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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!

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We're talking about it!

I mean it's not like it's a stroll down the block, but we're being careful.

[...look he and Hisoka are discussing it. They haven't exactly, uh, agreed. Yet. It'll be fine. It'll definitely work out.

But Hisoka's not coming, because there's no way he'll be able to endure the atmosphere down there with his powers.]

thats not good enough

[He's not even bothering with punctuation anymore, guys. Look what you've done.]

what if you go down there and your shinki gets killed and you cant get out what if you die before your shinki and they get trapped down there alone what if your shinki cant come with you and you get trappe and they never know what happened to you what if you cant find this person and izanaminokamisama finds you

[There's just too many ways this could go terribly, terribly wrong. Some of them make him far more uncomfortable than others, and it's frustrating, not knowing why--but at the moment, he can't be concerned about that and worry about everyone else traipsing into the underworld too. He'll blight Shepard to death if he really gets going and he definitely doesn't want to do that.]

i know im not your shinki but i dont think you should go

But getting trapped so that we don't know what happened to him already happened to Vector.

We can't just leave him there.

[Yamato has a very, very good point about their shinki getting killed, though. Or trapped alone in the underworld without help if they die.

Tsuzuki's not bringing Hisoka down there, of course, not with his empathy: the underworld isn't a good place to feel anyone else's pain. But, he thinks, he probably shouldn't bring Battler either.]

[THAT'S NOT WHAT HE MEANT AND YOU KNOW IT TSUZUKI

But, ah, conflicted feelings. Would he retreat from a fight if it was too dangerous, at the loss of a comrade? No, probably not. Depending on the person, definitely not. It isn't as though he doesn't understand the motivation, and respect it. But Yomi-no-kuni...]

cant you find a way to bring him back without going down there

We're gonna try to call his name to get him out first.

It's not like we're going down there for fun!

[At least he's not. He's starting to wonder about Elsa. The things she's saying about fighting Heaven... does she really care about getting Vector out at all?]

[There are a lot of things he could say to that, and he starts and erases different messages several times. But he isn't Tsuzuki's shinki. And while he isn't exactly known for his tact and grace in conversation, he can't forget that he belongs to, and represents, Shepard. He doesn't want to alienate her from other gods, but he can't just stay silent on this either.]

what about yuukikuns god

are you going to look for her too

We can try. Something different happened to her, though, so I don't think she's down there.

I'll look, anyway.

[...Wait--]

something different?

do you know what happened to her?

[More importantly, does Yuuki know?]

Vector told everyone he was going to the underworld. Bo disappeared, without any word, and Yuuki wound up assigned to somebody else on the spot.

We don't have any reason to think that Bo ended up in the underworld, not unless that's where all our missing gods are going.

[That's not exactly stellar logic, but then, Yamato cares a lot more about his shinki buddy than he does a god he's never met that intentionally left his shinki behind.]

she could have gone without telling anyone [Since apparently shucking off your shinki and flouncing down there is a popular hobby these days??] or taken against her will. shes missing just as much as vector is [No honorifics for Vector at all, ouch. The "so why aren't you launching an investigation for Bo too?" goes unsaid, but it's there, hanging on the end of his message.]

I know.

One god who disappeared the way Bo did has come back already, though. You know Tsukuyomi? Short guy, pale hair, also goes by Joshua?

He and his shinki vanished together and then he came back on his own.

[And without anywhere to start looking for Bo -- well, they tried. But hoping she'll come back on her own might be as much as they can do for her. At least Tsuzuki has hope, now. Not all the vanished gods are dead.]

[Odd... but Yamato still isn't convinced the two are entirely separate situations.]

didn't he say where he went? [If he vanished with his shinki then doesn't that mean he just went on a trip somewhere... unless Joshua has no memories whatsoever of his time away from heaven, and that's worrying. And not at all an indication that he wasn't in hell, in Yamato's opinion.]

He doesn't remember any of it.

[Tsuzuki's pretty sure that means that, if he was in hell, he wasn't just in hell. Something else happened.

What, he still doesn't know, but bringing Izanami into it seems like complicating things too much... except that Vector almost certainly is there.]

[Yes, because Joshua is the most trustworthy of all the gods--

--but no, okay, even if Yamato wasn't a simple, fairly trusting sword, he has no reason to think Joshua would be lying. So they're still no closer to figuring that particular mystery out. But if Joshua came back, and Yuuki's god hasn't...

It's too much. There are too many variables, too many different tales being spun and Yamato can barely keep his eyes on one thread, let alone the whole gaudy tapestry. And if Joshua's back, then he's not in hell, so the point is moot.]

but what are you going to do if you get trapped down there or die? what will happen to your shinki down there without you [Yamato fully believes that any shinki worth their salt would sacrifice themselves for their god in an instant, but things happen. Which is the entire point he's been trying to make. Things happen.]

are you sure he even wants to be saved

I won't leave my shinki down there alone.

[He's not taking his shinki, but he's pretty sure if he says that, Yamato'd never stop yelling. The reassurance'll have to be enough, even if Tsuzuki can see for himself how weak it sounds.]

I don't know if he wants us to go after him, but I can't leave him no matter what he wants.

[That's not quite true. Yamato would stop yelling long enough to go get Shepard, so that they could yell together.

Guess what he's about to go do!]

why? [A cut and dry rescue mission, that's one thing. But if Vector didn't want anyone to go after him... what if he'd never intended to come back in the first place?]

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sweetdeath - 2016-06-14 11:58 (UTC) - Expand

[Yamato...]

I dont want you to go either

[If... if something did happen to Vector down there...

She doesn't want him to stay trapped there, no. But she also doesn't want even more people to be lost as a result.

She wants this to stop.]