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Who: Juuza Amakusa & Ange Ushiromiya
When: October 3rd, morning
Where: His room
What: Waking up after dying
Warnings: Discussions of death and such??

[This was yet another time when he slowly woke up, trying to recall what the hell he had done last. First it was when he had fallen asleep for two days and woke up only to find out that his Denizen had changed. But now... he blinked and looked around the room.

Wait hadn't he been....

Amakusa quickly shot up, looking down at his chest, touching the area where the arrow had been... what the? It wasn't there? And he was actually alive-...? At the edge of his bed he also noticed something from back home-... his sniper rifle? So... he died, he was revived, and they had given him something even? This was sure... a miracle, really. He didn't think he would ever be breathing again. Magic is real and all that yadda yadda.

He turned, grabbing that compact off of the table beside him. He quickly opened it up and went to type to Ange. What the hell does he say though...? This is.. pretty difficult. Aahh he figures she'll be mad at him for this but-... oh well.]

lady don't be mad- i don't know what happened really but i'm alive.... i guess.

[fucking flawless.]

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[ She hardly recalls half of yesterday. The first half is still very clear, the entire part where she left the castle with Amakusa, ran through the forest.. and then she man died. After that everything is more like a blur, as if she's not even sure how much time passed. She hardly even moved off her bed during this entire time either - she's still just lying there, on her back now, and staring at the ceiling blankly. She still hasn't gathered her thought, made any sense of this - after this little time, about a day or so, there's still no way for her to deal with the loss other than feel like she's almost slowly sinking away in some kind of sea that his loss left behind. Ange hasn't even noticed what's left behind for her in her room yet in the middle of all of it.

... Yes, this was truly a time during which she should think that it's all useless. What sort of hope is there left for her now?

Just as that thought shoots through her mind, she can vaguely hear beeping. .. Her compact? Even her thoughts feel slow and disoriented right now, and she lazily moves around with her arm to try and find the compact purely by touch before her fingers clench around it, pulling it towards her.

She opens it, and for a moment she thinks it's just a bad prank. Maybe by the rulers. Maybe one of the minions got a hold of his compact. Maybe some other prankster resident of this place.

Still she can't help but reply. Even if it's a prank.. she can't not do something at the sight of those words. ]

Very funny, whoever you are. Leave me alone.

[ She closes the compact once again, putting it away. ]

.....Ah.

[He figured she would have at least believed something like that but-... who was he kidding, he really didn't believe he was alive right now either, so how on earth was she supposed to believe that when she saw him die? Amakusa frowns a bit, trying to think of what to say next. Maybe he should go on video-? Err... that might freak her out even more. He really needs to just... ease into this.]

okay.... i guess i should say something only you and i would know right? let's see... as much as you hate to admit it- i know you like being kissed on your neck. i've woken you up doing that before when we've slept together. :)

[...And he couldn't help but grin after he sent that. Leave it to Amakusa to turn a sad situation into something completely horrible. And he just laughs t himself- oh boy she was going to be so mad at him~!]

[ 'Completely horrible' is a good way to describe this, really. The moment Ange hears her compact beep again she hardly feels like even reaching over to it anymore, knowing that whatever it was just wanted to continue the prank.. But then despite herself she does grab it, slowly opening it-- and the moment she sees the message her eyes grow wide. Partially because of the realisation that it's truly him who's saying that, since nobody else would know, and it means he's alive.. but at the same time why would he pick that of all things?!

Some combination of embarassment, anger, shock and something else she can't quite place (it's probably relief) shoots through her, making her get off her bed. On her way out she almost trips over the pistol she dropped on the floor much earlier, and lying next to the pistol are her hair bobbles.. the ones she lost when her hair had suddenly turned to these braids and gotten stuck like that. Ange grabs both the bobbles and the pistol without really thinking before quickly making her way over to his house, immediately entering his bedroom, since surely he would be there. ]

Amakusa..! [ Okay, he might misunderstand though if she storms into his room like that, completely shocked and angry and embarassed (yet oddly happy).. and with that pistol still in her hands, even if she doesn't realise it. ]

[He's just sitting there on the bed, looking pretty happy and smug for someone that just woke up from the dead. He was poking around on the compact still, wondering if anyone else had the same problem as him, dying and then waking up and finding out they're alive yet again.

...And then he hears someone open the front door- and he knows it has to be Ange. He's open to say something to her but then she opens up the door...................... and he spots that pistol of his in her hand and she looks insanely angry. Okay, he expected her to be mad but..... but not this mad!

In an instant, he had grabbed his sniper, flipped over his bed and then peeked up over the mattress ;A;]

L...lady! Okay! Don't do anything crazy now- I just woke up from being dead and you want to kill me again....? Heh... that's not very < cool > you know...!

