Stupid & Anxious (Joint Training)

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Camila sighed as she exited the Dangai, making her way into the World of the Living. Her mission for the day had been rather simple, to say the least; her goal was the purification of twenty separate hollows that had been making 'headlines' for terrorizing specific areas around the world. Some were more known for the damage and destruction they had been causing than others, while some had only been grouped into this hunt by association with the stronger ones. Either way, they were all considered priority targets, and needed to be dealt with.

Interestingly enough, this mission was a bounty of sorts. While there was no real reward for the completion of doing so, Camila still decided to take up the mission to begin with. This was a phenomenal opportunity for her, and one that she was in no way going to pass up. It was way too good of a way for her to earned the combat experience she oh so desperately needed. Her goal by the end of all of this; Vice Captain of Squad 13. She'd take the time here to prove herself worthy of the position.

While that certainly wasn't going to be an easy task, it was a task she needed to complete anyway. She wanted to be able to help the squad maintain a level of prosperity that needed to be attained even in Ludwig's absence; what better way to do that and help her comrades than attain a position that was right below Ludwig? Granted, her goal out of all of this wasn't a way to maintain power, but instead a way to help her friends within the squad reach a similarly elevated position within the already corporate-hell organization the Soul Society was.

She breathed in the fresh air around her; Denver, Colorado. While the weather wasn't exactly the most welcoming, it was certainly an area she thought herself to enjoy being in. She loved the bustling city life, the surrounding people, and everything else that went along with it. It reminded her of her home in Quebec, to an extent. She smiled at the thought. Gods, how she missed her old family life; hell, even just how she missed her family, after watching them all mercilessly slaughtered by-

She shook her head. This wasn't something she was going to think about right now. There were much more pressing matters she had to worry about, other than sulking over something in the past that couldn't be changed, no matter how hard she had tried to do so. She had a mission she needed to stay focused on. There was too much potentially riding on this that she couldn't afford to fuck it up; she needed to make sure her mind was clear, and that she was prepared to put her life on the line for all of this.

Camila took the time to mentally review the notes on the first hunt; To her knowledge, this hollow was the weakest of the batch. Nothing more than some sort of lesser hollow, not relatively well-known to those of Seireitei. It was pretty much easy pickings. As far as its capabilities went, a large majority of its attacks were going to be based in water. This was something she could've easily dealt with, given the decent selection of Hado she had under her belt; purifying this hollow was going to be fairly easy.

First, though, she'd need to locate the beast to the best of her ability. Thankfully, she'd procured Hollow Bait from that Quincy outpost she had taken down alongside Ailene, but it was in no way going to be enough to complete every hunt with one of them; she only had five total. That being said, she'd decided that, due to having never used one before, now would've been a good time to do so, considering if something went wrong using it later on, she could land herself in deep shit that she might not have been able to recover from.

Holding the bait in her hand, she promptly crushed it between her fingers, letting the small chunks fly off into the wind, and wiped her hand on her robes. Grabbing the her blade from its holster on her hip, Camila prepared for the incoming waves upon waves of hollows. She'd need to be prepared to protect the lives of anyone wandering around the streets, as if she'd let any of them die, that'd likely leave her reputation in a place that would need to be picked up immensely for her to get the position she sought.

After a few short moments, hollows quickly began to pour into the area, one right after another. Every time she spotted one, she'd make haste to it in order to cleave it down to the best of her abilities, and then spot another one as quickly as she could to repeat the process. One after another, each hollow she had taken down began to purify, only a further acknowledgement that she had been making a fair bit of progress toward completing her mission. That being said, she knew it would take a moment for the hollow she was specifically looking for to reveal itself.

As the day continued, and more and more hollows had been chopped down, Camila began to tire, growing ever frustrated that the hollow in question hadn't shown up yet. Maybe it was due to the hollow bait? Perhaps it had been a bad idea; nothing more than a waste of time as opposed to just tracking it on her own? Surely there had to be a better way to find the damn thing. If that were the case, packing it up might've been the best idea. In fact, she was just about to do so until, from the corner of her eye, she had spotted a hollow with the exact description of the marked target.

Almost immediately, she bolted over toward the hollow with a Shunpo. She was ecstatic that she had encountered the damn thing after so, so long! The time to fight the first one was finally upon her! With that being said, she went for the kill straight away, and aimed to cleave it down with an overhead slice. To her surprise, the beast had taken a step back to dodge the blow. Not only was it fast enough to do so, but she was able to piece together that this hollow was already a decent bit smarter than the others she had been up against. 

