Kurisa looked through the papers again as she sat on her long glass dining table. The chandelier above them was glistening as it was a quarter to eight at night. The party she promised the boss to go to start at about ten at night. They wanted to start at night, but not too late due to the fact that people had work the next day. Business people wanted their parties but also wanted to satisfy their workaholic fantasies. She flipped over about four places as she saw that the first one was in some underground tunnel. It leads to some fancy man-made area where people can party the way they wanted.

How did they get cake and stuff down there? She knew what was going to happen and what needed to be done. At the same time she had to pretend she was enjoying it and partying. What she did not know is that she was going to enjoy it more than she should. Her eyes cornered towards each direction as if hoping Masami would come through that door or hallway. He was not there with her last time for the mission as he did his own. She frowned at it and wondered.

Slowly, she leaned back on her chair and gazed at the chandelier. It was a snowflake shape with the paper of red and gold as decorations. It mirrored against her brown and blue eyes perfectly as they motioned in circular rotations. Once she heard footsteps her eyes struck towards him and smiled calmly. "Will you be able to join me tonight? It will be a party.~" she giggled sweetly while slowly sitting up in her leaning black chair.

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Her eyes glanced once more towards her papers as she wondered where exactly this thing was at other than being underground. Had to be somewhere secure since she had doubts about it being somewhere easy to find. It could be in between buildings that no one bothers to check. It could not have been a hard spot to find either since the people with the food had to deliver everything. There was no way that the boss of that area was going to make his people do their job. Most of them were chill goons that just wanted to party and relax.

She waited till he responded to her as she did not want to bother him so much. It was bad enough that they were doing a lot together. Probably more than he used to. She just feared him not wanting to be adopted anymore. Having her genetics and for some reason not wanting those anymore. There was no true way out though since it was done and over with. Sure he could probably also walk out on her. 'Kill him.' She heard Ana in her head. The voices and souls spoke as she drifted off into her thoughts.

'He'll find out eventually and leave you. Let's be honest.' Ana replied before Kurisa could even respond. She shifted her gaze towards Masami who was wondering the time. "Well..." she lifted the paper enough for her eyes to look and read the time. "Nine O' clock. So we have about thirty minutes to get ready and get there." She gazed back at him. She saw him already with his casual makeup and gazing at her. "I will explain everything on the way there." She motioned herself upward and dusted off her suit. She sighed shuffled her shoulders to exercise them.

Sliding on her shoes while dragging her feet to the door she then opened it up for Masami. She felt weird for some reason, but was not sure why. Maybe the life she had now was not satisfying enough. Once Masami followed her she went to the elevator and went down to the floor level to leave the place, but before she did she was stopped by the inn keeper. "Hey, a little girl came here with your slip. She's in her own hotel room for now." He softly slapped the desk with the paper and yawned, leaning back and stretching. His eyes gazed at Kuri, "Nice of you to save that Slave girl. I'll make sure she's taken care of, ya hear?" He had some strong accent like the ones that yell for everyone to get on aboard the train.

She nodded, "I appreciate it, Yon." Her head tilted in a bow and waved. "I will be going on my adventure with Masami, I will be right back.". She waved bye and went out the door with him. "Sorry about that. Let's go." She spoke sweetly with a smile. She was glad the girl was alright since that guy was a handful. A piece of crap that existed because of some shitty birthmark. He didn't deserve the status he had.

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Once they exited out of the door she listened to Masami ask about the slave girl. She chuckled softly with a sweet smile. "Well, while you were gone I went out for a drink and met a man. He's super nice. While we were having a chat and a game of questions we met a slave who worked there. She was being abused in front of everyone." She sighed and looked at the sky. "No one deserves that treatment. I saved her by making the guy let her go. I gave her money and a hotel suite room for her at the same one we're staying at. She needed a home." She gave Masami a motherly soft look. "I say; if you have a lot of money, you might as well help the misfortune.~" She then looked forward to the street. "Hopefully, I see Kenzo again. Such a nice man he was." her smile faded as she tried to forget somethings...

Masami soon asked about the mission and where the party took place. She looked at the invitation and read about how it was where the meeting of the lights shine. She gazed towards that direction and walked to it. "Just follow, dear.~" She spoke genuinely towards him. She read that next they had to follow a path towards where some purple and black flowers pointed towards an alleyway. "There." she whispered and walked towards it. She spotted a hatch that went down towards a long path made of cement. The walls, the ceiling, and the floor were all cemented as she closed the door after he went in.

