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"As you wish." Cheru points the gun away from the demon's head. Instead, he flicks a flashbang into his hand and lobs it at the gorgon after removing the pin. Yukari dives for cover, Carrick shuts his eyes and Elizabeth weathers it.

Cheru shuts his own as he dives madly for Frigid.

"Gorgon." Cheru calls out.
"I'm going to be very frank. I have a hostage. You have a hostage. I propose a switch."

"If she's alive, good. If she's stone, I will turn her back." Cheru passes Kyle a mirror.
"I trust you know NOT to stare at her eyes directly?"

Yep.

Will Maja join in on the hunt for Frigid and get to be awesome and demonstrate who is the real queen of the turf?

"Good." He handcuffs the demon and ties a rope to him. He nods to Yukari to keep what she finds. She roots through the phone as they walk back.

"You are going to come with me. You are going to help me find her and free her, and she will be alive and unharmed when we do get her back. And then you will be free, and you will never bother us again. I do not lie, for a Domovoi never lies.

Do anything to run or escape or hinder our efforts to get Frigid out unharmed and alive and I will first kill you and then hunt you down for all eternity. And believe me, I have the time to wait."

Yukari is just chilled by how emotionless he is. Just mere hours ago, he was BLUSHING at Frigid hugging him....and yet now he's casually throwing about threats to hunt down a demon for the rest of his life as if he was just casually conversing.

It's as if his emotions retreated back into their shell, to be retrieved if Frigid lives, or to be sealed away....if the unthinkable happened.

Cheru shoots one in the head at point blank before lopping his head off with a knife- the efficiency would be so chilling even to the sniper Yukari that she actually cringes at it.

He simply shrugs.
"Or I can kill you myself. Either way." He says, a chill filling his voice.
"At this point, I couldn't care less. You can lie or not. My purpose is to neutralize the threat to my principals. And if one is dead, I have other principals to protect. You're still a threat to them. Lie to me or tell the truth, I care not."

Cheru curses and clicks a button on the underside. He ALSO assumed something stupid like this was going to happen.

So of course, he summoned a hoverboard with a self-destruct button. If it was Frigid, good, he didn't need to blow it up. If it wasn't, well, whoever it was was going to pay for tricking him.
"Say hi to the bastards in hell for me."

He lets go of fake Frigid and rolls off into the treeline, as the board explodes in mid-air.

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Yukari checks the car, as she sees Cheru roll into the treeline nearby. She keeps her gun pointed at the demons and is prepared to shoot them point-blank with an anti-tank round, through the skull if need be.

Cheru decides to risk it. He stretches his power to pull objects out of nowhere to summon a hoverboard to save them both, pulling the board out with one hand while keeping Frigid near him with the other.