Faraway Nostalgia; Lulu/Jiyu Job.

Lucius Foss ☺ Golden Phoenix ☺ B-Rank
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The assassin in a more better mood today, had decided to take up a job, though sadly he had to conduct it with another. And from his old guild none the less, very undesirable but he would have to deal. It was very unlikely they knew him anyways, it was a very long time ago that he was even a part of it. And he wasn't even that active in the socializing aspect when a part of the guild, only times he was, was when he was with his sister. So I guess not much changes, he usually doesn't leave his room now due to his usually depressive mood and doesn't like leaving the house unless Astrid drags him out of it. At least in this job he would be exterminating animals, which was always fun. He would prefer to be killing humans, which he hasn't actually done lately (which was very unlike the young adult), but killing animals would have to do. Perhaps he could let off some steam and hopefully his job partner wasn't going to be to troublesome. Which was usual, considering that he disliked all people besides the likes of his elder sister. Anybody else he ever had some kind of caring feelings for either died or went missing. At least he had less weaknesses, well less friends, which was something the antisocial boy liked. Quite unusual to like not having friends, I know.
With feet covered in black lace up combat boots, he walked across the paths that where barely distinguishable from the forest due to people not using them that often or not giving them proper care. He gently waved his walking stick back and forth in front of his, occasionally it hit the something which allowed the boy to avoid it. Being blind was quite the hassle, but he has learned to deal with it for the most part, though he didn't enjoy it. Soon he heard a voice saying something about sniffing around, which he found rather unusual, but this whole plant was weird so he didn't think much of it. He walked closer to where he sensed the unfamiliar presence of his job partner, when close enough he stopped, resting the butt of his cane on the ground. "I suppose you're the one I'm doing this with?" he said, not really properly introducing himself. He raised an eyebrow at looked in the direction of the young woman.

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Lucius Foss ☺ Golden Phoenix ☺ B-Rank
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Being rather genius in the arts of people watching (despite not having the eyes to watch them anymore) and reading a person's hidden emotions. Whatever was right beneath the surface he could easily sense, and this young woman who had introduced herself as Jiyu was uncomfortable around him. Which he wasn't to surprised about that; with his harsh and unapproachable attitude, and being dark dressed atop being extremely tall. But he felt it wasn't like that, some other reason, maybe because she was a sort of canine she could sense his rather homicidal nature and dark emotions. Like most animals could, which left him and all animals with a sort of mutual hate relationship towards each other. Though he couldn't be quite sure of anything, so he decided to leave it be, he was curious but not enough to put any effort into figuring it out. He listened to her speak, giving him guidelines to follow, which he didn't like very much. Being a type of person that dislikes being bossed around, even if it's just little things, or if they were just casually saying it. He has the urge to do the exact opposite or snap back at them, or both. But this was a sensible thing to do, and he could tell she didn't really want to be around him more then he did around her. So he figured rolling with it would just make it go faster, thus allowing him to go back home to recharge quicker then it would be doing a job with a more sociable person.
So begrudgingly doing as instructed, the dark mage moved in the opposite direction of the girl. Using his slightly enhanced senses to try and find anything, and since he usually depended on his hearing something small he picked up was the sound of Jiyu walking. Which was normal, normal people make sound when they walk, besides Lucius who is trained not to (being an assassin and all). But hers was unusual in a way that it was quiet, like she was constantly walking on her toes, which is was she was doing. Something he found odd, but he didn't think to much of it, though it did sit in the back of his head with his other thoughts about the Inugami. He waved his cane about, which was very helpful for the blind young man, prevented him from tripping over all the tree roots and plants that stuck out from the ground in his path. Though they were more frequently disrupting him considering he was no longer walking on the mountain path but in the forests that covered the mountain. Which he had to do to find the wild creatures. And he succeeded in doing such when he heard a sound of something walking towards him, and it wasn't the odd foot steps of his job partner. Stopping in his tracks he lifted up his staff and arm, hold his arm horizontally in front of his chest he rested the cane on it. Readying himself to shoot when whatever came closer.

