The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 11 Epilogue: A Piece of Advice

(Opening Theme: The Beast Player Erin Opening 1-Drop Performed By Sukima Switch)

-Earlier that Day-

"That...sadly is my teammate...Noelle Silva.." Pluck said with disdain

"Sadly he says." Karasu thought.

"WHAT!?" Akiko shouted as she looked Noelle over. She soon had a glare, "HOW DARE YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCE TO WOO MY FIANCE!!"

"THAT'S YOUR MAIN CONCERN!?" Pluck, Karasu and even Noelle exclaimed.

Akiko yelled as she shook Noelle, "LISTEN YOU! YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY FIANCE! I SAW HIM FIRST! COMPARED TO YOU I'M MORE ATTRACTIVE! TELL ME! DO YOU DO THIS WITH ALL MEN?! KEEP AWAY! THI ONE'S OFF THE MARKET!"

"STOP SHAKING ME!" Noelle shouted as she had been getting dizzy, "MY HEAD IS GONNA FALL OFF!"

"Seriously do something about this." Karasu told Pluck who had just been stunned by what was happening, "We have more important things to worry about."

Pluck sighed before he rolled up his sleeves and had gotten out his grimoire. He said in a monotone voice "Sword Creation Magic--Gum-Gum Stickler."

Akiko found herself being pulled off by Pluck's sword while Noelle was finally able to breathe; Karasu was quick to catch her before she fell to the floor.

"Akiko--" Karasu said, "--We literally don't have time for this."

Pluck told her, "We have more important things to take care of."

"MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR FIANCE?!" Akiko shouted as they could see tears forming in her eyes.

"Okay this is a YOU matter." Karasu told Pluck, "I'm gonna go with Noelle to make sure Feo is distracted."

Pluck groaned as he said "you go do that, i'll catch her up to speed."

"Yeah no proo--" Karasu said before his sentence began to trail off when he looked in a certain direction.

Among the crowd of people he noticed a familiar platinum blonde hair girl wearing a familiar red bandana around her head. She had flashed him a taunting smile before going in the crowd again; Strangely enough she had been heading in Feodora's direction. "Uh---" He said as he cleared his throat. Much to Pluck's shock he handed Noelle over to him.

"On second thought--I'm gonna go on ahead--You got babysitting duty with Liam and Noelle." He told Pluck, "Me-Meet you back at the house."

With that said, Karasu took off in the direction where the girl had taken off, not even hearing what Pluck had to say, and not even aware that a certain wolf-deer had been following behind him.

He had been pushing his way through the crowd, keeping his eyes on the girl and not losing sight of her. She soon turned down a set of staircases as he had been quick to follow. The crowd had been all but behind him now as when he had gotten to the ground floor.

Taking off his fake mustache and hat he looked around the area realizing that he had lost sight of the girl.

He clicked his tongue in annoyance, "Damn it--Where did she--"

"Hello there little birdie, said the Owl to the Crow."

Karasu had looked over in the direction of the voice, to see a familiar young girl sitting on the rim of the fountain. The young platinum blonde hair girl looked to have eyes that were grey and white as she had been wearing a black crop top with a silver ring hanging from around her neck as she had on a black vest as she had a set of bandages wrapped around upper right arm and around the palm of her left hand. She had on a red bandana on her head as she had on dark brown jockey pants with a set of boots.