Our Idols. Misery, Despair... There's something we want to ask of you two

Maina and Naina arrived at Khrona's office surprisingly early, looking for the two people they looked up to the most, Misery and Despair. Maina and Naina both knocked at the same time, and waited.

There was a bit of a wait, but after a while, the door opened and Despair would be standing before the two of them.

"Oh... It is you two. Welcome... It is depressingly nice to see you again..."

She bowed to them and invited them inside.

"... Is there something you want? What brings you here?"

Naina bowed in return, Maina just kinda shrugged it off and stepped inside the office after Despair, closing the door since it was polite to do that. With all that done, Maina cleared her throat.

" We're here to ask you and Misery a question or two... is that fine? "

Well that was technically a question already, but Maina didn't count it as one of the questions that she and her sister had come to ask. They wanted training on fighting without Koudo and what better people to teach them than Misery and Despair without Khrona present?

Despair nodded politely.

"Oh, of course... I'm pretty sure Misery likes you... So she'd be happy to answer you as well, right?"

Despair turned around, looking at Misery who was nonchalantly sitting at Khrona's desk, slightly bored.

Misery: Yeah, yeah, I guess. I've been kinda bored lately. Spill it.

Maina nodded, walking to the front of the desk.

" I got an offer for you... you and Despair train me and Maina, and we'll exterminate anybody out there in the world that you don't like. No questions asked. I KNOW that there are people that piss you off to no end, like when they come in and ask for a soul weapon but have no idea that going to Shibusen would be the best thing to do for that. Or coming in to see Khrona for no reason, only to basically shake his hand and introduce themselves when he knows EVERYTHING about his village. Come on, having you as a mentor would be a dream. "

Naina had made her way over to Despair, she didn't speak of course, only smiled and before looking to her sister trying to bargain with Misery.

Misery yawned, looking at her fingernails and barely payed any attention to Maina's words.

Misery: Look, kid, we're the weapons of the Kage of this village. If there's someone we don't like, we can and will get rid of them. Sure, it's probably against some type of rule or regulation somewhere, but hell, they shouldn't piss us off.

Misery could tell that Maina really did want some training though, and it was pretty bold of her to come up and ask her for some training and try to bargain with her.

Misery: ... Hm... But, I'll tell you what. I like you. That's usually a rare thing. You remind me of myself when I was first starting out... But yeah, all I need you to do is go collect 20 souls... Each. Then come back for some training. Despair and I will have no problem training the both of you if you can manage to get 20 souls each on your own.

It was definitely a test of their skill... To see if they were worthy of such training.

Despair: ... The two of you already have 7 combined... Just get 32 more without help from your partner...

Misery scoffed, cuz that's not what she meant... "Tch... Ah, whatever. Fine. Do what Despair said. Come back when you've got 40, kay?"

Maina grinned and nodded, she didn't even look at her sister for confirmation, she was sure that they could do this without Koudo, he hadn't been using them much of late anyway so he wouldn't care what they were doing. Besides, the stronger they got the better the gang would be as a whole.

" Piece of cake, just you watch. "

Maina said turning to her sister.

" Let's get started, huh... Naina? "

She walked towards the door. Naina walked that way as well, but turned around and bowed to both the lovely women.

Naina: " Thank you.... I'll be sure to keep an eye on her. "

And with that, they were gone to collect more souls. They needed to try different places, and see every kind of monster out there. This was definitely gonna be fun.

Misery watched them as they exited out of the door, Despair closing the door behind them. Misery smirked just a bit, letting a little chuckle escape.

Misery: They seemed pretty determined, huh?

Despair: ... Quite.

Misery: ... I wonder what they'd be like to fight when they're Death Scythes...?

Despair: ... Well, they seem pretty fond of us. They shall no doubt be our sparring partners one day in the future...

Misery: Yeah. We don't battle other weapons two at a time anyway.

Despair: ... We don't battle other weapons period...

Misery: Oh yeah. True. Well, whatever. Guess we ought to go do something constructive?

Despair: Mmm... Maybe.

The two sat there and sighed, returning to whatever they were doing beforehand.