She made a pop sound with her lips and walked out of the bathroom in a long black dress, a purple rose in her hair, a simple white purse across her shoulder, and her hair curled. Tundra stood near the steps in a white button up shirt and black jeans.
"You look nice," Tundra said while staring at her.
She gave him a thanks under her breath, her heels clicking as she walked over to him, grabbed him by the scruff and kissed it to leave a black lipstick mark on it. She nodded, "Okay, that's all I needed. I'll buy you a new shirt if it doesn't come off."
"What? Are you scared she'll try to steel me or something?" Tundra asked teasingly.
Hirune scoffed as she held his hand with her fingers interlaced with his, "As if." 'You know if you're going to be this possessive at least tell him you like him.' 'I'm not being possessive I'm being safe.'
Tundra suddenly pulled her in by the waist, "If you're going to try and show that I'm yours at least do it somewhere obvious like my face."
Her throat closed a bit as she blushed hard, "You're not mine, you're the teams." 'You... I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.'
Tundra laughed as he let go of her waist and grabbed her hand again, doing the same thing as her and interlacing their fingers as they started on their way.
***
The tension grew by the second, the sounds of plates and forks scrapping against each other echoing in their ears, the voices of the people around them enunciating themselves as their ears rang. Hirune sat neatly with perfect posture next to Tundra, who was leaning into his seat. Across from them sat Arachne, who seemed unsure whether to beam with joy or use her fork to kill someone. Next to them, stood the poor waiter, who could feel the tension from a mile away.
"A-are you all ready to order?" The waiter asked with a shake in their voice. The gaze of the three strangers turned to them. The one covered in a dress that seemed to constantly morph slightly spoke first, "May I get, the uh... The deep-fried calamari?" The waiter noted that down and nodded. Then the half-moon witch spoke, "May I get, uh... the uh...uh... May I get the pescado al Tristeño?" The waiter nodded again and turned to the pristine gentlemen. "I'll just take the chicken nuggets," he answered, taking advantage that the waiter thought this moment was too awkward to refuse them any food to order something off of the kid's menu. The waiter nodded and walked off to the kitchen.
"Well, I guess I should introduce you two. Arachne this is," he paused considering the situation. "Justica, Justica this is Arachne." Hirune gave him a look, and he passed her a note under the table.
'She's a former assassin that might've come back into action. In fact, she might be one of the assassins that are after you.'
Hirune nodded, "Nice to meet you Arachne, I've heard quite good things about you." She gave her a warm smile, behind that smile, a glare that could make a lion die of a heart attack.
Arachne smiled back, "Nice to meet you too, he told me you'd be here. Although, I thought your half silver half black hair thing was only a part of that family full of witches though."
Hirune giggled, "I've been told that many times, in fact that made me get a DNA test. Turns out, I'm really distantly related to them and I'm the only one for a long time in my family to actually have the same thing as the main branch of the witch's family."
"That's cool! So, are you from here?"
"No, I'm from Chinpai," Hirune responded as she'd recently learnt a lot about Chinpai and how interesting it actually was. In fact, she was in such a Chinpanese time of her life that she learnt the basics of the language in case she ever went.
"Oh~! I've heard that the architecture there is beautiful! Especially the Aka shrine!" Arachne added that last part to hopefully get Hirune to give away her identity. According to the information she'd gotten from an anonymous source, Hirune had received a blessing from the blood goddess, so if she asked about the shrine, it would give her away.
'She's trying to get you to give yourself away with that last part, don't ask about it,' Namulenza warned.
Hirune nodded and smiled brightly at Arachne as the waiter came back with their food, extremely confused by the sudden change in the environment and set the plates for each of them before going to tend another table.
"I know right! The buildings there are so pretty! Especially that one house that has a harp made of spiders! You should really take a look at that one it was so pretty! You know, legend says that if someone with the Arachne artifact plays it, they'll awaken their full potential!"
Arachne's eyes widened for a split second before she beamed, "Really? That sounds so interesting1 Maybe I'll go there if I ever visit."
Tundra then cleared his throat and butted in as he ate one of his nuggets, "Well now that you two get along, let's talk about the reason we came here."
They both got serious the second he mentioned that, "Yes, the Holgi situation. Yeah, that's the next place I plan to massacre, why?"
Hirune's eyebrow twitched and her jaw clenched. Tundra held her hand under the table and rubbed it with his dumb, "Well that's all I really wanted to ask about, you two can keep talking though if you want." It was dead quiet for a moment, then Tundra whispered, "xiao~!"
Before they left for the restaurant they'd come up with a codeword if Arachne said she was going to massacre Holgi. Which Hirune originally did want to convince her otherwise if she said she did, but Tundra said she wouldn't back down because she was extremely hardheaded. for a while, they drafted codewords, until Hirune in a whimsical voice said, "xiao~!" Which Tundra instantly responded to with, "perfect." And that's how they came up with the codeword for them killing Arachne to be Xiao.
Hirune's eye turned blood red as she said 'devour' and swatted her out of the restaurant onto the road. They stood up on the table and jumped out the window while staring her down, preparing for whatever she had in store.