”My, aren’t you helpful.” Luna said, suspicious of this assasin’s words. Rather than the silence she gave at the beginning, the woman was now being quite chatty.
”Obviously threats don’t phase you. I’ll try something else then. Ahem, now that you decide to speak, perhaps you’d introduce yourself?”Instead of speaking again, the girl simply looked at Luna. It was followed a few seconds later by a nonchalant shrug and quiet hum.
”Unwilling to answer? Or perhaps unable. The stark contrast is odd.” This was a world of magic after all. If the teacher Lindall was able to create an army of dolls, it wasn’t farfetched there was magic that would keep someone silent. Of course, there was the more obvious idea that this girl held her tongue. Luna put her hand to her chin to ponder how to get this person to speak.
”I’d prefer not to torture. What would make you talk?” The Knightess asked her captive. Back home, bandits fell easily to threats. Tell them that their lives would be forfeit lest they talked usually worked. This girl didn’t seem to have a worry about her life.
As soon as the word ‘torture’ left Luna’s lips, the girl seemed to lean forward slightly, tilting her head innocently to the side again before speaking.
“Maybe…tighten the ropes? I’m a bad little nin-nin, yep.””. . .” Luna’s eyes went almost dead. Why the hell was this girl so insistent on that subject?
”You are quite the queer woman. Why do you keep suggesting that?”“Because I’m a bad little ninja and need to be punished?” She said with an entirely too straight of a face.
Luna gave the woman an odd look but, out of curiosity, kneeled down and slowly tightened the rope binding her leg to the chair.
”A Nin-ja?”As the rope was tightened once again, the girl let out an excited breath.
“I-it’s what I am. W-warriors who move in shadow with speed and precision. Also gather information.” Her voice carried a hint of excitement to it. She gave Luna a somewhat expectant seeming look as she answered the question.
Luna felt a wave of disgust going through her body.
”Y-you’re some sort of deviant.” Still, to Luna’s chagrin, she was getting information out of her. Was buying into this woman’s fetish a fair trade for her talking.
”Fine, who are you?” Luna asked as she slowly started to tighten the other bind. This felt wrong.
“A-ayumi!” She replied, a small shiver of excitement.
“I-I work for the temple on the mountain.”The temple on the mountain. That was their target. Luna wondered what that meant. Rather than slowly, she tightened the rope with much of her strength.
Damnit, if I’m going to be tortured by this fetish of hers, I’ll make sure it’s over quick. Luna could only wonder to herself how she was always put together with the weird ones.
”Why were you sent here?”“T-to observe!” This ‘Ayumi’ quickly replied, though she made no mention of being sent to kill.
”If you were observing, then why were you going to kill Selvina?” Luna just tightened the other bind on her leg again, considering she left it still. . . Well, tightenable.
“I-I was bored~” She replied, as a small squeal of delight left her lips.
“L-like I said, Ayumi is a bad little nin-nin and deserves to be,” A squeal interrupted her words as she continued.
“P-puni~shed!” She turned her head to Luna, eyes seemingly almost pleading for more.
“I-I deserve to have more ropes, yes?~””This is hardly a punishment for you. I also see no more questions to ask you currently.” Luna said, almost happy she needn’t do any more of this. Still, maybe there were unknown factors outside that. Technically she could ask the ‘Ninja’ of the temples set up, defenses, and other things. Still, she had a better idea.
”Unless you have things you’d rather tell me?”“W-what else would you want to know?” She asked, breathing a bit heavily.
“These ropes aren’t tight enough for me to think clearly, so I dunno how much help this little ninja will be~””These ropes are as tight as they’ll go!”“Then add more?~” She replied, before wiggling a bit, and a sudden look of inspiration overcame her.
“…If you don’t think restraint is good enough punishment, A good whipping is always appropriate punishment!~”Luna felt annoyed at the idea of whipping.
”Fine, you want your additional rope? Have it.” Well, it was the same rope, but she definitely had more length on it so she just wrapped it around the ninja’s stomach, made the knot and tightened it. Pretty hard. Luna was sure of two things. The first was that this was whatever her captive wanted. The second was that she would never live this down for her life.
As soon as the rope was tightened, Ayumi’s entire body seemed to tense as she shuddered with excitement simply from having the rope tied around her and forcibly tightened to what most would consider to be uncomfortable levels.
“A-aa!~” Ayumi squirmed in her seat with an almost too pleased look.
“I-I can get you into the temple, mistress, if that’s what you want, ehehh~” She giggled, smiling in a somewhat dopey, manner.
“L-lady Dawa trusts me completely, hehe~” Still breathing heavily though, she looked to Luna.
“U-unless my captor wants to know more?~””How am I suppose to trust you? As far as I know, you’re here to kill
Selvina since you chose hi-- Her, specifically.” Luna said, taking a step back.
”If you can’t answer this, then you can’t expect me to do anything else.”“I didn’t choose anyone specifically!” She replied, body relaxing as much as it could within the confines of the ropes.
