-Break-Location: Cursed Sea District of Căderea-draculuiΦLooking at the man who looks like heaps of flabby mud plunked over themselves again and again till it forms a human body, Iancu, Willow, and Maple's minds try to understand why Suzuka is saying, "Everything will be ok. Don't cry."His eyes cannot be seen due to the flabby flesh protruding far away from his actual eyeballs, so all one can see on his face are two dark caves instead of eyes. Yet despite that, the volume of his tears is so great that they rush through the caves, pouring down his face.Sniffing a bit, the man calms his body down and then says, "Thank you for your kindness."Turning to everyone, he says, "My name is Ilus and I am sorry for my actions earlier, it is just, it is just."Ilus starts to sniff, and then he grabs his face, saying, "Oh god, I can't even speak properly. WHY AM I EVEN ALIVE!"Under his breath, Iancu says, "Dramatic.""Don't be mean, Iancu!"Iancu clicks his tongue, and Willow walks forward, s

Walking into a room full of cobwebs and dust over a slew of items, many of which have rather peculiar shapes. Walking around, I say, "It's pretty dusty.""Yeah, I guess no one has come by to clean it since I have been gone. Captivant was doing it for me, and I thought his daughter-in-law Liina would start doing it after he went to Fimbulwinter."Examining the insides of the room, I say, "You can't just expect things like that to be done for you. It's common courtesy to ask.""But you'd do it if it were you.""Of course I would, but that is neither here nor there."Stretching out my hand a touch one of the many objects in the room, and as I do, a loud noise comes out from it, and I jump back in fright and say, "ARGH!"Avram starts to laugh, and I say, "That isn't funny!"As a nursery rhyme plays from the machine, Avram says, "It really is. Not even a child would get upset over that.""Shut up!"Walking up to the machine, Avram says, "I made this to calm down Intrare when she was born.

-Break-Hugging Iancu from behind, Orb rubs his head and says, "Now that sounds like a pickle.""LET GO OF ME!" Iancu says while elbowing Orb in the stomach.Holding his stomach in pain, Orb says, "Iancu, you're so prickly today, what's wrong. Do you need more hugs?"Iancu steps on Orb's face, and Ilus turns to Suzuka and says, "Are you sure he can help me?""Despite how he looks, he works wonders."Grabbing Iancu's feet, Orb quickly removes his shoe and starts tickling Iancu's foot, making him fall to the floor, and as he does, he says, "Now look at that smile, it seems someone is happy."Still under the pressure of Orb tickling him, Iancu pulls back his foot and tries to kick Orb, but his accuracy is all but non-existent. Turning his face to Ilus, Orb says, "Was the smell always this bad?""It wasn't that bad when I was younger, but as I have aged, it has smelled worse and worse. Curses at the end of the day are physical changes, unlike spirit energy; the strength and power of a cur

As the doors behind us open, I hear Dragoste's voice say, "No, don't be embarrassed, continue on."Turning my head, to him I say, "PLEASE FORGET WHAT YOU HEARD!"He giggles a bit and then says, "Don't worry. It's fine, continue on."The maid beside me says, "Dragoste, it isn't nice to bully children like this?""I know, I know. I just wanted to make him smile a bit after how bad our first meeting was.""It wasn't bad, it was an understandable reaction."Placing his hand on my head, Dragoste says, "No, it was far too brash, especially for someone who has done so much for my mother and father. Please accept my apology and my gift.""Gift?"Turning to the maid, he says, "Sorina, is everything ready?""Of course, we are always on time. Unlike our master, who constantly arrives hours after he specifies."Dragoste makes a slightly embarrassed face before coughing and says, "Let's move to the dining hall."-Break-Φ In a large decorative room, Orb sits on a small table with Dragoste on the o

-Break-Looking over a desk full of cursed weapons with a smile on my face, I say, "There really is so much you can do with nightmare body parts; it is unreal. But more than that, the discovery of crystallised spirit energy is something I never thought would exist.""Despite spirit energy being a source of power we have next to unlimited amounts of we could never turn it into a source of power to utilize, the closest with ever got was the presence of spirit in Seirei, but that only happened due to a special series of events, it's not something that can be reproduced enmass," Dragoste says with joy in his eyes.Stopping for a moment, I say, "In the past, there have been many different devices that people wonder how they worked, especially how they were powered. Do you think that crystallised spirit energy played a role?""That's a thought you and many others in the past two millennia have had, but due to no proof existing, we were never able to make it move any further than just being