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[The Manor's picked up another new resident...And this one isn't really advertising his presence. He managed to avoid the trap of the Blackberry doing its usual accidental broadcasts in "greeting", and has taken advantage of the relative quiet to go exploring - yes, he's out at an ungodly hour of morning.]

[For those who're nocturnal, there's someone tall and probably unfamiliar in a long grey coat - with some kind of metal staff that he's using as a walking stick he clearly doesn't actually need; he's not really doing anything more suspicious than being quiet, on guard, and creeping through the hallway looking for clues. He's also got a slight uncanny valley thing going with a hypothetical 30-year-old Mukuro - just enough features in common to be noticeable, but not enough to be "you could be twins", and unlike his successor, both eyes happen to be the same blue and look normal.]

[Any night owls want to newbie greet?]

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And you'd just let me leave~?

Do you honestly take me for a fool? Even if you weren't Mukuro, you're still nothing but a filthy illusionist.

[Still, she looked over at the opening, silently weighing her options. She could leave and come back armed, but that would be too easy...why would he just let her leave? ...Unless it was a trap.

But, maybe that's what he wanted her to think and it was perfectly safe.]

[~~Actually the whole thing's moot and he's being a dick to give you a chance to test that the dimension shift is, in fact, real.~~]

Then I take it that it doesn't matter to you that you're not dealing with a certain brat, and you'd be aiming for me anyway?

[He's still staying out of the path of the exit...may want to make up your mind fast if you're going to try~ ~~Not that it'll do any good.~~]

[Sneering, she just gave a quick shake of the head.]

You're all the same. Bottom feeders that are incapable of doing anything but using tricks and deception to fight.

[Yes, she was walking a dangerous line, but she wasn't about to stop. Not now.]

Only the most cowardly use such cheap tricks to do their fighting.

Coward. Really.

[The comment comes from the one sitting up on the ledge...]

[But the spear-scythe blade suddenly aimed down at her shoulders is from the other one behind her, and the shadows on the ground seem to be slithering - might want to avoid stepping on them!]

I'm over a hundred. How's that "honor" working out for you?

[Hearing the blade cutting through the air, she quickly moves out of the way, narrowly missing being hit by the blade...of course this resulted in a less than graceful trip as mid-dodge, she noticed the shadows moving.

Catching herself before actually hitting the floor, she made a quick decision and made for the exit...only to come up short as she hit a wall.

DAMMIT! She knew better!

Pressing her back against the wall, she tried to keep her eyes on all of the known threats, her eyes likely resembling that of a caged animal]

I may not be that old, but I haven't lived this long by taking cheap shots and tricking my opponents.

[The two images shrug in stereo.]

Just making threats at unknown strangers as if you can get away with it.

[That skittering that'd been moving around down below? There's a moment where it's almost like some of the shadows lower to the ground lessen just enough for it to be visible that it's a large number of blade-legged spiders about the size of large dogs and small horses, and they're much less inclined right now to leave a clear path between the "wall" and where Spade is.]

Pity you didn't learn some discretion sooner.

[On the bright side, this whole game's hit "Not worth his time". ...Yes the "spiders" going into hostile-swarm mode is "better" than if he'd been invested enough to be seriously TRYING to traumatize her and not just get rid of an annoyance.~~No, he doesn't know she'll be back in a few days.~~]

[Hissing softly to herself, she pressed herself closer to the wall. Dammit, was that?

Oh hell, she wasn't scared of insects, but these?

Dammit, that was too much, even for her. And now she was wishing she'd let him stab her, at least that pain she was used to.]

H...have to have insects do your dirty work?

[Yes, that was a quiver in her voice. Fuck it.

Turning around, she started kicking the wall. Dammit! How does she get herself into these situations?!]

[The one on the ground disappears... and the one remaining? Almost looks bored.]

You're not worth my time.

[The dimensional barrier wasn't going anywhere; the giant spiders, however, were going on the attack, and clearly had no problem with striking from behind, or in a swarm.]

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[Worth his time...if she'd had her weapon, she'd be worth more than his time...

Focused on the barrier, she didn't pay him much mind...not until the first bite. Unable to keep from crying out at the bites that followed, she turned just enough to see him. If she was going to die here, she'd make sure that he watched.]

[It's been a hundred years, and he's been responsible for small atrocities all across that, including wiping out entire families. No, you're not going to impress him; this is a temporary short-term annoyance, not anything with any real impact.]

[And really, going for a swarm of spiders bigger than her WAS mostly to make it... relatively quick, in the sense that they're able to leave some pretty damn serious damage - honestly, not having gotten more than "get rid of the annoyance" was a GOOD thing.]

[She wasn't able to do more than glare before her vision darkened, her small form falling as the strength in her legs gave out.

There were so many things she wanted to say. So many obscenities she wanted to throw at him. There simply wasn't enough strength in her to do so.]

[Whatever it was, it wouldn't be anything he hadn't heard a thousand times over, in any given decade of the time he'd been alive; he'd gotten to where such tirades were just things to mentally filter through for anything that might be useful, and otherwise would get tuned out.]

[As things were, while he wasn't exactly gifted with a Sky User's intuition, he had enough ability to pick up on presences (that and enough knowledge of how much it took to kill someone) to know when it was over.]

[Of course, he'd been at this way too long to be so careless as to just cancel the small bubble and leave a mangled corpse in the hallway; that kind of thing always led to someone ELSE snooping around unhappy or asking questions, and the whole exercise had been to get RID of an annoyance, not add however many more.]

[As much as he didn't know the area, he had seen a lake out some of the windows; not the best option, but the best he could think of on short notice, and it wouldn't take that much effort to just spit the "bubble" out on the shore of the lake, then sink the body with rocks; if he was really lucky, there'd be some kind of scavenging fish to clean up most of it, and by the time anyone found anything, it wouldn't really matter - there wouldn't be enough evidence of ANYTHING that could be made sense of to figure out what'd happened, much less trace it back.]

[Sure, the disposal was a detour and burning more power, but "better likelihood of peace and quiet and easier to feign ignorance" was worth it.]

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SOB. I'M KIND OF SORRY FOR THIS. ~_~; At least she wont' wake up with water damage or anything...