A failure of a birthday(private)

Takumi had decided to take a shortcut through the east forest on his way home, arms full of shopping bags. The young mage was all but oblivious to everything around him, too happy that it was his birthday to notice anything. He whistled a tune as he walked, something the serious and unhappy mage almost never did. As he walked his pet stumbled dazed lyrics after him carrying more bags, looking nervously around the forest. Takumi, not paying attention, wandered away from both his pet and the path without realizing it.

As he wandered amount the trees Takumi began to sing, a ballad about lost love. Takumi almost never sang, so it was clear to see he was happy. Suddenly looking up, the mage realized he had gotten himself lost. "No..." Takumi stopped singing at once and looked around desperately for anything familiar.

Dust, or rather in her disguise of Shouri Ishiki, was running through the woods while holding Mystletainn with her left hand. Well, you could say she killed someone again, and the reason she was on her disguise was to run from some Garou Knights that are after her. Shouri Ishiki, her disguise, was that of an feminine looking boy, with long pink hair hold with an french braid. Her clothes were equivalent from those of a member from the cavalry, and the sword on her left hand left the impression that she was a knight. But when Shouri, or rather Dust, was still running, she detected one source of magic from afar, and she knew what was that source. "This feeling, an magic item? No, the feeling is different from one, this is not possible. It is the feeling of a mage just like myself."

Shouri ran after the source, and when she did it, she was already lost in the woods. After minutes searching for it, she stopped in a branch of trees, and below it was a boy with white hair, alongside a small creature with the size of an fox. Both were holding shopping bags with them, but it wasn't the weirdest thing she had jumped into, it was rather... his happy-go-around melody. Just some minutes after, the boy noticed he was lost, and looked around in the search of something he could feel familiar with, but the more he looked, the more he looked around in desperation. Shouri really wanted to kill him, but she was feeling he could use magic for some reason, so killing him would put her on trouble. After thinking about what to do, she jumped from the branches of the tree she was standing.

"What you are doing here on the woods? You are lost?" Just after saying it, Shouri noticed she was lost just like the boy. Her face, while in her disguise, was red as a tomato, so the boy could notice she was lost as well. Dust was a girl with excessive blood lust, but she was still human, even thought she thinks the contrary; hell, she think she is not even a human. But still, she was one even if her ego makes her to deny it. But anyways, she was lost, just like the boy she wanted to kill, but was unable to do so because she suspects the boy is a mage just like her. She should be very careful about him, or she would turn into mincemeat instantly.

"What? Oh, yes, I am. Are you lost too? I was just trying to take a shortcut." Takumi looked at the other person, his blue eyes wide and rapidly darkening in colour. The young mage looked around, spinning to reveal the sword strapped to his back. The young mage was oblivious to anything that this person might be, only wanting to get out of the woods so he could have a normal birthday. "I suppose this was stupid of me to do on my own birthday, but what's done is done, isn't it?"

"Birthday, eh? People celebrate the proximity of their death? How stupid." She said it straight, without any tone of provocation or sarcasm, a question without evil or good. Dust was quite sarcastic, but these words that came from her mouth were not sarcasm. As Shouri Ishiki, she had the facade of a liar, meaning any opinion that came from that disguise was the opposite of what opinion Dust has, but what she said, was not from her disguise. "Well, I don't care, we just want to get out of here, isn't that right? Also, I can sense magic within you. Perhaps, you are a mage just like myself?" Shouri said with a smile, as she could feel his magic energy.