Cottonmouth

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Nemo turned his gaze away from Raiya as she stormed off, he scanned the room's other personnel to get a feel for them, but stopped when he reached Yuno. She had looked at him strangely earlier, however he didn't blame her. Instead he only returned the favor by eyeing her back and analyzing her. By this point his smile was gone, only sporting a completely blank expression. Something that could be considering rather eerie as he mechanically stared through her.

People with a highly developed manalysis tended to steer clear of Nemo. In the beginning his aura usually only confused people. He seemed have a completely neutral aura, vacant of any type of direction. However further study of him revealed that it felt this way not because of neutrality, but because his aura itself seemed empty. His manawaves seemed almost hungry; giving off a feeling of unease to most people who tried to sense him in depth.

His deadpan stare was cut short when Raiya slammed her door, causing Nemo to emit a snicker in response. He leaned down to the side in his chair and grasped the knife Raiya had thrown at Felix's feet earlier. He pulled back and removed it from the floor with a audible noise as it released itself from the wooden board. Nemo examined the blade as Felix talked. Tamahagane, custom Japanese styled, traditional and rather expensive looking. Not to mention extremely sharp. He turned it horizontally and balanced it on his hand by it's center of gravity. It was a nice knife, he almost started to feel jealous. The craftsmanship enamored him a little too much.

Nemo resided to return it, but it would have to wait till tomorrow. He used his magic to warp it to his spacial inventory in the meantime.

"Sounds lovely." Nemo replied to Travis as he got up from his seat. He walked over and offered him his left ringed hand for a shake instead of his right bandaged one. "My name is Nemo Smiley. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask." He said in a rather friendly manner.

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The situation escalated quicker than Nemo had planned. But he had to admit that it was definitely entertaining so far. He almost felt bad he knew he had to do something to quench the fire that was building. Still in his seat, Nemo swiveled the chair into position and then used his boot to kick off from the table. It sent him sliding in between the two with an audible screech. The chair nearly teetered over but managed to fall back onto all four legs.

Now right in dangerzone, he put his hands up to try to signal them to stop. He faced the palm with the X on it towards Raiya. "Now now you two, let's just try to get along." He said as he put a silly over-dramatic accent onto his voice. He looked to the opposite person. "Give peace a chance." Nemo added before his voice turned back to normal. He looked to Raiya with a straight face. "He's not lying, while Felix was the one who told me about you. I searched you out on my own volition. You're only here because I want you to be." He explained.

"And even if it was him, that doesn't matter anymore. Or are you too drunk to remember our deal?" He asked.

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@Mr Creamscene
You're good, feel free to post in the characters section.
Might have to work something out with Prodigal related to how your character will join the group though.

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"Never a dull moment." Nemo replied as he placed his hand on Raiya's shoulder and activated the teleportation card. Encompassing both of them in a bright white X shaped flash.

The spell took them straight back to the place he used the initial teleport: by the table in the kitchen. There wasn't much of a sound, but the same bright flash from before might of gotten someone's attention. "I have returned from my trip! I'd say everything went swimmingly." Nemo called out as he grabbed a chair and sat down, waiting for Felix. "I hope you don't mind, but I was feeling a bit lonesome after all that time in Mamertine. So I found a new pal to be my plus one for this mission. Build my social skills up a bit. Increase my ability to work in groups. I'm sure you can agree that will do me good." He rambled off with a grin.

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Nemo's head cocked to the side after Raiya's rather cold initial response. His grin seemed to be a little less genuine than usual now. Various thoughts ran through his head after her final statement. "So I can threaten Felix with you. Because I can use your well-being to blackmail him in case he turns on me. He knows I can hurt you." His eye twitched before he straightened out, seemingly shoving back any temptations he had.

"Restraining? No no, art cannot be controlled. I'd just simply hate to get off on the wrong foot with my future partner in crime. Can't have any bad blood between you and the person who is supposed to have your back right? So today I was a little more... graceful in my performance." He said, seemingly having trouble himself to try to find a word for it as he looked over to the X shaped indent on the wall by Johnny's body.

"Like I said earlier, I'm here for you, Raiya. Till my mission is done you gotta do what I say. My problems become your problems. And I'm sure some of yours will end up being mine as well. As for the mission itself, I think that will be clear pretty soon, possibly from someone else, and definitely someplace else." He said, flashing his return teleport card in between two of his fingers to her.

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Nemo's positive expression as he took in the fresh victory air quickly dissipated after Raiya's response. "Did I not entertain you?" He asked, looking a little hurt. However this quickly turned to a brief chuckle. "No matter, no matter. We've only just begun." He added.

