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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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My, my. Are you making fun of her age?

[Because the understatement is her experience, not the "little stressful" comment, right?

It's a good thing he's not bringing that up... although there's also a reason Hakkai's conducting most of this post via text. It's much easier to look calm.]

you know damn well im not

[ Also... He kinda likes that Sharak's a few years older than him. Shush. ]

Well, in that case: trust her. You'll be fine. Don't forget to dodge.

your the type that helps out and is nice enough but also pisses people off a lot arent you?

[ Like, you've done great things, and have technically only been nice, but holy shit, Shizuo also kinda wants to punch you. The blond is certainly open about his feelings and thoughts. ]

*You're

You're not the first person to say that about me.

[ Don't try distracting him by being an actual teacher. ~~He does way worse with his lazy texting methods.~~ ]

probably not the second either

I felt it as well, and yet I was unaffected. As for what may have caused it, I fear I haven't the slightest clue.

Welcome back.

[You left him that opening about helpful-but-annoying, Shizuo. Grammar corrections were the obvious next step.]

To be entirely honest, I've lost count!

[ Clearly the natural thing to do. Luckily Shizuo doesn't hold onto things for very long and he doesn't really like violence. Otherwise he'd remind himself to punch Hakkai the next time they saw each other. ]

...

thats really not surprising

Thank you.

Sensing it didn't have an impact on who was affected, then.

I wonder if our locations at the time it took effect did? It must have been sometime during the night after the training session at Bishamon's temple.

[To those who were living upstairs at the school the past few days... Oona huffs as she turns on the video (she's not going to bother with the tediousness of texting), looking petulant]

Cleaned up already! Did not make mess. [SHE'S NOT CLEANING UP A MESS SHE DIDN'T MAKE and that she can't just push off to someone else to clean instead.

She's also not aware that Hakkai = Gonou right now, oops. But aside from her hair being much, much longer and the addition of numerous scars, Oona still looks about the same... and sounds about that same]

Make others do it!

Edited 2017-05-27 17:04 (UTC)

Yes, it was around midnight, I believe. I felt something, like a sudden wave of... I hesitate to say 'magic'. Power, perhaps.

I was in my god's temple at the time, and others present there were affected, so I don't think location was an issue. I had wondered if it might be due to my resistance to magic, but again, whether it was even magic or not...

[She unquestionably looks the same, and her language skills are, although better, still not quite fluent. Hakkai hesitates for a moment before recording a video response for her. He's sitting in the meditation garden behind his temple, with greenery shifting in the wind behind him, and there's a small white dragon curled possessively around his neck.

His limiters are clasped on his ear, and, thanks to that, his face is almost identical to his younger, human one. All that's changed are a few worry lines around his eyes, shorter hair and a monocle.]

Don't worry, Oona. Chikusa is helping clean already.

Ah... welcome back.

[ She's surprised he's a god, but obviously he knows that. He remembers his time here, but also remembers his past? This is... strange. But she can't think too hard on what this could mean about her own past, of course. ]

Thank you... for taking up your classes again. [ Even as a god and not a shinki now. ] I'm sure many of us will appreciate it.

[It takes Oona about seconds of blank staring to make the connection. There's a-- it's not a scream, really, it's decidedly a squawk of alarm and there's some flailing and bam goes her communicator in a dizzy array to the floor as she fumbles and drops it.

There's a few angry noises, whistles and musical-like tones that give the impression of something akin to oh for fuck's sake before she snatches it up again and clears her throat, trying to look like that was either A. Totally on purpose, or B. ever happened in the first place.]

You! That, eh... Ehh... [She scratches at the back of her head and frowns] Gonou... Yes?

hakkaisama could you bring me a class schedule please
what would you like for dinner
it will be done by the time you get home

[Ayumu thinks it's silly to talk to someone she lives with like this but she's trying to practice using her phone and isn't really sure what she's doing. But she needs something from the school and he's there so why not?]

It's my pleasure. I enjoy teaching.

[Surprise, and a certain unsettled note, is obvious on her face, but he'd expect as much. For shinki, hearing this can't help but make them start to think about their own pasts.

He'll stick with text, himself, to avoid giving her any hints that might make her think of something dangerous.]

I hope you've been well, Kairi?

Yes, of course. Are you cooking? I'll leave the menu up to you.

[He'd been planning to make dinner after he got home from classes, but...]

Are you all right over there? -- Yes. It's Hakkai now.

[Those scars... she looks as though she was half-flayed, he thinks, but doesn't look at them beyond a quick glance. It would be rude, for one thing. Scars are... very private.

Perhaps that's just his opinion, and not hers, but he'll treat it that way until she indicates differently.]

Were they all affected similarly? All growing older, or younger?

I made the mistake of going to bed early that night, so I'm afraid I slept right through the event itself.

No, I don't suppose it is.

I wish you luck with your training, Shizuo, since it seems you've now been adequately warned.

Fine! [Don't call her out like this!? She tilts her head at the name change.] Hakkai.

[She makes a face; unlike Hakkai, Oona chooses to ignore all sense of polite social interactions and forges on ahead:] Why? What is wrong with 'Gonou'?

[ He- Hakkai, he really doesn't know how to deal with someone like you. Save for being his usual straight-forward self, but that's not really dealing. The best he could do, now with that out of the way, was actually answer what he could about what part of the post had been about-

Not the mess. Hakkai already knew that he had no involvement with that. He came and went, having also kept an eye out for someone he was pretty sure wasn't in the Far Shore. ]

...

oh yeah

pretty sure whatever happened was someones doing. not some other force. whatever it is wasnt done with a lot of control. probably some sick joke?

My god grew younger. His other shinki was younger on the first day, then older on the next. If there's any rhyme or reason behind who was affected, and how, I fail to see it.

In any case, I'm glad it's over. No realm should contain that many unsupervised children at one time.

[At least his scars are, mostly, harder to see than hers. His expression goes a little distant at the question, but he smiles anyway.

It's funny that she's the first one who's actually asked.]

It didn't suit me anymore.

[... and she gets a lie for her trouble: but really, it wasn't going to be anything else.

He's a much better liar now than he was when he was young, at least. That's something.]

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