お誕生日おめでとう河川ちゃん

Kasen spends her twenty-first birthday chasing shadows. And then being chased by shadows, after throughly pissing off the elder Lasombra who was trying to stake a claim in Shibuya. There was a whole plan to get him out of the city to give him his final death, but no one was expecting advanced obtenebration disciplines, and it was all around apoor idea to fight a shadow user in the woods. No, the city, despite the amount of innocents, would be better, where the lights would help diffuse some of his powers.

The others were heading back into the city, but that meant Kasen just had to keep ol' fang face's attention. Making fun of the Saabat's practices and just how many she helped stake in Berlin and London did wonders for that

"Get down!"

Kasen knew that voice. She also knew that listening to it would probably be for the best Sui she dropped, sliding a few meters on the skipprry sidewalk as a small mechanical ball sailed over her head. She was already covering her face with her winter jacket as the UV Bomb connected with the vampire and detonated, bathing the area in artificial sunlight and utterly dusting the vampire. 

Coughing from the ash, Kasen stood up and sent a glare at the American. Her hands, no longer protected by the gloves she had taken off when she began her chase,  felt raw like they were sunburnt courtesy of the bomb, and there was probably going to be fantastic bruising on her back from when she fell off of that roof earlier that evening. "At least you weren't a bleedin' idiot and refrained from waving your shotgun around." she said in lieu of a greeting, but there was a smile on her face. Alex laughed and started to recount what he had been up to since his and Hitomi's disappearance from Berlin.

She spends the next few hours alternating between trading stories with her old mentor and  rounding up the rest of the Sabbat that was in get city, before Homura-senpai crashes with Jou on her tiny couch. The next couple more are spent with birthday well wishes from all over the world, some left in her email inbox and voicemail and, memorably, from a singing telegram.

(The fact that it was from Jou, who is standing there just as mortified add herself helps soothe the embarrassment. A bit)

Hiroya visited during his lunch and formally introduced his partner and Tsubasa spends that time playing with her hair and trying different styles. She goes to the family home, briefly, only long enough to give her mother a small nod and grab the mail and packages addressed to her before heading off. Later, she and Alex and Hitomi, finally awake from being put into a deep slumber during the duo's flight to Japan, hang out in the older hunter's hotel room. When the sun sets, Kasen and Hitomi, with Alex trailing behind, venture out into the city as the two girls talk about how Tokyo has changed since the vampire was living. 

It's altogether another normal day for Kasen Himmelmez, hunter and friend to the supernatural. Surviving this long entrenched into this business is just as sweet a present as the cake she knows is waiting in her apartment.