AWOL eh? [Lawrence + Mizu, R]

[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

Alice Shelle. Private to the Vandereich and currently Awol. As it turned out, snatchng bodies without thinking had not served her as best she had thught it would. the fact that she had unwittingly stolen a Vandereich Private was something she had not quite expected to do. Now, whenever she used the damn lure, she had to worry about that. As it were, she was in southern Russia, humming to herself as she idly ate a parfait, trying to see what it was all about. She could tell that she was growing. She wasn't as.....insane as she had been in the past. Of course she had other problems. She was getting WAY too chummy with some of these shinigami. She relaxed, allowing her quincified spiritual pressure to leak out.

Surely some big hollow or group of hollows would show up and then she would be able to eat. In the meantime, the parfait had her attention. She took another bite, unaware that once again: Her Actions qould have consequences as the reiatsu of an AWOL vandereich would be out in the open, and little did she know, one such member of the Vandereich was within the area. She had still been adjusting. Trying to get a handle on her powers. She had only BARELY gotten out of that damn basement a few miles off. The hollows had proven to be more of an issue than she had expected. So a little bit of calm, after having eaten plenty, was something she was happy to have.

Her eyes shifted, those brown hues scanning her surroundings for just a moment. Weird. Nothing? She had expected at least some kind of hollow or even a spiritually aware human to come out of the woodwork by now. But nothing was showing up, and it was beginning to make her a bit nervous. she took a moment to finish her drink and then set her meal aside, standing up and handing over some money. It was amazing what humans could do sometimes. She had gotten quite a bit of money just to pretend to be some fat sack's girlfriend for an evening. He'd held her hand, carted her around, showed her off to his friends. An easy chunk of cash to make. So she at least had money to spend. In the back of her head, a tiny voice was shrill, screaming. Telling her that this isn't how a hollow should be behaving.

But she ignored it for now.

She had had a long week. Why not enjoy her lure a little?

Current looks

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“Ah the human world! Even after years of entering and living amongst my lesser kin it’s still just as breathtaking. Though in truth they really do need to stop trying to impact the gorgeous landscape. Their efforts are turning it slowly but surely into a concrete jungle than the plethora of alternate environments it could be.” Lawrence stretched his back out some a few resounding pops being his reward. Life was alright in Silbern but lately he found himself sitting down too much due to his underlings needing to speak with him on a more personal basis. Sometimes it was like they forgot they were in a militaristic force afterall, something he could never fully understand. With a small shrug to no one but himself he began walking out from the alleyway he spawned into with no particular direction in mind as he came to Russia for one thing. Time away from the Silbern.

“You realize that you do need to keep up relations with those beneath you yes? You never know what fruit may grow from each seed.” Ah there it was, his god. Insightful as always and calming even if it’s voice was more akin to a gravely echo. Just knowing it was around brought a small smile to his face. This is a fair point. But even still I need to let them be on their own a bit more. I’m not their parent after all and I have no intention of coddling them. Lest they become useless or just frustrating, more so than before I became their boss. He could feel the inner voice nod in response before crawling back into the deeper recesses of his mind. With their little conversation done Lawrence stopped to take in just where he was specifically. He was on what seemed to be the main street with shops on either side, all mom and pop and all with their old time but unique gimmicks. There was a cafe nearby, a bookstore, hell even nick-knacks shop. In truth though the last was a bit creepy due to how many dolls were shown by the glass front.

Lawrence in the meantime wore his favorite trench coat alongside some black slacks, dress shoes, a white button up and a tan vest. All of this shown due to his coat being left unbuttoned given the weather allowed for this with it’s light breeze followed by a cloudless sky. The only reason he even had a coat was namely due to how up north he was in Russia because even in the spring time it was fairly cold just not quite enough to warrant a very heavy jacket. That said this didn’t stop Lawrence from spying the outside seating at the cafe, which held some very tempting sweets at that. Especially that Ptichie Moloko, oh god just the slice he saw from across the street was to die for. And the emperor be damned if Lawrence wasn’t about to steal that EXACT slice. So without hesitation he crossed the street, once the cars driving by gave him a chance, and strolled right on over to the cashier with his hands in his pocket. To anyone watching he was obviously not from around here and his struggling to speak semi-fluent russian only made this much more apparent. After a couple minutes though the cashier seemed to understand him and proceeded to show him his seat as well as give him said dessert with french vanilla coffee.

Lawrence smiled deeply, showing off a few wrinkles around his cheeks as he picked up his fork completely aiming to devour the cake in every sense of the word. Sadly his soon to be sugar high was halted as he very quickly picked up on the presence of a spiritually aware person. One that was incredibly close. In fact Lawrence didn’t even need to look to know where the other was and it happened to be behind him. You’ve got to be kidding me. Before I even get a moment to taste the cake someone is shitting out reiatsu? Fuck me. The smile on his face soured as Lawrence had only a few options on how to handle this. 1. Ignore it. This was hard to do for one reason alone. The energy was that of a quincy. He had an obligation to at least greet the other as ignoring them could be disastrous. Especially if they were a higher rank. And if they were free quincy Amalia was very clear on how to handle them. 2. Confront them after having his dessert as lord knows it was more important. Or last option 3. He could put aside his dessert and make them the priority. Ugh… I know what Amalia would say. However let’s at least give them the chance to explain themself. Last thing I want is unnecessary conflict.

