The fighting was over, he finds Elise and he puts his hand out to her to take. Rather Elise took Emil's hand he started to walk back to the guild hall for the victory party that was still yet to be had. He hopes that he doesn't over do it on his drinking but after that whole event he could really use some liquid encouragement to set his soul back to the sky as his body hurts and his mana supply feels like he is going to be out of it for a very long time and he needed to sit down and he hoped that his children were okay and not too scared right now as he had been gone for a lot of the night and there was really no way that he could just explain it all away to the twins that he was out doing anything else than fighting after their raid on the Guild hall that sent them chasing after them into the night to keep the north safe from outside invaders that might seek to claim it from them.

Emil gets into the guild hall and the waitresses of the guild were extra dressed up pretty from the party and he looked back to Elise and he wonders if she would ever dress up like that but he thinks she was probably to tough of a woman to really dress all that girly even if some one some how had won her heart he doubted that the rough and tough hunter would let her guard down even for a second to allow someone to see her dressed up girly like instead of the rough and tough nun outfit though he guessed that probably also fulfills some guys fantasies for a woman any ways so he guessed that was that. He pulled out a seat next to the one he sat in inviting Elise to sit next to him and drink and eat till the night ended and they both go there other ways.

He has no idea if the woman will sit with him but he orders two very strong drinks so if she does join him she will be able to just get straight to it as well as foods that were fresh for them to enjoy and not have to wait to be made for them and that would help to make sure they recover from the long night and he has to admit he doesn't think he has seen Elise ever eat anything so he wanted to make sure his guild mate and current right hand woman was taken care of.
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It was all over and Elise could not really help feel as if everything was now at it's end of the problem and Elise seemed as if nothing had went on this entire time and everything was just kind of there, About where she wanted things to be. When Emil seemed to offer his hand, some how some where she felt some one was testing him even now staring at it him like he was either going to risk something by trying this or might do something worst then what his foes just dealt with him. But Elise had not been one really to be touched by others.

Elise seemed to hold not malice, Emil must have been raised in a different way then what Elise would consider how she wanted to be treated or the years of the life she left behind still made he assume too many things about the people around her even if it is wrong and people where a bit different here compared to other people. But that was just not in her mind yet she was still some what resentful and not wanting to be touched because it was just people wanting to use you. It was unhealthy.

But alas there was still time while everyone else seemed okay and started to settle into getting drinks and celebrating. Elise seemed to have chosen to over all be back to what she was like normally when she was around anyone. She would over time get better Elise did take a fair amount of time to adjust to living in one spot rather then moving from church to church as she was normally often doing. There was signs Elise was at least trying to get comfortable around these changes and to her guild members around her.

She would find a table not too far away from the ones around and still here. It was just out of the way so Elise felt as if she had some space while still close enough to see she was there. She had yet to sit down in a stool, but on the table was her hood, just neatly folded there. placed with it seemed to be a handful of cigarettes with her looking out the window, seemingly most likely waiting and watching for how much longer until the sun started rising for that is when she would leave.

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Emil guessed that he couldn't be surprised that the woman had rejected his offer to join him and he thinks he knows better than to bother he farther to night as she did a lot and she proved that he still had a lot of growing to do and if he wanted to make it all count he was going to need to make sure that he, got a bit closer to her in away, not as close as to bump uglies with her, but to be at least seen as a friend and maybe a drinking buddy if she ever required one. He still has the drink and food taken over to her as she had been working a long night with all the fighting as he is sure the extra drink and food will make sure to hit the spot for her as she was a diamond in the rough all she needs is a push forward and time to shine.

Emil turned back to his drink and his food as this was a party on their hard fought night of ups and downs as well as near death experiences and near defeats, he wonders if there was a reason that he didn't see Yuurei and Brone here but he figured they probably had gone back out to make sure that the north was truly rid of the people and to put some extra steps in line to make sure that something like that couldn't happen again. He also noticed his brother was missing from all the action as well had he hidden away and stayed hidden that night or was he just not called upon to help take on the mess. Emil figured that maybe as Yuurei and Brone were late to the party they hadn't thought to call upon him as their might third. Emil needs to get stronger so he can truly reach the heights that they need to reach as he want's to be stronger than his bother and he needs to make sure that he can protect those that choose to side with him as their leader in the coming times.

