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Chapter 1560 I’m Back!
--- Kamiko --- (A good deal of time later)
Kamiko reacted instantly, diving straight at Hunter to pull her into a hug. The other three all pulled out their weapons at the sudden movement, pointing towards a completely unconcerned Kamiko. Luckily nobody actually fired, and soon Kamiko was sniffling into Hunter's shoulder as Kat wasn't around.
Hunter looked around awkwardly before giving Kamiko a few stilted pats on the head and just letting her get it out of her system. "I... I was so lost!" cried Kamiko. Meanwhile, Meg had walked over to have a look at the rock Kamiko had brought over. The compass had been pointing in a completely different direction before Kamiko's arrival but now... now it pointing directly at it.
A few quick tests confirmed that it was indeed a drake part and Meg turned to make a snide comment, at Kamiko's distress only for Bower's hand to clamp down on her shoulder. "What's your problem old man?" asked Meg, eyebrow raised and considering.
"Don't give me that look lass. You've got a sharp tongue and little Pinky is clearly distressed. Not only that, but she managed to find a drake bit we coulda missed. I get that your personality is shit but leave it for now alright?" said Bower.
"Oh? Do you really think so little of me? Even after I used my abilities to find the most likely spot for Kamiko to get spat out of the bubble? Seems strange, especially when it's your job to navigate these woods for us and you managed to lose her," retorted Meg.
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"I admit that's my mistake. Bubbles don't usually catch just the one person in a group, heck they barely ever split the group at all. Something you mostly just come to accept. Perhaps if I was fully on the ball or a century younger, I would've noticed that things didn't feel quite right. Still, I noticed she'd gone missing right away so I don't feel like I made any major mistakes.
Then again, that might just be because I'm an old man. We get funny ideas sometimes you know?" said Bower with a snort, unconcerned at Meg's attempt to flip things around.
"I was just going to poke at her a little, nothing serious," said Meg as she bent down to get a better lock at the blue rock Kamiko had dropped.
"Right... perhaps it's nothing serious for you but she's clearly not in the best place," said Bower firmly.
Meg glanced over at Kamiko who was still trying not to cry as she hugged Hunter. The lamia still hadn't really worked out what to DO with the other girl, and instead of just returning the hug like a normal person had apparently decided to just awkwardly pat the girl occasionally. Kamiko didn't seem to mind too much.
"Ok I do admit that's adorable and I might've ruined it with my comments... but I'm telling you it was fine,"
"Oh it's not good for you at all... but for demons such as ourselves it's not deadly either. I'll probably feel a touch under the weather for a time but I'm sure that I'll feel better if I get a bit of love and attention from my little sister," said Meg.
"I'd be willing to volunteer if it's going to be a pain," said Bower.
"Eh? Weren't you listening?" asked Meg. "When I said it's not all that good for demons, I meant it. For a normal mortal it'd be super deadly. Honestly it might still be a bit of an issue for Kamiko and Lil Sis truth be told but my biology can handle crystals a fair bit better. Kat would probably be fine as well, what with her regeneration and all but she's not here so..." Meg finished off with a shrug.
"Is eating it really the best course of action?" asked Hunter. "It is not the first time I have encountered such an issue but I have never seen it in anything like a drake,"
"It's by far the most certain way of dealing with it," confirmed Meg. "Eating a piece of the drake makes it too hard for the thing to reform. If I break it down and then eat a good chunk of it the rest will remain broken,"
"Is someone going to have to eat all of the pieces?" asked Kamiko with some concern.
"Maybe?" said meg with a shrug. "This piece is a bit too small to be considered part of the larger drake still. I can tell how to destroy it, and it's connection to the greater parts, but it's not considered the 'main' part, or maybe it's just not large enough,"
"Wait... so that means it was for nothing?" asked Kamiko.
"No, I wouldn't say that either. It could've still reformed into a much smaller and less powerful drake, it just wasn't trying to reform into the main body of it anymore. It was almost a separate entity. Not sure if we need to get all these littles ones... it was implied to me they were still a fair bit more connected then it appears,"
"Is that likely to cause issues?" asked Hunter.
Meg shrugged, "Eh we follow the compass till it stops leading us places and then phone home. If they've got a problem with it, that's on them not us. They are the ones that prepared the compass after all. If it doesn't work that's hardly my fault,"
"I do not like the idea of leaving a mission unfinished," stated Hunter.
"Well it WILL be finished once the compass stops leadings us places because that was the mission," retorted Meg with a huff.