〝 No! 〞At first, deflection ── and then, dismissive concession, brushing off war's dismal shadow as if she wasn't listing from one point of purgatory to the next.〝 Well, kinda. It's just, whatever, y'know? Who cares. It's easy. So easy, I don't even bother! 〞
〝 Yeah? If I did, you'd be a giant walking candle right now! 〞Admittedly, the image of a humongous, flame-headed lout like him did tickle Bambietta, eliciting only an ill-mannered snort from her.
〝 Those wings on your helmet look pre-tty flammable to me ( ♫ ) ! Hah. 〞
“. . .”
Slowly his head turned toward her, not necessarily stunned by the close call more just taken aback by the lack of care she must’ve been taken, perhaps her mind was elsewhere?
“I’ve been here this entire time! Work on your aim! Almost looked like you wanted to hit me!”
〝 I was─ 〞but she smouldered and stumbled at the memories hewn into her psyche lurching back to life, so grimly revivified just as she had been.
〝 Somewhere else. Ugh, it doesn't matter! What are you, a professional earwig? You come to gloat over us, or something? 〞
ㅤ“Who , Shinji ? Yeah , he does that sometimes . You get used to it .
ㅤ“Say , you look like one of those Quincy girls I met . Why weren't you with the others ?”
but dis is how i speek ! i'm a lookmi nendoroid !! we have poofy cheekies , and we wuv evewybody !
d-do be fast tho ... i need to owder for you too ! do u want a big mawc?
〝 Sucks, huh!? 〞Bambietta screamed out rapturously across her bombardment, herself aglow with self-confidence.〝 But I'm not heartless, I promise! Hey, if you drop to the floor and grovel for it, maybe I'll take it easy on you, "Kuchiki!" Sooo, how about it!? 〞
Bambietta groaned out loud towards such mind-numbing verbosity. This streaky stick-in-the-mud was somehow even worse than Haschwalth!
All satisfaction withered and dried up like a drought-infested river, and what remained was an exasperated devil of a woman who'd already -
he regarded her with the same implacable、 aristocratic appraisal that had governed every encounter since his ascension to the kuchiki headship⸻ precise、 unyielding、 and quietly inexorable .
cataloging her movements
- reishi towards that snotty Byakuya, his Senbonzakura, and everything ahead of her with passionate prejudice.
Everything they touched became the problem. Whether they were shredded, immobilised, or smothered, all that they impacted was transformed into a fiery deathtrap.