[Thread] From the top...

[black_not_white]

Characters: AU Manjoume Jun, open to whoever
Where: the rooftop of Apartment Building 2
When: mid-afternoon
Summary: Though he's certainly not going to go out completely in the open right now, Manjoume needs some fresh air. Care to poke?
Warnings: Besides Manjoume's easily-irritated nature, it depends on who shows up.

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[black_not_white]

Johan cared a lot for his cards, didn't he. Not that it was strange - all good duelists cared about their cards, after all. But the way he was acting with them, it was almost like they were even more important to him.

Did all of Johan's cards house spirits? It wouldn't be surprising - previously, Manjoume had had multiple spirits living in his own deck, too. In fact, back home, somewhere back in Osiris Red (unless they'd been moved), he had an entire collection of cards that housed the spirits of monsters with zero attack points. Vaguely, he wondered what had become of them - if they hadn't been moved, Zaloog and the Black Scorpions were probably making sure that they all stayed safe. Not that he would be able to tell, if he were to see them now, but. And that wasn't even mentioning the Ojamas...

For a guy like Manjoume, who had so carelessly thrown his spirit partners to the wind like trash... standing here, watching Johan sort through his deck so lovingly... It made him feel as though he shouldn't be there, as his seeing it somehow made the whole thing dirty or something of the sort.

[eightgemmaster]

Johan glanced up briefly, his fingers on Rainbow Dragon's card. "Can you see them?" he asked curiously. He didn't think so, since Manjoume hadn't reacted to Ruby Carbuncle at all. But he wanted to know.

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It took him a moment, to decide how exactly to answer the question. It was kind of unsettling, to be asked that question directly like this. There was a reason he tried to push thoughts about it to the back of his head - he wasn't sure how to deal with everything that had happened, with the memory of how everything had just gone quiet the moment they had left his hand...

After a moment, however, he hid his expression even further and settled on "No. I haven't been able to see spirits for a while now."

[eightgemmaster]

Johan frowned, looking at him again. It was obvious that bothered Manjoume quite a bit. He couldn't be sure if the other would want to talk about it, either. Especially not to him, since they'd really just met.

Finding some way to respond to that wasn't easy, either. Johan considered a few options of his own and finally nodded slightly, starting to gather up his own cards. "If you want to duel sometime, just for the practice of it, let me know. I'm always up for a good game." He grinned some; he'd been trying to think of someone he could duel, not just for the practice, but for the fun of it, and hopefully to show Haou that he was a duelist.

But mostly for the fun of it.

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A duel just for the practice of it. Internally, Manjoume couldn't help but smile. One would think that a game would be just that - a game. Certainly, something that a myriad of different kinds of careers could be - and were - based from. But it seemed as though almost all of the rounds he'd played, for the longest time, had had some kind of catch to them. A duel just for practice, without any strings attached... That could be a nice change of pace.

"I'll let you know," he replied.