She smiled. This fight was going to take a bit, and that wasn't something she was against. Once she landed, she assumed a defensive stance, in order to see what the hollow was going to do, and try to figure out what she could about its fighting style. There were plenty of possibilities, and she'd need to figure out exactly how she needed to counter the damn thing if she would be able to. She decided it would be a sound idea to make a strike, though with Kido, in order to see how the hollow reacted.

Holding two fingers in front of her chest, she began to focus a large amount of her reiatsu into her fingertips. Small cracklings of lightning could be seen forming around them, as she continued to prep the spell. "Arise god of thunder! Awake mother of storms! Unleash the lighting on the sinners!" With those words - the specific incantation for her spell - spoken, the reiatsu around her fingertips flared to a much stronger power. She pointed these outstretched fingers toward the beast, and finished off the spoken words necessary for the spell to take effect.

"Hado number 4: Byakurai."

With that, a massive surge of electricity lunged from her fingertips, and straight toward the beast. Much to her surprise and disdain, however, the hollow was quick enough to easily make haste to leave the area around the blast. This not only shocked her, but encouraged her to launch another. After she did, the hollow, once again, was fast enough to make it out of the way. This confirmed she'd need an alternate method of attacking; perhaps baiting the hollow into something that'd leave it open and prepped for counterstrike?

While she was spending the time contemplating her next action, the hollow wasted no time, and immediately began to charge her. Its massive horns were aimed straight for her chest, and if she didn't move she'd likely be gored to a hasty second death. That being said, moving is exactly what she did. She took to the air with a Shunpo, and let gravity do the rest of the work for her, sending her back down after the hollow had already travelled far past her. Not long after she made contact with the ground, the hollow turned around, realizing that it hadn't hit her.

Once again, it had decided to charge her. It scraped its foot against the ground once, twice, three times before bolting toward the young Shinigami. Once again, she'd taken the opportunity to propel herself upward as the hollow continued to run straight passed. Once again, she landed, and it turned around. She quickly acknowledged the fact that she couldn't, nor did she desire to keep this up forever. She needed a game plan. She'd decided to try another head-on attack.

Steeling herself for the strike she was going to make, she once again launched herself forward, though this time not with a shunpo, and aimed for the beast's mask. Much to her dismay, and much like the beast had originally done to begin with, her attack was simply sidestepped. Though, this time, it had been followed up with a counterstrike, with the hollow spinning around and slamming into Camila with its tail. In turn, this sent her straight into the side of a building.

She took a quick second to breathe after the attack had been made against her, needing that time to recuperate so that she could return a barrage of attack against the beast. Similarly to before, she charged toward the hollow, was caught off guard when it had side stepped for the third time, and was promptly slammed into the ground this time by its massive tail. She coughed, having the wind knocked out of her, before throwing herself backward and up off the ground. 

A new strategy was absolutely needed at this point. She couldn't keep letting herself get ragged on like she was; it was going to wear her down much faster than she wanted to allow to happen. Though, a thought of worry washed over her. If this was the weakest hollow of the bunch, what had the next one been like? Hell, how bad would the strongest one end up being? Surely there was a way she could deal with this hollow, but what of the others? Her pondering had been cut short though, as a stream of scalding hot water flew not inches from her face.

Taking a step to the other side of the attack, Camila took this opportunity to strike back while the beast was firing an attack. She once again held her fingers to her chest, and quickly forced her reiatsu to take form there. Small bolts of lightning began to discharge, before she aimed her fingers not at the hollow this time, but at the stream of water it had been firing, and launched the hado. The electricity had run straight up the stream, stunning the hollow from a distance, and allowing her to circle in for the kill.

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(OOC: If it's possible, I'd like to train for half TP, and half Ryo with Aldwin. If not, then just TP works~)

Walking down the cold streets of Denver, Aldwin let out a sigh. He found it rather interesting that business had brought him here of all places, as opposed to his usual territory in New York. Yeah, he'd been putting his name out online more and more often as each day passed, but he never expected his business to take off like this. Sure, it wasn't anything crazy, but being able to acquire and sell illegal firearms was huge to the right buyers, and he fully intended to capitalize off of that as much as he possibly could've.

