so_shik | Forty-Third Spool of Thread

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Forty-Third Spool of Thread - [Voice/Action]

[There's the sudden sound of a bunch of boxes falling to the ground, contents spilling everywhere as the journal's camera points up to the ceiling. It shifts suddenly to focus on a particular pink-haired girl who was unceremoniously dumped into the back room of her shop on top of said boxes.]

Ugh...thanks for the warning, jerks. [She begins to untangle herself from the boxes of ribbons and fabrics, moving the journal closer to speak. For the most part, she seems pretty unharmed.]

Hey...so what day is it anyway? Here's hoping I wasn't gone too long, totally bad for business. [There's a slight beat, suddenly remembering something. You know, her housemate that was alone for like a week.] Haruhi, report. [She works her way out from under the pile of materials and the door to the back room swings open, allowing her to enter the main part of the shop.]

Neku...you better have made it back. That was pretty low of them, keeping us sort of together and then sending you back first. Besides, I was right in the middle of designing a n--

[There's a long pause suddenly as she really takes a look at the shop. She's staring at a row of dresser dummies, counting them in her head.]

All right, which one of you broke into my shop when I was gone?!

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[HE IS NOT A KID it's just that he sounds like one.]

Seems you aren't. I suppose you've at least got that much working for you. What are the chances you've got a name to go with it?

[And he probably looks like one. Physically they're about the same age at this point anyway.]

I'll consider that about as close to a compliment as I'll get out of you. ...Misaki Shiki.

[That's just because he died early! DX]

Kurosaki Hisoka.

...So how is it you know Joshua, anyway?

[WELL SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT YET >O]

[She nods a little at his name, but she hesitates on the question.] ...he's a friend of a friend. [That's about as close to the truth as she can get.] We're from the same world.

[WAIT BACK UP nothing good comes from anything related to Joshua's world.]

Do you work for him? [His wings are puffing out like a frightened kitten. Please ignore them. He's trying to not look unnerved otherwise.]

Do I look like somebody who would work for him? Calm down! [Especially since she spends a good portion of her life mentally berating Joshua. And another tiny portion thanking him but that portion will forever be squashed :|]

...wait a sec. What is it you know about him anyway?

Ruthless murderers come in all kinds of sizes. [Especially since.. His relationship with Joshua is kind of the same.]

I know enough about him. [He technically knows everything, but the way he learned was another Josh-trolling project so Hisoka can't exactly figure out what he knows.]

Joshua's not--wait, you seriously think I could murder somebody? Are you kidding me? So you're from the planet of the poorly dressed and stupid assumptions.

That doesn't tell me anything, Kurosaki.

I know enough about that bloodbath he calls a game to be able to tell everything I need about the people who get involved in it.

It's barbaric.

[hfldsajlf.] You know about the Game? He told you about the Game?!

I know a lot of things. [Because being cryptic about it makes it sound better.]

...that doesn't tell me anything!

It tells you everything you need to know!

The Game's not about murder, and I thought you of all people would know that! [...unless your name is Neku. Then of course it's all about murder but that's neither here nor there.]

Edited 2011-05-30 06:24 (UTC)

Then what does happen to the souls that lose? How is it not murder?

...look, I can't answer questions when I don't know what you do and don't know about the Game, okay? [Because yeah the way he made that sound, it kinda is murder...even though the ones playing are already dead.]

I know the shinigami on your world are hired guns whose job is to eliminate people who could have passed on to the afterlife. And stop calling it a damn game.

[This is a button Joshua pushes a lot. Does it show?]

No. They eliminate people who could have come back to life. A real life, not the afterlife. And I'm calling it a game because that's what it's called!

And that makes it okay? Some poor salaryman is afraid to die, so he needs to be destroyed because he wasn't ready to stop living? It's worse than murder.

...are we even on the same page? Everybody in the Game is already dead. If you win the Game, you can come back. If you don't, you just pass on. What's so hard to understand about that?

The part where losing souls are erased. What the hell kind of consolation prize is that?

What the hell kind of consolation prize is any kind of passing on?

You won't know until you try it. I'm told it's peaceful.

...it's not as peaceful as you'd think.

You wouldn't be here if you'd opted for it.

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