It's sort, I know, and to make it worse I'm gonna have about a week of zero updates, but chapter 10, 11 and 12 will have at least a thousand words each, how does that sound?
Emi sighed out of relief when she opened the door to see the guys standing there.
"...we warned you" all three of them said together, sensing what had happened.
(*Later*)
Mao and Ashiya had gone back to the apartment after a quick visit, but Lucifer stayed until Murasaki suggested they go to an arcade, and Emi showed no signs of stopping them, though she did threaten to hurt Lucifer if something happened to Murasaki again.
"Do you know where any arcades are?" Lucifer wondered as they walked towards the city.
"Nope" Murasaki replied.
So they just went in a random direction and hoped for the best.
After a few wrong turns and random stops to ask for some directions, Lucifer and Murasaki found themselves in front of a bright arcade. Murasaki ran in and began to explore while Lucifer took some money out of Mao's bank account to trade for some tokens.
After watching Murasaki play a few games, Lucifer tried one out, and discovered he was really good at it. An hour later, Lucifer was still playing the game, and he'd colleced over a thousand tickets.
"I feel sorry for Mao" Murasaki laughed, "at this rate, he's gonna be broke".
"He already is broke" Lucifer said distractedly as he played the game.
"...True" Murasaki agreed, grabbing a couple more tokens and going off to play another game.