[text] UN: mekakushisan

[suddenlybees]

[ posted some time mid-day on the 6th, because after nearly killing a person, almost dying himself isn't enough of divine retribution, he's also got to see the miserable child that he used to be walking around campus and he wants none of that. there can only be one. ]


Hello, hello~!!
It's Kano~
I'm here with an !!!URGENT!!! job offer for interested parties!
What I'm looking for is hunters and exorcists and the like~
No experience necessary!!!
Willingness is key!!!!!!
Please leave your resume and rates below~


[ He needs somebody who wouldn't mind killing a human child, essentially. For those who suspect something's up, or want an action thread instead of a text one, Kano makes it pretty obvious what he needs destroyed: anybody happening upon Lumière 303 can't miss the sound of muffled screaming and pounding of what sounds like a child who has been locked up in a closet, because this is obviously how you deal with seeing a kid version of yourself, you kidnap them and throw them in the closet and remove the doorknob to your bedroom so nobody can get inside. ]

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[yokeye]

[Toki is absolutely horrified at the sounds coming from the closet. Oh my god, Kano. This is going too far; Kano's such a terrible person.]

You can't kill him! He's you! What if there's a paradox and you die!? Not that that's the only reason for not doing it! Let him out!

[suddenlybees]

Toki. Toki, hey.

[ Kano's a terrible person lounging on one of the couches on the third floor when Toki comes barging up here, and he lazily waves his hand at Toki to catch his attention before he heads down the hall screaming at nobody— except maybe the kid locked up in Kano's room, who immediately falls silent when he hears Toki's voice because nOBODY TOLD HIM ANYTHING ABOUT KILLING AND DYING, HE MISSED THAT MEMO. ]

Paradox is a pretty weak reason as it is~ I think that's a risk I'm willing to take?

[yokeye]

[Toki takes one last look down the hallway, but he's going to stop and talk to Kano. Probably a bad decision. Sorry, Shuuya.]

It's a risk you're willing to take!? What's wrong with you!?

[A question he's asked often, yet he has never gotten a satisfactory answer to.]

You're searching for people to kill a child! I mean, okay, he might not be an actual child and he's like a mimic or a changeling or something, but we don't know that!

[suddenlybees]

[ Haha, yeah, he doesn't know what's wrong with him either, so that's a question for the ages. But he's tired of a lot of things, and seeing how he used to be is one step further than he has patience for right now, so he just shakes his head and flops back down on the couch, staring up at the ceiling instead of at Toki. ]

Why would your first thought be that he's a real child? Those things, they're clearly unnatural.

[ Is this an "innocent until proven guilty" sort of thing? Because look at them. Seems pretty guilty to him. ]

[yokeye]

[Kano always has a way of making him rethink everything. Toki hadn't run into Shuuya, but the 'kids' he did interact with; not for one moment did he think they might be part of some malicious agenda.]

They act like children! They're cute and they're-

[He's attached to them. This was the plan, wasn't it?]

You're right! It's some kind of infiltration!

[suddenlybees]

[ It's the very first thing that Kano thought of, because it was the same when he'd first seen his "mother" after so many years. Unnatural. The longing was almost painful, and bringing another Shuuya into the world is just hateful. ]

You're catching on~ Doesn't that make more sense? Demons who can look like anything they want... if they can recreate themselves to look like ourselves, we'd naturally hesitate to kill them. How smart! Isn't that ingenious?

[yokeye]

[Toki never saw any Hollows, and he doesn't know anything about anyone else's encounters. No one tells him what's really happening.]

It does make more sense! Of course it's daemons! They have to be destroyed! They've got everyone worried about them when the kids are probably just a distraction and the daemons in charge are already putting their ultimate plan in motion!

[suddenlybees]

[ RIP everybody's kids. Time to die. ]

It's a good thing that we realized what's going on, huh, Toki? The timing is perfect too- right after break where everybody's minds are still on vacation, and then something like this happens! The perfect distraction~!! Say, weren't you thinking about learning how to fight, before? How was that coming along?

[ Want to kill a demon child, Toki? Here's your chance. ]

[yokeye]

It was a great plan! Daemons are smart!

[He was going to learn to fight, but then New York happened.]

