Private A Bloody Business

The days following Ethan's meeting with Caissa, or 'Mel' as she had called herself at first, had been filled with Ethan spending his time thinking about how best to go about the women's request. The fact she was trying to use others into doing so, made him wary and as fitting of his character extra cautious. While Caissa had been expecting him to use his aura in order to manipulate a few demons into paying their debts back in blood. If discovered he knew the voluntary nature of his nullification bracelet would quickly be replaced with enforced one. As such Ethan had turned to legal means to get what the women had wanted.

He had discovered Bleedr, an app designed pretty much for the purpose he required. He didn't want to leave an obvious trail still however, so instead of simply finding a demon who could fill the request, Ethan had picked out a shapeshifter, one who went by the user name RainbowCake. They could apparently ingest someone elses DNA and then shift into a perfect copy of their species. Allowing Ethan to hopefully get the blood he needed, while also not making it obvious that he was after demon blood in particular. He didn't exactly want Caissa finding out the means he had decided to use either.

The pair of them would have shared messages over a few days, eventually leading to them arrange to meet in order to talk over things in person. Culminating with Ethan sending the address of his club 'The Black Lotus.', a small but quite profitable casino and bar. He would have already informed the staff that he was expecting company, and when they arrived to escort them from the main floor, up to the mezzanine floor that served as his personal VIP area over looking the rest of the club.

He had also spent time, the day before preparing for the meeting. Firstly by getting a small amount of blood from one of the few demons in debt. A small amount, small enough they had gladly taken the bet. It serving as a source of demon DNA to copy, if Kon had none in their system and medical equipment such as syringes and blood bags. Something his history with drug, he both knew how to use and acquire. Sitting up at his personal bar, Ethan sipped at a glass of whiskey waiting for one of his employees to inform him, that his company had arrived.

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Ethan would stand from the bar, and walk over to the shifter, and smile. "Ethan, Ethan Alexander." He would offer a large hand to Kon. "A pleasure to meet you Konpeitō." The hand he offered would currently be wearing a bracelet, it colour warning of the nature of his aura if Kon had missed all the sign around the bar warning about in the first place. Though if Kon looked closer, he would also not that the bracelet also was of the nullification design, and that it would be safe to shake his hand without worrying about being influence. Not that Ethan would know, that Kon had his own protection from such effect anyway.

He would give a firm handshake if Kon took it, before pulling his hand back and heading back to the bar where the equipment was. "As we talked about, I'm in need a a decent quantity of demon blood. From the smallest variation in sources as possible. I figured your unique ability would allow me to double up without risking taking too much from anyone person at once." He spoke as he sat again at the bar, giving the equipment one last look over to make sure everything was in good condition.

Though the professional nature might have been slightly diminished by him stopping to slip the bracelet off briefly to drink a large gulp from a glass of vodka before putting the bracelet back on again. The annoying need to feed his addictive nature, which was his bracelet interfered with. "I have some experience around all this stuff, but I'm somewhat counting on your judgement when it come to the amount I can take, as your profile seemed to imply you not new to this. The more the better, but I don't expect you to go beyond what you are capable of." He told Kon, trying to sound practical but reasonable at the same time. As he turned in his bar stool back to face Kon.

Ethan smiled to himself, thinking how it sounded as if he had landed the jackpot in his selection on the Bleedr app. It hadn't indicated that Kon ability would allow him to also donate larger blood supplies then a normal person could, in addiction to his species shifting ability. What a fortuitous outcome for him. "That sounds incredibly useful, it make sense you ended up doing this I suppose." Ethan said, as he connected the tube of one of the blood bags to the needle. "Give me your hand." He added holding out his hand to Kon.

Once Kon did, Ethan would tie a band just below the elbow joint before opening a alcohol wipe and cleaning off a small section of his inner arm. He would tend take his hands away, to put on a pair of plastic gloves and feel at Kon's arm to find a vein before slowly pushing a needle into it. "Just try to squeeze your hand occasionally to keep things flowing." Ethan instructed. Unlike taking small amounts of blood for a test with a syringe alone, larger quantities relied on the body pumping the blood out.

Slowly the tube from the needle, to the bag would start to fill, and Ethan would gently pick up the bag and rock it back and forth as the blood reached it. While he had some equipment, he didn't have everything a blood donation clinic might, as such he didn't have the machine that would rock the bags to make sure the blood mixed with the anticoagulant n them, but he did it himself by hand. Even if they did have it though, taking blood in quantity was a long process. "If you don't mind me asking, where exactly do your abilities come from?" Ethan asked, curious but knowing that sitting in silence as he took Kon's blood would have been exceedingly boring.

'A god, interesting.' Ethan though to himself, a thoughtful expression on his face. He suppose it made sense that another god could grant someone such impressive regenerative abilities. Ethan continued to focus on making sure the bag mixed well, but smiled back at Kon. "Well I suppose it is mundane to some. If you were born on the islands all the madness would seem normal." Ethan mused aloud to Kon and chuckled.

"I'm a god myself as well, though a very young one but most standards. I formed outside of the islands and was their for quite some time before I ended up here, so even I find how common the supernatural happens here." Ethan revealed a little about himself in return to him answering his question.

"Though as long as you enjoy life, it doesn't exactly matter if things are mundane or not, and it sounds as if you might live a lot more life then you otherwise might because of that god gifts." Ethan told him, even if the gifts didn't direly lengthen Kon's life the pretty much removed the risk of an untimely end still.

“Lucky you to get a second lease on life than.” Ethan said, tactically avoiding asking why Kon would only have had 10 years to live if it wasn’t for the abilities the god had granted him. “A great way to pay the gift forward by doing this, regardless of the motive.” Ethan said, gesturing with his free hand to the tube and blood bag.

Being paid for blood donations was comment even in the normal world beyond the islands, not everyone wanted nothing in return for helping the world in someway and in Ethan mind it was fair. You had to give up both time, and energy to donate so why not get something out of it as well.