<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/>“Because humans don’t usually speak it” Nera said simply. She couldn’t argue with Toshiro’s arguments. Only thing she hoped was that he had told her before, so she could have been more careful with what she said on the phone. “You are really passionate of your work. I would never go that far for a job… and I doubt there are many other who would neither.”<br/><br/>Nerissa listened patiently his explanation, and she wasn’t convinced at all. Instead she started to wonder if she should start sending her last message to people important to her at this point… “Too hurt? If you get more hurt you are going to die. Oh dear…” The fox sighed like she was carrying the weight of world on her small shoulders. “I guess it can’t be helped. I will put my trust on you… and that this will work out somehow. If everything goes wrong we will just run away and… figure out something else after we are safe.”<br/><br/>The fox seemed to be surprised, both by what Toshiro told him and how he told it. “Don’t apologise. You swore Toshiro…” Nerissa said quietly, with a small mysterious smile on her lips. “I haven’t heard you swear before. At the balcony, you were furious… You were driven by your hate towards me and I believe that for a moment you thought about seriously killing me. But even then, you didn’t swear. Not once. But now you are swearing, to the things of past… It makes me happy, and sad the at the same time. I’m happy because it means that you truly care of Albion and you want what is best for him. You are a true friend to him. From what I heard from Rina I thought that maybe you are perverted and horny enough to try take advantage of his booze blinded ability to judge and you would just have your way with him. Now I think it’s something much deeper… You wouldn’t do it. At least not just for sex. Your feelings run much deeper. And that makes me sad, because I don’t know if he will ever answer to your feelings. I trust that you know his preferences better than I do, but I have lived in a belief that he is more picky with men than what he is with women.” And she wouldn’t exactly describe Toshiro with words cute or feminine.<br/><br/>“You shot him? I mean, you actually shot him and hit him?!” The golden eyes wide, the girl stared at the human man and she was at a loss of words for a moment, just staring at him with her mouth open. “I hope that taught him something. I doubt I will ever see him without a shirt… or generally without clothes. I’m not sure if he is shy or what it’s… Hmm… He really seemed like he was allergic to others being happy at that time. I was taking the training seriously, and so were you, right? He got so angry at me from simply celebrating my little success. I think Albion has walked a long way to what he is now. He is much easier to deal with now... “<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Nerissa saw the haniwa for the first time from the screen of Toshiro’s tablet. It was an ugly statue, but she could see why Rina had wanted it, considering that it had gold and gems. Nera didn’t want to tell Toshiro that it was probably just better that Rina didn’t understand the meaning of the statue, so she had just sold it quickly out of her hands. Just what did her simple tinkering with magic items have to do with these charts and graphics? Nerissa didn’t understand them at all, but she played along because the human seemed to think she would understand things like these. What a disappointment it would be once he would understand how stupid she really was!<br/><br/>“Hmm… So you kind of stole the statue to do more experiments on it? I think you are on the right track. If the conventional ways of testing don't help you finding out how to get more information out of the statue, then it’s logical to try less conventional methods. I courage you to try something out of the ordinary. The demons and the humans think differently, so it could be something you haven’t thought of yet.”<br/><br/>The fox demon had a calmer approach on eating compared to the human man. Instead of attacking her food like a hungry wolf she ate in a much calmer fashion, taking her time to enjoy every bite. When Toshiro told her about the Christmas and all things concerning it the girl raised her eyebrow. It sounded like Toshiro didn’t have the family he talked about anymore. “I’m sorry to hear that it’s such a sad holiday for you, but you don’t need to be alone then. You have friends. I know you are going to say that you don’t want to be a bother to them or something like that, but if they are your friends you won’t be a burden to them. I could invite you to spend Christmas with my family, but I have a feeling you don’t want to have anything to do with them. They aren’t all bad though.”<br/><br/>Nerissa lowered back of her seat a bit and took her shoes off. The girl twiggled her sock covered toes. “You want that quitar in the pawnshop? Do you play guitar?” Her question made her eyes wander at Toshiro’s fingers, following him operating the chopsticks. “Mmh… As a doctor you must have steady and accurate fingers and if you play a guitar on top of that… Your finger game must be out of this world!” Nerissa figured out, telling him her small discovery with a big smile like it was one of her casual compliments.<br/>