The headline of Demon Babe destroying many otherworldly knights with ease played on a CRT screen in a dark room. A man pointed a remote at the screen and started reversing the video to re-watch it over and over again. The man had dark brown hair and was wearing an oversized T-shirt. He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed.

"Queen of Dying Star, you are far to arrogant for your own good."

The man started laughing. His laugh slowly turned into a maniacal one. He leaned backwards as he continued laughing while the TV played. His laugh turned into a cough as his throat was dry.

A few days had passed sense the event with the knights in Dying Star. Saneko was laying on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. It was now Saturday and she was still grounded. All she could think about was the banana smoothies she couldn't have,

"I'm soooo board."

Turning over to her side to get more comfortable, she saw Nakialia standing right there next to her bed.

"Oh. Hi N."

"Heh. I'm surprised you didn't notice my spiritual presence this time.

"My mind is on much more important things."

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"... None of your business."

Nakialia put one of her hands on her hip, looking down at Saneko with a unamused expression.

"Come on, tell me. What's gotten into you?"

Saneko groaned and sat up in her bed. She was hesitant to tell Nakialia, but for some reason, Saneko never really put on her Demon Babe person around her anyway, so she thought that she should just be honest.

"I got grounded."

Hearing that immediately caused Nakialia to snicker a bit at the irony of the situation.

"Wow. The great Demon Babe got grounded. That's not a good look."

"Shut up. It's not like anyone knows."

"Fair. But stop looking so down. Don't you watch a power fantasy anime every Saturday or something? Maybe that can get your mind off of being grounded."

"I already saw it and I hate it now."

"Why?"

"The main character started sweating."

Nakialia let her confused silence speak for itself. Noticing this, Saneko rolled her eyes and attempted to clarify.

"You wouldn't understand N. When a character sweats, it means that they are struggling."

"Did the main character lose?"

"No."

"Did he get hurt in any way?"

"No."

"Wha... did it take him a while to win?"

"No. He one in around two seconds."

"SO YOUR WHOLE PROBLEM IS THAT THE MAIN CHARACTER STARTED SWEATING FROM A FIGHT."

"It wasn't from a fight. It was from the sun."

Nakialia turned around and started walking away. Saneko was a lost cause.

"Where the hell are you going?"

"Anywhere else. Your delusions have gotten you to believe that sweating from heat is a weakness."

"Well have you ever seen me sweat before?"

She turned back around to look at Saneko with a serious expression on her face.

"Fair enough, but then what's the point? You are stronger than these fictional characters, so why do you want to be like them so badly?"

"Because they are cool as hell. I've said that before."

Nakialia didn't understand her obsession at all. The two of them always seemed at odds and it was a miracle that they were still friends to this day. However, she couldn't deny that Saneko's antics were humorous at times.

"Okay okay. I'll stop talking about the stupid anime. What were you grounded for anyway?"

"For skipping school and coming home late. Now I can't get banana smoothies."

"Oh a fate worse than death."

Nakialia was being sarcastic, but Saneko couldn't agree more. She started scratching her arms and looking away.

"Exactly. I get itchy and restless when I don't drink one."

"You're an addict."

"You can't spell addict without add."

"What does that even mean?"

"I DON'T KNOW! I'M LOSING IT N! I NEED A BANANA SMOOTHIE!"

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Saneko grabbed her hair and fell backwards into the bed again. Her eyes were shut tight as she tried to get her mind off of her thirst, but she couldn't. Those scrumptious yellow smoothies kept infiltrating her brain, not allowing her to think of anything else. It suddenly got dark, like the sun was covered by clouds, and there was then a loud boom of thunder that shook the whole house. Nakialia was surprised and looked up at the ceiling, but Saneko didn't even seem to notice. She kept grabbing her hair as if she was in immense pain from not having a smoothie.

Rain started hitting the window, and the sound caused Nakialia to walk up to it and stare outside. It was extremely dark, darker than the storm Saneko had created a while back. You could probably trick someone into believing that it was night even though it was early noon.

"This storm just came out of nowhere? Saneko is this your doing?"

She turned back to Saneko who let go of her hair when asked that question. Since Saneko was laying on her back, from her perspective Nakialia was upside down. She rolled over and sat up straight on the bed.

"What are you talking about now?"

"This storm! It's you isn't it?"

"I didn't do anything."

Nakialia let out a hum of disbelief. She turned back to the window and continued to stare. The rain started getting lighter and the clouds started to part. Nakialia's expression softened. Maybe it was just a random storm.

Saneko put her finger to her chin and started to think to herself about something.

"Where was I? Oh yeah. I NEED A BANANA SMOOTHIE SO BADLY!"

She fell backwards again and kicked her legs like a child. Thunder immediately boomed again causing Nakialia to jump in surprised. She growled and walked up to Saneko and started shaking her violently.

"IT IS YOU!"

Saneko's head rocked back and forth as Nakialia shook her.

"Ah! Stop!"

Nakialia let her go, remembering that Saneko didn't really have a good grasp on her powers, so she couldn't really help what she was doing. Saneko obviously knew she have very strong powers, and she was quite confident that she was more powerful than any cultivator on Earth, but she simply didn't know she was as strong as she truly was. Nakialia thought back to when Saneko was around 7 years old. The two of them were chatting about different things, and the subject of languages was brought up by Nakialia.

