Sixth Tablet: Post Halloween shenanigans [Action]

[mansfirsttrap]

[It was one thing to be actively involved with certain things that tend to happen in Mayfield, but to be forcefully pulled into certain turns of events that made him die and come back to life to hunt others only for the town to treat everything lightly as a joke? That did not make this beast master happy at all

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[paintme_crimson]

[Hi, guess who walks by? Familiar face, yup.]

What's got you so steamed?

[mansfirsttrap]

... this place.

[That's all that needs to be said.]

[paintme_crimson]

[She will just hop on the porch next to him.]

Touche.

Anything in particular?

[mansfirsttrap]

Taking the only thing I have close to having a family of my own away, taking someone who is my life link to stay alive rather than on a time limit that is slowly ticking away the longer I live without someone's mana and to be this damned town's play toy to whatever it pleases whether or not we can choose to fight against it or not.

There are plenty of things. Just take one that tends to be more appealing to you.

[paintme_crimson]

I get it. [She tucks a loose strand of hair behind her ear, and sighs.]

But I'm done being angry. Instead of moping about her being gone, I'm trying to do something about it. Why don't you try the same? [That last part said with a bit of snark.]

[mansfirsttrap]

I am. And I will, one way or another.

[He raises up his feet at those words and then extends both arms out to summon two things: a long chain wrapped around one arm and the other holding a rather ancient looking spear.]

I'll challenge the gods. Alone. With someone. It doesn't matter... I refuse to be toyed around with and having hopes and what simple happiness and pleasures I've had to be thrown away like trash!

[paintme_crimson]

[She jumps a little bit when ~random summoning~, but keeps her position on the porch.]

Uh, slow down, there. I don't think this place has any gods. Unless the head cheese managed to kidnap someone from Moriya.

[mansfirsttrap]

To be summoned here against our wills. To be stripped of our strengths and be submitted to a fate worse than death. To be a play thing to powers that be that constantly watches us and plagues us.

... who or what else can you call such beings anything other than the gods?

[paintme_crimson]

Someone I know who's more powerful than your standard god was already here.

And I wouldn't call this a fate worse than death.

[mansfirsttrap]

[And without missing a beat!]

Have you not seen Keine as of late? Can you honestly say those words and look at her at the same time?

[paintme_crimson]

[She stands up, clenching her fists in anger.]

That is something I've had to learn how to deal with. She's not like me, she's not gonna keep living even when the sun explodes. I'm fucking dealing with it.

[mansfirsttrap]

So you choose to do nothing about it. I understand. I understand fully. So this is where we split our similarities on caring for her.

[He rises up to his feet and then gives her a very flat and feral look.]

I've always seen those who chose to do nothing to be the ones who are the most coward like. You have the power to do something yet you turn your head... who needs to keep living when she's a puppet now? She is not like you? She isn't like me either, a man who is already dead in this world but still is living for brief moments because of this town... and even with those few hours to live, I will still choose to fight and make a change.

[paintme_crimson]

You knew her for a month! I knew her for two hundred years! Like shit you care about her!

And, for that matter, I'm not fucking doing anything because there's nothing to do. What can bring someone back from a droning? Nothing! It's pure luck!

There's nothing we can do for her! Sitting on our asses is more productive than getting mad and shooting thunder at the fucking sky!

[mansfirsttrap]

How fascinating that it took one person a month to act while another person over a month to still do nothing... I truly wonder how much fire you have inside you with those feelings of yours.

And if truly sitting there and watch how this world goes by is a working method for you, then do feel free to show me some results after things do happen when people take action.

[But with that said, he's already starting to move. He's done with his conversation and arguing about it is going to make him more like a Berserker than a Lancer Servant.]

[paintme_crimson]

Shut your fucking mouth!

[Too bad for him, because she is not done. She snaps her fingers, and a field of fire springs up at the borders of the house.]

Don't act so fucking justified! Screwing someone isn't a proof of love! I could have stayed silent for the rest of her short life and I'd still have loved her more than you ever could have!

[mansfirsttrap]

[He keeps on walking but stops right when the blaze appears right before him from moving on any further. He clenches his spear tightly and the chains around his arm even tighter as he slowly turns his head to look over his shoulder. There was a wild look in his eyes. Like a caged animal being challenged at a life or death match.]

Are you going to stand in my way?!