“Proceed with caution a free quincy or an uncontrollable private are equally dangerous with other spiritual beings are around. Namely hollow or shinigami and you can never be too careful about whether or not they are watching.” Lawrence nodded and sighed. Glancing over as he drank some of his sweet coffee showed the other had realized they sent out some reiatsu. Well as far as Lawrence was concerned anyway, the shifting of her eyes was something only another would do if they were nervous. Glancing down at his dessert he quickly took a bite revelling in the sweet confection, it was heavenly in all the right ways. There was no chance in hell he was going to let this thing go to waste. Here’s hoping the other person wasn’t going to hurt it. Lawrence stood up drink and confection in hand and made his way towards Mizu promptly sitting down in front of her and continuing to enjoy another bite of his dessert. One more sigh from sweet sugary pleasure and he’d look up at her dead in the eye with a neutral expression. With his voice low enough for only her to hear and professional tone he’d speak,

“Afternoon madam, hope you don’t mind my asking but do you realize what you’re doing currently? At this point Lawrence took a bite of his confection, already half way done with it, so that the other could speak. Her answer wouldn’t matter however as Lawrence was going to answer the same way. “I’d like to ask you, as a fellow quincy to stop releasing your energy. Last thing any quincy should want is to attract the attention of shinigami or worse yet hollows. Which as I recall are frequent in occurances in this part of the world. That’s to say nothing of this cafe, lord knows the world will be a far more dull and flavorless place without it. A surprisingly unknown gem in the rough. Ah pardon me, where are my manners I forgot to introduce myself. My name’s Lawrence, who might you be?”

[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

Alice blinked in surprise as she noticed another man approaching. And immediately tensed as she felt a JOLT. He was a quincy. Hr energy sensory immediately picked up on the fact. And he was THAT kind of qunicy. A Vandereich quincy. She paused, taking a moment to watch him over her own cup of tea, pausing her sip for a moment as she listened to him. She felt a little...bashful at that and took a moment to consider. "That admittedly is the intention. I intended to clear out mos of them in the area. I killed a good number of them the other day. However, it seemed like they were hiding. Hollows usually have only two reasons to hide: they're very strong or they are very weak. So I intended to draw them out and find out." She explained calmly.

She took a sip of her tea and did set the mug down, offeringh a sheepish smile to the man for a moment as he continued to speak. However as he introduced him self...she paused. She wondered if he would recognize her, and she looked off to the side for a moment, visible concern and worry on her face before finally she spoke up. "Alice. Alice Shelle. Apologies if we never properly met in the silbern." She replied. Kindof assuming a lot. He had a sort of....mannerism that reminded her of the vandereich, ontop of that reiatsu. The Emperor's reiatsu that clung to him. The reiatsu she had SMELLED when she had been in the silbern. She could be wrong, but she had a fairly good guess in hand.

She took a moment before gently reaching up, pulling open the neck of her blouse and showing the cross hanging about her neck before closing it back up, unintentionally showing off a slight sliver of cleavage. However her expression, and lack of any...salaciousness, would make it very clear that she didn't do it intentionally. "I admit, I didn't expect to not be so well known. I'm kinda new to the reich, or was. I thought killing one's superior officer would be a more abnormal thing.... apparently not." She murmured softly. And THIS would probably make things way more clear.

After all, murder was a very common thing in the vandereich, not usually of a subordinate to their superior, but it happened. And no doubt, some members of the vandereich, the more.....gentle souls, probably were a bit startled b the atmosphere. so it wouldn't be too hard to imagine that she had killed her CO, and then bolted out of fear. She took another sip of her tea as her reiatsu all but vanished entirely, her eyes fixed onto him firmly. " I admit. I've been killing hollows as a bit of stress relief. So you'll have to forgive my recklessness." she murmured softly.

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Lawrence listened quietly, attention mostly focused on his confection. His expression barely changing from even and mellow to just barely showing off his wrinkles around the sides of his mouth. God bless the owner of the shop for their dessert, even in this time consuming situation it made everything just a little better. However no matter how delicious the confection was it would never fully make his time spent talking with this woman 100% worthwhile. At least not on the current pace things were going. Her excuse of using it to draw out other hollows, strong or weak, was for lack of a better word stupid. At least as far as he was concerned. This was further showed by the fact he merely gave glances back up at her to show he was listening instead of giving her his full attention. Once she finished her explanation he finally looked her over with a bit of a frown. She seemed to really be missing a large point in the fact he was even speaking to her.

“Miss Alice was it? You are forgetting something in this grand plan of yours. Really a couple things if I’m honest. Firstly being if there are any weak hollows they won’t be coming out willy nilly to attack you just because you exude your spiritual energy. Especially when you’re spiritually energy is as potent as it felt. You might attract the strong or average tier hollow but not the weak ones. You’re too much of a challenge for them as things stand currently. And at least from my experience since majority of weaker hollows are akin to beasts if they can’t genuinely believe they’ll consume you they won’t bother trying. So in a way you’re just wasting your time as half your quarry are never going to reveal themselves willingly.” Lawrence took a moment to finish off his dessert and coffee, humming softly in appreciation. Definitely coming back here again. Actually I should write the name of this place down just in case.

One moment later and Lawrence did just that pulled out a small leather bound notebook and a pen from his jackets inner pocket. He had several but all the same simple black pens you could find in any store. As he flipped through his notebook however he glanced over a curious entry he’d made note of back almost a week prior. A private had shown some exceptional prowess by killing off their supervisor. A lieutenant at that, the same rank as Lawrence. The hair on the back of his neck stood up just a bit at this. Best part he had the private’s name, one Alice Shelle. Apparently he’d even managed to get a brief description of her from the other Lieutenants. And as it stood this quincy was exactly who she said she was. Nothing in the description was off, even if was a bit vague. Who’ve thought that I’d be meeting the supervisor killer? But this begs the question if she truly managed to kill the one in charge of her why have I not met her until now? I should have heard more news about her. Unbenounced to Lawrence his confusion was a bit apparent as he read over the passage and began flipping through his journal.

“Lawrence she’s looking at you in confusion. You need to address her sooner than later.” [/color] Lawrence took a moment to look up from his journal to realize his inner god was on point. She was looking straight at him and as far as he was concerned she seemed to be looking him over. He wasn’t the strongest of individuals and if she managed to kill one Lieutenant he was certain she could do the same to him. He needed to proceed carefully, thankfully he could always save face a bit given he was at least somewhat quick thinking. “Sorry about cutting off there, I realized I needed to write down the name of this cafe for later and found a couple confusing notes I’d left for myself along the way. That said I do recall hearing about a private who did just as you said. However if that’s you Alice why have you not returned to the Silbern? As far as I understand it you should be getting promoted or going to trial. Depending on the circumstances revolving around the murder of your superior officer.”

