Sorry for the delay I had some family stuff to take care off and overall just busy with school and work. Anyway! Enough excuses I know you're all dying to find out what happens now.

"Does that mean if I kill you I can be paired with a better witch?" I asked nonchalantly with a lazy smile.

My tail wagged happily when I saw the flash of fear in her purple eyes.

"W-what…?" She stuttered out helplessly as she took a few steps back cautiously.

I lunged forward my claws growing in length as the entirety of my hands where set ablaze with hot red fire. I wasn't going to obediently become some meek witch's slave. Not when I had the chance of escape.

In response to my aggression the witch instantly clasped the opal pendant around her neck.

"Cl-Clodico!"

Without warning I was brought to my knees from an intense pain in my chest. It was as if an invisible hand was clutching my beating heart in its merciless hands. The pain spread radically throughout my body causing my limps to grow numb and as I gasped out in surprise I realized it was even painful to breathe…The air was getting caught near my windpipes and I tried not to cry as I clutched my heart in agony, doubling over…The gravity around me was increasing, pushing my body down to the ground with a heavy force.

"W-What…did you do!?" I growled forcing myself to look up at my new master.

"I-I I'm sorry!" She cried out her eyes filling with horror and regret….

The pain suddenly stopped. My muscles slowly relaxed and the invisible hand that was crushing my heart slowly loosened its grip and I was able to inhale air properly again and just as quickly the weight holding my body down soon dispersed into nothing..

"Y-You startled me… If you hadn't attacked I wouldn't have hurt you!" She stated with watery eyes.

She was still clutching that vessel of hers pretty tightly in her hands and that's when all the dots connected. I'm sure she used her vessel to stop me from tearing her to pieces…So that's what they meant by a leash…I glared at it…That stupid little pebble was what caused me so much pain?

"So I can't directly 'cause you harm can I?" I stated with a resigned sigh.

In response she merely nodded her head. I let out an annoyed 'tch' as a frown etched its way onto my face. There's got to be another way…

"And that's what happened…oh I did realize that I could kill her indirectly though!" Karma chirped as he recounted his story to his best friend who was gazing at him with horror and disappointment.

"Karma you can't kill your witch!" Nagisa argued with a frown turning his body to face Karma as if to scold him.

"Huh why not?" Karma asked innocently as he tilted his head.

It was obvious that Karma was not attached to Okuda in any way, shape, or form….if it came down to it he would probably leave the poor witch alone on the battlefield at the mercy of the enemy…What could he say to convince him to actually care for his witch's wellbeing? That's when it occurred to him.

"Because if you kill her we won't be able to hang out anymore!" Nagisa stated.

"What do you mean?" Karma asked as he raised a slender eyebrow in question.

"My mistress and your witch from the looks of things are best friends, which means if you kill Okuda you'll either get sent back to the underworld or you'll be reassigned to another witch who probably won't have any connections to me or my mistress so we won't see each other anymore. Don't you see how lucky we got?" Nagisa explained.

He immensely hoped that his argument would end up changing Karma's mind and by association save Okuda's life from an early grave.

Karma pondered the thought rolling it over in his head….Was he happy to see Nagisa? Yes. Did he want to be a familiar? No. Was his witch a pushover? Yes. Would she be easy to manipulate? Yes…Thinking it over he was the dominate one in this relationship. He wouldn't be forced to become subservient by the looks of things…Yes it seems he really did get lucky. He would have to agree with Nagisa….

"Hmm…I guess…" Karma coolly stated.

He could have just said he agreed with Nagisa but that was no fun plus his pride wouldn't let him admit that Nagisa had brought up a fair point that he himself had overlooked.

Nagisa in response to Karma's apathetic statement opened his mouth to say something but before he could even utter a single syllable a crushingly heavy oppressive aura emerged and left Nagisa frozen in place as he immediately shut his mouth and looked for the source.

"YOU DEMON I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" The green haired witch roared.

She walked with great restraint as if she was trying to keep her bloodlust to a minimum with a varying amount of success. A large scowl married her face as she gritted her teeth. Her eyes held a stormy ocean of clashing emotions as her body seeped out buckets of rage in waves of irritation.

"A-Akari you said y-you wouldn't d-d-do anything brash!" Manami called out desperately.

She walked closely behind Akari her slender arms reaching out to ensnare Akari and hold her down like an anchor but Akari was physically stronger and swatted the comforting hands away as she reached for her wand.

Without warning Nagisa doubled over his neat low ponytail coming undone as an immense hunger took over his being. His fangs began forming and growing in length without his consent as his normal human skin began shifting colors with his scales coming into view….He tried covering his mouth and tried to suppress his demon urges…She was so angry so tremendously angry and he could feel it. He was absorbing all her negative emotions like a sponge and he was reaching his limit. If she didn't calm down soon he would go berserk!

"Akari!" Okuda lunched herself in front of the green haired witch.

She held her tightly, her arms stiff and her shoulders shaking as she tried to absorb all of Akari's negative emotions. It was her fault Akari felt this way! She shouldn't have said anything!

"It's okay, please stop don't hurt him okay? You promised." She said her voice quiet and tender.

"How can you say that?! He tried killing you Manami! Why are you protecting him?" Akari cried out her eyes still filled with rage but she at the very least lowered her wand and was no longer glaring at the red headed demon.

"B-Because h-he's my familiar." Manami reasoned.

"He's a demon!" Akari argued her face contorting in disgust spitting out the word as if it were poison.

"He doesn't care about you. Oh he'll say you mean the world to him and act all nice! But, he'll betray you the first chance he gets so that he can be set free to torment other humans! That's their nature! And he'll kill you just like Koro killed Aguri!" Akari cried out her hands balling up into tight fist as hot tears streamed down her seething face.

Silence filled the room.

"Koro…d-did what…?" Manami softly asked her voice fragile and shaky as she looked up to meet Akari's torn gaze.

"You knew Koro?" The red headed demon inquired as things we're finally starting to get more interesting.

I'm sorry its so short I'll try to update sooner!