[Video] Hark, a youkai

[royaltyloyalty]

From: Ksitigarbha
Date: November 25 (Backdated 3 days)

Yo. Took long enough, huh? Nearly two months if you count it one way, month and a half the other way.

Anyway I'm over at my temple if you were looking for me that whole time. Sorry to keep you waiting. That's all I wanted to say.

[ A little cryptic, but he's not a particularly open person over technology, especially in light of how he died, and being pretty sure the guy's still around.

OOC: Pair log over here if you're interested. ]

Comments

Video

[hellskitchen]

Well I wasn't lookin' for ya, but it's nice to see you all the same. It's been a while!

[Have a somewhat familiar face. Rin's only met Doku once, but he still remembers him. It's a perfect time to catch up, right? Though seeing Doku does remind him of something.]

This is good because I did wanted to apologize for the what happened a while back. With the whole...void thingy.

Re: Video

[royaltyloyalty]

You're not someone I thought would be looking for me, let alone to apologize. How was any of that your fault?

Video

[hellskitchen]

It's not my fault, but I still feel bad. Even more horrible that I could do nothin' bout it.

[It hurts even more when it's someone you know, maybe not well, but well enough not to overlook Doku's death.]

So I'm sorry, and I'm glad that you're doin' better.

Re: Video

[royaltyloyalty]

There's so many things about your life you CAN control. You start carrying around other people's burdens like that, you should hire yourself out as a bodyguard at least.

[ He means it in jest. Mostly. Because he's guilty of that sometimes too, and that was (mostly) his former job too. ]

Video; Huitzilopochtli

[rockthemonkey]

[It's not a great angle, Goku is still figuring cameras out. But even with the phone an inch away from his face, he's still recognizable at least. Those gold eyes and all.]

Dokugakuji? [Whaaaaaaat? Goku stares curiously at his phone for a bit before grinning.] Hey! I didn't know you were here! Where's Kougaiji?

[It's so nice to see a friendly face. It's almost as if the last time Goku heard about Doku and Kou they weren't stabbing one Sanzo in the back and setting another on fire.]

Re: Video; Huitzilopochtli

[royaltyloyalty]

[[OOC: Congrats, I'm thinking of that monkey selfie now.]]

Goku...

[Half in shock from seeing the boy and half at the ridiculous video he's presented with and a bonus mind-boggle at his god name.]

I... didn't know you were here either, but the prince isn't.

[rockthemonkey]

[[You're not far off.]]

[It's a hell of a name. And you thought yours was siti, Doku.]

Aw, he's not? That sucks. [It would have been nice to play with Kougaiji for a bit.] You doin' okay?

[royaltyloyalty]

[[I see what you did there.]]

Yeah... it does suck.

[ But at least he's not here, either. Maybe that means he's winning. ]

I don't think anyone's really "doin' okay" here.

[ He figures Goku either just arrived or nothing can change the kid. ]

text | Sha Gojyo

[erogappa]

Where were you?

Text back

[royaltyloyalty]

[In spite of everything, he's grinning at that name over the new text connection. Of all the people he DIDN'T think would respond...]

All over the place. Bad habit, you know.

[erogappa]

I don't, actually.

[ The one memory they gave him about this guy couldn't have been better designed to make him hate everything about the man. That sort of thing just made him want to get closer. ]

You got all the memories of that too. Remember?

[royaltyloyalty]

I didn't, for awhile.

[ Echoing Gojyo's phrasing on purpose. ]

As if I needed a reason to be more sympathetic to shinki.

private; text

[reformedsinner]

I hope this doesn't mean you died again. That would be a worse record than I have.

Did you remember?

Re: private; text

[royaltyloyalty]

If I did, I don't remember a recent death. Just the one that brought me here in the first place and the business in Add's temple. The recent stuff was something to do with a forest.

private; text

[reformedsinner]

[This is the first he's heard that Dokugakuji remembers dying at home. There's a pause before the response is posted.

It's one of the useful things about text: a pause could be for any reason at all, couldn't it?]

It was in Add's temple that you were killed? What happened?

Re: private; text

[royaltyloyalty]

[ He's still not 100% sure he died while fighting back home, just about 90% sure ]

I met up with Caster and we both confronted him in the center of his temple when he was trying to do... whatever his powers had done to create those powerful ayakashi. Anyway, a group came with him, including a young woman. He tried to kill the young woman.

[ And he doesn't need to explain how his death happened after that, right? Even if both he and Caster acted at the exact same time. ]

text

[abgrund]

Where


were you?

Re: text

[royaltyloyalty]

Lost. In more ways than one. The last bit was in a forest.

I'm interested in talking to you again in person, Ain.

[abgrund]

Why?

[Video]

[trademark_skull]

Where have you been!?

[He remembers, Doku was one of the "fallen gods" earlier, but, so was Hakkai and he came back. You had the tiny demon worried.]

Re: [Video]

[royaltyloyalty]

Sorry for worrying you...

[ Or so he perceives the shock in Emi's voice. He's a nice guy, now that he remembers it. ]

Well... the last bit was spent in a forest, if you knew anybody who got stuck in there?

[trademark_skull]

[...Oh.]

I did. I went in there to rescue a few of them.

--Don't tell me you were trapped there too.

Text - New friend? y/y?

[lookingforhead]

I'm
sorry

who is this?

Re: Text - New friend? y/y?

[royaltyloyalty]

You messaged me first, didn't you?

[ Then he looks down again. ]

Oh, no you didn't. Sorry. My name's Dokugakuji.

[lookingforhead]

[Good thing he caught that. He was the one who sent out that invitation after all.]

I'm Celty. I'm a shinki for Thoth.

It's nice to meet you.