Serenity or War?(Job w/Noheme)

Job Info

Job Approval

The demon had found a way to get a pretty good amount of money to his crew, Black Sails again. This time it required him to do something a bit different than his usual jobs where he just forced his way into things and fought his way through any conflict. He was to go to the Serene Cliffs where a war between two groups was a about to break out and find a way of stopping it. Both groups had set up fortifications in the Serene Cliffs just so that they could fight each other to the death which the area they had chose to do it in was not the place for that at all. It was a place meant for peace and tranquility. Not one where it was for animosity and bloodshed. This naturally left the Magic Council wanting the entire battle prevented and stopped but they could not do it themselves because it could cause more animosity between both sides with them blaming each other for having the Magic Council brought in to deal with the other side which could possibly cause an even bigger battle. So the Magic Council wanted to hire a mage or more to go an do what they could to prevent things from escalating even more. They hoped that this would solve the issue and were actually paying a good amount of jewel to see it happen. Thing was, they were pressed for time and did not exactly look for the best mediators for the job which lead to the people they did send either joining a side or giving up in trying in the end. So that lead to Cirven taking up the job and making an attempt to do what others had failed at and because he was proven to be stronger than most of those they had sent in the past through his past jobs, the Magic Council knew they did not have to worry about him being bullied into joining a side or leaving which made him a welcome recipient for the job.

The job would be a sort of first for him as he had never been a mediator at all but he was going to try to do it. He knew how grudges and revenge could cause a life time of turmoil for all those involved and wanted to possibly help some others avoid such a fate for themselves but he didn't exactly think he could do it alone so he had called on the help of his partner and newfound friend, Noheme. She was a goddess so he hoped that she had some sort of way with words and dealing with disputes that he could not have. Thing is, he second guessed it all when he thought about how she did not know much about any of the workings of the world of Earthland and was still learning things.

He didn't really have many others he could go to though so he decided to count his loses and find a way of getting a hold of the goddess. He knew that she had a bird follow him around, well not exactly follow because it kept a awkward distance away from him and tried to not be seen so it was more like it stalked him. He needed to find a way to get the bird and use it as some sort of way to talk to her. He went about this by running into one of the many forest areas near Serene Cliff and making the bird move around quicker than it was possibly used to. He then made it travel around tree after tree and corner after corner until he was able to temporarily lose it. He jumped up into the trees and used the ability he had to increase his speed as he traveled backwards and towards the area the bird should have been coming from. He caught sight of it and quickly charged towards it. The bird realized what was going on and tried to get away but it was too late because Cirven managed to catch it in his hand and use his static cling spell to keep it stuck to his hand. "How the hell does this thing work..." He mumbled out loud as he looked over the winged creature. He then decided to just look it in its face and yell while hoping for the best.

He took in a deep breath and yelled out at the bird's face. "HEY! I NEED YOUR HELP! GET OVER HERE!" He did not know if the yelling would work so he then continued to move the bird all around and look over it to see if it had anything weird on it like a random button-like piece of flesh or something in order to reach his partner but did not manage to find anything peculiar on the creature.

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Cirven was not completely ready for the portal opening up above him and because of that Noheme's foot landed on his face when he looked up at it. He was able to sustain her weight as she stepped off of him but that did not mean that an anger didn't flare up inside of him from what she had just done. "Hey!" He yelled out after she landed. He rubbed his face over and over and even spit out on the ground near him, letting go of the probably now traumatized bird. "I can taste your foot! Do you wash it anytime? Wow, that was gross!" He continued to yell out and spit out more as she spoke to him. His frantic spitting stopped only after she stopped talking.

"You do know if you just had the bird be more like a pet rather than a stalker for me that I would be way nicer to it. You never did tell me about him and never even tried to ask if I wanted the thing around me like that. I mean, we could easily just have him be a way we could communicate instead of you just coming out of no where using him as a sort of conduit to figure out when you wanted to do it." Cirven's attention was drawn to Ai who had also arrived. "Yo Ai, how are things?" His tone changed to a much more friendly one when speaking to the servant of the goddess.