I haven't done any-

[He stops talking and just stares at Kano for a minute while he gets a quick, flashing vision... Green butterflies eating a corpse; a long proboscis sucking up amber fluid, that is certainly not blood, from the body. The corpse is human-like, but has talon claws for fingers. There's Gregorian type chanting... That makes no sense. Whatever, he'll research later. What was happening? Children... daemons... fighting!]

Uh, I haven't started the fighting thing because, after New York, it's- things aren't good for that right now!

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[wherenoonegoes]

[The thing about a child screaming bloody murder is that sound like that carries. The muffling does make it harder for human ears to pick up on, but drake ears are far more sensitive.

That's why Hiccup and Toothless end up charging their way up the dormitory stairs, glares on their faces.]

What the Hel is going on up here?

[suddenlybees]

[ Yikes, a drake barging into the dormitory lounge is quite the sight to see, so that Kano sits up from the couch he's hanging out in, stares at Hiccup and Toothless, and then goes to lie back down again like he isn't any part of this.

The screaming from 303 does not let up. ]

[wherenoonegoes]

[Seeing that they weren't getting any immediate answers, Hiccup and Toothless quickly move onward down the hall. There's the fleshy thump of a human body trying and failing to get a door to budge.

After a pause, there's a small explosion and the sound of said door shattering into hundreds of charred splinters.]

[suddenlybees]

[ His poor door... it would be the second time in a short while it's been blown off its hinges, but there's no way he can replace it as easily this time. Kano keeps quiet as he watches the duo literally break into his room, cringing but at least being grateful that there isn't anything important that he keeps inside.

You know, because kids aren't important. Least of all this one, which gives a strangled cry of alarm when he hears something breaking and immediately goes quiet, although Hiccup and Toothless may be able to hear where the sound had come from before he'd shut up- it's the closet, and one of the desks has been moved in front of it to bar the door. ]

[wherenoonegoes]

[Toothless pulls the desk away, leaving behind bitemarks and drake-slobber that will never come off.

Hiccup taps on the closet door, leaning his ear up near it.]

Hey, is it alright if I come in there? I'm a teacher, I'm here to help.

[suddenlybees]

[ Instead of a response, there's just labored breathing from the other side of the door, like fear at the cusp of hyperventilation that Shuuya's trying to keep under control by taking slow deep breaths that do nothing more but make him feel light headed. With teachers... Shuuya's never gone to school; he was supposed to have started the first grade already, but he never went. But he recognizes that teachers are supposed to have the well being of students (he doesn't count as a student, though...) in mind, so he takes a deep breath, holds it, and cracks open the closet door. And he takes one look at Toothless and slams it shut again. ]

[wherenoonegoes]

Whoa, hey. Hey hey hey. You're fine, you're safe. Toothless isn't going to hurt you.

[If Shuuya peeks through the door again, he'll see that Toothless is just sitting.]

He's basically a big, scaly housecat, alright? He's here to help you. Toothless heard you screaming and wanted to make sure you were okay. That's why I'm up here.

[suddenlybees]

[ He does peek through the door again, just a crack that lets him see out with one eye. It helps that Toothless initially appears toothless, honestly. He's still not so sure, though, just because he's never seen such a large creature in his life, dragon or not, and all of the sudden, this little closet he'd been locked up in feels nice and cozy and most importantly, safe. ] Um. I'm okay in here. [ Really he's fine. There's a strange creature on the other side of the door and he thinks he might go into a panic just from that. ]

surprise NPC time | un: M3G4M4G1CH4XX

[panpiping]

stop it

[suddenlybees]

Hello, hi there~!
It looks like you've forgotten to attach your resume~
Copy pasting it is fine as well~

[panpiping]

if I send you a resume will you let him go

[suddenlybees]

Hmmmmm...
Nope!!!!!
No can do~

[panpiping]

Good I don't want to learn what a resume is it sounds terrible. Let him go. He's been through enough.

[suddenlybees]

LOL They really are terrible things!
I hope you'll never need one~
But you're talking about that kid, right?
This really is the best thing for him, so why don't we leave things be?

[panpiping]

He's trapped. How is this best?

[suddenlybees]

LOL He's not as trapped as he thinks~
But it's the familiarity of it all, isn't it?
Because of that, he'll calm down soon enough, don't worry, don't worry~