Thankfully, the plane fare out to Denver wasn't too too bad; this trip alone was going to easily cover that, and then turn an exceptional profit for himself. With that money, he could've easily hoped to kickstart a side project for himself; illegal arms, but for those spiritually inclined instead! The hollowhunting market could've easily been improved, and he absolutely knew that he needed to take the opportunity to do so if he could. There was way too much money to be made from that otherwise!

He held a suitcase full of guns to his hip, and sighed. He looked at his watch. "Hm..." he said aloud, "it's getting pretty close to noon, where is that guy? Surely he was supposed to be here by now..." With that being said, Aldwin continued his slow march into a run-down section of the city. Eventually he made it into an alley that his buyer had designated a few months back. He pulled out his phone, and compared the area to the a picture he'd received months before.

Yup. This was the place. He walked further into the alley, and decided to wait there for a little while. Eventually, a rather suspicious-looking man in a full trench coat - very similar to the one Aldwin was wearing - walked in and eyed Aldwin up and down. "You the guy?" The man asked in a rather hoarse voice, his vocal chords obviously worn down from what Aldwin could figure was a lifetime of smoking. He simply nodded in return as the man reached into his pocket, and pulled out a rather large chunk of cash.

Aldwin couldn't help but smile. He approached the man and held his hand out. The man pulled his hand back. "Whoa, the fuck do you think you're doing there buddy? The goods first, and then you'll get your money." Aldwin sighed. He handed the man the suitcase, and then held his hand out once again. "My payment?" He asked, growing increasingly annoyed with the man's behavior. The man smirked, and tucked the money back into his pocket, before kneeling down to the ground to open the suitcase.

"Not so fast there, buddy," the man started, "I'm gonna take a quick look at the goods; make sure everything's in order, and in working condition." Those last few words caused a level of nervousness to wash over Aldwin. What exactly did he mean by that? Was he planning on firing the gun here? He sighed. "I dunno what you're thinking, but you're crazy if you think I provided you with any ammunition. What kind of fool do you take me for? Now, what of my payment? I'm getting impatient."

Aldwin didn't like to get aggressive, but with someone like this, it seemed necessary in order to do so. The man sighed. "Alright, alright. You want your payment? Well..." The man stopped himself, before reaching into a back pocket, and preparing to pull out something. Aldwin immediately went on the defensive, and held his hand around a familiar silver rod. "Here's your fucking payment!" The man had pulled out a handgun, and began to open fire on Aldwin.

Almost immediately, Aldwin lit up the Selee Schneide, and began to dodge and deflect bullets to the best of his ability. He was ready for conflict, but was far from fully prepared for something like this. As such, a few shots grazed him, causing some bleeding. After a few rounds, though, the man stared in awe. "What the?!" he shouted, "how the hell are you doing that?! There's nothing there!" Aldwin made a mental note of the fact that the man couldn't see the reiatsu blade, before taking advantage of the situation at hand. 

He quickly closed the distance between him and the man, and ran the man through with the Selee schneide. Within seconds, the man went limp, and his life had been taken. He sighed. Almost immediately, he felt a wave of guilt wash over him. He didn't like the idea of taking a human life like that, but sometimes desperate times called for desperate measures. He'd need to clean up the situation as best he could, though. The last thing he wanted was this tracing back to him. 

Firstly, he took the gun from the man's hand, and pocketed it. From there, he began to search the man's clothes for anything he could find that might've been useful, and took the money that he was supposed to get from the sale. He counted through it, and sighed. He was shorted by almost $1,000. Looks like there was very little profit to be made from the trip, unless he stumbled upon some way to make a good chunk of cash quickly. After sorting through the money, he packed up the suitcase and gun that were originally in there, and took it with him as he left the alley.

Without making it very far at all, Aldwin was quickly alerted by the sound of combat. Almost immediately, he began to rush his way over to the sounds, and was greeted with what appeared to be a Shinigami finishing up an encounter with a rather annoying hollow. He watched in awe as the woman seemed to throw herself across the battlefield with apparent grace, and rather enjoyed watching her and the fluid movements she seemed to have. He smiled to himself.

As he watched her finish up what was left of the hollow, he quickly approached her as fast as he could. "Excuse me, miss," he called out, "that was an amazing fight you had! I-" he immediately cut himself off upon getting a better look at the Shinigami. To say he was taken back was an absolute understatement. He was in awe from her appearance; from here, he remembered back to the two other Shinigami he had encountered in the past; why'd they all have to be so damn cute?!

