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Character(s): Emizel
Content: Vacancy in the Netherworld sucks
Setting: Outside Overlord Castle
Time: Day after the 13th?
Notes/Warnings: Cranky demon

This was...dumb. In no way was Emizel going to let himself be bossed by some bratty demon, he had far more dignity than that. This probably meant he wouldn't be able to use the dimension gate when it's fixed anyway... Maybe there had to be another way to get home. Surely there is another gatekeeper in this Netherworld somewhere, maybe with a portal that isn't broken. Either way, Emizel especially can't stick around here.

Now then...how to get off this gigantic lava rock--oh, there a sort of bridge formation over there. That works.

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"Where are you going?"

Flonne wasn't surprised to see some people leaving; she couldn't blame them with Laharl being how he was and all. She was rather miffed at the young Overlord's behaviour. None of these people wanted to be here. It was all some accident. It didn't feel right at all to her to treat everyone as Laharl had in his mind to.

On the other hand, it didn't feel completely unfair to ask for at least a little assistance in the castle. She'd never convince Laharl, however, to be that nice. At least she'd convinced him to lower that ridiculous rent amount he'd come up with. Flonne felt she'd just have to help them all as much as they could and try to make them feel welcome. Hopefully it would counteract Laharl to some extent.

Still, if any were going to leave, she'd hope they would at least know what they were getting into. The Netherworld could be a very rough place.

"Where does it look like--" as Emizel turned, his eyes widen. It..looked a lot like that archangel, it sounded like the archangel. But it couldn't be, how would she be here? And besides, this one wasn't even an angel at all.

Sadly he forgot what he was saying because of it and shook his head. "I'm gonna find out how to get home, that's what."

"I see," she murmured, tilting her head slightly at his expression. Why was he looking at her like that?

"You might not find that out there. The best chance of that is probably here, at the castle. The Dimensional Gatekeeper knows really well how it works, so if anyone can figure it out, it would be her!" she told him, sounding pretty confident in it. The chances of answers being elsewhere in the Netherworld felt unlikely to her.

"And if it's something bigger going on, I'm sure Laharl will get to the bottom of it!" If just to stop all the people from arriving in his castle.

A lot of that there did seem rather fine and logical. Perhaps he should just give the Gatekeeper a chance at least, and ease up a bit. One thing, however..

"You're 'sure'?" Emizel repeated, and looked a little unimpressed. "If he won't to do anything about it now, why should I trust that he'll do something later?"

Why bother trusting him at all, for that matter.

"He will! I'm sure of it!" she responded, still sounding fairly confident. She believed in Laharl and believed if the situation did get more serious, he'd attend to it.

At least, she was pretty sure, anyways.

And if he didn't, well then she'd just have to do her best to convince him. She couldn't see him not, however. Dimensional travel was very important to demons; almost everywhere they went they used the dimensional gate. She couldn't imagine that was something they could leave broken for very long.

A bit more consideration may have gone further about this, it's hard to analyze any of this in the long term though; that Overlord did after all make a lousy first impression. It's probably a miracle this Netherworld was still afloat if it had leadership like that.

For a moment Emizel might have thought about going back inside after all, but that thought paused and he frown...or pouted, whichever. More fussy than it probably had to be, regardless. "--But I ain't nobody's vassal!"

Sure not paying to stay somewhere he didn't even choose to be, that's for sure.

"A-ah... That..."

Flonne's face dropped as Emizel reminded her of that whole thing. She felt terrible about it, and wished Laharl had a different way of dealing with all this, but at the moment she couldn't convince him. Rent or becoming vassals was actually the improved option. He had been wanting to just toss them all out. If it was her choice, she'd have allowed them to be guests, but that wasn't happening.

"I'm really very sorry about that," she apologized, bowing as she did. "It's not really that bad though? I mean, Etna just orders the prinnies to do anything Laharl asks her to do and a lot of the others don't really do anything at all..."

Flonne did help out around the castle, but that was more of her own choice than being ordered.

Maybe it wasn't really all that bad.

"Still..."

Emizel actually did feel a bit bad about this. It's obvious that she really wants to help, and it wasn't her fault, but at the same time there's nothing that apparently can be done about it.

"I can't let something like that ruin my reputation even more!"