Lawrence took a moment to jot down the name of the cafe as he listened for her response, one eye on her the whole time. Something in his gut told him that something was off here. She should have been brought back to the Silbern. And one could bet Lawrence would have found out about it regardless of the outcome. He tended to keep an ear on the affairs of the Silbern given his rise to becoming a Lieutenant was with the “retirement” of the lieutenant before him. It kept him in check given he was just as replaceable as any other private or Lieutenant. And the favor of those above him was still something he was ultimately concerned with. And yet he had heard nothing of her, her trial, literally nothing at all. She had a name and a story that matched up but even still something was wrong. And he couldn’t put his finger on why. Assuming she got the promotion he knew for a fact she would still be worked like a dog so there was no way she just had time to be in the human world at her leisure… or did she?

Mentally Lawrence deadpanned some at the realization that the answer could be all too obvious. If her higher up was male and was giving her special treatment then she could do what she wanted. To say it didn’t happen would be a lie and even Lawrence had to admit she was just attractive enough to fit the bill. Especially given she’d been so bold as to display just a bit of her “assets”. Mind you she hadn’t intended it to be in that manner but little things like that and her doormat personality certainly could get the right person to wrap themselves around her finger. For now he’d have to hear her out and decide where to go from there. Worst case, he’d have to forcibly bring her in to get her trial. Best case it was as simple as favoritism and the captain had just let it go for one reason or another.
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[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

Mizu/Alice blinked a bit at that, tilting her head. She was about to speak up about Lawrence being 10 flavors of dead-ass wrong. However she did take a moment to think. Honestly most hollows mindlessly went for any kind of reiatsu signature. But then again, she had to remember. She was pumping out QUINCY reiatsu. So it made sense that even the mindless demihollows would not just walk into that. So she probably WAS attracting some harder-hitting beasties.

She paused, rubbing the back of her head as she realized it. "I....guess. I honestly never really had much trouble with the hollows that showed up. I never really thought about how strong they were." Thinking back, the hollows she had been eating the other day DID seem a bit more competent than usual. She'd have to keep that in mind when hunting in this lure of hers. However when he spoke about her killing a superior, her face IMMEDIATELY became much more distraught.

".....what do you mean OR?!" she was suddenly on her feat, sweating as she stared at Lawrence in disbelief. This was....admittedly one of the times when Mizu didn't even have to act surprised. This was fucking bananas! She had killed a superior officer! She had assumed that the man she had run into was just saying that out of fear! "I killed a Lieutenant! My Superior officer! Y-yes it was in self defense...of.....of sorts...." Her ears went red and she looked off to the side. Being molested had definitely been a weird sensation for her. Unfortunately for the guy. Who knew how often the quincy whose body shed stolen had been put in that position and just gone along with it.

"I....I snapped. I mean.... I figured he deserved it but... I never even told anyone why I did it, and when I finally told soemone they just acted like it was an accomplishment!" She murmured. She had no idea how weird she was acting. THANKFULLY she had already said that she had only been in the vandereich for a short time, so it made sense that she would still be having culture shock from the org's...unusual criteriums. And when she finally realized that she might be getting dragged back to the silbern for a trial, she narrowed her eyes.

A quincy bow formed in her right hand. A small one. The kind LAwrence would recognize as a shortbow. Of course, nobody around them even batted an eye. It was made of reishi after all,
They had a few stares from her outburst. Thankfully nobody here spoke english/japanese, so they didn't know what she'd been yelling about. So as far as any of these russians knew, they were jusrt having some kind of lover's spat. All she same, she narrowed her eyes at the man. "The idea that his Majesty would consider his officers so expendible...I....I don't believe it." She stammered. And internally, she blinked. His Majesty? The fuck had that come from?

But she was in a bit of a pickle to be going and focusing on why on earth that phrase had popped into her head. Was this like the shinigami zanpaku'to where she had inadvertently found herself with a zan spirit in her soul? Heheheheh. SHUT UP SHINKAI. But all the same, she still wanted answers. Was this REALLY how the vandereich was run?! She had felt endangered just being in there, but she had assumed that was because she was really a hollow. Now she was wondering if a lot more survival instincts had been at play...

She was so duressed that she didn't even notice the tingle of hollows in the distance. It was such a familiar sensation that it didn't even register as a problem to her.

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".....what do you mean OR?! I killed a Lieutenant! My Superior officer! Y-yes it was in self defense...of.....of sorts..I....I snapped. I mean.... I figured he deserved it but... I never even told anyone why I did it, and when I finally told someone they just acted like it was an accomplishment!" Well now that was both a red flag AND a good sign at the same time. On the one hand she openly admitted to killing the lieutenant which meant it genuinely happened. One didn’t get so expressive over an event if it didn’t happen personally so Lawrence could safely say he trusted that. However he disarray at the fact there was a possibility of promotion was unnerving. There were only two answers that reasonably could make sense in this situation. She was either A. She was just incredibly naive and fortunate enough to not have someone like Amalia as their immediate or higher supervisor. Or B. She didn’t know anything about the Vandenreich. And truthfully he found the latter incredibly hard to believe. A quincy in the Vandenreich spent at least SOME portion of their life, usually several years, in the Silbern. A topic like this came up sooner or later in that time. Then and only then would such a drastic reaction, not unlike this, be understood. So the question boiled down to which was the answer?

For now though they both needed to leave, the nearby customers looked mildly annoyed at the two of them for Alice’s yelling. Lawrence tried to silently apologize to those around them before looking back at Alice. Only to see she pulled out her bow and was exuding her energy again. [dimgray] This stupid woman she’s pumping out even more reiatsu than before! [/color] Lawrence didn’t act immediately though as he genuinely wasn’t certain what to do she killed a lieutenant and Lawrence had much bigger and grander plans for the future. He couldn’t just get potentially killed right here. Especially by some stray dog he’d found on the street. “Calm yourself Lawrence. Breathe. You know what to do you just need to bring yourself back down from your anxiety. If she’d wanted to shoot you she would have already. Chances are we can still resolve this peacefully or at least take it somewhere else. Just don’t be too aggressive.”