"I, uh," he began, obviously flustered from the girl's appearance, "I just uh, wanted to let you know that was an amazing fight! Your combat skills are really impressive, and I'd love to be able to possibly learn from you! That is, if you'd be interested. I've met a few other Shinigami in the past, I dunno if you'd know them, but they all left a pretty good impression on me, so I'd love to learn from you like I have them! That is, if you'd let me learn from you, y'know? I'd really appreciate it!"

He smiled, remembering the other Shinigami he had encountered in the past. First was Erina, the girl he had met while exploring that murder mystery a while ago. After that was Celes, a woman that easily kept a place within his mind from when they last met, where he had learned how to handle himself a bit. He once again turned to the shinigami in front of him. "If there's anything I could do to convince you, I'd absolutely bend over backwards to get it done! I know I might not be able to pick up the same skills, but anything at all would help!"

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Two minutes. Not even two minutes since she had finished up her fight, and some random guy had already run up to her to try to talk to her. "I just uh, wanted to let you know that was an amazing fight! Your combat skills are really impressive, and I'd love to be able to possibly learn from you! That is, if you'd be interested. I've met a few other Shinigami in the past, I dunno if you'd know them, but they all left a pretty good impression on me, so I'd love to learn from you like I have them! That is, if you'd let me learn from you, y'know? I'd really appreciate it!"

She approached the situation cautiously. "Uh, hey there," she started, with an awkward wave of her hand, "I don't know if that'd be the best of ideas. Especially when considering the fact that you might not be able to keep up; you're only human, yeah?" With that, she noticed his rather concerning arm. She sighed; sinner. She'd learned a very small amount about them back in the Academy, not that she remembered most of it, but she'd learned the telltale signs of them. This man's arm happened to be one of those signs.

"Y'know what," she said, "forget what I just said. I think this'll be a good experience for the both of us." She smirked. While letting a Sinner roam around free wasn't the best idea, she wasn't given any direct order to deal with sinners, so why should she care? She giggled to herself out of spite toward the Seireitei, and held out her hand. "So, might I ask your name if we'll be working together for a short while? I'm Camila Adaronde, future Vice Captain of Squad 13. Who might you be?"

After whatever response Aldwin might've come up with, she grabbed onto his wrist, and pulled him off to a less-populated area, now that where they were was filling up due to the recent fight. They needed to find somewhere that wasn't nearly as densely populated if she was going to find out what he was capable of at all. Being unable to really do much of anything to trace his reiatsu, she couldn't even determine how he was going to fight! Maybe he was a Bount? Perhaps even another Shinigami!

"Alright," she said, as they made their way to a rooftop that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, "I want you to try to hit me. Use any method you can in order to do so, but try to land even a single hit against me. And don't worry; I promise you that I can take it." With this, she smiled. She had always been interested in possibly training someone who wasn't as strong or as confident in their abilities! After everyone that had helped her reach where she was, and where she was going to be, she couldn't help but be excited!

Drawing her sword, Camila assumed a defensive stance. She had to be ready for anything, naturally. Having no idea how this man fought was something that was especially dangerous for her. What if he had intent to kill? What if, this entire time, he'd been masking his reiatsu? Only time would tell as to whether or not she truly needed to worry. Either way, though, she'd be happy to put up a fight, so long as he wasn't some Quincy or something! Ha, she might've just cut him down where he stood if that were the case. 

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The very first thing he was able to pick up on was her seemingly nervous voice. His heart dropped. From the very start, he knew that this wasn't a good sign. Then, her words hit like a truck; "I don't know if that'd be the best of ideas. Especially when considering the fact that you might not be able to keep up; you're only human, yeah?" He shook his head violently. "I'm absolutely more than just your run of the mill human! I've certainly got more skill than your average person! I'll prove it to you if I need to!"

It seemed his words had the desired effect that he sought! "Y'know what, forget what I just said. I think this'll be a good experience for the both of us." He couldn't help but let a huge smile rise to his face. Hell yeah, he thought, finally another experience with a Shinigami! Hopefully this'll prove to be super useful! He was ecstatic, to say the least. There were so many things he'd hopefully be able to learn! He was practically jumping up and down with excitement.