[ Don't worry, she isn't actually out to kill her-- even if it does seem that way, with how she's raging right now.. She isn't fully thinking straight either way now, after trying to keep herself so emotionless earlier and then just.. almost drowning in the despair left behind.. so now everything is coming back even more so than usually. With a loud thunk she just throws the pistol on the ground, good thing the safety was on. ]

You idiot..! You die and then you just come back to life like this like nothing happened?! [ Of course she's happy he's back, it's just.. after trying to get used to the loss, she only gets more emotional now to see him back, so she says something like that partially because of her tsundere.

She stops over to him - as if the sniper rifle isn't even there - and swings back her arm before just slapping him in the face!! ]

No, more importantly, did you have to say something like that?!

[ Yet even though she's saying all of this and acting so angry.. she's actually shaking on her legs, as if she's actually about to collapse. ]

[Well... it's not like he was acting as if nothing happened. He was really shocked, at first. But then he just figured that if they can control something like sleeping patterns, who's to say they can't also use that death arcana of theirs and just revive someone if they die here?

Amakusa was about to say something else when he felt her slap him right across the face. Ah.... this was the second time she's really hit him like that. His face was stinging, but after a few moments he managed to put on that same smile. He stood up, his hand now on his cheek.]

Shit.... I forget how much of a hard hitter you are. [And he's noticed that it looks like she's about to fall, so even though he figures she'll hit him again- he walks over to her.]

And I didn't know I could come back that easily....

Still, that's not reason to.. to just act like this..

[ She's still not really steady (not at all, in fact) but even so she almost backs up a step or two all the same, almost as if she still can't believe he's really here even though she just slapped him.. this was just a dream, right? A desperate illusion, maybe..? ]

Don't you know?! I was-- [ worried, sad, lonely, I didn't know what to do.. she doesn't have to say any of it, she knows, since he alreadysaw her like that right before he died, right? He saw her that weak, that pathetic, and even now again - as she can't control herself for once. ]

[Even though she was stepping away from him, he walked towards her. Eventually he closed the gap between them, reaching out and taking her arm, pulling her closer to him- pulling her right against him so he could at least hold her.]

Sorry lady... [he still had that smirk on his face, but he was sounding genuine for once, at least.] I didn't mean to freak you out like that... I just didn't want you to get hurt so I dove in front of the arrow like that. Haahh.... but you have to admit, I looked pretty amazing right? Laying there with all that blood...

[aaaand he's back to joking around.]

[ Of course he would joke about something like this. Is there anything he wouldn't joke about in the end? Even though she's trying her best here to control her emotions again, come to terms with the fact that even though he died, that doesn't matter as long as he's alive now.. ]

If you think it's so amazing, I'll make you experience it again right now if you want it that badly. [ It's nothing more than a soft sentence half-mumbled against him, though - a very, very weak attempt at her usual tsun deadpan, but it doesn't even come close. No, more than anything she's happy, really happy that he's back, but it's still buried beneath all those other emotions and the fact she doesn't want him to make fun of her. ]

[Amakusa just holds her against him, and he's smiling down at her. Hey, he's happy he's alive too. But you know, he's curious... so he has to ask.]

Hmm... lady- do you really need me around that badly? [oohh and now he's just trying to be a jerk about it. At least partially. He really wants to hear what she has to say about that, come on Ange, work through the tsun and tell him all about your undying love for him!!]

[ Gah-- no, why does he have to ask her that..?! Luckily he has an advantage with her mood right now, it makes her easier to slip into dere mode.. even if she still doesn't want to fully tell him with her tsun, but there's the realisation that death can happen more easily here than she thought, that he could really slip away from her any minute without it even being him running away. If she doesn't say it, then he might never know eventually..? ]

... I do. [ It takes some teeth-grinding and frowning to force it out, though, and she definitely isn't looking at him even though he's holding her. ] We were going to run away together once we'd get out of this place, so.. you can't just die and break that promise, right?

[ No, that's still not fully it-- god, screw all of this. ]

As much as I hate your stupid jokes and the way you're always trying to annoy me on purpose.. I don't want to be without you anymore. [ .. a slight huff. ] There. It's stupid, isn't it? You can laugh at me now.

[Hey, it's not like he would ever really be gone. He did say that no matter how much he wanted to run away from her, it was like he couldn't- that he would always be brought back to her somehow. Maybe this was yet another example of that... aahh... that was way too sappy, he'd never say it out loud.

Laugh at her? Oh how he wanted to, and he figured he really should, just to get things back to normal but-... he was just smiling. He brought a hand up to her, placing it on her head, stroking her hair and just smirking to himself.]

I also have a promise as your bodyguard.... so looks like I might be in trouble all over again- protecting you and everything. But... baah- same here lady, I really can't leave you like I said.

