七 (Text Post)

[onikui_tengu]

Those monsters before... what happened to them? Their numbers overcame the others before, but a few days ago it suddenly dwindled like that. It makes me wonder where they were even coming from in the first place.

Still, it seems like this city has enough problems without their help. It reeks with the stench of death here...

Pointless murder. You can fight and hate each other, but even if it ends in blood, someone will always end up come back for more. That's how screwed up this place is. The dead come back in a day. There's no other reason for it, because this city has no real power, nothing worth stealing and barely any direction. We're brought here, and we adapt in it to survive. That's the way it is for any world. The only difference is that here the rules don't even exist at all.

[He takes a deep breath, and then takes a slow sip from his chawan. There is a pause.]

...

This tea is weak. Weaker than the kind we used to have back home.

Where is he, anyway? I'm getting tired of being made to sit around like this. All over a few scratches...

Comments

[prodigal-axe.livejournal.com]

If you're tired of sitting around, could you go to the bar?

I need people there. I can't be.

[Voice; Japanese]

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Where are you going?

Re: [Voice; Japanese]

[prodigal-axe.livejournal.com]

Planning.. other shit. I can't han.. they don't need me around there, like this.

Sorata's running the show. And you don't have to, by the way.

[Voice; Japanese]

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

You're acting just as secretive as he was not long ago. ...Fine.

I think I'll stay. The only reason I am here is because I'm recovering from the injury I had before and the others I obtained through fighting with the Heaven Smiles.

Re: [Voice; Japanese]

[prodigal-axe.livejournal.com]

How bad are you hurt, exactly?

[Voice; Japanese]

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Don't make that face. You have better things to worry about now, and you know it.

I couldn't stop one of them, and it detonated close by. My right shoulder and upper arm ended up getting badly burned. It's been bandaged up since, but it still hurts to move it around sometimes.

[no-need-of-fate.livejournal.com]

Shit never changes, anywhere.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I never really doubted it.

[no-need-of-fate.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen, people need all the peace they can get around here.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Let me know when it starts.

[solidor-heir.livejournal.com]

It is as though we fight in an endless war against an unseen enemy; the monsters are merely their pawns and we are merely their prey.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I never did like games very much.

[threesword.livejournal.com]

They're bored. That's their damn problem.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

No later does it become our problem too.

[boy-fatality.livejournal.com]

There are rules.

We're simply not the ones making them.

Do you require some decent tea?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

...

And these are the only ones we know of.

I'll live. This batch has been so watered down.

[boy-fatality.livejournal.com]

For now. Rules can change.

I see. Should you change your mind, my offer remains.

[worldrestorer.livejournal.com]

Everyone helped take them out, from what I know, but Dan's the one who uh... did whatever he did to the Heaven Smile's 'nest' thing, so it stopped making more of them.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

A "nest" would be the easiest way to explain those numbers. Still... I wonder why it was there in the first place...

Thanks for the information, either way.

[worldrestorer.livejournal.com]

That's a question I can't answer! I haven't been here long enough to know...

No problem. I'm just glad I was able to tell someone something, because the way things are now...

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I haven't been here for very long either, and so I don't think you're caught all that unaware.

Without having to be told, many people are probably just relieved that the monsters are gone and no longer threatening the greater safety of the city. It's not your fault that they've chosen to fight among themselves so soon after...

...What is your name?

[worldrestorer.livejournal.com]

Not for some things... But I still don't know a lot of how the way this place works. I guess the only way I'll find out is to ask around and see for myself. I'd like to get a chance to talk to those scientists myself, if I can.

I guess it isn't, but it's sort of hard to just ignore it. It's like looking at some kind of horrible trainwreck.

Shyna Nera Shyna, the Messenger of Justice! What's yours?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

That would probably be for the best. As for the scientists, I wouldn't mind being able to talk to them for awhile myself.

Oh, it's a train wreck all right.

It's Haruka.

[sharedsight.livejournal.com]

It's all pretty moronic.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I agree.

You're not involved in any of this, Doumeki?

[sharedsight.livejournal.com]

I've been inside for a few days now.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Probably for the best.

It hasn't gotten any safer here.

[sharedsight.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Hasn't sounded like it. That's why we've stayed in.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Need anything?

I've told Mokona to keep an eye on you and Watanuki.

[sharedsight.livejournal.com]

We're fine right now.

Oi... I don't think it can do much right now. I can keep an eye on him.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I doubt that.

Not in your case, but Mokona's.

[sharedsight.livejournal.com]

Hn. There's a lot it can't do now. Doesn't bother me either way.