Some Good News

Shuffled together in a desolated room, the two individuals reluctantly settled themselves at opposite sides, facing each other. Thankfully, or maybe not, the room was tightly cramped for them to manage for a seat on the hard, creaky wooden floor. The Monster Girl raised her hand and wiggled her fingers, still finding it awkward to have in place for her paws. He stared as she waved her hand around, feeling quite bored in their private, quiet sanctum. The motion she continued making would constantly rattle the chain on and on, making the corner of his lip twitch.

"Will you stop that insistent hand wavering as if you were sewing magic? It's annoying."

Dimyri kept quiet before flexing her hand into a fist and lifting her thumb.

"Why do you bother keeping company to those Nekomatas when you could walk away instead?"

"You guys wouldn't stop hunting anyways, doesn't matter if you caught us. It won't be enough to satisfy would it?" Dimyri retorted with an angry look.

Raz shifted around in his position. "We don't need the Nekomatas, why do you care so much for them anyway? What's your stake in this?"

"Maybe that's because I am a Nekomata you moron!" She hissed, causing his eyes to widen. "I'm under a curse or something, that monster hunter did this to me."

"What, why?"

"I don't know! He must have messed up or something, putting on a seal so I couldn't transform." She growled, noticing his puzzled look. "What?"

"There's no such thing as a spell or seal that I know of but... I don't know much when it comes to magic either way-" He fell backwards as the door he leaned on was pulled ajar, pulling Dimyri forward by their chain. She fell on top of him as both glanced up to find Janette tilting her head.

"Hey, we need a group chat. He comes with too." A moment later, Raz found himself sat at a chair with both hands tied together and Syri relentlessly swiping at her sisters' chain. Everyone had gathered around with Janette taking the lead. "So, your mom just told us that our little hunter is on our side."

"What? He kidnapped me!"

"Yea, and he beat me up!" KuliKuli added.

Janette raised her hand. "Yea I get that too, I'm not ignoring that but there is something weird going on. Sooo, we tried asking the magic book."

"Oh, and what did it say?" She asked, ignoring Raz's questionable look. Janette flipped it open and turned it to face them.

IT IS LIKELY THEY KNOW EACH OTHER

"That's... I mean I could have figured that out."

Felix jumped in. "We found out the reason it stays vague is because it doesn't know anything that we don't know."

"It knows as much as the user does, and apparently it gets knowledge in a very weird way." Janette added, clearing her throat. "Tell us how do you know your information?"

MY INTELLECT REACHES AS FAR AS MY NONEXISTENT HAND

"What?"

Raz frowned. "How the heck did you get th-ow!"

Syri pushed him forward hard, stretching his arm before swiping down to split the metal that tied him to Dimyri. She leaped in celebration with DImyri raising her hand and grinning, "Got it!"

"That's not possible! Those chains are afflicted with holy essence, monsters should not be able to break them." Raz exclaimed.

"Oh did your father tell you that?" Dimyri scoffed as suddenly the book was thrown into Raz's lap. He lifted it before it was taken from him by Janette.

"Gimme! Got it, tie him up!" Syri snickered as Felix appeared behind him with rope in hand, getting to work despite Raz's struggles.

"Hey! No, you can't do this!"

"Shut it mister, we can and we have!" Dimyri shouted before checking on Janette. "Ask it."

"Where is Perdilius' hideout?" She smiled as the words began to form.

DELIGHTED YOU ASKED!

The following print began to detail directions on where to travel from several miles east to a number of paces north. Felix and KuliKuli held each other close as the girls began to giggle with excitement. "Felix, I think this is it."

"Sure is, thank you Jay."

Janette beamed. "Don't thank me, it was Reta who figured this out. Alright, they burned down my house. Sounds natural we go visit their house in return!"