The Midnight Prince

[Rokag]

Huh....that's not it, probably, but this seems weird. Rokag wasn't sure what being a virgin had to do with training, but this was sounding pretty bad. She turned towards Shisou. "Hey, do you know a Madam Beaver?"

[Shisou]

Shisou thinks for a moment, about to deny it, but then he nods. "B-b-b-brothel o-o-o-o-wner o-on the m-m-m-m-mainland."

[Rokag]

Huh! Didn't think he'd know a bro- Brothel Owner!? "Oh shit. I...you should probably read this." Rokag shakes her head. She wasn't going to think about that. She CAN'T right now. She needed to find that ritual

[GamesMaster]

The next couple pages down are menacing notes Indou has penned to various people, demanding repayment of debts; however, tucked into the corner is a scroll case, and pulling it out, Rokag can see what appears to be a sceleratis-summoning ritual with illustrations involving a bound and gagged woman. That's probably it. 

[Rokag]

Rokag paled a little. "I...think this is it." She suddenly felt a little queezy, especially after seeing other...parts of the illustrations. The fuck is wrong with that guy that you'd USE this!

[Shisou]

"G-g-g-g-g-good." Shisou slips the other letter into his pocket. "L-l-l-let's g-g-g-g-g-go."

[Rokag]

Rokag frowned a little. "Should we just...not leave anything in it's place?" Or set fire to this fucking room entirely?

[Shisou]

Shisou shrugs. "Y-y-y-you b-b-broke the dr-dr-dr-aw-wer. H-he w-w-w-will kn-kn-know s-s-s-someone w-w-was h-h-here."

[Rokag]

"Fuck....fair, yeah, let's just go." Rokag seemed a little...more agitated than usual, but started heading for the door

[GamesMaster]

The pair of them make a short stop at the kitchen for matches, then burn the papers in the trashcan in Shisou's room before turning in for bed. 

The next day, Indou goes on a tear. No sooner does he spy Shisou at lunch than he unloads on him, screaming at him: "How DARE you enter MY OFFICE!" he demands. "Where are the things you stole?!"

Shisou barely has time to stutter an answer before Indou grabs him by the collar, yanking him toward the living room and bending him over the arm of the sofa. Then he grabs the poker for the fireplace, raising it to slam into Shisou's bottom, causing the boy to yelp with pain. 

Tsuki snarls, stalking toward her stepfather with murder in her eyes. 

[Rokag]

Rokag wasn't far behind her, but she put a hand barely on Tsuki's arm. Tho her palm was cool to the touch and she was gritting her teeth pretty hard.

[GamesMaster]

Tsuki turns a snarl on Rokag, but the reminder's enough for her to pause, to fall back. Indou strikes Shisou again and again with the poker, snarling about "Stealing my property" before demanding to know, "Where IS it?!" 

"I dd-d-d-d-don't kn-kn-know--"

"WHERE IS IT?!" he snarls, picking Shisou up by the scruff of the neck again and throwing him across the room, where he slams into the wall and crumples in a sobbing heap. 

"That's ENOUGH," snarls Tsuki, lunging forward again. 

[Rokag]

She wasn't going to hold her back at that point, but she was trying to think. She hated the man. She had from day one, honestly. She couldn't just let him go. But he's the head of the family and one of the Eels. You KNOW they're almost everywhere on the shore and even in some places here. Still, Shisou was hurt and Tsuki was about to make THAT decision for her.

[GamesMaster]

Indou turns, lifting the poker, and Tsuki ends up impaled on it; she pulls back, snarling, her hands twisting into furred claws as she lunges forward, aiming to disembowel him. 

[Rokag]

Rokag rushes to try and pull Tsuki back, partually out of fear of Indou killing her, and partially to try and keep Tsuki from bleeding out, thos part of her mind does pick up on her having fucking CLAWS now?!