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Posted: July 18
From: Li Tieguai

Good afternoon, everyone. Please excuse my change of name: this is Cho Hakkai.

I appear to have reappeared. Although I don't want to give undue hope to anyone who's recently lost a god or shinki, I'd like to announce that my classes will be continuing as usual.

To those who were living upstairs at the school the past few days, I expect you to help me clean up the mess. You know who you are.

[There are animal cracker crumbs everywhere.

And apart from that he's just not going to mention the events of last few days. At least he wasn't an actual child, but....]

Does anyone have an idea what might have caused it? I'm certain I felt something in the air for a few hours before it happened.

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Would you tell him if I did?

[Think about that Izumo]

Out of sight, out of mind?

[It's the sort of dry joke he makes to Gojyo by reflex, and he hesitates for a moment, looking at it and trying to decide if he should delete it.

In the end, he leaves it. Gojyo's not the only one he jokes to, and they're trying to lighten the mood away from the subject of Hakkai's past.]

I haven't heard any theories yet. Although apparently quite a few of the library goblins died of old age.

I've only seen them running around with books. Worth a shot, I guess.

[Rude as hell, Hakkai.]

They're not the best.

Also I felt something too but I don't know what it was.

[And that's all he'll say, just to add something there.]

It's a school, not a home....

[Hope you like miso chicken teriyaki, Axel, because that's what he looked up.]

[Axel will eat anything.]

It still needs cleaning!

I won't have to tell him.

[Can you hear the smile in his voice, Goten. Can you.]

Hakkai doesn't need me telling him anything.

....

[All of that can be taken in multiple different ways]

...right.

[He chuckles.]

Enjoy class, Goten.

[And yes, he'll end the call now, but Goten's always free to come and find him.]

So we got young and they got old?

[ Except Sharak was aged too, wasn't she? ]

Most of us anyway.

[ But if most of the gods and shinki got turned into kids, and most of the library goblins got aged up so far they died, then doesn't that sound like the years were taken from them and given to the goblins? And then when the goblins died, everyone's age reverted? ]

It sounds like it was a spell that went wrong.

[He'll have to ask Sharak if she could detect anything in particular about the aura before the time shifts; she's clearly better trained in the uses of magic than Genjo Sanzo, and that puts her in the upper ranks of refinement. Hakkai's chi techniques are stone tools and torches by comparison.]

Interesting. I'll let you know what I hear.

[Excellent.]

Good.

If they can talk, they might have interesting things to say.

If not, well, then we'll know.

Not all of us got young, and not all to the same degree.

But I agree it sounds like some kind of magic was involved, and it wasn't just the new gods and shinki caught up in it. Even some of the old gods were.

[Some of the goblins could have grown younger, and disappeared from existence; or just younger and then older again. There seem to have been three successive waves. Attempts at the same spell? Or attempts to fix an initial mistake, that finally worked? And what was the oppressive aura to begin with?]

ya know a lot of shit happened when someone said you disappeared

i almost didnt realize who you were the other day. if so much wasnt the same idve thought you were just a relative or something

[ The closest he could get to explaining it, while not completely what he means, is that Hakkai had the same sick sense of humor. Whether that was humor or not was another story, but Shizuo wasn't exactly the investigating/analyzing type.

Hell, he barely remembers that he was going to tear Hakkai a new one for just that. No, wait, he shoots off a second text as he realized. ]

oh yeah

did you know that sharak was the type to use guns on people shes training?

Some people change more than others as they mature! And then there's the fact that I'm no longer a shinki, of course.

My goodness, did she really use a gun on you? I did not know that.

[At the time. He currently has a better appreciation of Sanzo peculiarities... and, to be fair, he wouldn't have offered the warning either way.]

so your ears grew and you got markings as you got older?

[ Man. Youkai are weird. ]

she used it on her shinki not me.

so if you had known you wouldve given me a heads up yeah?

Practically overnight.

I would have at least warned you to be ready to duck.

seriously?

... so you wouldve warned me to duck but wouldnt say that id be ducking bullets?

[ Just. To get a bit of clarification on this. Guns are dangerous Hakkai. People should be warned about that. It's not like you know how he doesn't feel pain. ~~Or Shizuo just wouldn't remember sharing that information.~~ ]

I thought you said she fired at her shinki, not you?

she hasnt yet

[ Yet. His instincts say it's only a matter of time, Hakkai. Only a matter of time. ]

she just kicked me and kept throwing stuff at my head.

Then I would have been wrong to tell you to duck bullets, wouldn't I?

i think it counts for a standing warning

[ Next thing that Shizuo knows is that Hakkai's next reason is that it really isn't his business to get too into this. He was giving advice- though he made a weird point about the one temple with traps-

This was all a set up for some sick amusement, wasn't it? ]

I'm sure it's a little stressful, but I trust Sharak Sanzo's judgment about the best training. She's very experienced.

[So don't worry! She almost certainly won't kill you!

Although this reaction is highly amusing.]

... i feel like while your being mostly honest theres some huge understatement in there

[ A lot of that is true. Shizuo wouldn't have asked for her help if he didn't trust Sharak. However he was also less aware of her ways.

At least he's not so petty to go asking about Hakkai's 'wife.' ]

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