Round Two: Koudo vs. Priere

The trip didn't take as long as he had expected it too because they were talking most of the way... about random things. As they neared the graveyard, he was greeted by a very familiar voice.

Maina: " HEY KOUDO!!! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? "

Koudo looked up to see Maina and naina standing close to the graveyard, both waving to him, though Maina ceased when she saw the ice girl from the last fight with him. Her and her sister walked over to the two people.

" Sorry, I was working..."

Maina: " I bet you were... what is she doing here? "

Maina asked pointing to Priere, not looking in her direction just pointing. There was a clear look of disdain in her face, as if she was insinuating something just from seeing them together and she didn't approve of what her own mind was coming up with. Maina was the jealous type it seemed, even though she'd swear up and down that she cared nothing for Koudo.

Naina only smiled and greeted Priere with a bow, before moving to her Meister's side. clearly not as taken aback by her partner being with another person. The more the merry it seemed to her, her partner needed to be around more flesh and blood people instead of those machines. Less he turn into a shut in and never want to encounter flesh and blood again. That would leave Naina and her sister in a little bit of a bind, since they sort of needed him at this point.

" Oh, we're about to have our rematch... right Priere? "

Priere had been right behind Koudo the entire way to the graveyard. She had been rather expecting this fight for a while now, ever since her training, that is. This time she didn't have the home field advantage... There was no snow and it was a moderately decent temperature out. She looked over to Maina, who seemed to be irked by her presence, then she smirked and started to laugh a little bit, seeing the aura of jealousy all around her.

"Heh heh heh. You'd better get your weapons ready, Koudo~!"

Naina bowed to her and Priere looked a little bit confused, actually. She simply waved at her and did nothing else.

"Yeah. We've gotta get this thing under way, so, let's get on with it!"


Inside of Priere's Mind...


Signis: Priere! I have figured it out!

Priere: What? Signis?! Where have you been? Figured what out?

Signis: I have been in deep meditation for quite a while trying to figure out your family tome.

Priere: My family tome...? I don't remember...

Signis: Because I didn't LET you remember! You would obsess over it and probably attempt to destroy it if you didn't open it up, and back then you were too weak to open it and use its power. Now I have found out that with your power as it currently is, you may not only open the book, but possibly learn of a few of its secrets as well.

Priere: Sooooo... The fam's got a familial grimoire that has been passed down to me? Hmph. Wish you didn't keep that from me, Signis.

Signis: Silence! We shall observe its content later, but for right now, engage in your silly little battle with this silly little boy while I continue to observe the grimoire...

Priere sighs "Whatever, Signis. If I win, I'm gonna go read it and become more powerful. But... I guess if I lose, I won't read its secrets just yet and hone my current power even more by seeing that Head Witch Zita."

Signis was rather shocked.. amazed at what Priere just said "Oh? Someone has learned the meaning of 'humble?' Why, I never thought I'd see the day. Perhaps this Koudo fellow is an uncertain factor in your life? Changing you?"

Priere immediately scoffed and turned away "Don't be stupid, Signis. As an Insangel, there is no way I can deviate from this GLORIOUS path I have chosen for myself. Remember, I've got to become more powerful not only to uphold my familial name, become the GREATEST sorceress, master of Ice and Water magics, and become the ruler of supernatural beings. Becoming 'humbled' is not part of those goals, but it can help achieve those goals if I learn to be humble at some points in time."

Signis thought on those words, nodding in agreement. "So in this time I have been gone, you have become more mature, not more humble. I respect that. I shall view your memories as you fight to see what I have missed. In the mean time... Go on. Destroy him."

Priere smiled, licking her lips cutely, yet deviously, "I doubt I'd have any fun if I didn't!" and with that, she exits her mind.


Now exiting Priere's mind.


That whole occurrence probably took between 1 and 2 seconds at most, but regardless of that, Priere seemed to be ready for the fight already, conjuring up magic in either hand, flexing and fluctuating it like stress balls.

"Come on, Koudo. Can't wait all day, dammit!"

