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[sweetdeath]

Posted: 22 Mar 2016 14:10
From: TSUZUKI Asato

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Has anybody seen Vector since that last time he posted? It sounded like he was going to head out right away. And I think he should have been back by now.

Also, does anybody know anything about what Hell is like here? Or how he would've gotten in?

I haven't been able to figure out how to get to the Summons Department to ask yet. I guess I lost that access along with the promotion.

So anyway, it'd be great if you could help! I'll owe you one! Thanks!

Comments

[arealhardnose]

[It's not as if her power is a secret from the Heavens, right? And, shoot, they probably know her intentions aren't solely centered around being helpful here. She is curious in a scientific sense (what's Hell really like? it's real to begin with? what does Izanami think about her banishment? how do the dead feel down there? does anything grow in Hell?) and in a far less noble sense (has Izanami tried to rebel? is that the real reason she wsa banished? why did she fail? what can Elsa do to up her chances of success? even if she doesn't stand a chance, she wants to scare the Heavens, to make them think twice before they take more people without asking them).]

No one can keep me anywhere for very long.

[okitactless]

[........okay confidence is great but]

do you know who izanami-no-kami-sama is

[arealhardnose]

I've read about her, yes. She rules Yomi-no-Kuni.

I'd like to speak with her while we're down there, if possible.]

[okitactless]

NO

[That's it, that's all she gets]

[arealhardnose]

Thank you, I'll take your opinion into consideration.

In all likelihood, the only thing we'll be able to do is search for Vector, so I wouldn't worry much about it. He is the reason we're even going at all.

[okitactless]

[Okay, now that he's taken more than five seconds to consider a response--]

i dont think she has time for talking

[You know, being too busy killing a thousand people a day and all that.

...Not that Yamato holds that against her, or even dislikes her! You do you, Izanami. He just doesn't think they should be talking about going to the underworld like it's just another trip to market.]

what about your school

[arealhardnose]

That's probably true. Millennia of souls to watch over must keep her busy.

School will be on break until we return. Students and faculty are free to review and practice on their own time.

[okitactless]

[Yamato may be stubborn and naive in a lot of ways, but he isn't stupid. He knows a losing battle when he sees one. But it's not in his nature to back down, not in his own personal shinsengumi code to run from a fight he can't possibly win. Not when it's something as big as this.

He's silent for a while, too many thoughts warring in his head, a mix of you can't prepare for something like this and give it more time and don't go and abandon the rest of us. But he doesn't write any of those things. He's not even all that happy about thinking them.]

what will happen to it if you and hakkaikun die

[It's only just gotten off the ground, after all. What of all those students they'd be leaving behind, if they died?]

[arealhardnose]

[Well.

That's an interesting question. Back home, Elsa could have assured Yamato that someone suitable would be found to take her place, and that things would go on as scheduled. Here... are there any other wisdom gods around? She and Hakkai have put so much work into the school, into working with their students, into making the library a haven for whoever wants it to be. The school is everything she's ever loved about teaching, and now she's ... going to the underworld in the hopes of finding a way to shake up the Heavens and maybe destroy their hold on all these souls they've brought in.

If she and Hakkai succeed, will they be separated? Will everything be set right? Will any of them retain their memories of their time as god or shinki?

Will her students think of her as someone who abandoned them?

And if she and Hakkai die...

After a pause (a delay that's notable because she's been firing off answers rather promptly this entire time, she replies.]

We won't die.

[okitactless]

[Right. That pause doesn't go unnoticed, and he has to stop himself from burying his face in his hands so he can type.]

so you arent prepared then

[Clearly not, as much as Elsa seems to think otherwise. But Yamato has samurai etched into his very soul, and part of that is accepting death as a logical and inevitable occurrence. To refuse to even consider the possibility is...

He's disappointed. He's a lot of things of other things too, yes, but. Whatever expectations he'd had about her, about all of this insanity, they haven't been met. And he can stay and try to argue more and simply frustrate the both of them--

or he can fight in a way that might actually have an impact.

That's all she'll be hearing from him on this; he's gone to find his god.]