… This is continuing?

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- Splints and Painkillers -

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The Millennium Earl was not a very patient man, but he was nonetheless fairly surprised when Tyki Mikk entered the room with a very tired looking Allen Walker in a tow. The Earl eyed the white-haired teen up and down before giving Tyki a glare which was cold and angry, yet awfully surprised. "I thought I sent you to kill the kid, not to bring him here."

Tyki didn't answer as he merely shrugged his shoulders and pulled out another cigarette. The Earl was clearly not amused as he blew the top hat from the Noah's head and proceeded to smack him on the head several times with his umbrella. He only stopped as he heard Allen Walker's snickering.

"Allen Walker…" the Earl said in a dangerously low voice. "Since Tyki-pet over here isn't capable of providing me an explanation I believe you should before I'll do something really terrible…"

The white-haired teen looked up at him, his face expressionless for a moment before he resorted to snickering again. After the Earl pointed Lero in his direction he stopped briefly, eyeing the tip of the umbrella warily while his worn body was still shaking from withheld laughter.

"What is there to tell, Earl?" Allen said, looking at him with half lidded and slightly hazy silver eyes. "Tyki Mikk and I got high, had a game which I surprisingly lost and therefore I am doomed to serve him until somebody with enough mercy decides to off me…"

After this statement the exorcist broke out in another fit of laughter upon seeing the expression of utter disbelief that was plastered onto the Earl's face. Seeing the Earl's chin drop to the floor was certainly priceless.

"Is this really a laughing matter, Allen Walker?" the Earl asked as soon as he had recovered from the shock. "You know I do not trust you and will kill you personally if I must…"

"Go straight ahead…" Allen said in a very uncaring voice before turning to Tyki. "Have you got any painkillers lying around? I pretty much overexerted myself with that Fallen One and exceeded the limitations of my Innocence and you can pretty much figure out what that means…"

The Earl froze briefly as realization dawned upon him and a confident grin was once again apparent on his face. "He can't use his Innocence?"

Allen tilted his head to the side. "Not at the moment at least… I think I might've broken something…" he turned back to Tyki. "Painkillers?"

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"I'm not a doctor or anything of the sort, but I think that should hold…" the Noah of Pleasure sighed as soon as he had finished bandaging Allen's arm from the shoulder to his very fingertips. "You look like a corpse."

Allen gave him a weak smile, his energy reserves depleting as the painkillers started kicking in. "I'll take that as a compliment…" he said without the least of worries. "I will be a really pretty corpse. Or a mummy perhaps, since part of the job is already done…"

Tyki sighed. "Road is gonna have a fit when she hears about you being here…"

Allen snickered. "I believe so, but you won't allow that, will you?"

"No way in Hell I will…" Tyki snorted. "She can get her own dolls to play with."

Allen tilted his head backwards, looking at the ceiling. "Is that because you want the pleasure of breaking them yourself?"

A smirk appeared on the Noah's face. "You know me all too well…" he said while rummaging his pockets before pulling out another round of joints. "You want another one?"

"Don't I have enough drugs in my system already?"

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