" No need. All I need are these... "

Koudo held his hands up, before balling them into fist and throwing a couple of quick punches before pointing down at his legs and swinging a couple of kicks. Of course with all his training, his speed had increased a considerable amount. He wasn't the fastest in the world or anything like that, but he was fast enough for the kick to sort of look like a blur to people whose eyes weren't adept at seeing people move quickly. Koudo was aware that in his last fight with Priere, he had overwhelmed her with his speedy taijutsu, but in watching her fight with Vessel it seemed like she had come up with a few ways to counter it. This was good, it put him at a slight disadvantage which he liked having in battle.

" Maina... Naina... wait over there. "

Maina: " But "

" Do it... this is my fight, I'll use you two in the next one. Then we can go soul hunting afterwards. "

Maina: " .... Fine, but you better keep that promise and don't fucking lose to her either! "

Koudo smirked before giving her a thumbs up and shooing them both away. He walked out a couple of feet and stopped, turning around to face Priere and getting into his ready stance.

Maina and Naina walked off to the side and found a good place to watch the fight that was about to ensue. They both noticed that Koudo hadn't handed over his mafia ring and box weapon, and from where they sat, they could make out the shape of a box on his belt loop. This wasn't to say that he planned to use them, he probably just forgot to give them up.

" Alright Priere, let's get this started. "

Koudo took off running in the same zigzag pattern as usual, not as fast as he could because he had improved on his speed by a substantial amount and wanted to keep that a secret. he signed as he ran and fired off three water fang bullets, aiming to pelt Priere with them. he hadn't forgotten that she could use water as well.

Priere was still flexing her magic in her hand, compressing it rather tightly to increase her own flexibility with it just a tad bit more before the fight. It was like how athletes stretch before running, only Priere did it to make her magic optimal. She was most concerned about Koudo's speed from the get go, because she knew that fighting speedy people wasn't her best attribute, but...

"... Heh. This time I'm ready for ya, Koudo. You won't get the best of me... Ha."

Priere was confused as to why he used water against her since he knew for a fact that she used water... But, it didn't matter. He might have been planning something, but he only helped her out with this. Priere quickly used her magic to take control of the water and stopped it in midair, then launched it straight toward the ground, causing the water to dissipate.

"Tch. Better not wake the dead or any of that crap."

Priere pointed her hand at Koudo, creating many thin sheets of ice around him, about 5 of them which would surround his general area and each would have a large spike of ice jut out of it. She was getting better at generating the Ice Spikes without them coming from the ground. She wanted to impale Koudo just like before so she could get to his insides and beat him from the inside out... Watching him suffer before was incredibly.. pleasing.

Koudo laughed, if he could raise the dead then they would already be up and roaming around. That wasn't one of his powers, so she was good on that note. She easily countered his water, as he knew she would and on top of this she used her ice spikes to try and impale him as he was running. Koudo wasn't fooled by this, since when they fought before she had used this but they came faster than he had anticipated.

He didn't take the hit though, he placed his hand to one of the spikes and pushed off of it before jumping from one spike to the other, effectively evading them all. This wasn't speed, but his ranking exam with Maruze had increased his reflexes a little bit. Being in the air was something that he liked, because he could test something out as well.

" Machine Release.... Shotgun. "

he held out his hand, and from the middle of his forearm down to his hand turned the color of his infestation energy before that part of his arm transformed to resemble that of a mini cannon or something along those lines. This machine release was a combination of his infestation and the ability to summon weapons with just saying the word. The infestation breaks apart the machine and fuses it to whatever part of his body that he wants and with just a mere thought, he can fire the weapon off.

Koudo aimed at Priere, and fired two chakra bullets at Priere, they were fairly larger than regular bullets and could easily be seen by the naked eye. Before they reached her, they split apart into smaller chakra bullets and some converged on Priere's direction, while others continued their original trajectory and hit random places around the graveyard.

" How was that? Good enough for ya? You told me not to hold back this time. "

Koudo yelled to Priere, as he continued to drift down towards the ground on a calm wind.

Priere wasn't expecting him to do this, but it was all good regardless. He evaded that attack and made a weapon out of his arm.

"Ooooh. Niiiice. Wanna see what I can do with my neeeeew powers?"

Priere conjured up something fairly large with both hands. What would appear on her left arm would be a cannon barrel of sorts made purely of condensed/compressed water. When Koudo aimed his weapon arm at her, she immediately mirrored him and fired off several large bullets of pure water, same as his made of chakra. When his split apart, hers kept going intact, as she wasn't expecting them to split.

