Volpina and Ichika landed on a roof on the Western side of Paris. Volpina promptly left Ichika's back and called out, "Trixx, settle down."
Ichika gave her an irritated look ask she watched the human's transformation leave her. She gritted her teeth before snapping at her, "are you insane? Don't think I'm going to save your stupid ass if a hollow comes after you."
"Well you'd be going against your oath as a soul reaper if you didn't, isn't that right? I'm not doing one more minute of this until you spill it," Alya countered, placing her hands on her hips.
"Spill what? Green tea?"
"Whatever it is that's turned you into miss grouch of the universe and don't bother trying to lie to me girl, I got two little sisters and I can smell a lie a mile off," Alya clarified.
Ichika scowled at her, "Like you'd understand."
"I'm always up for a challenge, so try me," Alya pressed the red head who looked about ready to snap into a blind rage.
"Oh okay, you ever been cheated on? With a guy?"
Alya blinked a little before shaking her head 'no', "can't say I have. I can see how that would be upsetting though."
She sat cross legged on the roof top, patting the spot next to her, "So your boyfriend goes both ways huh?"
"It's like I'm not enough for him," Ichika growled as she sat down next to the human girl.
"Told him he's a selfish dick," She added.
Alya winced at that last comment before carefully replying, "While I can see where you're coming from on that, I also know his side of things a bit too well. Ya see, before Nino and I got involved, I had a huge crush on a girl at my old school. I go both ways too. It isn't easy navigating your feelings. Sometimes you end up having feelings for two people at the same time but the thing is one of them you have stronger feelings for than the other. That's the one you're really into the other's just a fleeting crush, a sort of fling potential. Doesn't really mean anything. You just have a physical attraction to them."
She glanced at Ichika, "I know he stepped out my question though is how far did he step out?"
"He kissed him," Ichika replied.
"Ouch. That does hurt, but a kiss is sometimes just a kiss. If he didn't feel anything from it and it didn't go beyond that I say forgive the idiot. He made mistake. You gonna tell me you never have?"
Ichika thought for a moment before shaking her head 'no', "I can't claim that. I've kept secrets from him. Nothing that I thought was huge like this. Things like being sick and still going into a fight. He flipped out on me. Found out later he was scared I was gonna get hurt."
"See? You're not perfect either. While risking yourself when you're not well isn't as obviously harmful to a relationship as cheating, even as relatively small a thing as kissing someone else, it's still damaging in its own way. It makes him worry that he can't trust you to take care of yourself," Alya offered.
"Just kinda playing devil's advocate here cause I can see both sides—I see why you're angry, and it is a perfectly valid reason to be angry. Same time though—"
"I can't claim I've never done anything wrong in this relationship either," Ichika finished for her.
Alya nodded in agreement.
"I told him to keep away from me," Ichika admitted before running her hands over her face.
"Ugh my temper definitely matches my hair," She grumbled.
Alya gave a small chuckle at the soul reaper before shrugging a little and asking, "Did he seem like he regretted what he did?"
Ichika hung her head as she confessed, "I was too angry to notice. I didn't even bother looking at him when I realized he wasn't even looking at me."
"He feels guilty over it," Alya confirmed.
"How do you know?"
"Been there, done that," the fox wielder admitted.
Her ears darted towards Master Fu's old residence as a cloud of smoke appeared there, "What is that?"
"It's a hollow, but—it—" she stopped and gasped as she felt her mouth go dry.
"Oh no!"
Alya glanced at the soul reaper, "what would happen if a soul reaper became Akumatized?"
"Can't be akumatized," Ichika replied breathlessly as if she was running a marathon while speaking.
"We're spirits, there's nothing physical to us. So that means that if an Akuma possessed an object being held by soul reaper we—we'd—we can't be akumtaized," Ichika rambled.
From a far off distance Tama, Sora, Rin, Byakuya and Mamoru glanced in the direction of Master Fu's old practice all of them sensing the same thing simultaneously.
Chloe looked at Rin's rigid posture as she stared off in the distance. The blonde haired girl approached Rin, placing a hand on her shoulder, as she called to her, "Rin?"
"Tha-that was T-To-Tomoya," Rin stammered.
"Okay so he's got Akumtized. We'll save him," Chloe attempted to comfort her.
Rin shook her head 'no', her eyes squeezing shut while she explained. "we're spirits, Chloe. There's nothing physical for us to be akumatized by. Even our Zanpakutos are made up of spirit particles. There's nothing tangible nothing to alter—" she paused to wet her lips and take a steadying breath.
After a few relaxing breaths she concluded, "if Hawkmoth sent an Akuma after one of us, we wouldn't be Akumatized—we'd be exactly like if one of the Akumatized humans died while the akumatization was still in effect—"
She swallowed harshly, a task that seemed difficult, as if her throat were too narrow for the saliva.
"—We would hollowfy."