Forty-seven serpents: when you bring downfall home

[scarysnakelady]

[Video]

[When the PCD turns on, she's staring at a knife in her other hand (cheap stainless steel, salvaged, wasn't meant to last very long anyway), noting the way it's sheered off in half, weak metal succumbing to stress and finally breaking when she used it to set off a trap just ahead of her. Her expression isn't the vague annoyance or

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[mere_shopkeeper]

No good at all.

[He's moving as he records, holding the PCD up in front of him while he tracks Anko down.]

But that doesn't mean it can't be fixed or fashioned into something better~

[scarysnakelady]

Yeah, but that's gotta mean someone wants to still do something with it, even after it's broken.

[She's just. Wandering. Looking for whatever and taking out traps as she comes across them.]

[mere_shopkeeper]

Good thing I'm so inventive then, no~?

[Ah, he sees you~! Shunpoing up.]

[scarysnakelady]

Unless you're planning on smelting it down for raw materials, I don't think there's much even you could do with it.

[Hey there dude, what's up, Anko's just... chilling. Sort of.]

[mere_shopkeeper]

Well, metal is precious here after all~♥

[Checking that wound. Yeesh.]

[scarysnakelady]

Plenty of other places to get it from before you'd look to a little piece of nothing like that.

[Glaring, glaring, all the glaring, don't make her go to a medic, please don't.]

[mere_shopkeeper]

I'm more interested in the precious metals... After all, quality over quantity~

[Okay, fine, but don't complain when he fishes antiseptic out of his pocket and dabs it onto the wound.]

[scarysnakelady]

Whoever said it was precious?

[She flinches away and hisses at that]

Ow, what the hell!?

[mere_shopkeeper]

I did~♥

[Nope, not letting you get far. Instead, he's dabbing again.]

I could always ask Unohana-taichou to look at it.

[scarysnakelady]

[Then you'll just have to deal with her swearing up a storm, and still occasionally trying to flinch away.]

God-fucking dammit, you do that and then threaten me with fucking healers!?

[mere_shopkeeper]

Yep~♥!

[So behave, or else it won't be so much of a threat as it is a promise.]

[scarysnakelady]

You're an absolute bastard, y'know that?

[Oh she could try and flee properly if she really had to, but she'll stick to grimacing and flinching ever so often instead.]

[mere_shopkeeper]

[A hum.]

Well, I don't quite remember my parents, so that could be quite true~!

[Pulling out a clean cloth and carefully bandaging that now.]

[scarysnakelady]

That's not what I mean and you damn well know it.

[mere_shopkeeper]

[He grins up at her from under his hat.]

Ah, but do you feel more like yourself now~?

[scarysnakelady]

Nnnnngh.

[It's a non-answer because she doesn't want to admit that, yeah, kinda. Also the fever's still there, but now that it doesn't have to fight off the WHOLE infection on its own...]