"Maybe I should, but alas, it appears that's not how the cards fell isn't it?... It's a lovely world we live in." He commented.

"But hey," He started, making the gesture of smacking her shoulder despite the distance. "At least you can say I'm not as bad as they say, right? I've heard people say terrible things about me. And you... you were what? Like..." He scratched his head, "eleven at the time?" He used his hand to try to downsize her height to what he expected her to be in the past.

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"Time to finally live up the title of Devourer." Nemo mused after he fired off the two blasts. He immediately charged a spell up in his bandaged palm. It manifested in the form of a festering black orb. He crouched down and slammed it to the floor of the ring as the two Tsukihi's rushed him. It quickly sprawled out like spilled black ink into a intricate magic circle on the ring in a short area around him. While most of it couldn't be made out, it could be seen that Nemo was standing in the middle of a large magic X that encompassed the whole circle.

For a second it seemed that Nemo had almost given up and was about to to take both attacks for the team. But the rather sinister smile on his face gave a hint that wasn't the case. As soon as Tsukihi and her clone came into range the circle briefly lit up and two peculiar sounds were emitted; a quick energy charge type noise followed by a shattering break. Almost like the spell itself had exploded with a bang. It caused a displacement in the air around it's range, the floor of the ring cracked and any metal below twisted and grinded.

The real virtue of the spell could be observed to anyone with a keen sense for mana. One of the Tsukihi's-the clone-was quickly torn to shreds and faded away towards Nemo. The only Tsukihi left was effected as well, most of her mana was immediately and violently ripped from her. With the clone out of the way Nemo was easily able to focus his energy on countering. Especially considering he strangely just received a considerable amount of mana back to his reserves from the spell he just used.

The Tsukihi attacking from the air at his head was the only one left. Nemo ducked under her to evade and slammed his open palm into her torso. He attacked her by resonating his raw mana energy out of his palm and into her body. It propelled her upwards towards the ceiling. Nemo followed up by shooting a magic blast upwards towards Tsukihi as she ascended. It didn't hit her, but instead sped past her and hit the ceiling, engraving an X shaped rune on it. Nemo outstretched his arms and fell backwards in a trust-fall like way. Just before he hit the floor he faded away into a distortion like effect and emerged out from the rune on the ceiling. Nemo twisted himself around and faced Tsukihi just as she reached her arc. He latched onto her from behind with a firm grip and caused them both to spiral into a head dive back to the floor of the ring. They accelerated quickly on the way down, spinning quite fast and emitting white magic trail as well. Nemo rolled out just before they collided, causing Tsukihi to take the hit right to her neck and back like an atomic powerbomb from hell.

The last thing that could be heard before Nemo finished his Izuna drop (and the fight) was his adrenaline filled laugh on the way down.

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"You copy yourself because you're too dull to come up with something original." Nemo chimed back as he prepared himself for their attack. He extended his arms out towards the two but criss-crossed them over into an X. After taking a second he fired off one blast from each of his palms towards the two. It made a loud screeching whistle as it flew through the air.

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Nemo returned the favor by drawing a similar circle in the air with his hand, topping his off with an X instead. "Fighting is art, if you don't care about art then how can you call yourself a fighter?" He asked as he put his palm behind the rune. It immediately expanded into a much larger magic shield, blocking and immediately absorbing almost all of the tendrils.

One passed by however, snaking around and heading straight at him. Nemo caught it with his bandaged hand, receiving quite the shock but not putting out much of a reaction. The X on his hand quickly absorbed the tendril right into his palm. "Pain is something I have learned not to fear, tell me Tsukihi, do you fear pain?"

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@Prodigal Son

Nemo's head cocked to the side during Tsukihi's response. His pleasant attitude quickly changing to that of a scowl. "No, no, no, it wont do, the fear of losing someone is touching, it's compelling, it's beautiful. Art is beautiful, it makes me feel. But the fear of losing a battle... it doesn't inspire me. It's bland." He explained, not paying much attention to her movements. "Art isn't dull, art is spontaneous, not predictable." Nemo said, his gaze turning behind him. He used his empowered hand to grab onto Tsukihi's blade before it could reach him; somehow stopping her completely.

His touch immediately nullified any active magic energy within the blade. Nemo's firm grip on the sword kept her in place despite small cuts to his hand. "If your fear is weak, then you will only come to fear me instead." He finished, his tone becoming more grim. He immediately followed up with a heavy mana empowered kick at her left. The kick was made to bait out herbucklershield, and had enough concussive force behind it to still rattle someone through a block. His next move was to use his last free hand and blast her point blank with a strong pitch black X shaped attack from his bandaged arm. If it were to hit it had enough power to knock her half-way across the ring.