六十三 (Accidental Voice Post, Japanese)

[onikui_tengu]

... -you want to die? Because if you continue doing whatever you want like this, then your death will only come faster here.

You've become a threat. It would just be easier to hunt you down and have you for dinner.

[While the communicator is shuffled around by the fabric lining Haruka's jacket pocket as he shifts position, the sound of fluttering wings can be heard nearby. Along with the occasional soft cooing of mourning doves.]

Calm down. I'm not interested in doing that, so don't worry.

...If you were brought here the same way as everyone else, then I can understand. You're probably not very happy to be stuck here.

Just-... [BZZZZAP!] AUGH! Shit! [The mourning doves take off in a flurry of panicked movements and wings, startled by Haruka's sudden shout.] Ah-

[...] Hm.

[Click.]

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[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[You're fine. It's a completely normal reaction for anyone, but... calming down would be a benefiting first step.]

It's fine.

...I can talk to them because I understand them. [...] I never said that I was human.

No. Not all animals. Only the birds. Because that is what I have learned from the crows.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

You're not human? ...can I ask what you are?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I am a tengu.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

R-Really?!

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Heh. You can decide on your own whether to believe me or not.

[Yes. Really.]

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

[He'd believe it even if it wasn't true. Gullible alwaysss.]

Oooh.

So, do you have wings? You have wings, right? Can you fly?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[You're cute, Chopper. He's not usually this honest about himself.]

Yes. My chip has been removed, and so I can manifest them at will. Flying is as natural to me as walking.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

That's so cool~! Can you do anything else?!

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[He chuckles.]

I can summon down lightening with my shakujou, though it requires a bit concentration for me to have a good aim on it.

[...] It's strange. I don't usually talk about myself like this to other people... Most of them don't believe it when they hear that I am a tengu.

Not many humans still believe in the existence of youkai like me.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

[The lightening thing would be more amazing if it wasn't for baaad canon experience. ...it's still sort of neat though.]

Not everyone here has the same experiences that you and I have. To you, it makes sense but to others it wouldn't. We don't have tengu where I'm from but we have other things that people would think were weird.

And I'm a talking reindeer.

Youkai.... do you know Cirno?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Heh. You sound young... but you speak pretty wisely.

...It's fine. I was mostly just thinking out loud. It's only when you've been pulled out of your own element that you start to see and do things you wouldn't have before. You notice things that you might have taken for granted a long time ago.

I've seen stranger things in my lifetime.

Yes. She lives with us.

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[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

I'm not some kind of kid! I'm a doctor you know! Of course I'd sound like that! Bastard, shut up~! I don't need you praising me or anything~! That won't make me happy~!

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

...that sounds like it could happen to anyone. It's kind of like being homesick. That happens to me sometimes.

[Oh his curiosity. He'd be bombarding you with questions about how strange but there's something else he needs to get done with first.]

Are you her nakama then?

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[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[As transparent as the wind.]

I see.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it does. It's just that not everyone is all that vocal about it.

[Bombard away, little reindeer! He doesn't feel that uncomfortable talking with a fellow non-human.]

Nakama...? ... Mm. I guess so.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

[As clear as a cloud-less sky. But his cheerfulness drops for a second because he knows about you. Well, not you exactly but he just knows about that whole food boasting incident with Kantarou during the blizzard, but Chopper was never told that Kantarou did it. He just knows one of Cirno's nakama bragged about having food and wouldn't share anything.

You sound nice though. You couldn't have done that. At least he wants to think so.]

...

It's just better to be quiet about those things.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[That certainly throws him off.]

What are you talking about?

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

I-I'm sorry, but... the blizzard. Showing off food, when no one else had any... there's no reason to do anything like that.

I was never told who did it, but I just know it was one of Cirno's nakama. That's what someone told me.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Kantarou...

...

I don't have those kind of interests. I'm not that prideful, or foolish... There was nothing that could change what happened; I was never surprised by the fact that we were robbed.

I was... the one who was angry along with her.

You're mistaken.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

S-Sorry! I didn't mean to upset your or anything! I just, wanted to know, since we wanted Cirno to be part of our nakama but she wanted all of you to join in too, but Sanji got mad at Kantarou, and Luffy told Cirno and...

I-I shouldn't have asked! I'm sorry!

What is even happening in that icon?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Calm down.

It's not you that I'm upset at. Besides... you said everything so quickly that I barely understood.

1/2 - I WILL LEAVE THAT UP TO YOU.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

Ah, I--!!

Sorry.

[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Kantarou is a good person? If... you're his friend, and Cirno is too, but if he did something like that.

I don't want to dislike Cirno's friends.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call him my friend... But while Kantarou can be greedy, selfish and a cheat for the sake of his own gains sometimes; he is not a bad person at heart.

...You don't have to dislike someone simply because someone else told you to.

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[bokuwadoctaaa.livejournal.com]

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