"Tch. Dammit... Okay..."

She snapped her fingers and hers would split just as well, though she wasn't sure about how many bullets there were, she only knew that she made quite a lot. The ones that tried to converge on Priere would be stopped as her cannon arm would block them. But the ones bouncing around the graveyard would have to be stopped.

"Okay, GO!"

The bullets of Priere's would be launched at the bullets bouncing around, for eventually they would either have to hit each other or hit Koudo. But the one thing about her bullets that she figured his could not do was... explode. The tiny bullets many many moderately large explosions around the graveyard, hoping to take out the bullets and hit Koudo at the same time. She knew that if Koudo were hit with one of the explosions... it would be bad for him.

"Heh. Heh heh."

It was nice that her bullets could explode, however none of them were able to reach Koudo as he drifted down to the ground, finally touching it and digging his feet into the ground. her bullets that had exploded, exploded because they had encountered the bullets that he had bouncing around the graveyard as well. he liked that she could mirror his attack to some extent, but that wouldn't win her this battle.

" I see... Machine Release, Vulcan. "

Koudo's arm transformed to resemble a mini Gatling Gun with only three barrels. He aimed at her and the gun started to rotate, before shots started to fire from his arm rapidly and fire at her. He shot around 15 shots before his arm morphed back to normal and he placed his other hand to his wrist. The Machine Release took a toll on whatever part of his body that he had morphed to fit what he wanted. This was of no concern however, since he still have his high speed kicking to fall back on.

While she was busy with his Vulcan shots, Koudo started to run, using a very quick, precise, and short burst, of his actual speed to move towards her quicker than he would with just running towards her. He enhanced the speed by using chakra to move his body along faster. Once he was in range of her, this being some time after she dealt with his vulcan bullets, he opened his mouth and started to emit a high pitched scream, his Scream of Despair, which lets out a scream that can be used to deflect projectiles or send the opponent flying, he was using it for the latter. He wanted to send Priere flying.

Naturally, Priere's attack was an attack of her own and not an ACTUAL mirror of Koudo's own attack... It was her Backwater ability and it would always stay in that set form. The fact that Koudo had something similar was just a coincidence, to say the least. But, Koudo changing his arm made things a bit more difficult for Priere. She wasn't all that knowledgeable about weaponry and the like, so she merely thought that this was just a new and more fancy gun.

"Huff."

She fired off 3 more large bazooka-esque shots out of her arm at Koudo and waited to see the results, thinking that her large shots would plow throw the simple bullets of a gun, however she realized that this gun shot out a lot of bullets in a very short amount of time. Therefore, when the shots were shot, they would only collide and cause the water shots to explode, just like before, neither side going anywhere.

"... Woah, that thing shoots fast. Gotta watch out for--"

She realized that Koudo was moving now... But differently than the norm. Regardless, she had to make sure that he didn't move close to her. With a quick wave from her hands, a geyser of water shoot straight up from under her, engulfing her and condensing the outermost layer of water to ensure that nothing got in easily, leaving Priere protected in the center of it. She thought that Koudo would be coming in from a random angle and planned to stop him like this... But instead, he didn't. He unleashed a sound wave at her via a scream. Well, naturally, it wasn't what was expected, but the Aqua Tower that Priere made would get the job done, as sound waves had difficulty in the water. Not only that, but the geyser was already rather strong and forcefully shooting upward. Priere was fine.

"Now... What about this...?"

To do this, she would have to stop using the Backwater technique, thus, the cannon arm dissipated within the Aqua Tower. Priere started to conjure more magic in her hands, pointing a hand at Koudo. The Aqua Tower started to shoot out a barrage of Ice Needles straight from itself and at Koudo in the form of first water, which would then instantly freeze to become ice and try to impale Koudo just like they had done in the past.

There was a girl, off in the distance, attracted to the area by the chill in the air. she didn't move close enough to be seen, but she was close enough to see everything that was going on. Perura was intrigued by the way the girl had stopped to boy's attack and on top of it, she had quickly changed from being on the defense to going strictly offensive with what she used to defend herself. Perura didn't sit down, but she would stay and continue to watch how the battle unfolded.

just in the nick of time, right when he was about to use the confusion from his scream of despair to strike her, Priere encased herself in ice. Koudo readjusted himself, backflipping a good ways off and putting a good distance between them, but still remaining close enough to be able to strike her if she chose to release the large geyser of water. Koudo felt the ground rumbling and looked at the water tower, knowing that something bad was about to happen.