He sighed to let out the frustration he was feeling and to hopefully get the thoughts of the taste of his partner's foot out of his mind and spoke in his usual tone. "So yeah, I was needing your help with a job where we would be mediators to stop a war between two factions here. I'm hoping you can help me with this because I think I will need someone who is as strong as you to help me with doing this. Otherwise, this war might start and completely ruin this area and maybe even more than that." He tried to word things well enough for the goddess to understand. She did have trouble learning things with the culture(s) of Earthland so he tried to word thing well enough for the completely oblivious to understand. "Hopefully you don't need that broken down anymore, fox. I can't really do that because I broke it down for even a child would understand it well..." He gave off a grin as he teased the goddess as a sort of payback for her putting his foot on his face.

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He did not really understand the goddess that well. He thought that it could maybe be related to the fact that she was from her own dimension, had no sense of how things were with humans which he was half of one in the past or because she was a woman. He never could completely understand women and how they reacted to things maybe except for his captain, Anastasia. Ana seemed to be more of a tomboy than anything else though so she rarely had moments where she acted like a woman which was completely fine for the demon because it made things so much easier. In the case of Noheme though, it seemed like she took some things a bit too seriously and he had to start watching what he said and did around her to make sure she did not do anything either of them would regret. They both were the types to become hot heads towards each other before talking it out a bit more civil and without yelling or trying to talk down the other.

"I never said I did not want you to have him around me or that I did not want to talk to you. It was more like it felt like you were trying to keep tabs on me yourself instead of asking me and making this more of a mutual thing. You are someone I consider a good friend who I have fought against great threats on a couple of occasions now and can complete trust to have my back for even more of them. I am here if you need a back to support you too. Remember that. Don't get so butt hurt that you see things as more negative than that." He gave her a warm smile to follow up his short speech. He hoped that his words would help her understand what he was usually thinking about the team they had established after their fight in the coliseum against all of the pets and pet owners. A team that would actually support each other when they needed it even though the teasing would always be a thing that drove them a bit crazy.

He was somewhat saddened by how Ai sounded. He was trying to show the girl some attention and show that she was just as much a part of the 'team' the demon and goddess had as they were. "Just because you are a slave to Noheme here does not mean you are not a member of the team we have in some way. We can't really get around as easy without you, at least the fox goddess can't." He found a way to tease Noheme again and made sure to look her way with a grin on his face to show what he was doing even more so. He wondered a bit on what she would say back to him for that one.

The conversation had progressed to the job that was at hand and the war they needed to prevent. Noheme's sudden change in tone and look bothered him a bit. She had done something like this before where she suddenly got a lot less chatty with him and just wanted to do what she had to do. It sucked away the fun they could have in doing things but he understood it a lot more this time by her remark about humans. After all, he was born to be an experiment thanks to humans. He was sent down a spiral of horrible things in his life thanks to humans trying to control things and create things that they had no business creating. His life was only slowly fixing itself now from all of what the bad type of humans had done to him and because of that he completely understood his partner's remark. "Yeah. Things don't change with humans much. I was always an outcast from them due to my pointed ears and then even more so later when I found out I was half demon. Now I'm not even human anymore but it was like things didn't change much with most of them. I am still looked at differently by them and they still look to try and use my power for their own gain. Humans can be the worst sometimes." His own look had changed to a sadder one but not for long as he thought of a topic to bring up to Noheme. He took a few seconds to speak up because he thought about how he probably just gave the goddess some fuel to light on up by talking about his pointed ears. It was a super easy way to anger him quickly but she probably did not think his ears were all that weird like others did, especially from where she came from.

"But, yeah. Enough with that sad stuff and lets talk about something else. We might have a little but before we reach them so how did you get this new power you have? It is pretty impressive. Can you make any type of poison you want? Also that big dragon thing you made of poison was pretty cool. Is it fun to fight against?" He bombarded her with questions about her new magic and hoped that she would actually answer him. He figured there might have been some sort of long explanation behind how she got the new powers she had but he figured they had time to talk as they moved through the area.

