Let's drag suspicious strangers all over the ship! [Closed]
Characters: Komachi, Jenka, Gin (!!)
Content: Gin talks the two into giving him a tour of the 4423.
Setting: First somewhere nearby the 4423, then all over the ship.
Time: Morning-ish, one of the days before the races
Warnings: Ten-year-old child interacting with the worst possible role models
( And let them shoot our cannons! )
Content: Gin talks the two into giving him a tour of the 4423.
Setting: First somewhere nearby the 4423, then all over the ship.
Time: Morning-ish, one of the days before the races
Warnings: Ten-year-old child interacting with the worst possible role models
( And let them shoot our cannons! )
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She chuckled at the proposal approvingly, but crouched down to examine the sword first. Flexed the blade, looked at how it fit in Komachi's hand, licked the steel to check its quality. Not that she didn't trust his judgement... just him. "Sounds goot." she answered, looking at Komachi for agreement. It didn't seem like a likely possibility, but the girl might decide she didn't want a sword after all.
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But he was offering to buy her a sword. Whatever reason he had for doing it, that wasn't an offer she was about to pass up. Especially since Jenka seemed to approve of it, which meant it was definitely a good sword.
She nodded enthusiastically. "Very good! Thank you, Mr. Ichimaru!"
And maybe if they were going to take him around the 4423, she'd have a chance to talk to him more, and maybe then he'd be less confusing.
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The shopkeeper seemed a little wary of them. He couldn't tell if it was just his own too-sharp smirk or Jenka's bloodthirsty grin...and then he belatedly remembered after the purchase was made to wipe the blood off his neck. He then grandly presented the sword to the girl, and though the accompanying sheath for the weapon wasn't especially showy, it was simple and functional.
"There you go, little one. Take good care of it, won't you?"
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"Well," she said, looking up at Jenka as the Jager spoke, "there's not much point being scary-looking inside, you only see the outside if you're fighting us."
She didn't want to put Gin off coming, though, and turned back to him with a smile. "You still do want to see, though, right?"
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He appeared to give it some serious thought. "Like your weapons deck. Where you keep the canons. Real pirate ships have canons, don't they?"
He had a rather vested interest into getting a look at what sort of arsenal the 4423 had on board, and more than that, he was quite sure his two companions wouldn't think it was an odd request. After all, if the general opinion was that swords were fun, guns were most definitely funner for being exponentially more noisy, destructive and overall exciting.
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Almost as much as she liked a healthy appreciation for weaponry and explosions. "I see Hyu knows how to haff fun!" she exclaimed cheerfully, clearly approving of the idea. Cannons, used properly, could be quite entertaining - and used improperly, even more so, she laughed to herself. Personally, Jenka preferred swords to guns, and, more often than not, claws and teeth to swords. You couldn't smell the fear and the blood if you were far away. You couldn't feel the enemy - the prey - squirming in your grip, the bones cracking under the pressure of your teeth, the last shivers of life stilling into death at your fingertips. No, she definitely liked to be close to the action. Still, a little variety in one's violence was a great thing ( ... )
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"I can show you where everything is down there," she told Gin confidently as she followed Jenka back towards the ship. As soon as she registered how little confidence a good part of the crew had in her abilities as a powder monkey, she'd made it her business to get to know the gun deck as well as she possibly could - she could and would do her job as well as possible, just to show she could. And now she had that knowledge, it was there to be shown off, right?
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He feigned a thoughtful expression. "They say the Captain of the 4423 is a little girl. That isn't you, is it, Captain Komachi?"
He ruffled her hair just lightly, a gesture completely at odds with the early dangerousness he'd displayed towards her. Now he was pretending they were nothing but the best of friends, although he kept half his attention on Jenka at all times. The exposure of her back felt very deliberate - not a sign of carelessness but fearlessness. With a wicked grin of his own, he reached out and lightly tapped her back with the point of his finger. It would have seemed an innocent call for her attention if it hadn't been aimed with unerring accuracy at the point where a knife through her back would have taken out her heart.
"And what about you, Jenka? Are you the First Mate?"
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Violent thoughts nonwithstanding, the Jäger continued across the deck, falling back to walk alongside Gin. The few crewmembers nearby paid the trio no attention - they knew Jenka well enough to ignore whatever she was doing, as long as she was doing it to someone else. She gestured Komachi to lead the way. The ten-year-old did know where everything was.
"Dot vould involve vork!" Truthfully, it wasn't work she minded - she did plenty of that on the ship - it was the idea of command. She was too much of a loner to ever hold high rank in the Heterodyne army, and it could only be worse with people. Oh, she enjoyed playing with them often enough, but if she wasn't in the right mood... Suffice it to say she was taken off ( ... )
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'Captain Komachi' sounded pretty cool, though.
Maybe when she grew up, she could have her own ship, like Captain Isako (who wasn't that little, was she?)...
She snapped out of her daydream at the sound of Jenka's growl, glancing over at the Jager - and Gin's hand retreating from her back. What was he playing at, she wondered, bemused. Jenka wasn't the sort of person you touched casually, and why Gin would be trying to push her buttons escaped Komachi. Something was going on over her head here, and she wasn't sure she liked it.
Nonetheless, she smiled cheerfully at both her companions as she led them below deck, down towards the cannons.
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Not to mention one of the most dangerous, but with Jenka as a supervisor, Gin was somehow not very surprised. The woman seemed the sort who found danger exhilarating, judging by their little play of feints and threats. He eyed her a bit more curiously, gaze lingering on her claws and the odd colour of her skin.
"Pardon me if this is a forward question," although from his tone, the words were really only a precipitator and not any real deference to politeness. "But I don't think I've met a demi-human quite like you before. What do they call you?"
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Well, Jenka wasn't in a hurry. There was always time for blood and screaming, she thought, looking at Gin with narrow-eyed anticipation.
What 'they' called them? "Monsters, more often den not." Judging by the cruelly amused spark in her eyes, Jenka didn't mind the word. "Ve's Jägerkin, but ve appreciates de sentiment." Compared to the way she was speaking earlier, her accent was more pronounced, her voice less human. As if she was daring him to say something. Yes, that's what I am, and I like it.
"My turn for an answer, now. Vot ship iz hyu on?"
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