You Always Build It Better the Second Time Around

(Mika) Chapter 10 - Blunt

A/N: The blue one that isn't blurred out is her attire. You'll know who I'm talking about after you read this chapter. Just keep it in mind.

P.S: If anyone says anything about their feet/hands, so help me- I'll shoot something.
Also, I probably won't use any of the other outfits for anyone else, but I'll be happy to show the whole picture if requested. I literally drew this out of boredom and my love for fantasy clothing fashion. Take SAO for example.

Thank you for your time.

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Hell? It's cozy. Warm in some places, snowy cold in other places. Upon my suggestion of leaving immediately after I got up, Yu was quite skeptical, but with a bit of convincing he'd be fine, we decided to leave right after we got changed. As expected, he has quite a... beautiful body. Can I say that without sounding creepy? Probably not considering we're both men. I mean, I see nothing wrong with it, but that's because I don't have a preference between men and women even though I don't want to fall in love.

Once is enough, and it ended tragically. Some men would go searching for women to make love to just to not miss out of it, but others like me who are decent don't do that and instead stay away from it entirely.

Yu, upon entering the realm, looks a bit uneasy with everything. Honestly, we could be in an underground city and we wouldn't know considering the sky is so cloudy and dark, it looks like the ceiling of a cave or something. "Where do you think she is?" I ask myself aloud. I turn to see Yu up on a decently huge rock. "What do you think?"

"The west..." he mutters almost too quietly for me to hear.

"Huh?" I ask for confirmation of what he's said.

"I was looking to the west," he mutters again, eyes never straying from whatever he's looking at in that direction.

"Is that where you think she is?" I ask, only to receive a shake of a head as an answer, him jumping down on his own, eyes reminiscent of something.

He points east instead. "I believe they are in that direction. However, I do not know who it is I'm talking about. Goddess Tepes could be the entirely opposite direction for all we know and we're following some other yōkai or something."

I shake my head. "I don't think so," I tell him. "She has her three best familiars with her at all times, at the very least Master Bathory."

Unlike Yu, Ferid's safe-word name is Bathory, which became his last name. I don't know about Crowley or Koutorou's safe-word name, but I found out about Ferid's because that's the only name Krul Tepes uses for him. On rare occasions, she'll use his other name instead of Bathory. I think she uses his safe-word name more often than not because he's shifty and sly, like a coyote. Coyote's are known to be tricksters. Foxes are equivalent to coyote's, but considering Ferid and Yuichiro are nothing alike, I'm going to call Ferid a coyote. That's as similar as Yuichiro as I'm going to let him get and no further. In any life, I'm going to hate Ferid, that creep.

Knowing Ferid and the creepy shit he does, a bit of a terrifying thought comes to mind, and I decide to voice it to Yu. "What if... one of her familiars-" I'm not even through with my sentence when Yu interrupts me to answer.

"Not possible." We begin walking east where he said she could be as he continues to explain. "Like myself and all other familiars, he has a safe-word name."

A safe-word name. A name that causes the familiar to become 100% obedient as long as it is logical and it is their master only. A safe-word name will not work unless it is the familiar's master. There has been no record of cases proving otherwise. Come to think of it, I've never used Yu's safe-word name...