𝑨𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒆'𝐬 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝐛!

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...𝐊𝐎𝐘𝐔𝐊𝐈 was busy filing away at her papers, her ears suddenly perked up at the sound of her other coworkers just outside the breakroom and since she had just finished with the rest, she decided to eavesdrop, out of curiosity of course. She carefully approached the door and leaned her ear against it to hear better.

"Did you hear what happened today?"

"Yeah, Makoto apparently didn't made it out alive, he got entirely sucked off dry by the mosquito devil. He looked like almost unrecognizable when I saw him.."

"Yeah, he looked like a fucking raisin! a completely gross sight to see, but I'm glad I was able to make it in time living and breathing today!"

Koyuki had to hold back a gag in upon the mention of said devil, she was never a huge fan of bugs, especially mosquitoes, she kinda felt bad for the guy, he had to be the one to face it and endure whatever worst things that thing did to him before his untimely demise at it's hands.

Koyuki actually remembered encountering it when it tried attacking her, but ended up swatted away with a slap, turning it into paint against a nearby building. And that was when she was still in young adolescence and had truly discovered how powerful she truly is. Which kinda frightened her.

Koyuki remember running away immediately in a panic because she didn't wanted to be one held responsible for Amy potential messes or damage she made, or possibly get caught by devil hunters, and she was guaranteed that she would be made to join them, either willingly or forcefully. It was not worth it as she truly didn't know the full extent and just kept quiet about it, acting like it never happened and almost forgotten about until now.

Koyuki guessed that it respawned like any other devil would, she always hated when they do that. Though they don't seem to have any memories before their deaths, at least from her experiences with them. So she was glad because she didn't wanted to be a target for them to use.

Koyuki pulled herself away from the door and quickly sat back in her chair as she heard them approaching the door and exit from the room. And leaned against the wall awkwardly with a strained smile, standing next to a water gallon.

The girls exited from the room chatting happily. But stopped when their gaze landed on koyuki. Who just whistled as she stared at the other side before she turned to them. "Oh, hey girls! Didn't see you there!" She waves at them awkwardly. The girls blinked. Scoffing at her and just continued walking.

"You're so weird sometimes..."

"Tell me about it."

Koyuki let out a big sigh once they were out of sight, they were always like this. Her coworkers find her awkward and aloof attitude to others abnormal, and thus, would be their target to pick on her when they had the time. Much to the annoyance of the girl, but luckily today seems that everyone wasn't in the mood to interact to her at all.

Koyuki stood straight and rested her hands on her pockets. Koyuki then walked away eventually to return to her office table and sat back down to continue the rest of her day.

However though, as koyuki was about to resume to her work. She looked at the clock above and realized it was already late and it was already time to go home. Looking around and just realized how desolate the place was.

"Guess I'll finish these tomorrow then..." Koyuki grabbed the papers and pinned them on her folder before putting it inside her bag to finish it at home, then returning them tomorrow at work.

Koyuki still had to go to her sisters house later to babysit her little niece since they wanted to go out and have their 'fun' in their words. Already knowing what it meant, she decided to go there and babysit. They already paid her a decent amount of cash, plus it's been a few months since she last seen her little niece, so this is just a win-win situation for her.

Since her pay wasn't enough to buy her meals and only she could pay her bills at best. Which sucked a lot and gave her limited options for her to eat. Koyuki smiled to herself at her sudden idea, she could just rummage through their kitchen for food

Koyuki clocked in her time and left the building afterwards, carrying her bag in one hand.

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When koyuki finally made it to her sisters home, the home was a neat apartment complex that always made koyuki a bit envious of her sister sometimes, it only had 14 floors of this building. She bit her inner cheek subconsciously as she stepped inside the complex, the interior had gray walls with golden tapestries on each corner on the sides with six elevators across from one another with two pairs of stairs at the far end of the corridor.

As she walked further inside, she can see the front desk where the receptionist resided in, he looked almost done with his job, which she could related to honestly. She gave him a wave as she usually would and the guy just grunts in respond.

Rude as usual, Koyuki thought as she walked by the front desk and approached one of the elevators that opened up, it was empty within and entered inside it. Entering in the floor where they were residing, which was a floor away from the final floor. Watching blankly as the elevators closed, her hand held one of the railings as she can feel the elevator shifting up.

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Koyuki finally got into the floor of their resident, approaching the door at the end of the hall with the glass windows and ringed on the doorbell, humming to herself as she read the number of their apartment on their door, 406.

Koyuki wasn't used to remember the little important things and had to bring some notes to remind her of what she's supposed to do, even that proved to be a failure as she would forget to read those too.

Koyuki heard two voices within the room, it was inaudible so she couldn't hear what they were exactly saying and she can hear shuffling and things being zipped before the door finally opened to reveal a head peeking out, which was none other than her own little sister, kimiko kujo.

Kimiko's short raven hair looked slightly disheleved as if she just recently brushed her hair. She grinned nervously at her own sister seeing her in such a state. But koyuki quickly chimed before she can say anything.

"It's fine, I've seen worse hairdos. Just like your sister here." Koyuki told her with a dissmissive wave of her hand and the other just ruffled her hair further. Kimiko just chuckled as she fully opened the door, moving inside to let koyuki inside their apartment. Koyuki took off her shoes and just walked in with socks as she put her shoes on the shoe rack on the left side of the wall near the front door.