The girl's words quickly brought him back to reality, though. "So, might I ask your name if we'll be working together for a short while? I'm Camila Adaronde, future Vice Captain of Squad 13. Who might you be?" Camila Adaronde, he'd have to remember that name. "Oh! My bad, I completely forgot to introduce myself!" He scratched the back of his head. "I'm Aldwin Blackwood. It's a pleasure to meet you, future Vice Captain Camila!" Truth be told, he was very glad to have met her. A Vice Captain! Even if she wasn't there yet, she was still the highest seated Shinigami he'd ever met!

Once again, he was dragged out of his thoughts when she had grabbed him by the wrist, and whisked him off at astounding speeds. He couldn't help but freak out, his body never even coming close to moving as fast as they had been, presumably through some Shinigami magic he could only ever hope to be able to perform. Eventually, they had landed on some sort of abandoned rooftop. The view from up there was amazing! While there was likely a way up there normally, he couldn't help but still take an admirable approach of the area.

"Alright, I want you to try to hit me. Use any method you can in order to do so, but try to land even a single hit against me. And don't worry; I promise you that I can take it." Oh! Right to training, then? "You got it, Ms. Adaronde." He took a deep breath in preparation for what was to come. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to take her on, or even land so much as a simple hit for that matter. He'd need to try, though. Pulling out a Selee Schneide handle from inside of his coat, he ran his reiatsu through it in order to cause it to light up.

He'd waste no time in going on the offensive. He knew that he likely wasn't going to be able to overpower her, so he wanted to make as much use out of the makeshift sword as he could by trying to blitz her. He sprinted toward her, and threw his weapon arm forward, in an attempt to strike at her chest. Knowing this likely wasn't going to be anywhere near a success, he'd continue with a rather fluent sequence of attacks, aiming all over the place in an attempt to catch her off guard.

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Camila felt her heart sink the moment Aldwin had lit up the Selee Schneide. She felt an unrelenting amount of aggression toward the man, solely for being some kind of Quincy. This had to be an attack. There's no way her past deeds hadn't been coming back to haunt her; she remembered her time with Ailene and the slaughtering of that Quincy outpost. Surely this man had to have been an agent of that group. She'd need to cut him down where he stood, before he'd have the chance to do the same.

Then, all of her anger quickly turned to confusion as he ran forward at what seemed to be only the pace of a normal human. Was this all he was really capable of? She couldn't help but remain completely and utterly confused at the fact that he didn't seem anywhere near strong enough to come as far as to even think about taking her on. Just what had been going on here? Unfortunately for her, the mental dialogue she had been having ended up distracting her enough for Aldwin to land his first strike against her.

Having been forced to take a step backward, and winced, and got the answer she needed; there was next to no strength behind that attack of any kind. There was no way in hell that he was some kind of assassin; someone as weak as him couldn't have been! There was just no way. "Tch, lucky shot," she said, a smirk rising to her face, "I promise you that you won't be able to do it again." With that, she once again resumed a defensive stance, and prepped for another attack from Aldwin.

If he wasn't looking to kill her, he definitely wasn't some kind of assassin. That much had been confirmed. Something told her that just going all-out and trying to strike someone down that had absolutely nothing to do with her current mission was a bad idea; after all, now that she was looking to advance in her squad, worrying about her reputation was something that she needed to do significantly more than she had in the past. She couldn't just strike him down, no matter how much she might've thought to do so.

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Aldwin was immediately surprised that his first strike had landed. That... wasn't supposed to happen, was it? He'd been taken back to say the least, he didn't seem to deserve that hit. As such, he wouldn't go through with making the additional attacks at all. He stood there and reeled back as she seemed to backstep, far faster than he could hope to see. She really was a Shinigami, being able to move all quick like that through whatever Shinigami had access to that he didn't, huh. He'd have to ask her about that.

Why did she just take the hit, though? Surely there was something odd going on, especially after she had told him that he wouldn't be able to even come close to landing a hit, and here he was able to do it on his first try? What had caused her to just power through the strike? "Tch, lucky shot, I promise you that you won't be able to do it again." These words couldn't help but cause a smirk to rise to Aldwin's face. Any thought of suspicion had faded from him, and his main goal was to land another attack.

Once again, he rushed toward her, and attempted to strike down the middle; if it worked the first time, surely it had to work the second, no? She'd likely be ready to block against it, so he'd need some sort of plan otherwise. After the first strike, he'd pull back and spin around, aiming to strike at her waist from the left side. A hit like that would hopefully be able to catch her off guard! If it worked, he'd back off. If not, he'd continue with a similar flurry of strikes like the one he had planned.

