"W-wait, hold on, he went down there?!" Abernathy is alarmed at the news of Joerose going down to meet with Yorugiro. He pauses, then frowns at everyone else in the group. "You absolutely must not go after him. It is simply too foolish and too dangerous!"
"We can't just leave him and let him fall to the beast, though, can we?" Minako counters. "We all might not know each other so well, but we at least carry the sense to care about others in the same situation as ourselves. We're all here to explore this mansion and find out what happened here, so we have to stay together if we can help it. No one gets willingly left behind."
Abernathy blinks at Minako's short speech, and with a sigh, he tips his hat to the girl. "You really know how to fight for your cause, don't you? Fine. Perhaps, if you truly must, I can go with you. Yorugiro won't attack me."
"Why not?" Minako asks.
"...It's possible you might just find out, depending on the outcome of this." An odd smile lifts the corners of dino-Abernathy's fang-filled mouth.
"Of course we share a strong bond!" Ellysa grins in reply to Makoto.
"What do you mean, 'of course'? We're demon and angel, it's a little strange..." Renn murmurs.
"Ah, those are technical terms! What really matters is what's in the heart of the person! You could be the queen of Hell itself for all I could care, and as long as you weren't horrifically evil, and stayed the way you are now, I'd still be your companion." Ellysa ruffles the demon girl's hair playfully, making Renn blush a bit.
Minako turns to Makoto as he walks closer to her, and listens to his proposition. She nods with a small smile. "Well, considering we've got other teams here already, it looks like, that sounds like a good idea."
However, she turns to listen to what Lucas has to say, and gives him a strange look. "Rich? Well, I know I'm not rich, and last time I checked, our school was pretty good, but not filled with rich people..."
Down in the dark basement of the Lavenshade Mansion lies a sinister beast, patiently awaiting the next victim to fall beneath the floors and into his gaping jaws. Suddenly, from above, he starts to hear his name, as well as the voice of someone coming ever so close to his chamber in the basement.
"YOORRRRUUUUUUU......" The monster, previously asleep, rises onto his claws. If he weren't made completely out of darkness, dangerous glints would have dotted each of the numerous horns and spikes all along his body. He gives out a great, horrifying roar, raising his scorpion-like tail that seems to ooze with a sickly dark purple substance. His eyes and mouth light up with the red light deep within him, illuminating the dark of the basement in a pale red as well...