L had suggested trying to create charms triggered by mood or action, rather than by the traditional wave-wand-yell-incantation, and that's just what Matt's doing. It's tricky work - not quite the same as the runework Matt's become used to - and it's the first time he's tried it. So it's not really that surprising that he messes up.
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"Hello," he says merrily to the confused looking girl. The whole room has an odd feeling, kind of prickly, challenging him. It felt like a kenyou about to appear. He looked around, trying to make his surveying the room look less suspicious and a little more friendly and natural.
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He's still quite new to the fuda, but he's being taught by Kusuriyuri. Shutting his eyes and taking a deep breath, he manages to summon the first kind the medicine peddelar taught him, and arrange them in a defensive pattern on the walls around them.
"That should help," he says. "Have you met Kusu?"
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"Kusuriyuri," he says, around the cigarette. "He taught me this shit - the wards, not the fucking-up of spells. I take it the kenyou -" he pronounces the word exactly the way Yukimura did, since it really is unfamiliar to him - "have fucked off?"
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"Kenyou are the result of something that shouldn't have happened. They were human until they were affected by a demon gate that feel to earth during the battle of Sekigahara." A laugh. "Of course, this never happened in your history." He sobers a moment and then explains, "They are humans infected with a demonic virus."
He tilts his head, returning to the name. "There is a medicine peddler here?"
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"I guess he was a medicine peddler. He teaches divination now." He shrugs. "This - demonic virus shit, it's not going to be a problem, right?"
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Yukimura considers the second statement. "All medicine peddlers worth their pay practice divination," he says with a laugh. "I shall have to seek him out, then."
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