scawwy ✦ suguru geto

[recession]

getoutta my town am i right

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[turbulency]

[ hmmm ]

Why is that something you'd use in moderation? Because of "equivalent exchange"?

[recession]

Because there's a cost to everything, but especially in dealing with the occult.

Life and death works on balances and trades. Like how you might have to withstand the pain of disinfectant in your wounds for them to heal well. Occult healing has its benefits of not needing tools, sure, but there's still a cost somewhere.

[turbulency]

[ That does make sense. ]

Like what?

[recession]

Wanna take a guess?

[turbulency]

[ in a spooky vampire voice ] Bloood.

[recession]

That's a different god.

[ Half-point for Geto. ]

The cheapest cost is usually a bit of my sanity.

[turbulency]

Your sanity? [ huh ] And what does that look like?

[recession]

It's not exactly something I can just objectively show you.

Maybe you can use your imagination?

[turbulency]

[ makes a face ]

Ah... No... When I use my powers I have to sacrifice my imagination.

[recession]

I'm not certain I believe you.

What powers do you have?

[turbulency]

Has Satoru told you anything about cursed energy already?

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Only that you perform some type of exorcisms?

[ Something like that? ]

[turbulency]

That's right, we use cursed energy to exorcise cursed spirits. I guess it's kind of like magic.

[recession]

...Is your... worm... a cursed spirit?

[ Or is it just cursed energy. Well either way it has curse in the name so it seems apt. ]

[turbulency]

Yeah, a low grade one. It doesn't have any particular offensive strengths though.

[recession]

Why do you keep the things you supposedly exorcise around with you?

[ Is it normal to like... have one as a pet... ]

And what does it... do?

[turbulency]

That one is bonded to me.

[ ... ]

At least I think so. I don't have my powers so I can't tell. [ oops ] Anyway, it basically has infinite storage so it's pretty useful.

[recession]

Mm... well...

If it doesn't bother you, then that's all good and fine.

[ The worm is disturbing but if Geto's got it under control then that's. Okay? ]

A living, bottomless bag sure is something though.

[turbulency]

I've seen uglier curses.

[ But wow... the shadows are back! They take Daan, and he'll find himself in the elevator of a residential building.

You're on your way to the escort mission, where you're going to rendezvous with the baby you're meant to babysit, chatting through the specifics with Satoru.

And, as per usual, he's saying some audacious shit. Thankfully, you're so used to lecturing him at this point that you don't even flinch as an explosive goes off. ]

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[ I told Hei this but I genuinely would not have expected Geto to sound like this, I would have expected him to have the deeper voice...

Anyway the squids and manta are outright cute in comparison, help. Your cuttlefish, Geto. ]

...

Oh, my.

Looks like what you do is a lot more dangerous than I was originally imagining...

[turbulency]

[ Every cast must surrender a character to Sakurai.

He felt fishy that day. Anyway, he just smiles. ]

It's not that bad. Fighting humans is usually easier than fighting curses. [ ... ] Usually.

[recession]

Usually?

[ Raising a brow. Not that he doesn't get the idea, not all animals are stronger than humans. But still, curious. ]

[turbulency]

[ His expression sours slightly. ]

There are some humans that aren't sorcerers, but have exceptional power. They essentially forfeit their access to abilities that come with cursed energy, but instead enhancing basic skills like strength and speed.

I say forfeit, but in these cases it happens at birth.

[ stupid shounen mechanics ]

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[ Stupid shounen mechanics indeed. ]

...What, so... superhumans?

[ The way everyone's fantasy worlds sounds so crazy to him despite his everything is really funny. He's just a dude. ]

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Basically.

Is that hard to believe? Don't you have monsters where you come from?