Lucielle's smile nearly caused the agent to drop his tablet while also causing his heart to skip a beat but he recovered his composure as he addressed her. "Will anyone else be returning from the Gate?" Anxiety laced his voice as he stared past her towards the Gate.
Shaking her head Lucielle fixed her gaze upon the man. "No. Neither beast nor man will be coming out of that Gate. At least for now." Lucielle returned to her usual mannerisms and answered the agents question.
"Well fuck.... my report to my superiors is gonna be a drag today." Rubbing the back of his head with his free hand before returning it back to the tablet he began to tap away on it. The man was more concerned with the amount of paperwork that he would have to file at the end of the day than he was with the amount of people that had died in this Gate dive, though given the mans career choice that was to be expected.
Grunting to himself he raised his head to look at Lucielle once again before speaking. "Anyways lets get to your report so you can be on your way." Having noted down the rest of the deceased party members in his tablet the agent began to grill Lucielle for her report of the Gate.
Lucielle told what she had witnessed inside the Gate, leaving out the part where she had left the group to slaughter monsters alone and replaced it with her getting lost from the group and observing the rats as she searched for her teammates.
"The others said that you were much more powerful than you normally seem in other Gates. What did they mean by that? They even said you were seen handling a powerful flame that caused the mutated Rat King to scream out in pain and was a major contribution in why you were all able to make it out alive." The agent had a raised eyebrow towards the end of their questioning. As he was in charge of various other F rank Gates the agent had seen Lucielle dive many a time throughout the years, but never had anyone ever reported this young womans power, so after three years of having worked with her the agent had assumed she did not have a power or it was completely useless in a Gate.
"Yes, my power is related to fire but it takes quite a lot of energy to use and I was not able to practice it much outside of Gates so it has taken quite a bit of time to use it effectively." Lucielle shrugged as she stared off into the distance as the agent began to tap away on his tablet.
"Typical F rank trash..." The agent mumbled but with her newly enhanced hearing Lucielle heard it quite clearly but she remained silent as she didn't feel like getting into confrontational with the agent at this point in time. 'I'll remember that agent. Your days of looking down on me are rapidly coming to a close.'
"Well that wraps up your report so I'll be using yours as the basis for mine. This Gate will probably have a bonus thrown in since it mutated into a higher rank than what it was originally. Also since only five of the original seventeen people returned your share will be larger than normal, though over half the earning of this Gate will be sent to the families of the deceased. In half an hour you should have received your payment for this Gate." The agent rattled all of this off as he left Lucielle so she could return to the bus.
Lucielle raised an eyebrow as the agent walked away from her. 'I would have assumed he would have asked more questions than that but I guess I underestimated his laziness.' Lucielle made her way back towards the bus as Mithrial's voice rang out in her mind.
'Considering these agents make more in a month than most F and E Ranked Slayers make in a year says a lot about their work ethic Mithrial.' After picking up her things from her drop box in the belly of the bus Lucielle made her way inside and back to her usual seat. The bus, which had been packed with people and full of energy from the noisy teenagers, was now mostly empty as well as dead silent.
Stark stared at her with a hateful glare before angrily turning his face away from her. She paid him no mind as she walked past him at the front of the bus. Chris and Brian were sitting in their seat that they had shared earlier in the day. Her gaze flickered to his left arm. The limb had been reattached after he made it out of the Gate and made it back to the healer that had been on standby. Brian and Chris nodded at her as she passed them but she paid them no mind as she lowered herself down into her seat.
She didn't bother to check in on Gat as she knew if Chris managed to get patched up then he did to. She resumed her ice queen act as she felt Brians gaze on her once again. 'What does this wolf in sheeps clothing want now?' She noticed him sliding out of his seat and began to make his way over towards her much like he had tried earlier that day but unlike last time Chris didn't stop him. Watching him approach her Lucielle decided to utilize her newest skill on the boy.
Her amethyst eyes glowed brightly as a kaleidoscope of colors began to weave all around her as she dived into his tapestry of Fate. 'Woah this is like a hardcore acid trip.' She hadn't noticed that time came to stop when she activated the skill but she suddenly found herself standing in her bedroom.
"What the hell? How am I back in my room I was just on the bus?"
"Wait then why are we in my bedroom if we...." Lucielle's face scrunched up as she heard some grunting coming from her bathroom that was connected to her bedroom. "Well now I know why we're here of all places. If what i think is happening is happening this isn't going to be pretty once I go through that doorway..." Lucielle took a deep breath before walking over to the bathroom door and stepping into the steam filled room.