@rewindingxquirk β /of course/ there needed to be 'heroes' in the equation. The glorification of marketable compassion never ceased to irk him.
"....It's where they keep animals nobody wants. There'll be a bunch of raβtch......./bunnies/, in one."
@rewindingxquirk Silence.
".....You....," he stopped, a limp, dismal sigh dusting his throat. How deliriously overblown had her parentsβguardian, /whatever/βleft this fantasy to get? It was practically a ludicrous mansion in her brain, what with how deeply she seemed nestled in it. And β
@rewindingxquirk β badly," comes the plain yet quiet utterance. She'd just have to try it herself β Lord forbid he have to coddle a kid with glib assurances of imaginary, quantified 'fluffiness'. "You should have friends with pet rabbits too, right? They wouldn't be hard to get to."
@rewindingxquirk β he still belonged β even if by just the sparest, ghoulish sliver of shrivelled resemblance β among the toddling, moth-eyed kind. Even if there had been a morsel...just a twang of some mellow dreaming, it'd have beenβ
"Just go to an animal shelter if you want to find one so β
@rewindingxquirk "...Is that so," Fushimi voices a dull affirmation, thoughts still thrumming on their own in lucidly idle calculations.
Sparing no trite self-introduction, he probes on in tones of colourless obligation: "So are you lost by any chance? Looking for someone?"
@rewindingxquirk A prick of conscience sparks in skinβ βsnivelling, a cryogenic little-worm dressed in ashen hysterics.
He shifts his arm a tad, velvet awkwardness settling-iced in his joints.
"....It doesn't matter....honestly. You're free to do what you want."
(...You're a kid after all.)
@rewindingxquirk A careful quirking of a brow, eyes impassively appraising.
".....Hm. Good for you, then."
(.....Why a kid all of a sudden? And....a horn..../a strain/?)
"....Any reason why you're here?"
@akanoProminence π‘ A whirr of blue meets red in the dawning fray. And metal springs upon the clinical tongue--paving roads for ionized taunts.
"W--ell," a curl of toxic whimsy--again, "if that's what the jobless vandal wants--!"
/Clink/ goes the hilt and--.
@akanoProminence π‘ ".....ke-h." A shot of a puerile, homegrown sadism--it niggles at the brain, a tad.
"I'm not against a throwdown if /you/ want it that badly--ah, but won't Kusanagi-san have to discipline you again if that happens?"