"That's quite mean Sei." She didn't care for Quanxi's words.
"He needs to learn. Because of our job, Denji spends the most amount of time with Nayuta; he needs to grow up."
After the house had burnt down, Sei had chosen some apartments to live in instead, still on the bigger side but she preferred them, Denji being her neighbor and Nayuta lived with him purely because Sei didn't want the dogs in her apartment and Nayuta wanted to live with the dogs.
She had also told Denji she wouldn't be paying for him and he will need to learn, he needs to repay her to settle his debt so he needed to go to school and get a job because being a devil hunter still didn't pay fiends and hybrids.Even tho she said that, she expected no repayment and she never 'remembered' when he'd borrow more money for groceries or how he needed adults to sign permission slips or important documents. Once she gets the money from him, she'll give it back to him, all... This is a hard lesson for him but she knows it will help him in the long run.
And she had explained that to Quanxi who still found it a hit under the belt with everything she knows about Denji taken into account.
"He is too stupid to get that money."
"Oh hush, stick to your ignorance it bliss mindset will you?" She jabbed her in the ribs making Quanxi slap her hand away.
"You make that quite hard with everything going on around you."
Sei stuck her tongue out.
"Put that back in your mouth or I'll cut it off."
"I really should have told them to stop remaking those swords of yours." Sei smirked at the sword held up to the side of her neck.
She bent her head and lifted her shoulder, trapping the blade there like someone would a phone, Quanxi let go, not there to hurt her, Sei grabbed the handle and twirled it in her hand.
"It is a cruel lesson but he needs to learn, for his good, for Nayuta's good." She put it in back in the sheeth as she walked passed Quanxi.
The apartment was so silent, Denji having asked for help walking the dogs since he also had a control devil to keep and eye on on these walks now, Long and Cosmo instantly agreed... Why does everyone like those dogs so much? (fun fact: I don't think Sei realizes those are Makima's dogs but she still doesn't like them, more of a cat lady I think)She let herself fall back on the couch, one leg over the arm rest, the other on the ground with an arm hanging off.
"How are you taking it?" Quanxi asked, leaning her crossed arms on the back of the couch as she looked down at Sei who saw her but was staring at the ceiling.
"Taking what?"
"You know what I mean."
Sei sighed through her nose.
"What's with you and wanting to know all my secrets?"
"What's with you and wanting to hide all those things?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Thought it all I could never hate her, no matter what went down. Not when she ordered me to die, not when I was her willing pawn, not when I was a stain on her white shirt. I don't believe I truly hated even when she had you. She did hate me truly and purely, that's how she affected me with an order and how it lasted, she never stopped hating me... All I could do was momentary, a few fleeting seconds, the amount of a blink... Even on actual death's brink I couldn't hate her truly..."
Sei looked at the opposing wall, the wall that would have Denji's apartment on the other side of it. Empty for the moment but full of life at other moments.
"As easily as she found to kill me, I have just as much ease in caring for her."
She felt a hand on her face, looking at the devil hunter, feeling her fingers wipe stray tears off her face.
The gaze was so intense and yet comforting.
"I will not say that I understand you." Quanxi never had siblings, she couldn't relate. "But do not blame yourself. You had done what you could before that day, you did your best to save her from herself... She just didn't want to be saved."
"I feel like I haven't tried enough." She leaned her head into the colder hand, trapping it between her cheek and her shoulder gently.
"That sort of enough doesn't exist. Enough is a lie created by those blinded by grandeur, by pride, by a future so far it will never see the light of day. You tried, you tried enough, the enough of the last choice, the enough of the end. It was enough... You could do nothing else."
"You are saying some weird things Quanxi, really weird thing." She dryly chuckled. "I know she's not her and yet I wish so, letting go is hard."
"You don't need to let go, devils reincarnate in someone else each time but you are one half of a whole. Nayuta is your sister, even if now she has a different face, name and personality, you are always tied together."
"That's a way to say it."
"She is not her, but she's still your sister. Don't feel guilty for feeling as such."
Sei grabbed the trapped hand in her own, looking at them together. A human could not tell the difference but she is a devil, such small differences between color, texture, blemishes... And yet they fit together.
"I'll always carry her with me." Sei said. "After all, if it wasn't for her, we'd have never met."
"You also have her face."
"Jeez thanks."
"Oh hush, I still found it interesting didn't I? I still do but after what she did, I still find it better suited for you."
"Yeah yeah."
She rolled her eyes again with a small grin, not seriously mad.
Another sigh.
She wished life was this simple always but with what he life become, she doubted it would be any time soon... And yet it didn't bother her that much, she'd have others with her and she won't be alone again.
(I mean... I know I should make them kiss. Like it is what marks people as a couple in fiction, or at least confessing or saying 'I love you' clearly to each other... But oddly enough I don't think any of that truly fits these two. Like we know how they feel and I feel they all do know too... Please tell me what I should do here, it almost feels like they are already an old married couple but having them be normal couple kissy/confessy/thingy not fit their personalities, maybe Sei yes a little but not Quanxi with her personality.)
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Bolt Through The Heart (Quanxi X F.OC)
FanfictionWhat if the conquest devil was way too strong because of humanity's wish to conquer all that breathes? What if the devil was split into two bodies to make it weaker? What if the newly created Control and Domination devils turned out differently than...