"Sometimes I think about learning another language. When I was alive, I tried to learn Chinese, but the tones were way too hard for me and I kinda just gave up."

Saneko was sipping on a banana smoothie. She still had long hair at the time as well. She hadn't discovered power fantasy anime yet, so her personality was the more quite and reserved personality she used to have.

"Hm. 我已经会中文了"

Nakialia's mouth dropped. Back then, they had just met relatively recently, so Nakialia didn't know much about her powers yet, because back then, Saneko didn't really show off, but it was obvious she was different due to her silver hair and demon horns. This was just another thing that made Nakialia realize she wasn't normal.

"DID YOU ACTUALLY JUST SPEAK FLUENT CHINESE?"

Saneko went back to sipping her smoothie and nodded.

"Mhm."

"How?"

She just shrugged in response.

Remembering this moment made Nakialia confident in the fact that Saneko knew she was powerful, but not to what extent. That being said, Saneko did know her powers well enough to place a seal in her mind, so she did have some awareness. The clouds started to part once again, and it looked like Saneko was calming down a bit.

"Listen to me Saneko, you can't act like a child just because you aren't getting a smoothie."

Saneko crossed her arms again and pouted.

"You sounds just like my parents."

"Well maybe your parents are right."

"They are idiots."

"Well even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Saneko got off of her bed and stood in front of Nakialia. Her face was lacking any childish pouting or arrogant smirking. It was completely neutral which was extremely odd for Saneko.

"Are you my friend N?"

"Well yeah. I guess so."

"To me it sounds like you are just a guardian when my parents can't be there."

"Well..."

"Let me guess. That's the main reason you came back down to the mortal realm. You wanted to make sure I hadn't been causing too much damage."

Nakialia looked away, feeling guilty.

"Remember when you reversed the timeline? I already told you that I came to Earth to see what you were doing."

"That wasn't the first time you came back to Earth though."

There was a silence. Saneko scoffed and shook her head cynically.

"Wow, every mortal on this planet is insolent, and even the spirits in the astral plain and in heaven are as well."

"It's not like I hate you!"

"Oh great. You don't hate me. What a compliment."

"Saneko, you know you can't blame this all on me. You've caused a lot of trouble."

"Name one thing that I've done so bad."

"You reversed the timeline, causing a distortion."

"And were you there to stop me? Did it cause irreparable damage?"

"Well no but..."

"Exactly."

Nakialia pinched the bridge of her nose. She couldn't believe that she was losing an argument to Saneko of all people. Due to arrogance taking over most of Saneko's personality, Nakialia had forgotten that she was incredibly intelligent. Still though, Nakialia couldn't let go of the idea that Saneko was doing something wrong.

"But Saneko, I have reason to believe that you doing all of these things is what is causing more beasts to attack Earth."

"And?"

"What do you mean 'and'? It's dangerous!"

"Do you really think they can beat me?"

"Oh stop with the egotistical statements again."

"I'm being serious. Do you?"

"... no."

With a nod Saneko got back on her bed. She fluffed her tattered pillow a bit before laying back on it, staring at the ceiling again, like she was doing a few minutes ago. Nakialia didn't know what to say now. It looked like Saneko had just given up on the discussion.

"So... that's it?"

"I already knew."

"Knew what?"

Saneko tilted her head to face Nakialia. She then pointed at her own eye. It's purple hue was very mesmerizing.

"Purple Vision remember?"

"So you knew that I was just here to watch over you?"

"Yup."

"Then why didn't you say anything? It is clearly upsetting to you."

"Because I remember back then. Back when you actually liked being around me. I would be lying if I said I hated you being around."

"To be fair, you were a completely different person back then."

"And what does that say about you? Someone who's only personality trait is being serious. You're the straight man trope, almost just as bad as the perfect girl trope."

Nakialia didn't take too kindly to being referred to as a trope. It made her feel belittled. She rose her voice a bit.

"You made me this way. A few years ago I was totally fine discussing whatever. We would have fun and talk about anything! Are you saying you don't accept me now?"

"Not at all. It's the opposite. You're the one who's not accepting me."

"Because you're a psycho sometimes."

"Well, then leave."

"..."

Saneko turned back to look at the ceiling with an unreadable expression. How did this conversation lead to this? Just a few minutes ago, they were talking about how Saneko was grounded, and now they were having a philosophical discussion about their friendship. Nakialia didn't want to upset Saneko, she just wanted to make sure that she, and everyone else was safe.

"So, do you still consider me a friend?"

Saneko tilted her head towards her once again. She was using her Purple Vision to see what Nakialia's true intentions were at this time. The words said that her true intensions were to not lose her best friend. Saneko smirked and looked back at the ceiling again.

"You'll have to do an act of obeisance to me if you want us to be friends."

"Really? You're still going to act this way?"

"Oh yeah. There's no stopping Demon Babe."

Nakialia felt herself getting a headache. Saneko was too much sometimes, yet, she still valued her friendship at the end of the day. She reluctantly got on her knees and bowed down, before immediately getting up again.

"There, are you happy now?

"Mm. It was a very halfhearted bow, but I'll let it slide."

Nakialia couldn't help but roll her eyes. Saneko wasn't done though, as she began to speak again.

"Oh and one more thing."

"Yeah Saneko?"

"I'd prefer it if my life stayed a cool slice of life, action story with an overpowered lead. No more side character drama please."

"Okay, maybe I don't want to be your friend anymore."