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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.

Comments

[erogappa]

That's not possible. You can't just turn into a full youkai.

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Why would I lie to you about this?

[erogappa]

I don't understand half the things you do. But I do know that you can't change your kind. People. Species, whatever the right word is. You are who you're born as and that's it, you live with that.

[reformedsinner]

Of course. Who am I to argue?

[It's shamelessly rude and dismissive, but, also, importantly: he's not about to have a conversation about whether it is possible to become a full youkai with Gojyo. Not right now and not like this.

Not when he doesn't know what changes are yet to come from Gojyo's awakening youki even if they all find their way home.]

[erogappa]

Fuck you. I don't know why the hell I ever bother talking to you.

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Serendipity?

[Gojyo's fishing for information and clearly suspects some connection between them. With so few youkai here, it's an easy suspicion, Hakkai thinks. He hasn't done the best job of concealing his familiarity. He knows exactly the knife-edge Gojyo's daring, balanced between the goad of curiosity and the terror of destruction.

Maybe it'll be easier to do this when Gojyo's already angry than it was when he wouldn't walk away to save his own life.]

Don't feel obligated to continue.

[erogappa]

[ He has to go look that first set of character up in a dictionary, and he's fuming mad by the time he's done.

He was a real asshole when he was alive, Gojyo's decided. If Hakkai and Sharak (and probably Doku, although he's not totally positive about that one) are the people he was spending time with when he got the scars he's covered in, then he must have been an absolutely horrible person.

Best thing he can do is cut off all contact with all of them. That really would be for the best.

...But he just can't resist getting the last word in. ]

Was she as big a bitch as you?

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[He gets to keep the last word, too. There's no response.]