[Action]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash can be found today fairly deep in the woods. He went out that far in order to not be disturbed, but like that really matters in a place like Luceti. He’s rigged up a target on a rope that he’s run through several of the branches so that he can stand at the far end and yank on the rope and have the target swing down

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[aphephobic]

[Hisoka's been using the woods for similar reasons, especially since the latest New Feather cycle has left the village particularly noisy. He's within earshot when the target practice commences and, naturally assuming someone else is getting killed given the slant Luceti's taken lately, rushes toward the sound, a hand hovering over the concealed gun at his side. It's almost disappointing when he's close enough to tell that it's just a marksman nitpicking his work.]

He would've been dead enough. What's the difference?

[goldenglasses]

[He jumps slightly, having not expected company.] No! That’s what’s wrong! Just that little bit… if I’m off even just that much it could do some real damage to someone! No one has the right to kill another!

[aphephobic]

[His eyes shift from Vash's face to the gun and back again, raising an eyebrow quizzically.] That's a weird way to be a pacifist.

[goldenglasses]

[Sighs and re-holsters his gun.] It was a gift and I decided it should be used to help those who are suffering.

[aphephobic]

Was?

[goldenglasses]

Huh? OH! Oh... no. Nothing like that he's still... around.

[aphephobic]

No, you said it was a gift. So it's a gift you don't have anymore, is what you meant.

[goldenglasses]

Uh. The gun was... is the gift I mean.

[aphephobic]

In that case, you're being terribly ungrateful to whoever gave it to you, if you're not satisfied with that.

[goldenglasses]

No! It's a good gun, a very good gun! [Of course the fact that he's protecting people with it isn't making the man who gave it to him very happy.]

[aphephobic]

So what's the problem?

[goldenglasses]

N-nothing I guess? Just that it is possible to not kill and use a gun.

[aphephobic]

No it isn't.

[goldenglasses]

I disagree! I've been doing it for a long time.

[aphephobic]

Then it's only temporary. A gun is designed to be a weapon. You kill with it, or you're killed because of it. It's the natural order of things.

[goldenglasses]

No. No one has the right to take another life. They can choose not to kill with a gun. Weapons can be used to protect; not destroy.