Whatever the outcome of his strikes, he'd throw around his sword with some sort of wanton bloodlust. It was far unlike him; perhaps it was something to do with that arm of his? He'd never really acted like this before, though he was somewhat enjoying the rush of adrenaline from each strike he had lashed out against her. He felt like a whole new version of himself! Enjoying being able to go nuts with attacks, he kept up the pressure, and didn't let up in the slightest.

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Camila was surprised to say the least by the amount of energy Aldwin was putting into his strikes. It's like he was some sort of different person altogether. While she didn't necessarily need to try to deflect his hits, she figured she'd put on a show of sorts in order to make it look like she was exerting the effort required in order to do so. She was in a league of her own compared to him, though she didn't want to make it feel like that for him if she didn't need to.

After a few minutes of keeping this up, with Aldwin likely unable to land so much as another hit, Cami decided to call it there. "Alright, alright," she started, "you're good to stop here. I was able to get a pretty good idea of where you'll need work and where you're doing pretty good!" She sheathed her blade, and walked over to him. "Alright," she said, "take up an offensive posture. You've got some work to do with your form if you want to make sure that you're able to dish out enough damage while preventing as much as possible."

She stood behind the taller man, and gently kicked at his legs, as to motion for him to bring them closer together. "Legs closer," she started, continuing to position his legs with hers, "make sure your stance is as thin as possible. It'll be harder for someone in front of you to flank if you lessen the areas where you make yourself a target." She grabbed his arms, and readjusted them to allow for smaller movements to get his blade where they needed to be. After a few moments of continuing like this, she eventually backed off.

"Perfect!" Camila exclaimed, "you're already looking much, much better than you fought with. If someone was opposing you instead of just defending, I'd like to think you'd be much more likely to survive! Good job there, Aldwin!" She was effectively cheering him on to the best of her ability. She'd thought he might like the positive reinforcement, as a lot of people tend to be receptive to that kind of stuff. Hopefully he was one of them. "Alright, now that that's all said and done, I want you to hold that position for a few minutes; commit it to muscle memory, y'know?"

With that being said, Camila backed off, and sat down on the ground. She wanted to relay a message back to Seireitei to alert that the first enemy of twenty was taken down, and that the others would be pursued shortly after. After she was finished, she turned back to Aldwin and smiled. "Alright," she said, "you can drop the stance. We're going to be leaving here somewhat shortly, so you'd best get yourself ready. Our next stop is Chicago, Illinois. Hopefully you've got some way to get there?"

She knew that comment was likely going to be met with backlash. She remembered how difficult it would have been while she was alive to procure a plane ticket in record speed like that, it likely would've been impossible in such short notice. Still, she decided to await his response. Who knows? Aldwin could've had some kind of private jet or something, and that would've benefitted the two of them immensely, to say the least. Only time would tell if that was the case, though.

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Aldwin nodded. Truth be told, he was incredibly excited to head out, though he really wasn't sure how he'd end up making his way to Chicago. There were way too many problems with the idea of making it there in one day, but who was he to say anything to a Shinigami like that? The best he could do was suck it up, and try to see if he could book a same-day flight. He didn't really have an option, if he wanted to make his way there in time. "I'll see what I can do," he said, a nervous smile rising on his face, "I'll let you know when I'm headed there."

From there, he wrote down his personal phone number on a small slip of paper. It was safe to assume that there was no way she couldn't make use of this, with all of her soul magic and all that, right? Either way, he'd need to leave and get to work on heading to Chicago almost immediately. He had absolutely no time to lose. The moment he made his way off the top of the building they had been residing at, he'd make haste back to the motel he'd been staying at while in Denver.

Within a few minutes, he'd found a flight that'd be able to eventually get his ass to Chicago. He'd need to board two planes in order to get there, so it wasn't something he'd enjoy doing, but it was really the only way he'd be able to get there for as cheap as he could. He found a steal for ticket prices, so he absolutely needed to take the time to capitalize on it. This was an experience he really could not afford to pass up, and as such, he'd been spending a pretty large sum of money in order to actually do so.

Sighing, he bought the tickets online. He'd need to leave in about an hour, so that gave him time to pack up, and check out of the motel. It didn't take him too long, as all he really needed to pack up was his tools, his laptop, and the prototype selee schneide he had nonchalantly tossed on the bed before leaving for the trade deal he was going to make. Once everything was all packed up, he began to make his way to the airport, as he had a long, long series of hunts ahead of him.

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