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Lucius Foss ☺ Golden Phoenix ☺ B-Rank
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The assassin continued to hold up his weapon, still unsure of what creature may be coming his way, but then came the familiar and odd footsteps of his job companion along with her talking to herself. Though even if her statement wasn't that loud, the boy could hear it with ease due to his enhanced senses. With a roll of his blind eyes the boy let out a huff and dropped the cane back to his side, proceeding to lean into it. The raccoon didn't give them any trouble thankfully, less work for him to do. He was sort of tired at the moment and didn't feel like being here anymore, so the young adult was now going to try and exert the least amount of energy as possible. Most likely going to leave most of the fighting to the canine, well as much as he possibly could while still actually doing the job. Feeling around with his walking stick he found a nice smooth boulder to take a seat upon, so he did so. Gently sitting down, crossing his feet and holding his cane across his lap. If he just had a cup of tea, he could almost imagine that he wasn't on a job, and was just having a peaceful time by himself.
Though the peace was quickly broken for the dark mage as he heard rather loud thuds and an even louder whimper from what he presumed to be the Black Rose mage. Letting out a groan, he got up just in case he needed to help, which doubted. She was a high ranking mage, higher then himself, so she had to get up there somehow. As he approached the area where which most the sound came from, he could hear the wind mage swear under her breath. And then continue to let out a stream of cussing, in a way that he would say himself if upset. Instead of all the time like he used to as a child, he usually only did it when he wasn't in control of his emotions or under his breath. He got enough smacking to the back of his head from his elder sister to get it through his head to not curse all the time. Though as I said he still does it from time to time, though if he slips up around his adoptive sibling he is almost guaranteed to get a scolding. Thankfully that is a rather rare occasion for his poor fragile skull.
Upon arriving he smelled blood, he prodded the corpses as if trying to see if they were still alive, which he clearly knew wasn't true. He was tempted to take back his thoughts of not needing to worry about the canine, who was clearly injured by the sound of her voice and how her feet made it sound like she stumbled more then walked. Which as Jiyu predicted in her thoughts, annoyed the assassin very much so. Of course she had to get hurt, this means he most likely had to put more work in which was very upsetting for him. Plus he absolutely hated having to carry others weight, carry your own or stay out of the way. Which is part of the reason he hates having to depend on people, considering he has that kind of psychology on the topic of dependence and independence. Sadly for him he has been doing a lot of depending lately. Though really only on his sister, living at her house and taking up space there. Though he knew no matter what he did, he knew she would take him in with open arms. He still couldn't help feeling like he was just a burden, unwanted and completely useless. He swore at himself under his breath, shutting himself up for going back into his usual depressive mood.
The black haired boy followed after the young woman, her warning gave him a twinge of displeasure. Maybe it was just a casual warning that she thought nothing of, Lucius on the other hand was rather spiteful when people treated him even slightly different. Well different in the way that they are trying to care for him, pitying him and helping him because he is very clearly blind. Though nothing showed on his pale expression, though his knuckles whitened as he clenched his walking stick tighter. Trying to ignore his building irritation, he felt around with his cane. He groaned silently, hanging his cane over his arm he climbed the boulders. Swearing yet again, under his breath of course, like the gentleman that he was. He tripped a couple of times and struggled climbing more then he would if he could see.
His red gaze traced itself up to the young woman who started to speak. Picking a plant that she said was mint she spoke of how it would be useful. Lucius didn't really care to much about what she was explaining to him, he was just thinking how he could make it into tea. Mint tea being his favorite and all after all. He was definitely going to have to get him some of that after this mission, not that this mission is to different from any other time he has to do a mission with someone besides his older sister. Well not to different to the him, to Jiyu on the other hand, was fighting with the past working on this job with her childhood (grim, creepy and foul-mouthed) brother-like friend. Who of which was unaware was aware that she was Mikka. She constantly struggled with her emotions and past memories, while Lucius struggled with his clinical depression, many loud voice brain and antisocial personality. So really the both of them were having an all around great time hanging around each other.
The dark mage didn't speak as he reached the same level as the wind mage, he wasn't to particularly tired physically. His body is trained to do much harder things then that, but he was cut and bruised in multiple places around his body. It was no easy feat to climb a slippery and uneven terrain of rocks, way more so for a blind person. So he did pretty good, though he scolded himself with harsh thoughts. Not doing it perfectly, like he should be able to do being a trained assassin and all. And he got so distracted by the voices in his head that he tuned out of Jiyu talking for a little bit. He came back into listening when she said she was going to call him 'Mint'. He shot a chilling glare in her direction, he was not to fond of nicknames, hated them actually. Only person that got away with calling him anything was Astrid, which was usually 'Lulu', a nickname she gave him when they were younger due to her having trouble saying his full name.
But she gave a good and valid reasoning to call him that. No he didn't really want to introduce himself, and he wasn't planning on seeing her ever again. He wouldn't be to much in favor of her finding out that he was a coming storm, if she even kept up with those things, he didn't know and he didn't want to find out. He was to tired for a fight, didn't want any stupid legal mages reporting him or attempting to fight and/or kill him for justice. Like more legal mages that he runs into, besides his sister of course. Though it was rather odd that he was given this nickname, considering he'd been called the same thing by Mikka. Though not because there was mint around and he didn't give a name, so it was just a convenient thing to call him. No, because at the time, instead of pitch black hair, it was a light green. Didn't turn black until a few months ago.
Finally the eighteen year old managed to reach the top without accidentally falling down and somehow killing or fatally injuring himself in the process. So that was one silver lining out of this mission. He was now a slightly out of breath but it was no big deal. Standing up straight he hit his head on a branch, snapping at the little annoyance, he unsheathed his sword and sliced it. Causing the branch to fall down from where they came from. When he was about to sheath his sword he stopped, feeling a presence of something close by. The footsteps were heavy, vibrating the ground. And with a large roar the animal revealed itself, a large bear. Standing at about ten feet tall on his hind legs, three feet more then Lucius stood. Instead of being scared, the assassin was apathetic and unamused. Knowing exactly were it was standing due to his loudness in everything it did, he swiftly thrust his sword into the belly of the beast. The tip of the blade just barely (pun intended) peeking through the ursine's back.
It roared in pain as the dark mage twisted the sword and pulled it out in one fluid movement. Effortlessly the boy jumped back, landing where he previously climbed up from as the bear fell on it's front feet. Lucius approached it without hesitation as he sheathed his sword, the bear opened it's mouth and attempted to swipe at the lanky figure. But he easily dodge and smacked their snout with enough force it stunned the bear for a few seconds, causing it to close it's mouth. The blind wizard used his cane to help him climb onto the bear's head like a step, which the bear disapproved of. But couldn't do anything about it, because once it regained it's composure he already had his cane to the mammal's back. He shot about five times, the gunshot was muffled, one of them being a poison bullet. He hopped off and walked back over to Jiyu, leaving the now corpse where he ended it. "Shall we be moving on now?" he asked the canine, placing both his hands on his cane and leaning on it. Acting as if nothing happened, like he didn't just effortlessly murdered an angry bear.