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Cirven did not exactly know what to say to what he had done to Noheme's servant and pet bird. He had taken a assumption and made it into something that probably scarred the creature a bit more than helped both of them and he realized he could have done it in a easier way for all of them. He gave a glare to Noheme as she asked him about what would he do if she attacked Zinnath in some way? This triggered a fire inside of him that he naturally would not be able to completely control because of what Zinnath represented to him as well as her being his closest thing to him left in the world now. He clutched his hands into fists and stared at the goddess as the thoughts of fighting her over her imaginary scenario went through his mind. It excited him a bit to think about fighting her which was probably due to his want for a strong opponent that he could go all out with but the circumstance would not be the correct one in that scenario. He let go of his clenched fists and spoke out. "If you hurt her then there would be a lot less talking between us and you would only add to how my life has had constant problems in it with people which always leads to some sort of battle that has the fun sucked out of it." He chuckled a bit to his own comment as the words he spoke came out as he got the thought for them so it helped him realize how his life had continually been over and over. He straightened himself up for his next comment. "Yeah. Sorry. You are right. I went too far with him and should have done it another way. Hopefully the little guy isn't too shooken up by it so that he can continue to be a great ally to keep us in touch with each other." His words were sincere over what had happened and wanting to keep connected to the goddess. He had stated why for that earlier as he saw her as a friend.

The warm moment between the goddess and her other servant, Ai was something that he had seen a few times before but he could tell was a rare thing to happen. Noheme had a tendency to not be so open with some people and Ai was one of those people. It was like she expected her servants to know her quickly and to understand what she wanted from them at all times which was something that he understood and probably would have done himself if he was a God with servants that were at his beck and call. Either way though, it was nice to see that Noheme was not heartless as she seemed to be at times and could show that she treasured her servants as much as they probably did her. He wondered if she saw him as one of her servants in a way? In a sense, he was and he wasn't. They were partners but he had protected her before on multiple occasions and listened to her during other times too. He came to the conclusion in his head that he did not really care as much as others might have. Friendship was something that was a bumpy road but at times could be something where one of the friends needs the other and that person listens to them and helps them through the issues they needed help with. This was a concept that Cirven could even compare with how he was with his sibling before she was taken away from the life she had.

Then it happened. Noheme made a slight shot at his ears. To her it was just a simple comment but anyone even mentioning his ears in anyways were usually told a sort of retort that ended in Cirven and that person physically fighting each other even if they did not mean anything bad by mentioning his ears. It was a biological thing implanted in him when he was young to take charge when someone bothered him in such a way. His ears were the only thing that bothered him in that way because in the past they were the only thing he had to remember his mother by and for the time when he though she was not evil and now, just mentioning them in a bad tone would annoy him to a very high extent. He held back his tongue before he could say anything because he knew his friend did not know about it and figured she would not do it again because it was not so much of a common thing to bring up by her but if she were to do it again he would make sure she understood that his ears were off limits and what they meant to him.

The fox goddess then answered his question on how she got her new powers. She seemed so bothered not too long ago that he never asked her so he thought he would ask now and see how happy she got talking about it but it turned into something completely different. The life was sucked out of her as she spoke about some entity cursing her with the poison that was now inside of her that she could use at her own whim. A poison that was slowly killing her and even tainted her own realm with a sort of plague also by turning the skies of it to a purple color from what she said was orange. He could relate to her problem because he was in a similar state in the past. He was cursed with being brought into the world as a biological weapon that would be used to further the goals of those with higher standing than him and had little choice in the matter. This was something he was forced to come to terms with when his sister was held captive and threatened of being killed if he did not do as he was ordered by Cor Torva and kill those who could stand in their way to oppose them. Even though the fact of who he was killing was something that changed later, the entire ordeal ended in a way where he had absolutely no control over it at the time. "Fox, I'm here if you want help in getting rid of the curse put on you. I can help in some sort of way, I'm sure. I'm a God Slayer so it makes sense that I can help fight against what ever created you, right?" The last part of his comment was less of a question and more of a way to get her to agree that he could help her. He figured he had to show her that he wanted to help her by stating it over a few times and getting it stuck into her head. He had gotten help from her a few times before on the jobs he had taken and even now had her helping him so it was only natural that he felt that he should return the favor.

