( at her comment, his throat constricts, and he averts his eyes by casting his gaze down towards the ground. rika may have forgiven him for what he did to her, but he... still hasn't really forgiven himself. not for binding her to him, not for all of the people that she had hurt in all of those years, not for wallowing in pain and self-pity for that time instead of trying to find a way to fix it. when akua continues, however, his gaze immediately darts back upwards to her, his lingering guilt temporarily dispelled by shock. )
Wh — ( how... wait, what exactly does that mean? ) You... Does that mean, you're, um...
( "dead," yuuta. you've dealt enough with death that this shouldn't be such an awkward thing to ask, and yet...
but, um, yes, right, the ring. )
My teacher told me that curses are at their most stable when possessing an item. I use it as a kind of... intermediary, helping me channel her power. I don't really need it as much as I did back when her spirit was bound to me as a curse, but — as she is now, I can't really access her full strength without the ring. It's part of this thing called a "Binding Vow," and all...
( ironic, considering the original intention behind the ring...
the cursed apparition tilts her head at the praise, but even as impossible as she is to read, she doesn't seem displeased. she begins to fade, her head disappearing as if slowly submerging into water, but as she does so she says, )...Thanks.
Apart from Rika, most of my techniques involve cursed energy reinforcement and manipulation. The reinforcement means that, um... I can do stuff like - this.
( he glances up, crouches down, and then leaps nearly two stories into the air to grab hold of one of the larger, lower branches on a nearby tree. he swings once, twice, three times before flipping up to settle on top of it. from there, he waves at akua, back on the ground. )
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Wh — ( how... wait, what exactly does that mean? ) You... Does that mean, you're, um...
( "dead," yuuta. you've dealt enough with death that this shouldn't be such an awkward thing to ask, and yet...
but, um, yes, right, the ring. )
My teacher told me that curses are at their most stable when possessing an item. I use it as a kind of... intermediary, helping me channel her power. I don't really need it as much as I did back when her spirit was bound to me as a curse, but — as she is now, I can't really access her full strength without the ring. It's part of this thing called a "Binding Vow," and all...
( ironic, considering the original intention behind the ring...
the cursed apparition tilts her head at the praise, but even as impossible as she is to read, she doesn't seem displeased. she begins to fade, her head disappearing as if slowly submerging into water, but as she does so she says, ) ...Thanks.
Apart from Rika, most of my techniques involve cursed energy reinforcement and manipulation. The reinforcement means that, um... I can do stuff like - this.
( he glances up, crouches down, and then leaps nearly two stories into the air to grab hold of one of the larger, lower branches on a nearby tree. he swings once, twice, three times before flipping up to settle on top of it. from there, he waves at akua, back on the ground. )