"I'd say it's nice to meet you but in a place like this, getting chummy with a person you could potentially be paired up within a battle to the death isn't ideal."
'This woman knows her game' Sion thought as she finally passed Sion. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail, 'a nice shade of orange- almost like a red, kinda looks like fire'.
>> Average <<
'Wow 02, are you jealous?' Sion egged on only to feel a slight pulse of electricity through his body.
'Hang on! I did my daily tasks today! You can't do that' Sion curled his fists in irritation as a satisfied 'heh' from 02 annoyed him.
"Hello in there" he hadn't forgotten she was there, he ignored her to be exact. Her hair was the only interesting feature. The rest was quite boring, she was like the other women he'd see at Franes's modeling arena. "Man you really are a strange one-" stopping she observed Sion build and then took a slight sniff of the air as if trying to place his smell. 'What kind of smell is that?' She asked herself as he mind couldn't put two and two together because Sion's smell just wasn't there? If he was human she would know- but this smell was just, nothing.
'He's got no smell?' Thinking for a second she sighed, her curiosity will be the death of her it would seem as she stuck out her hand. "I'm not normally one to make friends in a place like this as said before but you intrigue me- what's your name?"
Should he trust her? No better question could he? This woman was different too-
>> Female, 34,
Second Gender: phantom <<
'A phantom, what kind of animal… no what even would that be?' It seemed like he was just finding new creatures as he progressed… but that's not all, 'the nation's clearly spoke about our second genders to be based off of the Chinese zodiac, I know there were a few mythical individuals and more to be discovered. However' looking at her hand Sion put his forward and finally shook it. 'Have the nation's been hiding the full extent of a Second gender? Could there possibly be an individual out there with a monster as a second gender?'
"Sho Night" he would use his fake identity to help in this situation, he needed to build on his foundation before coming clean or rather cleaning the filth up.
Walking across an interesting glass floor this part of the night cage seemed exclusive as the woman Sion came to know as Zara sat down with him in their own booth to the back. Twirling the straw with her finger it was like this woman was at war from an outside perspective. "Ah, I just can't help it" she finally caved in as Sion simply sat there confused at her outburst.
"What are you Sho?" She seemed to have an air change of curiosity to down right serious intent on knowing what Sion was. "You see I have a really good sense of someone" her finger that had earlier been twirling the straw came to tap her nose as Sion watched the motion carefully.
Sion had heard old folk tales about phantoms as the soul collectors of humans that were in debt, they were controlled or selected by a reaper to fulfil their duties. But never had he heard the had noses, 'no phantoms never had noses' but what they did have was a good outline of ones soul.
>> This lower life form cannot detect your soul due to your title <<
'My title?'
>> As the king of dominance, one cannot read a king <<
'An ultimate poker face' Sion concluded as the woman Zara waited patiently for an answer that seemed to be taking it's time. Question was though, was an unserviced phantom a safe entity to tell one's truth too?
>> this person doesn't have a soul <<
'Wait, what!?' Sion's mind was instantly flooded with his own questions on what she was rather than what he was. 'The nation's must have lied about somethings, sure I'll say that they weren't totally wrong with the guidelines of the Chinese zodiac and a few exclusive beings. But this, a woman with no soul?'
>> This person is dead, however her second gender (lower life form) is keeping her alive <<
'But how? How was a being that was supposed to be the other half of one's soul being the soul entirely?'
>> More secrets <<
"You going to answer me Mr Night?" Zara spoke after a good minute of silence.
"Actually, if you're going to ask me that, shouldn't you tell me what you are as well?" Now that he thought about, this woman had no real distinguishing smell. It was like smelling a human but with some other things mixed in that wouldn't make sense. It seemed she had some sort of perfume that made one think she was human, 'so in the end she might have smelled of the dead given she has no smell'.
'02 why didn't you tell me before?'
>> You seemed to be in a trance with her hair that was very average <<
Feeling slight annoyance once again Sion observed Zara, she seemed quite calm with Sion's question as she once again sighed.
"If you must know, I'm not entirely sure" 'I'm not even lying to him. Although I have a brief understanding of my powers, what or even who I am at this point would be hard to find out when the nation is literally trying to kidnap me every chance they get'
"You really don't know?" Sion asked again even though he could tell she wasn't lying, it was just hard to understand how one could not know.
"Nope but if you know of a being who can shift through walls and steal someone's energy away just by touching them do tell me your thoughts" 'instant debuff' Sion's eyes widened, 'not only that but the ability to go through objects?'
"Oh I can also enter people's bodies and minds~" Zara wasn't at all interested in Sion as a woman, in fact she swung for her own gender at that. But she had been an idiot, she could of entered his body and had her answer in no time at all. But here she was wasting her time with this guy in hopes she'd get her answer willingly by him.
Slowly Zara reached towards him and as if realising her intentions Sion simply spoke "stop" as as warning with enough menacing energy that made Zara hallucinate her very own death. She froze midway of touching Sion in absolute fear, sweat profusely dripped down her face as she made eye contact with not Sion but rather something much bigger.
"Death" she managed to utter before passing out.
'Shit did I over do it?!' Sion immediately looked around in panic even though he already knew no one was there.
>> Why'd you look around? You know no one is here <<
'It's habit okay?' Sion defended himself as he grabbed Zara's body and flung it over his shoulder before jumping effortlessly up and onto another platform before doing that a few more times to get out of the night cage without being noticed. (Night cage is essentially an open cage arena that you can see fights in by looking down from above. So Sion can easily jump out.)
>> You do know you have a skill called vanish <<
'You know I'm really missing the old you. You know the one who didn't make snarky comments'