Chapter 1405 - 1404: No Hesitation
Valid points were made and the decision was drawn up to a group vote once again, with no surprise at all coming from who voted which way; Draka didn’t want to be dragged into yet another dangerous situation while Lady Fenyras was practically egging us on the entire time.
It really didn’t surprise me that we were now on the prowl hunting for the Elves and their new Arch Fiend companion, but I still held my own misgivings for actively searching for a fight against people we didn’t have any information on.
Who knows what progress they had made after so long away from us, and Cali telling us that they could have gotten even stronger thanks to them allowing the Arch Fiend - who they had likely contracted themselves to - direct access to their bodies to extract any Lust energy right from the source.
That would make everything they did together all the better for their improvements since the interactions were amplified by that direct access, but still I was hopeful that the time we had spent here far outweighed there own and that Cali was capable of handling the Arch Fiend that they had found for themselves.
Hopefully she wasn’t just over inflating her own worth to me over and over again whenever I had tried to pry into the workings of the Fiend power rankings, and hopefully all of the other Fiends we had encountered weren’t doing the same for her out of some weird respect or something...
Ignoring the ’hurt’ look she gave me upon thinking that, I just focused on the streets around me as I continued to search for any signs of the Elves, walking just behind Jahi and Mom as they took the vanguard positions while Lady Fenyras and Lilith remained at the back.
The idea of facing an Arch Fiend in battle diverted the Demon Wolf’s attention from me as she instead focused on the ’juicy’ battle ahead, one that I was hoping she might not even have to take.
I still understood why we were here, and I was able to understand the logic behind their - Jahi and Leone specifically - argument as to why we should be here, but I still believed it best to just take what we had been given and cut loose now.
Why take a risk on something we were completely uncertain about..?
But I also wasn’t going to lie to myself and say that the idea of ending this once and for all wasn’t appealing to me, hence why I was out here with them and not ’fighting’ them still back at the camp.
How long we were going to have to search wasn’t even something any of us wanted to consider either, and since there was the possibility of them being in a Trial right now all the hope was on them finishing it sometime soon since otherwise we could be here for a long, long time.
Perhaps fate was ’smiling’ on us, or maybe now that we were aware of their presence we were actually able to locate them with ease, but either way it didn’t actually take that long for us to catch on to the trail they had left behind, allowing us to pursue them swiftly as we rushed through the silent and still city streets as fast as we could.