pc: uruha

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[sacredpath]

Not that I can remember, no. You?

[kumeyuri]

[there is a long pause. like, unnecessarily long as uruha glances around, breathes in, breathes out, and then gives the most anticlimatic answer of—]

Yeah, they're pretty common in Japan. We've got a big bathing culture.

[sacredpath]

[how mysterious...]

You seemed very unsure about that. You're not an amnesiac or anything, are you? There's so much of that going around lately.

[kumeyuri]

What? [wrinkles his nose] No. Not as far as I know. Is amnesia really that common?

[sacredpath]

You'd be surprised! Alright, very well. Answer mysteriously if you wish.

[kumeyuri]

I answered perfectly normally. [he did not but he has decided to die on this hill now] Anyway, non-amnesiacally, I've been to hot springs a lot, yeah.

[sacredpath]

I see. Well, it's quite nice. An unexpected luxury.

[kumeyuri]

If a little random. [glances around again. how's the owlbear doing.] It does kind of feel like this place slapped together a bunch of stuff they thought people would like.

[sacredpath]

Mm. Trying to placate. They must displeased about so much wanton destruction, then.

[kumeyuri]

While I don't personally advocate for wrecking where you have to sleep, I get the feeling they're going to continue being displeased.

[sacredpath]

For most people, death takes some getting used to. What of you?

[kumeyuri]

[he's quiet for a moment.]

Circumstances weren't great, and it's not like I have no regrets or anything, but... I had some time in the moment itself to accept that I wasn't going to make it, so there's that.

If anything, it's jarring how uneventful the transition to the afterlife has been.

[sacredpath]

I can see how having a little time to think changes things. Though - sometimes when the sword is hanging over your head, you still manage to convince yourself it isn't going to fall.

I still feel that way, I think, precisely because this place is so... wrong.

[kumeyuri]

... Mm, it really doesn't feel like an afterlife. [he reaches up to rub his left shoulder.] Easy to think that you just got transported to some other realm, even if you remember dying.

[sacredpath]

Exactly. It just doesn't feel real.

[kumeyuri]

[he lets out a breath.]

... Well, at least I know there's no way my opponent wouldn't have made sure I was dead, so that'll keep me grounded. Hopefully.

[sacredpath]

Something personal, then.

[kumeyuri]

Lost a duel.

[sacredpath]

Sorry to hear that. I suppose it still smarts.

[kumeyuri]

It is what it is. It just means I wasn't strong enough.

[matter of fact, rather than self-deprecating.]

[sacredpath]

[yeah. yeah...]

In a way, that's probably true of most of us.

[kumeyuri]

I'd hope not everyone here died violent deaths, although I guess that might be asking for a lot.

[sacredpath]

I think it's a larger number than you'd find among the general population.

[kumeyuri]

Guess it makes sense for there to be some kind of pattern if we all ended up in the same place.

[sacredpath]

Well. For what it is worth, I am sorry that you had to come to be here.