Once they were half there she could hear booming music. Tt opened up view of a large room once she was at the end of the hall. The area was raving in colorful lights with the smell of booze and some other things that were unknown to her. A bouncer gazed at them both which she stared back. She lifted up the paper. "O-oh, apologies Mrs." He bowed his head and let them threw. "I guess it's time to look around. Don't try any of the food or anything. I'll do that. I rather not have you get drugged accidently on my watch.~" she cared about him to that point. All she knew was that it was in the kitchen in a certain large dish or cake. Perhaps it was even in some alcohol. Kurisa had no idea.

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The intoxication of the air was overbearing to her as the alcohol could be smelt even from the top floor in which they stood. It was mainly because this was an open area like a flood gate cylinder. She gazed at Masami who she felt something was off from. It was quite odd to her, but she knew that their time was becoming to an end. How did she know? Nothing ever lasted with her anyways. It did not matter as when he decides to tell her she will let him go.

Just like with everything and everyone else in her life.

Her eyes of brown and blue researched everyone from where they stood. He was curious on why they wanted to drug everyone, but not even she knew. Kurisa did not even know what drug it was nor where it came from. "Not sure. Let's split or stay together, up to you. Either way, we should be careful while we dance and walk around." She wanted to give him a choice. She was not enslaving him, nor did she own him. She became to understand that now and maybe she does not deserve her own children. This was maybe why the gods kidnaped her children in the first place.

She went down the stairs one foot at a time and walked with Masami. This was where they will search together or separately.

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She started to space off as she was getting zoned out by the music of the area. The place was so loud that her mind just wanted to mute it all. Her eyes paid attention to Masami as his lips were moving. He moved away to which she next assumed they were going to go separate like the Scooby-Doo gang. It did not last long at all as she saw him come back after she herself stood there for a few minutes. "No, we should just be looking around for anything suspicious, but now that you're coming with me..." she paused a bit and giggled while her eyes wandered the area. "Might as well watch each other's backs.".

She felt happy that her adoptive son was coming with her through all of this. It was a nice adventure through thick and thin. Kurisa started to walk while listening to Masami talk about how he did not want any guy taking off with her. Made sense to her since most men do that towards women who they find attractive. She gave it a nod and went on longer with him. The people danced like crazy as the music boomed the whole area. Techno with lyrics of Joyan. She only understood some of it at this point and time. She went towards the bar and gazed at the man. "I'd like your best fruitiest drink," she asked and paid for it. He nodded and made it in front of her. Her eyes paid attention to what he was exactly doing. Everything seemed normal. The vodka, pineapple juice, freckles of coconut, shreds of strawberry and Mangos, and then a slash of rum. She nodded and took it. Walking away with Masami she sighed, "Well, the bar checks out fine." She spoke loud enough for him to hear, but not anyone else.

Where could it be? She walked towards the food area, which to her was the most obvious place other than the alcoholic drinks. She licked her lips as the place was starting to get dry. Suddenly she was bumped into by a server. "O-oh, I apologize." She bowed her head with an empty serving tray except, for one thing, a lotus-shaped cookie. It looked as thin like an actual flower, but it smelled sweet. Swiftly she served it to some random man who wanted it. Her head shook and went towards the food anyways, ignoring the situation.

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Masami pointed out the lotus flower as she wondered if he perhaps thought of something, but she felt like maybe the buffet table will have those flowers on it anyways. Sadly enough they were not on the table. Were they especially served? Her eyes gazed around as she turned away from the table. She saw some people who were topless, some people wore clothes that belonged decades ago. Kurisa was curious as to if these flowers were like the tales of the lotus-eaters. In Seven they had many mythological figures and they were one of them. She looked for the kitchen and opened the door that was flimsy.

She spotted the flowers as behind the door the kitchen staff were non-human. "So, that's what was happening," she spoke in Sevenese. Her head tilted and giggled swaying her hand. "Leave immediately and I won't drown you like Posiden's wrath would." She told him as they ran off. Before they left one of them pointed out the drill to release the sprinklers. "Masami, go ahead and pull that for me.~" As soon as Masami pulled it she heard the drill alarm go off. Slowly, she opened the door to see that people were coming out of their senses. Once they were done, they went home while the Guards raided the place clean.

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