The bellows of multiple loud bangs and metal cracking filled the room as Zalroth strolled into the maid cafe; he immediately raised a hand and caught a flying purple can of Magi-Light (a brand of soda). Zalroth looked at the soda can before defeatedly sighing and looking up at Lumina as she had one of Solus' Spirit Partners in headlocks using her arms, another in a headlock using her legs and the third one was completely encased by the head down in one of Lumina's blonde, with lime ends, kitsunes tails. (Lumina is a slightly short teenaged slightly tanned humanoid half Alkorian[curly white ram-like horns] and half kitsune[blond kitsune ears with lime ends, and six kitsune tails(the length of her body) with the same colours as ears]; she has long blonde hair with lime ends tied back using a fuzzy white cloth with a scale texture and covered in golden poker dots, a large lime ahoge, a lime fringe, a lime left eye with blonde iris, and no right eye with a dark red explosion-shaped scar around her right eye socket)(Lumina's wearing a fuzzy black sleeveless hoodie with cat ears and reached down to her knees, fuzzy dawnite fibre knee-low shorts, a yellow and white scarf, and black winter boots)
"At least the issue's been solved already," Zalroth remarked smugly, causing Lumina's ears to twitch. Lumina immediately released Solus' Spirit Partners from her grip, allowing the spirits to book it and fly for the exit. The spirits blasted past Zalroth, and two of them flew out of the room while the third slowly fluttered back to Zalroth. Zalroth smirked and placed the can of Magi-Light on top of the spirit's head.
"I think you dropped this," Zalroth said as he placed his hands back in his tails like they were trouser pockets. The spirit nervously laughed as she took the can of Magi-Light off her head and flew out of the cafe. Lumina bounced to her feet and zipped over to Zalroth as she briefly covered her body in dark golden lightning.
"Kitpa~ it's been so long," Lumina cheerfully exclaimed as she swayed her tails from side to side.
"Heh, that song sure is a banger, is what Chronia would say right now," Zalroth said jokingly. Zalroth raised a hand and plopped it on Lumina's head before ruffling up her hair. Lumina meekly groaned and grumbled as Zalroth continued to mess up her hair.
"... I'm not a baby anymore...," Lumina grumbled as she tried to swat Zalroth's hand away before said swats eventually devolved into doggy-paddle-esque hand waves. Zalroth smirked and chuckled as he retracted his hand.
"Maybe so, but by kitsune standards-".
"Yeah-yeah, by kitsune standards I'm still a kid until I have nine tails," Lumina murmured as she ever so slightly lowered her head. Lumina huffed and crossed her arms as she forced a pouty expression.
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"Alright, enough catching up... so what did Kimmi-Ka goad you into doing which requires my permission?" Lumina asked as she raised the eyebrow over her eyeless eye socket.
"You remember that time when you were two?" Zalroth asked, with Lumina nodding her head.
"For how long?".
"In real-time or Reyutetsuno time?" Zalroth asked.
"Both, both would be good, don't you think?" Lumina uttered. Zalroth rested his hand on his chin and lightly pressed his cheeks with his thumb and index finger as he turned the rusted gears in his brain to calculate the rough time conversion.
"Less than a second and three years, respectively," Zalroth uttered. Lumina raised her lowered eyebrow with a mix of confusion and amusement, given the face Zalroth pulled when he was thinking. Lumina slapped her face, making the trapped air in her mouth escape with a goofy pop, before she raised her head to Zalroth.
"Is that all? I was expecting you to say like twenty years at minimum," Lumina remarked. Lumina spun on her heel, kicked up a knocked-over chair and slammed it on the floor with her foot before sitting on the chair while coiling her tails around the back of the chair in a snake-like fashion.
"Just do it around Kimmi-Ka's bedtime so you don't mess with my schedule, alright?" Lumina requested with snarky plastered all over her words as she picked up her cup of practically milk coffee and sipped away. Zalroth gradually raised his hand to his exhausted face and rubbed his eyes; as he silently watched Lumina drink her coffee, the image of a teenaged female kitsune whose appearance mirrored Zalroth's own whined about there being no milk at the local cafe appeared in Zalroth's mind.
"The spitting image of her...," Zalroth uttered as the fingers on his left arm twisted and contorted in unnatural ways.
"Kitpa, your hand's doing the thing again," Lumina said nonchalantly without even turning her head to look as she resumed drinking her coffee. Zalroth flexed his left hand, forcing his fingers to snap back into place without much issue on his part. Zalroth let out a defeatedly pitiful sigh as he turned his head to look at Kimmi-Ka and Jokel.
"You two wanna get something from the cafe since we're here?". The duo quite literally leapt at the offer, flinging themselves onto the nearest bar stool and both managing to sit on it. The pair raised their hands in perfect sync and placed them on the bar counter. Zalroth abruptly covered his mouth and coughed as a small amount of azure blue blood seeped through the gaps between his fingers.
"What was Ela thinking springing up that kind of fight on me out of nowhere?" Zalroth groaned mentally as he clutched his blood-covered fist and burned it away with dark blue flames.