Emil can feel his spirit raising as he drinks and starts to finish off his food that tasted so good but he was unsure why it tasted so much better was it because he was hopeful or was it because he was starting to actually make a friend in paradise dawn as he had felt so alone here and like he didn't belong here but maybe Elise can be his first friend in the guild though he still doubted that she would be he held out hope.
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It seemed at least Elise was comfortable over all the matter of everyone keeping safe and not trying too much to force their ways into her life, Emil did some what try and even if he with out speaking told him to stay away.It was a bless in it's own way for Elise was thinking about other things. Future work, a meaning to life beyond it, who she was, why she was this way and why everyone seemed to be this way when she clearly showed signs she disliked them all. It was an odd bond of some one trying even if failure was surely going to happen.

Elise should be happy, Yet here she was alone smoking and drinking away her bitter unhappy grudges to things and people who where doing nothing wrong to her to with and yet even if it helped her feel normal she could not help but in some manner feel almost in some way equally annoyed with herself about it as well. After all part of her knew she should be far better acting then what she was right now. But that was past her who was also taught to be this way.

You can try and teach some one to be new and do new things, But Elise had a lot of things that where stuck in her mind that had yet to be fixed. Thus looking away from everyone, Smoking away as she normally did not thinking a single thing about. She would look at the things was that left for her just merely for a moment when it was place down. Elise seemed to be lost her ever arching thoughts upon the state she was at now. Then looking at the things left for her again she merely thought to herself. Why her?

All of the nun and priest far kinder to anyone than her deserved this, Not her she was only here because she was a live, She watched many others fail and she just made made it through. In some manner it was sickening to Elise it was the saw. But anyone who was not Elise would have saw it as the signs from the beings Elise prayed too that she should continue on. She was fighting for what she felt was right and in some manner she was also forcing a changed in life for herself as well.

Elise almost seemed to lose track of time at one point casually drinking away with her smokes. That she did not realize she had reached the bottom. Then she seemed to finally reach over to the things, picking up the drink and merely taking a moment to sniff it. Anyone paying attention would see Elise do it and either ruin the moment of Elise's struggle to accept kindness form other people by cheering about it. Or they would just let it pass with out saying anything to not even leave a single sign they where watching her.

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Emil seeing the woman seemed to be fully just lost in thought walked over seeming to not even set off the woman’s warning alarms and he wakes a seat at the same table as her and he looks toward her and speaks  "You seem to not like it here, do you feel trapped? As you seem to mourn that you’re stuck here for the moment and that you had to waste your time and help get rid of the threat in the north." He looks at her and he smirks as he hopes that witty come back will fire from her mouth to his ears but he figured the woman was more than likely going to ignore him as he drank his alcohol and ate more like a beast than a man with his hands. He was never worried about how he looked as he was doing what he does best putting gusto into it and not wasting any real time to worry about if he acted like the other fancy guild mates that actually used silverware.

He orders more drinks as he was going to go over board for sure as it was a hell of night and it needed to be washed down with alcohol, food and maybe if he was lucky a lady might ask him for a night of her life. He was not going to back down trying to be this woman’s friend or at least comrade as this was something he needed to do as she clearly needed allies even if she hated to admit it she needs people in her corner as her end doesn’t have to be a dead one where she is alone and sad by her self in the darkness. "Going to the future know you can call on me to have your back, even if you hate me or dislike me, if you call I will come rampaging to assist you in all the ways that I can." He had starry eyes and lightning crackling on him with a big smile and a thumbs up. Emil keeps drinking and eating as he waits for the woman’s answers or to be told to get lost.

Emil was use to being told to kick rocks and to leave people alone as he was not a personality that people enjoyed being around and it bugged them that he still every day showed up and never seemed to change as he was making his own way with how he was and he wasn’t going to change for anyone or anything as he was strong and he was going to push through anyone that dared to stand in his way to prove he is the stronger more talented brother and that he should be respected as a legendary mage of PD if he chooses to stay there as right now he has zero friends or allies in the guild so he feels pretty isolated from the others like he doesn’t belong here and he needed to make it out of here fast and to the point of it as he was going to be the best and not stop on his rise to the top like he should be and he will be respected and not looked down on as he has a huge future in front of him that he not go lax on.
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Some one was finally enough to attempt to kind of break Elise from her never ending thoughts and wonder of her life and leading up to where she was now. It was Emil it had to be Emil he was the only one brave enough to actually do this because Elise scared the rest of them away. She almost seemed like she was not over all interesting in talking, Yet she did not shoo him away or tell him to leave. Merely just stare at him for a almost strangely long amount of time. Everything else seemed to continue on as normal.

But eventually flicking away her cigarette because it was finished there was just a moment where she seemed to not reach for another one, but still ended up doing that anyway, with running her fingers along one another the with the metal tip of her finger accessories scrapping against one another for a moment to flicker a spark to light the cigarette. Then merely stare at him. Asking question about her feelings and Elise if anything Elise was not use to talking or expressing her feelings only ever had to suppress him because of family's will to make her perfect.


