I will grow my own trees while you follow the moon

[thesettingsun]

it's a john/shuji catchall post

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[thesettingsun]

...both?

[Semi-public would be better, his parents live in this city and he doesn't want word to get back to them so they disown him, so...]

[vitis]

[ ... that's a lot. he blinks - he'd definitely be concerned if it was anyone but him that shuji had sworn this, err, sort of loyalty to. (you should still be worried, john...) ]

I got a lotta responsibility, huh.

[ as comes with great power. ]

[thesettingsun]

Don't worry about it. I trust you.

[that isn't necessariy a relief when the concern is shuji's unshakeable loyalty]

[vitis]

[ hm. well ]

... Yeah. I trust you, too.

[ that's that. there's a fond smile following those words; it's shit like this that has his heart warmly a-flutter. ]

[thesettingsun]

...I'm still not sue I'm the best person to go to if you really do need to call a hit on someone. Not that I wouldn't do my best, but I mean, giant scythes aren't subtle?

[Then again, hiring an actual assassin is probably pretty expensive.]

[vitis]

Yeah, giant scythes don't make for good stealth assassinations, huh.

[ he rubs his chin, genuinely applying thought to this conundrum. ]

Not like you couldn't ditch it, though - go for a good ol' fashion shanking.

[thesettingsun]

I don't have as much practice with those. [Why are they seriously thinking about this.] I guess having a murder weapon you can change into a book helps with getting it in there undetected, but if anybody could figure out it was a scythe they could just go 'hey, how many people in Recolle use scythes'?

[vitis]

That's why, if you use a knife, just sneak up on 'em, give 'em a good ol' stab to the neck. [ making it sound like that's easy peasy! ]


You'd bisect someone usin' a scythe, right?

[thesettingsun]

Decapitation seems like the best option. Not a lot of unnecessary pain. Even if you only get their head partway off, it's not something you're going to be conscious for very long. Stomach wounds hurt like a bitch.

[remember when this thread was nsfw]

[vitis]

Nice of you, Shuji, to be thinkin' 'bout pain like that.

[ --avoiding it, more like. ]

Whichever would end up easiest, right? Guess it would be easier to lop off someone's head instead...

[thesettingsun]

Even if you ask me to do an assassination, I'm not going to make it more painful than it needs to be?

[this is apparently where he draws the line.]