“I-I can tell you about the fox and what’s going on, honest.~” She didn’t seem to be lying, at least.
“A-and if I wanted her dead I could have easily done i-it, heh~”Well, Luna couldn’t deny the last part. There were plenty of chances to rid herself of Selvina. That said,
”Fox? Do tell. . .”“W-well,” She stared.
“The seal is weakening for one and it’s the cause of everything that’s happening here. We’ve been trying to contain it, but it reeeeally wants out. Lady Dawa forbids anyone from coming to the temple since it starting acting up after a foreigner visited, but the shrine maidens and exorcists are only able to slow the seals decay.” She gave Luna a slightly hopeful look as she spoke. It was obvious she wanted either more ropes or some other form of punishment.
She probably had more to say didn’t she? Luna sighed, she knew what needed to be done to get the girl to talk. She really didn’t want to, but it had to be done. . . Didn’t it? Luna just tightened the strap of rope on the girl’s stomach. That one could still go a bit. . .
”I’m never going to live this down I don--” Luna heard the door to the house open and she saw Eith standing there carrying Selvina. . .
”Eh? Swordwoman?”The two looked at each other for a good long while until Luna tried to defend herself.
”Oh, Eith. . . It’s not. . . What you might think . . .”Between the definite look of pleasure on the would-be assassin’s face and Luna pulling the ropes tight, the Shellagh could only think one thing.
”Weird Fetish? I don’t want to be involved.”As soon as Eith opened the door, the would be assassin’s eyes widened slightly before giggling in a pleased manner.
“Exhibitionism is good too!”The Dog-Girl quickly left with a face that was trying its best to ignore the current reality. Luna felt wholly defeated.
”Now she’s going to think I’m some kind of weird person.” Luna swung her arms back and one accidently hit the ninja.
”Oh, sorry. . .” Luna habitually said.
As Luna’s arm accidentally swung around and smacked the ninja in the head, it had the result one might expect. Ayumi’s head lolled to the side, hanging over the back of the chair with a blissful expression that was the exact opposite of the situation she was in.
Oh.
She also seemed to be completely knocked out for the moment too.
”But I didn’t even hit her that hard. . .” Luna muttered to herself, considering what to do. Regardless, she needed to set-up a watch so such an incident wouldn’t happen again.
The rest of the night happened without incident. The Elder had woken halfway through the commotion, and so did a number of villagers. After making sure that the people wouldn't take action against the outsiders for presumed involvement in something, he walked back inside more than a little tired looking. Still, he made sure to ask if the group of foreigners if they were alright, and offered aid if any of them had been injured. Lyssa simply asked for a hug, and while the Elder was a bit confused granted her request.
The next morning came Swiftly, Lyssa was one of the first ones awake - she hadn't slept all that well. With a yawn she walked out of the house, and onto the front porch.
Meanwhile, the assassin was busy...squirming in her bonds.
"H-hellloooo?~" She called out from the room she had been tied up in.
"I need to go to the little ninja's room!~" With a slight giggle, she continued.
"Or you could keep me tied up. That's fine too, hehe~"Curious about who was making the noise, the demon walked towards the sound of the voice and poked her head into the room. It was the assailant from last night. She was...tied up pretty good from the looks of it, yep. Not that an adorable, innocent, little demon like her would know about such things but she looked fairly happy with her predicament. Ayumi noticed Lyssa not seconds after she poked her head in.
"Heya!" The ninja greeted cheerfully.
"You wouldn't happen to have seen a blond woman with a fetish for tying people up around here, would you? Not that I mind, heh~" Lyssa blinked, but couldn't help but to giggle slightly.
"You mean Luna?" Lyssa asked, walking into the room and taking a few steps towards Ayumi.
"That her name? She was too busy playing with me to mention it.""Hehe, I didn't know Luna was into this sort of thing." Lyssa giggled.
"Maybe I'll ask her to tie me up sometime." Well, last night might have been less than stellar, but right now? Well, it was pretty good. For someone who apparently tried to kill them last night, Ayumi seemed perfectly friendly.
"Oho?~" Ayumi looked at Lyssa with a tilt of her head.
"I'd like to watch if that happens, buuut...erm, mind letting me out? I gotta use the little nin-nin's room. Promise I won't bite. Or do stabby things." Lyssa narrowed her eyes for a moment, seeming to judge the truthfulness of the ninja's words. After a few seconds of deliberation, she finally decided that Ayumi didn't seem like too terrible of a person. What happened last night must have been a misunderstanding or something, yep!
"Alright!" Lyssa bounced over, and with surprising skill was able to undo the knots fairly quickly. As soon as they were undone, Ayumi hopped to her feet with almost unnatural swiftness, and was almost in the middle of the room.
"Alright, whew, thanks erm...""Lyssa!""Lyssa, right, thanks. I'ma go find Luna...see if she wants to finish what she started, hehe~" Lyssa watched Ayumi leave. Welp, her morning had been improved spectacularly! She wondered what was for breakfast...something sweet, she hoped.
