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[color=firebrick][b]"Am I the second or third favorite? Eh, who cares. I expect a medal with my name on it, Suki."[/b][/color][/center]
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	Kiyo met Nyxia's glare with lazily half-open eyes. [color=firebrick][b]"Oh, of course. How could I forget our most sacred duty as [i]Kurai[/i] girls to protect the innocent. We'll just have to leave Hibusa Town and... oh. We can't, because Hibusa Town is surrounded by light fuckos,"[/b][/color] she said, idly tapping her lips with a finger as though she'd just thought of that fact herself. [color=firebrick][b]"Guess we'll die then,"[/b][/color] she concluded, deadpan. Her attention shifted to Suki, but her question was interrupted when the other girls arrived.

	[color=firebrick][b]"Good day. You didn't miss much—I was just getting to the good part, about how beyond [i]fucked[/i] we are."[/b][/color] Her eyes regarded each of the other girls in turn, finally landing on Nyxia. [color=firebrick][b]"Look, I get it, you don't shit where you sleep—but they appear only when a group of people are experiencing the same intense emotion in a confined space. There's no safe way to do it. Doing it outside of Hibusa Town will just piss off more light girls, so our options are to do it here or not at all. What we need is a way to summon them on demand, at our convenience—preferably in multiple places at once, so the light girls are too preoccupied with their own problems to harass us."[/b][/color] She looked at each of them one more time before slouching even deeper into her chair and burying her face in a newspaper. [color=firebrick][b]"Or one of us goes and files a workplace safety complaint to our dear leader, the Queen of Darkness. Any takers?"[/b][/color] she asked, her voice dripping with casual sarcasm.

	She expected the others to blame her for this. After all, she was the one who somehow ended up in the one place Rei told them to never go, and now girls from the City of Light were stalking Hibusa Town's alleys like they owned the place. Why wouldn't they? It was easier than pointing the finger at themselves for blowing up a beach—with, to be fair, zero casualties. Even she had to admit that was pretty impressive. Yet, it was short sighted, but she did not blame them. Rei was the one who'd never told them about giga misera—and she wouldn't let her say she didn't know. She was the one who slowly fed them worthless scraps: the hordes that came at night. She was the one who'd allowed them to get comfortable in Hibusa Town, almost devoid of light girls. At times, it was possible to forget they even existed. Why [i]would[/i] they worry about some light girls crashing their beach vacation? No matter how she looked at it, Rei's poor leadership was to blame. Was she out of line for thinking so? Was she simply jealous of her power, fantasizing as she did of how she'd put it to better use?