Lawrence nodded more to himself than anything. Lawrence stood up taking a deep breath before looking Alice in the eye. Serious but quiet. “Alice bring it down a notch. You’re pumping out even more reiatsu than prior and on top of that you’re causing a scene. If we aren’t careful we will involve unnecessaries in this, especially if you fire off that bow you produced. I recommend we move to somewhere else more private just to be safe.” Lawrence took another breath and began walking off out the cafe. He’d go until the end of the street and then wait for her he only hoped that in the meantime she didn’t just go bat shit and fire off an explosive arrow into a crowd. Last thing he wanted was a commotion when he wasn’t even supposed to be outside the Silbern at the moment. He really just wanted some alone time. Still no use crying over spilled milk.

For what it was worth he’d found someone who’d just up and ran from their organization. So in a way this wasn’t really a waste of his time. Worst case he had gathered some information that others probably hadn’t yet and the more he got the better the Vandenreich would have finding her next time. Best case he would be able to bring her back peacefully and leave things in the hands of those higher up than him. This was after all a bit higher than his pay grade but if all went well it’d look pretty good for him. For now though he just needed her to stop flipping shit over small details. The odds were entirely against her for getting a repercussion for killing her lieutenant. The promotion chances were high even with this entire charade. It wasn’t the first time someone freaked out and wouldn’t be the last in the Vandenreich’s history.

If she walked up to him he’d start walking beside her continuing their talk after a moment. “Look I get that you don’t agree with how the emperor handles things. If you want the honest truth I don’t fully understand it either. Trust me my Captain Supervisor, Amalia, has . . . “Interesting” ideas and most of them incredibly brutal. But that’s simply the way things are currently. And the sad truth is we are all incredibly expendable. There are numerous others who can fill our shoes and replace us. Many of them more than willing to do so. So while it may not be to your taste you need to just calm down a bit, besides chances are you’ll be fine. Heh. Amalia would be impressed even I’m certain. Possibly your own captain or captain supervisor so really you should be fine. Besides… in a way it is a sort of accomplishment. Genuinely not many have that capability to overthrow their superiors, just imagine what it’ll mean for your opponents. I’d be concerned if I knew that fact personally.” He sincerely hoped Alice would be calmer after hearing this. It was a bit of a harsh reality to take but it made sense. And that was where Lawrence found solace in understanding. Perhaps Alice would feel the same but if not he could always try something else.

Response or no response from Alice it was now that Lawrence would begin feeling a few spiritual energies rising up, probably in response to the earlier outburst from Alice. Goddamnit woman why don’t you attract a shinigami, really make the entire event come together!? Ugh. Fuck me. Lawrence focused his energy a bit and formed his main bow within moments then glanced over at Alice. Frustration evident initially but quickly getting replaced by a more professional look. “Alright Alice I’m certain I’m not the only one feeling these hollows coming for us, specifically you. You mind giving me a hand in dealing with them? They did graciously accept your invitation after all and it’d be rude to not attend the event you sponsored.” There was some sarcasm evident obviously but it was simply frustration speaking. Lawrence just wanted his day back or another slice of that damn cake. Actually no, he WAS getting another slice. Fuck wanting after losing his free time to a quincy who couldn’t handle how her own organization worked. She reminded him of certain subordinates and it just made his blood pressure rise a bit from it.

Still the here and now was far more important than his frustration so with great difficulty he pushed it to the back of his mind. Eventually making a mental treasure chest in order to stuff it all into for later. “Excellent, continue doing just that Lawrence. Breathe and set your emotions aside for now. You need to focus on the fight ahead. Don’t lose sight of Alice however, if only for your own safety.” Right, I’ll do what I can. Hopefully this won’t last too long. With that Lawrence expanded his energy sensory abilities to their maximum in order to find the nearest hollow. Last thing he wanted was to be caught off guard especially when he planned on detonating the first one he found. The stress relief was going to be well needed, especially when he saw their mask crumble into nothing and their body dissolve away. God he was going to need that moment almost as much as that cake. And the emperor be damned he was going to get it. Both of them actually!

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{Stats/skills}
Stats:

Strength: 100 - 150

Speed: 200

Reiatsu Strength: 200 - 300

Spiritual Pressure: 200 - 150

Instinct: 75 - 56

Senses: 75

Energy Sensory: 50 - 75

Healing Expertise: 0

Dark Aura: 100

Light Aura: 0




Skills:

Strength of Will: 2

Martial Arts: Angehen: 2

Battle Analysis: 2

Pain Tolerance: 2

Battle Focus: 2

Charisma: 2

Damage Recovery: 2

[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

The surprise on her face was quite genuine, to say the least. Huh, so it was as if they were shinigami, but with the temperment of hollows. It was ironic that the mechanisms of an organization almost solely vowing to eradicate hollows (Which frankly, given the fact that hollows are a natural product of human death with regrets, was something of an insipid notion) was so very like the creatures they despised. But she did seem to......consider, thinking over what she had been told. She knew that the man before her was sckeptical, but in the 'the heck is this bitch's deal?' kind.

If there was one great kindness, it was that her powers afforded her such a seamless transition into her race of choice. She relaxed, and allowed herself to settle somewhat. And she did find herself a bit torn. On one hand, certainly this organization did seem to have a shining future for a vicious woman such as herself. But on the other...she could still VIVIDLY remember that horrendous air of absolute and utter danger when she had been in that place. As if some almighty being KNEW she had been there. KNEW what she was, and was plotting her demise. And for the faintest of moments, she swore she could almost hear a fucking chuckle in her head.

Fucking Shinkai you dumb bitch... But all the same, she let out a slow, strady breath, still looking.....really not happy with the information she'd been given. But she seemed far more reasonable at this point. She even made note that they probably should move, what with the hollows moving in. She followed Lawrence a short ways away, pausing briefly as she looked over her shoulder at the crowds. Hm, they probably think they're a couple. She thought to herself. However a moment later, Lawrence made mention of those hollows, and none-too-cryptically made it clear that he wanted help to clear them out.