What now?

Ice spikes? Ice Spikes! Koudo remained light on his feet and stood there, waiting for the water to shoot out and become ice spikes like he knew she planned to do. The ice spikes thing was starting to get old, and Koudo as getting used to it. But he had to admit that the water tower was a nice remix on an old favorite. Koudo started to jump, remaining nimble before starting to dodge her ice spikes. They were all relatively the same size, which was big enough for him to plant his hand on one and use it to push him in the air. From that, he started to jump from one to the other, moving towards the large tower. Since he had no fire techniques, he would have to find another way to chip her ice away.

" Machine Release... Vulcan. "

Koudo gripped his wrist tightly, before releasing it as it transformed into the three barreled gatling gun. He aimed at the tower and started to fire repeated burst at the tower, continuing to move and make sure that he didn't stop. He was aiming directly at Priere's forehead, or somewhere around there so that if the bullets broke through, she would have to deal with being pelted by chakra bullet after chakra bullet.

(Er... Those were ice needles, not ice spikes... There's a pretty big difference between the two as the Ice Needles are small, swift projectiles while the Ice Spikes are large, powerful... uh... stabby things. But I mean, I can let that go.)

Priere could see that he remembered her old tactics of the Ice Spikes and Ice Needles, and was doing quite well to get around them... But she was sure that Koudo had no clue about her newer techniques at all, which she was trying to save as surprises... But when she saw Koudo's hand change again, she realized she wished to use another one. She didn't want to risk being shot at again.

"Behold... The Sexy Mist."

Unknown if Koudo heard or not since she was encased in water, the Aqua Tower would vaporize itself and explode into a mist, regardless. The extremely thick mist covered all of Priere's area and a very large range around her very quickly, and was virtually impossible to see through. Why? Magical inclination made it better than any normal mist, as it blocked and destroyed any signals, waves, or anything else used to locate, see, hear, smell or generally detect Priere while she was in it. While within it, she could be doing anything. Naturally, she could clearly see through the mist, as it was directly made not to affect her at all. Something was going on inside of the mist...

( My bad, I completely misread that. )

Koudo continued his headstrong motion towards her, hoping to pelt her with the bullets of his Vulcan, but he quickly stopped when the mist made itself apparent very quickly and covered her, and the immediate area around her as well as a large radius away from that. Koudo was one of the things that was caught inside it... not good. He stopped moving, his arm going back to normal, but he felt the pain of the transforming. He grabbed his wrist and held it this time, looking around for anything that would resemble her.

" This is new... "

Now Priere had the upper hand. The mist slowly started to encroach on the area, being controlled by one of Priere's hands while she conjured something else with the other. It was rather ominous and fitting for the graveyard type of atmosphere. Suddenly, from numerous different locations out of the mist, arms made of water shot out of them and tried to grab at Koudo. If they were to grab at him, they would compress around him and try to break his bones with sheer water pressure alone. She hoped that these limbs would distract Koudo enough so he wouldn't notice that the mist was encroaching on him... Slowly, but surely... She wished for it to cover the entire area. How would Koudo get to Priere now...?

Koudo's arm was hurting, he hadn't completely mastered the Machine Release and it took a toll on his arm after a couple times of using it. That was something that he wanted to get around, but he would have to keep practicing with it. For right now though, he was at a disadvantage since he couldn't use his arm and he was using his other hand to hold on to his arm. His hands weren't free right now, and the best he could do in the situation with the hands of water was dodge, using the new found speed that he had. He wasn't someone that could teleport or anything like that, but he was fast enough to safely elude the hands of water the continued to lunge out at him and try to grab him.

Shit... if i could use the Machine Release one more time.... I could slice these arms in half with my sword. And I still have to deal with this... mist....

Koudo hadn't actually noticed that the mist was starting to move around him and only him, shoot even his weapons hadn't notice that the mist was moving around him because they couldn't see him. All he needed was to see her, if he could see her, hear her, or feel her, anything that would alert him to her location then he would be fine.... wait... location. Koudo wasn't sure if the mist told her where he was, he assumed that the only reason she knew where to attack was because he had said something when he entered and mist. He had an idea, around the barrage of water hands coming at him, Koudo started to move, rapidly. He signed as quickly as he could with being injured for the most part and used his Ventriloquism Skill, which allowed him to throw his voice or move any sounds he can make with his mouth to any location without the sound fading.

