recession | scawwy ✦ satoru gojo

I'm not nearly enough of a big shot to be able to pull the reins on that sort of thing.

You'll have to ask the Kaiser... he wanted something in the territory of Bohemia is my best guess. He stopped the war once he reached a certain point, including the capital, Prehevil.

[ Right, some people do not have a god complex. ]

No ambition to be? You never know what you can achieve without trying.

[ Rise, rise, ascend, but it does not matter. Strokes his chin, then rudely points at Daan. ]

Invader, invaded, neutral?

[ Wow, pointed at. ]

Neutral. I'm neither of the Bremen Empire nor Bohemia.

These kind of sound familiar, but there's no way we're from the same place or time. [ It is what it is. ] That's annoying to get caught in between or in the thick of it.

[ Is Daan done cleaning his things... If he collecting more leechless water? ]

So I hear. Ms. Preaker's told me a bit about a place called Europe, which is obviously pretty close to Europa, but it doesn't seem like our geographical knowledge has much overlap.

[ Sure he's mostly done. Carefully picks out one stray leech that's made his way into his bucket. ]

Would have preferred to avoid it, but I don't call those shots.

Close, but not the same. [ So Many Shots. ] Who does, then?

[ This poor leech... Will we kill it... ]

The crows eat them if you don't want to toss them somewhere.

The invaders, of course. In this case, I suppose that's the Kaiser of the Bremen Empire.

Maybe that'll get the crows liking us better.

Not that a difference of one leech will make a dent in the population, but if the crows are going to be our messengers, may as well get them to like us.

Smart little things, crows.

And you couldn't just flee, I'm guessing. War swallowing up all the lands around.

[ ROUGH... LEECH FEEDING THOUGH. ]

If there are fish in the stream, they're supposed to eat the leeches, right? Are there... Leech traps? [ ......... ] We can really fatten up the crows if we get a bunch.

Mm. More trouble than it'd be worth to become a deserter... I'd never be able to return. Not worth that...

You'd have to fashion a leech trap on your own.

Or just grab them like some people have apparently been doing.

... We can ask the goats for one, but I've already requested a phone charger.

[ so no reusable leech trap for them. ]

You could die any time in a war, can't you?

The goats... huh. Sounds like that name's spreading.

[ You really all just decided they're goats. ]

You could. But at least that much would end after a war. Deserters, you'll be pursued even after it all ends.

Knew a kid like that... terrified for his life.

Don't think it's fitting?

[ i think i spread the term... ]

I'm guessing the tale here is that he's dead.

...

[ He doesn't answer that. ]

Why goats? Because of the horns?

There were goats on the stained glass windows at the church.

[ Simple. ]

I don't know that those are related to them, but sure.

Sometimes it's the little things you can have fun with that'll make all the difference anyway.

Then they shouldn't have added it to our playground! Ammo for us!

[ the npcs are innocent allegedly ]

If that's how you want to think of it...

[ He's having to remind himself this dude is 18. He's literally so big. ]

At least you look like you're a bit more at ease than some of the others.

[ daan you are just a small bean ]

I'm used to haunted stuff as a sorcerer. We visit sites like this all the time, except they're actually creepy.

Sounds like you live a pretty rough life, if you're taking something like this with ease...

[ Because most people, Daan himself included, sure aren't. ]

Curses don't make homes out of nice cafes, so yeah... And some curse users are freaks.

[ you have to be a freak in this field. ]

It's just life.

What is a "curse", exactly?

[ And how does one use it. Is it like... controlled ghosts? Black Orb?? ]

They're cursed spirits, if that makes it easier to understand. They're born from mankind's negativity and take form as monsters.

[ Easy! ]

Most of the population can't see them.

Sounds something like a ghost, but I'm not really all that superstititous...

[ Wack. ]

It's all superstition until you can see them.

[ it is wack ]

None of the ghosts if there are any here responded to me, though.

Not even in a bad way?

At least that's one minor comfort.

[ For most people he'd be like. Don't do that? But Gojo is such a fucking casual about it that he weirdly feels fine. He really is like that. ]

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