She yawned softly and left her bed. Her eyes cornered to look at her bed sheets all over the place, wrinkled as her pillows scattered. Her eyes had bags under them as she could not even sleep. She sent a letter to Judith as a summon for her children to come back so she hoped that they will be here soon. This hotel suite was big enough for a family of five if not more. It felt empty, like her heart and the void within her. That void was slowly sucking up to her existence. She had to find the cure, the love that could kill her pain.

She left her bed unattended and instead went to her dresser to look through for clothes. What was she going to wear, she wondered. Her tired eyes wandered through everything, but only a pair of clothes spoke to her. She picked up a black T-shirt and some baggy black pants with pockets out. After putting them on slowly as ever, she went to the bathroom to get a washcloth to wash her face. Kuri wondered curiously on what comb or brush she was going to use next. There were many, for today the options were ivory with a mermaid on the top, coral with a nemo fish art and just a normal one. What did her hair feel like on this day? She picked up her ivory one and brushed it slowly. She had a habit of breaking things, so delicate they were.

So old.

Like her souls.

She let down her hair as the blonde streeks within her white were wavy against her back. The door suddenly knocked, making her softly yawn and walked towards it. Who could it be? She wondered if it was Masami about the quest letter, being the most likely case. She grabbed the letter and opened the door to end up looking down to see Masami. A motherly smile appeared on her face. "Well, hello there. Did you want to go right away?" She questioned.

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He seemed ready to go do some mission that she had no clue about the absolute details of. She was curious about if it was easy or difficult but compared to everything she already did do, it must be easy. It was somewhat boring to be the rank she was since she was known, but not as known since her reputation was low. She blamed her last death for that. She had everything planned and reputation, but after she died it all went down the drain. She went out of her hotel room and closed the door, locking it tightly. She remembered how that witch appeared in her suite in Marigold, someone decided to try to kidnap her children so ever since then, she locks everything.

But how does that stop people with magic?

There were many magics that could just go through walls and into rooms of others. Her body can literally turn into water and go through physical things. It cost her mana sure, but it was still fun to do. He questioned if she thought that people believed she was his mother. Was there something wrong with her? Her eyes cornered to look at him, walking with him to the elevator and down to go outside. During this, they talked. "Would I be a bad mother to have?" She wondered. Her eyebrow lifted as she questioned him. He started to talk about last mission, or was this apart of this mission too? The people seemed to be guarding the person they needed to go 'beat up'. It seemed like this was going to be easy again to her. Her spells are rather powerful so this was going to be tiring, boredom is a tiring thing.

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Masami seems like he knew what he meant, so she did not take it all personally when he made it sound like she was a bad mom. He even said how he did not think she was a bad one, as far as he could see. She sometimes felt like one with how she was not around them all the time, but maybe she was a good one after all. She kept her babies safe with Judith since she knew Judith does not go around fighting people nor really around danger. Judith was a good experiment, a successful one at that. She did not know that nor did anyone.

She walked beside Masami while she then looked at the hotel keeper who watched her as well. It was a little awkward to her. He sometimes liked to watch her every move for some reason as if she was from some dark guild. She was innocent, for now - she swore she was. She remembered how even though her Guild master did not really care about her children in the first place, she still saved them. She had to be at least half good right? Some will just watch it all happen without even saying anything till the last person was alone, the person who was trying to kidnap her kids in this case. They walked out of the door and she gave a smile towards Masami, "Oh, alright.~" She giggled sweetly and went towards the mission with whom neither did they know, will become her son.

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The wrong response can sometimes print an idea on people's imagination. She wondered if she did that just now. Her eyes watched his mouth movement as she walked beside him quietly after what she said. She felt like it was supposed to be a positive impact, but what it did was the opposite. He seemed to not want to talk after that which she felt bad about it. What she did not know was that both of them felt that way by each other's expression. They assumed that the other did something wrong, but neither of them knew that it was quite the opposite.

Things went even quieter when they stood in the corner towards some other destination they were suppose to go to. They were waiting for them. It was super casual as they had their weapons strapped up and ready to go. What they probably were not prepared was the huge flooding that was going to happen. She enjoyed flooding, using the water element mixed with that cursed element of light that she was stuck with. When she was a Seraph, she had powers like no other, but then they had the audacity to downgrade her into a Nephilim. Gods... pft, they will have their turn when she was done with them. What they did not know nor did she, her plans will change in the future.

