BLADE ✴

[calamitish]

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week 3, monday

[baebladie]

...Witch.

I suppose you're happy you don't have to lick your wounds anymore.

[ Anyway here he is, alongside his daemon (I'm deciding on it still)

Also, he has a wagasa with him. He's going to test if Ish can see it, first. ]

[calamitish]

[ welcome to the greenhouse! it's warm and moist in here, very tropics environment so sorry about your hair. unlike the grotto, there's some actual furniture in the form of a small table with a chair, and a wicker chaise. that's where blade will find ish, stretching when he enters. ]

Huh? [ sans hat and top layer for perhaps obvious reasons. ]

At that point it's easier to die than deal with it. [ his eyes flit to the wagasa. ]

...so that's where it wandered off to, huh?

[baebladie]

[ Blade and his ungodly long amount of hair in the terrible environment is suffering but since he puts up with constant suffering he is just going to ignore how uncomfortably dressed he is too.

While Ish is using practicality.

It's funny that he understands the easier to die with wounds than deal, but Blade is going to Blade. ]

...Wandered off? You made this thing?

[ The wagasa?? ]

[calamitish]

Oh no, not at all. That's from that place called "Japan", I think? It's a very popular country name across worlds for some reason.

[ what's a japan, he probably does not pronounce it correctly. ]

It showed up at some point, but I thought it just fell into the void between worlds after the loop where Tia died. It's not native to this place as you can probably tell.

[baebladie]

[ Why are items randomly falling through...?? ]

...And you're used to this happening?

[ Blade wonders if it is just incidental rather than of any significance, then. But, why do some items linger...? ]

As in it is something out of your control?

/2

[calamitish]

[ ish smiles. ]

[calamitish]

Have you heard it talking?

[baebladie]

[ Blade squints a little. ]

Not yet.

...Are talking umbrellas a universal commonality?

[ He brings it closer to him though out of curiosity. If this is like a common thing he should try to see if it has a voice. Does he hear anything? ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[The umbrella, which up until now has been quite inert and quite untalkative, lets out a distinct sound that sounds like a sigh. There is no mouth, just an umbrella sigh.

Also, after a dramatic beat, it tilts and spins at the perfect angle to whap Blade lightly over the head.]

[baebladie]

[ What the hell is his life hell in this game. It's unfortunate it doesn't even hurt when it hits, it is just embarrassing. ]

Wha—

...why?

[calamitish]

Hahahaha! That wasn't me, by the way.

[ ish looks at the umbrella curiously. ]

I was gonna say if you hadn't heard anything then you're fine buttttttt—you'd have to ask him not me.

[ a beat. ]

I think it's a him anyway.

[baebladie]

...This is the only time I've believed you unequivocally, pretender.

I don't even know how you can tell these things.

[ ...

Then as he looks to the umbrella, he asks: ]

Why did you do that?

[lesmodsalouette]

That was for making me watch.

[It’s a low voice, maybe a little staticky, but even so the flat lack of amusement comes through. Somehow.

The umbrella tilts back up.

Blade gets the feeling he’s being contemplated.]

What do you want?

1/???

[baebladie]

What do you mean—

2/???

[baebladie]

[ Wait...can it be...??? ]

3/????

[baebladie]

[...]

4/5

[baebladie]

[ The seven stages of grief. ]

5/5

[baebladie]

[ ..................

...

Blade has no idea what do people even ask others things he usually leaves this to other people. ]

...I don't know. If I can call you something - a name or title - that first?

[calamitish]

"Making me watch"? Wowwww, you all really are busy!!! I thought I sensed some of that, but those aren't the matters of the heart I specialize in.

[ turning to blade. ]

Don't worry, you're far from the only ones going at it. [ he says this with all his usual bravado but I will say he's not in the mod ceiling, but he can read Vibes. ]

1/2

[lesmodsalouette]

[The umbrella tilts distinctly in Ish's direction, though it doesn't repeat its physical admonishment.]

Don't act as though you didn't have a hand in it.

[It sounds serious but is the matter really that serious. Anyway.]

2/2

[fillintheblanket]

[There's a brief clearing of the throat and then the umbrella straightens, seeming to stand on ceremony -- however a wagasa in cotton candy colors can do so.]

My name is Yamanbagiri Kunihiro. Remember it. This isn't my true form, but a whim of this world. I am a sword forged as a duplicate of the original Yamanbagiri at the request of Nagao Akinaga, of Ashikaga Castle.

1/2

[baebladie]

[ Side-eyeing Ish. He has something resembling shame. ]

Urgh...insufferable, crass, and incorrigible.

[ He did get vibes people are probably close but he can't tell if. You know. ]

2/2

[baebladie]

[ More importantly, though...what are the chances...? He's looking at Yamanbagiri. ]

...A sword. I wish I could see you in your true form.

Your craftsmanship must have been notable.

[ Swords requested to be forged, duplicate or no, must have had immaculate work done. For a moment, he even looks at his hands. A man who was once a blacksmith (a craftsman who made many weapons, and other works) coming across a sword - and now a swordsman himself.

What are the chances? ]

You know my name. It must be strange and unfortunate to be trapped here. Not in your true form.

[ Can't believe Mikazuki is causing a loop again. Nah, just kidding. ]

[calamitish]

I didn't tell them to screw each other, but to murder each other! They're both high born emotions, though so...

[ that's his useless commentary, go on. ]

[fillintheblanket]

Hmm. Don't set your expectations too high. I am a masterpiece of a duplicate, but also just a duplicate.

[It's said lightly, despite the jumble of contradictions in two sentences. Almost rote, in a way.

Blade gets the feeling he's being looked over once again, with umbrella-eyes of some sort.]

... I know a little about all of you. You have even less luck than me.

[Is Mikazuki causing loops really worse than their local clown causing loops.]