<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/>The fox demon listened to Toshiro tell her about his unfortunate situation of friends. Or more like lack of them. “That so sad… But I can understand your opinion. I probably wouldn’t want to be anywhere near her either if I was in your shoes.” The man could see how the fox demon tried to come up with a solution to his miserable situation because she felt bad for him. Toshiro was probably very well aware of the option of finding more friends. Either he kept losing them one way or another or the man simply was unable to make friends. “Well… if you aren’t so picky about the date we could do something together? You, your friend, your cat and me. We could prepare a festive meal, drink some, maybe play something and just spend some time together. It wouldn’t be any trouble to me” Nerissa assured with a warm smile.<br/><br/>The human man sounded so confident about himself that Nera didn’t want to put cracks on his confidence by reminding that it probably wasn’t a good thing if he had to rely on his fingers to make his partners happy. He probably tried his best and if he was completely useless, it wasn’t his fault completely. Whoever was with him should show him what to do if he didn’t know. So Nerissa smiled like Toshiro was telling her that he was a sex god. Even when he told her that he paid to his partners, and he wasn’t sure if it was all just a show. Toshiro, you are a doctor! How you can’t know? There are obvious physical signs that, probably, can’t be faked. Isn’t this something you should know? Toshiro was already in a great physical pain. Nera didn’t want to cause him emotional pain too. And there was always a good chance that he wasn’t such a lousy lover but people who did it for money handled it like a job, which it was to them, so they weren’t excited about it. “It’s a good thing to be able to make your partner moan. I don’t think it’s all just a show… Do you like it, when they moan? I have been told that I’m loud.” The fox demon asked these questions like they weren’t special in any way, just like her dropping those details wasn’t either. In her way of thinking there was nothing weird in talking about these things.<br/><br/>When Toshiro told her how his sister had called him Nerissa couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “She has her way with the words! But I think I can understand what she means. Without feelings it’s just an execution. No matter if it is words, pictures, movement or songs there has to be a soul in the art of it becomes empty and meaningless. I believe that the reason people make art is that they want to relay their feelings and show them to others. So… Maybe the next time you should forget being a human copier of notes. Instead listen to a song and examine yourself, find out what feelings it awakes inside you… and then you play out those feelings, not the notes you just heard. Can I hear her playing? Please, tell one of her songs so I can search it!”<br/><br/>Nera took her phone out, ready to search a song if Toshiro gave her the name. Her bowl wasn’t empty yet, but the girl seemed to be done with her main dish nevertheless. “Well… From what he told me, he didn’t pick the first one on purpose. It was more of an accident… but I guess it wasn’t that bad if he has done it more than once.” Or then he just gets himself so drunk he really can’t tell the difference. “If being a man wasn’t on his list originally, but now he feels like feminine men are attractive. I mean, they have to be attractive in his eyes or else… “ Nerissa shrugged carelessly. “I don’t think they use their time to talk about weather or something. So, if he didn’t find attractive originally but now certain types of men get him going, doesn’t that mean that his opinions aren’t set in stone? His preferences can change.”<br/><br/>Nera took the packet of dangos, remembering to offer one to Toshiro too, before she started nibbling her own. When the man began drawing she leaned closer to observe his working, and how the surprisingly accurate picture started to appear on the paper from his pen.<br/><br/>“Hmm… I don’t know this particular Papayo. It’s the first time I met him, but Papayos are generally considered as Jammers. A Papayo can create a field that absorbs all power used in it. It’s… like an endless swamp or quicksand. It’s an invisible field. Both physical and magical power are sucked by that field. It will slow down the one inside it. If one tried to hit something inside the field it would be like a slow motion strike and has as much power as hitting someone with a piece of paper. It sucks power out of spells so they wither and disappear. That’s how Papayos hunt. They get their prey inside the field and then kill him with feather arrows. I don’t know how to call it… They manifest arrows that look like feathers, so… feather arrows. Oh, Did you want to know something else about them?” Nera asked with curiosity, being ready to share the little knowledge she had with the researcher. “I doubt he is alone there. You saw how tall those shelves were. It would be difficult for him to reach the top shelves and he isn’t strong enough to carry heavy objects, so there are probably one or more helpers in the shop.”<br/><br/>The fox demon finished her dangos and rustled putting things away in the bag before she pulled her magazine out. The girl opened a Pocky box, catching one stick between her lips and taking another one, poking Toshiro’s lips with it if he didn’t understand to take it. “Let’s do a quiz. This looks like a short one…” She rummaged through her handbag in search of a pen. The quiz in question was named<em>Can you keep a guy intrigued?</em>“Okay! So… When a guy… I guess it can be a girl too. Whatever, so, when a guy texts you the day after a great first date do you A call to thank him for the drinks and tell him you had a great time too or do you B wait a day to text back. He will be more eager to hear from you tomorrow or C do you reply later on that day and reference something funny from the night before?” Nerissa asked while slowly shaking her pen from side to side. “Toshiro, is it true that men think women are too eager if they call right back?” Toshiro was a man. Maybe not the manliest man out there, but still man enough to ask these kind of questions from him.<br/>