Before the group could all start moving, Noheme called out and summoned a type of mount that she then got on top of. Cirven was surprised that she was going to use a ride to get where they needed at first but figured their energy was probably better spent on if they would be thrown into fighting against one or both of the armies in front of them. Noheme teased him by calling him a slowpoke. Something that he took pride in was his speed and ability to react quickly but he did not want to overexert himself in a race against a mount that he knew nothing about so instead he went with another idea. "Don't worry." He lifted his fingers into his mouth and let out a loud whistle. The sound of the nearby forest area rustling and birds flying into the air to get away from something coming echoed out near them. The loud sound probably wasn't the best of ideas but Noheme had challenged him in a way to see if he could keep up and he wanted to outdo her by going even faster. Seconds later, Zinnath appeared out of the forest area and into the sky where she came down and landed next to Cirven, who pet her causing her to hiss in happiness. "That won't be an issue. You try to keep up though. Wouldn't want you to get stuck on the ground behind me." He teased her for having a mount that looked as though it could only travel on the ground and then jumped onto Zinnath's back and took off. Truthfully, he was not going to try and stay ahead of Noheme at all and planned to make sure Zinnath stayed close to her. They were on a job that could end up getting nasty at any second so they had to make sure they were ready for that and not distracted.

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He decided not to respond to the goddess much more as Zinnath and him readied themselves to fly off. He planned to talk more to Noheme about her problems and help her out where he could. He felt he owed it to her either way with how she had helped him in the past with the battles against strong opponent's that overwhelmed him. She might not have known it herself being as she was a goddess and did not really know how the natural way things went between people but they were fairly close friends now. He wouldn't be another slave for her or follower or anything like that but he would be there when she needed him.

Both sides not giving off a word made the group take off towards one of the armies near them without anything else being said. Both the demon and the goddess knew they had to focus a bit to make sure that they did not spark up any attacks directed at themselves while traveling over groups of troops. Cirven made sure to keep his hands lifted up and opened at his sides as he flew over the troops below them to show that he did not mean any harm at all. He forced himself to use his legs to hold himself onto Zinnath as she flew through the air which was not bad at first but after some time doing it. he started to feel a bit fatigued by it. This was probably because he was not used to keeping himself held onto something with just his leg strength and made him think that he should get used to it more by training his body to be used to it. "Sorry! Making our way through! Don't attack me or anything! We are here just to talk!" He yelled out and other various variations of the same speech for others to hear before they got too trigger happy and tried to take a chunk out of Zinnath or him.

As he flew over the soon to be battlefield, he took a few minutes to look over the armor the soldiers wore. Most were clad in a purple-like armor which he figured was a sign of their allegiance to their group while others where wearing pieces of gold on their armor. He figured these were the leaders of this side of the war and based on how much gold they had on their armor was how high in command they were. He was never the type to like taking orders from people so he usually saw any type of ranking shown through items placed on a person's body as decorations for them to show they were superior through rank but probably not in skill. It was a natural thing for those who had a high rank to be birthed into the position at times and brought up with a golden spoon in their mouths so they never were truly deserving of their position. He hated those types who could not amount to anything with actual strength but had a position where they needed some type of power to really hold it. Maybe it was his want for even the weakest of people to actually be strong in something but he just did not like people who were given everything because it took away from them finding out that thing they could be great at.

He noticed that Astra with Noheme and Ai on its back was about to possibly run into some trouble with the army that he had managed to fly over and was going to fly back to help but Noheme had figured something out herself while she grabbed up Ai and skipped through the air while carrying her. All Cirven could really do was smile at the sight. The goddess had a way of showing off and not even knowing what she was doing. "Eris, try not to make the troops too jealous of what you can do! Would rather they not suddenly want to label you an enemy because you are more talented than them!" He yelled out to her which sounded like a compliment to her and a insult to the troops below him. He then went back to holding his hands up. "Like I was saying, we come in peace!" He made sure to yell out after to clarify before he was 'accidentally' shot at.

While Noheme made her way to the main platform, he continued to look around at the troops below him. He felt like if the war did break out that most of the people below him would be hurt badly or even worse than that, find their own deaths in battle. He had not been in a war before technically but he had fought with and against multiple people before who had goals and ambitions as well as loved ones that they had to fight for. He saw some of them take on pain and anguish for all those things and in some cases saw them die. War must have been like that or that was what he thought it was like. It could have possibly been worse in some way but either way, he planned to prevent it here this time. Nothing good came from people killing each other.