But she would finally answer his first question."Mourn?....is that what you call this emotion?"Elise did not ask the question to him if anything more asking herself. But she collect her thoughts a bit more about it."The best way to consider how i am feeling....is forever lost in a world that I forced myself into for the sake of being free of something."Elise mention her Fiorian was still pretty clear even with the hints of minstrel in it."I no longer know who I should feel like I should be...Or know a path that will make it clear who I should be."If anything maybe Elise being a woman of faith made sense even if she was chaotic she needed faith to try and peace herself together to make her life a new, she just went about it very confusingly. But being a nun and having faith in something seemed to have not made her completely insane, even if she was anti-social and harsh it seemed to be like over all she made some progress with herself merely doing the best she could in some way while learning who she was.

It was not wit she answered with but actual deep thought about things at the time."You can say that, but I most likely won't ask for help."Elise said because she knew how she was. Even taking a moment to quietly take a drink of what was left for her. But with that she spoke she had waited to see what all would be said about her words in return over after all some one was expecting sass in wit but got other things from Elise in return. Drifting lost thoughts of a woman who forever left herself in the dark.

Fitting for the woman who was always out at night.

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Emil watched the woman and he movements and he wondered if she was about to go off on him but she didn't she seemed to start to speak from her heart and be in her own way sensitive. Emil knows that he is clearly out of his depth here as he has the emotional rage of a tea spoon compared to other people but on his honor and his ego he was not going to let this woman down as he needs to make sure that even if she had just denied him of helping her as she couldn't do it her self. Emil rubs his chin as he needs to really think about his answers before he gives them. "Well for the who you are meant to be thing that is easy just be you. The you I know rather it is fake or not is a badass nun, that can both kick ass and be kind to those that need your helping guiding hand. I too had a moment when I found out that what I thought I knew was all lies and that my brother wasn't killed and I found out the truth about him. I as well felt lost and confused to if I was even more or what I was made to be."

He put his hands together on the table and he took a deep breath as him thinking about what he had just said kind of hit him in a deeper place as he was more use to raging out and running head long into battles but this was a different battle field and this woman was not his enemy only the demons that she carried on her back rather she realizes that she is carrying them or not but it seemed the weight of them had started to begin to weigh her down and make her feel lost. Emil knows he isn't the right person for this task or fight by a long shot but he has to help if he can and this was a more personal thing than he was going to let on to the woman he doesn't want her to think less of him even if she probably wouldn't. "As for the path you need to take only time can tell that one. As you are a great hunter from what I had seen as well as a great nun even if that part is more a cover you helped those that needed it. Your path is your own and no one should push you to a path only meet you along the path and help you when you stumble a bit."

Emil is unsure if what he is trying to say is really coming across right or if he is just confusing her but he knows the feeling that she is feeling as he started in this country looking to find and kill his grandmother for killing his brother and mother, when really the death of his mother was a complication from having Kaito and Kaito had been alive the while time but was freed by his grandmother not killed so it was all wrong what he had known but his wife before she was his wife and his faith in Illumin had guided him and kept him on the right path. "Even if you don't take me up on it. Know that I mean that if you need me I will help you no matter what." He smiled at the woman with a grin as he knows that this was probably hard for the woman to let out as he also would struggle to speak about his own if he was not also sharing something this might be a good foot forward to them being friends in some sense.

He put his hand back out to her like he was looking for a hand shake. "Friends?" He figured it was just better to ask her to be his friend for now as he knows that he needs some as well.
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These kind of answers where to be expected, But Elise seemed to over all hated them for it felt hollow it solved nothing. She was still here left with no answer or means to answer it. Or at least she thought of it that was because Elise mentally was stuck in a rut she was stuck in a position. Elise was seemingly want the answer to stick out right in front of her."Sure...exactly what is helpful to hear."the amount sarcasm that came from Elise was almost impossible to cover up she would not be trying to cover it up either.

Even as he continued one Elise almost seemed far too uninterested in what he was continuing to say to her. The answer always was something about her being who she was already, or time would tell who she became. The compliment almost left her feeling like she was back to square one in a different manner as well. It was all up to her and so far being up to her left her where she was now. stuck here left to seemingly. Elise's bitter resentment would just continually show at this time.

Elise didn't get how to be free, This is what made becoming a nun easier for her at the time, a desire for change yet a path she knew how to work towards. Freedom and waiting for it all to come into place had at the time too much of a open ended way of thinking about it for her mind to connect to be truly free. It would seemed if anything Elise just went quiet for a really long time. Almost like she was trying to process hearing it again but it was not working for her at all, Years of being told and taught still there.