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Sorry for taking so long to post, I’ll try not to take this long again

Lucius Foss ☺ Golden Phoenix ☺ B-Rank
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Well the job hadn't been going as smoothly as it could be going or as he wished it would go, but going better then expected. Though so far, as much as he didn't want to be, he had been doing all the work so far. Unless you want to count Jiyu scaring away some harmless raccoons and getting smacked around by some frighted deer, but that isn't really worth counting if we're being honest here. He dealt with the bear that they passed on their way towards where the mountain lion most likely resided. The canine leaded the way, so I guess she was being useful to some extent. Lucius was still sort of annoyed at the fact that he had to do such a simple job with another person, like he couldn't handle it on his own (or she couldn't handle it on her own, depending on what person you view it from) or some such. Which dealt a blow to his false pride, and it was weak enough as it is. To sum things up, he just wished he didn't have to do this job with someone else, and he didn't like having to do majority of the work when he had to work with someone else. It was such a pain for dark mage who just wanted to be anti-social and hide in his room all day everyday.
Even though she wasn't carrying her wait to much (according to Lucius), at least she wasn't making an effort to be friends with him like most people like to do. Though she did show some pity for him being blind, she wasn't as bad as others. Like himself, she kept her distance from her job partner. Which he highly appreciated, and he would show it by continuing to act the way he has been acting. So of course, he didn't try and make small talk because he hates small talk. He just silently followed after the purple haired young woman, knowing where she was from her odd and silent walking style. Where her feet barely even touched the ground and she walks on the balls of her feet and/or her toes. Waving his walking stick in front of him and close to the ground for obvious and previously mentioned reasons.
Lucius felt the presence of the cougar before they encountered it, it was a lot stronger and a lot more noticeable then any other creature in this forest (besides themselves of course). It was a lot larger then a normal mountain lion, he could tell that from the vibration made from it's footsteps and how much louder it's roar was from the already obnoxiously loud roar of a cougar. It faced the two mages with no fear, just pure anger that they dared faced before it, though since most anger was rooted in fear, perhaps it was scared. But really that was something that didn't matter at all, at least not to the assassin, he did psych analysis on humans not animals, and nowadays he only did that sometimes. Only if the person was especially interesting, or if he was thinking in his default mind-set. Anyways, back to the giant feline. It glared at the two of them, but the shadow user was unamused and he guessed the same for his companion. Unless she was scared of cats or some such, which would be really annoying.
"Ready to actually do something this time bitch?" he gave a snarky comment filled with venom as he readied his weapon, calling her such do to her in fact, being a female dog. Also unintentionally what he used to call her a lot when they were younger, though he was oblivious to this fact and it didn't even cross his mind. The swear word sounded no where near foreign coming from his mouth, which would be noticed by anybody, especially the person who learned all her swearing skills from him. He shot at the large feline multiple times, one of the bullets filled with very damaging poison. Having such amazing aim, hitting only vital areas, despite being blind. Showing off that he had a real talent for killing, no matter what his condition. Black veins spread from where the black poison bullet was shot, it would proceed to take health from the creature while also reducing the damage it did to them. The mountain lions started to show the fact that it felt unwell, coughing saliva and even blood, but that more so angered the beast. Causing the enraged cougar to swing a dangerously large set of claws at the two of them.
"If you don't want to get hurt, get off the ground" he warned Jiyu, but didn't bother looking so see if she did so before sending a dark pulse of his magic through the ground. It rippled across the ground, hitting anything within a fifty meter radius of him with his ranks worth of damage. It shoved the mountain lion back, disrupting it's attack and sending it to it's side. Due to the poison it vomited as it pushed itself back up to it's feet, though causing damage, still didn't stop it. Lucius swiftly dodged it's charging, and he hopped back a few steps, letting the canine fight even if she didn't want to. He wasn't going to do all the work, that would be torture for himself. And he wasn't in to mood to deal with having to do all the fighting, she was a higher rank then himself, she could handle herself. If not she died and that was out of the way.

