Kaori smiled hearing Mary but it faded as he was pulled down; Kaori listened to Mary as she explained who the other woman was nodding when he heard it was her sister. He blinked a few times but grinned happy to meet more of Mera's family, he wondered if he could do a family painting at one point but he decided to focus on Mera before expanding further. He sighed and closed his eyes as Raina explained what was going on, when he was traveling by himself he didn't encounter anything like this, he started to wonder if it was bad luck to hang around Larel. It couldn't possibly be Mera, Mary's or Alari's fault, Hotaru maybe but definitely not Mera.
He was interested to hear about the elves though, Alari had told him what little he knew about it after he heard the conversation in the forest while serving as Zenmaru's seat, most of what Alari told him came from what he heard from everyone else though.
"I may want to avoid getting possessed then...I'm pretty sure Larel wouldn't hesitate to cut me down," Kaori mumbled.
He looked at Mary as she talked about Raina's skills and nodded in agreement making sure to keep low, he could kind of understand that a bit, though she at least had other talents to rely on.
"That's an impressive feat, I'm personally quite proud of my ability to hide and run...though I suppose that's different then her skills," Kaori said with a small smile.
When Mary leaned closer Kaori nodded and held up a finger as he recalled the message Alari asked him to deliver.
"Oji-san told me to tell you," Kaori began speaking quietly but loud enough for Mary to hear. "Mary by time you receive this message I'll have reached Mera, I'm positive Larel will meet me there as well since I sent him out ahead when a bad feeling hit me. I'm going to have Larel get Mera as far away as possible when we meet, in her current state fighting might not be the best and knowing our luck she'll probably be in trouble by time we meet. I'll make sure Mera see's you again so make sure to take care of yourself, I promise to return the last thing I need is Kaori whining because I got myself killed."
Kaori nodded his head at this as it was true before he continued.
"I'm not sure what I'm going to run into but judging by this feeling it's probably not going to be easy to get past especially if it's your father, If this is the case I'll have to vanish once all this is over. I'm telling you this because I may not have time to tell the others and Kaori will be hiding, I'll make sure Mera's safe before that happens though. Take care of yourself and-"
Kaori cut himself off before reaching forward and ruffling Mary's hair as Alari had requested him to do.
"Stay out of trouble,"
Kaori turned his attention forward again before smiling a little.
"Oji-san is smart so I'm sure he'll do it, so we have to do our best since he's doing this best."

Larel nodded and got ready to advance hearing her words, avoid killing him if possible that he would be able to do, however at the mention of Sybil being back in Hotaru Larel grit his teeth and his grip on his sword tightened. At the mention of her he feared that but he didn't want to believe it was possible, Zenmaru on the other hand was losing it in his mind. He could hear her laughter reverberating through his skull and it just fed his anger more.
Hearing Sybil's voice Larel's eyes widened and Alari's hand closed into a fist before he noticed the look on Mera's face, he looked back at Thanos to see Mera get dropped in the hole, his eyes narrowed and he flexed his hand before he spoke to Larel who seemed seconds away from rushing forward.
"Larel remember your sneak attack in Kyushu, I think it's time you recreated the end of that," Alari said.
Larel actually flinched at the mention of it but he looked at Alari as he snapped his fingers causing two of the lines to vanish from Larel's seal. They both knew taking on the two of them at the same time was a bad idea, especially if they had to hold back which Larel wouldn't be able to avoid in Hotaru's case.
Larel grit his teeth and building darkness into his hand slammed onto the ground, at this Alari rushed towards Thanos to give him his opening.
He wasn't pleased Alari knew so much about this darkness but it actually came in handy in his moment, whenever he used his dark spikes he never used the darkness on the surface as he couldn't extend it far enough to be effective, he just manipulated the lack of light under the earth to force the darkness up, except this time he wasn't creating spikes.
Larel moved the darkness under Mera and once he surrounded her lower half with it, the darkness flowed out of the earth where her top was poking, Larel quickly expanded the darkness forcing the earth apart, the moment it opened he grabbed Mera from under both her arms and jumped away wrapping his arm around her waist with an apology as they moved away from the scene.
Alari on other hand slammed his foot down and threw a low punch towards Thanos's stomach before getting ready to shift his stance to uppercut him afterwards, he couldn't afford to give him distance or he'd just pursue them. Once Sybil got out he wasn't sure he'd be able to stop her and hold off Thanos so he hoped Larel would get far enough away.
While Larel flew back threw the air with Mera he spoke to her as Alari got further and further away.
"I had to abandon my master during a rescue mission in Kyushu because we got found out, I realized I could used the darkness in the earth then. He intends on buying us time, much as I loathe the idea I know I can't take on Sybil seriously if she reaches us."
Larel landed a few houses away and set Mera down before looking over at her.
"In Hotaru's body it's not going to take Sybil long to close this distance though that goes without saying, and I'm not sure how long he can hold off your brother so we should hurry and get that blood. Can you run Mera-sama?"