Cirven then made his way to the main platform where Noheme had gotten to and jumped off of Zinnath so that he could land on the platform. He would have had her land on it but because of her size that was not exactly possible without knocking multiple people off of it. The other issue with it was that it could have been extremely rude of him to do so which caused him to go with just him landed on the platform. "Make sure to not take shots at her! She is just going to be flying around the area until I call her!" He yelled out at the troops again and then put his focus on the hairy man who sat in a well decorated seat on the platform. At first, Noheme was stopped by some elite looking guardsmen that he was not too keen on fighting at all. They were in the middle of an army and any bad move could bring all of it at them from all angles. Surprisingly, the man in charge waved his hand out and the guards stopped in their possible attack. Noheme made a comment to the man that made Cirven feel a bit uncomfortable about being on the job with her because she had basically ridiculed the leader of the army they were surrounded by. "Eris, you might want to be a bit more respectful of this guy..." He leaned in close to her and spoke lightly near her ear. The man rose up from his seat and declared his name while also assuming right about the trio not being enemies of him. Cirven was going to speak out but Noheme again beat him to it and seemed to be taking the reigns of the job. He was completely fine with it and did not mind playing backseat to her with this. She might have known a way better way of resolving it than he did anyways because so far he only had the idea of stopping the fighting by simply stating that they should stop it even if they had a good reason to do so. A reason like what Fang Pyjack spoke of where his daughter was now gone because of the other leader of the opposing army. He stayed silent as he waited to see Noheme's response because he was pretty much clueless on what to say next about it all.

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He stood just behind the goddess as she spoke to Fang about his decision for war. It would have been completely justified with most people but at the same time war would have only brought more deaths to accompany Fang's daughter in death. He would have done the same thing probably if someone had killed someone close to him again but he would have gone about it in a way where it was only him going to fight while anyone else would not be brought to help by him at all. It would be his problem after all and no one deserved to be hurt because of it. The other issue was could he really kill someone for possibly accidentally leading someone else to their death? He really could not. It would end in a lot of people hurt and unconscious on the ground but he would only be hurting them in order to try and fill the void that was inside himself. This again would be no way of solving a situation and would only cause more issues for everyone involved.

The situation did remind him of his revenge against his mother and Cor Torva when his sister was killed by them. He was completely driven by anger and remorse for what happened to her so much so that his mind naturally forced out the fact that he had killed her himself in a demonic rage triggered by his own uncle, Nestler. None of that mattered at the time and he would only want every Cor Torva member rid from the world and Cor Torva itself stripped away. He managed to do that too as he fought clones of himself and his sister that Cor Torva had made which seemed to only be there to mock him. The clones had their own personalities but he could not help but see them as abominations and was forced to kill them as they each were controlled by Cor Torva like puppets so even though they had their own personalities, it could switch at any time to something more vicious and lead to many people being in danger. This only caused the then half demon to grow angrier towards Cor Torva because he was forced to kill a crazed version of his sister over and over who at first only wanted to live a life where they could be free.

It all ended when Cirven was able to finally confront his mother at the headquarters of Cor Torva and fight her. Before the fight, Cirven would get help with throwing away his humanity in order to get stronger in the fight against his mother. The two fought in a short fight that Cirven was not expecting at all as his mother was stronger than him but somehow was not keeping up with what he was doing which lead to her being run through by one of Cirven's attacks. She died with a smile on her face and reached her hand out to touch her only son where it hit Cirven that something was not right. He found that his mother had only been trying to protect him from her own organization for so long and it had gotten to a point where only her death could tame it to a point where they would be scattered in their efforts further leading Cirven to believe that war-like circumstances would only bring on more pain and death like an endless cycle of torment.

So because of this Cirven knew where Fang stood in his attempt to quell his pain but he knew that it would not get him anywhere at all. It would only lead to him being put into worse situations over and over where he would only be left to regret more and more of what he was doing. "The lost lives a war would bring about would not cause her to come back, even as much as you would like it to. This situation will only bring on more pain for all those involved and could lead to worse things. The pain will always be there but you must end this war before it scars more lives in the pain you are suffering through." Cirven finally spoke up as he was able to form some thought as to how this war could be explained as meaningless. "You trusted this Frost guy before, right? Seeing how this war sparked up the way it did, it sounds like you had not spoken to him civilly about what happened. He probably tried to save her but failed and is in just as much pain as you are now." Before Cirven could continue speaking a explosion of magical power erupted from an area inside of the army troops, leaving a lone man standing in its wake with an umbrella in his hands. "Fang! Do not do anything to bring about this war here! We will deal with this man." Cirven dashed away from the platform to confront the man who was wearing a dress suit and grinning. He knew Fang would not consider this an act of war on him because the new entree into the situation was not wearing anything to signal which side he was on meaning he was another bystander that had just gotten ahead of himself.