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Lucius Foss ☺ Golden Phoenix ☺ B-Rank
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In response her stating that his insult wasn't very insulting, he grunted aloofly. Though he would usually like his insults to stick to a person, he didn't have enough energy to really care right now. Though the phrasing of her words struck as nostalgia for the boy, similar to Mikka, this woman actually seemed to have a lot of parallels between herself and his old childhood friend. Her nickname for him, her suave attitude that didn't take any of his sarcastic and brutish nature. It was odd to say the least, the similarities between the two. Though of course his old friend (whom of which he would never admit to being a friend too), was dead, well she went missing but was claimed to be dead. So really it is anybody's guess as to what happened to the young girl. Plus she had a more innocent and oblivious nature to her, though I guess that is obvious for her being a child and all. Though it was nothing Lucius had when he was that age, he grew up to fast, and when he had the chance to have a proper childhood he didn't know what to do with it. At that point he was twisted beyond repair, but his, at the time, newly adopted sister found it her job to try and fix him. She still did.
After he did a good amount of damage, Jiyu actually helped, unlike the rest of this job of dealing with scared animals that scurried through the forest like fools. He stepped back out of the way and listened to the fight, it was enjoyable for the boy to hear the feline finally be destroyed after causing some havoc for the surrounding forest and village. Plus he was always up for some animal murder, being the psychopath he was rather enjoyed doing so, ever since he was a child really. Though he didn't usually do such in front of his sister, because he knew she would be all like 'you can't hurt animals they're cute and they deserve to live like any one of us' or some stupid naive thing like that. Which he found annoying at the time, and still does, but she is the only person that acts all innocent and nice that he doesn't hate. Purely because the amount of years he had been around her, she somehow managed to befriend the assassin. As to how she did so was a mystery even to him.
Within a couple of minutes, more or less, the cougar was dead by both their hands. Though the young woman was the one to finish it off, as Lucius currently stood at the side lines. She waltzed over to him, her feet barely even touching the ground as she did so. How she walked made sense to the boy, considering it was similar to that of a dog, that she was, but she clearly showed off that she was a wind mage. So being light on her feet, so much so it seemed a gentle breeze would carry her away, made sense. Easier to control their element if they are more like it. She spoke to the assassin, it was blunt, giving him no room to refuse. She clearly wanted to get out of there just as much as he did, if not more. Now he had some curious thoughts towards the girl, and would like to dissect her mind (in a metaphorical sense) so figure her out. Just because she seemed interesting, though he thought this now, he figured he would forget out it and her later. "Alright, try not to be to much of a fucktard when leaving. Don't want to have to deal with anything if you accidentally kill yourself by getting scared by a raccoon." The boy said in an accidental attitude filled voice. Gripping his cane, he turned the way he came, and started to walk. Not really looking forward to having to climb back down the small cliff.

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