[Open] | They say goldfish have no memory
Method: Action or prose
Who: Kanda and anyone who wants to run into him
Where: Byalan Island (various)
When: Feb 9-13
What: Kanda killing things exploring the island's waterways and caverns.
( And the little plastic castle is a surprise every time )
Who: Kanda and anyone who wants to run into him
Where: Byalan Island (various)
When: Feb 9-13
What: Kanda killing things exploring the island's waterways and caverns.
( And the little plastic castle is a surprise every time )
Reply
Like when a teenager is running towards you with a flock of of about 30-40 crabs hot on his heels, clicking their pincers together menacingly as they shuffle along after him.
In fact, he'll even dive behind you, Kanda.]
Help!
[How did this boy even get this far down. Its a miracle, man.]
Reply
[Kanda turns as he hears the approach because, hey, not a lot of subtlety happening there, a momentary expression of bewilderment on his face.
He's not really in the helping people business, as a rule. He probably wouldn't even care enough to make it his problem that some kid was about to get eaten alive by crabs. But since he's now between the swarm and their erstwhile prey, it has very much become his problem: the crabs hardly look that discerning.
He draws his sword and slashes into the thick of them in one smooth clean motion just as they draw near, slicing through two of the things and managing to send several of the others flying a good few feet away.
Then he takes the opportunity to yell at this kid (whoever he is) who just ducked behind him before he readies his next attack.]
Are you out of your damn mind, idiot!
Reply
[Yell at him all you want, as long as you save him from becoming dinner for crabs.
What an ironic way to go, really. After this, see if he ever ate seafood again.]
Reply
Don't you even have a goddamn [Stab. Slice.] weapon?
[Not, you know, that he's saying he needs help or anything. It's just irritating to be the proverbial skirt behind which someone is hiding.]
Reply
[One of the crabs manages to get around Kanda and nip at danny, who promptly tries to kick it away with his foot.
Maybe he should have taken that rod stick. Because it has latched onto his foot, and now danny is dancing around trying to get it off.]
Get off!
Reply
[And as if to prove his point, Kanda is not going to try to help the kid with the one that's on his foot right now. He does dispatch another three from the mass of clacking castanetted creatures though.
The snapping of all these pincers is irritatingly loud, and one of them manages to catch his leg, though not hold on. He summarily drives his sword down through its carapace, hearing it make a satisfying high-pitched squeal as it dies.]
Reply
Danny finally manages to kick the Vadon off of himself, and give it a hard kick away. Towards Kanda. Call it ironic respite, though he didn't mean to do it.]
Aww, come on, no need to be so crabby, spread the help!
[Yes. Puns. Shellfish puns. How fitting.]
Reply
Nonetheless, Kanda's head whips around, looking over his shoulder at the kid who is clearly responsible. For a second, he gives him a positively murderous glare. A I should feed you to the fucking crabs sort of glare.
Buuuut then he has to go back to slashing through the mass of crustaceans before they swarm over the both of them.]
Just you damn well wait and see what kind of "help" I give you once these pests are dead. How would you like a crab claw shoved up your-- [The final word is lost in the high pitched squeals of dying vadons. Perhaps that's for the best.]
Reply
Maybe he had picked the wrong direction to run to, because this person was just practically giving off the vibes of wanting to skin Danny with one of those crab claws after the herd was done for.]
I... don't think I need your kind help after their dead, but I'm very appreciative for the moment!
Reply
Kanda doesn't bother looking at the boy as he levels that accusation of opportunism though, since he's too busy focusing on the pests he's killing.
He doesn't seem to give a damn about his claim of appreciation either. He more just wants to put the fear of god into the kid, or at least a healthy respect for his time and space. (Kanda tends to get along best with those who keep their distance.)
This is all just irritating. If he'd had Mugen with him, he'd have used the sword's First Illusion to get rid of a bunch of these pests at once. But unfortunately his own sword is back on the ship, and with this mundane one he can only kill as many as the blade can hit at once, while the others snap their damn pincers into his knees.
He's still managed to halve the original number of vadons though, even still, and he shows no sign of losing ground to them.]
Reply
[He.. really didn't know. He just kind of jumped ship as soon as he was able too.
And unfortunately, that fear of god is only going to last so long before Danny forgets about it and inevitably pisses Kanda off again.
Though it'll probably be awhile. He is seeing that skill he has with that there sword.]
Reply
[To what exactly he thinks the boy should have been listening to, Kanda doesn't specify. But he only knows about the bounty and the quests because he happened to hear someone else mention it in passing. He never looked at the board himself, so for all he knows, he could be completely wrong.
The crabs could be inedible, worthless to everyone. The kid could drag them back for no reason whatsoever and have nothing to show for it but sore fingers and the stench of dead fish.
Another three vadons go flying, stray pieces of their shells splashing into the water a short way away.]
Reply
Reply
Equally strange: though perhaps he doesn't look or act it, he's only about two years older himself. Amazing where a life of veritably nothing but swordsmanship and soldiering will get a guy.]
Reply
Leave a comment