And on THAT....she did have to pause. What DID she have against any sort of big group? Ask. And you shall recieve. You need only open your hand, my dark and corrupted child. The voice freaked the fizzity fuck out of her when it popped into her head, she even jumped and turned her head, looking behind her for a moment. This was some Shinkai-level fucky vibes, and she secretly hoped that quincy powers did not come with yet, ANOTHER fucking voice in her head.

But she did pause, and held out her hand. And she paused, suppressing the urge to look surprised. It was....a medal. and just holding it...she could....she could feel what...WHO was inside. Fuchi no Bāmyūda? Her fake bankai was immediately recognized and she did pause. She remembered that she had heard a report in Squad 10 about this. In the academy, the few classes she had attended, talking about how some quincy were capable of stealing bankai. She was immediately happy that she had not yet actually USED bankai in her shinigami form.

Of course Lawrence would recognize it immediately for what it was, and no doubt be a bit surprised. Few quincy below Captain could engage a bankai-capable shinigami, let alone get their hands on their bankai. But all the same, Orina had her medal, and the slight glimmer of reiatsu from within it, was indeed shinigami-laced. "Right.... you're right. Um.... I'll deal with them. If you feel inclined to help, feel free to do so." She stated calmly toward the other quincy as she began to walk out to the edge of town. Certainly she didn't plan on fighting in the middle of the city.

She remained more or less unaware of Lawrence's intentions of turning her in. She certainly had no fucking intention of going back there, and if she ever LEARNED of those intentions.....well she might have to ...borrow him for a few days, to persuade him otherwise. A shame she had no memory-erasing powers as it were. But she'd have to make due she supposed.

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{Orina's Stats}
SP: 1300 (600 from Class, 700 from training)

Strength: 150 points 0.33x (50 points)
Speed: 300 points
Sppr: 225 points
Reiatsu Strength: 200 points 1.5x (300 points)

LA:50
DA:50

Instinct: 225 points 0.33x (75 points)
Senses: 50 points
ES: 100 points 1.5x (150 points)
HE: 50 points 0.33x (17 points)

Acting: 2
Disguise: 1
Charisma: 1
Stealth: 2
Strength of Will: 2
Kido: 1
Damage Recovery: 2

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So there are times when one has to come to terms with the reality before them. Usually unpleasant and unfortunate realities that most people would absolutely kill to change at almost any cost. This was one of those moments because of one, ONE detail. This quincy who just ran off to do her own thing, whatever it was, had a medallion. But not ANY medallion it was a sternritter medallion. The blood in Lawrence’s veins ran cold as the polar ice caps. He’d only ever seen this once and heard of another. He'd seen Amalia's and had only heard of Hadrians. They were the ONLY one’s he’d ever even consider possibly owning one. Amalia for certain because she WAS in fact a sternritter and arguably the most powerful out of any that currently resided. So for this lieutenant, well private actually, to just HAVE one not only threw up a great deal of red flags but also threw a lot of things into question.

In a weird way however it sort of fell into place as someone who could overthrow their superior officer needed to have a lot of power to do this. And a medallion like this WAS a damn good display of just that. 26 out of god only knew how many quincy exists had this. To own one meant a great deal more than most understood. In truth Lawrence for once was genuinely concerned for his safety. His inner god was correct, he needed to be extremely wary around this one. One fatal mistake could end him but the problem was how to avoid that fate. Literally half of what he said made this woman internalize and start raving. It had him so off kilter that he genuinely wasn’t sure if saying anything else would be a good idea. For now he just had to be appreciative that she seemed to be aiming to help out with the hollows she summoned while leaving the humans out of this mess. If there’s a divine power, and I’m not looking at you “Emperor”, then thank you for not making me her enemy… at least not yet. I need to come up with a plan for how to handle this.

Lawrence took a couple more deep breaths to help build himself together and lower his heart rate. He needed to calm down and think. Think very hard and very carefully about his next actions. Currently he was merely keeping up with Alice eye’s focused more towards the edges or buildings or the growing outskirts of the little town/city thing. He really needed these hollows to show up sooner than later, stress relief was an understatement to how good it’d feel to destroy some. This however quickly lit a lightbulb in Lawrence’s head. She’s fought before. At least twice from what I’ve come to learn. This is my chance to keep an eye on her and learn how she fights. Granted I’ll need to fight myself but if I play my cards correctly I’ll figure out her style and have something else to keep for later. This is prime time. I need to get as much information about her from this as I possibly can. There will literally never be quite as good an opportunity. With his face hardening as he spied several hollows on the nearby buildings, mostly small apartment complexes he took another deep breath. This one to help his mind shift gears.

Fears set aside, body relaxing and a small but slowly growing urge from within growing for these hollows demise he relaxed himself. Enough that even Alice could see he went from tense to far more “in his element” now that their fight would take place. It seemed there were 3 on their left and their right. With one coming straight at them. It took the definition of “brutish” in a more literal term instead of just mentally as the fucker was just a big dude. 4 arms, two for each side with something akin to a tiki mask for a face and deep red eyes. It roared at the two of them as it ran it’s way forward with no care for the cars it was crushing underneath it nor the concrete it broke with ease. “I’ll take the 3 hollows on the right. You’re free to choose between the other 3 or the big one. But I think it’ll be easier to rid the small fry first before using a combined effort for him. He seems like he’ll be a bit “extra” compared to the rest. Let me know if you need help with something.” His piece said Lawrence pulled out his cross from his necklace showing off his own quincy cross. A quick surge of reiatsu to his feet and before Alice could turn to see him he’d be gone. Using Hyrenyaku he’d literally rode his way on a surge of spiritual energy to the top of the apartment building on their right.

“Lawrence you’re playing a dangerous game here. Do what you must to survive. I doubt hollows will be the biggest problem you’ll be dealing with.” Lawrence merely nodded to himself, things were looking pretty against him. An awol quincy who supposedly had a medallion and 7 different hollows that were after them both. That’s when it hit him. There’s no way he couldn’t have known about this quincy. There was NO WAY. Sternritter were legendary. The emperor himself CHOSE them and gave them a name of power. The fact he’d do that was something that would spread across the entire Silbern in a matter of minutes, an hour at its longest. So the fact he’d never heard of her meant something else was up. Alice wasn’t simply Alice. She was either someone VERY high up or someone very powerful because one didn’t just mimic that ability anyway. Especially when he KNEW shinigami reiatsu was in that medallion. There was no mistaking it for anyone who’d ever faced a shinigami.