Cirven heard Noheme call out the name Lilith as she moved quickly to confront the man. Cirven took that as she knew him but with how she was acting it did not mean they were friends in any sort of way. This Lilith seemed to talk like he was some sort of parent to Noheme which Cirven only heard just as he was able to get to him where Noheme's attack was blocked by his umbrella. Cirven thinking smart did not pay attention to the bow directed at him and tried to attack Lilith with a electric claw swiping across Lilith's body but found his attack was quickly blocked by the umbrella too. Surprised by how a simple umbrella prevented his attack, Cirven jumped back to create distance between them. "So Eris, who is this guy with the grin that looks like he had just inherited all of what he would ever need in his life? It is sort of pissing me off looking at him and his scent is... Different.. Like he is some sort of entity and not a person..?" The new enemy had a very unique scent that Cirven had not come in contact with before. "I really want to rip that grin off of his face after what he has already done in his short time here. Wait.. Is he the one that cursed you?!" Cirven's mind had just caught up with the words he had heard Lilith speak as he was charging at him. Cirven cracked his knuckles and grinned back at Lilith. "Good. This just means that I can repay you finally for all the help you have given me. We will beat this guy down until he begs to take that curse off of you." Black electricity erupted over Cirven's body in a show of excitement from him. "This guy seems like he could be a fun fight too with keeping up with us." Cirven looked around at the troops around them. "You guys might want to get the injured out of here. I don't want to get anyone else involved in our fight here." He spoke to the troops near them that were still conscious and they listened by carrying their companions a safe distance away.

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"So you think we should just run away from him and just succumb to whatever will he has? I can't just let myself be that way in this situation. I did that before in the past and that only resulted in me losing someone close to me more than once. I won't step down just because he is stronger." He spoke to his partner showing that he was completely against her pleas to stay away from the man dressed in black. He could not help but say the word 'stronger' in a tone that showed he did not believe what she had said which was true. He had a belief that he wanted to get through to her but before he could speak any more the man spoke out calling him a 'crude barbar' as well as scolding the one he claimed to be his daughter, Noheme. Cirven was growing more annoyed by the man because he knew that no one claiming to be a parent of someone who treat them in such a way. They would try to help them and protect them from the world as best they can but not give them a 'gift' that was slowly killing them and be the reason for most of the turmoil in their life. He knew a thing or two about a parent causing all the negative things in someone's life and fought through it just to find out that it was somehow the opposite. He clenched his fist and was about to attack again when Lilith finished his sentence not caring about the fact the man had come being civil but he stopped as the world around them warped into nothingness and then darkness. All he could do was look around at what was around them as the spell was cast and then brought them suddenly to where they were only minutes before in front of Fang and his guards.

"Is that what blacking out feels like? Let's hope I never get that drunk ever..." He spoke out loud his own thoughts but did not care who really took any sort of offense to it. The situation might have been a serious one but Cirven was still himself through it all somehow. Lilith continued to speak claiming he came with an offer to Fang. Cirven tried to call on his magic but could not feel anything at all when he tried. He tried to do it again but could not bring up any power from his body. This confused him at first but he put it all together when he thought about what Noheme had been saying about her 'father' all this time. He was stronger than them both and they probably did not stand a chance but that did not mean that they shouldn't fight back somehow. He stayed silent as he tried to come up with something they could do as Lilith spoke to Fang about his offer to him. The spirit-like form of a woman was brought into the world by Lilith and called out to her father, Fang. Both of them tried to embrace each other but only ended in them both finding out that she was not tangible at all. Cirven watched but was still trying to think of a way to fight someone who could actually warp reality to their liking.

Then everything turned onto Noheme when Lilith put all of the pressure on her for what should happen with the girl's life. Should she be brought back and cause another random life to disappear from this world or should she be left dead and they find another way to prevent the war. Fang gave her a sorrowful expression and then she looked towards Cirven as if his words would help guide her. "I don't like this whole thing at all. Yeah, we can bring back a life and possibly prevent a war but we had already gotten Fang to consider ending it before you showed up. It is almost like you planned to show up and play God just to shake things up like some sadistic puppeteer." Cirven put his glare onto Lilith who still did not drop his grin. "You might have said mortals are so negative but you are causing the negative here and now by even offering this option. The lives of hundreds and thousands do not make up for the life of one but that does not mean the life of one person does not make up for another one's life either. So if it were up to me I'd say screw your option and we will find our own way to handle this. You are only here to give us more problems than we already have."