"Glad you came just in time, koyuki." Kimiko told her, "My husband and I were having a bit of a disagreement on whether leaving our daugther for that long anyway."

"And she insisted we just bring her along, but I told her this was supposed to be just us, since it's our anniversary." A deep masculine voice replied. Emerging from the kitchen was none other than her brother-in-law, hiroshi kujo. Carrying in his arms was her gremlin of a niece. Fuyumi kujo, holding up an action figure from a magical girl show she was fond of. Fuyumi saw koyuki and waved at her happily with the toy. "Hi 'yuki-chan!"

Fuyumi is basically the favorite of the family, after all she was just adorable, kind, and mature for someone her age. Already learning proper japanese at the age of four, and she was literally gifted in the eyes of their family, so she was pretty spoiled by her parents. And somehow, this didn't seemed to make her a brat or arrogant at all. Big shocker.

Koyuki grinned and waved at the duo. "Nice to see you guys too. Especially you as well, fuyumi-chan."

"You got everything ready honey? The lotion, the perfume, the suits-"

"Yes, yes honey, don't stress yourself so much. We're just going on a vacation, not a bussiness trip!" Hiroshi quickly told her, sighing at his wife's stress on making their anniversary and vacation perfect. Even though that's one of the things he loved about her. It can quite overwhelming at times, even if things go smoothly, he still loved her and planned on talking about it when they make it. Escpecially since she was way more tense and more snappish since she wanted to bring their daughter. But it was their anniversary and he wanted some alone time with his wife. He trusted her sister that she wouldn't endanger their own daughter and care for her while they're away.

"I'm sorry... honey, and you too actually koyuki... It's not that I don't trust you at all... it's just that devils are running more rampant lately." Kimiko explained with an exhasperated sigh, rubbing her forehead. Approaching her husband and daughter, kissing the little one's forehead. "And I worry that BOTH of you somehow wind up in danger.. And I can't afford to lose you guys, not like with our father...."

Koyuki quickly raised her hand up before she can finish, not wanting to go into that topic, especially with fuyumi around. "I know, I know, but you two can trust me on this one. This'll just be like any other time I babysit your little gremlin, it'll just be extended as you two lovebirds relax and have fun out there, while me and fuyumi-chan can play more, isn't that right?."

Fuyumi quickly nodded her head eagerly, the toy cradled close to her body, hiroshi then gently dropped her dowm on the ground to finalize their packing and fuyumi wasted no time and ran up to koyuki and hugged her leg, eagerly looking up with her adorable curlean eyes. "Will you watch movies with me later, 'yuki-chan?!"

"Of course, I know you'd never stop gushing about their transformations after all." Koyuki replied, bending down slightly to gently pinch her cheek. Which earned her a pout in response from the small child.

"I do not! I just love the pretty magical girls stuff is all!"

"Sure, sweetie." Koyuki replied, bending down and swooping her off her feet, making fuyumi squeal out in delight and nearly dropping her toy from her hands. Flailing her arms out in delight as koyuki playfully tickled her sides.

"Stop 'yuki-chan! It tickles! You win!"

Koyuki chuckled and stopped tickling her and cradled her small body close, noticing just in time that the duo were now done packing and were fixing their dressed suits.

"Alright you two, have fun now and be careful on your way." Koyuki told them as she approacued the two and fuyumi turned to look at her parents, waving them with her toy with a grin.

"It'll only just be a month there in the philipines. Mama is sure going to be delighted to see you guys. Especially you, kimiko."

"I know, but mama would want to see you too. I can still try to book you next time if you'd like." Kimiko replied with a slightly worried look.

"It's fine, just have fun back there. Me and little ol' fuyumi can have our own fun. Isn't that right now?"

"Yeah, just tell my lola I said hi, I love you mommy and daddy!"

"If you say so." Kimiko then leaned in and gave fuyumi a kiss on the cheek, and hiroshi did the same on the other one as well, and she gave them a quick hug in response before they pulled away and grabbed their bags. "Love you too, sweetie, bye now!"

"We already have the money left at the table for a whole month and a lot of food for you two, don't have too much fun now!"

The two then walked up to the front door and finally left their apartment for their vacation and anniversary back at the philipines with the two waving them just as they closed the door.

Koyuki suddenly stopped waving, carefully putting down fuyumi from her arms and knelt down in front of her. "What do you say about having our day started by going to that restaurant you wanted to go for dinner?"

Fuyumi nodded with a big grin on her face. "Of course! I'm looking forward to!"

Koyuki already saw fuyumi was dressed, she then ushered her to put on her shoes at the front door. Approaching one of their guestrooms which only had just three, entering the one in the middle since it was the one she uses when the two leave for long periods of time. Grabbing some of the money they had left for them on top of the cabinet then returned to the front foor to see just in time that fuyumi was now in her shoes and bouncing, the toy was now on the table next to the front door.

"Let's go now! I'm hungry!" Fuyumi impatiently told her a with pout, earning a snicker from koyuki, taking her hand purse and placing the money inside before approaching her to put back her shoes.

"Alright, alright, let's go now." Koyuki held out her hand, to which fuyumi gladly held on to as koyuki used her other hand to grab the backup keys hanging on the door.

Koyuki lead her out after ensuring the door was locked and walked to the elevator to go down before leaving the big apartment, and on their way to the restaurant.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝.