twenty-nine ice candy // accidental video

[swordmastering]

[Have a bloody set of hands on the screen next to a sword that is also covered in blood. It seems the video cut on from knocking the device with his arm out of surprise.]

Shit-! Did I cut myself? It doesn’t hurt

Comments

[imperialwill]

O-oh. I'm very sorry, Leon. That sort of curse- it's very tragic.

[swordmastering]

Tragic?

[imperialwill]

Why, of course! I've also experienced this curse quite some time ago. The blood represents the blood of those you've killed!

1/3

[swordmastering]

[Suddenly this curse seems to hold more meaning than merely being a nuisance.]

[swordmastering]

[Now he's just remembering the knight he killed for Hugo. The people he killed while in the army. That blood was on his hands? How many had he killed? He couldn't even begin to guess the body count.]

[swordmastering]

So that's what this is.

Our entire apartment is cursed with this. That means-

[imperialwill]

Yes. The City is really too cruel sometimes, I think, giving us such a reminder.

[swordmastering]

I should have expected something like this.

[imperialwill]

Expected? It isn't your fault at all, Leon.

[swordmastering]

Isn't it?

I've killed those people, and their blood is on my hands. This is a sick reminder of that.

[imperialwill]

Perhaps, but what was done is done, and there's no need for the deities to rouse memories that have long been put to rest.

[swordmastering]

Hn-

[Not at all comforted by that. He doesn't want to remember what he's done, but maybe it's not right to forget it.]