He looked towards Noheme. "Thing is, it is not my choice from what you said. It is hers and with what I just said, I spoke my side of things. Maybe it's because of that crappy grin pasted onto your face at all times or something but I cannot trust anything you are offering us at all and I really want to rip that grin off of your face..." He stared into Lilith's eye's at the end of his sentence showing how he felt about the man completely. It was funny because that was all he felt he could do was constantly talk down to the man to rile him up so that he maybe slipped up in doing something and gave an opening or something. The idea had holes all over it but he would try to do something rather than doing nothing and waiting to be a sort of play thing for some guy who didn't even know how to be an actual parent. He was just some piece of crap playing with the lives of others for his own pleasure.

Cirven managed to keep himself composed so that he was not fueled by his emotions and could react if the opportunity presented itself. He knew Lilith was stronger but he would take the opportunity to strike an open spot if he could and try to get them out of the situation they were in.

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The dog demon was completely against anything the grinning man offered them. He seemed to only want to toy with them somehow and he did not mask it well at all. Even if he said he was not that to toy with them, his grin said differently. Cirven felt like there was some sort of ulterior motive that Lilith had planned here just like some of the others he had dealt with in the past were like. It was like they all were just trying to toy with the lives around them just to get some sort of kick out of it. Cirven could barely control himself from attacking Lilith somehow even though he could not produce any magic power at all. He knew he could change into his stronger demonic form but he already could tell that it would not be enough to really defeat someone like Lilith, at least not now.

Lilith spoke out acting as though Cirven had no reason at all to see him as a sort of villain in this situation at all and it irked Cirven even more so because the entire time Lilith spoke his grin was still on his face. It was such an distrusting look for him to have while trying to make a plea that he was not a bad guy at all. This then lead to Lilith explaining that he was a unique being called a Miracle Demon that could cause miracles to happen which was why everything that had happened was brought about. Cirven did not care much for the man's explanation at all and showed it by how he looked back at him with a serious look. "It doesn't matter what you are or who you are because that grin gives me a feeling that I should not trust you at all. It also just makes me want to hit you with the nearest object I can find or use just to rearrange your grin a bit. Just stating facts and how I feel because I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one." He then gave off a smile towards the Miracle Demon also where he mimicked him a bit. "You replayed my words in your head right. I would not take up your offer because even though you tried to sugarcoat your words, you are not someone who I feel I can trust in any sort of way and you more look like someone I'd fight against. I tend to follow my gut on things like this but you did not ask me. You asked Noheme about what she wanted to do so my view is pretty irrelevant, right?"

It was only seconds after Cirven spoke that Lilith had used his control over the little girl's ghost and started to cause it to fade while somehow giving the intangible girl some sort of pain. Cirven did not break his gaze on Lilith and did not flinch. He was not going to be a puppet to be controlled by the Eater of Names somehow and instead was going to stand as strong as he could and stare down the stronger being. Fang was different though and completely caved in as he pleaded with Noheme to bring his daughter back in order to build up their own clan and keep it alive. A selfish act that could possibly lead to a even greater death just because of their greed. Cirven was about to speak out and tell everyone about how selfish their clan was being especially when the life that could be taken could be even greater than the one lost but Noheme quickly accepted the offer to his dismay. Cirven broke his gaze from Lilith and stared at Noheme with wide eyes as he could not believe she had given in to Lilith and as he did so the blast that would curve around her was fired and hit Ai.

He had not time to really react as Ai was hit and killed instantly from the attack that had shot through her. He stood staring at the scene of Ai falling to the ground and watched as Noheme fell to the ground to try and help her slave and lover back to life, only to end in failure. He then rushed towards where Lilith was standing near Noheme now and attempted to attack him but in an instant he had disappeared from where he was and reappeared behind Noheme which only left Cirven staring at his partner as she suffered an attack from the Miracle Demon. "You...!" Black electricity erupted out over Cirven's body as he cursed the man who had caused all of the pain in the situation and then just vanished saying that he would be nice this once. All Cirven could do was let his anger run wild as he could not stop either of the attacks that were used and did not have enough power to even hurt the grin-filled man. All he could do was watch as everything uncoiled in front of him and speak out when he felt his word could have impact, which in the end they did not. He took some steps and stood near his partner who had just been attacked by her 'father'.