Well, she'd done all she could at this point. Clasping her hands before her, she nodded, trying to be understanding. "I see, then. Well, please be careful!" Flonne told him. If all she could do was wish him the best, she'd do just that.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself, did I?" she suddenly said, realizing she hadn't done so. "I'm Flonne."

Flonne...?

"You can't..."

That was also the same name Artina used for her, wasn't it? But how-- There's no way there could be that many similarities. Enough to hold the phone on the displacement problem for a minute.

Emizel walked closer. "Then you are the Archangel!" this probably would call for some flailing, but he'll try to resist. "But how, why are you a demon now?!"

Oh no..this isn't because she helped them, was it? Except wouldn't she remember that? This is all too weiiiird.

Flonne's face turned surprised at the sudden recognition, then rather blank. Did... he just call her an archangel?

"...Eh?"

What? Why ever would he think she was an archangel? Unless...

"I think you must have me confused with someone else or... something," Flonne suggested. That would make sense, right? "I've never been an archangel. I was only an angel trainee, before I became a fallen angel."

"But you both have the same name, and you do look a lot like her...except for the not being an angel part," but a fallen angel..that definitely means that this Flonne was an angel of some kind at some point. Well, a trainee apparently.

"You don't have like a twin or somethin', do you?"

Another Flonne? Flonne didn't know anyone who had the same name as her, much less who was an angel, or a high ranking one, for that matter. She was pretty sure she'd be aware of them if there somehow was.

"Eh? No, not at all," she replied, looking entirely confused at this point.

"That is..very odd," like everything else, there had to be an explanation for it somewhere. Maybe if Emizel got out of this worthless Netherworld he could try asking the Flonne he knew. Surely he will met her again, with Artina presumably staying it was possible.

Speaking of that..

"At any rate, you can go ahead and tell that Overlord of yours if you want that Death Emizel refuses to work for him. I can take care of myself just fine."

As long he needed to, anyway. Hopefully.

Edited 2014-03-29 07:37 (UTC)

Odd was an understatement. The whole conversation was weird, and Flonne was at a loss to just what Emizel was on about. Who looked that much like her? Besides, she didn't think the job of arch angel had even been filled since Vulcanus. Weird, just very very weird.

"Ah... Alright then. Please be careful out there," Flonne replied, hoping he'd be alright. At least he was a demon, so he'd probably be okay, unlike many of the others.

Also outside the castle by that point, and not in the mood for any of this, was Bunny. She was in no way thrilled with the idea of having to work or otherwise pay for something that wasn't any fault of her own, but had by some miracle refrained from causing any more scenes in or around the castle while on her way out.

She was certain that Chelsea would be following suit soon enough as well, and wasn't particularly surprised when she saw any others ambling through the castle gates and heading outside for themselves, even if some of those individuals did soon turn right around and go back in.

Having little to do out here at the moment, though, she was bored. It probably wouldn't hurt much to kill some time trying to actually chat with someone for once. Hopefully someone who wouldn't wind up getting on her bad side, as unfortunately-easy as that often proved to be.

"Didn't want to deal with that crap either, huh?" She called out.

Glad to know Emizel wasn't the only one bailing...even if he has no idea who that is. ~~And probably stay mostly away from cuz girl.~~ Heading out completely alone admittedly was pretty nerve wracking.

"Someone has to know what's going on.."

"I know, right?" Her opinion of the overall situation was likely already clear. "And that brat wants us to pay or make up to him for whatever's going on when it isn't even our fault? Give me a break!"

She'd gotten the impression that Laharl didn't care so much about how any of them ended up there as he did how he could possibly benefit from it, and it pissed her off. She wasn't going to put up with that, not unless any other options were found to be either somehow more-unreasonable or simply nonexistent. That or if Chelsea somehow decided the terms were acceptable. Then Bunny would have to stick around, considering Chelsea was the one helping her look for a way to get rid of her cat-curse.

Even if that ended up being the case, it didn't mean she had to like it.

"Maybe I should have started beating some real answers out of people while I was still inside..."

"...I don't think that would help. It does seem like they really don't know," Emizel will give that benefit of the doubt, at least. Unless this was some elaborate scheme for the Overlord to have more vassals or something, but that might be tricky to uncover.

"But there is plenty strange about this."

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