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@tokifausa
some one is back!!!! woo!!!!
Tokuifusa from Underwater Ray Ramundo/Utawarerumono
one of my earliest muse within spirale. He's desperate for validation but after a bit of canon point change, he's a lot more chill now. more clear headed.
managed to put a hole into the stomach of the god of wishes.
rank-sub giant
You will be housed in HOUSE 109.
—was it childish? Aichi hesitated to lament how he leaned on the syrup shots for his younger taste buds. He'd not thought of it as childish, but the man sounded almost offended from the suggestion. Something he'd need to keep in mind before carelessly adding ideas.
Casting his eyes along the attire, a unique style it were, he shook his head afterward. "It looks like you were able to escape getting any on your clothes, thankfully. It would be awful for any stains to happen — it looks like something you'd wear on a battlefield, so is it right to guess you're a soldier?"
there was something like a click in Tokifusa head. the accurate idea that he is a soldier putting pride in his head like a parasite.
"Yes! For I am Tokifusa, one of the eight pillar generals of the great empire of Yamato! You have sharp eyes to be able to notice that!"
He gives off a laugh, half arrogant and half...something else. But Tokifusa spirits were replenished.
"Though that status..."
his mind reels back into reality.
Has been in question for a while."
Maria scoffs. "I don't like that idea... We're just the playthings of some bored god? I tell ya, if I knew where they were hidin', then I'd give them a piece of my mind!"
"I'm lucky that I've seen my posse here, but I know other folks ain't been that fortunate. How about you, you got anyone back home who you've been missing?" she asks.
"Gods? no. their just as mortal as everyone else, it is...simply easier to think that. after all only people can be so cruel as to allow this city to exist."
"..."
"No. No one."
Awkward silence.
Maria looks down in thought for a moment, flicking some dirt off her fingertips.
"Any idea on why they brought you back? And how'd you get out of here, was it an eclipse?"
"Ohoho, Well I as a expert on this matter..."
"Believe they are bored, the notion that there is a higher purpose is not something to be entertained. the creators of this city were simply bored and perhaps nostalgic."
"One day you will be gone, and the next back. it has happened a few times already."
Maria greets him with a nod. "Been here before?" she asks the wing-eared man.
"It's been about three months for me. Gotten a little more used to it... How about you?"
"Hmm hmmm hmmm."
long drawn out thinking noises.
"Hmm mmm....maybe a year, its been I believe almost four years since I was last here, but time flows different."
"this city...it hasn't changed one bit."
The parks, the buildings. it was completely static even after a few years. sure there were additional spaces, but tokifusa doesn't know about the sky cities yet.
small starter call...cap at 5
"Hm. I'll take your word for it."
It's not clear which word she takes. Either there being other good meals in the city, or returning to the moment when she was kidnapped.
Thinking about Tokifusa hunting the beast, she's interested as a fellow hunter herself.
"Did you slay it from the inside?" she asks, imagining something like a swallowed grenade.
"I manage to put a arrow through its skull through the mouth." He is proud of himself, but also knowing the size of the bow he's been using, he might as well been using a tree trunk to kill it. alas he can't show it again.
"I, Tokifusa am a master in slaying monsters. That is for certain!"
if master, he meant getting heavily injured and bloody before dealing the final bow. then yes.
pots, pans, a large pot.
"Oh, everything is just the same like last time."
SPITS OUT COFFEE AGAIN.
"Oh, this is one of those "film" relics that has been getting popular."
Enters a movie house.
tap. tap. tap. tap.
...
Sigh.
She supposes a lack of salt and garlic would sound boring to most human-like people. For Engle, it's a matter of what she can properly digest.
"I am a bird," she points out. "A bird... woman." She doesn't know if that makes sense. Both the animals and the people live in her world, and she's never had to explain it before.
As she looks over the giant bow and listens to Tokifusa boast about his cooking, a question pops into her head.
"Did you cook the beast?" she asks.
It doesn't make sense because Tokifusa has bird like ears, wings for his own ears in any case. he is the ever famous evankagura race where honor and all that were prized, and they were good warriors. But he suppose that won't make sense either.
"Unfortunately not. The beast meat becomes hard as steel once its dead and its bones are the only thing that are harvestable for weaponry and armour. Its a hassle to even cook it long enough to be edible."
"But I'm sure there are other things that are good to eat in this city. And trust me, once they tire of you. You'll be back the second , the moment they kidnap you. I have experience on this matter."
That cleared up pretty much everything. What a relief.
"I see. Tea and coffee can look similar, but you might have guessed now, they're very different in tastes. You can alter the composition of your drink which helps reduce the bitterness. There are several brews which have different balances of coffee and milk — and flavoured shots. They might help it go down easier, but it might be better to save that for another time so you don't go into shock again".
"My taste is not so childish like that. It was just...shocking."
Tokifusa is not some child, but the taste of the west is much different from the taste of the east. in this case more literal, but tea and coffee are still drinks and he would like to look a bit grown up every now and then. at the price of his own tongue.
He brings out a hankerchief to dab his mouth, some coffee still on it after the spill.
"But I will take note of that...oh, is there any on my clothes?"
"—Are you alright? Did it go down wrong, or too bitter?" The fact he wasn't choking probably ruled out the former, the sudden commotion simply drew the question out of habit. He knew first-hand how some varieties were simply not to everyone's tastes, maybe the man might have preferred a different order, knowledge he could carry the next time. "Would you like some water?"
"No no. I! tokifusa am all right. It just... I never tried this coffee before in my life and the taste shocked me."
"Its just so ...unusual. I had simply drank it , a free sample if you will from the market and then I spat it out of shock."
a rainbow was forming...
"I was once known as the master tea drinker when I was younger, but this taste is very different from the bitterness of tea."
Engle's tempted to walk out in the middle of Tokifusa's refrigerator raid. Forget these "accomodations," she needs answers, and she's not going to find them by standing around.
But then, a couple things catch her attention. The giant bow, for one thing. Was it his? Not to mention his offer for a meal... Maybe she should stick around after all.
"... No salt. And no garlic." Engle settles into a chair.
She gestures to the bow by the wall. "Is that yours?" Perhaps he hunts.
The bow appeared to be made out of fine bone. A big bone. most likel belonging to a creature that could be considered a leviathan since the span of it and width was overwhelming. The string itself made from the whiskers of another creature he had to hunt down in his desperation to get attention.
"Ha! Indeed! Its string is made from the beard of a mutipaka, known for its impossible to pierce beards and strong resilience, Not even steel itself can piece a tuft of fur. And the bone came from the tusk of the guanji beast itself! a strong gigantic creature that I had to slay to keep the peace within my region!"
He laughs arrogantly for a while before his face returns to normal.
"No salt and garlic, my that sounds rather boring. But I'll see what I can do."
"When I was young, I was known as the master chef of the streets! Hopefully my skills retain."
Spits out his coffee.
Nearly spits out the first coffee he tried.
