text; un: tengennohana

[ryototsukai]

i'm already 1m yen in debt?!

i just started in debt to Tenko-hime?!

i mean i did spend a ton of money on food and drinks and lovely women and cute boys and stuff but

somehow i thought it would all work out?

how am i supposed to handle this?!?!

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[ryototsukai]

trust me, given our leader is a fox youkai with untold magic powers, i can tell i'm getting off easy here.

it still sucks.

they're gonna take half my paycheck till it's all paid off.

[deadtective]

Only half? Shit, that's fucking nothing. Just stock up on those little cup noodles and you can even make another pyramid for your apartment.

[because that wouldn't be depressing at all, coming down from a champagne tower.]

[ryototsukai]

having tasted the most heavenly soba

reduced to eating instant ramen

this really IS hell

[deadtective]

Say it like that and all the flavor packets are gonna disappear out of the packaging.

[ryototsukai]

i mean i DO know how to make my own noodle broth!

but that'd still be more expensive.

UUUUUUUGGHHHHH

well. this is my lot. i just gotta get used to it.

the name's musashi, by the way! miyamoto musashi!

[deadtective]

That's the spirit. Save the bitching for when you realize you're not gonna be having toppings on anything for the next sixty years.

[she considers giving out her real name. she actually does, alright! ...but in the end the feeling of so many potential eyes on even an innocuous conversation like this keeps her from hanging it out. save that for an in person moment when she can't avoid it.]

Just Stitches is fine for right now. Nice to meet you, I guess? Nice to meet someone who's made fucking worse decisions than me, anyway.

[ryototsukai]

you really have a way of making a girl feel better, don't you, Stitches-kun?

[ Does sarcasm carry over text? She has no idea. ]

[deadtective]

[it does when you're texting a ~*professional*~]

Hey, it's what I'm here for. Some people get a lot out of being a reassurance to someone else, or so I'm told.

Honestly though I wouldn't worry too much about it. Place kinda strikes me as one where everyone's gonna be on the hook for something for-fucking-ever.

[ryototsukai]

that's true, and at least these terms are pretty reasonable. i'm not being expected to pay any interest.

[deadtective]

That you're aware of.

[ryototsukai]

please stop being so determined to jinx this.

[deadtective]

What's the matter, you that superstitious?

[ryototsukai]

let's just say i've seen some things that make one believe in the power of curses and the impact of negative energy.

[deadtective]

Girl, I've got bad fucking news for you then. I'm practically made of negative energy.

[ryototsukai]

like

a straw effigy or something?

[ Maybe a little esoteric, Musashi. ]

[deadtective]

[w e l l......]

Minus the straw...and for a given definition of effigy, maybe.

[ryototsukai]

wait are you actually a curse vessel?!

[ She'd mostly been kidding, but honestly, as soon as she typed that, she realized it wasn't actually that strange, given the context they were even having the conversation within. ]

[deadtective]

But you've gotta keep it on the dl, alright? Shit's kind of a pain in the ass if it gets around.

[ok so like, technically this is another fucking lie of hers. but Hazel had been resurrected for the express purpose of enacting some very petty vengeance, and what is a curse vessel if not something like that? it certainly sounds cooler than 'failure zombie', so hell yeah she's going to roll with it.]

[ryototsukai]

don't worry, i know that's not the kind of thing you should go shouting about.

still, does it impact you in any way? that is if that's not to rude to ask!

[deadtective]

I've had people be a lot fucking ruder about it than just asking, so you don't have to worry. Not quite that oversensitive yet.

It's...it used to? But everything's kind of fucked up and weird here. I dunno if it's just me or what, but I'm not really sure where any of my fucking limits are anymore.

[ryototsukai]

i think we're all kinda dealing with new weirdness here.

i definitely don't seem to be at full strength.

[deadtective]

So it's not just me.

[interesting. she'd wondered, honestly...was it because of how far she was from Edith and the serpent? worlds away, possibly. knowing that it wasn't something unique to her situation was both relieving and strange in and of itself.]

You think it's because they can't handle us at full capacity? Or something else?

[ryototsukai]

well, i kind of thought it was part of our "fee".

the legends go that you need six mon (that's an old Japanese currency) to cross the Sanzu at minimum, but those who pay more get safer passage. maybe part us was taken in that process?

[deadtective]

Six? Shit, you only needed one coin to get across the Styx. That fucking boat better be made of gold for that price.

Not that I wouldn't believe something like that happened. I mean...it's the oldest sales tactic in the book, isn't it? Sell shit back to people and make them think they're getting a good deal.

[if parts of themselves had been taken to 'pay' for making a contract, then weren't they in effect only getting back what they already had? it made an already suspicious transaction even more dubious.]

[ryototsukai]

maybe, but the promise of the contract is definitely something i wasn't going to be able to obtain on my own. not even with all that strength.

[ ... ]

at least not anytime soon.