Jump Issue #15 [Voice and Action]

[silversoul_xx]

[Gin can be seen in the lobby, sitting on a bamboo mat he had retrieved from the kitchen staff. He is not in his usual outfit, but is actually wearing the simple, meager cloth of a Buddhist monk. His eyes are closed tightly, and his legs are crossed, and all he utters is a simple, periodic "Om" from time to time.((Note: Gintoki will be a monk this

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[snooktastic]

[Olive strolls by, glares at him, and shoves him before stalking off.]

[silversoul_xx]

[He merely moves back into place, unaware of Olive even touching him, so he leans too far back and ends up ramming his head in between her legs. Broken out of his meditational reverie, he opens his eyes.]

To be free of earthly desires is to be free of sexual temptation.

[He says that in a scolding manner, and moves his head out from between her short legs.]

[snooktastic]

[Olive is momentarily overcome. A man! Touching her! Oh my God! But then it's ruined, as always, and she glares down at him.]

Good luck with that.

[silversoul_xx]

Such things are not overcome by luck.

[snooktastic]

What the hell is wrong with you?! First you're not freaking out about OMIGOD WOMEN and now you're spouting all this ... Confucius crap! GodDAMN do I hate men!

[silversoul_xx]

...Why would I be concerned?

You do not care for me that way. You should not be bothered either.

[Even though he is a monk and does not care for attractions now, there is still a subliminal memory of his denied feelings for her.]

And you are not usually this irritable.

[snooktastic]

You're pissing me off!

[She shoves him again, then goes and flops down on the couch, glaring at nothing.]

[silversoul_xx]

You are the second irritated woman I have met today.

I will listen to your troubles without commentary, if you need.

[snooktastic]

No.

[Glare.]

...maybe.

[silversoul_xx]

Please, do talk.

I know it should not bother me, but seeing people disturbed upsets me.

[snooktastic]

Fine. Men suck. Should kill them all.

[silversoul_xx]

You should abandon them.

Men are not worth your time. Romance is not worth your time.

[snooktastic]

So what? Become a nun again? No thanks.

[silversoul_xx]

No.

Do not concern yourself with fleeting matters such as those. It may not seem like it to you, but in the cycle of eternity, such fancies are as irrelevant as grains of sand in the wind.

[snooktastic]

You are actually no help at all.

[She stands to leave.]

[silversoul_xx]

...

It seems as if you can not be helped.