D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad - Chapter 1897 Back Together

Chapter 1897: Chapter 1897 Back Together

— Kat —

Kat opened her arms to catch Lily as the tiny Memphis leapt at her and started nuzzling. “It was one evening Lily. It wasn’t that bad right?” mumbled Kat as she gave Lily some scratches. They’d just met back up and it was early morning now. Hedera was standing off to the side awkwardly while Weaver just smiled at the pair.

[Bleh! My mind is so fried.]

“Well why don’t you tell me about it?” asked Kat.

[You can look into my memories and see it though!]

“Yes, but we’re having an early breakfast and the point is just to hear of your adventures. I already, mostly, know what happened, but I want to hear it,” said Kat softly.

Lily meowed in such a way to make it seem more like a sigh as she hopped out of Kat’s hands and sat down at the table. “Urgh. It was awful! A tragedy! Such devastation!”

“She feels like the task cheated because it created extra tables,” added Hedera.

Lily pouted up at the elf but didn’t contradict her. A few seconds later, Lily had to just sigh and agree. “Urgh. I thought I was nearly done. We do have a fair few orbs and… we managed to get a key out of it for the final round… but like… urgh. I don’t even know if it was worth it!”

“Well, tell me about it,” said Kat as she sat down… on the same chair as Lily. She did this by picking her girlfriend up and setting Lily down on her lap. Lily smiled and wiggled around a bit to get comfortable.

“Alright fine. So… you mostly know about everything up until the portals already right?” asked Lily.

“Right,” agreed Kat. Lily had been less stressed and more willing to just send over the information about what was happening. More in a ’this is what I’m up to’ sort of thing. After that though…

“Urgh… I still feel like it was super cheating. After dealing with all these portals and other nonsense… the gimmick was that the damned thing split into two! There were two separate boards, eight total balls I needed to sink… and the portals started to take you between the different boards.

“That was fine… but they added a few other things as well. Rules that only applied to one board and not the other, plus the ball always spawned on the ’original’ board so you still had to get to the second one and then all the corners on that. It was so stressful,” whined Lily.

“Hey you managed it in the end, and got a key for your troubles,” said Kat.

Lily let out an annoyed huff. “Yeah but it took ages to do that and then went the tables went off in celebration it attracted a whole bunch of monsters we had to fight…”

“Hedera was on the ball for that though,” said Kat.

“Eh… I managed to shoot a good chunk of them before they got too close but honestly I was just as startled by the sound as the monsters. We got a bit lucky that they were so weak. One shot from my arrows and that was it for basically all of them. Which is fine. It’s not the rarest thing, plenty of strong monsters aren’t too tough when you get them in the right spot but at the same time we were still rather lucky and that’s not something to ignore…”

Kat considered for a moment and decided to actually look at that memory. If anything… Kat vaguely remembered Lily feeling less stressed when the attack happened and she was curious but didn’t want to go poking at things at the time. She was fighting off a monster of her own. It was a crocodile, toad, thing that lived in the swamps and had been annoyingly tough.

Lily’s memories showed the event clearly. As she sunk the final ball the tables lit up with all sorts of lights, blues, greens, yellows, all shining up from the table as well as down from the nearby trees. The platform underneath her feet had turned into an old-style disco floor with rapidly shifting colours of lights as if it was a bunch of rainbow LED’s. Then the monsters decided they had a problem with all the noise and lights.

Mushroom monsters popped up from underneath the trees and got sniped almost as fast. A flock of birds with razor sharp feathers swooped down to try and attack Lily, and she just grinned. Between one moment and the next she’d grabbed the mushroom backpack and transformed.

The birds shot out feathers which were blocked by shadow, only for a deluge of razor sharp paper to respond in kind. Apparently, despite the resistance to their own feathers they had none to papercuts and went down easy. This attracted another wave of monsters from underground but Lily was able to slice into them with her claws alongside Hedera’s arrows keeping them from properly reaching the surface.

It was a swift and brutal fight that Lily managed to do exceptionally well in. Perhaps she relied a bit too heavily on her instincts but she didn’t allow herself to be hit by any attacks and kept her mana above half for the whole fight, ensuring that she always had a fallback plan in case something unexpected happened. Kat was proud of her.

“So… what’s the plan for the key?” asked Kat.

“What do you mean?” asked Hedera.

“Well, we’ve got that second chest coming…” began Kat.

“I could hand it over now if you want,” added Weaver. “You’ve technically set up a meeting for me already… even if it wasn’t quite how I wanted it done…”

Kat shook her head. “No need. We’ll get the chest when the job is done. If that takes us a bit, it takes us a bit. In this case, it was more about if we want to open the chest we do have right now, wait till we have two keys so that Hedera, you can make whatever choices you want involving yours…

“Or we open them now and treat it as a proper group activity. We work out between the three of us what we want to do with the contents, if anything,” said Kat.

Hedera frowned. “That’s… hmm… so what would happen with the second box?”

Kat shrugged. *I don’t know that I really care that much. This is more ’I don’t know what’s in it and don’t want to wait until we have some private time away from Hedera to open it’ type of deal. I mean… we could sure, both open chests and walk away… but it’s not like it would be hard to figure out who’s responsible.*

[Yeah. Probably best just to open and discuss it together to prevent Hedera freaking out. Though… I think this is more a question for her of ’if we open the box together is the second one really mine’ type of thing.]

*Well… I think the fairest way is for the boxes to be treated differently if they have rules modifications or just items. If it’s items, they automatically belong to whoever claimed the box. If it’s rule changes we decided together.*

[I don’t mind that, but then there’s the worry of if say… we get three rules changes in a row while Hedera gets three items, or the other way around.]

*I’m not overly concerned about the items. If it’s really that strong we can simply steal some from other groups, well, assuming they don’t include anyone from Hedera’s group but you know what I mean.*

[I guess. It’s still a worry what Hedera might think, or what might happen if she keeps getting rules…]

*I guess we just explain our thoughts?*

[Sure.]

“So Lily and I were thinking we open the boxes together. If it’s an item, then it belongs to whoever claims the box, but if it’s a rule change we share it… or we could ignore the rule change boxes from the split. Treating them like a ’group’ item and instead splitting the items we find inside chests after we know what they are. It’s up to you,” explained Kat.

Hedera paused to consider it for a few moments. “I… I don’t really know what’s more fair. I also don’t know how you want to decide what rules we were implementing. I mean… we had an agreement but if we’re sharing everything… is it a one vote each situation? A ’everyone agrees or it doesn’t happen’ type of deal. We get one ’veto’ each or something? You… haven’t really covered that. I mean this time. It was clear before to me… just… well… I get why it’s potentially more complicated and well…”

Kat let out a sigh as she nodded. “Look… it’s fine. How about we all just take a deep breath and… see what’s inside. We can discuss it, and work out if we want to change anything about our deal or not. As well as what we want to do with the contents. Like… if it’s something that allows you to fly. Neither Lily or I need that so…”

“Um… yeah ok… just…” Hedera mumbled as Weaver handed over a small salad. “After breakfast I guess?”

“Oh yeah that’s right,” said Kat with a click of her fingers. “Here Weaver, take whatever you want.” Kat began dumping monsters onto the nearby ground. Kat had only been attacked a few times but she had a decent amount of meat to hand over.

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