"W-what do you mean?" The ghost girl asked in confusion, she didn't like where this was going, Vick's words looked wrong coming from such a young-looking boy, he spoke about a slave and how he was going to play 'games' with them, by hurting them, killing them. Kouri felt awful, she couldn't say that Vick was wrong, she was also guilty of such acts, torturing and killing animals just for the fun of it, she also had human blood on their hands, but they were all bandits, pirates, and slavers. She never killed an innocent person up until this point... at least never succeeded. In her blind rage, she once tried to attack Azcadelia, it wasn't a fully conscious act though, but still, she was guilty nonetheless.
Vick's suggestion was on a whole different level, torturing a tortured soul, a slave. The ghost girl absolutely abhorred slavery, she once slaughtered a caravan of slavers together with a mercenary group led by Razkar, a Myrian warrior, and the boy before her, was a slaver. "A slave..." She hesitated to enter the door, the Nuit boy was friendly to her, but her crimson eyes clearly showed uncertainty, a part of her mind screamed at her to just kill this undead and free the slaves, but that would a very foolish thing to do. Wanda specifically prohibited her from causing anymore trouble, murdering a Master Wizard was definitely causing trouble, Big trouble. She was here, she couldn't back down now, if she did, all of her efforts would be for naught, for Rena, for Kriemhild, she must set aside her morals... at least for the moment.
Her floating form moved as she entered Vick's laboratory, taking note of the various interesting stuffs she couldn't name there, the pile of bones didn't unnerve her, being a ghost, she was familiar with corpses. "No..." The pitiful sight of the slave made Kouri breathed in despair, her right hand clenched into a fist as she barely held back her murderous urges, the urge to just decapitate Vick and free the poor female. The white mists swirling around her form slightly picked up in speed due to her emotions, the slave looked so complacent, so detached, it was like her body was alive but her mind was dead. She didn't even have a name, merely some kind of identification code, like a cattle. The Nuit's playful words greatly contrasted with his monotone and true nature of the 'game', Kouri felt her ethereal heart being figuratively impaled by a large icicle. She saw a glimpse of herself on the Nuit then... Come on, let's just play for a bit? Look, that woman is willing right?
"N-no!" She held her own head, the damnable part of her childishly sadistic mind quipped, not quite repressed even after Wanda's lesson. She couldn't completely deny that she enjoyed this, playing together with a boy, listening to the beautiful screams of pain, how she wanted to watch the slave suffered through her last moments. This was it, she must make a decision, decline now, she would escape from temptation, but possibly losing Vick's favor; if she accepted, Kouri would fall back into being a little monster, what would Wanda think of her? Aw, come on, it's just a slave! Look, Master Vick is the one inviting! I won't get in trouble, in fact, he may even likes me! "..." That was a rather sound excuse, furthermore, she could save the woman from suffering by ending her life and losing Vick's favor was highly undesirable, she was here in the first place because of him.
"Okay..." Kouri winced, shutting down any remaining guilty conscience, she materialized her right hand then gently took Vick's left, floating beside him like children going to a park. Approaching the Courtyard, Kouri remembered to ask for some soulmist from Madame Wanda first so she could pass safely, after she acquired some, Kouri quickly returned back to Vick. Ser Cromley, I'm sorry! The ghostly knight would indeed be disappointed, but Mia, the powerful phantom girl who was even more detached than Kouri, would be pleased indeed. As they walked through the Courtyard, Kouri's crimson eyes darted from left to right, to check if any of Wanda's guardians was following them. Thankfully, they didn't or she just didn't notice them.
They arrived in a dark building... a building she recognized, she was here with Mia just bells ago! It was the place where tortured souls lay trapped in cages, screams of agony reverberating on the walls, the place where Mia loved to play, the place that horrified and tempted Kouri at the same time. Now, she was going back to the very same place she promised to never go into again, how naughty of her. Kouri kept holding onto Vick's hand, muttering some unintelligible words to herself, but if one listened closely, they were repeated murmurs of 'I'm sorry' in Vani.
"!?" She broke free of her trance when Vick called her name, introducing her to the slave, Kouri kept silent as the boy so casually dismissed a human being as an object. Let's play already! Vick wants to play with us! Come on! "I'm..." she trembled, looking down on the ground, then after a full chime, Kouri slowly raised her head, a small grin plastered itself on her face, "I'm ready, let's play. Ehehe~" Her voice was noticeably lower in-pitch, crimson eyes raking the slave's form up and down. The ghost girl dismissed the soft whimper as the usual wails of pain of the poor souls trapped here.
Vick was looking at her, so he wanted her to make the first move, very well, Kouri smiled as she put her right hand near her chin, giggling sinisterly, "Let's get her nice and fit in that table over there!" With that, Kouri's grin grew wider as four thick tendrils launched from her back, each tightly wrapping around the slave's wrists and ankles, then while giggling, Kouri roughly pulled the slave to the torture bed. "Ahahaha!" By this point, she didn't care, she just wanted to have fun, with violent tugs of her tendrils, Kouri placed the slave onto the bed, then her tendrils each moved to the bindings, the ghostly limbs moving the cuffs so they each bind the slave's wrists and ankles, the metallic restraints snapping close with a cold snap.
"Ehehehe~" Kouri looked back to Vick, her crimson eyes wide in glee, then she raised her right index finger, "Wanna see what I can do with this?" Without waiting for his answer, the ghost girl materialized her finger then lightly trailed it over the slave's torso, sick sizzling sound of flesh freezing from her touch echoed in the room, the slave screamed in pain as she felt extremely painful cold wracking throughout her body, if Kouri kept this up, she would die within ten ticks. If Vick didn't stop Kouri, the ghost girl would continue until the slave's life left her body.
