un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

--Ow! You don't need to kick me, I'm leaving!

[There's the sound of someone getting up and straightening their clothes and dusting themselves off before starting to walk at a good pace.]

Well, that wasn't very nice.

I know some people offered rooms up in the palace for those of us who were assigned to Macaluso, but I am more used to living in more modest accommodation, and there are a lot of empty houses in the Southern district and people who still need help down there, so I'll be heading there to settle down for now.

Maybe I'll get to hear what the people think of what is happening right now, too, but quite honestly they... don't feel as panicked as I would expect people to be given everything that happened. I wonder how much of that whole soul transfer thing they know about, if maybe this is like a story you tell people behind closed doors but don't speak of in the open...

If you need me, I won't be very far. And if anyone needs to lay low outside of the palace, you're welcome to join me.

... I promise I won't cook for you unless you really want me to.

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[downswing]

Why ally stubbornness?

[scrapgege]

Is it really such a problem for me to be outside? There's not much for me to do in the palace anyway. At least out there, I can be useful to people.

[downswing]

You are prone to misfortune

[scrapgege]

.... You don't have to say it like that.

[downswing]

Will excess courtesy reshape truth?

[scrapgege]

I guess not, but still...

Anyway, it won't be anything I haven't seen before, rest assured.

[downswing]

And when you injure?

[scrapgege]

I can take care of injuries, Master Lan, and they won't kill me.

[downswing]

I do not always distrust.



( Just now. )

[scrapgege]

I thank you for your concern, but really I will be fine! This isn't much different from how I've lived for a good few hundred of years. And if I can find an empty house to settle in the accommodation will be even better.

[downswing]

You survived hundreds of years.

[scrapgege]

I did, yes. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it before? I told you I'm a Heavenly Official and I can't die.

[downswing]

I recall.

[scrapgege]

That story I told you, about my first ascension... That was a little over eight hundred years ago.

[downswing]

I see.

[scrapgege]

I guess I forgot to mention that, haha.

[downswing]

You have nourished today?



( Darling man, you have a fainting sickness. And have clearly hit your head. )

[scrapgege]

Hm? Yes, of course! Why do you ask?

[downswing]

I wonder.

[scrapgege]

....? I don't understand?

[downswing]

I ask to know.

[scrapgege]

But why do you need to know that?

... I mean, I am grateful for your concern, as always, but feeding myself has been relatively easy here, all things considered.

[downswing]

And you have not cooked.

[scrapgege]

No, not this time, the breakfast came from the palace kitchen, as far as I know.