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[crossmyheartandhope]

Who: Kozuru, Five, and Childe
Where: Out in the city
When: Day 372, extremely early in the morning

[A text message has just gone out]

[Somewhere, metaphorically, the Jaws music echoes in the backdrop of the city tonight]

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[time5kip]

[ Sometimes you're out in the city because you're an old man with old men hobby and you're just taking a walk and minding your own business ]

[byallmeans]

[Sometimes the world's worst child is out looking for a murder victim]

You're out late.

[time5kip]

So are you, and at least I'm not an actual child.

[byallmeans]

There's too much to do to go to sleep.

[Heading his way, as though he means to join him on the walk]

[time5kip]

[ he stays there because he's a smug asshole and what could possibly go wrong ]

I'm not looking for company, thanks.

[byallmeans]

[What could possibly go wrong!!!]

Oh, I wasn't asking.

[He slips the Kotodama out of his sleeve. It's very nice calligraphy, any Taisho should be proud]

[It reads "Paralyzation," and it takes effect as soon as Kozuru presses it casually to his back]

[time5kip]

[ THIS IS EXACTLY WHY HE DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TOUCHING HIM!! He doesn't look pleased but it's not like he can do anything about it, he can't even panic because he can't move.

Shit. ]

[byallmeans]

[Casually takes him by the arm - and in a blink, they're somewhere else, a lot farther away from potential prying eyes]

[time5kip]

[ the fucking audacity!! He's giving him the dirtiest look he can manage like as if paralyzing him wasn't enough, he has to teleport him too ]

What the hell do you want?

[byallmeans]

A win.

The terms have changed.

[time5kip]

Kidnapping me is not going to get you a win.

[byallmeans]

[Undoing the cap on his hyotan bottle, casually]

It's not.

But killing you can.

[childeishly]

[ sometimes you're out in the city because you're bored af and looking for trouble, but then you stumble across the only kind of trouble you hadn't been interested in. ]

...

Ty che, blyad?

[byallmeans]

[Oh oops, this kid is probably still by the corpse,]

[childeishly]

[ for a moment he's not sure he's seeing this shit... this can't be real, right, five sensei is...n't dead...]

Kozuru? [ balls a fist, hissing through grit teeth, ] What happened?

[byallmeans]

[Well]

[This would not have been his choice of second victim, but sometimes you can't be choosy --]

Our terms changed.

1/3

[childeishly]

...tch. [ he should have seen this coming. ] Of course, and if the producers tell you to jump you say how high, yeah, ..?

[childeishly]

...y'know, I might have not have given a shit if you hadn't touched Five. But [ an unhinged bubble of laughter starts to escape him. ] you did, what a fucken mistake, because now... now you have to die.

[childeishly]

[ the mask hovering to the side of his head has been splintering this entire time, bits and pieces flaking off and leaving a trail behind him as he approaches kozuru. he changes into a rhino, thinking he can charge and just gore him, but the mask shatters just as he changes; an elemental burst that's really just for ~*~the aesthetic~*~ engulfing him and leaving this behind. ]

[ he howls, activating concrete jungle and charging him; teeth bared. ]

[byallmeans]

If it means getting what I came here for, I'll do anything.

[It's a good thing the ice was already out and ready; it forms a solid sheet that surges up to provide a shield, or at least attempt to shove the charge off course]

[Another small ice spike, a sharp little sliver, drags its way all the way down Five's chest and abdomen, spilling more blood; he can't freeze it or manipulate it while it's in the body, but once it's out, it's free real estate, and he can use all the ammunition he can get]

[childeishly]

[ childe charges straight into it, shattering off a decent sized chunk, but doesn't break through, and ultimately ends up temporarily stunned. he shakes his head and screams, their surroundings shuddering as a result of his pure, unbridled hatred for this smug son of a bitch. ]

[ he might be impressed if he had killed anybody but five BUT WUPS. ]

[ jumping up onto the remainder of the ice shield he tries pouncing onto kozuru, claws aiming to rip out his throat for daring to defile his sensei's corpse. ]

[byallmeans]

[He goes to block, but the new blood isn't quite solid yet, and Childe splashes right through it]

[There's no way he can avoid gong down, but he does get part of the ice shield up in time to try and jar him off course, trying to keep those claws from his throat]

[childeishly]

[ childe is knocked off kilter as the shield springs up the moment they hit the ground. he screams from behind it, howling his frustration as he breaks through and manages to slash kozuru's shoulder. a bit off the mark, sure, but at least he'll get to hear him sing! ]

[byallmeans]

[It is not especially song-like, but he does in fact cry out and flinch back, twisting to get away]

[As he does, the blood finally freezes enough to form a solid point, and blood spears rush up from the ground around him, aiming to impale Childe and drive him backward]

[childeishly]

[ perhaps not to kozuru, but childe relishes in the shrill shout ripped from the throat of his soon to be dead adversary. he bares his fangs, jaw unhinging and opening w i d e as he prepares to chomp down on his neck... but a blood spear interrupts him, throwing him back into the remainder of the ice wall kozuru had used to shield himself moments ago. ]

[ he twists around, tail lashing and striking the ground ( and possibly kozuru! ) as he gets back up. his eyes twinkle, his lust for blood growing exponentially. ]

[ childe releases some alarm pheromones, simultaneously asserting himself as dominant, and seeing if he can't just... break him. it'll trigger some more aggression in kozuru, hopefully giving childe more of the fight he craves... though it does have an equal chance to make him try to flee! ]

[ he sinks a number of serrated teeth into his leg and starts biting down, hoping for a break. ]