" Hey, Priere. You have pretty bad aim if you can't touch me with those water arms. "

He threw his voice back where he was standing and avoiding her water arms before, while he just stayed moving, he would throw his voice again if it worked to throw her off her game a little in this mist.

The mist continued to encroach, almost covering the entire area by now, but the water arms didn't seem to let up. In fact, they formed fists now showing Priere's anger at what Koudo said, no longer trying to grab hold of him, but now trying to punch him. All the while, Priere started to speak again.

"Fool! You may not be able to detect ME, but I can still surely SEE you! It's like a two-way mirror... Well, at least for me and only me. I can see everything you do as if this mist isn't here, but to YOU, the mist is definitely hindering you."

Priere wondered if her speaking gave away her position in the mist... But it wasn't like he could see her or anything. She definitely could be moving around as she pleased, so that wouldn't be any help to him at all.

"... Sigh. Besides, I wasn't gonna say anything, but I set up something else which you helped me out with, buddy. It's fool-proof."

Priere was slowly taking advantage of the field, even without the home-field advantage, she could still make it hers rather quickly. Oh, how fun this would be... Eventually, the hands stopped going for Koudo and retracted back inside of the mist, as Priere was done with it. Now nothing seemed to be going on... But again, how would Koudo get around the mist...?

They were fist now, Koudo noticed that as he dodged them. She must have been a little angered by what he had said to her, but it was technically true since none of her hands had struck him. On top of this, when she was talking to him, he was pinpointing her location by the sound of her voice. She could be moving around, but Koudo didn't think she was smart enough to actually figure out that he was using her voice to find out where she was. He didn't want to insult her intelligence out loud just yet... he needed a little more time. Since the mist was like a two-way mirror, he had to continue moving, being able to be seen, but not being able to see. He was hopelessly lost in this battle.

" Is it this mist? it's really starting to piss me off. "

Koudo stopped moving now, since the hands had retracted and he was free to move without having to dodge ever fucking second. he released his arm, feeling that he could use it a little more than he had realized, but just couldn't keep changing the weapon or machine that it turned into rapidly like he had been doing earlier. he put his arm out.

" Does this mist blow away when wind is put in the equation? "

Koudo asked clapping his hands before putting his hand up in the air.

" Machine Release... Vacuum! "

Koudo's arm turned into a large fan and it started to spin, rapidly sucking everything through it and out the other end. he hoped that it would just suck up the mist, or make it less dense so that he could get a slight glimpse of Priere. With just a tiny glimpse of her, he could rush in and try to deliver a devastating hit before the mist started to reform and hide her presence again. He was starting to aim to end it quickly... his arm couldn't take much more of the Machine Release since this was the first time he had actually used it.

(Haha, the funny thing is, the very instant I sent my post, I thought "damn, he could just blow all this mist away real easy. Let me just come up with a plan just in case that happens.." and sure enough, what happens? XD)

Now Priere should have been in trouble since Koudo figured out the simplest way around her mist... It was still a vapor, of course. But Priere had already set up the field in her advantage long before she even told Koudo, as to give it time to spread. She was becoming a lot more clever with her attacks rather than just using direct assault, like she usually did, and maybe that was why Koudo wasn't prepared. She was learning to fight in a different way than what he was used to before when they fought, thus making him at a larger disadvantage, yet again. Sometimes the disadvantage doesn't come from what your powers are, but how you use them.

Anyway, that aside, Priere saw the fan and knew he was either going to blow it away... or suck it up. Either one would be bad, but when the fan started up... A rather large Ice Spike would shoot straight up from the ground right from under it almost instantly, trying to impale it and make it malfunction, or just stop the use of Koudo's arm. Besides that, if his arm were impaled by the Ice Spike, then he would be anchored to the ground by it, which would be just beautiful for Priere~! But if that didn't work as planned, Priere would use her other hand to make the ground under Koudo freeze rather quickly, turning it into ice and making it wiggle slightly to try to have him lose his footing. Even though Priere wasn't in a cold or icy environment, she could still somehow freeze the ground rather swiftly... Hmmm! Wonder why that could be~?