"How did you want to do this?" She asked him. Usually, she did not care about how this went as she would just go in, drown them and move on. That much was true, but now that she had a son-like figure with her she wanted to see how this played. She had to guard him, she felt the need to be his mother, but why? Did she care, but once again why?

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She cornered her eyes to look at him and then the people that were guarding the place. She was unsure of how he wanted to do this until he spoke up about it. He was not very specific, but he did it through action. Masami put on his mask in front of her as she became curious about the object. Different objects kept showing up in Fiore, ones that did not belong in the Country. Did she care much about him having it? No, she trusted and believed in him that the object was not a bad one like some she has seen or dealt with.

He went in with his mask on in his own way as he was being some distraction. He wanted to bring the men out to find out where they were exiting. It was like some Avatar stuff, but no one will understand that as she did not even understand where that reference came from. He started to do some spells and stuff, signaling her to go as soon as people exited out of that door. She went against the side of the wall and ran towards the door to go inside. What she finds inside was her worst nightmare.

More god damn stairs.

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She yawned and stretched as she looked up to see the top stairs. It was one of those circular rooms as the stairs went upward. There was no elevator or some other magical door. It did not matter though as her eyes started to glow intensely. Her body's aura was visible of a golden lilac color as wings started to form from her back. "Fuck. These. Stairs. AND F THESE PEOPLE! I hope you can hear me!" She yelled as her wings started to motion like a bird's. She felt air surrounding her as her hair started to flail around wildly. Her knees started to bend and lifted herself up, flying all the way to the top. These people are going to get a serious beating when she got up there.

Her heart was beating quickly as she was getting all that hard air down her airway for breathing. Once she got up at the top she hovered over the railing to land her feet against the marble floor. She kept her wings out yet folded against her shoulders. She wondered where everyone was, but she soon found out when she opened the door to reveal everyone. There was a group of people as if they were mini-bosses of the main one. She could not figure it out why these people even wanted to run a business.

"Time to talk business," Kurisa spoke in a serious strict way. Her icy purple eyes gazed at all of them, fearing them up. First, they started to lean back into their chairs and looked at each other, nervous and not sure what to say. Were they afraid to speak up first? Softly, she sighed and stretched upward and motioned her arms to make a circular motion, finally against her side. Her head tilted and eyes half-closed. "Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I have a business to take care of. I want to get rewarded and if I have to beat the living shit out of all of you, I will." Kurisa looked like an angel who was about to smite them from heaven. A six feet and a few inches tall angel-like being gazing at them with glowing eyes could be a scary thing.

Her lips were licked by her own tongue as they felt dry in here. She had to have a humidifier in her own hotel suite cause the dryness killed her in a non literal sense. "L-look, we just wanted a part of her business, but she kept rejecting us." they studdered. They were afraid, but she understood why. Her ears listened to any movements behind her rather it was Masami or some of these people's crooks. "That's not a good enough answer." She frowned. "Too bad.".

"SHOOT HER." He yelled as they shot bullets at her. They went through her like the last ones did when she was fighting that other couple. The people had the same reaction, it was getting really boring. Kurisa remembered that Casino owner who was buying her as a slave. His sword went through her body as well as he was trying to cut her up due to Caius pissing him off. She chuckled softly as her eyes slowly went cold. She forgot all about Masami being there with her, well on his way at least. She was alone. It did not matter. Her lilac beautiful eyes became solid and the pupils disappeared. Her arms lifted towards them as she summoned a leviathan dragon-like creature that roared off towards them.

It engulfed them whole, enough to knock them out and taught them a lesson. "We-we're sorry! We'll stop!" He said while muffling some water due to the attack. He was on the ground and gave Kurisa a paper. Slowly she broke their window and flew out to meet Masami on the floor. Slowly, her wings disappeared.

"We're done. Here's the contract saying they will stop harassing her." She spoke with her eyes going normal, away from being solid with no pupils. They went on to hand it in, rewarded and went home.

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