sevenhorrors | yes YES the tiger is out

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yes YES the tiger is out

Who: Kin'un and anyone who wants to come across a dead man walking
When: October 5th, afternoon
Where: Kin'un dorm and surrounding area
What: "Gehou" has been dead for 5 days bruh... BUT ALSO HEY WE WON!!
Warnings: TBD

[ This is largely a Kin'un teampost. But before he returns to the dorm, Gehou has to make the walk of shame from the nurse's office. ]

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There are fates worse than death.

[ ah... yes. there it is. he is capable of terrible things, says shen qingqiu. ]

Such as slowly cutting off a man's legs with a sword?

[ evenly ]

Which did you prefer?

[ a ]

What?

... it's nothing.

You should be cautious. Since you have also been given to that shrine, as I was.

[ no he's going to be stuck on that question now. just like everything else shen qingqiu ever says to him it's going in the big jar in his head titled "shit shen qingqiu says to me that i don't understand" and it's going to get shaken up every single night. ]

[ ... ]

[ if he follows this story that shizun has told him, then what does he have to lose.

moreover, does he currently care if he has anything to lose? ]

Who is it that gave your blood to the shrine?

Myself. It wasn't for points. I did suggest it to your classmate, and was turned down, after which I thought it would be for the better to act on my own.

---- Shizun, what is wrong with you?

This body is already hardly my own. What did I think I had to lose?

[ this is a problem. this is more problems than he thought he had today when waking up from literal death.

maybe choosing to believe this story is soothing, in a way. anger tends to scream loud enough to pierce through the endless abyss of aching despair. ]

So because you are upset you decided to act like an irresponsible child throwing all your toys on the ground to watch them break? Is that it?

[ he has half a mind to grab shizun and shake him. for a moment, he steps forwards as though to do just that. just days ago he was crying like a baby at this man's mercy. now he feels like the only one with any sense between them. ]

What about Kai-un? You would put them at risk as well? [ of course he was one thing. shen qingqiu doesn't care about what happens to him. ]

[ he can't say the first thing that comes to his tongue, because it was something that rested on the understanding that he's worthless scum who cares for no one but himself.

he had that understanding with lbh in the past. but not with this one. this one might even mistakenly love him.

he doesn't want to encourage that. he also doesn't want the mites inside of him to get uppity again. how should he walk this spider's thread-thin line? ]

Not at all. I want information on the power these entities have over us, and I didn't care to wait idly for it to come at some unknown time, when or if it ever would.

... so, what. Are you going to tell Kai-un your discoveries?

[ are you going to tell them that you murdered him. ]

I'll draft a note for the bulletin board.

You, as well. How did you survive?

[ .... Wouldn't You Like To Know Weather Boy ]

I didn't. I bled out on the cold forest floor, shivering and alone. And then I woke up whole in the nurse's office..

Edited 2025-10-06 07:09 (UTC)

[ a vague noise ]

... Are you truly alive? Or a vengeful ghost?

[ he SEEMS strangely alive but it never hurts to check. probably ]

[ what if he just gives him a vaguely ominous smile. before taking a step towards him, hand outstretched as if to touch. ]

[ one step back ]

Don't.

[ he does stop. if you touch him you'll know if he's alive or not, shizun. ]

[ and then he steps closer again. to step past him, towards the Kin'un dormitory. ]

I think I have an answer to your previous question. I prefer most anything you could do to me over dying and leaving you alone, shizun.

[ now if you'll excuse him. he needs a change of clothes. ]

Edited 2025-10-06 21:37 (UTC)

[ I hate my life ]

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