In her mind she was picturing the starting moments of trying to learn the harpsichord all over again, being scolded by her mother upon missing a note either not playing it correctly or being out of time. She lost count how many times she failed, for the effort it took was far beyond what she remembered at the time. To her first attempt at weapon training with some of the other nuns, Elise remember not really winning either. She stitched herself back together a few times from it but never showed much expression from it.  

She would look at his hand for a moment and even if that offer was of friendship, Elise seemed to stare at it for the moment. Almost like she was unsure of her answer at this time. The only problem was it seemed here for Elise she seemed to be taking even longer to think over what her choice would be in the end. She was so much in thought her cigarette was done and she not barely really smoked any of it. She seemed to have just been staring away in an empty space with in her mind here.

But it seemed shortly she would come back to reality. Looking away from the hand it seemed she would refuse the hand shake but at least would answer his question."Maybe....I will still need a bit more time."Elise finally mention almost like she was in her own slight manner of distress about it. What else did some one expect to be lost in their mind for a long period of time when some one was never left to be free at all. Part of her had wanted to almost say. However she knew she was not prepared for it at the time.

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Emil can clearly tell that his words did not help her at all so he decided to try this at a different angle and he clears his throat and used a bit of a sterner voice with her. "What did you want me to say? Did you want me to pin you to the wall and say you should be mine? That your path and mine should be one? Cause that is not something I am going to do to you, I respect you far to much and I think your answer is closer to your heart if you can get out of your own head long enough to see that you are greater than your past. Your path will be as lonely as you let it be that is just a fact. Where you are now, is a good enough start a branching path from just being someone else's door stop or door mat to be kicked around and told what to do and you have no choice. If you wanted you could probably ask any guy in this shit hole and they would jump at taking a night date with you or spending a night hunting with you just for the chance to be close to you. Thing is you are more than just a pair of tits, a pretty face, a nice body and probably an ass to die for. You are braver and you are stronger than you give yourself credit for my words are not to say it is all on you, but the thing is it starts with you and how much you are going to let the ghosts of your past drag you down. Right now is your time to grow and get beyond that which troubles you, you just have to be able to take the first step to that path and don't let the ghosts drag you back to the path that you are unhappy being on."

Emil takes a breath and he gets back to drinking as he figures that he probably just blew any chance he had with Elise being his friend as he was a fair bit to harsh on her there he feels. He wonders if Kaito could have handled this better or if Kaito would have had as much trouble with trying to help the hunter woman but Emil knows that he might have lost his temper a little there and he is probably going to be lucky if he doesn't wake up with a werewolf head at the base of his bed one morning over this but he figured that since softer words hadn't worked that harder words might be able to crack the thick wall of her past that seemed to bind her up in a nice little box that she from what she had seemed to say held her back and down and was making her unhappy. Emil knows truly the only person that can probably make her be able to get to a place she can feel happiness was her self.

Emil eats a bit more from his plate of food as he waits for the woman to say something back to him about what he had said or would she just walk away into the last bits of the night that were left before the sun broke over the horizon and would start the new day for them all. Emil hopes that his words helped her in some part but he was unsure if he had really spoken them in a way that was fitting of him to talk to her or anyone really or if he had crossed a line and was about to hear about it from the higher ups. Emil figures that he will just deal with it when the repercussions come and bite him in the ass for his actions but for now he was trying to make sure that she doesn't think he takes her struggle lightly.
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For the moment this all might have fallen upon deaf ears. Even getting up from her chair. It seemed for the moment this mental rut had for the moment bested Elise. Merely muttering to herself for a moment in her native language about what she expected really to hear."Je ne sais pas exactement à quoi je m'attendais."Elise merely said as she got up from her chair. Finished her drink, leaving the food untouched she would empty the butts of her smokes into her hand and put the nun hood of hers back on.

But at least she was some what respectful even if she was kind of souring a good moment. Elise seemingly had wanted to feel delighted and happy. Over all at times it was things that Elise knew she needed to get over. the things just did not click yet and was over all still trying.

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Emil feels that he may have been wrong still in what he said and once she stood up he did as well as he was going to follow behind her and keep talking to her rather she deafened herself to his voice or not he was going to make sure that she knew that he was on her side and if she wanted to make changes to who she was or what she was doing he was going to be someone that she can relay on if she found a time that she needed the support and Emil was not one to really worry about things that hadn't yet come to pass but he figured that if she will let him he will help her, and maybe get his children to meet her and see if maybe she might make a good auntie to them as he knows that his children will also need to be trained to fight not only as he fights but by a skilled fighter like Elise as well. So he hopes that he can grow a bit closer to her in the long run.
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