A Lonely Observer [Invite]

Mitsuoki had caught on to the fact that the woman had known that he was a soul reaper, as well as the distinct tone in her voice. His request to touch her ears was diclined, which, admittedly, was a disappointment. He looked at the movement of the tail and how natural it seemed to be. If it were an illusion, it was a damn good illusion. At the same time, he had noticed that the pink haired woman had taken the snack from his gigai and immediately backed up to give herself a considerable amount of range, easily out of Mitsuoki's striking range with a great deal of spare room.

The gigai had opened up his mouth while breaking off another two strands of his Zwizzlers and putting them in her hand and asked "So, pinkette-" which is when Mitsuoki interrupted him and said "She said her name was Kara. You must earn the right to assign others nicknames." The mod soul replied "Right... I'll remember that." Mitsuoki turned to the mod soul and looked at her with cold eyes. "You there, Kara." he said, addressing her directly. His tone was every bit as cold as his gaze, but at the same time, it was emotionless. Mitsuoki bowed respectfully to her and said "I am Mitsuoki, this is Thirty Seven. Please refrain from inquiring his choice of nomenclature, I am yet to have a reason provisioned." The gigai gave a gentle 'hello' hand wave and a light smile when his name was said. If Kara was paying attention, she would notice that Mitsuoki used her name, and not addressing her as an object. "I wish to inquire why it is that you engaged this strange woman in combat?"

If Kara had mentioned that Nadezhda was a hollow, Mitsuoki would reach into his kimono and pull out a package of Zwizzlers of his own and pull another piece. He would stick it in his mouth and begin chewing it while holding the rest of the packet, all of it, out to Kara as a means of thanking her. He had eaten the one piece to prove that the contents weren't poisoned, since, no one would logically poison themselves. He'd then turn to the hollow with the same cold expression he had when addressing Kara. "That illusion of yours is impressive, nameless hollow. I am now further intrigued. You have been here long enough to have had many viable targets, and I was hiding my spiritual pressure the entire time. Why is it that you did not attack? Was it that you knew Kara was behind you and did not wish to reveal yourself? Or another reason?" Assuming this situation played out, Nade would be able to notice that Mitsuoki didn't have his hand on his sword at all.

The reply given was interesting. Nade had told Mitsuoki that any other hollow would readily attack him or any human in the area without restraint. It was something that Mitsuoki fully believed. His opinion of hollows hadn't changed so greatly that he would expect every hollow to be the same as she was. His opinion had simply changed to 'hollows are capable of restraining themselves, sometimes' and nothing greater.

Before his question could be answered, the hollow had let herself fall out of the tree and land on the ground in its true form. It was considerably larger, much older looking, and much less cute than before. It told Mitsuoki that the forest was filled only with the weakest of hollows, and the ones that he... she... it was after had long since left that place. It was during this time that he noticed Kara pointing at him and paused. This signaled Mitsuoki that she was hesitating for some reason, and he had begun half listening to the conversation that she and thirty seven were having. At the same time, he was half listening to the fact that the hollow had told him that this word had drawn in the better, more powerful hollows. There was some sadness in the hollow's tone when he commented that he awaited the say when he would no longer need to feast. Mitsuoki knew that hollows were perpetually hungry, so it didn't surprise him at all that he was awaiting that day.

Thirty seven was about to say how cool Kara was when she ran past him, charging at the hollow. Mitsuoki would say "Kyomon." and the air a few feet in front of Nadezhda would shimmer before an invisible wall was formed between the mod soul and soul reaper. "Kara, you had pointed to me first. I am to assume that you were originally going to admit to having killed soul reapers before." His eyes had been cold while addressing both of them, and they had remained that way. It made him unpredictable, and his unchanging tone didn't do him any justice. "However, I hold no issues with that." Thirty seven had looked at Mitsuoki with a confused expression, surprised that he didn't care about a mod soul that killed her creators. "I have read into your creation. Not you, specifically, but your kind in general. You were made to be inserted into human corpses, to reanimate them, to fight hollows like that one. When the research and development bureau finally grew a conscience, they ordered all of you to be destroyed, rather than simply ceasing production and having the existing ones fight hollows with gigai. Those soul reapers you killed were either attempting genocide, or attempting to capture you to continue the genocide. They reaped that which they have sown."

Mitsuoki had then turned his gaze to the hollow. "I find you to be intriguing, hollow. You are different from the ones that I have met, and are not consumed so greatly by your hunger that you would attack everything in sight. You are the exception to my list of beings that I wish to kill. This will be the first time I ask this to a hollow, without having already drawn my blade... What is your name?" Regardless of his answer, Mitsuoki would say "Kara, I formally request that you await the arrival of a different hollow. This one has the potential to become something greater, something that cannot even be called a hollow at all. The next hollow that shows up will undoubtedly be of the standard variety, feel free to have at that one. Just know that this one will also be going after it, most likely." Thirty seven was looking at Mitsuoki as though he were insane. He knew that he was a different flavor of soul reaper, but he didn't think that even Mitsuoki would refuse to strike down a hollow. Mitsuoki turned back to Nadezhda and said "Just so I am informed... Are you male or female? Your past and current form are very conflicting."