I’ll admit I’m only just realizing who I’m up against and it’s probably not these hollows. This “Alice” is going to be the real opponent. I need your help God, not so much to overcome this person in combat, but to survive for another day. You caught on far more quickly than I did about this facade. Would you be willing to help me out again like you did when we first met? Lawrence was genuinely concerned and worried, enough so that while the three hollows were hopping from buildings around to come after him he stood still. His fear regrowing until the words of his god came back again. Rough and akin to gravel but comforting just due to how familiar it was. “You know well enough I will do so. You’ve not become a god yourself yet Lawrence. And even when you do I don’t intend to abandon you. Breath. Focus on the immediate fight that’s your priority. And when you have an opportunity continue to keep an eye on “Alice.” I’ll handle the game plan for what may happen after these hollow are dealt with.”

“Understood.” . One more deep breath and Lawrence with the words of his god fresh in his mind finally returned back to his calm and serious demeanor. And just in time as he each hollow had been just about to hit him when he was finally back to his senses. The attacks weren’t terribly difficult so dodging it without a step tech was easy. Laughably so. They just aimed to strike at the ground he stood upon. Lawrence on the other hand simply jumped back about 5 feet landing on his feet without a care in the world. He then took a moment to use his cross to absorb some of the nearby reishi. It wasn’t much but he was going to need everything he could get. With a small smile on his face and his bow still out and ready to go he simply let his smile grow a bit. “Come at me brutes. It’s the last thing you’re going to do so make it worth my while!”

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{Spoiler}{Reiatsu}-50 for Hirenyaku
+150 reiatsu from quincy cross

1600/1500 reiatsu remaining

[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

"Alice" had to admit that Lawrence had some cajones on him. She DID see him eyeballing that medal, and for just an instant she heard a chuckle in her head. She felt her skin growing cold for just a moment as she grew....concerned. Her spine prickling just a little. She felt cheated. Immediately her paranoia kicked in like a horse. She was about to reprimand the voice in her head when she heard Lawrence calling out to the hollows in challenge. She had to admit that she was quite impressed when the air TREMBLED from the sudden shockwave of sound that hit both of them, as a lightning bolt sheared clean past the both of them at 1500 speed.

The street between her and Lawrence was immediately melted, a nervous branching of electrical burns glowing red-hot as the ground behind them exploded, startling alice as she was thrown into one of the nearby buildings, hissing as she scuffed up against the nearest wall. The glowing crater immediately alive with a set of claws dragging the hollow out of it. What looked like some kind of huge eel writhing out, little claws wriggling around it's neck like a boa as it let out a loud HISSING SCREECH at the both of them, a static barrier crackling around it, zapping everything around it as it oozed some sort of slime or grease.

Another enemy also soon made it's appearance. A huge, enormously fat blob of a hollow. Not even recognizeable as one were it not for it's reiatsu signature and that tiny little mask at the top of it's bloated body. It too seemed to be oozing, ut of an even worse sort. Huge, pus-drooling holes in it's flesh, making it seem like some sort of living swiss cheese as the ooze dribbling from it's body promptly ate through the concrete beneath it, making it's shuffle towards them awwkard as bits of brick and cement kept caving beneath it's body. When it spotted the 'two' quincy, it began wobbling and making a loud, horrible burping croak noise.

Alice blinked a bit at that and let out a sigh of relief. "It's just two adjuchas." She sighed, a bit pleased that there were no gillian in this group of hollows. A few adjuchas she could handle. but Gillians that went to the world of the living had a tendency to travel in huge pods. Two strong enemies were a walk in the park compared to a Herd of Gillian. She turned her attention to Lawrence and rolled her shoulders. "which one do you wanna take?" She asked calmly, seeming largely unworried. Again, she had only ever seen Quincy being...well...fearless. fighting for their lives. She had only ever seen Quincy when it was too late for them to escape.

So she would be very unaware of how...unusually calm and collected she was at this juncture. Hollows she knew. They weren't shinigami, or Fullbringers, or Quincy, or FUCKING BOUNTS, but just the old familiar Hollows. She knew them. She knew their tactics. They were an enemy she was very comfortable with handling, both as allies and as enemies. Truth be told, she did begin to think about...LETTING LAwrence die. After all, quincy got eaten by hollows all the time dind't they? It would be a shame the man tragically lost his life against these brutes. Didn't even leave any body. She felt her mouth salivating at the thought, though her physical expression remained calm.

All she needed, was an opportunity.

GrEelased Lightning has Arrived (Class 4)
Frotten has Arrived (class 4)

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How much worse could a day get? An awol quincy, or in this case some sort of imposter or theif, a lovely bit of hollows and his free time ruined. What could possibly go wrong? Oh you know even more hollow or worse yet a stronger hollow. But what were the odds of that right? Alice had already drawn in the hollows that were around or what wanted to pick a fight so this should have been it right? Fuck no. Instead of keeping things simple two more hollow spawned and not just the little gillians they were about to deal with but instead adjuchas. An eel and something that looked like a sick obese american. Lawrence groaned both from being knocked to the ground via the former’s shockwave but also from just aggravation that was boiling up to a dangerous point. Seriously who decided that Lawrence had to keep getting served a fresh pile of shit on top of the current mounds? There was a silver lining however, the initial electrical burst had gone off and literally vaporized the gillians. In truth only legs remained on the ground before they dissolved away into literally nothing.



