Orb swings the coin in Elia's and says, "Now we should get going, but what part of the parade should we head to?"
Elia says, "I love the sea," moving up close to Orb.
"Perfect, we should get going."
Orb takes a step back, and with the force of a whip, Elia grabs his hand and says, "The woman of the date is led, the man leads."
"Since when did I become the woman?"
"When I asked you out bitch."
She hides her face a bit with her hair, then she meekly points to the left of her body, where an extensive series of shops are restocking for the eventual parade that will pass through the area.
Looking at Orb, she says, "Let's go that way. I am sure we would be able to make it to the parade at express time."
As Orb stares right into the girl's eyes, which are filled with nothing but material pleasure, he says, "God doesn't seem to be with you right now."
"Don't you know, some branches of the faith believe the more material wealth you have, the more likely you are to be chosen."
"Cults that were eliminated. Or so Captivant said." Swinging his head back, Orb says, "Though I can't expect a man to comprehend that. Just continue to live only for your desires like usual."
Under her breath, "Woman. Lacking foresight, as usual."
Then both stare at each other, and Elia says, "Now let's go forward," while taking significant steps towards.
Hearing no movement from behind her, she turns around and says, "What are you doing?"
Behind her, Orb freezes in movement and says, "What's going on? What is this?" With bright green hair.
His arm suddenly flings to the side, and he pulls back against it like an arm is holding directly onto his arm and pulling it away from Elia. Orb then uses his legacy to ground himself, and then continues to pull against this imaginary arm with such passion that a mime would cry from its eyes just looking at his love for the art form.
People walking through the streets around them start to clap and throw little coins at him, and he says, "Elia, I have no idea what is happening. It's like something is grabbing and pulling the amulet away from me! I guess it wants me to go down the alleyway over there."
Elia, annoyed, gently walks over to him, raises her legs, desires the poofy skirt and moves it downwards towards Orb's head, prepared to smash his skull against the ground.
But he unfreezes his feet and moves forward saying, "It looks like its pull has become far too strong, I guess I have no choice."
As he reaches the alleyway, all of the pretence drops and he starts to run, causing Elia to say, "Get back here, you crazy woman!"
They both head into the alleyway, and Elia tries to reach for Orb's left hand with the amulet in it, but he quickly throws it to his right hand, and then interlocks his fingers with hers with his left hand, and says with a shy blush, "Already? I thought you'd take me out for a meal before going for this."
"That's just the start, baby. I will make sure to pound you down right from the start."
Elia constantly tries to swipe at Orb, but he continues to evade her despite their close proximity, while saying, "Will she reach her target, or will her wonderful date tonight keep avoiding he grasp, it really is anyone game from this point forward. Shall a new legend be crafted or will the legendary hero succumb to the whims of the infecting prince?"
Elia swipes her hands at the amulet, but Orb continues to flip it from one hand to another, making her unable to catch. Though as he does it again, Elia moves her hands to reach for the amulet, but stops halfway and claps them together, which freezes him in motion, and then she raises her left leg and tries to smack his temple with the back of her heel.
Barely dodging, the heel moves right into one of the walls beside the building, breaking it and sending debris, which makes Orb sweat as he says, "That's not humanly possible!"
Fluttering her hair, she says, "All things are possible through god's power!" Then, like a vicious beast, she continues forward.
"You're not going to catch me."
"Every human has patterns, whether unconscious or not."
As Orb throws the amulet from hand to hand, Elia quickly moves to intercept it, predicting its pattern beforehand, causing Orb to send spirit energy through his body, and move his hands barely fast enough to grab it before her.
Orb stares at her with grey hair, and she says, "The amount of times you breathe, the number of times your eyes twitch, the patterns of your footwork, the speed and rate at which you throw things, the twitching of your muscles, it's just data. And if I run enough of it through my brain, I can figure out even you."
With pink hair, Orb blushes and cutely turns his face to the side, and says, "You really want to know that much about me."
Rushing forward in the alleyway, she says, "In obsessive detail."
Orb takes a step back, and takes some of the debris broken off earlier, and kicks it onto the top of his right foot. Then he continues to throw the amulet from hand to hand without any stop.
Elia freezes for a moment, and stares at all of his movements, and says, "I gotcha."
As her hand moves to intercept the amulet, Orb kicks the stop upwards, launching it right into his mouth, then hugs Elia using his arms. He bends his knees and flips backwards, maintaining his feet on the ground while his back is parallel to the floor.
With the amulet in his mouth, he mumbles, "Then I will just keep changing to keep your attention, Elia."
She moves her lips over to the amulet and bites down on it while keeping her eyes locked on Orbs. To an onlooker it would look like a scene that would make a grown man blush, but unknown to them would be the deadly battle happening between the two.
