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[ryuji]

Anyone else getting a massive wave of culture shock? It's totally kicking my ass right now. I got a nice little gig set up here above a bar, but the catch is I gotta work. But yeah, people are coming and going like crazy around here. Weird outfits, weird hairstyles. Seeing everyone go crazy about freedom is pretty freakin' cool. Nobody needs some stuffy old dude sittin' in a golden high chair sucking his royal thumb and giving out orders all the time.

Not gonna lie, I've seen some pretty big palaces before, but I totally wanna raid the hell out of Versailles.

So anyway, is it like this all the time when you guys get a new mission? I've never been to Paris before, but I kinda know what it looks like from pictures back in my own time? Universe? Good luck getting your head around that shit, it's way too deep for me. I was all excited to see the Eiffel Tower, but apparently it's not gonna exist for like... a hundred years.

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[hakanai]

[Ah, now this is just the kind of speech that Yoshitsugu's loved ones have made to him in the past (sometimes right after he stood in the path of danger and had to be pulled out of it). Unseen, Yoshitsugu smiles to himself. No time he has ever been moved to go against the flow has worked out well and he knows he is destined to die in defiance of fate, but somehow, people like Lord Nagamasa, like Mitsunari, like Ryuji himself, always manage to drive him to do so anyway.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON You want me to reject my way of life and move against the flow, do you? An open defiance of fate if I am dragged to a cell and locked away? Interesting.

Of course you're talking to a spirit. I am merely a youkai possessing a man for my own ends, ready to strike out and claim the energy of my victims the moment they let their guard down.

A joke, by the way.

[ryuji]

[Ryuji's really not into making people do things that they don't want to do, so when Yoshitsugu protests against he, he drops it. Leaving him alone to choose to be a slave to fate is still the act of showing a choice.

Having free will and having freedom is the most goddamned cherished thing in the entire world. He would know- he almost saw humanity collectively lose theirs completely. But he's not articulate enough to join in the debate of fate vs someone changing the flow of it.]

@MINIMALCAT Well, maybe I'd just wanna bust you out to keep you company. I hear it gets lonely in the slammer.

[Right back into spooky territory, huh?]

You think I could invent some sort of vessel that could house youkai spirits?

Like a Youkai Watch?

[R y u j i....]

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Aside from any guards coming to taunt away their boredom? Yes, it does

[Always spooky. Some of those guards probably stopped taunting him because of some of the curses he threatened to dish out, though it never helped with the suspicious thing one bit...]

[The next response takes a while.]

Was that a joke? Interesting.

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT Somehow I don't feel like you're bein' completely honest here

[Are you facepalming yet Yoshitsugu?]

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Really? What gave you that impression?

[Thinking 'how cute' maybe.]

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT Because I gotta friend back home that says that sorta stuff when he's plagiarizing me

[He meant patronizing. Oh well.]

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON You're very interesting, aren't you.

[:)]

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT Hell yeah. What's the point in being normal and boring anyway?

[Don't play with him, he's so easy to mess with!]

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Maybe you'll even be interesting enough to surprise me. That doesn't happen very often.

[That's what makes it so fun.]

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT Like... me bein' interesting or you bein' surprised, because really, it could go either way at this point.

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Why don't you guess?

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT I dunno... it's kinda sad imagining a life where you can't be surprised by anything.

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON You make your own fun instead.

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT I thought you were against that kinda thing. :)

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON I make exceptions for teasing.

And haunting.

[ryuji]

@MINIMALCAT Remind me when this mission's over I have a song to sing for ya. It's called superstition by Stevie Wonder.

This is SUPER IMPORTANT, so don't forget.

Because I probably will.

[hakanai]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Super important? Interesting. I won't forget.