Bolt Through The Heart (Quanxi X F.OC)

-Left-

At least one thing was certain.

The devil hunting bureau was looking on with narrow eyes but keeping its hands to itself.

In the inferno the base was gone, all was gone, but they still suspected two specific people tho they had not voiced or acted on any revenge ideas. They even moved their new headquarters to a new district further from them.

But that was one of the only good news.

Red and white never looked so ugly as it did that night.

Sei scowled, wiping her mouth on the back of her hand, pulling the handle to flush it down.

The stress didn't seem to help her case.

She looked in the mirror, biting her nail as she thought but not chewing on it, she looked paler even, sickly.

China would leave her alone but the rats mauled at the crows.

And that damned chainsaw, she was sure almost everyone had seen his televised fight with Reze on the TV, she should have killed the bomb devil when she had the chance back then.

The fact that now everyone would be hunting for the chainsaw was really worrisome, she knew they'd grow some balls and come knocking on Quanxi's door with a new mission... She knew she'd be ask to get the chainsaw.

It made her feel sick all over again, glaring into her own eyes but seeing yellow ones looking back with a monstrous simple smile.

That would expose them to Makima, she is a powerful devil, Control.

And cunning, Makima is always a step ahead, this is suicide.

And yet she was hesitating.

She knew she could make it much more safe if she went back, knowing that the mission will come, but she was hesitant.

It still cooled her blood to simply think about Makima's actual gaze on her, how much stronger she was, how much hate she bared for her.

If she goes back to Japan, whatever short life she still has will reach its end much faster, she won't leave that country alive... She'd still go with Quanxi but she is scared.

The rat would tear her feathers out, tie her beak shut and gnaw on her bones as no matter how long she'd fly, all birds need to land at some point.

But then again, she thought as she finally washed off her hands, she had the bullet from the fly devil. Even if she'd die it would maybe give herself enough strength to hinder her sister.

Sei dragged her hands down her face with a sigh, hoping life would just be easy: killing devil until she can no more and pass on with people finally not hating her presence but no, the world is cruel.

She was not even surprised with who she came face to face when exiting the bathroom.

"I cleaned up." She simply said.

"You know that's not what worries me." Quanxi said casually, arms crossed.

"I don't even know how you got out from under that dog pile." She looked at the big bed.

"Practice... Are you feeling alright?"

"Currently yeah, since it came up but I know later will be a pain." She rubbed her forehead.

"And there is no way to help?"

"No, still no. I told you, our orders should not affect each other and yet it still happened, nothing else then a similar miracle of her order once again working when ordering me to live would stop this and we both know it won't happen."

She still felt bad, even if she can die without Makima getting back to being the whole of Conquest, she'll be in hell and then back on earth as a completely different devil, nothing of this her would remain outside of maybe her eyes color and basic characteristics like being a human-like woman with the domination devil powers.

She jerked a little at the hug but sighed, happy the lack of light covered the redness of her face, letting it happen.

"We'll find a way."

"Sure." She simply said.

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"Is it really a good idea not to tell her?" Pingtsi asked.

What Sei thought of did come true but not the way she had feared, in a worse way.

"This is for the best." Quanxi told the fiends, knowing they felt guilty.

She still felt bad for the devil too, being so tired she didn't hear nor wake up to the knock on the front door... But then again, Quanxi would never drag her back to Japan for such a mission.

And so, with a note left behind for her, she and the fiend had left.

"She is right." Long sighed, for once not arguing about a choice. "I worry about her and she'd be really in danger there."

"Halloween!" Cosmo tho was not happy to leave behind Sei, Tsugihagi as silent as ever but the most on the fence about this.

"I do not want to bring her near her sister." Quanxi confirmed.

"She'll be mad." Pingtsi said, all of them sitting in a car driving towards the private airport.

"I know." The hunter agreed. "And she'll have the time to yell at me after this." She was not about to risk her life, not when she could die easier then the fiends currently.

If Quanxi had her choice she would have left the fiends behind too but these new heads of bureau offered to give them human rights if they participated and she just couldn't say no to that. Her face was blank but she felt awful for having been swayed so fast in bringing them along.

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'You can be mad later.'

Later? Sei was fuming right now.

She had slept through most of the day and woke up feeling like shit to a too silent apartment, having only found this worthless note to clue her in on what she feared happened.

She thought they'd wait a bit but no, the moment the chainsaw was seen it was on the table. That second day after that they were already knocking and demanding the hunter to go get it.

She was so angry she thought she'd blow a blood vessel in her pounding head. 

They left her behind and went into enemy territory alone.

They were in so much danger, they were playing into her hands

"I will not let you." Sei hissed, marching to her room.

Exiting once her slim jeans and black T-shirt were on, grabbing her dark green hoodie on the way and pulling on black boots.

She touched her pocket with a sigh, just in case.

She glared at the entrance, opening it and slamming it behind her as she left the apartment.