Why would I laugh at that? I have other things to laugh at about you, heha! Like you getting so mad about me saying you like it when I kiss your neck!

[ She's quiet for a moment, as if she's just content with standing here like this, with him holding her close and stroking her hair like that - it really is rather nice. And.. everything is okay either way, right? They both love each other, and they both won't leave each other - even death can't stop that. And what she saw in that dream definitely doesn't count anymore either, he wouldn't kill her.. not after he even sacrificed his life to protect her.

So thinking about all of that, it's easier to calm down and try to fall back into their usual routine - especially with that last line. ]

O-.. of course I'd get mad about that..! Why did you have to pick that out of all things you could've told me to prove it?

[Amakusa nodded to himself and then he began to move away from her- going back to the bed he had woken up. He moved around it and grabbed that sniper he had been given, bringing the strap over his shoulder before he looked back at her.]

I don't know... I guess I hadn't thought up anything else to say. That was really the first thing that came to mind.

[And he's walking back over to her, grabbing that pistol she had brought and put it back into his jacket pocket.]

At least now I have some weapons~! What did you get from the Rulers lady?

The first thing coming to your mind being something like that..

[ Ange just continues to grumble about that a little, even if she's already getting out what she got to show him. She pulls out the pairs of hair bobbles from her pockets, holding her hand out so Amakusa can see as well. Then she just sits down on the edge of the bed, trying to work them back into her hair. Ange knows she can't undo the braids though, no matter what, so she just settles on instead wearing them at the ends of her braids ~~much like in the icon~~. ]

Unlike you, I don't have anything as crude as that huge sniper of yours to get from them. [ Not that the hair bobbles are all she got, there's some of her magic returned with it as well.. but like hell she'll tell him that, he'd just laugh at her. ]

[Amakusa adjusted the strap of his weapon, and he just looked at her as she tried to put those hair accessories back in. Jeez... he thought he'd never see those again, they're still pretty childish.]

Hm... did you ever tell me why those hair bobbles are so important? I at least got something useful like my weapon back.

[he brings a hand up to his chin, like he's deep in thought.]

I'll have to start practicing shooting again. I should be able to hit the bullseye though.

So then next time when they come for us you'll be able to keep them away, right? [ unlike this time. 8|

Still working on her hair.. ]

And.. I bet you're not interested in the story behind them either way. But knowing you, you'll insist on having me tell it either way, so I'll say that Battler onii-chan won them for me from a crane machine game back when I was a little kid. Before everyone died.

I will lady, don't worry.

[As she's talking about those accessories, he reaches into his jacket pocket, bringing out his pistol again. He's checking it out- turning it over and taking out the clip. Prussia was able to fire his gun but... Amakusa would rather not do that inside. He puts the clip back in and looks over at her.]

Oh! So you're holding on to more of your past with that? [take that however you want, an indication that he doesn't approve and wants her to move on yet again or just a simple remark.]

I see... you know, you think that the Rulers could even bring someone like Battler-san here? Just a thought, since they wouldn't let me die- they obviously have a control over death.

[ Yeah, with the tone in which he's saying that.. she's going to take it as the former, that he doesn't approve of it, since she by now knows that he always gets a little more annoyed when she's talking about the past. She doesn't seem to pay much attention to it though, especially not when she's just sitting there and putting on the second one. ]

... They probably could, yes. [ But she's not going to rely on it, she can't afford to do that. He shouldn't be here either way, she knows how dangerous it is after nearly being choked and seeing Amakusa die right in front of her. ] The possibility that they will bring in anyone from my family is pretty small, though. There's a big number of worlds they can bring people here from, and even in our world my family is only a few people out of way too many.

[Amakusa is pointing the gun at nothing really... and then he glances over at her.]

Who knows lady, I was brought here along with you- they could have left me behind if they wanted to.

[He shrugs, turning and opening the door to his room.]

You coming? I want some target practice. I want to see how you shoot a gun too, from all of those events I know we'll have to train a lot more.

Sure.

[ She stands up to walk over to where he is, but at the same time she's thinking about that first thing he said. It's true, they could have just taken her without him, and.. surely things would be different now then, way different. If he wouldn't have been here.. she might actually have been much more miserable.

What irony.

Ange steps through the door first. ]

It's not like I've had experience with guns the way you had though.

[And he's following after her~!]

You've held one before- but have you actually used one before? I don't know what kind of things you did after I was fired, but I know back then you were too young to handle one.

[pedophile amakusa.]

[ pedokusa strikes again, but she's relatively unfazed as she just keeps walking on, out of the house they go.. ]

I've fired one once. [ In another fragment where she used her stakes to kill and then fired the illusion of her aunt.. but yes, Amakusa doesn't need to know any of her weird fantasy world things. ] The circumstances aren't important.

But that's all the experience I have.

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