori Koji<br/><strong>Team:</strong>Wild Marmet (WMTT)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Tables booked by Armina Horowitz in the Feur Restaurant ≫ The Frozen Lake where the Ice Maiden appeared<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Everyone of the team Wild Marmet (WMTT), Armina Horowitz, Ice Maiden.<br/><br/>Mori was glad to learn that the Avalanche Academy was paying for the meal. In that case, Mori took one or two sandwiches and ate them shyly. With the corner of his eyes, he watched how enthusiastically Armina Horowitz was having her meal – one of them things he had learned from Gureisi Keri was that one should not eat desperately, as if there were no tomorrow. Mori Koji was poor but he did not want to be seen as a brute. Bite after bite, he calmly had his meal, fearing that either Armina Horowitz or Sidney West could be spotting him and taking down mental notes.<br/><br/>After the dinner was over, Mori went to his assigned room. Without talking too much in the way to his room, he pondered about what he had spoken and heard during the supper. As he lacked friends, Mori felt compelled to share his secrets and anxieties with whoever was around and close to him. Had it been wise to tell Luna and Welkin about his fears? Wouldn't they use that piece of information against him? It could be the case, although he suspected this was not going to happen. As he laid on the bed, Mori realized that his room's heating was not working properly, so he stayed dressed, covered himself with one of the covers, hugged a pillow and fell asleep, forgetting his concerns.<br/><br/>What seemed to be a promising relaxed night, soon would turn into a real-life nightmare. Frightened screams and confusing noises were heard from everywhere. At first, Mori Koji thought it was one of his dreams or nightmares – it did not take long for him to remember that he hardly remembered his mental activity while he was asleep. As the screams and noise continued to grow in volume, one of them caught his attention, since it clearly summoned him.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=198248.msg9809605#msg9809605">Quote from: Jane Storm on 05-04-2014, 11:02:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Hunters from the Academy, we need you up on deck. Hurry! We haven't seen anything like it before!” <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Mori Koji laid on the bed for one more second. His survival instincts demanded him to stay out of trouble. Technically speaking, whoever was calling did not ask for the students of Avalanche Academy: they had asked for the hunters and to the best of his knowledge, only Armina Horowitz and Sidney West fall into that title. Even so, it did not take another second for Mori to change his mind as Armina’s sharp voice shout a clear command to everyone regardless of their status.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=198248.msg9809605#msg9809605">Quote from: Jane Storm on 05-04-2014, 11:02:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Everyone up and ready to engage! Whatever we have to engage…” Armina said. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>With no options left – Mori had already been in trouble with Armina Horowitz before -, the shy boy stood up and without changing anything, he walked out of the room. Without speaking anything, all Mori Koji did was to follow the group and stay behind everyone. Differently from what Armina Horowitz had ordered, he did not get ready for the fight: who said it was going to be necessary? Even Armina Horowitz did not know what the threat consisted of – his weapons would stay where they were. Besides that, Mori Koji would look even clumsier if he were forced to jog holding his weapons.<br/><br/>Shortly after, the intrepid group of the Grimm fighters from the Avalanche Academy found the threat. As a matter of fact, it was quite an intimidating being. The creature combined a beauty and a beast together, as if it could not exist, as if it were a living paradox. Identified by one of the men as the Ice Maiden, Mori Koji's heart froze as all the tales about that creature were suddenly brought from a hidden corner from his head. Mori Koji and the others listened to her threats, waiting for Armina and Sidney's additional intructions. It was not him who was going to attack the Ice Maiden first.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=198248.msg9809605#msg9809605">Quote from: Jane Storm on 05-04-2014, 11:02:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Life..is meaningless. Suffering ends when everything ends. Struggling endlessly, what is it all for? Surrender to the only comfort life knows, surrender to the chilling, soothing kiss of death…”<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>If Mori Koji believed the common sense, that was their end. The Ice Maiden would destroy them. This made the boy think about her words. ‘What she said makes sense. So many times I felt that the suffering could only be over with death. Life is an endless suffering and as such, surrendering is not an act of cowardice. One day, sooner or later, the Grimm will kill us all’, he thought as the memory of Gureisi Keri came to his mind, making him smile feebly. He swallowed dry and continued to think, waiting for what would follow. ‘But I learned a kiss, embedded with true love, could heal nearly everything and that inner peace was far better than a meaningless death. Poor Ice Maiden, I wonder how must she must have suffered.’