"I'm sorry, Noheme. I was not strong enough..." He did not know what to say to her and looked towards the damaged body of someone he considered a good friend, Ai. He could barely believe she was gone and the black electricity continued to rage around him which he quickly gained control over before it got any worse and hurt those around him. "He might be stronger but he will pay for this somehow. I just hope we get to see that grin fade away from his face when it happens." He spoke to her as he reluctantly looked towards Ai's corpse. "Are you okay? Did he hurt you badly?" He tried to look at his partner's new wounds to make sure she was not hurt any worse than it looked. It might have annoyed her because he was getting close to her to makre sure she was fine but he felt he needed to do it. "He didn't curse you again or anything, right?"

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Cirven could only watch his partner as she was affected by the whole scene. The crowd of people that made up the troops cheered out in happiness while she laid on the ground lost in her own despair. The type of despair that Cirven himself had been through before with the countless deaths throughout his life. He wanted to reach out and hug her but thought twice about it because of what her magic had just done to Ai's body which was now dissolved into a purple mush on the floor near them. A feeling of dread mixed with pure anger burned inside of him from the sight. Ai might not have been super close to him but he felt that she was a friend and as much part of the team Noheme and him made up as both the goddess and him.

Noheme raised herself up and looked at what was left of Ai's body and answered his question about how she was by saying she was cursed with everlasting pain. It was a similar feeling that he felt he was living through but he had no way of telling her how she could deal with it. All he could do was comfort her by helping her ease that pain. "Pain like this never gets old, does it?" He clutched his chest over his heart with his right hand as he felt like something in there was hurting. "It's that same feeling again.."

Black electricity erupted out again around him and danced around his body from the anger that raged inside of him. "Ai..." He tried to calm himself but the anger from seeing his friend's body in such a way and knowing that she was gone now was now a new addition to the others that haunted him over and over. "We will make him pay... We will wipe that grin off of his face and replace it with a face fill of pain.." He spoke out under his breathe. He figured that the enhanced hearing the fox goddess had would pick up his voice but he did not get a reply to what he said. His partner instead stood up and made her own exit through her poison dragon that she could create. The look on her face and her words showed her perspective on the entire situation. She wanted to leave and get away from this world. From the despair it brought to its people. From the pain that it brought her over and over again. He did not think about it until now but every time he was around her she found some sort of way to be affected negatively by their world. It was as if she had just as bad of luck as he had with doing some things. It could only go so well for so long until it suddenly went spiraling down into an abyss of pain.

He could not help but hold his tongue as she left. He did not know what to say to her leaving at all and even if he could find the words she probably would not have listened to him at all. The crowd of troops cheered out to her as she left. Cornix flew to him and Cirven accepted the bird but letting it land on his shoulder. They yelled out cries of her being a hero but all she did was leave like she was deaf to them. She might have been labeled a hero by them but the cost was too high for her to be labeled as such to them. Something that they probably did not understand at all because of their happiness from their clan's successor being brought back from the dead.

"Excuse me, sir?" Fang spoke out with his daughter by his side causing Cirven to calm himself and stop the black electricity from raging off and around his body. He brought his gaze to Fang. "We owe your friend a lot for saving my daughter. Why did she leave? She is our savior and should be treated as such." Cirven gazed at Fang and sighed. "She is a savior to you but to herself she is a lost and searching for some sort of solitude that can provide protection from the pain. Kind of funny how those who suffers the greatest tragedies are the ones who will sacrifice everything for others..." He spoke out with his last sentence being spoke out lighter than the first. Fang looked at Cirven confused. "Either way, this job is over now, right? No war so I'm not needed here anymore. Take care of your daughter." Cirven gave the man no time to talk and whistled out causing Zinnath who was flying around above them to swoop down at him. He jumped into the air where he landed on her and flew off into the air. He planned on getting his pay from the Magic Council and then returning to the lair of Black Sails where he planned to train around the island again to get his mind and body into better shape. He had to get stronger or else more lives would be lost.

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