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[kandescence]

Characters: Kanda, Heine's shadow, Heine, Kanda's shadow.
Location: Somewhere out in the fog, towards the east side of the city.
Rating: R for violence, blood, guro gore, language, sexual themes.
Time: July 18, afternoon, after Kanda's shadow sets fire to the church and right around the time Heine's shadow first turns up.
Description: Kanda goes

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[deadiamthedog]

If Heine had known that Kanda's initial thought was that the artistry was Adachi’s doing then he may have been insulted--at least his Shadow may have been insulted. He could certainly forgive Kanda's mistake if he had known though: Heine liked him and they were partners, after all

[kandescence]

Kanda realized even before the shadow rushed at him just who and what he was facing: Heine but not Heine. And as for exactly what it was, he needed no more than his instinct to tell him it was dangerous, that it would tear apart what came into its path, that it wanted blood.

He may not have stuck around the Communal long enough to hear the explanations of what shadows were or what they wanted, but he still no more took this thing as Heine than he took the thing that burned the damn church down as himselfThe suburito braced before him to block the blow, Kanda didn't even flinch as the blood cast off from Heine's jaw splattered his own, wetting his lips and cheek with flecks of red. He held his ground against the impact and didn't let his stance skid back even an inch, glaring unwaveringly into the shadow's face

[deadiamthedog]

Kanda was magnificent in meeting the Shadow in exactly the way he had expected him to. It made that mad smile curl up further and his golden-crimson eyes blaze with a kind of crazed pleasure. Kanda was good, so very good

[kandescence]

Indeed Kanda did swing his sword into a high-angled block, the line of the wooden blade deflecting both the grab and the elbow. It hadn't been a difficult parry to make, but he was secretly concerned nonetheless--the shadow's mode of fighting was animalistic, savage, and completely unrestrained, and the fact that Kanda had only a blunt weapon with which to fight meant there was less incentive for the shadow to keep at a distance. A blade could cut from up close, after all. A suburito needed velocity, and that required space.

Still though, that would not put him purely on the defensive. Reversing the angle of the sword, he brought it down on an angle aimed to impact the shadow's right shoulder, deliberately not answering the taunt that had been placed before him.

If it perhaps had a kernel of truth, he could still maintain that the difference between this thing and Heine himself insulated him from needing to trouble over the words. Talking was something he would do with his partner--to the shadow he wanted to show nothing but cold

[deadiamthedog]

Frankly, the shadow was not intimidated by the weapon Kanda was wielding in the slightest. If this had been Heine's own world and Kanda had possessed a real sword with a slicing blade, Heine wouldn't have cared. His shadow in this world didn't care even less.

The wooden blade coming down toward his shoulder was not avoided. In fact, he tensed up, intentionally taking the blow and giving a low hiss as he did. Aside from that faint sound however the shadow didn't budge.

A look flickered up then and in the same moment a feral smile flashed over his lips. His right hand came up suddenly at full length, not to grab Kanda, but to grab onto the underside of the blade of the sword. His fingers twisted around the weapon tightly and then wrenched his arm back hard. He was not expecting Kanda to relinquish the sword that easily, in fact the shadow was counting on it. He didn't want the suburito; he wanted the swordsman at the end of it