“I should be happy that those gillian are gone but all I can feel is anger at having been denied stress relief for a fat ass and an eel. And I can’t even fight the fat ass because he’s just… oozing everywhere. There’d be no way I could even get in close without getting splattered by his bodily fluids.” Lawrence growled mostly to himself as his anger continued to flare. Screw frustration he just kept getting another problem to add to the plate of his current problems. And if more kept coming he’d never be able to figure out what to do with Alice. Especially given he needed to see how she handled fighting lest he get the better of her if she were anything less than a naive quincy. “Lawrence calm yourself. You are going to lose the only advantage you have against her if you let your anger get to you. Reign your emotions in and focus on how you will fight these hollow. Your life depends on it.”



It took every fiber of his being to not yell back let alone to bring himself down to a more manageable level of anger. A couple of deep breaths and he looked down to Alice who seemed more than a little content with the current situation. She’d managed to pick herself up and was already looking at the two hollows like they were chess pieces. Lawrence wasn’t exactly a fan of that look but he could understand that to fight these two adjuchas properly they’d need a gameplan. Looking over at the hollows Lawrence had to admit he wasn't well suited to either. He was a more close quarters fighter not a long range. At best he was a mid range fighter. His only saving grace was he had a couple longer range abilities up his sleeve. He’d just have to make due for now and fight where he wasn’t at a complete disadvantage. And as weird as that was to say he felt more confident with the eel hollow. At least he could punch it if worse came to worse. The other… he was liable to get covered in pus and get burnt by it.



Looking down at Alice he yelled down to her. “I’ll take on the electric eel. You get the fat ass.” That said he used Hirenkyaku to hop over from the building he was currently on top of to another that was closer to the eel. That barrier it was producing was yet another problem he’d have to overcome. He couldn’t get in close without it getting shut down. Which would mean he needed to deal a significant amount of damage to break it or he needed it to choose to shut it down. The latter was less than likely as it wasn’t really all that intelligent. That meant he’d have to break it and he had only one technique he could think of that’d work for this. “Fuck me but more importantly fuck you hollow. I hate ginto techniques but here you are forcing my hand. Flesh and Bone, melt upon thy touch. Asshole.”



As Lawrence spoke out the incantation he grabbed a ginto tube in his hand and funnelled his reiatsu into it sparking the dormant energy within. A moment later he made a baseball pose and threw the can as hard as he could aiming for the center mass of the eel. Halfway to the hollow the said can exploded into a massive chandelier and quickly started spinning itself. The chandelier itself rivaled the sizeable eel but then proceeded to let loose 10 magma balls in quick succession. If the eel didn’t move or try to attack it’d soon see it’s barrier covered in magma from each orb let alone the massive chandelier. And that’s assuming the barrier survived. If it didn’t the eel was very likely to get covered by the magman and any grease or liquid it’d produce would be evaporated away. Though in truth it’s first concern would probably be the fact it would be getting cooked alive. A small smile would form regardless of either event given it was always fun to watch hollows figure out how to handle a miniature eruption of magma and fire that was directed at them.



In the back of his mind though Lawrence was still concerned about Alice. She would see this technique of his and know at least one card up his sleeve. And that wasn’t the worst point, he couldn’t even glance at Alice to see how she was handling the other hollow until he was certain this eel was dead or dying. So she could have done damn near anything, his only saving grace was he was up on a building and getting to the same point would be enough to tip him off one way or another. But regardless he needed this hollow to be killed he couldn’t afford to go easy on it and then get injured by it when he least expected it. He just hoped he wasn’t making the wrong choice in both his choice of enemy and in keeping his focus on said hollow.

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{reiatsu}-50 for Hirenyaku
-400 reiatsu for Kelch der Gult

1600-450= 1150 reiatsu

1150/1500 reiatsu remaining

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{Kelch der Gult}Technique Name: Kelch der Glut [Chalice of Embers]

Class: 3

Technique Type: Quincy Ginto

Usable By: Quincy (All)

Technique Element: Fire

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect):
Speaking the incantation listed below, the user throws the Ginto tube in the direction of their foe. The tube glows red and bursts into an intricate chandelier formed of pure fire. It burns with an intense heat equal to that of magma on touch (roughly 1500 degrees Fahrenheit), and the area for up to five feet around it is hot enough to evaporate all water in the air. This is not all this technique does, however; the chandelier begins to spin upon formation, and as it does so, it releases up to ten large balls of pure magma towards the foe, spread slightly and but fired almost like a shotgun burst. Each of these orbs burns with the same heat as the chandelier on impact, and the orbs themselves are made up of liquid magma, meaning they splash and spread over the area that they impact. Each has durability equal to the user's Reiatsu Strength.

How to use technique:
The user speaks the incantation given, and then hurls the Ginto tube in the direction of the foe they wish to target.

Technique Drawbacks:
Aside from the Reiatsu cost, Ginto tubes can be somewhat fragile and can be broken before this technique is released. See the actual item for more information. In addition, this technique is vulnerable to cold-based techniques, which require only 75% of the Reiatsu Strength to negate it. It is particularly strong against liquid techniques, however, which are treated as if they had half the Reiatsu Strength.

Incantation and Effect:
“Flesh and bone, melt upon thy touch!” This incantation is required to use the technique, as it channels the liquid Reiatsu within a Ginto tube towards a specific effect.

[“Mizu Tsuraiko" Orina]

Alice lifted a brow slightly as immediately Lawrence seemed to gravitate toward the more appealing of the two hollows. She shrugged it off and focused on the blob. Honestly, she felt more confident in fighting this thing anyways as it were. She herself watching that blob as it narrowed it's eyes at her and then stared straight up at the sky. It's mouth yawning open for a moment before a loud HAWWWWWWWWWWWM roared out from it's mouth, the very shockwaves of that yawn ripping outward, shredding the nearby gravel in a 5 meter dome around it before echoing outward, shaking, but not hitting the surrounding 20 meter bubble too hard, mostly jostling it around as it made everything Quake.

Alice to mess up her hirenkyaku, a startled ACK escaping her as she slammed into the edge of building instead of actually landing ontop of it as she had intended. That shaking having lifted it up a little so that her move failed! She grimaced, her entire body tingling in slight pain as she rolled onto the edge of the building and then skipped away from the edge. She paused, staring for a moment as she furrowed her brows. "Huh, Thought it was gonna send an attack after me." She murmured. Unaware that just below the edge of the building, the wall was melting, oozing and dripping as a glob of gastric acid corroded the spot away.

