Finally arriving at the park, Nero sat down on a nearby bench and watched as Alex ran off to go play with some of the other children.

Alex hopped into the sandbox first, picked up a rock that was thrown in there with some others, then ran off to the other side of the sandbox to start digging a fort for it. He started talking to a few other children who came over after a little while, and they started a game together. Several minutes later, a few of the children had to leave, and he waved goodbye to them before running off to find something else to do. Eventually, he wandered over to the monkey bars, but saw that someone was there already. "Hi mister! What are you doing up there?"

-"I mean what do you do here? Nevermind....So what's your job, not to be rude or anything."

Koshi smiled. He looked at the shelf and put his book down.

-"Bounty Hunter, you can find some jobs in the Police Station. I'm a Detective in the Police Department."

Koshi looked at his book and put it down. This was the first time he met a Bounty Hunter.

Mikota in class

Mikota listened to her history lesson about the village and the tale of the hearts.
Fueled by Love, Hate, Lust, Envy, Rage and other powerful emotions these jewels tapped into arcane energies and imparted them to a Neko companion. These energies varied from person to person and were a reflection of the human's deep emotional state.

This caused Mikota to wonder about herself as she'd manifested a jewel heart several weeks ago and it frightened her.
She'd named it Firestorm because when she first looked into it she'd seen what looked like the surface of the sun.


Was she internally angry; or was it something else?
It was puzzling and she knew she should likely talk to someone older an more knowledgeable but she was embarrassed.
What if it weren't anger but seamier emotions? She didn't feel as if she were a wanton desiring without limits the more primal nature of physical contact.

"What else could fire symbolize?"
Such thoughts and their distracting nature was the reason her instructor pegged her on top of the head as she stared out the schoolroom window.

"Miss Tanaka you are the last student I'd suspect of having spring fever, please try and refrain from daydreaming till after class if you would" says the instructor as she walks back to the front of the classm

Mikota turns a deep scarlet and wishes she could crawl into the top of her desk an hide as the class stares at her some laughing.

Library
At the arrival of the new white haired neko, Hyperion stiffened. He was never too good with handling more than one individiual at a time- neko or otherwise- and simply froze. His ears twitching in nervousness, he decided to speak up. "Uhm," he said, trying to reach into his inner socialite, "Well, I guess, since mister here is a detective, he can lead you to the police station instead of me, right, Taylor?" He, in his five second panic attack, had failed to hear what the other neko's name was, and instead chose silence. Hyperion reached once more for his fairytale book, pressing it closely to himself, as though shielding his body.

Park
Argo hung upside down from the monkey bars when his face almost collided with a small red head of a neko. "Woah-" he exclaimed in shock as he did his best to avoid collission. The little thing was puny and looked like it would break with any sort of contact. "What- huh?" he paused when the kid asked him a question. "What am I doing here...? Well..." Argo looked up at his hanging legs, pulling himself upwards to grab the bars with his hands, letting his legs free- making sure to avoid the little kid- dangling from the bars- "...I'm sort of just hanging. You wanna try?" He chuckled to himself at his clever quip, figuratively patting himself on the back.

Silvia listened to the lecture taking down notes. She was slightly more calm at the implications of a gem representing a heart and the binding of a collar to the Neko. Her own stone was a silver flower with red. She believed it to represent a element or blood. She never understood what the silver ment. She associated it with moonlight or just light.

She saw the teacher call Mikota out but unlike the rest of the class she was not laughing and just gave all the students a cold glare as if to say leave her alone. She did not like it when others were ridiculed and she owed her one ..If Mikota had helped her out.

-"Alright then, from the library you take a right at the first street, then a right again and you'll get to the Police Station..and there you have it..." Koshi said.

Koshi grabbed his book and walked towards the Librarian and checked out the Mythology book.

-"..."

Alex lifted his hands into the air and grinned in response to the strange man's question. "Yeah! That looks fun!" He had seen bigger kids playing on this structure before, and he wanted to learn how, too. It was always so big, though, he still had trouble trying to climb it on his own. Maybe it would be easier when his claws grew in...

In the cafe Zanita was making pancakes, tea, and some hash browns. The morning rush was over, and they had been very busy. She was making her own breakfast, allowed to do so by the manager. After finishing her meal she went and sat at the nearest table. Poring syrup and powdered sugar over her pancakes, and salt on her hash browns. As she ate she looked around, shrugging after a while and simple relaxing.

