But he still turned away from the now broken window, and stepped gingerly past all the glass that was on the floor. He might not have liked that fact, but there was one important little detail that he couldn't ignore. As he was already inside the place, and didn't have a way out, it wasn't like he could simply leave the place. That meant that he would have to go in, and search for whatever he could find to signal just what was going on in there.
Unfortunately, as the place was closed, it was naturally dark, and silent. It was only natural that he wind up creeping along, making certain that he didn't make any noises that he could avoid. Even if there were were normal people in the building, he didn't want to be caught in there.
However, everywhere he looked, there were things that had easily understandable reasons for being there. Offices bore plenty of desks and chairs, records rooms were full of cabinets, and storerooms had the expected shelving. All of it was rather ordinary, and he couldn't see any sign of the evil influence that he could feel. Walking along, he saw nothing save for what would normally be expected for a cram school.
Even the room crammed with computer cubicles seemed to be harmless enough. He knew that there had to be something though, as the indicators could not be denied. It had to be something other than a simple burden of work on the students that did what he'd seen happen to them. Leaping onto a computer desk, he looked around for some sign of what was draining those kids.
Even if there was only one Dark Kingdom agent involved in this, he needed to find out.
"Why did you call us out here, Bambar?"
The yoma who had spoken had used tones that were merely as long as her limbs were, so the former Dark Kingdom creature took it in stride. "My new Mistress calls me 'Sayuri' now."
"'Bambar'? 'Sayuri'? What is the difference? It doesn't answer my first question."
"Well, I wanted to offer each of you an opportunity."
"What sort of 'opportunity'?"
"A great one. You do have a choice, you know."
"You're offering us a chance to work for your boss," commented a busty yoma who had a glint of intelligence in her eyes. "This a recruitment meeting."
"Exactly."
"How very interesting...."
"Isn't it now," the first Dark Kingdom yoma agreed.
"Yes, but I'm not about to just join on an offer."
"Oh?"
"She might not have had a choice in coming back, but we do have our spots back under the generals, such as they are."
"That's exactly it!" Sayuri told them.
"Mind explaining that?"
"You know how it is back there. You have to do all that work for the generals, and what do you get? More work, or a punishment for failing. And the second part usually means that you'd be blasted."
"And I suppose that you don't get that with your boss?"
"Nope. She's really good to me, and even tries to help protect me. I only have to do what she tells me to, and I get to do almost all of what I want. And I don't have any pressure to get results. I've even managed to do things on my own for her and myself."
A scowl came over the third visiting yoma's face as she crossed her arms over her stocky chest. "There's got to be a catch."
"Only one that I can think of is that my Mistress' second in command is really uptight."
"Then what you're saying that we can choose for ourselves?"
"If we choose to stay where we are, we'll risk being turned into dust at any time," the second yoma commented.
"But if we go with you, we'll have freedom and a caring mistress?" the first one finished.
"Pretty much," Sayuri told them, while:
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