So, with that done, if Koudo were still not incapacitated... The mist would converge. All of it. It would just fly over to him and try to surround him, leaving him unable to see, detect or anything of the sort while within the mist. And it would stay flowing around him as long as it needed to...

( Damn, should have posted the blowing the mist away thing sooner. *snaps and shakes fist* You win this round! But the war shall continue... not really. )

" haha, this was fun but I'm going in for the. WHAT!... THE FAN... IT'S JAMMED!! "

Koudo said when he noticed that the fan wasn't doing it's job and that was because there was a large ICE SPIKE ( Got it right this time ) stuck in it, making it malfunction and stop spinning. He looked towards the now encroaching mist, his arm shedding everything that was the fan but being stuck, because of the ice spike catching a hold of part of his arm and stopping him from moving it. Even if he wanted to move it, he couldn't since he was too hurt from forcing the fan. On top of this, There was ice being created at his feet, so the slightest movement would make him slip and fall... he was defenseless and powerless. All he could do was stand there and await Priere's malice...

" Fuck. "

(Omfg, SWEET!!!)

"Oh my fucking god, SWEET!!!"

Priere was definitely overjoyed by this. A plan had worked! Follow through and everything! Hell, she was pretty damn happy about this. The mist flew around Koudo and without further ado, would start to slice and cut up his body, as the water particles were sharpened thanks to Priere's magic. This was how she used her mist offensively if people just wished to run right into it thinking they could attack Priere like that. They'd get their bodies cut up and some of Priere's water/ice into their systems for her to take control of as she pleased. But as for this time... She had something better in mind. She raised both her hands and pointed them at Koudo.

"Hahaha, Koudo, if you hadn't let me use my Silent Water at the beginning of the fight, none of this would have been possible~!"

Naturally, she referred to the Water Fang Bullets shot at her at the beginning. When she launched them down, she actually did not have them dissipate as easily as they seemed, but instead made an incredibly thin layer of water that was virtually silent and invisible, making it seem like the ground was normal. And it wouldn't splash either thanks to Priere's control over it. She just let it sit until the time was right. She was using that to track Koudo's movements as well, since he was too fast for her to see, so the Silent Water would also keep him from being out of her range. Ingenious! She was glad she thought of it. But now was time for what he hoped was the finale...

"Freeze..."

The mist quickly became very cold very fast, the water vapor quickly condensing and solidifying into pure ice. She hoped Koudo would be stopped completely by this ice, and if he tried to resist, she could have a hell of a lot of Ice Spikes and Ice Needles jab at him. In fact... Tips of Ice Needles formed on the inside of the ice that Koudo would be frozen in, threatening to puncture his skin upon the slightest movements. Priere kept her hands out to ensure that her magic made this ice as powerful as it could be, feeding magic into it, and waited...

( Congrats. This is loss number two for Koudo at the hands of the almighty Priere. )

Koudo was going to take his defeat like a man. He was a sucker for punishment, so her cutting of his body and all that jazz did nothing to his facial expressions. He remained monotonous, looking the same as always and always looking her in the eyes, even when the mist froze around him and the ice needles aimed to impale him if he moved, which he didn't see the point of doing. She had defeated him twice... it wouldn't happen a third time and Koudo would make sure of that.

Priere really did like the way that Koudo took her attacks so... well. Even when in danger, his face was the same and he seemed to be looking her right in the eyes, as if challenging her. A part of her wanted to just jab the needles into him, and the other part was just really freakin impressed. Regardless, Priere laughed and laughed, feeling rather confident about her abilities now.

"HAAAHAHAAHA! Yes! I've won again! That's 2-0, Koudo! You'd better step up your game, cuz next time it's gonna be nothing like this! I'm constantly learning, ya know!"

She smiled, her voice becoming more condescending now.

"But then again, you are just a silly boy, you know~! And such a silly boy cannot defeat me~!"

Though boastful, she gave hints that she was joking and poking fun... Which was a bit odd, because usually she said words that were always true and meant to cut deep. Oh well.

"Huh. Guess this means I don't go see Zita, hm... Ha! Well this also means I get to go see that grimoire! Hahahaha!"

