fujimaru | Palace Game 6/3

The Dreamer In The Grand Temple
Humanity Foundation Value: ????

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

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fujimaru

He cocks his head, those strange eyes bright and somehow amused before he begins to walk. Rupert can follow or not as he sees fit.

"And do you think that only the worst of people may find Hell? One only need be in the wrong place at the wrong time to find themselves on such a path. Even the best of intentions may lead you astray."

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heartlands

[he follows after him with a frown.]

You don't think you're being just a little unfair to her?

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fujimaru

"I return that question to you!" He sounds like he's laughing. "Is it unfair to think that simply, as a good person, only good will come to her? The world hardly cares to coddle a kind person! Will a good person never sully their hands, or be drawn into the worst, simply because they are good? It is hardly ever so easy as that!"

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heartlands

What are you trying to accomplish, here, exactly?

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fujimaru

"Here? In this place? I am but a traveler, the same as you! A human like yourself would sooner drown and be dragged into the depths, another curse upon a thousand others, sooner than find your proper way! And if you've such fondness for my accomplice, I assume you would rather not add your death upon all the others."

He laughs again, a ringing sound, in a place that seems to have no walls or proper ceiling. There are things, in the distance, moving around wetly and slowly, that go still at the sound.

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heartlands

So, you're... here to help me find the way...?

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fujimaru

"Do you wish to die?"

It sounds like a sincere question, rather than a threat, for all that he still sounds a little too overly eager about the idea.

"If you do, I will gladly leave you to your own fate! But with your argument, I suspected that you might not wish that--so I will guide you! It is as simple as that."

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heartlands

Yeah, no, can't say it's at the top of my to do list right now. So... Where are we going?

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fujimaru

"To the end of the line."

Whatever that means, which he does not appear to be interested in elaborating. But he is looking around like he expects to see something out there, in the bloody-smelling darkness.

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heartlands

...Okay! Are we just waiting for it to appear, then...?

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fujimaru

"Patience," he says. "One cannot cross five years in the span of minutes. Unless you wish to make it a battle? There are beasts in the dark that you will regret laying eyes upon."

He glances at Rupert, sidelong. "Though it would be faster."

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heartlands

...So we're going to be here for five years if I don't fight anything?

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fujimaru

He laughs at that, putting a hand to his face. "Hardly! These curses devour each other and grow stronger, and hungrier, and worse! But they can be crossed in less time than they have taken to accumulate. Fear not! Have heart! Persistence is the way through!"

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heartlands

Yeah, don't worry, I have a lot of that. Just - tell me when I need to do something.

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fujimaru

"Watch," he says, as his pace picks up. The blood around them is bubbling, barely visible in the light he casts around him. "And do not turn your eyes away. Whatever you might see, do not avert your eyes."

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heartlands

[he nods, silent, as he walks faster to match his pace.]

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fujimaru

As they walk, he will hear things in the darkness, in the silence from Mr. Edgelord. They're voices--not whispers, exactly, but things that might have been shouts or loud exclamations if they were somehow closer; it's like hearing a fight from some distance away.

At some point, something does make a grab at his ankle.

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heartlands

Whoa—

[he kicks at it instinctively, looking down to see what it is.]

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fujimaru

In the dim light, it sure looks like a human face, so covered in thick liquid that the features are mostly indistinguishable--just sockets for the eyes, the rise of a nose, and an open, silently screaming mouth.

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heartlands

—Sorry! Sorry, sorry...

[moving right along with a grimace]

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fujimaru

As he moves on, it lets go of him, though that is not the last time something tries to make a grab for him. Sometimes it does feel like a hand reaching up, and sometimes it feels a bit more inhuman--teeth at one point, catching in his pantleg, a pinch like a crab's claws, and something that is probably a tentacle... they're all grabby here.

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heartlands

[he pulls away and keeps on going each time even as he glances down, concerned, and after about the third or fourth time this happens:]

Hey... Do I need to be doing anything about these?

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fujimaru

"You can try to calm them, if you like," he says. "They will return, but they can be appeased. It's best to cut them down... but if you are so certain that you are able to calm them, their fury and their fire--then by all means! Go ahead!"

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heartlands

Oh - okay!

[he brightens up a little and then then looks out for the next one he sees, stooping down next to it carefully.]

Hey there...

From:

fujimaru

The face moves its mouth soundlessly; one voice rises above the others--a man's voice, screaming. He doesn't really sound like he's having a great time, unfortunately.

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藤丸立香 | Fujimaru Ritsuka

I don't fight to suffer

Palace Game 6/3