uruha catchall

[florescences]

mr. 30 something teen looking samurai boy

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[kumeyuri]

[he is also probably grabbing some kind of drink.]

Are you saying I'm not usually?

[florescences]

No. I meant you're holding it together more than a lot of the others today.

[ there's no judgment or anything else to her tone. it's just an observation. ]

[kumeyuri]

[a shrug]

... Guess I'm just made more for conflict.

[to handle it without losing his mind.]

[florescences]

That's not a good or a bad thing.

[ to elysia, it just becomes a thing. ]

You can't always control the conflict you fall into.

[kumeyuri]

No, you can't. You just have to learn how to adapt.

[florescences]

Or you become one of the people who are mourned.

[ she gathers some drinks into a bag. ]

Walk with me a little bit? You'll probably be talking to a lot of others about tonight, and it's not that I don't want to hear your thoughts on it, but I want to learn a little more about the world you lived in before coming here. Is that okay?

[kumeyuri]

[no it's not because you're going to start asking questions that i don't have lore for screams

uruha does not even remotely think this, unfortunately, so.]

... Sure.

[florescences]

[ help me i will try to avoid anything you don't have answers for but i don't know anything about kagurabachi and neither does elysia

she holds out her free hand to him. will he hold hands with her and walk? ]

I know you said you were in a war... and that you were rusty with your theater dancing, but what were you doing before you died?

[kumeyuri]

[...]

Dealing with a criminal organization.

[florescences]

[ huh. hm. unexpected a little but she takes it in stride.

is he ignoring her hand? ): ]

Like the type that deals in drugs and underground deals?

[kumeyuri]

[no i just couldn't read. he will take her hand.]

Not exactly. We don't know exactly what their end goal is, but I guess it would be more accurate to call them a group of terrorists who mostly operate from the shadows.

[florescences]

[ yay. :) ]

They cause.... large scale destruction and death? Are you part of some police force?

[ is that why he wanted the government at the beginning of the game ]

[kumeyuri]

No. I was a soldier, but I'm not in service anymore, and I don't work for the Kamunabi.

[how does he explain this...]

The group—the Hishaku—stole a set of blades that could destroy the country, if they're able to activate their power. The only obstacle is that the blades are still contracted to their original wielders, and so can't be used by anyone else but them for as long as they live.

[florescences]

So this group is looking for the original wielders and is trying to assassinate them?

[ she looks at his sword if he has it on him. ]

[kumeyuri]

[he does have his sword, though it's a generic katana.]

Yeah.

[florescences]

Are you one? Of the original wielders?

[kumeyuri]

[he nods.]

I was one of the six swordsmen chosen by Rokuhira-san—the smith who created the blades—back during the war, along with my master.

[florescences]

[ was he assassinated? he's here, so that means he was probably assassinated. that's what elysia's thinking. me, thinking, is this typical jan behavior? ]

The one you have now isn't it, if you said they were stolen. Were you unable to get it back?

[kumeyuri]

[HELLO?]

Like I said, they operate from the shadows, so we know next to nothing about them. Their identities, hideout, etc.—let alone where to take the blades back from. [...] We... do have a means of retrieving them now, thanks to the powers of a kid who showed up recently, but he's still recovering and it's not safe for him to push himself.

[and then uruha died, so.]

[florescences]

[ WELL..... I FEEL LIKE HE'S PRETTY YOU am i wrong ]

They must be especially good at staying hidden. Was it an unfortunate accident for you, or did they manage to take you out from the shadows?

[kumeyuri]

[cease]

... They started launching full-out attacks on the fortresses where the Kamunabi had sent us into hiding. Mine was the first, and I fled to Samura-san's to regroup with him. I died after the attack there.

[florescences]

I'm sorry, Yoji. At least... if we do get to return like they said, you'll be able to do something about it.

[ or at least, she hopes. ]

[kumeyuri]

[he breathes out.]

That's the plan. Although I'd need to arrange to be revived somewhere else, since sending me back there will just get me killed again. Luckily, that's apparently something they can do... and it'll be as though I never died in the first place, so my contract with Kumeyuri shouldn't be broken.

[florescences]

[ she squeezes his hand. ]

I know you'll succeed, especially if you can alter how you return. You'll undermine them, for sure.

[kumeyuri]

... Mm. I'd rather not lose to Rokuhira-san's murderers.

[his duty comes before that, given that the hishaku have blatantly had no qualms about murdering innocents, but. on an emotional level, there's that.]