Orb grits his teeth, violently pulls his head back trying to break it out of Elia's iron grip, but no matter how much force he tries to output, Elia pushes him back at every step, completely dominating him in their battle of strength.
The eyes lock with each other, and Elia pushes Orb's arm into the ground as he pushes his leg in between her legs. Both of their teeth crunch down on the amulet with even more force than before, and to both of their surprise, the parts of the amulet they bite down on break off and the force released sends the amulet skipping down the road in front of them.
Elia moves, and Orb follows close behind her as they head towards the amulet, but it keeps skipping until it falls straight through a pedestrian guard rail.
Both Elia and Orb move right over to it, and in front fo them they see an area of the city that has a series of slanted paths and guard rails to allow people to move from a higher position to a lowers position, and at the bottom of that lower position is an area around the very same river both Iancu, and Suzuka ended up in.
Through that river, a series of floats move through, mainly of which are ships going through the water in colours representing the cursed sea region, though one float on the back of what looks to be a giant, long-legged creature walks around above the area as its giant but thin legs continue through the area.
Many people line up in the streets at the lower level of the area to see the floats with their friends and family, but blazing on top of them are a two human fiercely moving from guard rail, to guard rail to reach the amulet while avoiding the paths to not annoy those moving down, and preventing the area's in between to not step on any of the many beautiful flowers that are scatter through the area.
Elia grabs the amulet and Orb flings a stone, knocking it out of her hand, but as he tries to grab it, she quickly predicts the trajectory and moves to grab it much faster than he can.
This pattern repeats itself again, and again as they try and move down the guard rails, and as they move, Orb says, "Did you have any pets when you were younger?"
"No, that's why I struggle to punish my dog properly."
"It seems normal human interaction wasn't a part of your life, if you grew up to be so rude."
"I would have you know that I am loved immensely where I was born."
"I find that hard to believe."
"It's called being excellent. A brain that can solve any taste, a genius that can turn a box of trash into a tool for scratching and an old man's back, and a beauty that gets her all the candies she wants as she drops from the sky."
"So you were a studious girl who used your smarts to gain favour from adults while being hated by your peers."
"I can't control jealousy; maybe they should try harder to be on my level. Anyone can do it."
Grabbing the amulet from the air, Orb says, "I agree with you on that. But to think that you never got the joy of playing tag with kids. Hopefully running around, saying your it as your smack their chubby bodies, dashing away knowing that they desire to come after you."
Elia sighs and says, "That's a lot coming from a tag virgin like yourself."
"SHUT UP! I had no choice; I didn't grow up around kids. I spent all my time reading."
Are Orb's emotions flare, he slips a bit, causing Elia to grab him by the collar and say, "Nothing of substance. I spent my time breaking down this blessed word into pure data to understand it, while you spent your days reading trashy romance books. That's why I don't miss."
Freezing one of his feet to the side of the guard rail, Orb quickly spins his body around whilst moving, which allow him to end up behind Elia on the guard rail, and holding her hand as he gentle walks forward with as if they where about the dance within a ballroom, he says, "Don't you know all books contain some idea about humanity etched into them, your lack of understanding of that is why you still haven't played tag with anybody."
Elia swings her head back to strike Orb, but he predicts it. He lifts his head and quickly lowers his chin onto her forehead, trapping her. "I would have you know I have been offered and declined."
"Yeah, keep talking. It's ok, I won't judge you if you tell the truth on this holy day."
"The scriptures of the three words stop me from lying to you."
"Is that why I was able to trick you into giving me all this information about you?"
"I was merely evening the field, since I have had to learn a bunch of useless information about you."
"Ehh, really? You learned that much about me."
Lifting her forehead up and breaking free from Orb's grip, she says, "Not by choice you fool. I would prefer if I were to forget it all."
"I see, but I couldn't feel any different. I would like to know even more. I plan to find out as much as possible on this date."
Both Orb and Elia reach a guardrail right before a staircase that leads to the lower level of the area, and standing on it, they turn to face the other, and with their eyes locked on each other, they allow their bodies to fall over the side.
In the middle of the air as they fall, Elia tries to get the amulet off of Orb. He dangles it in front of her, but the speed and precision with which her hands snap at him starts to slowly overwhelm him, and as she launches her two fingers into Orb's eyes, he lets go of the amulet, which she quickly reaches for. But to her misfortune, Orb manifests his tail and grabs the amulet before grabbing Elia in a princess hold, then landing in the middle of the crowded area of the lower level.
As his eyes regenerate, he looks down at her with golden hair and a smile that would cause even an angel to punch him. Though Elia manages to hold herself back and crosses her arms while puffing her cheeks and says, "I am hungry."
"Ok, ok. Let's see what's around," Orb says with a peaceful smile.