五十五 [voice]

[revengeisalie]

Ah, oh my! So I was finally affected by the child curse. What an embarassment. Here, an obligatory but no less heart-felt apology as well as a big thank you for everyone who had to put up with my younger self. I guess I was a bit of a spoiled brat.

Particular thanks to Kurosu-san and to Youko, for watching us me the whole time.

And then haha, do say... have any of you ever noticed a tendency in the way the City affects you to... rub salt in certain wounds? Repeatedly, like it wants to make a point about it?

I'm sorry if that question is too personal. No one should by any means feel obligated to answer it, or even answer in detail.

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Are you better?

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I'm taking the pinwheel back.

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I'll deposit it at your apartment.

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

In front of the door? Okay, nice.

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

So.

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I was born into it, girl.

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

... ah.

Right.

[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

I think so. It's pretty frustrating.

[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

So you too, huh.

Are you better now?

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Your grandfather began this cycle of massacre, and twisted my grandfather into becoming the man that he was--a whipped dog, with nothing on his mind except the madness of reclaiming an old title. It was imposed upon me, girl, long before I was born, because of our ancestors' sins!

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[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

To tell you the truth, I don't know how to word this...

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I bore it--his crazed cruelty, and his incessant methods of trying to kill me while at the same time shaping me to take over his pathetic Itto-ryu!

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

Good. I'm glad. That... was pretty scary.

[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

Eh?

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But now, I emerge the victor, and my Itto-ryu will revolutionize Japan! The past is gone, and now comes my future--the future of this Bakufu and this country!

Never you mind.

[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to apologize.

[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh!

Thanks. I appreciate that, really. And hey, it was a curse, and nothing happened.

[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

Whether anything happened or not still doesn't make it okay.

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

... you know.

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

How am I gonna say this?

Am I really saying this?

WHY THE HELL AM I SAYING IT?

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

-- you know, I've got this sword, and it's not Japanese, and...

It used to belong to my father, and to my grandfather before that, and I heard that back when he was still head of the Muten-ichi-ryū, he used to display it, like a great treasure...

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[revengeisalie.livejournal.com]

You know, that's true.

But if something had happened, that would make things harder. Both apologizing and forgiving.

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What do you make of that?

[concept-killer.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out how to do that with people I did hurt...