Scanning the crew, you decide to take the biggest and strongest-looking tanuki with you. Ren pulls you aside and whispers to you, “don’t let her take control.” You can’t tell what he’s talking about, but you nod and prepare to advance. While Ren stunk of sake, Nezo smells like sweat and lotus flowers. It’s a very conflicting aura around her, her scent is feminine, her shape is wild but feminine, even certain mannerisms of hers are feminine. She seems more like a brutish female by circumstance, not choice, but she managed to find a group that will accept her.
You can’t be as stealthy as you want considering her size, but you managed to slip between patrols undetected. She gets an idea to aggro them with her skills and take them all out at once while you grab the leaves. While you would usually do the bait and switch, you agree that she seems stronger (and see that she has more health and defense than you do), so you let her do her thing while you wait for the perfect time to slip away. She stands in a spot, rubs her matted, furry belly, and lets out a massive wet belch that alerts any creature within a 5 mile radius of where she is. You watch the patrols flock to her as you find your window and dash for the tree as fast as you can. You manage to collect 32 of them before the tree looks bare. Going back to give Nezo a hand and you are surprised out how easily she took care of them. All of the demons in the hordes either have a face or torso smashed in, making your spine shiver. This girl might be the scariest thing you’ve ever encountered.