She was even more excited now, as she got to see the secrets of her entire familial heritage... All of the spells recorded... All of the people... All of the secrets and special abilities... And not only that, but she could record her own! It was simply great.

"Hohohoho! I'm really freakin happy!"

She had a thought about something, though. She was still in need of... 'servants.' And she wished to collect only people she knew that she could trust... or that she generally liked. Koudo was one of them. So, naturally, a proposal was made on the table. She defrosted her ice and flipped her hair, staring right at Koudo.

"SO, I was thinking... We've got these little... mechanical devices... Er.. The PETs? Yeah. Those. And we're allies and stuff, right? So, why not make a little rebellious gang of our own, huh? You and me, our own little gang of rebels... It'll be a sweet deal, right?"

This was similar proposal to what Koudo asked of her before in his lab. Though she was kinda sweetening the deal a little bit. However, she also felt the presence of someone rather cold... Priere was so very fond of coldness and couldn't help but notice her, so she pointed off in the direction of Perura, whether she thought she'd been noticed or not, and continued.

"And her. Whoever that is. I want her, too."

She turned her head to Perura, this time screaming.

"HEY. YOU, COLD GIRL! YOU WANNA JOIN UP WITH US?!"

She was kind of jumping the gun a little bit, as Koudo hadn't even replied for himself... But at this point, he didn't need to... Priere was going to do this whether he wished to or not.

Koudo faltered slightly when she defrosted her ice but quickly regained his composure and stood as if he hadn't been effected at all. A gang huh? Boy was she a weird one, but he guessed that he couldn't say no to her since she had defeated him him battle twice now and being close to her would always give him some indication of how strong she was getting and how strong he needed to get to defeat her. Koudo shrugged his shoulders and slipped his hands in his pockets, his eyes closed and his, starting to become signature, smirk spreading across his lips.

" Sure... why not. A gang would be fun. "

Koudo had noticed the presence of someone else on the battlefield as well, just as Priere had, but he didn't sense any chakra from her. He could feel the eerieness of her cold from where he was, and it made him shiver because it felt like she might have been looking directly at him when Priere was the one that addressed her. Koudo was quite sure that Priere and the girl would be something like friends, since they both seemed to like the cold. Koudo could do without it, personally.

" I guess we have three... Five members. "

So her presence had been scoped out, much like how she scopes people out with her laser, which she had been using when Priere used the mist on Koudo. She had focused it so thin that they wouldn't be able to see the laser beam placed to their foreheads so she could continue to see what they were doing when they were out of sight. She walked, slowly, with her umbrella on her shoulder towards them before finally making it in front of Priere, the victor of the battle.

" Perura, desu.... "

she bowed, stating her name and that was all, before she turned to Koudo and did the exact same thing. She stood up straight afterwards and said nothing more. her facial expression didn't change at all, her golden eyes peircing whoever they were looking at before they switched to the other person. It seemed like she was awaiting Priere's approval.

Priere smiled, liking this idea already. The three... er... Five of them were gonna be rather close, it seemed. Priere usually wouldn't be for that, but Koudo shared the same views as her on other people more or less and this new girl.. Perura... Was cold and silent. Seemed to be the type that would do as she was told without saying a word. And even if not, she'd be predominantly silent, she could tell. And her atmosphere was awesome.

"So. Perura. You're giving off this really cool vibe... And I like it. I give off a very similar vibe, ya know? All chilling, almost able to freeze what's within... Yeah. This makes me feel real good. If you wanna join, come on. I want you in this gang we're throwin together."

Priere waited to see what her reaction was about all this.

".. Of course, I'm the leader and we'll be using that base Koudo has as our place. Right, Koudo?"

He didn't have a say in this, yet again.

Koudo avoided the gaze of the new girl that approached them, every time her cold, golden eyes looked his way. He felt very uneasy about her, but if Priere wanted her, then what the fuck ever, he couldn't complain. Koudo liked the idea actually, him, Maina, Naina, Priere and er... Perura, as a unit... a gang. This was bound to yield good results, all the odds were with them and against any other teams that oppose them. Koudo was sure of this and was lost in thought about it, that was until Priere mentioned something about his base... he looked at her, dismayed.

" Why my base? Give me a break... Leader. "

Koudo stated sarcastically.