Library
"Oh uhm," Hyperion paused a bit, waiting for the conversation between the detective and the bounty hunter to end, his hold on the book moving from over his chest to over his mouth. She was so cool, they way she spoke, that Hyperion wondered how he'd managed to talk to her alone in the first place. "I'm fine," he finally said with a small smile, his ears relaxing apologetically outwards, his tail twitching with worry, "I'm just... when I'm off work, I find people a bit hard to work with." He looked up from the detective that had walked away after saying directions, speaking in a low whisper-
"Uhm, did you get all that...? Or do you still need help actually getting there...?" It was a sweet offer, especially considering this wasn't the first human he'd helped around town and with that in mind, he knew full well that there were sometimes humans that got lost no matter how detailed a direction they got.

Park
"Okay!" Argo cheered as he let go of the monkey bars, easily landing on the ground. Given that he was a full blown adult and the bars were for kids, he only had to risk his life over a simple half inch and thus, managed to barely survive. "Come on, then," said the dark haired man as he reached for the small neko- oh geez these little guys were cute and soft- raising him high so he could reach one of the bars.
"Okay, now just hold on tight, and try to swing around to the next bar," he commented, before pausing and releasing a small giggle. Argo had just thought of the small thing dangling on the bars using his tail and found it absolutely silly, pausing to put on a face of uber seriousness when he wondered if that was actually a possible thing. His hand reached to carress his heart jewel wrapped around his neck, making a mental note to ask his neko the question- that is, if he ever got one.

"Yay!" Alex cheered and giggled when the tall human picked him up, excited to try hanging on the monkey bars. Grasping onto the first bar he came to, he gripped tightly, not wanting to fall now that he was actually up there. He looked down at the ground briefly, marveling at how high he was before flicking his tail and kicking his legs a bit to start swinging. It took a little while to actually get some momentum built up, but soon he was swinging pretty happily. Now what? Um...the man said to get to the next bar, right? He looked toward the bar in front of him. How would he get to it if his hands were already on this one? He looked back at the tall human. "How do I reach the next one? I don't think I can catch it with my feet."

Park
"Hm?" Argo hummed as his head wandered back to reality, with the small neko swinging back and forth. A laugh escaped his lips as he turned and showed with his hands grabbing on imaginary bars, saying, "Just let a hand go and reeeach for the next one! You can do it!" After his explanation, he reached his arms out under the red neko, humming, "And don't worry, don't worry, I'll catch you if you fall!"
Probably. Argo was a decent enough human that he wouldn't just watch a kid fall and injure himself. What kind of sick person would enjoy harming other living creatures? Gross.

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Alex looked back up at the next bar. It was a little far, but maybe he could just reach it. He really didn't want to fall, though, so it took a moment for him to get the courage to move one of his hands. Still swinging, he let go with one hand, stretching out his arm to catch the next bar...oops.
His other hand started to slip, apparently unable to hold on for long on its own. He let out a surprised mew as he tried to grab on to something with his other hand.

Nero looked up, ears swiveling to catch a familiar sound. "Alex?" Turning from the odd scene a ways away of another child saying something to his parents about a bird in the sandbox, he could see the little neko on the monkey bars. Someone was standing there with him, but that sound had still made Nero nervous. He stood up and rushed over to make sure he was okay. "Alex!"

Library
"Okay," nodded Hyperion, offering a relaxed smile as he waved a hand and headed for the door. In the middle of it, he realized he was still holding onto his book, looking around to make sure the librarians weren't looking before placing it at a random table. Last thing he wanted was to panic should a librarian yell at him for putting his books away. The dark haired neko immediately made his way towards the door, heading out of it and being blasted by sudden warmth.
"It's just two corners away from here," he mentioned to the bounty hunter, a hand raised to point at the direction they were heading to. "Ano, if you don't mind me asking... why a bounty hunter...?" Surely there were other jobs in the market? Jobs that... you know... were available anywhere...? That's not to say bounty hunters weren't needed in this town, or anything but- Hyperion raised a hand to his mouth mid walk to make sure his mouth was closed. Good. He didn't want to embarrass himself anymore with his ramblings.

Park
Of course Argo caught the little thing.
Sure he laughed a bit at the gurgled mew that left the little redhead's lips when it slipped, but his hand reached out nonetheless. Argo grabbed hold of the neko's arm- probably not something you should be grabbing when someone is falling- the neko dangling when his fall was suddenly stopped. Wrapping another arm around the child, Argo smiled, his dark hair falling over his dark eyes, singing playfully, "Almost, almost~" Releasing the neko's arm, Argo patted it's red hair gently, continuing in his sing songy voice, "Wanna try again?"