20th Scroll

[kirinofen]

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[The sound cuts in with silence. Abruptly it's shattered with an earsplitting crash of something breaking against the floor.

Yokuhi's voice cuts in, sounding startled and faraway.]

"Taiho?!"

[Her voice is followed by silence. There's a faint noise of movement and Yokuhi

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1/2; voice for the moment

[the_ever_king]

...

[the_ever_king]

Who are you seeing?

[kirinofen]

... No one. It's fine.

[the_ever_king]

Funny. I don't believe that.

[kirinofen]

... Whatever. Believe what you want.

[the_ever_king]

I will. And I believe you're seeing things.

[kirinofen]

.... [He kinda believes that not acknowledging the curse will make it go away faster. Somehow. So you don't get an answer, Shouryuu. Just the sound of glass moving as he continues to pick up what he broke and toss it.]

[the_ever_king]

[And Shouryuu sighs, exiting out of his room, heading to wherever the kirin is at the moment in the apartment. Once he spots him, he moves to help pick up the broken glass.]

You're a terrible liar.

[kirinofen]

[The kitchen would be his location as he was trying to get something to drink and instead got cursed. He scowls at Shouryuu, for he is very irritated at life right now.]

Just go away, I don't need help.

[the_ever_king]

[He shrugs, throwing the single shard of glass he picked up into the nearby. Very well. He then takes the opportunity to sit down onto one of the chairs.]

You're also just as terrible when it comes to hiding things. You aren't the only one affected by this curse, you know.

[kirinofen]

[You didn't do the actually 'going away' part so he's still annoyed. He finishes cleaning the glass up and it only took him this long because he was being careful not to cut himself. Shouryuu's words seem to catch him off guard. For some reason he wasn't expecting that at all.]

Huh? Then... you are...?

[the_ever_king]

Seeing my father? Yes. He's wondering where his kingdom went. [He shrugs his shoulders.] So's Rin. She's been talking to hers for a while now. [His casual, non-nonchalant expression softens some.] So I assume you're seeing your own.

[kirinofen]

Oh... that must be weird. [He hadn't known Shouryuu's father, but he had heard all about him when they had first met. From what he remembered Shouryuu's father had just written his remaining son off as a lost case. Or something like that. And Rin was seeing her dad too? Come midnight, she would be very sad...

Shouryuu's assumption makes him look away uneasily, staring determinedly at the floor. After a moment he looks back up, though to an empty space to his right. There's nothing there to anyone else but for him he sees his father standing there. He looked exactly the same from that time over five hundred years ago when Rokuta saw him last. Seeing him filled the kirin with all sorts of conflicting emotions, but mostly it made him extremely uneasy.]

... Yes.

[the_ever_king]

A little. But he can do as he likes. I'm assuming he'll be gone by midnight. [He leaned back in his chair, watching Rokuta carefully, following his gaze as it drifted to his right. He couldn't see the man in question, but he was there. The one who had abandoned him in the woods all those years ago. He doubted 500 years would change the kirin's feelings any.]

When you went back to Hourai, wasn't he and the rest of your family who you were looking for?

[kirinofen]

[Rokuta almost wished he could be that dismissive about the curse. It just wasn't that easy for him even after all this time and even though he hadn't actually thought about his Hourai family in so long. Then again, maybe it was bothering Shouryuu more than he was letting on. Who knew for sure.

He laughs bitterly.]

I don't know. That's what I thought but when I returned to Mt. Hou with you all the oracles told me it was because the king was there. 'You must've gone back to Hourai for that reason', they told me. 'Why else would you go back?'

[He looks back towards the ghostly apparition, noticing his father was saying something. Whatever it was, Rokuta refused to hear it.] It wouldn't have mattered anyway. I doubt they survived the first winter after I left. [His voice is oddly nonchalant about it.]

[the_ever_king]

That's what the oracles believed. Not necessarily why you went. I don't think they understood or knew half the story. If I thought that even a few of my people back home were still alive and needed someone, I would have looked for them whether they wanted me or not.

[He continued to ignore his own father's presence, despite the fact the man's demands were getting louder. Even after 500 years, that was hardly unusual.] You could ask. I hope your father's at least had the courage to sincerely apologize, apparition or not.