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Lawrence would have a very different kind of animal to tackle. The Eel seemed to peer a little at him. Eyes narrowing slightly as she watched him, and as he fired that Ginto, the eel watched closely, as if sensing something. And in the next instant, THOOM! Thunder BLASTED through the area, as suddenly that eel streaked again, almost instantly beside Lawrence, forked elecvtrical burns like tree roots covering that cylinder as electricity crackled along it's surface. It didn't fire. Instea,d it exploded, bursting and dripping magma onto the ground as that electricity seemed to short out the spell.

The eel's tail lashed out, again at a slightly less ridiculous 750 speed to aim to send Larence flying into the other side of the rooftop as that eel GRINNED at him, menacingly, as a few seconds later, thaat barrier kicked back on, crackling around it's body as it watched him closely. That long, slimy tail even curling up and lightly making a 'try a gain' wave, teasing him into coming at her again.

Off in the distance, Lawrence would see a single arrow firing up and into the air. It streaked up a good dozen meters before suddenly BURSTing! A MASSIVE bubble of water showering down and creating a rather huge dome around Alice and the enemy inside. Alice herself was forming that huge barrier to wash away that acid. Several more holes had formed in the building, and with her control over that dome, she PRESSED down, forcing a downward shove as she released her 'bow'. A Trident. Thankfully her zanpaku'to passed well enough as some strange bow form. The trident firing thin lances of water which slashed into that fat tub of hollow.

All the while, as she moved that trident, more water was produced. Of course, the hollow wouldn't just drown. And Neither did she. The dome of water was entirely breathable it seemed. Of course, Alice seemed to be moving a bit sluggishly, as did the hollow. And that dome was slowly expanding. Litle by little, and only by a few feet at that. Alice had noticed those electrical attacks of course, so she had manipulated her dome slightly. Rather than being one solid sphere, she forced it to expand into layers. Keeping the area around that blob solid, but otherwise making the rest more or less like a Russian doll, so that if that damn eel started to electrocute it, it would only electrify the outter layers.

Hopefully that would keep Lawrence's opponent from fucking her up. And visually obscuring her and the fat blob from LAwrence. Despite being water, that big sphere of water was DARK. And foreboding. Merely trying to peer into it seemed like a task, as it shrouded everything in darkness. That fat sack of shit didn't even get to see those lances of water coming. Not that it could distinguish it from the surrounding water anway. But little by little, it would get chiseled down by those lances of water. But more importantly, the water that they were made of stuck around. And unlike the water of the dome. It was not breathable.

-100 Reiatsu for Corriente de Pescador
- 100 Reiatsu for Gancho del Shinigami: 深海 Shinkai Post 1/10
-50 Reiatsu for 25 cubic feet of water
-25 Reiatsu for Water Manipulation

La Cáscara: Quincy Active (All reiatsu and abilities are perfectly tuned to appear as Quincy) OS reduced by 20%(240 after reduction)
Total 275 reiatsu expended
1975/2250 Reiatsu remaining

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Goddamnit! The veins in Lawrence’s head throbbed as he saw the field of electricity focus and just obliterate his ginto tube. Effectively placing him back at square 1, except now he had to deal with the second attack aimed at him. Granted it was simply a tail swing but that didn’t mean it wouldn’t hurt to take it to the face. The answer was obvious then, he’d have to dodge it and a rough guess at its speed said “Way faster than you.” With a grunt of frustration Lawrence used Hirenkyaku again placing himself down at the buildings base. Thankfully he was fast enough that he could dodge the swing with some ease but having taking that hit dead on definitely would have hurt. Shown by what parts of the rooftop were his and subsequently dropped around him. Out of immediate threat Lawrence drew in what little reiatsu he could from around him as the Eel back to its original position and turned on the barrier again.



Alright so we have an electric barrier that did deactivate to destroy my ginto… but otherwise I know nothing. It’s malleable to a degree but this thing is using it defensively to the point I can’t actively get in and start hitting it. Admittedly the only thing left is using my arrows… Guess I’ve no other choice but to gauge it then. Let’s see how many arrows you’re barrier can hold up to. With a deep breath and just the edges of his eyes showing the sclera changing to black he activated his firing property. Once that was done he began running around the eel’s right and began firing off 3 arrows from his right hand. Each aimed at different parts of the Eel. The first was aimed for it’s head, the second aimed for it’s throat, and the last aimed for whatever it could hit within the coiled body. Before it reached the barrier though each arrow did something he was certain the hollow wasn’t expecting. They all literally split in half increasing the total number to 6 arrows with each individual arrow spaced about a foot from their initial source. Though Lawrence knew they would all most likely be destroyed before they even hit the Eel Lawrence needed something to work with.



An opening of the barrier, the sign that it could only hit so many things at once, hell even a time limit that this barrier had. Something to give him an edge. In the meantime Lawrence would keep circling around it just to make certain he wasn’t super likely to get hit. Or at least he could do something to move out the way. Granted with all the debris around if he wasn’t careful he’d trip so his attention was split between the Eel and not falling quite literally on his face. Again. All thought of Alice at this point was forgotten, hell he hadn’t even glanced at her water barrier he just felt her using her reiatsu. Which made sense, these were strong enough hollows to warrant it after all. He just hoped that he wasn’t going to be giving too much away to Alice because he trusted her about as much as he could damage this hollow. Which currently was zilch. For now though he just needed to see what his arrows would do. Once he had that information he could move on and hopefully provide a more offensive attack instead of these paltry pokes.

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{Reiatsu}
+150 for drawing in reiatsu
-150 for activating firing property
-50 for Hirenyaku
-120 for 3 class 4 arrows
-60 for splitting said arrows into 3 more.

total reiatsu used: 230

1150-180= 920

920/1500 reiatsu remaining

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Lawrence: 35 paragraphs x 10 TP per paragraph = 350 TP total


Mizu: 32 parapgraphs x 10 TP per paragraph = 320 TP total