Second Small Preview for the Upcoming 22nd Chapter of “Musical Espionage”
This snippet here is taken from the training scene with Jasmine, Janine, and Caroline. Kotennyo and Raito talk about a major hang up of Kotennyo’s until something happens with the demon hunter sisters. Get ready for some more character development for Kotennyo. Enjoy ;) Chapter 22 is nearing completion. It’s almost finished.
Jasmine reeled back from being struck in the gut with it. She fell to her knees and doubled over trying to catch her breath. She dropped her fans on the ground making a loud clacking sound. Janine raised her hand in the air and declared, “Jasmine is down, Caroline wins this round. Stand down, now girls.”
Caroline stopped flaring up with her energy and smiled. Raito then howled, “Yes!! I knew you could do it, dear!! I LOVE YOU!!”
Caroline chuckled at that and shifted her attention to him, “I love you too, Raito.”
Kotennyo eyed the couple and laughed, “Settle down.”
Hearing the young war goddess’s words, Raito looked over at her and laughed like a total dork, “Sorry but, this is exciting. I love watching Carol in action. She’s my beautiful American Warrior Goddess.”
Kotennyo just laughed in response thinking that her human friend’s husband was such a cheeseball like Koenma. Catching that, Raito too laughed in response. Looking at Kotennyo’s sketchpad, he eyed her current project with interest, “Hey, that’s a pretty cool drawing. What are you drawing it for?”
Immediately, Kotennyo shut her sketchbook and gave the overweight ordinary human man the stink eye, “You best forget what you saw, fucker, unless you want a black eye.”
Raito raised an eyebrow at her, “Hey, I don’t want any trouble. I just complimented on your drawing and wanted to know what you’re working on it for.”
Still giving him a nasty look, Kotennyo retorted, “Look, Koashura is the only guy I trust to look at all of my in progress art projects. Fuck, not even Caroline, Jasmine and Shizuru are allowed to look at them. Ask Koenma. The last time he tried to peak at a project I was currently working on, I broke his nose and gave him a black eye. The only other people who are allowed to see them before they’re finished are my art professors at the university but, it’s different for them because they’re my teachers and mentors.”
Curious to know why she got violent with those that weren’t her boyfriend whenever they tried to see them before they were completed, Raito asked, “Why is that? Are you afraid of harsh criticism or something? From what I just saw, I can’t really think of anything wrong with it.”
Kotennyo sighed. Raito just didn’t get it nor did he know. He and his current living family members didn’t exist back when she first developed this hang up. If Raito was a god and was around for Spirit World Kindergarten, he would have witnessed the incident that caused Kotennyo to become overprotective of her art. It took her hundreds of years to finally trust Koashura with them and it will be even longer before she could trust anyone else.
She tightly held onto her sketchpad and gritted her teeth grumbling thinking of her so-called friends that used her until her graduation party from Spirit World Kindergarten, “Fuck you, Aphrodite. Fuck you and the rest of the girls.”
Hearing that, Raito blinked his dark eyes confused, “Who’s Aphrodite? Did she fuck up some of your projects or something?”
Not wanting to keep up with this conversation, Kotennyo stood up from where she was sitting and said in a cold and emotionless voice still thinking of the love goddess who was the bane of her existence, “Nonsense.”
Just as Raito was about to ask more about Kotennyo’s past, the aforementioned war goddess, then felt something odd. Kotennyo felt someone’s energy draining and she dropped her sketchpad and colored pencils on the wooden porch of the compound. She felt a feeling of dread deep in her gut.
Catching that, Raito gazed at her with confusion, “Kotennyo....?”
“Raito did you feel that?”
Confused, he shook his head. Having no psychic ability or any spiritual awareness to speak of, Raito didn’t detect anything, “No, nothing. We Akashis have no psychic or any spiritual abilities. Why?”
Before Kotennyo could say anything, Caroline let out a loud shriek in agony. Hearing that, Raito felt his heart sink, “Oh no. Carol!! I’m coming, Caroline!!”
