IN THE FOREST OF THE LOST

[beathollow]

it's all too perfect.

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[goei]

[His brow furrows.]

Y'think we're gonna have ta take down some demon version of her mom or something?

[He hopes so.]

[vogelfrei]

It's possible - but ideally, we'd get her to take it down herself, no?

[ And now he's thinking about Izou offering to kill his father, about refusing the offer, and about the fact that his father is still alive. Bad thoughts. Go away. ]

[goei]

[YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR MIND.]

Mm... I guess but it's not like Mafuyu really fights when we come ta these places. What, are we gonna all put our hands in a circle ta power her up into like a Mega Mafuyu that shoots a beam!?

[What is he talking about.]

[strawsandals]

[ SORRY TO BARGE IN BUT - ]

I'm all for it!

[ HELL YEAH LET'S SUPER SAIYAN MAFUYU ]

[goei]

Hell yeah!! You better tell the others about my awesome plan, Birdie!

[LETS SPIRIT BOMB MAFUYU'S MOM]

[strawsandals]

Yeah! I'll back you up!

[ HE WON'T EVEN COMMENT ON THE NICKNAME BECAUSE HE'S SO HERE FOR THIS!! GO MAFUYU GO ]

[beathollow]

Another smudge...

[vogelfrei]

[ ... what........ ]

I-

Yes? In a way? It's her mind, in the end it's her mindset that will decide the matter, right?

[goei]

Oh yeah. So yer sayin' if we get her ta believe she's super strong, she will be since it's like her brain that makes this place.

[Considering this]

I shoulda imagined myself cooler in mine.

[vogelfrei]

... your sense of coolness continues to need calibration.

[ This is, somehow, some kind of twisted compliment? Maybe?! DEMONS ARE COOL. He will insist on this even now, thank you. ]

[goei]

[Izou squints at McGillis that way he does when he's trying to determine if he's being made fun of before he DOES realize that's a compliment.]

Ya think so? Y'know, that's really what I wore when I was stalkin' the streets of Kyoto! Sure I wasn't no actual demon, but besides that!

[Is now really the time for preening?]

[vogelfrei]

I can see why you earned the moniker at least.

[ Which is cool. Fix your mindset, reframe the derogatory, embrace demon status. ]

[goei]

[McGillis always with his pro demon rhetoric]

Maybe that damn cat'll bring me my straw hat and I can put th'fear of the Demon of Kyoto into some'a the monsters in the Nekiya.

But first, we aughta head down one of these's paths, you reckon?

[vogelfrei]

[ He will never stop, his favorite book dictates he can't. ]

We should. The last few palaces we've been in, there's always been a set narrative to follow. This one's looking to be the same, so let's head to the castle.

[goei]

Dunno if they're gonna let us in, even the people who don't got dirt on 'em all look like ghosts in these getups.

[But in any case Izou will trot down another dirt path because what kind of assassin would he be taking such a main, wide open road?? Presumably McGillis in tow]