#empulse

With her claws entangled in EMP's braid, she has managed to catch the girl right before she could run a whole distance.

If her menacing tone spoke nothing of the threat behind her eyes, then her smile would be the deliverance.

"Oh, honey~" It's drawn out in her southern drawl, that's been mixed with socialite sparkles and sultry charm from her years of both climbing up the social and sinner ladder. A hand that would usually go to grab the cute lil chief's chin - should they ever need any encouragement or ease in similar situations - goes instead to hold EMP's face, squishing her cheeks between thumb and middle finger. "Stop thinking of the negative options here. It'll only make you crumble faster." Her stare is loving yet intense, obviously caring for the other, yet also obviously wanting to inject that love with full force to make EMP shut her anxious trap.

"Oh rea~lly?" The mocking tone reverberates in the room they were both sat in, both of them with controllers in hand and chowing down on the chips lovingly requested by the chief for the pantry. They're both getting crumbs everywhere, which no one will be happy about, and that they'll both point at each other and mock at some point. But a different conversation piece has now plagued their minds instead -

{ Blanket Fort Prompts- x !! }

"Y-Yay!! Thank you! I'm really happy you don't mind. I promise it'll be fun. And yes, got it: I'll bring all that!" As he continues talking to Emp on the phone, Shuichi heads to his closet to pull out a big duffel bag, so that he could begin stuffing pillows and blankets in it. He even-shy as he was to do so-plopped a couple of plushies inside as well.

And then in his bag, he packed a change of clothes for tomorrow morning, and pondered if he should also pack his pajamas, or just change into them now and just head to her house already in them. After a moment of thinking about it, he thought it’d be easier to just do the latter, to already get it out of the way. "Okay, I'm packing as much of those things as I can. Is there anything else you'd like for me to bring? I’ll bring some snacks as well if you’d like!”

" wrong. " what an idiot! someone remind her why she was the unlucky one that ended up being paired with idiot emp... " that's not how it goes, it's never be the smartest person in the room. " and when the room only consists of herself and emp, hella is always stuck being the smartest person.

with his shield heavy on his arm, he walks a single pace in front of the girl, leading the way to face danger head-on if it crossed paths with the two. demon moves swiftly and surely, his expression unchanging as he guides the archer through a heavily contaminated building, tasked with clearing the stairwell out for her to reach the top of the building so she could work to clear a larger area easily. his only mission was to protect her, and he would do so without hesitation.

they round a corner and a corruptor roars and staggers its way toward them and he hears emp let out a scream. he turns his arm so that the monster crashes right into his shield and falls flat on its back, and then he brings the bottom of his shield down on its neck, taking its head clean off. his free arm outstretches towards her, wrapping around her trembling shoulders and tugging her along and up yet another set of stairs. they hadn't ever really held a proper conversation before, he mostly ignores all of the sinners back at the mbcc and does his missions quietly, but upon hearing her timid voice speak up he feels his heart being gripped, his mind wandering back to his sister, vera. he wonders if she was scared when she was taken, and what her last moments were like in this world.