OPEN POST II

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[deathline]

Well, I can expect you to make a phone call to Touko if I don't come out within the hour.

[She's texting him the number of the Garan no Dou office to him and hits "send" before pocketing her phone.]

Don't wait around for me that long though. I'm not gonna have any hard feelings if you left.

[godly]

As though I’d leave.

[His phone blips with a text, but he leaves it unread. He knows she’s sent him contact information, but he chooses not to acknowledge it for now, like it’ll willfully force it to become unneeded.]

Is a second set of eyes by your side such a bad idea? It wouldn’t be the first time you’ve had me stumble face-first into the supernatural.

[deathline]

... Yagami. [There's a look of exasperation.]

It's dark as shit in there. [Shiki can only hope pointing out the obvious will dissuade him.]

[godly]

I won’t be experiencing anything you won’t, either.

[Stubborn.]

But not just eyes —- sound, awareness. Just... do you really believe going in alone is wise?

[deathline]

[Shiki weighs her options in her head. She could argue some more with Light and present him other options, but he always fought logic with logic and it becomes irritating the longer she draws it out. Yagami was kind of a pain in the ass that way.

So her answer isn't made with words, but with a swift turn and strides towards the alleyway and into the impenetrable darkness before he can even say a word.

After all, he's not gonna follow her recklessly, right? The shadow of the alleyway looks like a velvet cloak of darkened fog that swallows her up and leaves no trace of her own figure and shadow.]

[godly]

[It's like her to do this; he should have known after all this time.

But it's no less frustrating to Light, just like any time someone doesn't bother to listen to his reasoning, deciding to barrel into the deep dark and hope the consequences aren't too dire. And this time, it seems that his concern is quite the literal one.]

Ryougi!

[He steps forward, making a grab for her arm, but she's already slipped past and into that veil of blackness, the darkness that light won't pierce through. A hiss of a curse beneath his breath-]

Damn it...

[What a pain.

She's right, though. He won't follow her in recklessly, as she's forced his hand to wait and see, his patience just enough to allow a few minutes pass to see if they're uneventful... or otherwise.]

[deathline]

[It takes a good five minutes for anything notable to happen. The alleyway remains black, but the noise they had both heard before, the horrible gnashing of teeth becomes clearer as is the scuffling of Shiki's boots against the pavement and even on the walls as she jumps off of them. She couldn't have been more than five feet away from where Light was standing.

The sound of a knife stabbing flesh finally clears the dark mist. In front of Light is Shiki backing off from what appears to be a humanoid figure completely made up of shadow. While the ambient light from the buildings finally illuminate the alleyway, it does not pass through whatever this creature is. And what a creature it is; it had mouths all over its body, not just its face. Shiki's knife sticks out of where it's head should be and it thrashes from the intrusive weapon, hitting the sides of the walls and screeching.

Shiki is out of the alleyway and in front of Light grimacing.]

Ugh. I don't know what that is. Yagami, don't move any closer.

[also her ice cream is gone oops

[godly]

[did the monster eat the ice cream, gosh

He should be used to such sights by now, but the reality is that he isn't. Every time he views something strange, courtesy of her presence and the situations that follow her like a shade, it's jarring, chilling. This monster is much the same: an entity made of shadow and too-many mouths, a knife glinting from its head, thrashing against the alleway.

He steps back, trying to tamp down the base, inconvenient instinct of fear and trepdiation, all of which can be felt in the way he grips her shoulder tightly as she nears.]

Ryougi, are you all right?!

[Eyes dart up to the creature again.]

What do we do, then? What is it?

[deathline]

[Long (and ridiculous) story short, the ice cream made a quick save.]

Tch.

[Is her reaction as Light grips her shoulder. She lightly slaps his hand away before turning her attention back to the creature. It almost moves too closely to the both of them; as a quick response she makes a fluid movement that puts some distance between them before she spins to kick the monster away. This causes it to stumble and for her knife to drop from its head.

She quickly retrieves her knife before answering Light.]

We're going to kill it. I don't care what 'it' is and you shouldn't care either. It's a disgusting existence.

[Shiki is already putting herself in an offensive position.]

Move away, Yagami.