Working with a Masked Fool is not something he ever thought would happen. At least, not until he saw it in one of his visions of the future. Working alongside an Emanator of Elation was certainly not on his bucket list. Masked Fools were unpredictable (even with his ability to see the future), and they caused chaos wherever they went. It was a recipe for disaster to let one become a Stellaron Hunter.

Yet, this Fool was seemingly different. Sure, they loved their chaos, but for an Emanator of Elation, they were surprisingly…calm. Or maybe that was simply how they appeared. He wasn’t sure. Whatever the case, they were different than he was expecting. He couldn’t get a good read on them, and that honestly made him somewhat nervous.

“Kafka, keep an eye on them. There’s something…strange about them.” Those were his orders, and Kafka obliged easily enough. Yet, she brought nothing but boring reports. The Masked Fool had not done anything out of the ordinary. Well, a Fool’s ordinary. Intrigued, Elio decided to see if he could find anything out himself.

In his cat form, he slinked towards where the Masked Fool was stretched languidly on the couch. He leapt up, sitting on their stomach. They blinked, raising an eyebrow at the sight of him.

“Elio? Why are you sitting on me?” they questioned, a hint of amusement in their tone. He simply let out a meow (even though he was very much capable of human speech in cat form), staring at them. Their hand moved up, giving him an ear scratch before they huffed. “Right, well, I’m not doing much. Waiting for your scripts is rather boring, you know. Speaking of them, when’s it my turn to do something?”

That made him pause. He hadn’t even considered they might’ve been bored sitting at base all day for the past few months. He blinked before leaping off of them and landing silently on the ground.

They huffed again. “Nice talking to you too.”

Before they could speak further, Elio stood in front of them in his human form, watching them with a subtle hint of curiosity. “Tell me something, Masked Fool. Why did you become a Stellaron Hunter? Surely Aha grants you enough power?”